Friday, March 06, 2009

Friday Caption Competition


Seeing as I am spending most of the day transcribing the two and a half hours I spent with Ken Livingstone on Tuesday, I thought I would let you entertain me throughout the day (and, let's face it, divert my attention) by putting words into my mouth. But only decent ones please.

I think you'll enjoy the interview when it comes out in a couple of weeks. Let's put it this way. You can't spend so long with Ken without him saying something controversial.

37 comments:

John M Ward said...

"Say what you like, I think Cabernet Sauvignon is better than Merlot."

Chris Paul said...

Not a caption:

That finger of yours is actually wagging at the man Iain ... gosh.

Gordon Brown said...

"Ken, I know you prefer newts but frankly, hamsters do it for me every time......."

The Filthy Engineer said...

You know Ken, you really should run for mayor of Tonbridge.

Nic Conner said...

ID "How are you finding your new job Ken? Its nice to meet the chef.I do love going to Ken's Cafe before the game. You get the toast just right!"

Anonymous said...

E.T. phone home.

Nic Conner said...

They could be twins!

Akheloios said...

Iain: Indeed Ken, but it wasn't it Kropotkin who said that it was the societies where the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development, are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress. THAT's why I'm a Tory.

Jeff said...

"Ken, I don't know how to tell you this but that Japanese sign behind you actually says 'Vote Boris for Mayor' "

Mark Wadsworth said...

Iain "Let's demonstrate 'matching and mirroring' for the cameras, that's how the sophisticated interviewer puts his interviewee at ease/off guard"

Ken "Sod that. I've been doing this for thirty years. The only person who ever caught me off guard was that bloke with the giant telephone, Dom Jolly or something like that"

DiscoveredJoys said...

"Tell me Ken, how easy was it to be Mayor of London and an actor in Coronation Street at the same time?"

Unknown said...

Iain Dale: "Pull my finger"

Ken Livingstone: "No"

jailhouselawyer said...

ID: How tickled I am to be here.

KL: I'd rather Boris kept my seat warm for me than you spanking my rear end.

Bill Quango MP said...

Ok .. I've got one. A German, a Mullah, a Rabbi and Hugo Chavez go into a bar...

Ralph Hancock said...

Iain: 'Ken, there's a piece of glass stuck in your head. Doesn't it hurt?'

Ken: 'The trick is, not to mind.'

Trend Shed said...

Ken stuns Iain by revealing that he turned to newts in order to distract himself from his obsessive crush on Margaret Thatcher and her sexy legs.

Unsworth said...

"You can't spend so long with Ken without him saying something controversial."

Isn't that his whole raison d'etre?


Anyway, caption:

"Which Twin has the Toni?"

(and yes, you do have to be a certain age)

javelin said...

Reasonable man 1 - bl@@dy Marxist
Reasonable man 2 - bl@@dy Thatcherite

Anonymous said...

"Isn't male-pattern baldness a bitch"?

"Yeah."

Raedwald said...

"OK; Israel, Chavez, Lee Jasper, Boris, the third runway, Gordon and your leadership bid are no-go subjects, but I MUST have a Harriet quote .."

Anonymous said...

Iain " Are you sure that is just a Newt I can feel".

IanVisits said...

And in political history, the lunch at Kens will remembered as the "Granita" moment when they agreed to join forces to take over the government.

Vulpus_rex said...

The only fully visible Kanji on the top row of the picture behind Ken's head means "Wind".

Rather appropriate.

Martin S said...

So, Ken... You are telling me you that were really only ever in it for the money? And that's why you resigned from the Lambeth Young Conservatives?

an ex-apprentice said...

And then, you'll never believe this Ken, but on the Front Bench, in full view of the TV cameras, Gordon ATE it.

And then licked his finger clean!

ChrisG said...

Iain, are you now copying Guido Fawkes with running a Friday Caption Competion so that you can go and have a long Wet Friday lunch?

Cath said...

ID: So let me get this right. You did have a tin of guacamole yesterday but you don't have it today and you can't remember what you did with it.

John M Ward said...

Well done, Vulpus_rex: "kaze".

I'm sure there's a "bag" ideogram hidden there somewhere…

Nic Conner said...

ID "What this I here that Ken's Cafe doing a special on green custard?"

KL "We call it crème mandlée".

Vulpus_rex said...

"John M Ward said...
Well done, Vulpus_rex: "kaze".

Sadly the only other completely visible one means "moon" which doesn't have quite the pleasing connotations of bag.

Anonymous said...

Hey, Ken, have you seen the Dolly Draper Downfall video, yet?

or

"There's a vacancy in Stoke........"

Chris Paul said...

Ken: And have you taken that vile Jonathan Cook's vile profile picture down yet Iain?

Iain: Vile? What's actually vile about a man's face being superimposed on an anatomical drawing of a woman's genitalia in this way? And leaving it on my family orientated blog for weeks? I'd never leave offensive material once it was pointed out? What's vile about this?

Ken: What's vile Iain? It's Dolly Draper's face is what.

PS 1: Derek/Ken - only joking.
PS 2: Iain/John - serious point.

David Anthony said...

Two hours later

Now here's what's wrong with the buses....

It Will Come to Me said...

"You are awful, but I like you."

HT: Dick Emery.

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Patrick McGroin said...

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colins said...

... and the bear said

"You didn't really come here to hunt did you ?"