your turn

To our faithful readers, I wanted to give you a chance to "get involved."

First off, in case you didn't know, we're in an economic "crisis" The "Down Jones"has lost over 2,000 points since just a few days ago.

The only real winners, as I pointed out in my last post, might be the stock brokers who are able to pull off the best "distressed" look, and thus get their worried faces pasted all over the internet. I ask again, why should I care what these guys look like? How does seeing someone's emotional reaction to this help me to make more out of this story? How does it add any useful perspective to America's (and the world's) economic future? Of course, it doesn't.

So, since the pictures don't add anything to the story, I want to give you a chance to add a story to some of the best pictures I've seen over the last two days. All of these pictures are current (to the best of my knowledge) and have been taken directly from cnn.com, bbc.com, nyt.com, or reuters.com. Actually, Reuters had a slide show yesterday that simply showed 12 different stock-traders in various states of agony. I laughed. Several of those lucky men are featured here.

Your mission is to create the best possible captions for each of the pictures listed below. (See my post if you need an idea about what I'm talking about). Send your submissions to whistletipsgowoo@gmail.com by Tuesday, October 14. Winners will be announced shortly thereafter.



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