By silicon.com, 2 May 2008 10:46
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This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Paul Harding was "You think the computer's big? Wait 'til you see the monitor!"
Photo credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com
Caption Competition: Babbage baggage!
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1. David Eaglrberger
Typical, It needs a bump start.
2. Rolf
Ow! This isn’t a number-cruncher, it’s a finger-cruncher.
3. Mike Parmley
Bagsies I pop the bubbles when we've done.
4. Nick Fowler
I offered them my calculator, but would they listen? …
5. Karen Challinor
the machine was switched on accidentally and gravity suddenly shifted though 90 degrees much to the surprise of the shifting crew
6. Mary Hullah
If this is Charles Babbage’s idea of a pocket calculator, he must have a devil of a big jacket
7. Robert Lindsay
Well, I’m definitely not giving Gulliver a pocket calculator next Christmas
8. Mike Parmley
I wanted to work with software not hardware.
9. K Beer
They told me it was a "hands-on push server" course.
10. Steve Pauline
"I don't care how good the marketing blurb is - this new Google Smart Phone will never sell .........."
11. Lee
Quick no-ones looking
12. Lee
The latest engine to go into a pimp my ride car
13. Mike Parmley
The boss didn't want anyone to peek at the new executive pen holder that he was having delivered for his desk.
14. John Ray
Even the old computers tanded to fall over !
15. anonymous
Just another three of these to get in before we connect it to the Babbage Load Balancer...
16. Richard Peters
BA staff setting up the latest T5 baggage handling computer.
17. Chris Grigg
Isn,t it about time we computwerised this moving lark?
18. dave devine
We are taking it to the dump, It's numbers up.
19. Nick
Competitors at the "butt of the year" go through their poses
20. Paul Harding
You think the computer's big? Wait 'til you see the monitor!
21. Audrey
A laptop? You’re not putting this ruddy great thing in MY lap.
22. kenneth wilkinson
"Boris Johnson puts his new London transport plan into action."
23. Tommy Coe
Sure glad it's not his Analytical Engine they built, my truss is already twisted enough.
24. Chas M
..... it looked as if they had not quite got the hang of the new fangled push technology ...........
25. Tim Ware
What we need now is a particle accelerator.
26. Richard
At last: Low-level IT work that they can't "off-shore."
27. Ada Lovelace
Look, when it says "carry one", I'm sure this is not the way to do it...
28. Nick
Minimum hardware requirement prototype, for next version of windows
29. David Eagleberger
We have just recovered it from Northern Rock.
30. anonymous
"I think I've split my trousers!"
"Makes no difference to me."
31. anonymous
Steve Jobs turns his 'small is more' marketing strategy on its head with the new GeeMac.
32. David King
Surely a computer this big is powerful enough to run Vista with its aero effects?
33. JohnR
1.2.3....go
34. Karen Challinor
are you sure this is a Macbook Air ?
35. Valérie Falconer
Don’t worry, Miss Lovelace. We’ll soon get you out from under there.
36. Nick Fowler
So Charles Babbage must have invented polythene too
37. P Dragon
No wonder the British could never invent an aeroplane
38. Jon Morton
By Series 4, Alan Sugar was running out of relevant, work-related challenges for the contestants…..
39. Jon Morton
The new ‘environmentally friendly’ forklift truck was unpopular with warehouse staff.
40. Nick Jones
Engineers work flat out to install the new Ikea flat-pack data centre.