# 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:** 26
**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 22, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/501 "2024-08-22T22:06:12Z")
(Not in play) okay, someone’s going to have to explain the cultural reference to this old dinosaur. ---
**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 23, 2024, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/502 "2024-08-23T05:13:06Z")
After months of hard work, you’ll submit your thesis to the PhD panel. Scumbags full of hot air, all of them on the spectrum. ---
**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 23, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/503 "2024-08-23T15:25:53Z")
And the winner is **Slithy Tove**! The more I thought about that one, the funnier it became. > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > After months of hard work, you’ll submit your thesis to the PhD panel. Scumbags full of hot air, all of them on the spectrum. Teletubbies was a kids’ TV series for preschoolers. They looked like this: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Teletubbies.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Teletubbies.png) ---
**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 23, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/504 "2024-08-23T16:15:38Z")
Thank you @Prof.Pepperwinkle. Paul Klee, _Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank_, 1903 [![](https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/kunstwerke/400w/Paul_Klee_-_Zwei_Maenner_einander_in_hueherer_Stellung_vermutend_begegnen_sich_Two_Men_Meet_-_%28MeisterDrucke-1156114%29.jpg) ](https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/kunstwerke/400w/Paul_Klee_-_Zwei_Maenner_einander_in_hueherer_Stellung_vermutend_begegnen_sich_Two_Men_Meet_-_%28MeisterDrucke-1156114%29.jpg) ---
**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 23, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/505 "2024-08-23T16:19:13Z")
The makers of Misfit Toys. ---
**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 23, 2024, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/506 "2024-08-23T16:20:54Z")
The brothers of twisted sisters. ---
**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 23, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/507 "2024-08-23T16:25:09Z")
When shape-shifters hiccup. ---
**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 23, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/508 "2024-08-23T16:36:24Z")
Presented as evidence in the plagiarism lawsuit brought by Frederick Burr Opper, creator of _Alphonse and Gaston_. ---
**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 23, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/509 "2024-08-23T16:45:15Z")
Donald Trump and Elon Musk were quite surprised when the satellite hiding their true appearance was taken out of commission. ---
**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 23, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/510 "2024-08-23T18:12:43Z")
Upstanding citizens they are not. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/511 "2024-08-23T18:27:14Z")
Should you find yourself naked in public, this is how to properly conceal your genitalia. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/512 "2024-08-23T19:31:54Z")
Dance of the Strawberry Pickers ---
**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 23, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/513 "2024-08-23T21:50:29Z")
Shields and Yarnell are still hanging in there… ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/514 "2024-08-23T22:09:27Z")
Dance of the Human Praying Mantis ---
**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 23, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/515 "2024-08-23T23:26:46Z")
Unused illustration created for Dougal Dixon’s _ **Man After Man** _. ---
**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 24, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/516 "2024-08-24T02:09:38Z")
Their bodies wracked by excessive masturbation, Samuel and Henry both wondered whether they’d survive to their thirties. ---
**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 24, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/517 "2024-08-24T16:33:06Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Presented as evidence in the plagiarism lawsuit brought by Frederick Burr Opper, creator of _Alphonse and Gaston_. I’m a sucker for esoterica. Take it away @running_coach ---
**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 24, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/518 "2024-08-24T22:24:25Z")
Thanks!. Sorry for the delay, I was at a cross-country meet. [![](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/3-66b312c271b14__700.jpg) ](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/3-66b312c271b14__700.jpg) ---
**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 24, 2024, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/519 "2024-08-24T22:35:33Z")
It’s someone from Geico who wants to talk to you about insurance. _ **-“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 24, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/520 "2024-08-24T22:39:58Z")
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