This month’s Crocodile Mystery is a caption contest:
Option A: Provide a factually accurate title for this portrait.
Option B: Provide an amusingly inaccurate title for this portrait.
Option C: Provide both A and B.
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Option A. Aeneas and Achates watch the other Trojans prepare a meal on the shores of Carthage in Book I of the Aeneid (in Ogilby’s illustrated edition).
Misha Teramura — October 3, 2017
Full marks for the factually accurate image title, but it’s not actually from Ogilby’s edition. All will be revealed Thursday afternoon.
Erin Blake — October 4, 2017
“I’ll have what he’s having”
Jan — October 3, 2017
Would that be a “Hero” sandwich?
Erin Blake — October 4, 2017
B. “That’s where I was standing when this weird bird landed on my hat.”
Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. — October 3, 2017
Now all the rage in the Paris fashion houses?
Erin Blake — October 4, 2017
A. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. B. Where can I get some feathers like yours?
John P. Chalmers — October 4, 2017
Bingo on the original Latin from Virgil. Maybe the Folger Gift Shop should stock feathered helmets?
Erin Blake — October 4, 2017
Ha! I was born for this Collation post.
1) “The capture of that butter churner was certainly a feather in your cap, sir, but I’m not sure about five….”
2) “My take on armor is ‘sun’s out, guns out.’
3) “I’d be lion if I said I wasn’t proud of these biceps.”
4) “Don’t move, you’ve got something on your head!”
5) #swag
Elyse — October 5, 2017
I knew we could count on you.
Erin Blake — October 5, 2017