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A caption contest

This Reservoir Dogs stile photo of the recent peace talks summit in Washington is begging for a creative caption. How about, "The Usual Suspects"?
(And how does Netanyahu always manage to look so sneaky?)
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This Reservoir Dogs stile photo of the recent peace talks summit in Washington is begging for a creative caption. How about, "The Usual Suspects"?
(And how does Netanyahu always manage to look so sneaky?)
Reader Comments (24)
or obama can channel jay z: "i've got 99 problems but a bitch aint one"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoM5fLITfk
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon..."
Well one song from Reservoir Dogs comes to mine:
"Jokers to the left of me, clowns to the right, here I am trapped in the middle with you..."
Abb-ASS looks soooo subservient!!
Four Weddings and a Funeral
not sure about that one though
or what about
Five Deadly Venoms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Deadly_Venoms
Five Graves to Cairo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Graves_to_Cairo
Last try - I think "The Expendables" is definitely appropriate
Abbas and Netanyahu have grey hair, Obama and Abdallah are actually young......
"Here we go again. Again" from a parody trailer in Tropic Thunder.
Coming soon to a government approved cinema near you: Four wise guys and a re-animated corpse.
"Damn it feels good to be a gangsta"?
backstreet boys- we're back!
if Abass, Mubark and Abudellah are supposed to be the arabic side, isn't unfair for Netanyahu to be alone in the other side. and if they're all together who in earth did they come to talk to with?
"The Peace Process: with a vengeance" Coming soon to a theatre near you.
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
Sophocles
...pr try this one, by the same man
"Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows."
How about: welad el-kalb (with all the arabic culture and arabic anger in the word) ... literal translation "the sons of dogs"...with all due respect to dogs.
another one: As7ab el-sa3adah, wa al-galalah wa el-somoooo, etphoooo (literally; your honors: presidents, kings and amirs: spit spit spit).
bab el hara part 3645
"It's not funny, Hosni! Every time Benny does that, they throw us outta the strip club!"
"Mahmoud, I can't project the right image if you keep calling me 'Bama in public!"
"Look guys, if we don't have an agreement by Christmas, Michelle's gonna think we spent the whole time watching porn and football."
"Some day we'll be back, and we're gonna make those bullies give Abdullah back his skateboard!"
I'd throw in a few French titles - "Le mépris", "La haine", "Le chagrin et la pitié", "Fantasia chez les ploucs"...
"Some can walk and chew. We can walk and go nowhere". (How far can one go with hands crossed, anyway?)
"Ahmedi-Nejad, here we come!"
or
"catwalk 4 peace", make that 4 p's (and a king).
Sneak and the City
I knew it was reminding me of something but it took me 10 days to come up with it. Here you go: http://mideasti.blogspot.com/2010/09/but-are-they-earps-or-clantons.html.