# A Genuine Caption Contest (Part 2)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717>\
**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\
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**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:** [October 3, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3841 "2025-10-03T05:38:32Z")

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“Remember, honey, when I have the boys over for poker on Thursday night, you agreed to get some of your girlfriends to go swimming.”

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**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:** [October 3, 2025, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3842 "2025-10-03T10:49:53Z")

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“OK Timmy, that’s enough baseball. Go back to your underwater basket-weaving homework.”

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**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:** [October 3, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3843 "2025-10-03T13:04:16Z")

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1960s ad: Introducing the latest marvel in family entertainment: AquaVision™! _Why settle for Lassie saving Timmy on B&W TV when you can watch Timmy drown live, in crystal-clear color?_

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**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:** [October 3, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3844 "2025-10-03T13:43:56Z")

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This once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire distressed properties after James Bond shoots the original owners

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**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:** [October 3, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3845 "2025-10-03T22:44:23Z")

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“Darling, I think the washing machine’s developed a leak again!”

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**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:** [October 3, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3846 "2025-10-03T22:50:20Z")

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The winner…

> [@Lumpy](#):
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> The ultimate in sunken living rooms.

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**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:** [October 3, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3847 "2025-10-03T23:05:07Z")

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Thanks @Elmer_J.Fudd ! Lessee…

[![](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NINTCHDBPICT000462124807.jpg) ](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NINTCHDBPICT000462124807.jpg)

My own caption (ineligible):

“No mein frau, I said I wanted a würst dinner”

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**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:** [October 4, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3848 "2025-10-04T02:59:57Z")

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_Marge mixed up Celsius and Fahrenheit again—now we’re serving turkey à la Pompeii for our holiday dinner._

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**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:** [October 4, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3849 "2025-10-04T11:26:34Z")

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The time Butterball Turkeys did a cross-promotion with Malcolm X

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**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:** [October 4, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3850 "2025-10-04T13:02:13Z")

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Why is _The David Lynch Cookbook_ never on the banned book list?

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**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:** [October 4, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3851 "2025-10-04T15:20:35Z")

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This is NOT what I meant when I asked for blackened turkey!

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**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:** [October 4, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3852 "2025-10-04T15:24:59Z")

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Things we never knew we needed #573: Wetsuits for turkeys.

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**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:** [October 4, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3853 "2025-10-04T22:45:26Z")

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Chicken _a la heliocaminus_

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**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:** [October 4, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3854 "2025-10-04T23:27:33Z")

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Nigel Featherstonehough once again forgot to convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius when putting on a feast for his pheasant hunt club.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3855 "2025-10-05T00:54:28Z")

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Kentucky Fried Licorice Chicken

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**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:** [October 5, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3856 "2025-10-05T01:28:06Z")

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Runner up:

> [@knoodler](#):
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> Kentucky Fried Licorice Chicken

Tha Winna:

> [@Tibby](#):
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> Marge mixed up Celsius and Fahrenheit again—now we’re serving turkey à la Pompeii for our holiday dinner.

Take it away @Tibby

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**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:** [October 5, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3857 "2025-10-05T01:52:45Z")

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> [@Tibby](#):
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> Marge mixed up Celsius and Fahrenheit again—now we’re serving turkey à la Pompeii for our holiday dinner

Oh no, I overlooked your response when I posted mine, which pretty much duplicated what you wrote! I may have even read it yesterday and forgotten it by today. So sorry!

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**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:** [October 5, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3858 "2025-10-05T05:15:26Z")

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Danke schön!

Let’s see what y’all can do with this one:

[![](https://i.imgur.com/DjDEMRo.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/DjDEMRo.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3859 "2025-10-05T08:50:26Z")

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“Time to put this puppy in Drive and take her for a spin! Where’s the shifter on this thing?”

Alternate entry: “Excelsior!”

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/3860 "2025-10-05T14:14:05Z")

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“I command you to kneel before Zod.”

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