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This is Heidi the cross-eyed possum. Photo from Stuff.

Enter captions below. Funny, not nasty.

I’ve been banned from blogging it myself as a caption contest, but Danyl at Dim Post has done so. Enjoy.

Peter Shirtcliffe from the Put MMP to the Vote Campaign is running a caption contest.

Submit your caption or captions (you can use one or both blank spaces) either as a comment on this post, or by e-mail to Peter.

The winning entry (as judged by Peter) will win a bottle of quality Champagne or an iPod Nano – you decide.

This photo from The Press is too good to ignore. Again funny not nasty.

This photo was taken the day Phil Goff became Leader.  Normal rules – funny not nasty.

Red Alert claims this is them celebrating their first birthday, but I am sure we can come up with better captions for the. As always funny not nasty.

Congrats to Labour for their first birthday. I think it has been a great initiative, and have enjoyed interacting with Labour MPs there. I check it out almost every day. By comparison I check out the National MPs combined blog site around once a month, if that. I can only handle reading so many posts about the opening some local school hall without wanting to blow my brains out.

Red Alert has had some decent stats also:

Today we are One. So we thought we’d celebrate.1902 posts, 35,116 comments. 35 out of 43 Labour MPs have posted on Red Alert. Some more than others. Trevor Mallard still wins the prize for the most posts (550). Followed by me (212) Grant (198) Phil Twyford (156) and Chris Hipkins (136) …

We average about 30,000 page views a week
More than a million page views
465,000+ viewers

I could point out I have managed to blog more by myself than 35 MPs combined (and it is their job, not a hobby like for me) but that would be churlish . I am sincere when I say that overall I think Labour have done very well with their parliamentary blog, and I hope they continue with it, even when they make Government again one day.

Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott on the right. Photo from Sydney Daily Telegraph.

Captions below please.

Was going to just be a quiet dinner with Auckland Girl in Karori. A visiting mutual Auckland friend tried to head up at 11pm to join us but her Iraqi taxi driver did not know where Karori was, let alone the street we were on. And her cellphone died so she spent 55 minutes in a taxi looking for us before returning back to town.

We then decided after that effort we had to head down to Courtney Place to her (temporary) place. The party there turned serious with the introduction of Mexicans (don’t ask if you don’t know) and I got home around 4.30 a.m. A very funny night.

Anyway we have a caption contest from the party, as one person managed to fall asleep next to the blaring stereo!

Enter your captions below. As usual, funny not nasty.

Oh dear, how can I resist this. Stolen from Nikki’s website of her checking how Bouma is doing after Kashin’s death.

As with all caption contests, the captions should be funny, not nasty or gross.

Frog Blog has this photo from Glenn Murdoch and has used it to twitter on about coal or mining or something.

I think a far better use for it, is a caption contest. As always go for funny, not nasty.

This 1983 photo comes from Michael Bassett and the Herald on Sunday. Those pictured are Bassett, Goff, Clark and Tizard.

As always, captions should be funny, not nasty.

The gift that keeps on giving for caption contests. From the Dominion Post. As always funny, not nasty.

How can one resist this photo for a caption contest? Remember keep them funny, not nasty.

Oh dear. A reader has sent me this photo taken of the former Education Minister opening a school gym. It just cries out for a caption contest.

I know it will be hard – but go for funny. not nasty.

This fit of stupidity deserves a caption contest. The woman had to climb over a fence, a line of prickly hedges and a wall to get in!

Hat Tip: Gonzo

This photo from the Sunday Star-Times of Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye and a Kiwi being released on Motuihe Island – a wildlife sanctuary.

Suggested captions welcome below, so long as they are funny.

Enter in your captions for this photo from the Dom Post of new Wellington Central MP Grant Robertson.

Captions should be funny, not nasty. If you can not work out the difference, then stay silent!

Is this photo of Rodney Hide, Josie Pagani and Charles Chauvel at Backbenches the start of the ACT-Progressive-Labour Coalition, or something else?

Enter your captions below. Just keep them clean.

Photo from the Mid Canterbury Herald.

Let’s have your best captions. For the sake of not getting this blogged by the Indecent Publications Tribunal, you may not include any reference to David Benson-Pope in the caption!

Captions welcome for this photo (from The Press) of the Minister of Racing

Captions welcome. The person who sent it to me suggested it represented NZ’s direction under Labour

Whale Oil has started a caption contest, so I am extending it here. You can submit here or there. As usual, entries should be funny, not nasty. Photo is from NZ Herald.

Oh these photos from the Dominion Post are too good to resist, so it is caption contest time. Refer to them as photo 1 and photo 2 for clarity.