Category Archives: Caption Challenges

Wow, we had a lot of very funny entries for Caption Contest 107, thank you all for sharing your humor and wit! Here are some of the entries I thought represented the best replacement dialog for this panel:

• ams: Objects may appear closer than they are!
• Panner: Trapped in knife factory, send help!
• Trekkie: Look out, there’s a knife heading towards you!
• Gero: “What am I supposed to write here? Won’t he be dead when it hits him?”
• McKnight57: Duck!
• Frevoli: Iron Skull couldn’t see the point of dagger mail… then it hit him.
• Frevoli: If undeliverable, please throw at the head of:
  Postmaster Dave
  231 CherrywoodLane
• TopHat: Hey, could you give this knife to Daredevil for me? -Love, Bullseye
• Sutter_Kaine: Using his uncanny reflexes, the Iron Skull manages to intercept the knife that would have otherwise missed him by several feet!
• TheNate: EDITOR’S NOTE: Before the invention of Sticky Notes, mobsters used Stabby Notes.
• TheNate: The mob delivers a sharply written reply.
• the creator: ‘You have been poked’ regards, the Facebook team.
• mashlagoo: Dear Friend, I am Prince Abdullah Saud. I have recently acquired money in the amount of $100,000,000.00 USD due to the death of my father. Because of a stipulation in his will, I need your help…
• Bael: I was well accustomed to weapons bouncing off my head, but a note? That would have raised my eyebrows, if I had any.
• Skybandit: “We have hostages and demand (continued on next knife)”
• dblade: “Lucky for Iron Skull, there were a few indisputable truths in the universe: Paper covers Rock, Rock smashes Scissors, and Skull shatters Dagger.”

I thought the variety of approaches on this one was great, with some doing an "editor" style aside, others actual dialog from the character, and still others the actual text of the note. Good stuff!

I had a hard time picking a winner, so I ended up falling back on my old stand-by: Which ones made me laugh out loud the first time I read them? And the answer to that was ... Frevoli!

I counted two excellent puns and a cool new concept, "Dagger Mail". I can't wait to get my first letter. Also, ironically Frevoli's prize for his last Caption Contest win, and today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! That's gotta be some kind of karma.

Anyway, Frevoli, let me know what you'd like for your prize, congratulations to the Finalists above, and thanks to all the others who entered but who I couldn't paste in due to space constraints. That was a fun one!

I think Caption Contest 106 was the most difficult one to date, generating the fewest entries in a long, long time and presenting major challenges. Kudos therefore to the following four folks who managed to build in a funny interim thought between the two existing ones!

• Loki: Everyone thinks I’m a dick because I’m so awesome…
• Myro:
  1. “People need to learn to never, ever kneel before Zod.”
  2. “I told DC that rebooting again would be a bad idea.”
• Skybandit: Teaching Luthor and Brainiac to play World of Warcraft has left me with nothing to do but reporting!
• Mr.MikeK: Lois kicked me out when I proved her wrong again.
• spidercow2010: I’ve been appointed SuperPope!

I liked Loki's for the irony, Myro's for the topical reference and for anything referencing "kneel before Zod", Skybandit's because I'm about to restart my WoW account here in a few days, Mr.MikeK's prescient analysis of male-female relationships, and spidercow2010's excellent referral to one of the great Super Dickery moments of all time.

But I have to choose just one as the ultimate winner, and for that I have to go with the one I thought was the cleverest leveraging of the two existing balloons, in a way that made me laugh. Namely, Loki!

Congratulations to Loki -- just let me know what you'd like for your prize either in comments or via email, Loki, and I'll get it on the list.

Thanks to everyone who entered, and next time we'll do something that's a little more universal, promise!

Thanks to everyone for the outstanding entries in Caption Contest 105! There were a lot of great ones, so the Finalist list this week is pretty long, including a couple of HM-memes-in-the-making courtesy of Danny Beaty's wrist-blasters and TopHat's evocation of everyone's architecture-smashing "hero", Samson:

• Worf: Damn these mitts!
• Wulf: “WHERE THE ROBOT WOMEN AT?!”
• TopHat: ”I’ve come to preach the word of Samson!”
• Joel: “Hello? I’m supposed to be on trial for destruction of public property, is this the right court room?”
• Myro: “Robot God needs booze.”
• Danny Beaty: I should have used my wrist-mounted blasters!
• Blue Blazer: Ha! Chalk up one more shifty-eyed door!
• Gregg: Good afternoon. Might I interest you in some fine replacement doors?
• McKnight57: Bite my shiny metal adult diaper!!
• MartianBlue: Everyone stay calm, I’ve just recieved information over the com of a very dangerous looking large, white robot entering this building.
• Wierdrocks: “NOW it’s a party!”
• Watson Bradshaw: DRAMATIC ENTRANCE INITIATED!
• TheNate: Hulk smash, ROM Kavoom!
• Jester: Hi.
• Jessica: Jocasta, what the HELL is going on here?!
• Knighthawk: I put the ROM in romance!
• Kyle Hilsee: Is Lucy here? Cause’ I’m home.
• X-stacy: Why are you marrying him? I’ve got five speeds and three attachments!

But as you know, there can be only one. And that one is ... Worf!

I liked that it both provided an explanation for why he was smashing the doors in, and referenced those never-to-be-understood mitts ROM parades around in. Good job, Worf!