The rules are simple. Add a caption to the preceding picture (hopefully funny), set in a picture of your own and pass the challenge on to the next person.

Ok - we'll start on the Russian Front in 1943 ... any takers?

The artillery barrage had left Helmut hard of hearing:

"I said 'Take your cold HELMET off and put a warm CAP on your head!'"

(new picture to follow)

Just nipping in here quickly before Vizzer returns.
Just wanted to say: "Another great idea Nordmann!" ... I think this has the potential to keep me chuckling for a good while to come.

Oh, please hurry up with that picture, Vizzer - the clouds of existential gloom are gathering again.

I agree with MM - this challenge has the potential for enormous silliness which should do us all good.

Okay - here's the Siamese Embassy to the Court of Louis XIV of France:

Oh dear, not another bloody gold cup.

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Fred could not hide his disappointment. The "Inflatable Banana-rama" he had just forked out a week's wages on was obviously not, as he had hoped, a diorama featuring his favourite fruit.

That week Jack Daniels reported that the sales of sour mash Tennessee whiskey had gone through the roof...

Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent 1530

"I tell you, effendi - ostrich is all the rage in Turkey this year!"

"Mais oui, et en France aussi, mon ami Sully. But in France we ... how you say ... are more content with just to use ze feathers!"

A slice of Americana from the 1960s ...

"Formica! What a brilliant idea!" thought Charlie. "God, these Americans are clever. Everyone back in England is going to *love* these worktops."

Changed my mind about posting Charles V Standing with his Dog. Here's Lady Ottoline Morrell instead. (Augustus John):

Did you say the tea is Earl Grey dear?

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8.00 Supersize v. Superskinny

3/12 Series 6 Horrified by the medical implications of his eating habits, a 42-year-old baker from Wolverhampton swaps diets with a fastidious 24-year-old male fashion model from London. Tempers are soon fraying.*



* I suppose this won't make much sense to anyone who can't get Channel 4, but never mind.

On the way home ... with the lads ... from the pub .... after the match ... Sam (43) decided to prove to Phil (55) that he really was good at handstands when he was at school ...

Aztec musicians and dancers:

1472's "Mexican Pop Idol" season will of course be forever remembered as the one in which all five Tenochtitlan regional finalists coincidentally arrived to perform in the style of Badly Drawn Boy.

I've edited this as there was some question mark over the photograph I'd originally inserted. Instead we'll have a 1617 unknown Dutch mother's proud portrait of her twins. The artist is also unknown, and I can frankly understand why anonymity pertains in both cases!

"Why have you gone that funny colour? Is your nappy full?"

"It's not just my nappy that's full - the whole of this bloody tube is."

One of Holbein's most famous pictures...

"Ah Ambassador, you have really spoiled us. But I'm afraid I've just trodden a very large Ferrero Rocher into your carpet!"

A 1941 issue of "Life" magazine reports on wartime Britain:

Rover hated that time every month when Edna's somatopsychically induced hyperallergies kicked in.

Monty: "D'ya think we can lift him?"

Ike: "It's my Limited Edition Souvenir Programme. And I'll bloody well sit on it and not share it if I want to."

Winnie: "Yeah. We can lift him."

Alexander the Great with Aristotle:

"How many times do I have to tell you, Alexander? Apostrophes do matter."

What in hell am I supposed to do with that, Evie?

A Ku Klux Klan member is brought into emergency.

As Kleagle Bertram W. Trevithwick III drifted into unconsciousness on the operating table that old Alanis Morissette hit began playing in his head ...

Rupert tried to conceal his disappointment that the oiks didn't even have the decency to have any cigarettes on them when he needed one.

Washing day:

Oh enough of this shit, let's go to the pub instead.

"With my Remington shaver I can enjoy a most satisfying shave without blades, lather or bother - or anything happening at all actually."

Man on left: "We beg of you, sire. Please reconsider your policy towards your parliament."
Man on right: "He's right, your majesty, please listen to him. The book's written by an utter quack! Honestly! Heads can NOT be sewn back on again!"

Harry the Hedgehog yet again narrowly escapes a dastardly plot to get him by his arch-nemesis Manfred the Merciless.

Gerard Anne Edwards in his Cradle:

With pin poised in his sweaty little hand he congratulated himself that his intense study of "V Is For Voodoo" had at last been worth the effort. Now, he cackled, would Nanny regret all those semolina suppers and mashed carrot dinners!

"Last Tuesday, in the Long Gallery with Lady Fairfax? He was doing *what*!?"

"Well, you said I was to tell the truth, sir."

The mob assembling outside the Agincourt hairdressers' shop was growing uglier by the minute ...