
“Show me first your penny.”
(Winning caption: “Ideally, you want the dough to rise to about thirty-five thousand feet.”)

“Show me first your penny.”
(Winning caption: “Ideally, you want the dough to rise to about thirty-five thousand feet.”)


“Of course I’m sure. Climate change is a myth. Also sky squiggles. Sky squiggles don’t exist.”
(Winning caption: “Trust me, come low tide everyone will want these seats.”)


“You’re making good time but I’m still a head.”
(Winning caption: “I wouldn’t. It’s a toupee.”)


“No, I don’t want water. Why does everyone ask that?”
(Winning caption: “Yeah? Well, I’m also a fish out of Scotch.”)


“My brother, I see you have grown rich and handsome and you live on the edge.
But I can wiggle my left ear.”
(Winning caption: “Ignore the screams, sir. I’ll get you a new fork.”)

The Bulwer-Lytton (aka “It was a dark and stormy night”) contest is “A whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels” …
The train, which had been rising and falling for the past hour over the rolling terrain, entered a seeming endless tunnel just as Gwendolyn came to grips with her reluctant realization that four lovers were too many, even though the travel guide clearly described the journey as mostly level.


“I just test drove the new mustang. It’s bucking awesome.”
(Winning caption: “I’m in the air right now—let me call you back after I land.”)


“It’ll be a slider, low and outside. Just remember you have to take my turn at saber-tooth watch tonight.”
(Winning caption: “A lot has happened since your last at-bat.”)


“I get it, Mom. I haven’t visited in a while.”
(Winning caption: “Please, I need time to decompose myself.”)


“You’re still driving too fast. Mom fell off again.”

“Let me introduce our chief dystopian ideological homogeneity enforcer.
You may call him ‘Big Brother’.”
(Winning caption: Not yet posted)