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Published Date: 28 November 2008
What is Gordon Brown saying?


Enter the Evening News caption competition and tell us. Just log on and post your caption. You'll need to register if you've not posted a comment on the website before but it only takes a few seconds. We'll feature our favourite suggestions for today's picture in tomorrow's paper. At the end of the week, we'll also choose our favourite of the daily winners to receive 24 bottles of Corona lager.

Yesterday's winner
When I die, I will leave this 'Hand of God' to Scotland.
DaveMack, Edinburgh

And the runners-up are..
Diego was fed up with reporters asking him about his break-up with Guy Ritchie.
Rob Pendragon

Pssst! Want to know something? I think it might have been handball.
coinsorter

Hey Terry, look this is as high as my hand will go.
Sarcasm


Competition open to readers aged 18 and over. Weekly winner chosen by our judging panel. Editor's decision is final. Usual Evening News rules apply. Weekly winners must be free to collect their prize from the Evening News office. There is no cash/voucher equivalent prize.





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1

DaveMack,

Edinburgh 28/11/2008 11:15:18
It is best that I clean up my own droppings.
2

JulesF,

Kirkliston 28/11/2008 11:16:02
Right David, I'm off on the 'after dinner circuit' let's see you sort that mess out !
3

JulesF,

Kirkliston 28/11/2008 11:17:33
Gordon unveils his latest attempt to raise money, 'Gordons got talent'

Ten pence of all phone votes to the treasury !
4

JulesF,

Kirkliston 28/11/2008 11:18:30
Gordon kicks of a recruitment drive for Bankers that actually know what they are doing !
5

DaveMack,

Edinburgh 28/11/2008 11:18:49
No. Jeffrey Archer isn’t our best example of unlocking talent.
6

tremorman,

28/11/2008 11:18:50
BLAH BLAH BLAH
7

DaveMack,

Edinburgh 28/11/2008 11:21:13
And I keep my right hand man here, Alistair Darling, fully in the picture.
8

DaveMack,

Edinburgh 28/11/2008 11:24:17
No more boom and bust, I said. That’s why from now on we’re banning fireworks and Dolly Parton CDs.
9

Rob Pendragon,

28/11/2008 11:27:25
Yeah, I need the urn because I make a lot of ear wax
10

Sarcasm,

28/11/2008 11:31:26
Golden Brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden Brown

Please, please vote for me...
11

DaveMack,

Edinburgh 28/11/2008 11:33:43
Brown tries to defuse criticism by doing his “balancing goblet on shoulder” trick.
12

Rob Pendragon,

28/11/2008 11:41:02
Gordon's smiling - which shows just how unaware he is of how bad the financial situation is in Britain at the moment
13

Rob Pendragon,

28/11/2008 11:50:30
Gordon's is still clearly locked up
14

Rob Pendragon,

28/11/2008 11:56:02
No, no, no, Gordon. You wait until you're outside the building before hailing a cab.
15

Douglas,

Bathgate 28/11/2008 12:01:59
Do come in sir, we have your table ready.
16

Rusty Nut,

28/11/2008 12:06:25
I'm a litte tea-pot, short and stout, hear me pander and and hear me spout.
17

Rob Pendragon,

28/11/2008 12:07:56
There, nothing up my sleeve - or in the bank, either
18

Rusty Nut,

28/11/2008 12:09:27
While addressing Scotland's 'Unlocking Talent' conference, Mr Brown demonstrated his own party piece, The Robot Dance.
19

Hugh Roscombe,

28/11/2008 12:17:01
I'm free.
20

Rob Pendragon,

28/11/2008 12:42:05
Unlocking talent? Just trying to find it in the Labour party is hard enough.
21

Rob Pendragon,

28/11/2008 12:53:13
Gordon models for the new character of "Oor Gordie" for D. C. Thomson
22

alex paterson,

edinburgh 28/11/2008 13:06:11
Ah Shir Shawn welcome,do have a seat at the top table.
23

Rob Pendragon,

28/11/2008 13:08:22
Gordon shows people how to wave goodbye to their jobs
24

HairyHaggis,

28/11/2008 13:49:11
This way to the dole queue
25

I love to eat Sellotape,

28/11/2008 14:19:10
Hello! I'm Gordon Brown. Here is one of my hands. The other one I'll keep on the lectern for now.
26

A Friend of Fernando Poo,

28/11/2008 14:27:35
As I spend so much of my time saving the world, I've designed this lovely mask and cape...
27

Douglas,

Bathgate 28/11/2008 14:51:53
Lot 1, one country, slightly the worse for wear but with great post recession development potential. Selling price includes government backing for any and all failed spiv scams and a well trained pack of sycophantic hangers on.
28

tam o:shanter,

edinburgh 28/11/2008 15:01:52
A gottle of geer too many for Gogs
29

blackley,

Edinburgh 28/11/2008 15:29:08
See the recession? Best thing that's ever happened to me!
30

Cookybaby,

edinburgh 28/11/2008 15:51:49
"My forecast for next year?
I'll be in the jungle. "
31

Cookybaby,

edinburgh 28/11/2008 15:53:17
" It's the way I tell them, "
32

Douglas,

Bathgate 28/11/2008 16:00:01
Ah, the economy. Well clearly a big boy did it and then ran away.
33

Douglas,

Bathgate 28/11/2008 16:02:40
Please welcome Edinburgh's most elusive person, the one who hands out the Corona Extra.
34

Cookybaby,

edinburgh 28/11/2008 16:06:06
"I,ve found a very nice man to pull us out of this crisis, my new Chancellor of the Exchechor is.......
Vladimir Romanov."
35

Cookybaby,

edinburgh 28/11/2008 16:09:01
You put your right hand in and you shake it all about.
36

Douglas,

Bathgate 28/11/2008 16:10:28
I see the Evening News photographer is in to take a shot for the temperance league caption competition.
37

CB1,

28/11/2008 16:44:21
If you look really closely you can see the strings attached to his hands, i wonder who is pulling them?
38

Sarcasm,

28/11/2008 17:46:08
Burtons asked to remove latest shop window display by Downing Street.
39

Douglas,

Bathgate 28/11/2008 18:21:17
Unlocking talent or, to put it another way, our prisons are overcrowded, here come the old lags.
40

Ross,

Edinburgh 28/11/2008 18:23:16
I used to blow Tony, but not now, i just blow myself, see.
41

Aud,

midlothian 28/11/2008 19:28:14
I,m still a puppet on a string!
42

Euan Gregor,

Edinburgh 28/11/2008 19:32:44
I started this fellowship 3 years ago and look where I am!
43

Euan Gregor,

Edinburgh 28/11/2008 20:57:33
Gordon looks for another challenge to his crown as top arm-wrestler in the Labour Party!
44

Euan Gregor,

Edinburgh 28/11/2008 21:01:44
Do I have any bidders? I'm starting at £10 billion...£15billion.... £20billion! Sold! That's the RBS sold to you tax-payer, for £20 billion!
45

Douglas,

Bathgate 29/11/2008 09:33:07
Taking his cue from Maradona, Brown shows "The Hand of Gord"
46

Douglas,

Bathgate 29/11/2008 09:35:58
Insiders fear that spinning the release by police of captive sex workers as 'Unlocking Talent' may be in poor taste.
47

Boy Wonder,

29/11/2008 17:16:55
And how would like me to f*** off??
48

Boy Wonder,

29/11/2008 17:17:31
Sorry ... should read ...

And how would you like me to f*** off??
49

tomias,

Edinburgh 29/11/2008 17:45:18
Another masonic gesture
50

Douglas,

Bathgate 29/11/2008 19:16:49
I only usually have a wee drink at new year but this afternoon I thought, why not?
51

Douglas,

Bathgate 29/11/2008 19:18:32
And I look forward to that day in the future when I can use this to slap that look off Mandelson's face.
52

Gie's a break,

Edinburgh 30/11/2008 17:07:37
Gordon shows off the robotic moves he rehearsed with Peter Crouch.
53

Gie's a break,

Edinburgh 30/11/2008 17:08:50
After I leave 10 Downing Street I will earn my living on Princes Street dressed as a silver robot.
54

Gie's a break,

Edinburgh 30/11/2008 17:10:03
Gordon launches the publication of his autobiography "The Man who sunk the economy".
55

Gie's a break,

Edinburgh 30/11/2008 17:11:06
Ok ladies and gentlemen, keep your eyes on the Queen of Hearts.
56

Gie's a break,

Edinburgh 30/11/2008 17:12:25
My talent? Magic of course, I have made billions of pounds disappear before your very eyes.
57

Gie's a break,

Edinburgh 30/11/2008 17:13:35
This ladies and gentlemen is "The Hand of Sod".
58

Gie's a break,

Edinburgh 30/11/2008 17:16:36
Gordon denies the Fellowship is full of bankers now worth billions.
59

Gie's a break,

Edinburgh 30/11/2008 17:20:56
Gordon put's a positive spin on the Credit crunch by quoting the bible; "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God".

 

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