Thursday, June 15, 2006

“Caption This Cartoon” Contest - Summer, 2006


“Me thinks thou dos't INFRINGE too much.”

“Cartoon Caption Contest” Winner, Summer 2006!

bigDsquare is our latest winner for the excellent caption above!
Congratulations, bigDsquare!
You will receive a special prize picked out just for you!
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HONORABLE MENSCHES:
“Ding Dong, Bard of Avon calling”!
Bob Daley

“Oh, good, I've finally found someone who's up... I can't sleep.... I've been rethinking the whole rose thing... If one were to call it a maggot, or a dung heap, or a clump of toe cheese, for example, then mighten it NOT smell as sweet?”
amy

There were many quality captions. Thank you everyone for your contibutions to our game.
All captions become the property of meskimen applied silliness, inc.

81 Comments:

the dark side of the man… said...

OK ....... I don´t speak english..but i liked your blog

6/15/2006 6:12 PM  
Brook said...

My name is Will and I have a customer satisfaction survey for you to fill out. You will be awarded with a free bottle of hemlock. What's the matter? You look like you doth seen a ghost!

6/16/2006 12:29 AM  
Brook said...

Hello, sir. I have here my birth certificate, indicating that you are none other than my long-lost father. Oh no. Am I THAT transparent??

6/16/2006 12:31 AM  
Andy Bowyer said...

"I don't care what time it is. Tell Mr. Shatner I'm here to apply for the 'ghost writer' position for his next novel..."

6/16/2006 4:42 AM  
bigDsquare said...

"Me thinks thou dos't INFRINGE too much."

6/16/2006 7:45 AM  
Glenn said...

Don't look at me as if you have seen a ghost. Your credit card was declined!

6/16/2006 8:34 AM  
randyhurst said...

"Greetings Mr. Jones, you inquired of Apparitional Sonnet Services?"

"Hey, I was just trying to impress her so I said 'I wish I could talk that fancy Shakes Spear talk to you honey-pie'".

"Kind Sir, might I remind thee that salaciously seducing young maidens 'tis my demesne... but I also should forewarn thee: 'This momentary joy breeds months of pain; This hot desire converts to cold disdain.'"

6/16/2006 1:01 PM  
Ellen said...

"It's a spiritual crisis, don't you know, and maybe I can help you explain it all in writing."

6/17/2006 11:55 AM  
Ellen said...

"Don't worry, my fine young man--I am here to tell you that all the world's a stage and we are all mere players upon that stage."

6/17/2006 11:57 AM  
Ellen said...

"What a piece of work is man--how noble in reason, in character how like a god.--Aye here's the rub!"

6/17/2006 11:59 AM  
Ellen said...

"Two hundred years and no royalty rights apply--all of my work is in the public domaine--so have at it."

6/17/2006 12:00 PM  
Ellen said...

"To Be or Not To Be-That is the question??" or Maybe you Prefer Romeo Where for art thou Romeo?" In any case my famous one-liners beat out "Go Ahead Make my day!" and "I'll be back" and "Show Me The Money" any old time."

6/17/2006 12:04 PM  
Ellen said...

"Yong man--come hither--Pleaseth your master and writeth me one The Shakespear Code."

6/17/2006 12:06 PM  
EM said...

Excuse me my fine gentleman, but do you know the way to San Jose?

6/17/2006 12:08 PM  
Richard Coanda said...

Have you seen a lady with black wires on her head?

6/17/2006 1:13 PM  
Pam said...

Hi...I'm a "muse" from down the hall...can I borrow a few fresh ideas
from you?

6/19/2006 1:45 PM  
Ari Ross said...

"The Merchant of the Venetian"

6/20/2006 10:10 AM  
MARK EDGEMON said...

I REALIZE COPYWRITING HAD NOT BEEN INVENTED IN MY DAY, BUT FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE...PLAGIARIZE SOMEONE ELSE!

6/20/2006 2:42 PM  
Andrew Moore said...

Mr. Branaugh, we have an agreement. One of my plays must be filmed every year. Don't make me do to you what I did to Olivier!

6/21/2006 11:44 AM  
Andrew Moore said...

You've been slacking off, Mr. Branagh. We have an agreement.
Do you want me to do to you what I did to Olivier?

6/21/2006 11:50 AM  
Ellen said...

"I am Almost four-hundred years old, and they say four-hundred is the new FORTY!"

7/03/2006 10:34 PM  
Daniel Harley said...

This is a toilet not a time machine mate. What do you want me to do flush you back home? And waving that sonet at me isnt going to do you any favours neither!

7/10/2006 5:58 PM  
Daniel Harley said...

I told you already sir your BARD!

7/10/2006 6:10 PM  
Dannyboy said...

I said shuffle not Ruffle!

7/10/2006 6:14 PM  
Daniel Harley said...

I told you being a ghost doesn't mean i cant hold things!

7/10/2006 6:16 PM  
Dannyboy said...

You really think it was a mistake casting Leonardo DeCaprio as Romeo?

7/10/2006 6:18 PM  
Daniel Harley said...

"To be or not to be that is the question" No the question is how long are you going to be in there i am bursting!

7/11/2006 6:06 AM  
Daniel Harley said...

But i am William Shakespeare! I don't care if your George W Bush i said go get me a latte!

7/11/2006 6:15 AM  
CraigShields said...

Call this an English lit essay? I'd say you have a pound of flesh between your ears, young man.

7/11/2006 5:18 PM  
Julie said...

"I am the ghost of Plagiarism Past!"

7/14/2006 9:43 PM  
cindy f said...

I keep telling the post office I'm in 2B but they keep delivering to 2C. Don't they understand it's 2B - or not 2C?
Hey...

7/16/2006 8:05 PM  
David Long said...

Verily, young man, is this not your mark, affixed here, to receive Room and Bard?

7/16/2006 9:36 PM  
David Long said...

Says right here in the room service order, pal, "Send me a Dutch Master Smoke"!

7/17/2006 12:24 PM  
David Long said...

Weary grew I, young screenwriter, of twirling in my grave and, thus determined, to present my wrathful countenance directly, along with this feeble-ass adaptation of yours!

7/19/2006 12:37 PM  
Pat Bart said...

"I'm here about the apartment. Is this 2B or not 2B?"

7/20/2006 5:28 PM  
Doug Hogg said...

Per this contract, you are 396 years late for rehearsal!

7/22/2006 4:06 PM  
couggrh said...

"Excuth me! I am not a ghost - I am a glowing apparithon."

7/23/2006 2:10 AM  
couggrh said...

"Don't ask, it's a very long story"

7/23/2006 2:34 AM  
couggrh said...

"Terribly sorry for intruding lad but could you please translate this menu for me"

7/23/2006 2:34 AM  
maxi morgan said...

I realize that, at university, you must take certain shortcuts, however, my name is WILLIAM, young sir, not Billy. I would appreciate it if you stopped citing me as BS.

7/23/2006 7:28 AM  
Griffin said...

"2B? or not 2B? That is the question?"

7/23/2006 9:28 AM  
Griffin said...

"2B or not 2B? That is the question."

7/23/2006 9:30 AM  
Found in LA said...

Wow!! What did you do in there? A rose would NOT smell as sweet!!

7/23/2006 9:39 AM  
Anonymous said...

It's a restraining order. Rip off another one of Meskimen's car commercial characters, and you're dead... just like me!

7/23/2006 10:02 AM  
Anonymous said...

Ironic isn't it? Me, a dead person, selling life insurance...

7/23/2006 10:02 AM  
tiare said...

Look, I know it's late, but Thom's come down with the pox and can't go on -I need ya down at the Globe in ten minutes.
Oh, and have ya got the new lines?

7/23/2006 10:09 AM  
tiare said...

YOU Sir are in MY Room..

Look here, I've got the paperwork to prove it!

7/23/2006 10:21 AM  
Elvis Winterbottom said...

Well! If it isn't mister Critic man! Maybe to be or not to be IS two questions but let me ask you this, have you ever heard of poetic licence?

7/23/2006 5:06 PM  
Elvis Winterbottom said...

Well! If it isn't mister critic! To be or not to be may be two questions, but haven't you ever heard of poetic license!?!

7/23/2006 5:10 PM  
freshcoffee said...

"I want my money back. Since I started your diet, I gained 10 pounds."

7/23/2006 5:16 PM  
The Saint 91 said...

Since you screenwriters have been stealing my ideas since I died, I thought I would come back and write one more thing. Here is your invoice.

7/23/2006 7:11 PM  
drdolan said...

If you sign right here that says that I am a real ghost, they will let you outta here, I promise.

7/23/2006 8:57 PM  
Pam said...

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy!

7/23/2006 9:21 PM  
Pam said...

"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."

7/23/2006 9:28 PM  
TogetherOne.neT said...

Looketh here Mr. Hollywood wannabe! The dawning of thy audition is only hours away and thou hast yet to learneth thy lines! Why doest thou still dilly the dally with Sally at this late hour!

7/24/2006 8:21 AM  
Jack Keefe said...

Mister Johnson? We need to talk about your plagiarism of some of my work. And don't look at me that way. I can see right through you, too!

7/24/2006 9:09 AM  
Kramer said...

When I asked you to cast my play, Romeo
& Juliet
, I wasn't looking for Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger from Brokeback Mountain!

7/24/2006 12:12 PM  
Peter Mead said...

"Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
pay up, you got 'em from the mini-bar!"

7/24/2006 5:36 PM  
kcrum said...

Excuse me there "Romeo", I hate to interrupt you and your "Juliet", but you signed your name here as "William Shakespeare". Well, I'm here to tell you that I am William Shakespeare and you are no William Shakespeare.

7/24/2006 5:49 PM  
Peter Green said...

Pardon me, but is this 2B or not 2B?

7/24/2006 9:34 PM  
couggrh said...

"It says here on the rule list I am to frighten you terribly. It doesn't how and it certainly doesn't say I cannot knock on the door first!"

7/24/2006 11:39 PM  
Brie Shaffer said...

Pardon me, is this the Hair Club For Men office?

7/25/2006 4:18 AM  
Mike Falkow said...

Yeah, I'm the Shakespeare strip-o-gram you ordered.

7/25/2006 8:27 AM  
Mike Falkow said...

Would you please stop saying "MacBeth" in the damn Theatre!!

7/25/2006 8:30 AM  
Mike Falkow said...

It's a little late, but here it is.
"Ye Olde Glossary of Terms."

7/25/2006 8:36 AM  
Paula Pow said...

"Who do you think you are, stealing MY work?"

7/25/2006 9:49 PM  
MacTech said...

"Francis Bacon did not write MY plays, and here’s his affidavit to prove it!"

7/26/2006 2:55 PM  
Anonymous said...

My Dear "Romeo", I hate to interrupt you and your "Juliet", but you signed in as "William Shakespeare" and you, my good man, are not William Shakespeare!

7/26/2006 6:10 PM  
Doug Drenkow said...

"Here are a just some of the reasons you will never succeed as a writer."

"In here are just some of the chimps who could've written your plays."

"Gadzooks!"

7/26/2006 10:56 PM  
tiare said...

Look, I know it's late, but Thom's come down with the pox and can't go on -I need ye down at the Globe in ten minutes!
Oh, and have you got the new lines?

7/27/2006 10:15 AM  
Carey D said...

"Is this apartment 2-B or not 2-B?"

7/27/2006 1:38 PM  
Bob Daley said...

"Ding Dong, Bard of Avon calling"!

7/27/2006 8:27 PM  
amy said...

"Oh, good, I've finally found someone who's up... I can't sleep.... I've been rethinking the whole rose thing... If one were to call it a maggot, or a dung heap, or a clump of toe cheese, for example, then mighten it NOT smell as sweet?"

7/28/2006 10:38 AM  
Ed Salden said...

Thanks for the notes, but I'm not changing "To be or not to be," to "Maybe I'll off myself."

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