By silicon.com, 19 October 2007 10:30
This competition is now closed. The winning entry, from reader Ian Sargent, was "Strange, my Sat Nav reckons that this is Knightsbridge."
Photo credit: Gemma Simpson
Caption Competition: Swanning around in the Serpentine
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1. Valérie Ganne
If that’s a male swan, “Pen” had better be careful
2. Rob Falconer
Pen was less than impressed with the conference’s icebreaker party
3. Rob Pendragon
Pen was about to find out the meaning of the phrase “Up the Swannee”
4. Oliver Matthews
I can't watch!!!!
5. Robert Lindsay
As a pen is another name for a female swan, it looks as if Mr. Hadow is in for a spot of trouble
6. John Ray
Arctic navigation up the swannie !
7. Ian Sargent
Strange, my Sat Nav reckons that this is Knightsbridge.
8. Richard Scurrah
"That damned GPS navigation system has dumped me in the water again!"
9. anonymous
Pitchpolling an inflatable, novel.
10. anonymous
This year's swan upping was not going well.
11. ROLF
Pen, wouldn’t it be a lot easier if you just flew to Lapland to see Santa?
12. anonymous
Follow my Leda
13. Corlis Byrne
Nutter! Why doesn't he just fly like the rest of us?
14. Richard
An ugly ducking turns a swan.
15. Chris Sanderson
As Pen jumped into the water he suddenly realised that he should have asked for the antenna to be made in the form of a penguin instead of a swan!
16. Valerie
Why is he going to the Arctic to reach the Pole, when he can reach plenty here just by phoning for a plumber?
17. David Mutlow
Polar explorer, Pen Hadow, was surprised at the impact global warming has had since he was last at the North Pole.
18. anonymous
The man from Orange searched bitterly for the lost iPhone agreement.
19. David Bowen
Melting of polar ice-cap - more advanced than expected reports polar explorer
20. Christopher Grigg
Do I try to walk in his garden?
21. Rob Pendragon
That Pen Hadow had better not try Swan Upping with me!
22. Craig Mitchell
Just goes to show even a Swan doesn't like to see a man drowning.
23. anonymous
So long as global warming is as bad as the scientists say, this should work well. Not sure if it would if there was any ice though........
24. Dave Devine
Just when you are hungry and want to pick up a penguin, you get stuck with a swan.
25. kenneth wilkinson
"Bloody hell, all this preparation and I forgot about Global Warming."
26. Dave Devine
Oh my god my ice probe's oveheated and melted the whole North Pole
27. Robert Lindsay
Little did Pen know but that swan was really Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ decoy hat for spying on other explorers
28. kenneth wilkinson
"The Irish bobsleigh team had arrived a little to early for the winter olympics."
29. Matt Horwell
Loch Ness Monster sighting deemed a fake!
30. kenneth wilkinson
"The Royal Ballet Companies Swan Lake on Ice was a bit of damp squid."
31. Ernest Mildew
"If Shackleton survived then so can... hang on did I lock the front door on the way out? - oh a swan - don't get many of those in the arctic... bored, bored, bored. I spy something beginning with s ..."
32. Steven James
Pen is happy to be on stage two of his practice, Two weeks locked in his fridge freezer was hell.
33. Steven James
When his wife opted for the Antarctic survey, Pen knew they were Poles appart.
34. Malcolm George
When I said Duck I didn’t mean you to take it quite so literally
35. Malcolm George
I'm not walking on water I'm floating silly