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Caption competition 14: Queue do you think you are?

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2 February 2007 11:00

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The winning caption, from John Ray, was: "Users again left in the dark by windows."

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  1. 1. Valérie Ganne

    Somehow I rather thought Microsoft would say that Windows was perfect and that they already had enough money, so they wouldn't be bothering to bring out a replacemnt for xp

    • 2 February 2007 11:06
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  2. 2. Valérie Ganne

    It looks as if Vista will use up all the space on my computer, so it'll be the most expensive screensaver I've ever bought

    • 2 February 2007 11:07
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  3. 3. Valérie Ganne

    Vista? I thought this was the queue for a visa!

    • 2 February 2007 11:08
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  4. 4. Valérie Ganne

    Queues for the last Harry Potter novel start early

    • 2 February 2007 11:52
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  5. 5. Paul Challis

    I've been here so long, Microsoft have released Queue SP1!

    • 2 February 2007 11:59
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  6. 6. anonymous

    Nice background, looks just like the queue when i bought Vista

    • 2 February 2007 12:37
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  7. 7. Peter Chatterley

    Labour's Final Day sale of honours as overdraft rises.

    • 2 February 2007 12:39
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  8. 8. anonymous

    The Vista queue's over there mate. This one is for buying more memory.

    • 2 February 2007 13:46
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  9. 9. Huw Owens

    Lights go out as national grid wasn't sufficiently upgraded to power Vista...

    • 2 February 2007 16:12
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  10. 10. Angela Walker

    As the line for the portaloo lengthened, the people in the queue wondered if they were waiting for the right sort of Wii...

    • 2 February 2007 16:16
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  11. 11. anonymous

    With the impending demotion of some peers HMV are offering a peerage for only £19.99 when you by the latest Leona single!

    • 2 February 2007 16:30
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  12. 12. Paul Brindle

    Nah mate, this isn't the Vista queue this is to post a caption comment on Silicon.com before Valérie Ganne! She's fast..

    • 2 February 2007 16:31
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  13. 13. Ayesha Bramwell

    News of the launch of the Microsoft Windows Vista Helpdesk was spreading fast ...

    • 2 February 2007 16:33
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  14. 14. anonymous

    After feeling guilty...Norwich Union finally do the right thing and fly recently unemployed staff over from India and offer them jobs in their London offices!

    • 2 February 2007 16:35
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  15. 15. Alastair Warren

    Brits queue to get that Vista Feeling.

    • 2 February 2007 16:35
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  16. 16. Bruce Sandeman

    look if you position the camera just right then you will be able to make it look like we have lots of customers

    • 2 February 2007 16:36
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  17. 17. anonymous

    With the impending demotion of some peers HMV are offering a peerage for only £19.99 when you by the latest Leona single!

    • 2 February 2007 16:36
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  18. 18. Bruce Sandeman

    if you're name's not down you're not coming in

    • 2 February 2007 16:37
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  19. 19. Richard Gianella

    Queue's gather to see Microsofts latest versions of blue screen of death.

    • 2 February 2007 16:37
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  20. 20. Colin Campbell

    The Vista que moved quite slowly untill the pavement was resurfaced and the escalator turbo charged.

    • 2 February 2007 16:46
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  21. 21. Colin Campbell

    Gates laugh to him self as he contemplated his own dark sense of irony whilst the single slow moving que trudged slowly onward.

    • 2 February 2007 16:49
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  22. 22. robin poynder

    The last guy in the line heard that a Billy Goat was lunching with Wisden... Which begs the question 'why is he still there?'

    • 2 February 2007 16:57
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  23. 23. anonymous

    The entire SoHo linux community queue patiently to check out Vista under cover of darkness, incase they are button-holed by MAC users.

    • 2 February 2007 17:22
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  24. 24. John Ray

    Users again left in the dark by windows.

    • 2 February 2007 17:27
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  25. 25. Al Shriver

    I only came because I heard that Vista has replaced Control-Alt-Delete with a single keystroke.

    • 2 February 2007 17:33
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  26. 26. anonymous

    If I crash here, I wonder if Ctrl-Alt-Del will recover me to the front of this queue?

    • 2 February 2007 17:36
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  27. 27. Graeme Bowell

    MAC OSX users queue through the night for a belly-full of laughs at the launch of the new Microsoft Vista OS.

    • 2 February 2007 19:08
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  28. 28. anonymous

    "Quickly Dad!".

    "Queue here, it says".

    "This is the last place in the West End where we can get floppy discs".

    "They're dead don't you know. I hope that we can still get the eight inch ones, as mum says your three and a quarter one is too small".

    • 2 February 2007 20:12
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  29. 29. anonymous

    Members of the barmy army queued for a refund from the ECB after the disasterous Ashes tour of Australia.

    • 3 February 2007 04:54
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  30. 30. kenneth wilkinson

    "Nobody had informed the New Years Eve Conga dancers-it was February."

    • 4 February 2007 13:32
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  31. 31. anonymous

    Murray Walker: And it's the German coming up on the outside who deftly places his towel at the head of the queue

    • 4 February 2007 20:54
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  32. 32. anonymous

    PC World opens a book of condolence for Floppy Disk and thousands queue to pay their last respects

    • 4 February 2007 21:02
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  33. 33. anonymous

    Bloke on the right at the front: Is this the queue to buy Vista?
    Man in queue: No, we're queueing for the Returns Desk - we're taking ours back!

    • 4 February 2007 21:08
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  34. 34. Malcolm George

    Psst...... How much did you donate for your Knighthood ?

    • 5 February 2007 09:20
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  35. 35. Matt Wheeler

    Unfortunately, those in the queue couldn't see the 8 crashed Vista machines showing the B.S.O.D. on the top floor!

    • 5 February 2007 12:20
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  36. 36. Simon Coley

    People go away disappointed, as the lights are on but nobody's home!

    • 5 February 2007 12:25
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  37. 37. David Devine

    The advert was supposed to read FREE SILICON CHIPS, but someone had got it wrong and the breast enlargement queue just got bigger and bigger.

    • 5 February 2007 13:26
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  38. 38. Richard

    Typical, wait 5 years for a mug, then 100 arrive at once!

    • 5 February 2007 14:00
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  39. 39. anonymous

    The conga started by the audience waiting for the Vista release stretched right round the venue

    • 5 February 2007 14:07
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  40. 40. Sean Brady

    Silly wets!

    • 6 February 2007 14:01
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  41. 41. David Devine

    British Rail cutbacks meant longer queues for the toilets

    • 7 February 2007 10:15
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  42. 42. anonymous

    They all realised they'd been tricked by the sign saying "Queue here to see The Darkness".

    • 9 February 2007 11:37
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