We asked you to come up with something appropriately witty for this Elizabeth Thompson painting Remnants of an Army as featured in our article on ‘ignorance in war’ in the February/March 2023 issue of Military History Matters. Here are the winners:
WINNER:
‘Well, I just hope this Airbnb is better than the last…’ – Rob Falconer
RUNNER-UP:
‘Google Maps is taking us around the world again’ – Lisa Davies
Well, I just hope this Airbnb is better than the last …
I left Don Quixote fighting some windmills and stole his horse. He can have my donkey.
“Remember me telling you about a glue factory”?
Google Maps is taking us around the world again.
I hope there’s still room at the inn, Mary, then you can get out of that cart … Mary? … Mary! …
You can lead a horse to watercolour but you can’t make him paint.
I guess with your swat back, it’s the end of the line for us ol’ fellah!
I guess with your sway back, it’s the end of the line for us ol’ fellah!
“OK. Old Paint, I think we took a wrong turn!”
George Stubbs produces his first screenshot for Google Streetview 1830
“I wasn’t expressing a desire to be rendered dizzy when I said giddy up!”
“Wild horses couldn’t drag me away from the field of battle – fortunately this one’s tame.”
We’ll be eating well tonight, you as well boy, you’ll be eaten well tonight too.
These mirages just keep getting worse, look boy, there’s a French castle without a white flag raised.
I am knackered and he is off to the knacker’s yard.
You’d better hide, Dobbin … the other marathon runners will be here soon