Submit the funniest caption to win a bottle of bubbly...
By silicon.com, 19 January 2007 10:20
This competition is now closed - check out the winning entry below.
Winner: "OK, Sir, now empty your other pocket.."
Rob Falconer
2nd:"'ere Del, that phone you sold me is a bit Mickey Mouse!"
Richard Gianella
3rd:The gastroenterologist department of the local hospital display some of their 'souvenirs'.
Richard George
Picture credit: Transport for London
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1. anonymous
Cisco unveil their 'iPhone killers'
2. Valérie Ganne
Why is it the people with the most phones seem to have the least friends?
3. Valérie Ganne
Oh God, which one is ringing?
4. anonymous
iPhone? Why when I can get the same functionality from this handy table sized array. Complete with 2 man operating crew.
5. Nathan Hewitt
Well one of them is ringing!
6. Amy
Ofcom helpline, hello...
7. Tom Cheesewright
Channel 4 expands call centre to handle thousands of Big Brother complaints.
8. anonymous
The Celebrity Big Brother executives were busy as the calls kept on coming in and the £s racked up
9. anonymous
One of these smells like...oh my god!
10. anonymous
Mickey gives his approval to the latest bid on the Geek Brothers phone in competition to win an iPod. Shame it was on the radio and listeners couldn't see the actual prizes.
11. Rob S
Look, this isn't just some Mickey Mouse call-center operation you know...
12. anonymous
The gastroenterologist department of the local hospital display some of their 'souvenirs'.
13. anonymous
We are going to have to find a way of increasing the range of these things if they're ever going to take off.
14. Chris
Benny and Kev found a genius technique to stop Caller-ID interfering with their prank calls...
15. Rob Falconer
How do we feel about zero roaming charges? No much, as we never leave the house.
16. Nick Davison
In a rare display of honesty, BT reveal their latest offering amusingly called the "Mickey Mouse Service".
17. Michael Dye
Who's taking the mickey then?
18. Greg Smith
I-phone R&D try to decide how to make the Revolutionary.
"Wow this one hasn't got any wires!"
19. anonymous
Hospital staff display a number of the items that have mysteriously been found in patients' bottoms.
20. Greg Smith
Dr Mark explains why its important to use a 'compact format phone' if you are in the habit of falling down stairs naked.
21. anonymous
"There's a fault with this one as well Bob, I can hear you in BOTH my ears".
22. anonymous
The i-phone joins a long list of mickey mouse predecessors as shown here.
23. Richard Gianella
"ere Del, that phone you sold me is a bit Mickey Mouse!"
24. anonymous
Why would I want to update my phone when I can hear you now, this one works & I can get bigger pockets fitted!!
25. Jon Scriven
With hindsight the boys regretted showing Grandad how to pick up a 'bargain' on EBay.....
26. Bill Worthington
.....which one sat on Minnie?
27. Huw Owens
Lots of "Mickey Mouse" opperations went bust when the dot com bubble burst...
28. Nick Mazur
Mickey and friends launch their campaign to get Jade Goody out of the house
29. anonymous
Camel train walks un-noticed through mans head, meanwhile Disney launch latest European handsets in USA.
30. John Dixon
Okay, the range isn't great, but the you wouldn't believe the call clarity.
31. anonymous
Do I look stupid with this thing, no wonder it got 'lost'
32. Darrall
"Forget RFID and location based tracking"....startup shows off legacy asset tagging system
33. Malcolm George
Carphonewarehouse pull out all the stops in the Big Brother vote
34. Rob Falconer
Call Centre staff discover they have been pressurising each other for the last two hours
35. Tim Nelson
Why it's impossible to get through to the Carphone Warehouse broadband helpdesk . . .
36. Alastair Warren
"I'm on the train"
37. anonymous
Tony, I thought we had 15 phones....ah...anyone got a radiographer handy?
38. Andy Connor
OFCOM gets extra line capacity from Carphone Warehouse to handle BB complaints. They are accused of taking the Mickey.
39. anonymous
Carphone Warehouse answering just some of those Big Brother complaints
40. Simon Taylor
In a futile attempt to beat the latest "Sony-Ericsson" mobile phone model, "Disney-Motorola" revealed their latest additions to the range, including the all-new "Mouse-phone" (pictured centre) a cross between a "Mobile" phone and a "House" phone.
41. Richard
Beaming, before Big Brother.
42. Steve Kirk
The first 'embarrassing phone' amnesty hailed a great success by West Midlands style police
43. Rob Falconer
In an effort to combat phone-related illnesses, the Governemnt is to tag excessive users
44. Valérie Ganne
BT deny they are relocating to Florida confirm three call centre staff
45. Ralph Pruitt
Welcome to Russia's latest mobile phone store.
46. Richard Marshall
Two out of three scientists agree mobile phones use has no long term ill effects...
A minority describe the study as "Mickey Mouse" science.
47. kenneth wilkinson
"Stop taking the mickey lads-you`ve got those phones upside down."
48. david hudsun
1970's mobile thieves are really taking the mickey
49. Chris Johnson
" .... and the 'hold' music has never changed in all that time"
50. anonymous
No! No! - For this new research on mobile phone safety they are looking for old phone users not old phones!
51. Bronwyne Edwards
Barry and Kevin set out to prove that mobiles were once used for phone calls...
52. anonymous
I still think these RFID tags are too big and flimsy
53. phil hatswell
When I said I wanted a Mickey Mouse outfit, I didn't mean TFL
54. Giles Turner
It's for you.
55. Colin Milner
Don't be silly Mickey! Of course they'll never get small enough for you to have your own phone!
56. anonymous
eeny meeny miney mo,
Micky says "just grab my toe"
57. Ken Brown
Another busy day at the nuisance calls bureau. Between them, these guys make over 20,000 nuisance calls every month.
58. anonymous
Well, headmaster, the old safe WAS jammed shut for 30 years. If we call "mum" on these phones that were confiscated from pupils we might be able to trace the owners...
59. David Richmond
Nokia executives went to great lengths to show that prolonged early mobile phone use did not impact the brain or ears
60. anonymous
Careful, one had to be surgically removed according to the RoundUp!
61. Rob Falconer
OK, Sir, now empty your other pocket.
62. Nick Humble
"Has yours got Bluetooth?"
"Yeah, right, and these price tags use RFID!"
63. anonymous
Can you hear me now?
64. anonymous
We must be able to get a signal from at least one of these.....
65. anonymous
"We must do something about the longevity of our products....or find a way to encourage pensioners to upgrade!"
66. anonymous
Micky was thinking - his 2 assistants just aren't cutting it
67. Nick Cole
"Government research scientists discover adverse effects of long-term mobile phone use on laboratory mice"
68. Kiernan Wagstaff
HELLO!!!!! I can't talk now - I'm in a Moble phone shop
69. RupertG
Can you here me yet?
70. Simon Coley
It all goes Mickey Mouse, as Buggles tribute band, try desparately to phone for an audition on the next X-Factor.
71. Valérie Ganne
Well, we missed the BMWs, but we did manage to get all these lovely phones off the MSC Napoli
72. Valérie Ganne
Trust Eric and Andy to get it wrong. Everybody else was wearing retro clothing and using state-of-the-art phones.
73. Valérie Ganne
Hello, This is Old Phones Anonymous ...
74. Valérie Ganne
Mickey introduces the call centre staff you usually seem to speak to - his friends Goofy and, without Snow White, Dopey
75. anonymous
Disney call centre outsourced to Nokia
76. Janette Viney
Bill kept smiling even though the superglue had taken effect..