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Relive my childhood HOW?

Welcome back to a new installment of our popular feature, “Stuff Maybe We Should Have Mentioned in the Photo Caption, but didn’t.”

The actual captions on these photos tell us we’re seeing a truck where folks get free ice cream along with massages and manicures. The captions say the experience is “meant to be a new spin for adults to relive their childhood.” That’s really what they say.

Yeah, this sure takes me back to my boyhood on Primrose Lane, in Indianapolis.

Every Thursday in the summer, me and my pals Marty and Herbie would eagerly wait for the big truck to arrive on our block, and scamper aboard for our little massages and manicures.

We loved it, even though it’s not easy eating ice cream while you’re getting a massage and manicure.

Our parents appreciated having us out of the way for a couple of hours, knowing we were safe on a truck with total strangers giving us treats and doing who knows what to us.

Be sure to wear some flour in your hair…

Welcome back to a regular little feature we like to call, “Stuff maybe we should have mentioned in the photo caption, but didn’t.”

Pay close attention. I know this guy here looks like somebody with pieces of bread taped onto his head.

That’s because he IS a guy with pieces of bread taped onto his head according to the photo captions, which don’t give us a clue why he did that.

I mean, let’s say President Barack Obama showed up at a press conference with loaves of pumpernickel duct-taped to his ears.

The first reporter to get called on would use his question to ask, “What’s up with that bread there, Mr. President?”

Putting the pull back in polo?

Today we have what may be the mother of all editions of our popular regular feature, “Stuff Maybe We Should Have Mentioned in the Photo Caption, but didn’t.”

What you’re seeing here are photos from our coverage of the recent European Water Polo Championships in Zagreb.

Amazingly, none of the actual captions found room to mention that a tactic of the women’s games appears to be pulling your opponent’s swimsuit down to expose, you know, lots of stuff.

As usual, I’ve had to employ irritating rectangular bars in these photos to protect my readers. But rest assured, without the bars you’d be seeing a whole lot more here than water polo.

I have no way of knowing whether this is par for the course in this sport, or an unusual level of such exposure.

Ya want cuffs on those trousers?

Welcome to a very mysterious installment of our popular feature, “Stuff Maybe We Should Have Mentioned in the Photo Caption, but didn’t.”

The actual one-sentence caption for this photo identifies the subject as a “Rizla umbrella girl,” and says she is “posing” at some motorcycle race. That’s it, I swear.

Initially, I figured she must be a law- enforcement officer, what with her blue uniform and handcuffs.

But upon closer scrutiny, I realized that most policewomen a) wear pants of some sort and b) would gladly taser you for calling them a “girl.”

Who is she, then?

The mystery surrounding her deepens when you consider she has no head, arms or feet. Is it really a “pose” if her own mother wouldn’t recognize her?

And why are we calling her an “umbrella girl” when we can’t see an umbrella, and as far as I can tell, it’s not even raining?

Ewwwwwww, we must be in France!

Welcome back to our ever-popular feature, “Stuff Maybe We Should Have Mentioned in the Photo Caption, but didn’t.”

Today we see riders in the Tour de France, and the caption informs us they are being greeted by “fans.”

Excuse me? I guess maybe that’s true, but one of those fans is stark naked except for a cape, a baseball cap and what looks like a small rodent clinging to an important body part.

If this is the suggested attire for this event, then I’ll just watch it on television.

Meanwhile, I can only hope the rodent scrambled to safety and that the mean-looking cyclist on the right managed to use his front wheel spokes in a very creative way. Look at him. You know he’s thinking about it.

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They do WHAT to themselves?

Well, it’s time for my holiday posting, so let’s see if I can find some nice Easter Bunny shots, or….

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!

You know, as I sometimes remind readers, my job is to look at pictures so you don’t have to, and around the world, Good Friday seems to be getting bloodier and bloodier.

Some snippets from our photo captions:

More than a dozen Filipinos were nailed to crosses and others whipped their backs until they were bloody in a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. The Catholic Church disapproves of the annual ritual of devotion…

A penitent’s feet are nailed to a wooden cross… A penitent’s hand is nailed to a wooden cross…

A penitent shouts in pain as he is nailed to a wooden cross as part of a voluntary ritual…

Jeez officer, just THROW your gun at the target!

Welcome back to another installment of our regular feature, “Stuff Maybe we Should have Explained in the Caption, but Didn’t.” We are told these officers are holding targets during a demonstration to demand “more resources to combat violence…”

Resources? What kind of resources?

Better training? It looks like not a single one of them seems to be able to hit a target. I say fire ‘em all and hire cops who can hit something!

Do they need bullets? Is this some kind of a Barney Fife force, where nobody is allowed to load their weapon?

WAIT! Maybe they’re pissed-off because their targets are made of a new space-age polymer, so their bullets just glance off and they can never qualify as marksmen?

Oh, I’m sorry. I’ve just been informed they are holding photos of their new uniforms, and they fear a trigger-happy citizenry. Fine, why didn’t we just say that in the first place?

Which half of ‘em is naked?

Okay, I’ve got another small quibble with our photo captions. The actual caption for the pictures you see here begins, “People take part in a half naked “Santa run…”

While it is true that most of them are not wearing shirts or pants, I don’t see anybody I’d call “half naked.” I just see people who aren’t fully clothed.

What I’m saying here is, if I were to ask a woman if she wanted to come over to my house and “get half naked,” and she said, “You bet, Blog Guy!” then I’d expect something different than this. And by the way, I have trade-marked that pick-up line.

I’m worried that my blog may be exposed, so to speak, if some fancy-pants lawyer decides to sue us on behalf of people who Google the phrase “half naked” and wind up finding these.

I’d like to go finish my glass of water now, but I can’t decide if it’s half full or half empty.

That ain’t corn on the cob, Slick!

Welcome back to another edition of our popular feature, Stuff Maybe we Should Have Explained in the Caption, but Didn’t.

The captions for these shots from today tell us that Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada “eats with his hands” after a political rally.

No kidding! I think we could figure that out ourselves, but it doesn’t go on to say why a former president doesn’t have access to utensils.

It does say he was removed from office in 2001, and I guess we have to presume it was for poor table manners.

But heck, they should have known he was trouble from the start. Here he is back in 1998, scarfing it down by the fistful.

Didn’t he wonder why voters never wanted to shake his hand?

Agriculture culture in the paddy, daddy!

Welcome back to our regular feature, Stuff Maybe we Should Have Explained in the Caption, but Didn’t.

Our full caption for this photo, which you may read below and which I did not tamper with, tells us this pianist is performing during a concert in the middle of a rice paddy in Taiwan.

Huh?

Well we can SEE that, can’t we?