We asked you this morning to write a new caption for the photo to your left, and 500 of you came through. A whole lot of you made the inevitable Sonny and Cher jokes, but only one -- a reader named Ian Shaw -- took the time to remind us that Richard Nixon resigned a scant four years after striking a similar pose with Elvis Presley. Hope springs eternal. In the meantime, here's the best of the rest:
As Bono tells George W. Bush about the growing pandemic of AIDS in Africa, the president recalls that he "partied with some Africans once." -- William Wood
"Karl, I think the hairpiece and the glasses work. Just don't speak to Judy Miller again." -- Mark Gorman
"I have you on my iPod. I like to listen to you while I am presidenting." -- Anonymous
President Bush invites Bono to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office, promises to be "right back." -- Bob Glickstein
"Hey, rock star, got any blow? I'm kidding! Totally kidding! Seriously, do you?" -- Jeremy Resnick
President Bush asks Bono who "Joshua Tree" is and whether he may be responsible for hiding both Osama bin Laden and the WMD. --Donald Illich
"You must be thinking of a different Jesus." -- Jim Dowd
Bush: "Because, like our friend here, Mr. Bono, says, we want to help people all over the world take shelter from the pouring rain." Bono: "Um, poison rain." "Eh?" "Poison rain. The lyric is, 'Take shelter from the poison rain.'" "Not pouring?'" "No." "Poison rain? You sure?" "Yes, Mr. President." "Poison's a lot worse than pouring." "Yes, sir." "So I've been singin' it wrong all these years?" "Looks like." -- Locke Peterseim
"So you see, Bonehead, this is where Bill and Monica, you know, did it." -- Richard Stovall
"Yeah, like you never hung around playing guitar while your country needed you for a federal emergency." -- Richard Klugman
Bono: "No, seriously, I don't have any, haven't done it since the '80s." Bush: "But you'd know where to get some, right?" -- Stan Denski
"You know, Harriet said she'll work pro-Bono if you publicly announce you're pro-Miers." --Paul Myers
"If you'll sing 'Ooh, I love to dance the little sidestep,' I'll do my best Charles Durning impression." -- Jack Crowder
"So you just quick fry the tuna and then dump the whole pan, apricots and all, into the salad bowl with the kimchi?" -- Josh Hilgart
Shortly after this photograph was taken, President Bush remarked to an aide that he was "surprised that the president of Ireland didn't wear a tie." -- Dallas Hayes
"You're shittin' me -- $35 for an eighth?" -- Joe Francia
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