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ATL Caption Contest: The South Florida Blackout (Final Round)

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Some of you may be tired of our little Miami blackout caption contest. But we agree with the commenters who suggested that a contest with 20 entries was unwieldy. We’d like to get it right this time.
Here’s what we’ve done. We’ve taken the top five vote getters — there was a clear drop-off after #5, with all other choices polling under 10 percent — and pitted them against each other in a final round.
If you feel like it, you can review the contenders, and vote for your favorite, after the jump.


To refresh your recollection, here is the original caption that ran with the photo in the Miami Herald:

Lawyers, from the left, Alan Lash, Justin Fienberg, and Alex Mendez, not lawyer, working on a project at Greenberg Traurig, on 27th floor of 1221 Brickell, went to lunch and found the building out of power.

Here are your nominees for the final round:
A: Lazy and tired, GT lawyers forget that the door behind the label “stairs” leads them back to their office where “paper” and “pencils” along with “books” could permit them to continue working.
B: “Honey, I think I may make it to dinner tonight!”
Accord (variation on theme): “Torn from their drudgery, lawyers are forced to call their family and friends.”
C: Florida attorneys, having found out their building lost power while they were at lunch, phoned their firm’s car service to have their drivers manually carry them up six flights of stairs. “It’s billed to the client,” explained Justin Feinberg.
D: Justin: “Ah, Steve, you won’t believe it! You know how it was white shirt, blue tie day at the office? Well I wore a blue tie AND a blue shirt…I mean we laughed for like, hours. Seriously Steve, hours.”
Alex: “F**k off, my name’s Alex.”
E: Justin Fienberg, center, unloads on an FPL employee on the phone: “I don’t give a fuck if you have to put some Cubans in a fucking hamster wheel, just get the goddamn power back on.” He was in the middle of entering his time and is afraid his bonus will be reduced for violating the firm’s time entry policy.
Accord: Lawyer Justin Fienberg manages to continue billing hours during a blackout while fellow lawyer, Alan Lash, curses under his breath having left his blackberry at his desk. Confused non-lawyer, Alex Mendez just lifts phone to ear.
Update: The polls are closed; thanks to everyone who voted. Find out the winner by clicking here.
And here’s the poll:

Slide show: Blackout, havoc in South Florida [Miami Herald]
Lash & Goldberg LLP [official website]
Earlier: ATL Caption Contest Nominees: The South Florida Blackout (preliminary round)

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