Bah to your optimisms

(tarbin tarbis, tarbit, tarbamus, tarbimus, tarbant, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:45, archived)

:D
That's tickled me.
( Captain Wow 'like Molly Ringwald except much more frightening', Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:45, archived)

& the water's too warm.

( Sea Tramp is trying to stay weak for the sake of - oh..., Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:46, archived)

*I like this*
*Clicks hard*
( Keyboard Weasel stoasts, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:47, archived)

ouch!
not too hard dammit!
( ivesb ohh.......angry!, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:51, archived)

That's not yours, is it?

( Pedantichrist http://lordmanley.co.uk/gas/, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:47, archived)

eh?
wadya mean?
(tarbin tarbis, tarbit, tarbamus, tarbimus, tarbant, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:49, archived)

I mean that I have seen it before.
www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22glass+twice%22+engineer+%22half+empty%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
( Pedantichrist http://lordmanley.co.uk/gas/, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:57, archived)

The spirit of the compo doesn't exactly inspire origionality
He's just illustrating the punchline to a joke
( Keyboard Weasel stoasts, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:58, archived)

but I have seen this exact image with this joke in it.
it may be coincidence, and I am happy to accept that it is, but I was asking because I have seen the exact same thing before.
( Pedantichrist http://lordmanley.co.uk/gas/, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 14:01, archived)

Post a link to the image
not a random google search that proves nothing


Edit.. every competition entry is based on an old joke, why have you unfairly singled this one out for criticism????????
(CanonCaliber I'll laugh if you laugh, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 14:21, archived)

so very very true

( Laird Dave Draws Is in your Base, giving your chaps What for., Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:48, archived)

There's a super-pessimistic version of this
which annoyingly I can't remember at the moment
( Tacky Tiger was off into the realms of fantasy on, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:52, archived)

haha!
you made me choke on lunch, nice :)
( fross Read your email on, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 13:59, archived)

ooh
deadly humour
(tarbin tarbis, tarbit, tarbamus, tarbimus, tarbant, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 14:02, archived)

Oh, very good!
Very, very good!
( Dr Loris, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 14:04, archived)

Hehehehe!
We're not all that bad...

Just most of us :)
( Albert the Mildly Deranged purveyors of nothing much since a year or two ago, Mon 26 Feb 2007, 14:24, archived)