Caption Competition: Feeling a bit green

Just don't drink it all at once...

By silicon.com, 11 July 2008 12:10

This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Janet McKitterick was: "Scientists have worked out that you can run a car on Fairy Liquid and it cleans the engine too!"

Photo credit: James Martin/CNET News.com

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  1. 1. Mary Hullah

    Not only has he a stupid name, but Algy can’t even spell it properly

  2. 2. Audrey

    Seaweed in here? Well, someone certainly has.

  3. 3. Audrey

    Algae? From the seaside? That should help restore the ozone layer.

  4. 4. Nick Fowler

    So now you can fill up with petrol to drive to the seaside, then collect enough seaweed to get you home again!

  5. 5. Nick Fowler

    Professor Dink wanted to see what he’d get if he mixed the yellow liquid with the blue liquid … green liquid!

  6. 6. David Devine

    Incredible Hulk fails Beijing drugs test

  7. 7. Rob Falconer

    At last! The Professor had succeeded in creating artificial nasal mucus.

  8. 8. Valérie

    Oil from algae? Nah, it’s just a garlic butter sauce I’ve created for the snails I’m having for lunch.

  9. 9. Malcolm George

    Kermit soup anyone ?

  10. 10. Leon Williams

    Slimer was more than happy to provide a drugs test sample

  11. 11. Ian Sargent

    Now we know the answer to the old joke about what do you get when you cross Kermit with a liquidiser!

  12. 12. Radical Meldrew

    Tired of those days when a hankie will just not do? You need a Nasal Flask. Available from all good stores now.

  13. 13. Bev Wildeboer

    China finds a profitable use for all that green gunge threatening to stop the Olympic Water events

  14. 14. anonymous

    Eye of newt, and toe of frog ...
    Oh heck, who's taken the Wool of bat ?

  15. 15. Arvind Karir

    Well, finally a fuel which is colour coordinated, it is the GreenGasoline!

  16. 16. anonymous

    OK - so what is there about Penarth, Llandough and teh Vale that makes you all enter caption competitions?

  17. 17. Steve Pauline

    Professor O'Leary's prototype batch of St. Patrick's day Guinness was ready to test .... now all he needed was a willing volunteer.

  18. 18. Steve Kirk

    Its true. OPEC really are taking the p***!

  19. 19. Karen Challinor

    looks innocent enough, but don't get it angry, you wouldn't like it when it's angry...

  20. 20. Sally Brant

    New - milk of magnesia for cows... reduce that bloated feeling.

  21. 21. Tony Sibley

    ..and if you look carefully at the jar, you will see the person taking the photo was wearing a bikini.

  22. 22. anna Robb

    Of course plants can be turned into gas. Just go to the bathrooms of a vegan convention and you'll see!!

  23. 23. anonymous

    Here's my sample Doctor , as I said I have been off colour recently.

  24. 24. Richard

    Drink this: Purges mobile crime faster than a BOSS chair.

  25. 25. Mike Parmley

    Dr Jekyll prepares his afternoon cuppa.

  26. 26. Janet McKitterick

    Scientists have worked out that you can run a car on Fairy Liquid and it cleans the engine too!

  27. 27. Roy Corneloues

    Here we can see what's left over from the bottle of champagne from the very first caption competition 10 years ago

  28. 28. anonymous

    Right, who left the milk out?

  29. 29. Pete Foster

    It's Greenwash. And there's a lot more where this came from.

  30. 30. kenneth wilkinson

    "The new Fairy Liquid bottle raised a few eyebrows."

  31. 31. anonymous

    Upon checking his daily sample Dave began to worry if a person could become too green.

  32. 32. NICOLA TAIT

    Well At Least The Incredible Hulks Sample came back all right thought Frank

  33. 33. Patrick Dunne

    How green can you get

  34. 34. anonymous

    The Incredible Hulk joins the race to save the planet!

  35. 35. James Nash

    The "Kermit" cocktail was going to make Dave the envy of his lab pals

  36. 36. Emma Childs

    Do you ever get wondering that some people are taking the whole 'green' lifestyle to a different level?

  37. 37. anonymous

    Sharon would soon regret moaning so loudly about Derek's constant sniffing...

  38. 38. anonymous

    Less spinach from now on.

  39. 39. Richard

    That reminds me: Almost time for Beijing 2008.

  40. 40. Sarah Anderson

    "So when they said make a sample, they didn't mean from my own body? Hmmm this might not work then..."

  41. 41. anonymous

    Teabreak at Greenpeace head office didn't go down too well.

  42. 42. dianne levey

    oh dear! i think i drank too much creme de menthe again last night!

  43. 43. Sue Bell

    What one does to get the staring roll in the creature from the lagoon!

  44. 44. anonymous

    Green Oil, it's just a silly-con

  45. 45. anonymous

    Doris declined Norman's kind offer of his 'special' green tea.

  46. 46. Karen Challinor

    The Doctor looked sadly at the old sailor and said "Popeye, you may want to sit down for this...."

  47. 47. anonymous

    A pint of frog guiness for Kermit.

  48. 48. anonymous

    They tried to make me go to rehab and (after seeing that) I said yesss yessss yesssss.

  49. 49. anonymous

    Dave realised that trying to emulate Popeye's diet was having previously un- thought of consequences.

  50. 50. Christine Williams

    With hindsight, using the liquidiser as a temporary home for the school tadpoles was probably not a good idea!

  51. 51. anonymous

    Dr. Sprunkleheiven always wondered if Bruce Banner had green p***

  52. 52. anonymous

    Brown sees opportunity for another Green tax

  53. 53. anonymous

    Hoping that nobody would notice he'd mixed up the samples when washing up the tea mugs, Dave suantered casually into the lab ......

  54. 54. Martin B

    You won't like this sample when it gets angry

  55. 55. anonymous

    dave knew eating to much grass would do something bad

  56. 56. anonymous

    Oil get all the oil if it's the last thing oil do!

  57. 57. anonymous

    Green oil, Whatever next?

  58. 58. anonymous

    is this enough Matron

  59. 59. Howard Barnes

    I didn't think I could handle such a big culture shock.

  60. 60. anonymous

    Edith's first homebrew had not gone quite as planned, still if it got her drunk....

  61. 61. Jodie Collins

    Clive couldnt help thinking his recreation of flubber just wasn't quite right....

  62. 62. anonymous

    John wondered if his new fuel was green enough for Gordon Brown

  63. 63. anonymous

    Go Green they say but had Charlie gone too far this time??!!

  64. 64. STUART MORROW

    I think we've found another drugs cheat.

  65. 65. anonymous

    The boys at the lab were beginning to suspect that Professor Schmidt's dire tea-making efforts were just an attempt to avoid taking his turn......

  66. 66. anonymous

    If you drink it and you will turn a green like a HULK!!!!!!

  67. 67. sarah stocks

    "Ah, so that was the outcome of the Gremlins blender incident!!!"

  68. 68. anonymous

    "Mr smith realised his mistake in allowing his staff to watch ghostbusters in the staffroom "...

  69. 69. James England

    Henry thought that he would stop feeding his horse on alfalfa and go back to hay!

  70. 70. anonymous

    After eating one doo-nut too many, Homer decides to wash it down with some this radio-active cocktailleft lying around the lab

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