CAPTCHA fails (again and again)

Last night, Paul and I were setting up a Gmail address for a little Twitter endeavor he's doing. That's when I discovered Gmail has the hardest CAPTCHAs I've ever encountered.

I called him over. "What does that look like to you?" I asked. "Well, B ... O ... I dunno. Listen to the handicap thing," he replied. So we tried. And that was even more convoluted than the visual CAPTCHA.

Embarrassingly, it took me four tries to get it right. Here are my documented efforts. See if you can do better.

No. 1:


No. 2:


No. 3:


No. 4 (got this one right):


P.S. Raise your hand if you knew CAPTCHA stood for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." (That's according to Wiki.) That is one of the most contrived acronyms I've ever heard, perhaps beaten only by USA PATRIOT Act, or "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001."