Caption Competition
Winning entries in the Caption Competition.
The competition is now closed.
This week it was two children in Viking costume preparing for the Up Helly Aa festival in Shetland.
Thanks to all who entered. The prize of a small amount of kudos to the following:
6. BeckySnow wrote:
"Let's go and raid the tuck shop."
5. VirtuousFang wrote:
As Thor hogged the Gameboy yet again, Loki started to plot his revenge.
4. penny-farthing wrote:
"Yes, it looks like the next longboat in will be the 3.10 from Orkney."
3. Woundedpride wrote:
"So if we DO launch this bloodthirsty pillaging of northern Europe project of yours, Timothy, can I bring my teddy?"
2. Mr Snoozy wrote:
I'm just checking the list of places to rob and pillage, and I see that after Mothercare it's Toys R Us.
1. Rob Falconer wrote:
And, at the end, we get to burn Edward Woodward.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:Do I like Viking? I don't know - I've never viked.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, BeckySnow wrote:'Let's go and raid the tuck shop'
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:Shetland phonies
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, TheSamePeopleAlwaysGetPicked wrote:Prince William and Harry. The dressing up years.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, rogueslr wrote:Careful, the last blokes who organised something like this on Facebook are still doing time.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:So this is Alex Salmond's uniform for his New Model Army
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At 2nd Feb 2012, 3arn0wl wrote:Are you ordering the tar barrels, Jarl?
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:So we're looting, pillaging and ... hang on, we're going to be moderated
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:Have you seen our dinner? Two slices of Ryvita!
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At 2nd Feb 2012, rogueslr wrote:Are you sure dad said when he was Googling Red Hot Vikings it was all about the festival?
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At 2nd Feb 2012, BeckySnow wrote:Children's costumes available from the B'Odin catalogue.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:Hey, the Scots have painted "MacBraynes" all over our longboat
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Kudosless wrote:That's not a pony. It's a Norse.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Kudosless wrote:Aa, Viking Helly
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At 2nd Feb 2012, penny-farthing wrote:"Yes, it looks like the next longboat in will be the 3.10 from Orkney"
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At 2nd Feb 2012, 3arn0wl wrote:A remote controlled Longship! Cooool!
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Asp wrote:Struggling to understand flat-pack furniture instructions has often been a Scandavian problem.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:It's Alex Salmond's new game for the PSP - "Angry Sassenachs"
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At 2nd Feb 2012, 3arn0wl wrote:There's Norway you're gonna have a go on my games console.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Kudosless wrote:Why do these people keep sending us stationery orders?
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At 2nd Feb 2012, VirtuousFang wrote:My dad says in the old days we all used to 'rope a pollock' or something....
Oh, but fishings so boring...
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Fi wrote:The Millibands - The Early Years
David the Terrible instructs Ed the Unintelligible...
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Frankonline wrote:"Norse ? Whats a Norse ?". "Well it has 4 legs and you ride it !"
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At 2nd Feb 2012, LaurenceLane wrote:So, where after 'devo plus' and 'devo max' does it ask whether we can devolve from Scotland?
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Kudosless wrote:It asks "Do you agree that Shetland should be an independent country?"
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At 2nd Feb 2012, MuteJoe wrote:It was when Hägar wouldn't let Lucky Eddie play with his PSP that he became known as 'the Horrible'.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, VirtuousFang wrote:if you collect enough skulls to drink from you get to the next level
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Kudosless wrote:Two little boys had two little toys.
Each had a wooden longboat ...
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Frankonline wrote:"Its a parking ticket. I left my pony on a double yellow line."
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:Well, Mum always said you ate like a Norse
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:Hang on - IKEA want us to make another delivery in Lerwick
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At 2nd Feb 2012, LaurenceLane wrote:I told you! It says here that Health and Safety rules state that naked flames should not be carried through the streets without the appropriate safety guards, protective suits and definitely in the absence of fancy dress.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:I knew the Americans would get it all wrong - we're auditioning for a role in "Only Fools and Norses"
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ sells "Outnumbered" to Norwegian Television
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At 2nd Feb 2012, BaldoBingham wrote:So, Xena versus Noggin the Nog, the Final Showdown, it doesn't get much better than that.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, VirtuousFang wrote:Here its is 'Viking Sagas'... Norwegian Fjord tour for the over 50's
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Mersonwastheperson wrote:"We're in the wrong place, Charlie. It says here that Valhalla was a majestic hall, not Shetland Village Hall."
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Mr Snoozy wrote:Hey, Hamish! Look what mum's left lying around!
Do you think we should ask for a little brother or a little sister?
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At 2nd Feb 2012, VirtuousFang wrote:When's some idiot going to realise, we're dressed as the 'Legion of the 9th' and about to get slaughtered, Thornoggsen moaned
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:And, at the end, we get to burn Edward Woodward
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Kudosless wrote:This policy document definitely states that the longboat is insured for theft or fire ...
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At 2nd Feb 2012, pauli wrote:Throw the banana, avoid the green shells, make war, lay waste, ravage and plunder.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Mr Snoozy wrote:Sorry wee Brother of mine, but it states clearly in this contract that we DO have to go out in the cold dressed like this..
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:My Mother got it all wrong and came as a pantomime Dane
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:Oh no, it says Swedes are included - and that's the menu!
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:It says it's a Viking Saga - it must be longship insurance for the over-50s
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Lewis Graham wrote:Dad says we have to behave and follow the Norse Code.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:I'm playing Super Magnus Brothers Karts
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Fi wrote:News that the governent was taking action to tackle trolls, spread fear in the Ericsson household...
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Mr Snoozy wrote:A little known fact was that the average plundering Viking was only 3 feet tall.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, JimmyG wrote:King Olaf regretted invading America
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Mr Snoozy wrote:I'm just checking the list of places to rob and pillage, and I see that after Mothercare it's Toys R Us.....
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At 2nd Feb 2012, JimmyG wrote:Commodus was going to regret stealing Maximus' Gameboy
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:The cunning Vikings unleash Angry Birds upon the unwary Shetlanders
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At 2nd Feb 2012, VirtuousFang wrote:Gotterdammerung!!! Just about to complete the game and Heimdall blows his horn
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At 2nd Feb 2012, JimmyG wrote:Parents mis-interpret the message of keeping their children indoors to help them thaw out
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At 2nd Feb 2012, JimmyG wrote:Mario Kart vs. Ride of the Valkyries
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At 2nd Feb 2012, VirtuousFang wrote:As Thor hogged the Gameboy yet again Loki started to plot his revenge
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:There are supposed to be horns on our helmets, so we must have them inside-out. No wonder we're having headaches.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, JimmyG wrote:Reasons not to take part in this years costume parade: #24
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Mr Snoozy wrote:Nintendo were heavily criticised for product testing Immortal Combat over 1000 years before the release of the 3DS
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:And then there's a rousing finale with the whole cast singing "There is Nothing Like a Dane"
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At 2nd Feb 2012, VirtuousFang wrote:If he couldn't get the kindle to work, and he had to recite Noggin the Nog from memory it was going straight on the log-fire
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At 2nd Feb 2012, chuck_rock wrote:Do the instructions say to pilladge before we burn?
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At 2nd Feb 2012, VirtuousFang wrote:#nogblog
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At 2nd Feb 2012, BeckySnow wrote:'What's happened to your voice?'
'Thor throat'
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:It was the last time Lars and Hedda would be inveigled into joining one of King Olaf's "Fourteen-day Tours of the Scottish Islands"
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:What, Borghild! Pining for the fjords already?
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Tremorman wrote:The Jorvik centre in York were under investigation for child labour
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Tremorman wrote:One things for sure the horse will be the right size
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Tremorman wrote:This is more fun than last year when we did the Battle of Hasting and we were told by the teachers to watch out so the idiot with the arrows doesn't have someones eye out.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Tremorman wrote:I wonder if the Vikings came over on Flatpack boats
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Gareth Butler wrote:A quick check of the GPS confirmed they definitely weren't going to be home in time for tea.....
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Tremorman wrote:Well it's not as bad as i thought at least we get to dress up, I thought dad said were going on a Hiking holiday
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:Lara Croft's just got to Skara Brae
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:Have you seen what it was like on those longships? So much for Saga Cruises for the over 50s.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Tremorman wrote:The new volvo advert had hit a snag! neither of them could drive.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:Proof that the Vikings really came over on shortships
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:The Scots put on a combined ABBA / Dino Martin tribute entitled "ABBA Dean!"
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:Of course the Vikings were a short race - you don't grow much on a diet of Ryvita
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:Two young hopefuls at the Edinburgh Fringe prepare their act for the "Up Helly Aa" Comedy Award
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At 2nd Feb 2012, essjaydee wrote:Some said that the next generation of rioters were taking things a little too far...
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:To be historically accurate, I've had the motherboard replaced by a Smorgasbord
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At 2nd Feb 2012, johnc wrote:I never mentioned Nintendo. I said I want a wee.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, johnc wrote:Asgard the door, yous guard the corridor.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Raven Clare wrote:You've got Iceland, Furnitureland, Poundland ... but do people really want to buy Shets?
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At 2nd Feb 2012, johnc wrote:When Dad mentioned "How to Train your Dragon" I think he meant getting in Mummy's good books, not the DVD.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Tremorman wrote:The history books say that Lindisfarne was the start of all the trouble,
I knew Mam and Dad were old but i didn't realize how old! they are still listening to them now.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, johnc wrote:Dad's here, but Mum's gone to Iceland
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Raven Clare wrote:We supposed to attack, looting? Poor Olaf and his boys have gone off to attack Luton.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Raven Clare wrote:Of course you can't have a go, Isla. You haven't developed opposable thumbs yet.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:They want us to greet the Vikings, so they asked if I knew a little Norwegian. I said yes - my sister.
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Polly S wrote:Up Hell-y Aa? Its certainly no valhall-y-a!
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Gray Gable wrote:Its Health & Safety gone mad, I tell you..
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Polly S wrote:I think this satnav has a glitch; I asked for directions to Faroe not the foyer
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Polly S wrote:Romeo and Cruz were less than pleased when Brooklyn, following in his parents' footsteps, also had ago at clothes designing
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At 2nd Feb 2012, penny-farthing wrote:"Look,Eric,particularly lethal axes for those 70lbs or less,half-price!".
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At 2nd Feb 2012, Gray Gable wrote:Dad says I’ve got to get to level four before we can get out of these stupid costumes..
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