# 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:** 17
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/321 "2020-08-08T01:59:02Z")
Festive Intestines® ---
**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:** [August 8, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/322 "2020-08-08T02:02:38Z")
Never buy a Lovecraftian idol on Etsy. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/323 "2020-08-08T02:04:17Z")
Santa meets Cthulhu. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/324 "2020-08-08T02:12:00Z")
Cthulhucanes. The candy that eats you back. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/325 "2020-08-08T02:14:01Z")
The elves’ first attempt at tentacle porn. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/326 "2020-08-08T02:20:53Z")
How do you eat a Cthulhucane? Innsmouth. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/327 "2020-08-08T02:42:43Z")
@running_coach, you are amazing! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/328 "2020-08-08T02:43:53Z")
Thanks, I’m trying to stay on his good side. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/329 "2020-08-08T03:07:32Z")
_This time around Trump will have to face the real Medusa._ ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/330 "2020-08-08T05:49:05Z")
_When knock-knock jokes turn a different kind of funny._ ---
**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:** [August 8, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/331 "2020-08-08T13:33:41Z")
Santa’s reindeer left another “gift” in the front yard. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/332 "2020-08-08T13:56:30Z")
_Some of the **Gretel and Hansel** 2020 horror movie scenes were disturbingly enticing._ ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/333 "2020-08-08T18:22:50Z")
Candyulhu was much more popular than his cousin, Cthulhu. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/334 "2020-08-08T19:46:29Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > How do you eat a Cthulhucane? > Innsmouth. This one’s too good. **running\_coach** , you win. Runners up were “Cthulhupaste leaves your slavering maw minty fresh.” also by the coach, and **needscoffee** ’s “Never buy a Lovecraftian idol on Etsy.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/335 "2020-08-08T19:51:29Z")
Thanks, that was a fun one. Have at it, all. [![](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ingo-else-dog-owl-friendship-tanja-brandt-8.jpg) ](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ingo-else-dog-owl-friendship-tanja-brandt-8.jpg) ---
**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:** [August 8, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/336 "2020-08-08T19:57:15Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Runners up were “Cthulhupaste leaves your slavering maw minty fresh.” also by the coach, and **needscoffee** ’s “Never buy a Lovecraftian idol on Etsy.” (I ~~borrowed that from~~ paid homage to one of @running_coach’s previous entries on the guy with the fruit hat, in case wasn’t obvious) ---
**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:** [August 8, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/337 "2020-08-08T20:08:09Z")
_One’s an owl, the other’s a good boy. Together they fight crime. Watch **Hoot & Holler** Wednesdays this Fall on ABC._ ---
**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:** [August 8, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/338 "2020-08-08T20:09:39Z")
OK, that’s too good, Professor. Uncle! ---
**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:** [August 8, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/339 "2020-08-08T22:07:37Z")
The tragic end to one half of the Owl and the Pussy Cat team. ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Cheeseburger)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/340 "2020-08-08T22:13:23Z")
Tell me again that I’m a stupid slut owl, my big brother here doesn’t believe you would say such a thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731.md?page=18)