Caption Competition: Where's BBC One?

This TV's rubbish...

By silicon.com, 18 July 2008 11:30

This competition is now closed. The winning caption from reader Neil Worthington was "Mrs Jones, could you come back in 20 minutes ... this page might have loaded by then."

Photo credit: BT

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  1. 1. Karen Challinor

    Julie thought that having to swear on the bible before being able to change channels was a bit much

  2. 2. Danny Stoyles

    Mary is upset about going back to standard defination whilst her plasma is in the TV repair shop.

  3. 3. Karen Challinor

    .. it seemed that merely threatening to hit it with a book wasn't enough, she actually had to have her hand on the book to make it work..

  4. 4. Mary Hullah

    Flat-screen? I thought you ordered a fat screen.

  5. 5. Mary Hullah

    It’s called the Apple iStrain

  6. 6. anonymous

    Caption competition entry:

    "I thought these Freeview set top boxes were easy to set up" ..?

  7. 7. Mary Hullah

    All I can pick up is Sky … well, clouds anyway

  8. 8. Audrey

    Prestel? I’ve done that. So, do I now press another letter?

  9. 9. Audrey

    That’s not a microwave? I’ve just put my pasty in that!

  10. 10. Paul Godfrey

    If only my Broadband at home was this quick!!

  11. 11. Mike Perrett

    In a fit of pique, one user tried to update her blog to complain about the "a-Hole" eye test sheet received from Apple after she eschewed their latest product.

  12. 12. Mike Perrett

    Early designs for the Wii-Bar were well established but there was still a lot to do with the Wii-mote. Mind you the graphics weren't far off the mark.

  13. 13. anonymous

    Gods, they're right! The Amazon Kindle really does look and read like real paper!

  14. 14. Malcolm George

    Even prayers don't seem to have the same effect in the IT enabled NHS

  15. 15. Paul Seligman

    fyi (and not as a competition entry, I only enter comps with valuable prizes!): Prestel was a viewdata service by no means restricted to medical professionals. Try the wikipedia entry for more information.

  16. 16. Richard

    NHS TV's new "Choose & Book" channel.

  17. 17. Paul

    I think I have a crossed line with Bugs Bunny, it keeps saying, "What's up Doc!" and then I get the terminal blue screen!

  18. 18. Nick Fowler

    Yes, all your details are held in this little box, Mr. Seddon … and soon you will be, too, I’m afraid

  19. 19. Nick Fowler

    I’m afraid we’ve both got a virus, Mrs. Davis

  20. 20. John Ray

    Doctor swears (on bible) by new system

  21. 21. Mary Hullah

    These medical records are fascinating – I found them all on the local rubbish tip

  22. 22. Neil Worthington

    Mrs Jones, could you come back in 20 minutes ... this page might have loaded by then.

  23. 23. Mary Hullah

    Well, either the screen’s frozen, or you’re dead, Miss Haversham

  24. 24. kenneth wilkinson

    "She`d been waiting ages for Doctors Orders the number 9 on the online Bingo."

  25. 25. Philip Barnett

    I promise to tell the truth !!!!

  26. 26. Howard Barnes

    And viewers in England can press the red overactive thyroid button now.

  27. 27. anonymous

    "How I am expected to work with this dowdy outdated old fashioned thing" said the computer.

  28. 28. Denise Soos

    the goverment four hour targets failed to appreciate the booting up of NHS computers.

  29. 29. anonymous

    Wow the computer and calculator have the same result

  30. 30. Graham Bland

    How can I select Single Player?

  31. 31. Ian Sargent

    After looking at the screen for an hour she realised that she could no longer read the last four lines on the eye test chart.

  32. 32. Jon Morton

    Delia Smith chose cookery instead of IT, after several confusing days wondering why the mouse didn’t work.

  33. 33. Jon Morton

    ‘Errm…Mrs Jones, your eyesight must be worse than we thought, the eyetest chart is actually over to your left…’

  34. 34. anonymous

    This two-handed mouse is a bit difficult to use!

  35. 35. anonymous

    This new daytime television is marvellous!

  36. 36. Danny Stoyles

    This SKY HD is not all it's cracked up to be!!

  37. 37. anonymous

    Oh No has Jeremy Kyle finished ?

  38. 38. Janet McKitterick

    After wasting another £30 million on another computer system that had to be shelved, the NHS decides to go back to the 70's when they knew how to make things work!

  39. 39. James Draper

    Diane franticly searched for the cure to “Lamp Growing from the Head Syndrome”…

  40. 40. anonymous

    Errrr! Computer Says No!!!!!

  41. 41. anonymous

    IF ONLY I DIDNT NEED TO SEE THE PATIENT AS WELL I WOULD LOVE THIS JOB

  42. 42. anonymous

    The native language that Doctors use to communicate with computers is incomprehensible to everyone else!

  43. 43. Phil Grimble

    Computer says "No"

  44. 44. gideon garratt

    Bad News Mr Smith ... we'll have to remove it.. good news though Ive won the lottery!!

  45. 45. anonymous

    Janet could barely contain her excitement, as the theme tune played and another episode of “Compare the Rectangles’ started

  46. 46. anonymous

    Jan’s friends blamed her dull nature on the uninspiring TV programmes she watched.

  47. 47. Philip Hurley

    Snadra thought this Retro-chic was being taken too far these days especially when she'd ordered a 42" plasma!!

  48. 48. anonymous

    computer says no

  49. 49. anonymous

    i remember when these things were massive

  50. 50. anonymous

    Nancy really regretted asking the IT dept for an upgrade...

  51. 51. S J Harwood-Bee

    Diana wasn't entirely sure that her new mobile phone would fit into her handbag after all

  52. 52. anonymous

    1983: Cynthia vists the online store at Apple's Prestel page to place an advance order for her new 3G i-phone.

  53. 53. Mark Shercliff

    Linda looks less than enthused by Richard's Super Wall comment on her Facebook.

  54. 54. STUART MORROW

    Early efforts at curing computer viruses did not go well.

  55. 55. anonymous

    Not sure whether to refer to the manual

  56. 56. Chris Mayer

    Brenda decided to check her Ebay bids between patients.

  57. 57. Julia Cook

    Computer says no.

  58. 58. Beverley Kerry

    With NHS funding as it is, the hospital administrator was sorely tempted to accept Mr Ubuntu's offer to re-locate 12.5 million US dollars....

  59. 59. anonymous

    Dr. Jones couldn't resist a quick wizz on Pacman between appointments.

  60. 60. anonymous

    Sheila couldn't work out how to get channel 4!

  61. 61. Ellen jones

    "Computer Says No!"

  62. 62. nicola beech

    "After checking the book of law, Dr May was sure that the machine was wrong,and that lancing a boil was not an illegal operation...."

  63. 63. sarah Dymond

    After 5 hours Deidre realised that she had been hoodwinked, and that no matter how hard she stared at the screen the channel would definately NOT change.

  64. 64. Diane Halliwell

    How the computer has made life easier for NHS workers - you don't even need a real pack of cards to play Solitaire!

  65. 65. anonymous

    And they said computers would never be in everyones home

  66. 66. anonymous

    BT have had a make over in the 60years I wonder if I get a free hairstyle with this software!!

  67. 67. Dave Devine

    Maggie had been labelled square eyes but never cube eyes.

  68. 68. Ian Springham

    Marking furore nothing new: the National Archive at Kew revealed today that an ophthalmologist accidentally leaked the answers to eye test charts onto CeeFax back in the late 1940s, leading to claims of widespread cheating and the fraudulent acquisition of the new-fangled "NHS Specs."

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