i’ve hesitated about using this pic as a photo in need of a caption. but, c’mon, nothing shows. and, after my ‘loony dook‘ (a.k.a. polar bear plunge) experience in the freezing waters of lake geneva, wisconsin, a couple weeks ago, it just seemed time.
bring it on.
CONTENDERS
Ron Whitler
Youth pastor Biff realized that canceling this years volunteer training event was a mistake just as newly-recruited Mr. Jones began explaining the icebreaker he had chosen for the annual winter retreat for students.
Jonathan Odom
Nice axe!
Lance
In the later years of his life, Marko found that his “kilt-free” loony dook drew less and less of a crowd.
Othy
Northern Exposure
jeremy street
oh Im a lumberjack and Im ok…
brian aaby
Acadamy Award Winner Tom Hanks is back in “Castaway 2: Alaska”
Larry Darnell
Circa 2025, The Green Bay Packers reconsider asking Brett Favre to come out of retirement again…
and the winner is…
gonna have to go with othy’s simple and funny “Northern Exposure”. good stuff, othy. i lift my coffee cup in your honor.
I said dont have an accident on the ice – not ‘axe a dent’ in the ice!
Youth pastor Biff realized that canceling this years volunteer training event was a mistake just as newly-recruited Mr. Jones began explaining the icebreaker he had chosen for the annual winter retreat for students.
Nice axe!
I’m sure I lost my trunks somewhere in this general area….
In the later years of his life, Marko found that his “kilt-free” loony dook drew less and less of a crowd.
“I lost my rod and reel! This was the only other thing in my car I had to fish with!”
Extreme ice fishing….
Here fishy fishy fishy!
I’d rather those kids put them on the flag pole.
Franks and Beans, Franks and Beans……
Our next youth group icebreaker!
Northern Exposure
Youth Ministry 3.5: Nothing breaks the ice like breaking ice.
O where is my hairbrush?
Carl’s human ice auger service never seemed to take off!
…and this is where the youth pastor makes a mental note not to invite Billy Bob to the annual winter retreat
After the polar bear plunge, Rev. Duff was henceforth referred to as “The Turtle”
(Seinfeld reference)
Senility takes its toll on Jason Voorhees.
oh Im a lumberjack and Im ok…
“Honey I Shrunk The Kids”
Acadamy Award Winner Tom Hanks is back in “Castaway 2: Alaska”
Hes cuttin some wood
After a lesson on respect, our newest volunteer Marv gave a 6th grader a melvin. This was unanimously decided as his punishment.
Unfortunately, this is just the dot of the i in DISCIPLINE.
He must have been kicked in the “icehole”
the retirement home’s attempt to make a slasher movie failed when they mixed up the “recipe for success” (gore, gratuitous nudity, disturbing antagonist) and came up with “gratuitously nude and old Al Gore” in the film An Inconvenient Nude
An axe? AN AXE!?!?! When I was your age we only had….
“We must live incarnationally, positioning ourselves humbly and openly on the somtimes cold, dark, and scary stairwell to the underground of youth culture.”
“What’s the problem? I forgot my trunks!”
Lumberjack Lou’s Senior Moment brought to you by Naughty Ice
What goes up, must come down.
I don’t have a good one, but I vote for Othy’s “Northern Exposure”, followed by Nathan’s “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”. Not that this is a democracy, but I’m voting anyway.
Pastor John’s attempt to combine 3 events into one: Polar Bear Club, Baptism Service & Circumcision Ceremony.
Alaskan Axeperts: The Naked Truth on the History Channel
Just when you thought that it couldn’t get worse than the ‘Fargo’ ending, the Coen Brothers come up with this. Coming this Spring, ‘Lake Geneva’.
Tic Long brainstorming at the National Youthworks’ office for this Fall’s NYWC.
Circa 2025, The Green Bay Packers reconsider asking Brett Favre to come out of retirement again…
Ted Haggard’s Alaska
In the everyday one-up-manship of reality TV: EXTREME ICE FISHING!!! Next on Discovery…
Not a caption but a question: Would you rather jump out of a helicopter and catch a marlin with your hands or fish like the dude in the pic? (if don’t know what I am talking about with the helicopter/marlin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2n3rMmlCrA )
Two words – icy handle.
“Alright stop collaborate and listen, Ice is back with my brand new invention!”
Dude, you seriously need to work on those tan lines.
The ad says I should call my doctor after four hours, but I think this should work.
Say “shrinkage” one more time! I dare you! Say it!
“I’m sure I left my rubber duckie out here somewhere.”
“Walk softly and carry a big stick”
as for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
The newest method of bait and hook.
CONTEST CLOSED
see winner at bottom of post
Thanks Marko!
Old naked man with axe wonders why his picture wasn’t weird enough without having to be photoshopped onto some iced-up river with a badly drawn hole in it.