# A Genuine Caption Contest (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 19, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731 "2020-07-19T04:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 140
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2785 "2021-02-22T03:16:17Z")
What? Don’t make a big deal out of it, it’s a cover band. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2786 "2021-02-22T11:36:06Z")
For the truly modest who feels burkas are too revealing… ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2787 "2021-02-22T15:04:03Z")
Zip Zip Top, before they shortened their name and grew beards. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2788 "2021-02-22T18:14:48Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I’d have voted for “How many bars…” myself. That one for me was almost a throw-away. Remember when those commercials were EVERYWHERE? I was happier with the Aw Capone one. Kinda like Cartman playing “Lambs”… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2789 "2021-02-22T22:33:32Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > “I was doing fine on my Rolling Stones homage until I got to Jagger and realized I couldn’t afford that much zipper.” > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Zip Zip Top, before they shortened their name and grew beards. which one, which one. Let’s give it to Zip Zip Top @Mean_Mr.Mustard , you’re up! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2790 "2021-02-23T02:01:16Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > I’d have voted for “How many bars…” myself. > > That one for me was almost a throw-away. Remember when those commercials were EVERYWHERE? I just googled the commercial, but I’m still not getting how it relates to the dolls… ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2791 "2021-02-23T04:05:22Z")
The dolls are arranged like the signal bars on a cell phone. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2792 "2021-02-23T04:50:43Z")
D’oh! Very good!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2793 "2021-02-23T10:26:42Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > …which one, which one. Let’s give it to Zip Zip Top > @Mean_Mr.Mustard , you’re up! Thanks, Doc! [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/Kd37Vqi.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/Kd37Vqi) ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2794 "2021-02-23T11:18:18Z")
“This is America, where all you have to do is stick two things together that have never been stuck together before and SOMEONE will buy it.” George Carlin I know, it’s a quote. But it seemed so perfect for the picture. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2795 "2021-02-23T11:31:34Z")
Darwin’s Muse ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2796 "2021-02-23T14:18:28Z")
I climbed the Empire State Building and all I got was this lousy light fixture. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2797 "2021-02-23T14:22:24Z")
_I was just gonna eat a candle, but decided I’d go for baroque._ ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2798 "2021-02-23T14:31:19Z")
'It wasn’t the airplanes, It was interior decorators killed the Beast.” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2799 "2021-02-23T15:07:21Z")
_Tell me honey, does this fixture make me look fat?_ ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2800 "2021-02-23T15:45:36Z")
_And the mountain-gorilla-shaped sconce symbolizes man’s exploitation of Nature. In the gift shop, you can purchase them in left-right matching pairs._ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2801 "2021-02-23T21:03:51Z")
There were a number of auditioners for the part of “The Lamp” in _A Christmas Story_, some stranger than others. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2802 "2021-02-23T21:31:58Z")
This year’s Darwin Award winner is… ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2803 "2021-02-24T00:53:45Z")
🎼 By the light, of the Silverback moon… (Trust me, you’d laugh if the lamp were somewhere other than his mouth). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/2804 "2021-02-24T02:09:47Z")
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