April 11, 2006
Una Paloma Ummah
Or, I still don't get performance art. It's time for another Caption Contest (#8).
Iranian artists perform as they hold up samples of enriched uranium after Iran said on Tuesday it had produced low-grade enriched uranium, in Mashad, April 11, 2006. (Stringer/Reuters)
Contest will last until I declare a winner.
Three-millionths of a second later, a small thermonuclear explosion wiped out the Northwest portion of Mashad. No one had told Achmed and Jimbo that it wasn't a good idea to forcefully clink together vials of enriched uranium.
Posted by: charles austin at 04:06 PMOK, so Iran has THE BOMB....but those "dove" delivery systems still don't quite cut it!
Posted by: Maggie at 05:13 PM"It doesn't seem like much Uranium."
"Don't worry, Dubya said he would deliver more."
"Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen."
Posted by: Jon at 01:40 PMIt doesn't have the same esoteric pop culture reference, but a less trinitarian caption might be...
"There is no Bomb but Bomb, and Fallout is his prophet."
Posted by: Jon at 04:42 PMDRUDGEREPORTING: The NYT today greatly discounts Irans claims to being a nuclear power, based on Mahmouds pronouncement that they have acquired the Illudium Q-38 Explosive Space Modulator.
Posted by: Rodney Dill at 06:07 AM[spleenville has censored this caption contest entry in the interest of not offending any obviously offendable religious groups]
Posted by: Jon at 11:01 AM"Enriched uranium my camel's butt. These tubes are filled with Diet Mountain Dew."
Posted by: Haws at 02:37 PMCritics acclaim the new Broadway hit: "Snow White Doves and the Seven Mental Dwarfs". The closing number "Nuclear Confusion" ends the musical with a big bang.
Posted by: Maggie at 08:01 PM"May the blue bird of happiness build a missile silo in your armpit."
Posted by: Rodney Dill at 08:36 PM