# A Genuine Caption Contest (Part 1)

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731
**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
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### 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 15, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6107 "2022-06-15T14:20:36Z")

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She still ain’t married? We need to do a special layin’ on uh hands!

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### 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 15, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6108 "2022-06-15T15:37:48Z")

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Demon dandruff flakes, we REBUKE thee!

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### 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 15, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6109 "2022-06-15T15:44:56Z")

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Reminder: NEVER take the children to the barber college on a slow night.

The whole family was pleased at junior’s “Cousin IT” costume.

“…and that’s when I got the idea for the Zombie canon.”

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### 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 15, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6110 "2022-06-15T17:19:43Z")

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Cut scene from The Exorcist. Shortly after the faith healing failed, Regan’s mom called Fr. Merin.

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### 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: [June 15, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6111 "2022-06-15T21:52:15Z")

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At Holy Roller Hair Salons, if you don’t look good, you burn in Hell for eternity.

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### 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 16, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6112 "2022-06-16T21:33:00Z")

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Oh, my, all so hilarious. But it’s a hands on to  
[Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)

[Jun 15](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest/915731/6107)

She still ain’t married? We need to do a special layin’ on uh hands!  
Go, Slithy!

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### 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 16, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6113 "2022-06-16T22:40:58Z")

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[![](https://www-history-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/F2/s/www.history.com/.image/c_fit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_674/MTY1NDI3MDM1Mzc4ODIwNjMz/george-washington-death-gettyimages-625141572.jpg) ](https://www-history-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/F2/s/www.history.com/.image/c_fit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_674/MTY1NDI3MDM1Mzc4ODIwNjMz/george-washington-death-gettyimages-625141572.jpg)

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### 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 16, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6114 "2022-06-16T22:44:33Z")

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“He’s not looking improved. Better bleed him again.”

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### 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 16, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6115 "2022-06-16T23:29:14Z")

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Just for the hell of it, I’ll drop one in:

Dr. “Now he belongs to the ages.”

Gentleman in far right of frame: “Great. So how about maybe now I don’t have to belong to FUCKING ANYBODY?”

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### 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 16, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6116 "2022-06-16T23:51:41Z")

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Months to paint this and Americans will remember him from that other two-bit portrait…

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### 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 17, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6117 "2022-06-17T01:42:14Z")

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“Dibs on the wig!”

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### 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 17, 2022, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6118 "2022-06-17T02:26:19Z")

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“Tell the slaves I was just kidding.”

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### 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 17, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6119 "2022-06-17T05:01:47Z")

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George, do suppose you could be kind enough to hold your gas until we all left?

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### 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 17, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6120 "2022-06-17T12:11:24Z")

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When I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.

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### 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 17, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6121 "2022-06-17T23:04:44Z")

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> [@boson](#):
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> George, do suppose you could be kind enough to hold your gas until we all left?

Because more than ever, what the world needs now is George Washington fart jokes, game to @boson

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### 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 18, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6122 "2022-06-18T02:52:06Z")

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Thanks, Slithy, but pass. Don’t know how to load an image. Maybe on my ipad and use google lens.

PASS

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### 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 18, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6123 "2022-06-18T02:54:54Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> “Dibs on the wig!”

This entry was 2nd place, and may possibly have made 1st if it’d been “teeth.”

@Knowed_Out have at it.

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### 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 18, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6124 "2022-06-18T15:59:01Z")

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Moving on with furry things…

[![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/07/learning/VTS02-10-20LN-2/VTS02-10-20LN-2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg) ](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/07/learning/VTS02-10-20LN-2/VTS02-10-20LN-2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg)

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### 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 18, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6125 "2022-06-18T16:13:26Z")

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For an additional bonus, we don’t need a church bell. He just rattles his dags.

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### 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 18, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/6126 "2022-06-18T16:21:48Z")

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By the time Mary was in college, her pet following her to school wasn’t as cute anymore.

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