If you want an explanation of the photo below, we suggest you read this.

On the other hand, you might want to retain a sense of childlike wonder at it all - and never know exactly why on earth President Barack Obama was sitting in the White House with a pirate yesterday.

barack obama pirate

Either way, it's picture caption gold - and so we asked our @HuffPostUKCom Twitter followers to do their best/worst. Here were just some of our favourites:

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  • Thought For Today

  • sixft2blue

  • Prince Charles

  • Iain Ewing

  • Sean Lindsay

  • Leisa Rea

  • James Hitchcock

  • Alan Machnik

  • DG

  • Ian Power

  • mutant_camel

  • john wilson

  • Dave G

  • Joshua Blackman

  • Edward Quigley

  • Peter More