Round Robins… Remember those? Basically, it’s a collaborative story (of sorts) told through captions.

Well, we’ll be starting up again, with what for the sake of argument we’re going to call #18. It will start first thing Wednesday, February 28. If you’d like to join in the fun, there’s still plenty of time to sign up!

I’ve decided I’m going to start aiming for Wednesday mornings for new picture sets on Wasting Precious Time. I think they may have been getting lost in the backwash on late Sundays.

Anyhoo, there’s a new a meaty picture set for you to play with called Rah rah rah.

I’d just like to point out that as long as you’re not afraid of somebody stealing your holiday handle, you don’t have to register it. All of the other advantages of being logged in - voting for your favorites, editing your captions, and now getting a link to your wiki profile - are all still available when you’re logged in as yourself but capping with a different handle.

To get the profile link all the time, you need to go to your sector7g-zz9 profile page and select “always” for ‘Display a link to my capper wiki profile”, otherwise I’ll go on assuming you’ve changed handles for anonymity, since I can’t read your minds (yet).  The “when posting with my handle” choice may be a little cryptic, but it just assumes that when you cap with a handle other than the one you’re logged in under, you want to be anonymous. I may be a little crazy for trying to build a system that supports logging in with anonymity, but both bogus handles and insanity are capper traditions, no?

I’m not a sentimental sort, so I’ll just say it - Inventing Situations is going on an indefinite hiatus once the reunion is over. Fortunately, you have at least two other options for your capping pleasure - Hipsoda’s Caption Crack for that old time live capping experience and Glitter’s Cap-Page Board for that fan boy message board capping experience. I’m hoping you all make those spots your new homes away from homes and all you folks rediscovering capping will stick around at one or both sites. And some of these places are still up and about too.

When that where-are-they-now thread over at the egroup first morphed into this reunion, I wasn’t planning to make it IS’ swan song, but as the day came closer, it just seemed like the time to finally bow out and let others keep the torch of capping going, as I’m sure they will with your continued help.

Anyhoo, if anybody gives a rat’s, Wasting Precious Time will keep limping on and maybe even get some of the attention I’ve been giving IS, and I’ll keep on capping (you can exhale now), and IS might be back for Turkey weeks or if the world ‘needs’ it again. Anyway, thanks to everyone’s who helped out over the half decade or so of this site and everybody who’s capped here.

As a parting gift, I give you this AgentQ masterpiece:

“Well, Lieutenant, I’m glad to see your efforts are SURPRISE MARTY FELDMAN IMPRESSION!” “JESUS CHRIST! Man, you always get me with that.”

p.s. this blog will stay open for whatever bees occupy my bonnet.

Round Robin #17 will start next Monday, May 14. If you’d like to join in the fun, there’s still plenty of time to sign up!