Caption Competition: Technology changes at snail's pace!

It's a slippery slope...

By silicon.com, 15 August 2008 10:00

This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Kenneth Wilkinson was: "With the magic roundabout finished Brian decided to give Lap Top dancing a go."

Photo credit: Lewis Imagebank

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  1. 1. Malcolm George

    Gov expert rushes to solve the PM's new website problems

  2. 2. kenneth wilkinson

    "With the magic roundabout finished Brian decided to give Lap Top dancing a go."

  3. 3. Christopher Grigg

    Well, he's quicker than my internet connection!

  4. 4. Ronald Frankenberg

    That's where my old Gillette razor blade got to!

  5. 5. Richard

    Spam & lettuce! They've pinched the cables again.

  6. 6. Neil Worthington

    My big brother said if I stick my head in that hole, all the emails will become snailmails!

  7. 7. Mary Hullah

    Unfortunately, IBM had shipped their new stock over in escargot ships

  8. 8. Mary Hullah

    Suddenly, Pierre slammed the door of the micro-wave shut : lunch was nearly ready

  9. 9. John Ray

    Shell programmer takes long time on port interface

  10. 10. Nick Fowler

    Seconds later, Jeremy Clarkson had crushed the poor snail: he hated caravanners

  11. 11. Nick Fowler

    Mmm, my favourite – snails in port

  12. 12. Janet McKitterick

    French bosses try to find new ways to cook their employees lunch to stop the long lunch breaks!

  13. 13. Tim Ware

    Mark 1 self inserting pen drive defeated by interface choice.

  14. 14. Ian Sargent

    All those different types of sockets and my antennae won't interface with any of them!

  15. 15. Dave Moore

    I'm faster than this thing cos I'm not running Vista!

  16. 16. Graham Bland

    So where does the Snail Mail come out?

  17. 17. Geoff Grubb

    Eee-the-net is suffering from shell shock!

  18. 18. Ian Ryder

    Eric was delighted he now had conclusive proof that his secure shell was the root of all his speed issues.

  19. 19. bharatgoyal

    Realising VIRUS were just too quick to cause any harm, attackers unleash SNAIL 2.0

  20. 20. Karen Challinor

    the cost saving alternative to the post it note didn't go down well in the office, it tended to slide off and eat the lettuce out of peoples sandwiches

  21. 21. Billy Binns

    The new Home button for slow workers.

  22. 22. Charlie Schmidt

    The French loved the new style PC so much they could eat it.

  23. 23. anonymous

    I can't beleive how fast the comms gear is these days, wow 300baud from a card as small as this.

  24. 24. Tim Ware

    POTS interface ensures wide appeal.

  25. 25. tanim islam

    How long before Apple fixes this bug?

  26. 26. KELLY HANCOCK

    Apparantly with this new 'home hub' my speed will be 5 times quicker!!!

  27. 27. anonymous

    The newest version of Vista ships with a boot accelerator...

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