Wow!...The dog has its day!... I haven �t won anything, in like, 15 years.....Incredible!... Awesome!...Thanks for the honor...I thought the "Moor, please!" bit was kind of a tacky...But, hey, what do I know?...I was pretty excited about the "Thy tongue, thy anchor"  though....That was a personal breakthrough for me in the caption contest...I had to go to the mirror after that one, to see if anything had changed..It was like an epiphany...I began rantin � an � ravin � around the apartment here in China...I wanted to write a play!.."The Whistleblower"!...Some kind of Shakespearian tragedy!... I thought, "Now! I will unleash the TRUE POWER of this caption game! � ...Then I got tired...Little dogs on the streets were barkin � at me...The neighbors were givin � me funny looks...That �s when the bubble burst  and I struck upon, "Moor, please"...Alas, coy creature, "creative process"!...The thorns I bear for thee!...In the end, I thought, maybe I should try the "Even if you win, you lose" strategy more often (After all, teachers do seem to love that)....Because, I mean...Hey! At least you still WIN!

Here �s yet another earlier pathetic bid by me to grasp elusive victory...This is a photoshopper I did for one of my classes here in China. That �s the U.S. swimming medalist, Michael Phelps, to the right and the ecstatic gentleman to the left, with the hole in the armpit of his shirt, is yours truly. I told the students that the Olympic officials had �officially� removed my image from all media because my appearance was deemed "disgraceful" to the games. That�s why they had never heard of �Sean Sarto�, U.S. Olympic gold medalist...because of stupid Olympic "dress code" rules. The lesson was something like, �Sometimes TRUE champions are hard to recognize, kids� but the Chinese students still weren�t buyin� it.

What do you think? Have some fun with it. I don �t mind. TCB (Takin� Care of Business).

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