Caption Competition: Can you guess what it is yet?

Yes, I'm sure this is the right way round...

By silicon.com, 8 February 2008 11:21

This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Audrey, was: "There again, we could just sign up with Sky, lads."

Photo credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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  1. 1. Karen Challinor

    ... and even though they were nearly finished the drinks can designers still hadn't noticed the decimal point was missing from the plans

  2. 2. Karen Challinor

    the audition for land of the giants was proceeding well

  3. 3. Karen Challinor

    in an attempt to minimise waste the humble tin of beans has bean redesigned so you don't need to buy so many

  4. 4. Karen Challinor

    Jeux sans Frontiers circa 1950 had rather basic games

  5. 5. Mary Hullah

    A Japanese team researches how to miniaturise dimmer switches

  6. 6. Audrey

    There again, we could just sign up with Sky, lads

  7. 7. P Dragon

    Contacting Gulliver via a Ouija board was not going to be easy

  8. 8. Rob Falconer

    The “Thunderbirds” special effects team spring into action

  9. 9. anonymous

    Man In tie on left - Yawn, this looks boring, can I go yet

  10. 10. anonymous

    I hope you have had proper HSE training to use that step ladder

  11. 11. anonymous

    Someone tell me why this giant table does not have 4 legs

  12. 12. anonymous

    I am sure in the future there will be an easier way than this

  13. 13. Karen Challinor

    the first transatlantic call just needed a really long piece of string to work

  14. 14. Mike Pamley

    Getting Jim back out of the barrel was proving to be quite tricky.

  15. 15. Mike Parmley

    "Hold it steady, or the sticky backed plastic will rip!"

  16. 16. Valerie Ganne

    Of course, it’ll work better when there’s at least one satellite up there

  17. 17. kenneth wilkinson

    "I told you not to get the family sized baked beans."

  18. 18. Corlis Byrne

    I say, is that a Cardinal Beetle down by your foot?

  19. 19. Ian Sargent

    Techies try to recreate that moment when the flag was raised on Iwo Jima.

  20. 20. Nicky

    Uh oh... I just looked at what the team next to are building, and the Sputnik Spotters seem to think it should look more like this:

    http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3066886.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=32F168F2F013CA9A336B021CB2488FF9A55A1E4F32AD3138

  21. 21. Richard Billett

    A double life-size Bertie Bassett statue in a field in the middle of nowhere? Brilliant!

  22. 22. Dave Eagle

    As he studied the taught buttocks of the young men, the Headmaster congratulated himself on his fiendishly simple plan.

  23. 23. ian herold

    some people never tire of superglue pranks

  24. 24. Paul Seligman

    This is not a competition entry. Just a question.

    This 'bottle of bubbly' that you always offer as a prize. How do we know exactly what it is? Maybe salts to make your bath bubbly. Or lemonade. How big is it? It could be 10ml and stilll meet the description. What brand is it?

    Whatever, it isn't a prize that remotely interests me, or would make me think of a caption. Why not have something with a value that exceed a round of drinks, say?

  25. 25. David Bowen

    Pushing a tin can up a CD case may sound easy but not when you're only 6" tall.

  26. 26. Karen Challinor

    the team thought there might be a slight drawback with the Galileo GPS unit

  27. 27. Karen Challinor

    left a bit ! ... nope still not getting multiplex 2 on freeview

  28. 28. Karen Challinor

    little did the team realise but Damien Hirst had already superglued them to the new sculpture

  29. 29. Karen Challinor

    first full size model of ID card revealed

  30. 30. Karen Challinor

    even with three people it was proving difficult to lift the satellite into orbit

  31. 31. Karen Challinor

    the answer to the age old question of "how many engineers does it take to build a satellite tracking device" is finally revealed

  32. 32. Karen Challinor

    don't worry lads, they'll soon stop laughing when we get the radome around it

  33. 33. Karen Challinor

    try as they might they just couldn't make sense of these Ikea wardrobe instructions

  34. 34. Karen Challinor

    oh yes they'll spend all day building a satellite tracking device, but you just try getting them to do the washing up

  35. 35. Karen Challinor

    McGuyver finally reveals where it all started

  36. 36. Nick Bentley

    Archive shot of a typical Carry On Film "knob" gag being built

  37. 37. Nick Bentley

    Britain joined the space race in typical budget fashion having borrowed a cannon from the local circus.

  38. 38. Paul

    But if the table was level Hagrids drink wouldn't keep sliding off!!

  39. 39. Phil Stevens

    When I said "CAN the Microsoft surface idea", I didn't mean literally!

  40. 40. anonymous

    Saddam's first attempt at building a Super Gun was off to a great start!

  41. 41. Chris Johnson

    "I told you that leg was wonky!"

  42. 42. Carl Grainger

    and for being out standing in their own field the nobel prize goes to...

  43. 43. Nicky

    Bernard Lovell realises that a bit more design work is going to be needed before building Jodrell v1.2

  44. 44. anonymous

    Aliens had landed, but we weren't quite sure what to do with it...

  45. 45. John Ray

    Capacitors were much larger fifty years ago.

  46. 46. Dan Zamoyski

    This R.A.T. (Radial Axial Telemeter) is a bit cumbersome... let's make a smaller one and call it a MOUSE (Mobile Occular Uni-Operator Scanning Enabler).

  47. 47. anonymous

    Ever-Ready engineers assemble the world's first solar battery charger.

  48. 48. Dave Devine

    The Blue Peter team underestimate the weight of the squeezy bottle and sticky back plastic

  49. 49. Malcolm Wilson

    Construction of Microsoft's latest Surface technology table was going well until they tried to install the CPU cooling fan.

  50. 50. Audrey

    This IS Cape Kennedy, but it’s Cape Charles Kennedy

  51. 51. Audrey

    Perhaps Blue Peter were not the best sponsors for Britain’s entry into the Space Race

  52. 52. Audrey

    The British were thwarted in their attempt to be first into space by a shortage of sticky-back plastic

  53. 53. Nick Fowler

    Sorry, guys, but I’ve been reading these IKEA assembly instructions upside-down

  54. 54. Nick Fowler

    One day, you know, everyone will have one of these on their roof

  55. 55. kenneth wilkinson

    ""If you think this is big you should see the size of the tin opener."

  56. 56. Mark Daniel

    It was at this point that Fred (man on left) realised he should have not left Penelope on the inside of the bean tin!

  57. 57. Mark Daniel

    It was just dawning on them that they had fogotten to get all four legs for the table from the Ikea warehouse, and that they would have to go back again!

  58. 58. Mike Parmley

    "Look - if you sing 'Roll out the barrel' one more time I'm going to swing for you!"

  59. 59. Mike Parmley

    This was going to set a new low in the whole history of Scrapheap Challenge.

  60. 60. Mike Parmley

    Archive photo of BBC special effects dept. constructing Blake's 7 scenery.

  61. 61. Ken Munn

    When Jim-Bob said it "wurn't worth no hill of beans," I'm not sure we were meant to take it literally.

  62. 62. Richard Peters

    Local government workers reveal their 'once a month' green wastpaper basket project to the press.

  63. 63. Malcolm George

    Early Blue Peter attempts at Sat Nav prove a little impractical

  64. 64. Tim Ware

    The ground station was easy, they have cracked the satellite antenna. The real challenge lies in the wet string.

  65. 65. Tim Ware

    Little did they know that the Columbus module would take over 50 years to complete.

  66. 66. Richard

    A barrel of laughs: UK's Space programme.

  67. 67. Richard

    Even in those days, managers just stood back & watched.

  68. 68. Richard

    UK's secret weapon: Giant seaside "rock."

  69. 69. Dee Syed

    "I'm tellin' ya man, one of these days we're gonna fit a billion of these darn transistors onto a chip the size of a postage stamp..."

  70. 70. Karen Challinor

    Dave couldn't bring himself to tell them it was upside down

  71. 71. Mike Parmley

    What do you mean "it's not geostationary?"

  72. 72. Richard

    Team building exercise on a 1950's YouTube.

  73. 73. Chris Sanderson

    Keep it coming, we'll get the last of those giant baked beans out of there any moment

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