# 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:** 98
**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:** [February 4, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1941 "2025-02-04T10:41:12Z")
Did anyone see where that Ark went? ---
**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:** [February 4, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1942 "2025-02-04T11:39:32Z")
Crowds gather as local celebrity couple show off their new invisible car. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1943 "2025-02-04T13:14:47Z")
The English sequel to “Singin’ In the Rain.” ---
**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:** [February 4, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1944 "2025-02-04T13:57:23Z")
Seconds later, the world’s only unrelated conjoined twins were revealed to be a fraud when they momentarily released their hands. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1945 "2025-02-04T19:16:33Z")
As a grateful middle class cheers them on, the two selected aristos stride with good-natured aplomb to the mouth of the volcano, where they’ll be flung to their fiery deaths to placate Labour. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1946 "2025-02-04T19:33:20Z")
To their delight, two laps later, they finally caught up with the Joneses. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1947 "2025-02-04T21:14:33Z")
August 5, 1967 - The last mating pair of Englanders with perfect teeth is feted in the streets of London. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1948 "2025-02-04T23:12:26Z")
When you’re 75th in line for the throne, you’re not invited to march in the big parades. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1949 "2025-02-05T05:39:03Z")
Tough choice, as they were all good, but I think this one by @Kent_Clark gets the edge: > [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > When you’re 75th in line for the throne, you’re not invited to march in the big parades. You’re up, Kent! ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1950 "2025-02-05T16:39:51Z")
I am far more honored than the people in the photo were! Whether parade or music hall, the show must go on. . . [![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*1SAsV-5uJ-T-IWIxsSu2wQ.jpeg) ](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*1SAsV-5uJ-T-IWIxsSu2wQ.jpeg) ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1951 "2025-02-05T16:51:02Z")
Sheriff Taylor knew little of “Bea’s Knees”; the hottest burlesque club in Mayberry’s red light district during the Roaring Twenties. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1952 "2025-02-05T16:55:48Z")
Deborah showed off her new love of ornithology by demonstrating to her dance troupe how geese fly south for the winter. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1953 "2025-02-05T23:49:51Z")
Sociologists still debate the cause or causes of the great Beauty Standard Shift of 1937 away from plump, untoned and blocky-faced females, as this pre-BSS photo illustrates. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1954 "2025-02-06T00:54:53Z")
[Thought balloon above each head except for the one front and center:] _“That bitch is getting shoved off the front of the stage in 5…4…3…2…”_ ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1955 "2025-02-06T01:00:55Z")
Mr. Schlick pays us to raise our arms like this in the act, so these drunken boobs’ wives will have to buy razors too. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1956 "2025-02-06T02:46:35Z")
Welcome to the inaugural Castle Anthrax… cabaret! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1957 "2025-02-06T03:53:40Z")
“I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. Berkely.” ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1958 "2025-02-06T04:10:26Z")
The cast of “Broadway Melody of 1914.” ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1959 "2025-02-06T11:54:57Z")
“Thank you all. You mean absolutely nothing to me.” ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717/1960 "2025-02-06T23:09:23Z")
Having multiple flocks of geese living near me, I wish they were this orderly. You win @iamatractorboy > [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Deborah showed off her new love of ornithology by demonstrating to her dance troupe how geese fly south for the winter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717.md?page=97) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-genuine-caption-contest-part-2/1003717.md?page=99)