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Make a funny with an archival photo: Home Ec. edition

Posted by Chris Bateman / January 29, 2012

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Caption Central Technical School Cake Making Archive Harry PotterOff the back of last weekend's caption hilarity, we've dug up another gem from the Toronto Archives for the sole purpose of a quick laugh. In celebration of his visit to Toronto earlier this week, today's image features a miserable Daniel Radcliffe/Harry Potter lookalike posing during a cake-making workshop at Central Technical School in 1923.

Make us chuckle with your best caption below. But, you know, please keep it mostly clean.

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Dr. Shrinker / January 29, 2012 at 08:57 am
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Are you sure this is how McDonald's recruits it's workforce?
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rudy / January 29, 2012 at 09:16 am
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"You found a blonde hair in your pudding? It wasn't us!!"
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JennyT / January 29, 2012 at 09:57 am
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This week, in a crossover special, we feature 'Sister wives' Vs. Mario Batalli in a unique Iron Chef challenge...
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RobertB / January 29, 2012 at 09:59 am
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Wash our hands? You gotta be kidding?
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W. K. Lis / January 29, 2012 at 10:29 am
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How can we to make a decent cake without eye-of-newt?
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Ben / January 29, 2012 at 12:05 pm
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The Bachelor has really changed a lot since its first season.
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Stew / January 29, 2012 at 12:33 pm
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Blondes have more fun.
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301 / January 29, 2012 at 02:31 pm
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This is where humble pie is made
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Sally / January 29, 2012 at 05:09 pm
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There's a dump in my pants
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TS / January 29, 2012 at 06:06 pm
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Oh, hilarious. These women do not look like movie stars, let us all poke fun at them. Guess what? These are real live women, not photoshopped plastic Barbies.
P.S. I bet everyone who left a "funny" comment to this photo looks like George Cluny and Brad Pitt taken together. Or thinks he does.
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Nicole / January 29, 2012 at 06:27 pm
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He wants to take OUR gravy too?
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Rmund / January 29, 2012 at 06:55 pm
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Hello, this is Brad "Bake Off" Clooney, and I'd like to talk to you today about the real, delightful women who make cakes: they themselves may not be striking in appearance, but it is guaranteed that their cakes always will be. These women need not smile often either, for their cakes will surely bring many smiles to the hearts and minds of little children everywhere, and isn't that more important?

So support the "Real Women Make Cakes" movement. You may not get all these women to smile when making those cakes, but those little brats stuffing their faces will be, though unfortunately one of those kids may one day become mayor. Thank you for your support.
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Richard Dixon replying to a comment from Sam Smith / January 29, 2012 at 07:24 pm
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oh yeah, she totally will get a Food Network show of her own!!!!!
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Dan / January 29, 2012 at 08:33 pm
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With Voldemort back in town, Harry Potter chooses to go incognito.
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Dave / January 30, 2012 at 06:29 am
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The finalists in the Best Goulash Of The Year for 1923 anxiously await the judges' decision.
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McRib replying to a comment from TS / January 30, 2012 at 09:00 am
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actually they are likely all real dead women.

lighten up
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Philamania / January 30, 2012 at 09:47 am
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The device on the wall behind them is called a 'telephone'. It was used to actually 'speak' to another individual over relative distances. Some of the devices we carry with us today have similar capabilities built it, but may have gone unnoticed by the average teenager.
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Jackie Fullerton / January 30, 2012 at 01:57 pm
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"Martha, I'm saying this for the last time: Kraftwerk are famous for their electronic music. If we go on stage and make these Kraft dinners we are gonna get laughed out of the competition."
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Sam Smith / January 31, 2012 at 12:24 pm
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My comment was deleted.. I wonder why? Hmm... To close to the truth I guess.
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