# 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:** 22
**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:** [August 15, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/421 "2024-08-15T05:44:25Z")
Yes, I have microplastics in my system. Understandably given our society. But also, inexplicably, tiny, tiny little cats. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/422 "2024-08-15T20:51:39Z")
@Dr.Winston_OBoogie got as far away from dark as I could possibly ask for. You’re up, Doctor. If you want, feel free to take the thread back to its sick, twisted direction. > [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Red ball > Blue Ball > Green ball > Yellow ball > Fluff ball ---
**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:** [August 15, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/423 "2024-08-15T22:14:03Z")
Thanks! It can’t get any darker than this: [![](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-qyh8707wxd/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/743/1952/Black_Black __04733__ 90341.1687659387.jpg?c=2) ](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-qyh8707wxd/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/743/1952/Black_Black __04733__ 90341.1687659387.jpg?c=2) (yes, it’s all black) ---
**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:** [August 15, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/424 "2024-08-15T22:46:48Z")
“I’ve known this image a long time, indirectly, not directly very much, and it was always a square. I didn’t know it was black until a number of years ago when it happened to turn black, and now it wants to be known as black. So I don’t know, is it square, or is it black?” ---
**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:** [August 15, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/425 "2024-08-15T23:11:19Z")
If you stare into the darkness long enough, the darkness begins staring into you. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/426 "2024-08-15T23:13:25Z")
Okay, here’s the pitch: “The Hellen Keller Story!” And here’s the angle: _we do the whole thing from Hellen’s point of view!_ ---
**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:** [August 15, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/427 "2024-08-15T23:59:47Z")
“Are you telling me that the Museum of Modern Art spent two million bucks on _this_?” ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/428 "2024-08-16T00:08:25Z")
(Not in play) [$1 million would have been a discount](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/contemporary-evening-auction-5/abstract-painting?locale=en) ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/429 "2024-08-16T00:17:28Z")
I call it _“Black Cat in a Basement Coal Bin at Midnight during a Lunar Eclipse”_. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/430 "2024-08-16T00:21:11Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > (Not in play) > > [$1 million would have been a discount](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/contemporary-evening-auction-5/abstract-painting?locale=en) If someone stole it and substituted a forgery, how would anyone tell? ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/431 "2024-08-16T01:29:39Z")
Still not in play. > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > (Not in play) > > [$1 million would have been a discount](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/contemporary-evening-auction-5/abstract-painting?locale=en) I particularly enjoyed the painting’s listing under Exhibitions: " The Museum of Modern Art, Ad Reinhardt, May 1991 - January 1992, p. 104, **illustrated in color**" (emphasis added) ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/432 "2024-08-16T01:35:40Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > > > (Not in play) > > > > [$1 million would have been a discount](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/contemporary-evening-auction-5/abstract-painting?locale=en) > > If someone stole it and substituted a forgery, how would anyone tell? Answer, not in play: If you look at it long enough, subtle patterns he worked into the layers start to emerge. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/433 "2024-08-16T01:44:43Z")
It’s always darkest before it goes completely black. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/434 "2024-08-16T01:46:32Z")
James Bond in _View From Inside A Closed Eyelid_ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/435 "2024-08-16T01:59:46Z")
Black Velvet, if you please Vanta Claus is coming to town. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/436 "2024-08-16T02:01:17Z")
By the brushwork. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/437 "2024-08-16T02:26:33Z")
**Figure 1:** Map of the universe to scale (post-heat death) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/438 "2024-08-16T03:26:36Z")
What did you think would happen when you cut the cable? ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/439 "2024-08-16T03:56:45Z")
Deep down inside JD Vance’s couch… ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/440 "2024-08-16T05:29:00Z")
_The Bible: Genesis_ remake decided to go in a different direction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717.md?page=23)