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David K. Israel
Caption Contest #2
by David K. Israel - October 26, 2007 - 1:22 PM

In case you didn’t see it, we’re back with another caption contest! Thanks to all who entered our first round a couple weeks ago and to all those who took the time to vote. Today’s cartoon doesn’t feature any of your favorite bloggers (at least I hope it doesn’t), rather, a couple of swine illustrated by the very talented Jessica Schiffman.

To repeat the rules from last time, the idea here is quite simple: Your job is to come up with a gag. Make us smile, make us laugh, extra-points for those who are able to drop some interesting fact or trivia along the way.

We’ll narrow down the entries to our favorites and then let YOU guys pick one winner. The only difference this time around is this: when dropping your gag in the comments, also let us know which t-shirt you prefer in case your caption is selected the winner. (T-shirts can be found over in our store.)

As another famous pig liked to say, “That’s all folks!” May the best gag win. [The contest will stay open through the weekend. Look for finalist results early next week!]

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Comments (198)
  1. I always though we would sprout wings.

  2. The Achilles Shirt

  3. “I guess hell must’ve frozen over.”
    Beethoven shirt

  4. Do you think hell has frozen over as well?

    Rhesus shirt

  5. See, I told you we would fly if we became capitalists.

    The Pluto T-Shirt

  6. Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky.

  7. Alright, who said it?!? Who said “when pigs fly” and then proceeded to watch “Bladerunner”?!

  8. The Pluto shirt, please.

  9. “and he says to me he says, ‘when hell freezes over!”

  10. “I never thought that we pigs would fly, but I was hoping that if we ever did, it would look a little more elegant than this!”

    No Right Way to Eat A Rhesus – woman’s cut

  11. …and just as soon as I heard Bush’s approval rating was back up around 70%, this darn thing popped out of my back!”

  12. “Oh NO! I think it’s starting to rain cats and dogs!”
    “Crap! Wait…how are these things even motorized?”
    (in unison, as they fall) “AHHHHHHHHHH!”

  13. “Trust me, will you? I saw this done on an episode of Inspector Piglet.”

    (Pluto)

  14. “Please, please, please let the Rockies sweep the Red Sox so we can get down from here.”

    (Pluto)

  15. So where is Pink Floyd playing tonight?

    (Pluto)

  16. The real reason NASA is witholding details after its recent survey with pilots found that near mid-air collisions occur far more frequently than reported.

    (Pluto)

  17. “I guess a woman CAN be President!”

    Scurvy shirt.

  18. Shh, that bird up there is the one that has been sliming us, now’s our chance, LETS GET HIM!

    (Rhesus)

  19. “So… Roger Waters got you too?”

    simple as pi

  20. “So… Roger Waters got you too?”

  21. “So I was watching President Colbert’s State of the Union address last night …”

    (Pluto)

  22. “Uh oh, my rotor! Something doesn’t seem quite kosher”

  23. [Repeating because I can't read directions first thing in the morning...]

    “Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky.”

    (Marco Polo shirt)

  24. I like the Gregor Mendel shirt.

  25. “I guess Claudia Schiffer will be getting a lot of phone calls now.”

    (Scurvy T-Shirt)

  26. These Minnesota mosquitoes get bigger every year – they even have head-carrying sidekicks!

    revolve in peace

  27. “a lot of trouble for the prop guy to go to JUST to get ‘Cavemen’ picked up.”

    straight up mental flass shirt, woman’s medium

  28. “What do you MEAN they told you these propellers will fail when pigs fly?!”

    achilles

  29. I dont know where it comes from either. It is a simple question torque and thrust.

    (large mens Nobel)

  30. “Yeah, got ‘em at the Acme Superstore. They had a buy one get one free deal going. The Coyote said they were a honey of a deal.”
    It was about that time the swine heard the rotors stop turning.

    scurvy shirt

  31. “No Ralph, I don’t really know what I’m doing, but Bush’s book on “How to Bullshit,” clearly stated that this would make America recognize the importance the war in Iraq.

  32. We would have gotten a much better caption if we were in The New Yorker.

  33. “Well Wilbur, I guess they couldn’t quite figure out how to make silk purses from our ears so they had to come up with this. Nothing like livin’ the cliche.”

    Pluto

  34. I’ve never seen the Amazing Randi so amazed.

    Rhesus

  35. So I guess we finally won the war on terror, huh?

    Karl Marx t-shirt

  36. Vegetarians will do just about anything to keep people from getting any meat.

    (Physics)

  37. I thought it said all geniuses welcome. That says genuses!

    Pluto

  38. “All right, Nigel, I’ll give you that. The ‘Fine Swine Fly High Pig Rig Whirligig’ is a marvel of modern science. But, I still feel the beanie, like half of the name, is superfluous.”

  39. “I just knew the engineering fraternity would have an interesting initiation. Sooooiet, hey?”

    Pluto, please.

  40. Whoops! Forgot to list a shirt. Pythagoras. :)

  41. Yeah, they popped out of my back last night too. Right when I was watching Michael Jackson accept his Father of the Year award.

    (Simple as pi – women’s lrg)

  42. “Seriously, beanies?”

    [XY T-Shirt]

  43. “Don’t look down! Times like these, I wish I had sweat glands…”

    (woman’s large – simple as pi)

  44. Reduceidiocy must be back.

    Idioms

  45. PorkChoppers

  46. Hey Wilbur, we’re a regular pair of pork choppers!

    Mental Floss, women’s med, or reg small

  47. Hey, thats weird! Did you know your right ear is bigger than your left?

    Medium – Pythagoras

  48. “I hope no one mentions ANYTHING about monkeys…”

    Pythagoras-ladies small

  49. Yeah, right. Not until worms have ears.

    Achilles

  50. So, I guess Hilliary won the election.

  51. I was thinking of changing my name. What do you think of Pigasus?

    Beethoven

  52. Fork this I’d wrather be bacon

  53. Well look at the bright side Hammy, I’m guessing Babe wants to go on that date with you after all.

    (scurvy)

  54. Opps forgot the tshirt scurvy ladies sm

  55. I can’t believe she went to all this trouble just to get her husband to clean out the garage.

    (idioms)

  56. …well Ollie, looks like another swine mess you’ve gotten us into.

  57. non direction reader also
    ..rest in peace women medium

  58. “If that guy doesn’t stop singing ‘Oinkers Away’ I swear I am going to go up and get him.”

    Make mine a Mental Floss shirt, XXL if you got it, please.

  59. Oh my God, the Cleveland Browns won the Super Bowl.

  60. I’m not feeling so hot, I think I might be coming down with the swine flew.

    pluto/women’s/med

  61. Did you hear what happened to Earl’s stomach? Oh yea, it ended up on Mythbusters being filled with poprocks and soda. He would be so proud!

  62. “I’d rather be bacon.”

    Karl Marx

  63. women’s pluto shirt..

  64. Oops. Someone beat me to it.

    How about.

    “Evidently, Exxon’s gone green.”

    Karl Marx

  65. Whirlipig? Takes one to know one.

  66. Oh my god, Pork Choppers, that’s hilarious. I know it’s not time to vote yet, but that’s a good one.

  67. “Have ham, will travel”

    Just give me the biggest shirt you have.

  68. Steve “Did you know our squeals can be louder than a Concorde Jet?”

    Bob “Why do you think I’m up here? Have you heard my wife nag?”

  69. “Correctify me if I’m wrong Bob-o, but I don’t think this is the best way to find truffles.”

  70. “The people aren’t gonna like this, but my lunch didn’t sit right, I don’t know how to land, and I REALLY got to go!”

  71. “Well, TECHNICALLY we’re hovering, not flying.”

    (Women’s Scurvy)

  72. “I bet women in bars EVERYWHERE are eatin’ their words today!”

    You’ve got Male! Mens small

  73. There was a rush of noise from the town below:

    “Ah, crap.”

    “Guess that means Todd is cooking dinner tonight.”

    “Mom, looks like I’m getting my nose pierced after all..”

    (Pluto RIP)

  74. - “Do you think Satan will still lend me his ice skates this winter?”

    - “What? Out troops pulled out of Iraq AND Bush resigned?”

    Pluto – women’s XL

  75. First he was Vice President, then a Nobel Prize winner…….

    pie shirt please

  76. “Don’t fret, buddy. This is better than my first job, kids used to stick coins up my butt!”

    Mt. Rushmore t-shirt please :)

  77. Tell you what Sam, that is the last friggin time we visit Thunderdome!!!!!

  78. hmmm. this can’t be good.

    Rhesus adult small.

  79. “I guess these mean that Hillary won the election”

    Women’s Pluto R.I.P. T-shirt~Large

  80. “After years of that stupid saying, you’d think humans would do more than pint and laugh.”

    Rhesus shirt please. women’s medium.

  81. “Bet they never considered THIS side effect to food irradiation…”

    (womans large, simple as pie)

  82. “Wow, there’s peace in the Middle East?”

  83. “honey, do i look fat?”

    pluto…small

  84. “How’d we end up in Cincinnati?”

    Rhesus, large.

  85. “I still say the beanies are redundant.”

    Women’s idiom

    And just a question: Are the women’s survy shirts actually a different color than the normal ones, or is it just my computer?

  86. 1. The next time you respond to an ad on Monster.com claiming you could be the next star of the NFL, at least read the entire article.

  87. You know, I’m enjoying the flying and all but I’m kinda wondering how those things are attached…

    Scurvy, men’s large.

  88. “This will affect 1,937 conversations in SPAM, are you sure you want to continue…click”

  89. It sure beats being in that blanket!

    Rhesus XL

  90. That car was just washed…hmmmm

  91. Does this beanie make me look fat?

  92. “So this is what you get for drinking DIET Red Bull.”

    Rhesus shirt please. :-)

  93. 1) So, Bill finally got that raise!

    2) Betty finally slept with the nerd?

    3) I see the politicians finally agreed on something.

  94. And to think we’d been kneeling in mud, spinning our tails with our rumps to the sky…

    rhesus medium please

  95. So… these things run on bio-diesel?

    Rhesus shirt, woman’s

  96. “Did I turn the stove off?”

    Pluto shirt

  97. “I told you we should start eating organic and quit eating that GMO slop!”

    “Now I’m jealous of the faux-Foster Farms chickens from the commercials.”

    “Beats fighting traffic.”

    Women’s Pluto, please.

  98. Oliver must have been REALLY desparate to get MS. Lisa to move to Green Acres; but, um… 1. Don’t you think the propeller is a bit obvious, and 2. HOW DO WE GET DOWN?!?!

    Deaf jam – medium

  99. Ms. Piggy’s little known other suitors Wilboar and Hamson find a way to make Kermit green with envy.

  100. I still can’t understand why we didn’t get cast on the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals. We’re much more technologically advanced than cousin Wilbur.

    Easy as 3.141592

  101. Um, I’m suddenly discovering that I have acrophobia. LET ME DOWN! LET ME DOWN! *squeal*

  102. “Don’t look now, but it looks like the birds are following us.”

    Scurvy

  103. Sorry, that’s women’s scurvy.

  104. Look, I’m telling you Galileo is correct…we don’t have to try it out personally.

  105. Little known fact: while on acid, George Orwell did not write that Snowball was driven out of the farm by Napoleon, but rather the other animals got tired of their bickering and told them to take a flying leap, literally.

  106. Instead of counting sheep jumping a fence, the Wright brothers dreamed of pigs flying via propellers.

  107. It wasn’t until after take off, when Jonathan heard someone utter, “A Republican president in ‘08…when pigs fly!” that he realized what a dreadful mistake they had made.

    (You’ve Got Male)

  108. How much did Dennis Kucinich say he’d pay us?

  109. Soon after failing with development of the “gay bomb”, the Pentagon quickly ramped up work on their new weapon for Islam, the pork helicopter.

  110. idiom shirt (large)

  111. “I don’t think this is what they meant when they said do whatever it takes to make pork bellies go up.”

  112. rhesus shirt XL

  113. “Houston, we have a problem.”

    Achilles (small?)

  114. J.D. Drew just had to go and hit that grandslam.

    (scurvy, women’s L)

  115. -Maybe we should’ve also wished for feathers.
    -Next time, those scientists need guinea pigs for these experiments.
    -What was the weight limit for this thing?
    -We should’ve sprung the extra 5 cents and bought the aerodynamic-approved model.

    If I miraculously win something, I’d choose a small “Simple as ‘pi’” shirt. Thanks for all the laughs!

  116. I always knew there was something suspicious about that “Canadian bacon”…

    (marx xxl)

  117. Ok… let me get this straight. You’re here because O.J. got off again, and I’m here because he read a book a decided to take a year off to live Biblically. Hmmm… I smell bacon.

  118. Just because Da Vinci sketched the dern thing doesn’t mean we have to be the guinea . . . Oh!

  119. I just remembered . . . pluto shirt, large!

  120. oh pointed one, re: tees, mangesh says

    yup! the women’s shirts are stocked from a different supplier (nicer fits), and we took advantage of how many colors they had.

  121. “It’s the perfect Halloween costume, Swine Flew!”

    women’s M pluto

  122. I hear Santa’s hiring.

  123. Is there a meal on this flight? Just nuts? Oh well.

  124. “You know, this new PETA stunt makes no sense whatsoever.”

    Sigmund Freud (men’s extra-large)

  125. This is totally NOT what I expected when you asked me if I would like to fly south for the winter.

    Easy as Pi

  126. “Think these Mental Floss guys will ever choose a winner for the caption contest?”
    “Ha! Sure, when pigs…Yeah, probably soon.”

  127. “Whew! I never thought we would fly out of that butt!”

  128. “Huh? I guess the Red Sox really ARE back in the Series!”

    Karl Marx t-shirt

  129. “I feel so out of place with this stupid hat on.”

  130. Sorry, the Achilles one is sweet

  131. “Did i leave the iron on?”

    Pythagoras (M)

  132. “Don’t ask me last time I did this Lord Brabazon had me strapped to the wing or a plane.”

    Pluto

  133. “Now, how do you suppose we steer these things?”

    Pythagoras (M)

  134. “I guess it beats being a snowball in hell.”

    or

    “This is the only place where Paula Deen won’t find us.”

    Favorite tee (which sadly no longer seems available): Taft can you dig it

  135. One of those birds told me where the Hummer dealership is located—you had a big breakfast, right?

  136. Oops, the t-shirt. Sorry. Women’s Rhesus XL (blush)

  137. “uh, did you really just ask me ‘what’s new?’”

    world physics society family reunion tshirt – size M

  138. “Yeah, I’m happy for all of them, but how do we land?”

    Rhesus – men’s L

  139. “Do you think we’ll get double miles for this?”

    Easter Island shirt (L)

  140. “yeah, so, i really don’t see good things happening with this…”

    World Physics Society Family Reunion T-Shirt size M

  141. Helik says, “Ugh, Pteron, you’re lucky they’re testing the NOTAR design on you. You don’t even WANT to know where they installed my fenestron.”

  142. Dagnabbit, I told myself not to forget – women’s small rhesus. (Extra small if you have it.)

  143. Heres my caption for the pig picture: “I think we’re taking the matching outfit thing a little too far this time…”

  144. This is a good one!

  145. I think we’ve sprung a leak, I smell gas!….

    No, it’s okay. I knew I shouldn’t have had that deep fried slop for lunch, maybe we should leave a note on the car below.

    pluto, womens cut

  146. “You think this qualifies us as Kosher?”
    or
    “This beats sitting next to a fat pig in coach.”

    Large Achilles

  147. Heres my second one (pig caption):
    “I feel so ridiculous right now.”
    “I Know, this hat totally makes me look fat”

  148. “What I was told is that we’re part of the next Surge going to Iraq …”

  149. “When did we take off? Are we going to be screwed when we fall back to standard time?”

    large Mendel tshirt

  150. Well, at least now we can fly over to watch Pete Rose’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech.

    (mental floss logo t shirt. size medium)

  151. “So I guess you saw the reviews for the latest Britney Spears album too…”

    or Alternatively

    “I wish the engineering club hadn’t taken those girl’s rejections so litterally.”

    (X Large Ladies Pi Shirt)

  152. “No, not stressed but just a little wound up and not feeling grounded.”

    Easy as Pie, large

  153. “Okay…I didn’t mind playing second fiddle to Charlotte, and I didn’t complain when those singing mice upstaged me in Babe… But “Aporkalypse Now”?!?! My agent’s gonna hear about this

  154. I’m pretty sure that this wasn’t what they meant when they said, ‘when pigs fly.’

  155. oops.. forgot large mendel tshirt please

  156. “Gives a whole new meaning to “swine flu”, doesn’t it?

    Easy as Pie, Large please

  157. “Toto – It looks like we’re not in Kansas anymore”

    Pluto

  158. “Hey Porky, If Freud says flying dreams express sexual desires, what does it mean if you are flying with a slow rotor?”

  159. “So is this because of the morman, the black guy, and the woman all running for president?”

    “No. I think it’s just a coincidence. It’s bout time we were given a chance.”

    *They start laughin in unison and then said*

    “It’s because of the presidential candidates!”

  160. Simple as Pi t-shirt woman’s med!!!

  161. Ok here are some more.

    -”Is… is that a bee by your ear? You got a bee on your ear!”

    “Get it off! Get it off! I’m allergic!!!”

    -”Ok… So I’m down with the whole technology thing and it’s progression but metal just isn’t flattering and so not my color.”

    _”So how many people do you think we’re pissing off right now?”

    -”PETA just doesn’t stop do they? I think they care more about animals then they do humans.”

    “Hey… I like it. Gives me that special….look!”

    -”What is it? Where is it coming from?”

    “Sorry!… I had Taco Bell last night.”

    “I was talking about the… Is that you smelling like that? That’s nasty! I’m going back home.”

    Simple as pi. Women’s medium

  162. “I know this guy who was put under and woke up with adamantium claws, but that’s NOTHING compared to this.”

  163. Last one… I promise.

    _”They put one on or backs. Understandable. But the one on the head…? Are thay trying to call us fat?”

  164. “Wow, these are the biggest mosquito’s I’ve ever seen!”

    OR

    “I told you jumping off those buildings was a bad idea! Pigs can’t fly no matter how many propellers we have!”

    OR

    “I should’ve known that sticking the propeller in THERE would not be comfortable”

    (Easy as 3.14 shirt)

  165. “Priceline.com really knows how to save a buck.”
    -
    Great Firsts in Aviation History: After being denied entrance to the Beatty family jet for the last time, the children decide to borrow equipment from Uncle Burt’s umm, stash, of Smokey and the Bandit VI props.
    -
    Metropolis Police Dept. must deal with deep budget cuts.
    -
    I love the smell of KFC in the morning.

    Pluto XL

  166. “Can you believe Bush admitted the Iraq invasion was wrong?”

  167. update to my comment, (mental_floss shirt)

  168. Well porkie you know what they say,”Better to fly then to fry”. (Scurvy sm)

  169. I’ll bet Darwin never saw THIS coming!

    Rhesus – large

  170. “he he, lets fly over the car wash, we’ll make pigeons look like angels.”

    (revolve in peace)

  171. “Monty Python and the Flying Circus?”

  172. “Uh oh. We must be a little too close to JFK…here comes the new Virgin America flight and he ain’t slowing down!”

    Pavlov/ladies/large ss

  173. Alright Wilbur I will agree this is “Neat”, but I’m still against animal experimentation as a whole.

    Ladies Pluto please

  174. Little did they know, the Pig brothers would profoundly change the course of human history when they succesfully tranfused their own DNA with that of the novelty propellor hat.

    rhesus mens medium?

  175. That’s interesting – I’ve been this way since late October, 2004, also!

    Easy as 3.141592

  176. Man! Those Cubs fans will trying anything!

    Gregor Mendel – Men’s large

  177. Hollywood decides that Animal Farm was not interesting enough

  178. Uh-oh. I shouldn’t have had that last ham hock…

    (mental floss)

  179. Hmmm…let me see…NOW I remember!
    PINK FLOYD!

  180. I knew this sub-prim propeller would fail me in the end.

  181. “Are you sure this is how to join the rotary club?”

    large mendel shirt

  182. Spider Pig Spider Pig…
    Can he swing from a web
    Yes he can cause he’s got wings

    Scurvy

  183. “I gotta give ya props…it worked”

    large mendel shirt

  184. Trevor and Oinky continue their research into the origin of the saying “living high on the hog”.

    Pluto tshirt.

  185. “uh-oh… I have to poop.”

    XXL Scurvy

  186. “See I told you! Every time Bush vetoes a spending bill, a pig gets its wings!

    XXL Idioms

  187. I’m glad we are leaving; I can only imagine what is going to happen tomorrow!

  188. “Well, it was either this or coach.”

    (Rhesus – L)

  189. - I hate to tell you this Wilbur, but I may have been wrong. Bernoulli did in fact know what he was talking about.

    - Hey, if Dumbo can do it, anything’s possible.

    Karl Marx, small

  190. Click your heals together 3 times you said! It will send us right home you said! I am betting she failed to mention how??!!

    dynamite shirt please..and thank you

  191. How ironic, in order for Ralph Nader to get elected President, we have to travel by a method that is ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’!

    Pluto, M

  192. And I thought all that “evolution” stuff was hogwash!

    Mendel, Large

  193. “Now is a good time to tell the professor that guinea pigs are actually rodents”

    -Small Idioms, please :)-

  194. By the time we get to ‘Winnipig’….

  195. #185’s the best

  196. Actually, what I should have typed was:

    By the time we get to “Winnipig”, we may wind up as Canadian Bacon…….

  197. How did he get elected AGAIN?!?!?!

  198. are we headed for the big sty in the sky???

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