# 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
**Page:** 495
### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9887 "2024-06-16T13:08:34Z")
Well, thank you kindly.
It’s Fathers Day so
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9888 "2024-06-16T13:58:46Z")
Then he said: What did Yoda say when he turned a patron away for ordering a pie?
“Dough. Or doughnut. There is no pie.”
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### Author:  [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9889 "2024-06-16T14:19:59Z")
“Don’t worry, honey. Daddy will fix your donut.”
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9890 "2024-06-16T16:15:04Z")
“Everything I am today is thanks to my dad: Confident, fearless, diabetic…”
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### Author:  [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9891 "2024-06-16T17:07:09Z")
My daughter wanted doughnuts with jelly inside, so …
_ **-“BB”-** _
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9892 "2024-06-16T17:16:01Z")
“ **You,** alright? I learned it by watching **you**!”
Parents who suck out the jelly filling, have children who suck out the jelly filling.
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9893 "2024-06-17T06:12:16Z")
Very late, but I rather liked this about the bananas:
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#):
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> Let’s get these on a truck for Scranton, Pennsylvania
Nice allusion to Harry Chapin’s “30,000 Pounds of Bananas.” Well done, Doctor!
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9894 "2024-06-17T13:36:43Z")
And today’s winner is:
> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> Then he said: What did Yoda say when he turned a patron away for ordering a pie?
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> “Dough. Or doughnut. There is no pie.”
Good one, **KO!**
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### Author:  [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9895 "2024-06-17T15:48:39Z")
Thank you! Glad someone noticed!
_He sideswiped 19 neat parked cars_
_Clipped off 13 telephone poles_
_Hit 2 houses, bruised 9 trees_
_And Blue Crossed 7 people_
_It was then he lost his head, not to mention an arm or two before he stopped._
_And he smeared for 400 yards along the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania_
_All those 30_
_thousand_
_pounds_
_of bananas._
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9896 "2024-06-17T16:31:46Z")
OK, today is National Eat Your Vegetables Day, so here:
[ ](https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/scary-vegetable-man-jfredericksen-cc_375x300.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9897 "2024-06-17T16:43:22Z")
There’s a reason the concept of Edward Carothands never took off.
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### Author:  [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9898 "2024-06-17T17:35:28Z")
“So kids, always eat your vegetables. Or else Betaschnickel will eat you!”
– Dwight Schrute
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9899 "2024-06-17T18:40:26Z")
🎶 In the valley of the [HO HO HO[ Green Giant! 🎶
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9900 "2024-06-17T20:07:32Z")
Completely overshadowed by the Hulk was the sad tale of a man who worked at the USDA’s experimental seed-mutating facility.
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### Author:  [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9901 "2024-06-17T21:22:07Z")
In Sovyet Russia, you don’t eat wegetables … wegetables eat YOU!
_ **-“BB”-** _
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9902 "2024-06-17T21:41:51Z")
Seemed like a good idea for a costume, until the girls started with the “little green sprout” jokes
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9903 "2024-06-17T22:03:51Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#):
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> Thank you! Glad someone noticed!
I caught it right away!
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9904 "2024-06-17T22:06:14Z")
“Everything I plant grows…even me!”
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9905 "2024-06-18T12:09:57Z")
I liked all the entries, but this one quotes my hero, so it wins.
> [@knoodler](#):
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> “So kids, always eat your vegetables. Or else Betaschnickel will eat you!”
> – Dwight Schrute
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### Author:  [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-1/915731/9906 "2024-06-18T18:07:28Z")
Thanks! (I loved seeing the times Dwight bested Jim.)
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