# 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:** 443
**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:** [December 9, 2023, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8847 "2023-12-09T00:22:42Z")
As this body cam footage shows, the arrival of police thwarted the carjacking attempt. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8848 "2023-12-09T01:40:35Z")
We heard you were hiring. Can we use our uncle for a reference? > **[Bear Service Station Sign • Antique Advertising](https://antiqueadvertising.com/free-antique-price-guide/antique-signs/bear-service-station-sign/#&gid=1&pid=1)** > > Unusual, smaller size, early die-cut metal sign for Bear brand wheel balancing service, featuring nice image of Co.'s trademark bear cub. Sold at: Wm Morford Antiques Looking to Buy or Sell? Contact: Antique Advertising LLC ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8849 "2023-12-09T07:24:36Z")
“I call shotgun! No, really there’s a shotgun right here, under the seat.” ---
**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:** [December 9, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8850 "2023-12-09T13:12:16Z")
FOX news headline: Mexican bears caught trying to cross US border by hiding in service truck ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8851 "2023-12-09T22:19:16Z")
“Yogi, we shouldn’t be doing this.” “Hush, Boo-Boo, and keep an eye out for Mister Ranger-Sir.” ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8852 "2023-12-10T09:15:31Z")
“You are not bears, you are just short guys in fur coats who need a shave. Now, get out there and finish changing that tire!” > **[The Bear That Wasn't](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_That_Wasn%27t)** > > The Bear That Wasn't is a 1946 children's picture book written and illustrated by filmmaker and Looney Tunes alumnus Frank Tashlin. > A bear settles down for his hibernation and while he sleeps, the progress of man continues. He wakes up to find himself in the middle of an industrial complex, where he gets mistaken by the foreman for a worker and thus is ordered to get to work. When the bear responds that he doesn't work there, and that he's is a bear and not a human, the foreman denounces him a... _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [December 10, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8853 "2023-12-10T22:37:58Z")
Actual sighting of Ewoks outside Skywalker Ranch ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8854 "2023-12-11T08:55:31Z")
This one is going to take this round: > [@knoodler](#): > > “Yogi, we shouldn’t be doing this.” > > “Hush, Boo-Boo, and keep an eye out for Mister Ranger-Sir.” You’re up, @knoodler ! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8855 "2023-12-11T16:00:31Z")
Thanks **Spoons**! [![](https://kjfg.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/titanic2.jpg) ](https://kjfg.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/titanic2.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:** [December 11, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8856 "2023-12-11T16:19:53Z")
Not to be outdone, neighboring Saint Paul sought to create a similar disaster attraction. Experts were consulted: could the Hindenburg be replicated in inflatable form? ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8857 "2023-12-11T18:19:36Z")
In a remarkable example of antipodal cooperation, the two parks departments arranged for the stern to sink into Buenos Aires and the bow to rise up in Shanghai. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8858 "2023-12-11T20:06:25Z")
“I’m the king of the world!” ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8859 "2023-12-11T22:02:01Z")
Despite illustrations like this one, the Guinness Book of World Records rejected the White Star Lines’ claim to have created the world’s first water slide. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8860 "2023-12-11T22:50:29Z")
The scorned designer of the Twin Towers Parachute Drop learns a lesson in “timing”. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8861 "2023-12-12T03:20:52Z")
OK, Michael Scott. You’re king of this contest. Take it away, @Knowed_Out! ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8862 "2023-12-12T12:02:26Z")
I never saw this show, so just saying reusing a famous line from it won’t be understood by me. [![](https://static1.moviewebimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/noel-fielding-in-tv-show-mighty-boosh.jpg) ](https://static1.moviewebimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/noel-fielding-in-tv-show-mighty-boosh.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8863 "2023-12-12T12:14:50Z")
AI-created version of ‘Doc Ock’ for the newest edition of the _ **‘Spiderman’** _ franchise. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8864 "2023-12-12T14:45:28Z")
It’s the Head of Programming for the live-action _Squidbillies_ movie. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8865 "2023-12-12T14:48:35Z")
You must have misheard. This symposium is about the French author _Balzac_ ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/8866 "2023-12-12T19:18:41Z")
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