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Someone has put together a set of Photoshopped images called Barack Obama Looks at Awesome Things (perhaps in response to this gallery of Barack Obama feigning interest in mundane things). So there is Barack Obama looking at a Thundercats sword, and there is Barack Obama examining the latest in Optimus Prime technologies. You know, just another day at the boner factory over in Nerdville. The question, of course, is what is Barack Obama thinking and/or about to say about this Back to the Future II hoverboard? It’s called a caption, and you should provide one!
The winner will receive special placement in this week’s Monsters’ Ball, which is almost as good as an actual operational hoverboard, I’m sure.
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“This is a big fucking deal.”
You win.
Agreed, it will be impossible to top west, I predict
In honor of your post, I shall abstain from playing this caption contest.
Barack: “Do you really think I oughta swear?”
Biden: “Yes, definitely. Goddamn it Barack, swear.”
May I recommend a slight revision? “This is a big fucking deal, McFly.”
Where we’re going we don’t need a public option.
Another good one
“The tv show Lost sucks.”
You’re amazing.
Can’t wait for tonight’s episode. Tuesdays are the best!
I seriously thought last week’s episode wasnt that bad for the most part, and I’m saying that as somebody who really can’t stand that show
I think you should chat it up with us tonight at http://www.videogum.com/chat
I would love to LOSTchat with you monsters, but where I live it comes on after the east coast and before the west coast. Without a frozen donkey wheel to turn, I’m out of luck.
So you’re saying that if I learn how to ride this, I’ll get a part in “Overboard 2.0″?
Well, I think when you spread the hoverboard around, it’s good for everybody.
“But will it work on water?”
My apologies for not reading your comment before posting. Consider my comment below to be a response to this.
“You’ve got to have power!”
“Great Scott!”
In an attempt to capture some Regan-era nostalgia amongst the American people, The president announced today that he will divert resources from the lucrative glass dildo industry to manufacture props from 1980′s films. Huey Lewis is reportedly in talks to head up the day-glo task force
I’m not sure if it was Regan or glass dildos that earned your collective scorn, but I would like to re-submit:
“KILLER, BABY!”
So is no one else gonna point out that it’s spelled “Reagan” or am I the asshole?
Look, man I’m 18 months old. I literally have only ever seen this guy in his movie about a Monkey (Bedtime for Bonzo), cut a baby some slack!
That Bedtime for Bonzo reference more than made up for it.
I worked with a girl named “Reagan” and whenever I said her name I made gun-finger and went *pew*pew*. She said no one had done that since High School.
I am so cool.
Also It’s my brithday. I’m going to Steak and Shake. Yay for me! (-Obama)
What really? MISTER HAUSFRAU!!!??!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! You share a birthday with one of my favorite people of all time, Rosecrans Baldwin of The Morning News dot org. He’s THE BEST.
I also share my b-day with Celine Dion, Monet, Warren Beatty and my Grandpa
…among others.
AND, perhaps most important: Joe Mande’s Book dropped today. woot. Should have tried to win a free copy of his book.
“The Audacity of Indy Grabs”
The Audacity of Hover.
The Hovercity of Hope
Dreams of Hoverboards from My Father
Gabe, left: You can download these from my website and give them to your hover-grandchildren to jet around the quad at space college.
Obama: Yes, I can.
“Hoverboard, you are my density.”
Finally, the technology my home planet sent me here to retrieve.
Woah, already downvoted! Just to clarify, I am an Obama-supporter and wrote this from the perspective of a teabagger who believes in aliens.
Fret not, shoogyboom! It is probably a downvoter troll. We monsters are not so judgemental.
I have no idea who down-voted you, but I upvoted you b/c it was funny.
I thought you meant like he was Superman.
me too.
I downvoted you. Because my home planet sent me here to make sure believers in such things are constantly ridiculed. I mean, wait. Damn it. WHERE’S THE DELETE COMMENT BUTTON?!
AHHHHHHHHHHH
ENHANCE:
“Please tell me we didn’t steal this technology from the Libyans. That’s the last thing we need.”
Hahahahaha!
More like Float and Change
Hope Floats
Suddenly Joe Biden’s ubiquitous rollerblading isn’t so cool.
“Yes, Mr. President, I imagine we can fit these into porches and wheelchairs”
“and we will provide the secret service with matching boots and members only jackets.”
“Wow, cool, it’s pink.”
“You’re telling me he rode one of these down a road in the middle of a pineapple field while hugging a blow-up-doll and shooting a guy in the chest? He must have been smoking a heeeeavy doobie. Man, I miss Hawaii”
“Have we fixed the ‘running-on-water’ problem? I don’t want to be stuck out there in front of the court house without any power.”
More like the war in iRAD, am i right? Because this color scheme looks straight out of The Max in Saved By the Bell. Why aren’t any of you laughing?
Oh yes, we are all laughing. IN RECIPROCAL SPACE!*
(*If you do a degree in Physics, then this hilarious. Trust me.)
don’t get me wrong this is a beautiful hoverboard with ample anti-gravity capabilities…
but i gotta masturbate at least once DAMN!
“Move over Obamacare, socialism just got real”
“What the fuck? Somebody call me when you build a Pitbull.”
“This seemed like a better idea when there was still a public option”
My boner ghost Halloween costume will REALLY stand out if I’m on one of these.
“I bailed out you folks, and you made THIS? Yeah, it is pretty sweet.”
“What in the name of Sir Isaac H. Newton is this?”
“25 years after his great ’85 re-election, former Mayor Goldie Wilson’s Son works quality control in a local factory”
“A colored President, that’ll be the day!” -Goldie Wilson’s boss in 1955
“That’s that new kid, Barack Obama! He’s such a dream!”
Barack Obama is Cripsin Glover’s density.
“I’m sorry, hoverboard factory, but you’re just too darn AWESOME!”
Barack to the Future II.
That reminded me of this piece my friend drew.
He spelled Barack’s name wrong tho.
Wheee. My artist friends always spend hours & hours making some super-cool poster or what-have-you and then it turns out they spelled a key word wrong. No artist I know can write four words without misspelling one of them. Yet it never occurs to them to look in a dictionary. What is this, an artist superpower?
As an artist that prides myself on (at the very least) adequate spelling, I must defend the group of artists that do indeed know how to spell. WE EXIST! My work as a professional graphics assistant/quality control guy and an artist have enhanced my nature to proof my words before committing them to permanence. (not necessarily on VGum, tho. I miss putting in whole words at times VGum). However, accidents do happen, and the best of us all still make mistakes.
In my friend Joe’s case, he prides himself on hand lettering EVERYTHING. No computers for him. So a trade off is he misspells words. But I forgive him because he has a character called “Holy Diver,” and that’s just awesome.
And to close out this “pimping my friend’s art” section of the comments, here’s a link to his gallery in case anyone’s curious-
http://boston-joe.deviantart.com/gallery/
Bioshock with religious themes!
“Now THIS is change you can believe in.”
“This is heavy.”
“Fake.”
“Let me be clear, you bojo… Those boards don’t work on water… UNLESS YOU GOT POWER!”
How many jigawatts of power do I need?
1.21, but you can bring the total amount needed down using reconciliation.
I was scrolling down to see if anyone actually put up this caption. Everyone was dancing around it, but Godsauce did it! Upvote city.
Upvote Hill Valley City for realz. Sorry I went all punch-line thunder-stealer up there. If only I had the good Doctor Brown’s Delorian, I would go all the way outside, get in it, get it up to 88, go back half an hour, get out, go back inside, log on to videogum and scroll all the way down before I started commenting.
p.s. this comment thread would be fucked up if time machines were real (obvs, we would all have one).
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Panicking, Sarah Palin responded by visiting a hoop and stick factory because REAL AMERICA.
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I was very amused by many of the photo stories on your website. Bravo for that at least.
“Nice and all, fellas, but why did you just make the one?”
I don’t have a clever caption, I just want to say that Barack Obama Looks At Awesome Things was the greatest collection of photos involving Obama I’ve ever seen. I can die happy now that I’ve seen Obama preparing to deflect a fireball with the Hylian Shield.
Hell yeah! I’m happy that my internet worldz are crossing over, because comic book artist Dean Trippe is responsible for the gallery, and he’s been posting links to these things over on Twitter since the weekend. They’re hilarious.
http://twitter.com/deantrippe
http://deantrippe.tumblr.com/
Great Ebayer A+++++++++ would buy from again
Barack Obama Tours the Nummi Plant (Fremont, Calif.)
Seriousgum: NPR had a great piece on NUMMI/GM the other day. Guessing you know that though.
I do! I am a nerd
And a This American Life fan. EXPOSED.
Shortly thereafter, Barack Obama realized Joe Biden set his watch behind 24 minutes in a science experiment, yelled “damn! I’m late for a routine budget meeting!”, strapped on the Hoverboard, and hitched his way back to the White House.
Goodness I wish this really happened.
The next time republicans chase Barrack around the town square, he’ll be ready. And they’ll be eating manure.
“Oh, you like the stickers? See, I was thinking it was too cluttered. You know, I wanna wipe all of this out and concentrate on one main decorative statement. Like, uh, Marvin the Martian. Right there.”
“Get outta town! I can do Marvin the Martian!”
President Obama asks how hard it would be to have a Garfield graphic that says “I hate Mondays!” put on the underside of his hoverboard.
This needs upvotes.
not in small part due to the fact that TIM RIGGINS.
Seriously. Who knew Tim held such ZINGS! within?
Our preliminary intelligence tells us the terrorists will utilize these Back To The Future Edition hoverboards in their next attack. I want to develop an “anti-hover ray” to combat this attack.
“you expect the president to ride a PINK hoverboard, you mad”
“can this thing go on water?”
Skate or die(but not from death panels)!
We actually invented it to help with the war effort in Iraq but your predecessor just used it for his “super awesome” Green Goblin Halloween costume.
A winner is you.
How do KP and I both win? Kenny’s comment is much more creative than mine so I declare him winner. But I guess you are the King so it up to you.
Or are we all winners here? Yeah, we’re all winners!!
“That’s about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.”
“Cowabunga, dudes!”
“Very impressive. A floating skateboard.”
“Tell me, ‘Future Board’, who’s President in the United States in 2010?”
“I just hovered all the way in from Delaware on my hoverboard, and boy, are my arms tired!”
- Joe Biden, stand up comedian
Laugh-master At Arms
“You know, I paved the way for Mayor Goldie Wilson III.”
Oops. Goldie Wilson III was never mayor, he was just a spokesperson for some hover conversions company. My bad. http://bttf.wikia.com/wiki/Goldie_Wilson_III
Now you’re SURE this will work with Sasha’s Nintendo Wii?
“Let’s see republicans try to criticize Hoverboards.”
If you re-elect me, Barack Obama- I pledge that there will be a space chicken in every pot, and a hover-board in every garage.”
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l02pauX5td1qapz3uo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1270073824&Signature=qUttV/QhwLc61NPMPR5YjtcAkeg%3D
I hope people take the time to click that link
So the robot turns into a building?
The Best one in that flickr set –
I suppose we’ll have to agree to agree that you’re wrong.
Also, first picture post! Next week, I’ll try setting up an electronic mailing address!
My grandson said he’d teach me “The Twitter” the next time he came over. How expensive is it? I’m on a budget.
Well, everyone is wrong:
What’s going to freak out the folks in 1955 more? The hoverboard, or me?
YES WE CAN HOVER
“You mind if I borrow this? You see, Sean White’s a new friend of mine, and I kinda promised I’d let him plane-wakeboard behind Air Force One.”
As young Barack Obama peered into the mirror the time traveler gave him, he saw himself, aged thirty years, president, holding a hover-board. Young Obama’s mind was blown. The time traveler smiled, the future was safe. But for how long…
“This can do WHAT?”
What’s it called? Oh yeah? Well now it’s called “Air Force One!” Bye suckers!
After watching Back to the Future III, Barack’s elaborate plan to become president and realize his dream, finally comes to fruition.
I was raised to believe three things about our faraway future era:
1) There will be one African-American President
2) There will be one hoverboard
3) Under no circumstances, as in none whatsoever, may they ever meet face-to-face…
“Those things don’t work on watah…unless you got HOOOOOOPE!”
“I like your oatmeal”
“Hmm, well, I don’t want to complain, and I think you’ve done something incredible here, but I’m afraid you’ve misspelled ‘Sasha.’”
Meanwhile, back in the original timeline, President McCain is wondering who stole his Presidenting Almanac.
“What time does V return tonight?”
“I didn’t expect you to use the bailout money like this, fellas”.
This does look more fun than my Moon Shoes.
Late to the party but this is the best photo ever…
I love Marty McFly . No Homo
“So with this you can make like a tree AND get the heck outta here?”
So you’re saying that all the Tea Parties were caused by Biff Tanen going back in time to steal a sports almanac?
Did Gabe fall down and break a hip? Where the hell is the new content?
Too bad the bottom of the photo got cut off
“Does anyone know when V returns?”
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