This is the picture we published in the last issue.The event was a one-day CLUMPS meeting in the University of Glasgow in April this year. Captions for this picture appear below. Again, a tough call to pick the winner. So we picked two, whose names appear after the selection from the entries.

(voice off camera) "Musical computers round one, folks. When I say "duck", everyone duck behind the nearest PC. DUCK! You in the dark pullover - you're out!"

(two people whispering on the left) "Is that the new Information Science lecturer?" "Oh yes; he's very quiet - we gave him a sheet of paper with 'Please Turn Over' written on both sides - keeps him busy for hours"

Everyone was reluctant to use the last vacant PC, following the massive sneezing fit and nasal eruption of the last user.

All three entries from John Kirriemuir, editor of the first ten issues of Ariadne. No points for spotting the back of his head in the picture :-)

"Oh dear, what have they done with the punch-card reader?" from Eric Sharf Co-ordinator, Digital Library Systems CNIB Library, Canada

"Paper? So that's what paper looks like!" Charis Wilson, Document Control Specialist ICG Communications, USA

"That's odd, my terminal just issued five lucky dips for Saturday night's lottery" Peter Griffiths, Communication Directorate, Home Office, UK.

"OK everyone ... I've just been handed this message ... Computing Services have declared that all PCs at this University have been tested and are fully protected against the vicious new 'Green Blob' virus. That's a relief ..." John MacColl, SELLIC Project Director, UK

"If it won't work this way we'll have to read the manual....." Ruth Burt, UKOLN

"Hmm, paper - I'm sure I used to know how to use this" Simon Tanner, Senior Digitisation Consultant (HEDS) Higher Education Digitisation Service UK.

Mmm, yes, I think I'll have the Sweet & Sour King Prawn tonight

I' m sure it said on here somewhere what a clump is

So when does my contract end? (ouch! sorry)

From Marie-Laure Bouchet M-L Bouchet, Internet Information Specialist Library & Information Services Nottingham Trent University, UK.

"The eLib clumps projects have recently been working hard on their dissemination strategies by appearing in the last 3 Ariadne Caption Competitions"

"....Ah, there's Ariadne. I better strike a suitable pose to get in the Caption Competition"

"Meanwhile, in a sea of desktop services a lone figure proves that pieces of paper still have their place"

All three from John Gilby M25 Link Project Manager (for the uninitiated, John is the man holding the piece of paper :-)

The winners are.... Peter Griffiths of the Communication Directorate at the Home Office, and John MacColl, Director of the SELLIC project at the University of Edinburgh. Congratulations! Your prizes (book tokens) will be their way shortly.

Here is the caption competition for issue 25. This picture found its way to the Ariadne editorial office by a circuitous route. The donor of the picture was recently seen near, but not actually at, an ECDL conference in Lisbon (the restaurant is altogether somewhere else). Naming either individual (or the restaurant) does not guarantee a prize :-) Captions please by the 15th of December to ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk. Please put 'caption competition 25' in the subject line. Best of luck.

Ariadne continues (surprisingly) to receive entries for earlier caption competitions (those in issues 7 and 8 being particular favourites). We are grateful for these (extremely late) entries, which are often very good, and continue to make us laugh. But unfortunately there are no prizes available for entries to these earlier competitions.