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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: October 2017

This month’s Crocodile Mystery is a caption contest:

Option A: Provide a factually accurate title for this portrait.

Option B: Provide an amusingly inaccurate title for this portrait.

Option C: Provide both A and B.

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Option A. Aeneas and Achates watch the other Trojans prepare a meal on the shores of Carthage in Book I of the Aeneid (in Ogilby’s illustrated edition).

Misha Teramura — October 3, 2017

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Full marks for the factually accurate image title, but it’s not actually from Ogilby’s edition. All will be revealed Thursday afternoon.

Erin Blake — October 4, 2017

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“I’ll have what he’s having”

Jan — October 3, 2017

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Would that be a “Hero” sandwich?

Erin Blake — October 4, 2017

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B. “That’s where I was standing when this weird bird landed on my hat.”

Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. — October 3, 2017

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Now all the rage in the Paris fashion houses?

Erin Blake — October 4, 2017

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A. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. B. Where can I get some feathers like yours?

John P. Chalmers — October 4, 2017

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Bingo on the original Latin from Virgil. Maybe the Folger Gift Shop should stock feathered helmets?

Erin Blake — October 4, 2017

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Ha! I was born for this Collation post.

1) “The capture of that butter churner was certainly a feather in your cap, sir, but I’m not sure about five….”

2) “My take on armor is ‘sun’s out, guns out.’

3) “I’d be lion if I said I wasn’t proud of these biceps.”

4) “Don’t move, you’ve got something on your head!”

5) #swag

Elyse — October 5, 2017

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I knew we could count on you.

Erin Blake — October 5, 2017

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