Friday Caption Contest

September 22, 2007 in Art, Boy clothes, Boy Shoes, Caption me, Diversions with 17 Comments

Your caption suggestions in the comments, plzthxkbai!

Boys, old-fashioned

from the Forgotten Faces Flickrstream

About raincoaster: Small. Stealthy. Snarky.

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17 Responses to “Friday Caption Contest”

  1. raincoaster September 22, 2007 at 3:14 am #

    Mine is:

    “The pants bandit strikes without warning!”

  2. anne September 22, 2007 at 8:48 am #

    Someday I’ll get him for this wedgie.

  3. cheeky September 22, 2007 at 2:35 pm #

    Not a caption, but why, oh why are those children in their underwear? [mind boggles]

  4. dgm September 22, 2007 at 4:07 pm #

    “Mom wears the pants in our family.”

  5. Glinda September 22, 2007 at 4:30 pm #

    It took a while, but I told them bubble skirts would come back into fashion.

  6. raincoaster September 22, 2007 at 5:33 pm #

    Excellent captionation, ladies/gentlemen/whatevers.

    cheeky, they didn’t used to let little boys wear long pants till they were old enough for prep school. It’s how you could tell the posh kids from the poor ones; the poor ones had pants, the rich ones had shorts. And the wee one is in a onesie, which must have been very uncomfortable before they had nice cotton/lycra knit fabrics.

    Aren’t they a grim-looking pair? The poor boys; they must have QUITE a life story.

  7. deja pseu September 22, 2007 at 8:22 pm #

    Dang, but those are the WASP-iest looking kids! Henry Stonehurst Throckmorton III and his little brother Jack “Poopie” Throckmorton, ready for an afternoon of croquet and bullying the help.

  8. Awesome Mom September 22, 2007 at 9:02 pm #

    The young boy: Hehe I let one!

    The older boy: “sniff sniff” What is that smell?

  9. raincoaster September 22, 2007 at 10:22 pm #

    Or reverse it:

    Older boy: I let one.

    Younger boy: My brother just farted in my ear.

  10. Forgotten Faces January 18, 2008 at 12:49 pm #

    Although this picture has been linked back to my site it would have been nice if raincoaster had asked permission to use it first.
    This image has been belittled by the comments on this site.

  11. raincoaster January 18, 2008 at 8:44 pm #

    My apologies, but I am confused. Since you are not the photographer and not related to the children in the photograph, I’m not sure why other people’s remarks about it upset you. It is long out of copyright.

  12. Diss January 19, 2008 at 3:39 pm #

    Raincoaster even linked to you, yet you don’t own the rights to the photo. I think that was pretty decent of Rain to do. That linkback will give you more exposure for the photos you have on flickr (which you have marked as public) and like Raincoaster says, these are long out of copyright and you cannot possibly have the copyright on these photos.

    If anything, I’d be thanking Raincoaster for getting a link on teenymanolo.

    Off my soapbox.

    DGM’s caption “Mom wears the pants in our family.” hahahaha!!! luv it!

  13. Forgotten Faces January 19, 2008 at 4:03 pm #

    It may be long out of copyright but the photo now belongs to me, I am the owner of it and I find the remarks made are not respectfull to the people ( long gone now I know ) shown in the photograph. By the rules of Flickr you should have asked my permission before using the photo as it is protected by a Creative Commons License. I do allow certain members of Flickr to use my images for art work.

    I purchase these cards and display them on Flickr to ensure that these long gone people are not forgotten. Sentimental I know but thats the way it is for me. It is as if they are related to me.

    While I appreciate that these comments are just a bit of fun you must consider how you would feel if somebody did the same to images that meant a lot to you.

    Rob

  14. raincoaster January 20, 2008 at 2:28 am #

    I understand and respect your feelings on the issue, but must respectfully disagree about the CC license: you didn’t own the copyright to those images to begin with, therefore you cannot CC license them. They are out of copyright entirely.

    And yes, if someone made snarky comments about pictures I cared about, I would do just what you have done, which is speak up. I won’t use any more images from your Flickr stream in future.

  15. Forgotten Faces January 21, 2008 at 1:40 pm #

    Thanks rain…apologise for my rather abrupt first posting about this but you can now see where I am coming from.

    Not sure about the CC thing though. I now own these images so I would have thought that I could do what I wanted with them. If I can`t then it must apply also to everybody else on Flickr displaying similar images who have the same license…but thats another issue.
    Rob

  16. raincoaster January 21, 2008 at 7:08 pm #

    I’m glad we’ve come to an understanding. I respect your wishes and won’t use more of the images. We can see where you’re coming from.

    You’re right, the copyright issue does apply across Flickr and all other such sites. Ownership of a physical work of art doesn’t entail ownership of copyright (do you own a book? But you don’t own the copyright of it), but it’s taken the courts decades to work that out. CC licensing is a great innovation for artists, but you can’t restrict the copyright to something whose copyright you don’t own. CC is more for creators.

  17. Forgotten Faces January 22, 2008 at 1:33 pm #

    Thanks rain, I take your point about the CC thing.
    Rob