“Caption This Cartoon” Contest - Jan. 2005
“We've been playing 'Strip Dueling Banjos'. And that
darned varmint already won my shoes and socks!"”
January 2005 Winner!
CONGRATULATIONS to our first Cartoon Blog winner, A. Biggs, who wrote the above caption for our Jan. 2005 cartoon.A. Biggs, please send your mailing address to meskimen@appliedsilliness.com so that we can send you your swell prize and certificate. And you can feel free to enter and win again; there is no restriction on excellence.
As you can see from the above, we favor silliness and brevity. The "Honorable Mensches" were:
“The deer and the antelope ain't got nuthin' on this guy!”
From SilverRider
“The bad news, Boudreaux, is that we gotta keep the 'banjo player wanted' ad running. The good news is that if you hush off and get my Remington, we can eat like rock stars.”
From Knalty
“Make that three beers, and get Letterman on the phone.”
From Anonymous
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Thank you everyone for playing!
Welcome to our new Caption This Cartoon Blog!
For years, Jim & Tamra Meskimen have run this contest for their friends, and over the years it has attracted an international audience of clever people. What was once a monthly snail-mailing of a photocopied cartoon has evolved into the high tech, full color, global version of the game you see now.
The original purpose of this game is to give people who aren't ordinarily asked to, a chance to write a gag. It's good for you to create.
We invite you to create captions for our cartoons which will be published on this Blog for all the world to see, and will make you eligible for the coveted Meskimen Cartoon Contest Certificate and a swell prize picked out just for you! We will announce the winners, so please leave your name along with your captions.
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posted by Jim Meskimen at 4:36 PM
130 Comments:
Great cartoon!
My caption is, "Home, Home on the Range"
Doug
Heck, that ain't nuthin. When the sun goes down, we get bats bigger'n him comin' up to the porch playing ocarinas.
...the *really* weird thing is that he won't never play, unless I'm a-holdin' my git-tar backwards...
"ab-nonymous"
Hey Rosco! Have you seen my growth hormones?
I spilled them down the drain months ago!
Dang Nabbit Bill, I told ye not to use them Generic rodent poisons...
dalewoodruff@yahoo.com
Woodrow, just WHAT were them drugs you were dumpin' in the water supply yesterday?
We've been playing "Strip Dueling Banjos." And that darned varmint already won my shoes and socks!
A. Biggs
I figger in time I can put a blonde wig on him, and folks will think he's Tom Petty.
Damn, this new medication is good!
He asked if he could play with me so I told him to go fer it.
I'm his songwriting partner now, but I started out as his gofer.
Christopher Smith
Wow - you can see him too?
-- Andrew Moore
Just practicin' for the next Republican convention.
Said he done escaped from a place called Chuckie Cheese.
I don't know, Chip! He's pretty darned good!
Well, you said “Go fer yer dreams,” and this feller says he's big in the underground music scene.
Chip.
He's a natural. We're going on the road together.
Tom: I KNEW that wasn't you playing.
Jed: Yeh! Well he's been playing longer than I have, and he comes from a family of musicians.
Graeme
This here gopher keeps insisting i'm kenny loggins. whatever, join in... "I'm alright, nobody's picking on me..."
What? What do you think is so funny? that the color of my house matches by bench, my porch, my roof but my drapes are still blue? What? what?
Hey, I'm George Bush. He's Dick Cheney. We're insane.
Hey Billy Bob? Please tell your girl friend to stop butting in while I am playing!
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Wednesday 10:45am : Bob, I thought you said your wife was going to be gone this entire week?
That's not John Denver!
I told you John Edwards would find work!
That explains why the septic tank ain’t working anymore!
Clem, you best quit cooking with them wild mushrooms.
Cletus, which do you want worse, a decent banjo player or a great big pot of gopher stew?
He ain't half bad. Got kind an "earthy" tone to his playing.
Say's he's here to audition for "Prarie Idol."
I think I figured out who has been leaving them dirt-covered demo tapes.
Don't look at me. You're the one who wanted to live near the nuclear plant.
You reckon there's any money in gopher callin'?
No YOU go get the video camera.....I have to keep playing with him or he'll run off again !
Bob Hutcheson
"Either he smelled yer cookin' er heard my playin er both!"
J Via
ps -hey, I signed up and created a user name and then tried to log in with it and it wouldn't let me. I think alot of your "anonymous's" may have had the same problem
"He asys he likes the smell o' mu feet so much he wants to trade that banjo for a pair o' mu socks!"
J Via
"I told you we don't need a banjo playin' gofer for our band Jeb - now take th' ad outta th' paper!!"
J Via
"I'm warnin' you Cletus -- if he starts squeelin' like a pig, I'm not finishin' this song."
Shoot..pickin' an a grinnin' is the universal language.
Just don't never tell Granny!
Yehawww..we's celebrating cuz Festus didn't see his shadow! Throw another tuber in the pot.
incpens@yahoo.com:
"Hey Willie, you ever heard Muskrat Love by The Captain and Tenille?"
Lester, git out 'cheer. I remember where ya left yer banjo.
He wants to know if I know Kum-baa-yah in G flat.
The deer and the antelope ain't got nuthin' on this guy!
This guy has chops!
In case you didn't notice, thats a six foot prairie dog - YOU tell him he's out of tune!
"I think he is looking for Burt Reynolds."
"I sure hope he hasn't seen Deliverence."
radabaughg@rcbhsc.wvu.edu
"He said they wouldn't pay him revenue from the CaddyShack movies, so he had to go on the road."
"Is it just me, or is that the dandiest banjo you've ever seen?"
"Ah, now you've ruined the surprize. We were gonna suprise you with our version of 'In the Jailhouse now'."
"Could ya get my glasses Earl,.....I know she's pretty big and kind a hairy, but thar ain't to many women that can play banjo 'round here."
radabaughg@rcbhsc.wvu.edu
Yep! I telled 'im if'n he'd whoop up some back-up banjo t' mah playin' this here gittar, I'd stop killin' off his frinds n famly fer duggin' up ahr veg-etable gardin.
"Hay Jimbo, this here feller says he'll pluck up a storm if we can tell him the way to San Fran Sisko."
"She Bangs, She Bangs"
Mah....its another American Idol contestant, get yor gun.
yup or job running the democratic race is over, time to kick back and have some fun, the brains behind the outfit here can really play cant he!
He plays so sweet it'll break my heart to eat him.
He keeps trying to convince me to audition for
Deliverence II
"Welp, lookin' like fer mer years of Old Man Dub'ya!"
"Welp, lookin' like fer mer years of Old Man Dub'ya!"
"Welp, lookin' like fer mer years of Old Man Dub'ya!"
"Welp, lookin' like fer mer years of Old Man Dub'ya!"
"Welp, lookin' like fer mer years of Old Man Dub'ya!"
Hey Jeb... kinyu squeel like a beever?
Hey Jeb... how duz a beever skweel?
Hey Jeb... how duz a beever skweel?
They/ve been playing Deliverance on cable again...
...and I always thought gopher's hated the banjo.
Whatever you do, don't criticize his playing....he hates that
He plays well, but I just don't think people will gopher it.
"He's the first banjo player I ever seen that don't drool!"
What would YOU say when a huge gopher approached you wanting to jam?
I thought the Devil appeared in an atractive guise.
Wait'll y'git a load of the Tiny Dancin' Bison that travels with him! Mighty purty in gingham.
Sorry Jethro, you've been replaced on account of affirmitive action
"He can't hear you, he's playing his banjo--his brain is disconnected…"
So the Devil went down to Georgia, and all we get is a Prarie Dog?
"Earl, did I ever tell you about the time I was in this underground band? I hear they are tryin' to set up a reunion tour."
I TOLD you that sign whut said "Nuclear Test Site...Keep Out!" meant something...
Shusssh--if I keep on playin' we might not have to plough the back 40 this spring.
I sure do miss chuck-e-cheeze's
(phonic typo correction)
Shusssh---if I keep on 'playin we might not have to plow the back 40 this spring.
The trick is stapling the banjo to his paws. No opposable thumbs.
"He wants to know if he can be in the sequel to Deliverance......I told him he has one tooth too many!"
Jed whats all that darn noise about????
Oh Ted we was just goferin around!!
Chester..looky at the size of that tooth! I'm askeered if I stop pickin' that critters gonna stop a grinnin!
Henry..Imma little bit country, he's a little bit rock and soil.
The bad news, Boudreaux, is that we gotta keep the "banjo player wanted" ad running. The good news is that if you hush off and get my Remington, we can eat like rock stars.
Damn yer wifes ugly.
"I figger this critter is from over yonder; Area 51."
Hey Earl, thats one dumb prarie dog. It can only pick a little more than a dozen songs.
Earl, your music teacher is here.
It's a good thing he saw his shadow. Now you can start booking us gigs again.
No, you go ahead and finish up the dishes. It's nice to finally play with someone who can keep up.
People in town are always talking about them two guys living together in the cabin. Maybe having some beaver around will finally shut them up! I wonder if he knows any show tunes?
First it was the lip syncing, then the boy bands, now an instrumental rat, man billy bob the world sure had gone down the crapper
battousai_the_paintballer@hotmail.com
"He's not so good. You should see Rover play the accordion."
"He disappears underground for awhile, then he comes up, performs for the folks, then disappears again. He's done this for over four years...I've nicknamed him 'Cheney'."
"Who ever drew us has big problems!"
"Who ever drew us has big problems!"
I done told ya, "If you play it, he will come..."
--Savio
"Gee Paw...he ain't Elvis, but he be a darn tootin groundhog!"
Hey Paw! I figgur'd why so many don't make that danged show American Idol...
Well he ain't no swing cat, but he be better than not'in...
Well he ain't no swing cat, but it be better than nuttin...
So he's the one makin those crop circles and singin' at 3 in the mornin'...
"You Idiot Hank! I told ya' to go fer your banjo, not GOPHER your banjo!"
Think you can make him squeal like a pig?
Hell, Slim! I know you don't like it. Damn! I don't even like it, but this here critter says that "Muskrat Love" is the only song that'll break Tenille's curse. Now quit your yappin' and go get your sound box.
Git a water bucket Paw, that nitwit plumber dun tunneled thru the septic tank agin.
Heck, all I did was rub this here guitar an' he popped up outta nowhere an' offered me three blue-grass tunes.
He's wantin' to know if I know that song they played in "Deliverance"...
You know a Alvin, Simon, or Theodore?
"Billy-Joe, that gophers back ageen"
"I'll go get the shotgun"
-Brandon Mcgouldrick
"Junior....me and the critter decided that the band needed to go in a different direction. So, we won't be needin' you and them spoons anymore".
If you think this is weird, you should see what happens when I play my accordion!
Gee sonny, I thinks he be one of them underground musicians we be hearin' abouts...
"I don't care what he looks like...he knows the banjo part for 'Turkey in the Straw!'"
or
"I'll keep him busy, you slip around behind him with the shotgun."
Thinks he can get a headline spot on "Puxatawny Today", if he gets there by Feb 2nd.....
Says he's tired of bein' our gofer, wants to be in the band.
Karen Diehl
He's the only one who showed up to audition. Saya he saw it in the "Prairie Underground"
What I'm sayin' is that one of us better figger out the words, and quick-like.
Make that three beers, and get Letterman on the phone.
IS THAT A *DEARING?
NO STUPID, THAT'S A GOPHER.
[*DEARING IS A SAN DIEGO BASED BANJO MAKER, WORLD FAMOUS]
How we gonna get him to drop his britches if he ain't wearin' any?
"I'll be coming round the mountain when it comes."
Hey, jasper, I found a replacement for your cousin in the band and he's better looking to boot.
"He may look like Earl but he can't can't play it like he did".
"Says he wants to jam, but all he knows is that underground music."
...now, hold in your varmint, she ain't the purdiest in the county, but at least I got us some beaver!
I just got tired of singin' "...cat and the fiddle..."
"I know - I've never seen a left-handed banjo before, either!"
He said we are tresspassing' on his land so's we gotta mave it or he will get us with his banjo
Perchance you are, Sir, the man who aired summons for a 'ghost writer' ?? "
Perchanche, fair sir, are you the Man that summons for a 'ghost writer' ?? "
As your ghost-writer, I must ask that you don't edit me. The line is "To sleep, perchance to dream"...not "I need to cop some Z's and visit Fantasyland!"
NASA's crash test dummy in orbit...all systems go!
Calvin, we will not have an anatomically correct snowman!
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