# 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:** 125
**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:** [April 9, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2481 "2025-04-09T20:44:58Z")
> [@Quondam\_Mechanic](#): > > Pardon me, boy, is this the Pennsylvania Station? “Pardon me, boy, is this the Tatooine Choo-Choo?” ---
**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:** [April 9, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2482 "2025-04-09T20:57:25Z")
“I know you! You’re KrEM-AbbOO’l JaBha^R! I think you’re the greatest but my dad says you don’t try hard… except against the Tradoshans.” ---
**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:** [April 9, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2483 "2025-04-09T20:59:57Z")
“Joey, do you like movies about Storm Troopers?” ---
**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 9, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2484 "2025-04-09T21:48:01Z")
“Look, kid. I didn’t take my R&R in Orlando just to be bugged by members of my boss’s fan club.” ---
**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:** [April 10, 2025, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2485 "2025-04-10T10:54:13Z")
“All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction?” “All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with.” ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2486 "2025-04-10T11:18:32Z")
_“Where’s the bathroom, human? I’m about to bust an O-ring and leak like crazy.”_ ---
**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 10, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2487 "2025-04-10T13:02:24Z")
So you want to grow up to be a storm trooper? The best advice I can give you is not to bother aiming. It doesn’t matter - you won’t hit the target anyway. ---
**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 10, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2488 "2025-04-10T13:07:18Z")
“Do I look like a power converter salesman? Get lost, kid!” ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2489 "2025-04-10T15:34:36Z")
“Listen, kid, you can’t be a Storm Trooper. But there’s an opening for a lead Jawa at Studio 5.” ---
**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 10, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2490 "2025-04-10T18:26:33Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > “I’ve been on the road ever since they blew up the second Death Star outside of Endor.” Tough one to call, but I’ve got to go with Kent. Take it away, KC… ---
**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 11, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2491 "2025-04-11T00:37:19Z")
Meanwhile, somewhere in the future, not so far away. [![](https://box01.comicbookplus.com/images/categories/sciencefiction.png) ](https://box01.comicbookplus.com/images/categories/sciencefiction.png) ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2492 "2025-04-11T00:53:01Z")
Ring Toss just got serious. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2493 "2025-04-11T00:54:10Z")
This is why your astronaut name shouldn’t be “Trash” Gordon. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2494 "2025-04-11T00:56:30Z")
OkGo makes a _true_ zero gravity video. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2495 "2025-04-11T03:20:00Z")
“HAL, I’d like another try.” “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t allow that. Goodbye.” ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2496 "2025-04-11T04:10:22Z")
“Wait! You forgot your zero-gravity hemorrhoid donut! (I don’t know why I care about you so much, when you don’t even know I exist!)” ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2497 "2025-04-11T04:17:24Z")
After going for a record fifth high-speed rotation, Captain Smith fell out of the SuperSpaceRing ™. ---
**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 11, 2025, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2498 "2025-04-11T06:20:02Z")
Astro-explorers beware: giant killer space sperm sighted in vicinity of Alpha Centauri. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2499 "2025-04-11T06:23:25Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Astro-explorers beware: giant killer space sperm sighted in vicinity of Alpha Centauri. - All of Earth comes together to create giant decoy space eggs. ---
**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 12, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/2500 "2025-04-12T01:41:06Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > “Wait! You forgot your zero-gravity hemorrhoid donut! (I don’t know why I care about you so much, when you don’t even know I exist!)” A broken heart always adds to pulp sci-fi. @Slithy_Tove wins this round. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717.md?page=124) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717.md?page=126)