# 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\
**Page:** 72

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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:** [December 8, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1421 "2024-12-08T18:54:13Z")

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I can’t go outside! They’re gonna beat me up!

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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:** [December 8, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1422 "2024-12-08T19:03:44Z")

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“Mabel, get out of there! The name on the mailbox is ‘Walt Disney’!!!”

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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:** [December 8, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1423 "2024-12-08T19:08:11Z")

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We’ll take turns buying as much pseudoephedrine as you’re allowed to sell us. This rural meth crisis has really hit a new low, hasn’t it?

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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:** [December 9, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1424 "2024-12-09T05:10:41Z")

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Tough choice! I’m going to go with @Elmer_J.Fudd:

> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> “Mabel, get out of there! The name on the mailbox is ‘Walt Disney’!!!”

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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:** [December 9, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1425 "2024-12-09T14:59:30Z")

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Thanks!  
[![](https://i.pinimg.com/550x/3b/2a/41/3b2a41dfad7b02c19f41a01f23e41816.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/550x/3b/2a/41/3b2a41dfad7b02c19f41a01f23e41816.jpg)

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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:** [December 9, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1426 "2024-12-09T15:05:28Z")

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Early childhood photo of the first Flying Wallenda.

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**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:** [December 9, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1427 "2024-12-09T15:22:09Z")

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During the Depression, re-enactments of the birth of Robin Hood were strangely popular.

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**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:** [December 9, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1428 "2024-12-09T15:23:33Z")

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Arrow Shirts got started as a baby clothing company.

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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:** [December 9, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1429 "2024-12-09T17:02:12Z")

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Young Clark Kent proved to be a handful when he didn’t want to come in after playtime.

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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:** [December 9, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1430 "2024-12-09T18:41:32Z")

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Our new BabySpray model makes covering your house with partly-digested apple and custard easier than ever!

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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:** [December 9, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1431 "2024-12-09T18:52:59Z")

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Besides hunting down bank robbers, demonstrates how he earned the nickname “Melvin Purvis the Whirling Dervish.”

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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:** [December 9, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1432 "2024-12-09T18:57:32Z")

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Even more feared than Machine Gun Kelly was Projectile Vomit Murphy

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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:** [December 9, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1433 "2024-12-09T18:59:20Z")

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Since you’re all that upset about it, here’s your damn Lindbergh baby back!

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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:** [December 9, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1434 "2024-12-09T19:00:03Z")

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Woah! Hold on there, Clark! You’re not going anywhere until we change that superdiaper!

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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:** [December 9, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1435 "2024-12-09T21:24:40Z")

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Director Hoover thanks you, but you were supposed to catch “Pretty Boy” Floyd, not “Birdy Boy” Floyd.

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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:** [December 10, 2024, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1436 "2024-12-10T05:50:45Z")

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Upper view of _The Human Question Mark,_ @1952.

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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:** [December 10, 2024, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1437 "2024-12-10T05:55:04Z")

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Bobby the Dowsing Baby proved more accurate at finding moonshine than the trained hounds.

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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:** [December 10, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1438 "2024-12-10T17:49:23Z")

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Lots of good ones to choose from, but the winner is…

> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> Since you’re all that upset about it, here’s your damn Lindbergh baby back!

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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:** [December 10, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1439 "2024-12-10T19:03:19Z")

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Thank you

[![](https://literaryfictions.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/house-on-haunted-hill-1959.gif) ](https://literaryfictions.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/house-on-haunted-hill-1959.gif)

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**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:** [December 10, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1440 "2024-12-10T20:55:53Z")

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We all float down here!

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