# A Genuine Caption Contest (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 4, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717 "2024-07-04T12:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 100
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1981 "2025-02-09T15:28:11Z")
A pinball machine to honor a man who catches thieves. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1982 "2025-02-09T16:01:38Z")
A boy’s best friend is his mother… and his vintage Superman pinball machine. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1983 "2025-02-09T16:06:54Z")
The trouble with Harry is that he plays too much pinball. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1984 "2025-02-09T16:10:13Z")
Alfred Hitckcock’s cameo in the first, mostly forgotten version of The Last Starfighter. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1985 "2025-02-09T16:14:49Z")
Ol’ Hitch could never play a good game of pinball due to severe vertigo. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1986 "2025-02-09T16:15:37Z")
Superman picked the wrong man to promote his pinball game. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1987 "2025-02-09T17:07:13Z")
Hitch doing some research for the film version of _Tommy_. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1988 "2025-02-09T18:54:53Z")
While staying at the Jamaica Inn, Hitch was roped into playing The Skin Game pinball machine, playing in a frenzy for hours before announcing in was for the birds, and that he was the wrong man to play it and that it sabotaged his stay. “I confess”, said Hitch, “I was persuaded by Marnie, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith that it would be fun. I was duped.” ---
**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:** [February 9, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1989 "2025-02-09T19:41:25Z")
“Might you have one with a lunette shaped into the front panel?” ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1990 "2025-02-09T20:07:47Z")
Well, pinball - it’s more than a hobby. A hobby’s supposed to pass the time, not fill it. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1991 "2025-02-10T04:06:53Z")
"In this noisome electronic game, with its myriad bells and whistles, your objective is to keep a steel ball in play as long as possible. Unfortunately, In tonight’s play, there are no scoreboards, no celebratory bell tolling, and no klaxons of a congratulatory nature, for our heroine’s objective will be to keep her home as long as possible before it’s destroyed by a steel ball, swinging from a gigantic derrick by unsympathetic contractors. Will the ball collapse her front door like a drop target? Will she use her hands like flippers to prevent the ball from literally striking home? Stay tuned for our episode, entitled “Sally in Pinball Alley.” ---
**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:** [February 11, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1992 "2025-02-11T08:46:24Z")
♪♫♪ He’s a pinball wizard, There has to be a twist. A pinball wizard – Got such a supple wrist ♫♫♯♪ _ **-“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:** [February 11, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1993 "2025-02-11T11:38:03Z")
The winner… > [@iamatractorboy](#): > > A boy’s best friend is his mother… and his vintage Superman pinball machine. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1994 "2025-02-11T17:14:29Z")
Cheers Elmer! This is a photo of me\* looking shocked to win that round, and is also the subject of the next round… > **[Senior man, outdoors in a lush garden, reacts in shock and horror.](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/elderly-man-with-white-hair-looks-shocked-scared-and-horrified-with-hands-to-his-gm1424008209-468855803)** > > Senior man, outdoors in a lush garden, reacts in shock and horror. \*the part of me is being played by an actor Edit: sorry, I seem to have lost the ability to post just photos now… ---
**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:** [February 11, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1995 "2025-02-11T17:16:33Z")
Here. No losing the watermark though [![](https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1424008209/photo/elderly-man-with-white-hair-looks-shocked-scared-and-horrified-with-hands-to-his-face-and.webp?s=612x612&w=is&k=20&c=4zDee6l7O6N8e-JERtZCaepRMz8Fqwy2n_DpQXY2JsY=) ](https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1424008209/photo/elderly-man-with-white-hair-looks-shocked-scared-and-horrified-with-hands-to-his-face-and.webp?s=612x612&w=is&k=20&c=4zDee6l7O6N8e-JERtZCaepRMz8Fqwy2n_DpQXY2JsY=) ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1996 "2025-02-11T17:17:19Z")
Thanks ST ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1997 "2025-02-11T17:17:40Z")
The moment that Jim managed to remove a watermark from his mouth. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1998 "2025-02-11T17:18:41Z")
Dave gets tag-teamed by his wife and mistress. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1999 "2025-02-11T17:32:30Z")
Macaulay Culkin has not aged well. The model for Munch’s “The Scream” recreates the pose for reporters. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2000 "2025-02-11T17:52:08Z")
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