# 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:** 120
**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:** [March 30, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2381 "2025-03-30T16:48:12Z")
“We be DOGE, here to cut waste and fraud!” ---
**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:** [March 30, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2382 "2025-03-30T16:59:08Z")
“If you’ve got a couple of minutes, we’d like to talk to you about an extended warranty on your ship…” _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [March 30, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2383 "2025-03-30T17:00:44Z")
“Avast ye Wyeth! We’ve laid our schooner over alongside and are here to plunder ye pyle o’ subject matter!” ---
**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:** [March 30, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2384 "2025-03-30T17:05:18Z")
“…and all ye brandy ‘n’ wine!” ---
**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:** [March 30, 2025, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2385 "2025-03-30T23:37:45Z")
I say we get _back_ in the lifeboat and cannon the entire ship from long range, Captain! It’s the only way to be sure. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2386 "2025-03-31T03:32:28Z")
I’m giving it to > [@iamatractorboy](#): > > As his downstairs neighbours swarmed over the balconey, John knew he should have turned down his TV volume sooner. Honorable mention To Elmer Fudd for reminding me of the Captain’s Wife’s Lament ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2387 "2025-03-31T18:53:20Z")
Thanks Doc! Let’s see what people make of this one… [![](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/vintage-bizarre-historical-photos-13.webp) ](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/vintage-bizarre-historical-photos-13.webp) ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2388 "2025-03-31T19:01:48Z")
Mike Lindell was well prepared for the day he couldn’t show is face in public any more. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2389 "2025-03-31T19:20:06Z")
“I think your brain is misfiring. Let me check under the hood.” ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2390 "2025-03-31T20:03:31Z")
“Have you stopped lynching people? Yes or no.” ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2391 "2025-03-31T20:58:26Z")
Yes, I performed Moby Dick’s bris, and I want the whole world to know. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2392 "2025-03-31T20:58:37Z")
The inventor of Pacman explains his inspiration for the game’s ghosts. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2393 "2025-04-01T03:08:44Z")
“And only KKK life insurance plans have a triple-indemnity clause if you die in a cross burning.” ---
**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:** [April 1, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2394 "2025-04-01T03:29:00Z")
“My influences in my career? Well, Casper the Friendly Ghost, for one …” _Not in play:_ I know who the guy wearing the hood is. He was quite well known for never appearing in media, and often on public, without it. Like I said, I know who he is, but does anybody want to take any guesses? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2395 "2025-04-01T03:49:36Z")
Soviet defector ---
**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:** [April 1, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2396 "2025-04-01T20:23:27Z")
[not a real guess] Blanket Jackson ---
**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:** [April 1, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2397 "2025-04-01T20:40:23Z")
> [@Ferris](#): > > The inventor of Pacman explains his inspiration for the game’s ghosts. Tough call, as a lot of these made me chuckle, but Ferris wins by a whisker! ---
**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:** [April 1, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2398 "2025-04-01T21:08:31Z")
As an aside: Regarding the hooded man’s identity, it is Igor Gouzenko, who defected from the USSR to Canada back in the 1940s. He brought a lot of Soviet secrets with him. The hood was so he could not be identified. See here: > **[Igor Gouzenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Gouzenko)** > > Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Сергійович Гузенко; January 26, 1919 – June 25, 1982) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, and a lieutenant of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). He defected on September 5, 1945, three days after the end of World War II, with 109 documents on the USSR's espionage activities in the West. In response, Canada's Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, called a royal commission to investigate espionage in Cana Gouzen... ---
**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:** [April 1, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2399 "2025-04-01T23:49:25Z")
Thanks! In a bit of a rush and saw my preview only had the link again… sorry. > **[File:Hurrier Cobden 1853.jpg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hurrier_Cobden_1853.jpg)** > > Hurrier\_Cobden\_1853.jpg (348 × 200 pixels, file size: 71 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) > This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. > https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2400 "2025-04-01T23:51:39Z")
The pic: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Hurrier_Cobden_1853.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Hurrier_Cobden_1853.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717.md?page=119) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717.md?page=121)