A Genuine Caption Contest (Part 1)

The 131st Combat Tuba Brigade was well represented in the parade.

No one may resist the awesome power of the mighty Pflugelhornblitzenschmatterklumpenrachteren! And now they get two miles to the gallon.

Second Lieutenant Sousa was initially assigned to work in artillery design, but his heart wasn’t really in it.

The Kaiser’s answer to the Scottish Bagpipe Battalion. Known as the Oom-Pah Brigade, it was immediately banned by the Geneva Convention when its first test firing left thousands of partially deafened and totally neurotic rabbits in its wake.

A quiet man of music
Denied a simpler fate/
He tried to be a soldier once
But his music wouldn’t wait

(ETA: Source)

“Achtung! Prepare for der Oom-Pah-Pah inspection!”

All Loud on the Western Front

Pictures hidden for almost 60 years finally prove without a doubt that Dr, Suess was an Imperial Japanese collaborator.

Do you find something funny about the word “Tromboner”?
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Headline:
WHOSVILLE GOES TO WAR!

Every one of these responses is fantastic!

“Sir, our band plans to blow the opposition away, at halftime of this year’s Army-Navy football game.”

Agreed. This may be the best batch of entries (and photo) yet.

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They will hear the Moonlight Sonata all the way to Belgrade!!

Unfortunately for Martin Mull, Dueling Tubas escelated out of control.

These are my favorites. Since Prof captioned 2 of them, he wins. Grats Prof!

Thank you! Yeah, they were all great.

Let me hand this one off to you:

“Give it a rest, Lydia!”

After Graham Short carved the Lord’s Prayer on the head of a pin, he turned his attention to the art of tattoo.

Early maps of the lower portion of Michigan displayed roads that no longer exist, and show names of places that are no longer in use.