# 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:** 301
**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:** [June 1, 2022, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6007 "2022-06-01T11:28:59Z")
“I still think he looks like the coppersmith.” ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6008 "2022-06-01T16:54:05Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > After word got out about the unfortunate incident, no model would even consider posing for Caravaggio. > > OK child, just one more time: > 🎶 > “You put your left leg in > You put your left leg out > You put your left leg in > And you shake it all about…” You have the controls. Fly Bonum fly ---
**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:** [June 1, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6009 "2022-06-01T17:58:29Z")
Let’s see what the inventive minds can make of this: (That’s an absentee ballot - but you don’t have to stick to that description…) [![](https://i.imgur.com/w9xuVjF.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/w9xuVjF.jpg) ---
**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:** [June 1, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6010 "2022-06-01T18:06:15Z")
You too can be a winner in the American Family Publishers Vaccine Clearinghouse Sweepstakes! ---
**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:** [June 1, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6011 "2022-06-01T18:08:55Z")
This is so the government doesn’t get your DNA through absentee balloting. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6012 "2022-06-01T18:21:52Z")
I usually just hold my nose when I only have two candidates to choose from. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6013 "2022-06-01T21:21:44Z")
It was only months later that investigators of the anthrax mailings caught a lead from security camera footage. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6014 "2022-06-02T02:51:48Z")
You may already be a wiener. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6015 "2022-06-02T06:53:24Z")
“Hey, Janie, look at that Martian-looking guy by the mailbox!” ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6016 "2022-06-02T14:59:39Z")
It was tough choice. The non-winners may demand a recount, but: > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > This is so the government doesn’t get your DNA through absentee balloting. was just paranoid enough to take the prize. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6017 "2022-06-02T16:53:03Z")
Thanks, Bonum. Light it up! [https://www.incrediblethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Caption-This-Moon.jpg](https://www.incrediblethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Caption-This-Moon.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6018 "2022-06-02T17:06:22Z")
That really does deserve a standing ovulation ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6019 "2022-06-02T17:19:29Z")
Unclear on the concept of “mooning”. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6020 "2022-06-02T17:21:30Z")
…and that is how ping pong balls are made. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6021 "2022-06-02T20:02:45Z")
“When we get back into town, you think up a good the alien abduction story and I’ll phone Weekly World News.” Another sad result of Doctor’s handwriting. The instructions were supposed to be “Take one pill daily with DESSERT.” ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6022 "2022-06-02T20:08:58Z")
Behold as the fairy midwife delivers Tinkerbell! ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6023 "2022-06-02T23:15:31Z")
See? A light inside the body will kill the virus! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6024 "2022-06-03T17:16:18Z")
I guess the sun really does shine out of her asshole! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6025 "2022-06-03T17:31:57Z")
All these entries were good. I chose this one because Winston hasn’t had a win a while. > [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > I guess the sun really does shine out of her asshole! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6026 "2022-06-03T17:58:29Z")
Haven’t won in a while because I was off-line for a while! Hows about this one: [https://www.thurstontalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/day-trip-grays-harbor-sandcastle-lady-sings-1068x877.jpg](https://www.thurstontalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/day-trip-grays-harbor-sandcastle-lady-sings-1068x877.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731.md?page=300) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731.md?page=302)