Cool caption crafting contest
December 17th, 2009 | by Sol |Happy Holidays, everyone!
I’ll give $20 as an Amazon gift card (or PayPal cash) to whoever, in my opinion, comes up with the best caption for the image below. Click on the image to gain the full, mind-boggling, effect. The small piece of the image you see here doesn’t do the picture justice.
Leave your submission as a comment and make sure to put your email in the email field of the comment form so I can contact you if I like your caption best.
Contest ends 12/31/2009. Have fun!
Hat tip to Cliff Pickover for the tweet pointing to the image.
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65 Responses to “Cool caption crafting contest”
By anais on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“Any questions?”
By John Golden on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
…and that wraps up #2. Any questions? Good. Numbers 3 to 10 for homework. Careful, #7 is less straightforward.
By Peter on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
That’s great, professor. But this is “Intro to Shakespeare.”
By Tito Eliatron on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“And so, dear friends, I’ve finally proof that the set of men who understand women is empty”.
By ARJ on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
What’s really incredible, class, is that Mr. Fermat was able to fit this into the margin of a book page…
By Adam Levin on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“And that’s the formula for how I grew stretchy legs that let me reach the top of the blackboard”
By Surreal Numbers on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
Now we’ll look at some exceptions…
By Noxbru on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“All the work here can be summarized as 1+1=2. But we have had to do the demonstration to be sure about it.
By Noxbru on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“All the work here can be summarized as 1+1=2. But we have had to do the demonstration to be sure about it.
By David on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
And thus I think we can conclude that “7″ is prime.
By Sean Harvey on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
If your not following at this point, you probably should drop the class.
By anais on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“Pop Quiz! What number did I leave out? You have 15 minutes. Begin.”
By Steven on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“And so it can easily be shown that…”
By anais on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“Well, duh!”
By joseangel on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
Please, don’t pull my leg, where is the ladder?
By Wang on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“And that’s why this chalk is the best dust-free chalk there is”
By Don on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
Now for the complex equations tomorrow!
By Nick on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
The rest may be found in Federer’s book on Geometric Measure Theory.
By John Golden on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
So, as I said, it’s obvious.
(2nd go round. Can’t resist. Great captions so far.)
By Jon on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
… and now maybe one of you will be able to invent a board capable of saving all this work. That certainly would be a smart board.
By Maria on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
Any questions? Good! Now, are there any volunteers to clean the blackboard?
By rg on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
at which point God said, “let there be light” and it was thus….
By CHA on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“Um, I’m sorry professor, but I think you made a mistake in line one.”
By Omni on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
“All of this will be on the final… and I mean all of it!”
By Peter on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
How about: “I stole this shot from a Coen Brothers movie” ?
By JJC on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
Welcome to Undergrad Physics in One Semester. I don’t expect you to understand anything on the board, just the Calc behind it.
By Grigorios Papaioannou on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
Lost in shapes
By Manu on Dec 18, 2009 | Reply
“Can anyone please erase the blackboard before we begin? ¬¬ I hate physicists…”
By Øistein Gjøvik on Dec 18, 2009 | Reply
“OK, I have told you I like the blackboard to be blank when I start a lecture. Who has written this dribble?”
By Dave Cable on Dec 18, 2009 | Reply
And that, folks, is the secret formula for Coca-Cola. Don’t tell them I told you!
By clay on Dec 18, 2009 | Reply
“The small piece of the image you see here doesn’t do the picture justice.”
By anais on Dec 18, 2009 | Reply
“I know most of you have heard this class is an easy A…”
By Michelle Hopkins on Dec 18, 2009 | Reply
Its not like its rocket science!
By Jim Webb on Dec 18, 2009 | Reply
Could I move a bit? I thought you said,”Could I prove it?”
By John C on Dec 18, 2009 | Reply
“No, these notes will NOT be available on my course website.”
By Nate on Dec 18, 2009 | Reply
I want whoever erased my chicken noodle soup recipe to realize that this is vandalism and I WILL be pressing charges to the fullest!
By Jeff Goldstein on Dec 18, 2009 | Reply
Hiya,
Not sure how to leave a general comment.
Wanted to pass along that you might like this post.
http://blogontheuniverse.org/2009/12/18/lets-ban-english-in-school-except-in-english-class/
If you do can you help spread the word? You in fact might like Blog on the Universe given the blend of math, science and education.
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By Carol on Dec 19, 2009 | Reply
Yes, this will be on the test!
By Steven on Dec 19, 2009 | Reply
My caption: “Is there a shortcut?!”
By Voldermort on Dec 19, 2009 | Reply
All right class, before leaving you need to copy all notes down and clean up the board. These notes will not be avalible online.
By Calvin on Dec 19, 2009 | Reply
“Do you guys like my new roll-up curtain design?”
By Chuck on Dec 19, 2009 | Reply
Thus we see that Hercules actually does overtake the tortoise.
By D on Dec 19, 2009 | Reply
Where is that “Good Will Hunting” guy? I know he’s responsible for this!
By ARJ on Dec 19, 2009 | Reply
Dang, I hate having to teach my Western Civ. class immediately after one of Dr. Euler’s lectures.
By F.B. on Dec 20, 2009 | Reply
lol. This image should be on the cover of a math book, (sub)titled:
Introduction to Mathematics I
By Simon on Dec 20, 2009 | Reply
Students complain of rushed lecturing as contact hours are reduced.
By Mrs. Fuller on Dec 20, 2009 | Reply
Tuition: $2000
Laptop: $1200
Books: $300
Enough paper & pencil to write all this down: $15
Having a professor with go-go-gadget-arms: priceless
By Nikhil on Dec 20, 2009 | Reply
… With me so far? Cool!
By iva on Dec 21, 2009 | Reply
“Are you following? Good! Let’s continue.”
By epg on Dec 21, 2009 | Reply
“Damn, we’ve run out of space.”
By Marian on Dec 27, 2009 | Reply
“Who took my ladder?”
By vivek on Dec 28, 2009 | Reply
“SSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH. mathematician at work!!!”
By vivek on Dec 28, 2009 | Reply
meryy christmas and happy new year to everyone
By sud33pta on Dec 29, 2009 | Reply
“Now you write while I talk for the rest of the semester ladies”
By Renae on Dec 30, 2009 | Reply
Armani tie: $50
CERN Grant for proving the Higgs Boson particle: $2,000,000
Waiting for prof to figure out who stole his car keys: Priceless
By Chuck Gaydos on Dec 30, 2009 | Reply
All right, which smart-ass yelled “Lucky guess”?
By Joe Limpert on Dec 30, 2009 | Reply
It’s called the Drooling and Slobbering Grand Unification Theory and represents the culmination of 2.4 x 10^5 man hours of mathematical diligence.
We’re not sure yet of exactly what it means, but it does cause a lot of drooling and slobbering.
By watchmath on Dec 30, 2009 | Reply
“Have an extra blacboard, anyone?”
By Ian on Dec 31, 2009 | Reply
Ah, Professor…will this be on the test?
By Sujatha Nagarajan on Jan 1, 2010 | Reply
“Welcome to first day of Math 101″
By Sujatha Nagarajan on Jan 1, 2010 | Reply
“Digitize notes with ‘Sujatha Smart Board’ - $12,000 ONLY.”
By Mike Theodore on Jan 3, 2010 | Reply
Now that we have finished reviewing your high school pre-calculus work, we will move on to a more advanced topic.
By anais on Jan 5, 2010 | Reply
I know the contest is over, but I have a few more:
“That’s a dumb question!”
“You do the math.”
“Someone please copy this down for Susie who is out sick today.”