This is the THIRD caption in a row that deals with STEAK! I must be HUNGRY for MEAT!
Well, you know what the hell I mean! Anyway, I made this caption for KarenSue, and it was a bit of a slog. As I wrote in the original post on the Haven, I wanted to use this picture but wasn't sure what to do with it .. then came up with the concept .. and wasn't sure how to finish it .. until I finally did!
This is a testament to working on the fly without a net. Luckily it all came together in the end and wrapped itself up nicely I think. Sometimes you just have to write something down .. anything really. Then from there, you can try to pick up a path that sounds reasonable and fill in the details.
Once I have the caption setting in place, with the photo on the background, my brain has been looking at it enough that some semblance of a plot has made its way to my finger tips. Even if it is just a phrasing or a sentence I want one of the characters to say. Here it was that she was eating a reasonable portion to keep being shapely. From there, an eating contest seemed like a good contrast to my original thought. Then I could just go from one of the extremes to the other and set it up so it would be interesting in caption form.
Even then, I had no idea how to really wrap it up, getting from the end of the contest to the actual picture I was using to tell the story and only having that last paragraph space to finish it up. Then, the inspiration hit me .. Reggie was in a eating contest, now Karen Sue has to be entering a different sort of contest .. that way it will be a complete circle. Ahhh, a beauty contest! EUREKA! Perhaps it's a bit too rushed, but this IS a caption, not a short story!
So, luckily, as I said above, it all wrapped itself up nicely, even though I had no idea if it would when I actually started it! Tell me what you think in the comments! Was I able to get the most out of this photo? What would you have done with the source picture?
I cannot find a good version of Steak Knife by the Angry Samoans on Youtube! So, I'll just go with a classic song that most people haven't heard, and the guy who disappeared after someone found out who he really was, or was that the actual reason? I'm not sure but I miss Dr. Steel!
I loved this cap Dee....as a confirmed carnivore I'd take a challenge like that...although the salad thing might give me pause....I love when the males are totally oblivious to the obvious around them....so sure of themselves....so certain of their abilities....and they're beaten and forced to accept the consequences!!!
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I used to make a special trip to NYC to go to Peter Luger's Steakhouse in Brooklyn.....it's been there forever and the porterhouse is just wonderful....
But lately we've discovered another place that's easily their equal in Queens and is literally a quarter of the price.....and there's never a wait for a table....I won't name them here just as we promised each other to tell no one about it....why spoil a good thing....
But there's nothing that makes my mouth water like a sizzling hot steak....well almost nothing....
Kisses
Kaaren
For health reasons, I am not supposed to be eating meat, especially red meat. yesterday I had a few bites of the GF's prime rib and I was in HEAVEN!
DeleteI used to be a mostly carnivore as well, still not sure I could have polished off a 5 pound steak. The most I had at one sitting was a 24 ounce with sauteed mushrooms and loaded mashed potatoes and a few Parker house rolls. Even with all that, I think it was only about 2 1/2 pounds of food and that was spread over an hour of leisure eating with good friends, back when I was in my 20's.
Glad you liked the caption. An addition to what I posted above. I think a good trick to writing captions is to do the South Park thing. "What would the Simpson's Do?" Just about any caption I have probably relates to something that has happened on the Simpson;s.
I'm generally not one for salad, but that's a contest I think I could be very happy to lose.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for salads that have as little lettuce as possible. Well made salads, with good proportions and texture is always welcome. I wouldn't expect steakhouses to have good ones, as then, who would buy their sizzling meat?
DeleteOnce I had to cut down my meat intake severely, I noticed that vegetarian places had the best salads! Who would have thought that? I mean, doesn't everyone go to Arby's for fish sandwiches or Taco Bell for great pasta?
On a realistic level, I wonder if the mark-up for salad is bigger than the mark-up for steak. And perhaps the restaurant owner has a sister that owns a beauty salon and boutique, and this was a way to draw in new customers!
I think the story and picture match perfectly, wondering did he lose on purpose because he really wanted to be one of the salad sisters ?
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing it clicked in after he lost and had to start eating the salads everyday that it was like, "Oh! That's why there are lots of sexy women here!" They lost the contest just like *I* did!"
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