Contest No. 233 starts right now.

Here are the details: I’ll supply a drawing of one of my old cartoons that has never been published, leaving off my caption. You are invited to supply your funniest captions. To enter, simply (1) click on “See Comments and Add Your Own”. Then (2) scroll down past any other submitted captions and type your name and your caption in the spaces provided. Then (3) click “Save”. There is no charge to submit captions, and the only prize is the honor of being one of the funniest people around.

Your caption (or captions) will be posted after I review your submission. However, no captions at all will be posted for the first few days of each contest. This will give everybody a chance to submit their spontaneous, gut-instinct caption without fear of discovering that it was ripped off by somebody else’s similar spontaneous, gut-instinct caption. Every posted caption has an indication of the date and time it was received. This is an equal opportunity contest!

There is no limit on the number of captions you may enter, but I will only post and consider the first 15 captions from any contestant. Entries will be accepted and posted for one week, after which the winning caption will be announced and printed and I will also reveal my original caption. I am the sole judge and the winning caption will be the one I deem to be the funniest one submitted (not necessarily the one that matches or comes closest to my original caption).

The cut-off time and date for you to send in your captions is midnight Wednesday, December 17, 2025.

Below is the drawing that needs your funny captions. Good luck, Captioneers!

Contest No. 232 starts right now.

Here are the details: I’ll supply a drawing of one of my old cartoons that has never been published, leaving off my caption. You are invited to supply your funniest captions. To enter, simply (1) click on “See Comments and Add Your Own”. Then (2) scroll down past any other submitted captions and type your name and your caption in the spaces provided. Then (3) click “Save”. There is no charge to submit captions, and the only prize is the honor of being one of the funniest people around.

Your caption (or captions) will be posted after I review your submission. However, no captions at all will be posted for the first few days of each contest. This will give everybody a chance to submit their spontaneous, gut-instinct caption without fear of discovering that it was ripped off by somebody else’s similar spontaneous, gut-instinct caption. Every posted caption has an indication of the date and time it was received. This is an equal opportunity contest!

There is no limit on the number of captions you may enter, but I will only post and consider the first 15 captions from any contestant. Entries will be accepted and posted for one week, after which the winning caption will be announced and printed and I will also reveal my original caption. I am the sole judge and the winning caption will be the one I deem to be the funniest one submitted (not necessarily the one that matches or comes closest to my original caption).

The cut-off time and date for you to send in your captions is midnight Wednesday, November 19, 2025.

Below is the drawing that needs your funny captions. Good luck, Captioneers!

“Tell anyone who calls that he’s out to launch.”

(by Gayden Wren)

My original caption: “If he says ‘I’m going out to launch’ just one more time, I think I’ll scream.”

A hearty congratulations to Gayden Wren on this, your fifth victory. Your last win was not that long ago, in Contest No. 213 (hmmm . . . 213 . . . 231 . . . I hope you won’t have to wait until Contest No. 312 for your next victory, but only time will tell). In the meantime, all the bragging rights are in order and you can once again announce to the world that you are officially one of the FPA (Funniest People Around).

I was very hesitant when I selected this particular cartoon for the Contest. I figured that OUT TO LAUNCH would be everybody’s initial gut reaction to the drawing, and I expected that I would be deluged with a great many OUT TO LAUNCH captions that would just be variations of my original caption. While I did receive quite a few, I kept hoping against hope that you Captioneers could come up with a new, clever and  FUNNY twist to the basic gag. Alas, that was not to be, and the plain vanilla OUT TO LAUNCH gag prevailed in the end. At least Gayden Wren’s caption is shorter than my original one.

Here are the other submissions that I was seriously considering for top honors:

“OK Mildred, you can put the OUT TO LAUNCH sign on the door.” (by Lee Lacewell)

“Where are you going? We don’t launch until Friday.” (by Scott Malcolm)

“You have to buy the boat first!” (by Rich Wolf)

“Stop! That’s women’s work!” (by Pat Foley)

“Who’s he kidding? He works in the shipping DEPARTMENT!” (by Joe Ayella)

Contest No. 232 will be revealed in due course, Captioneers, so be on the lookout for it. Thanks for participating!

Contest No. 231 starts right now.

Here are the details: I’ll supply a drawing of one of my old cartoons that has never been published, leaving off my caption. You are invited to supply your funniest captions. To enter, simply (1) click on “See Comments and Add Your Own”. Then (2) scroll down past any other submitted captions and type your name and your caption in the spaces provided. Then (3) click “Save”. There is no charge to submit captions, and the only prize is the honor of being one of the funniest people around.

Your caption (or captions) will be posted after I review your submission. However, no captions at all will be posted for the first few days of each contest. This will give everybody a chance to submit their spontaneous, gut-instinct caption without fear of discovering that it was ripped off by somebody else’s similar spontaneous, gut-instinct caption. Every posted caption has an indication of the date and time it was received. This is an equal opportunity contest!

There is no limit on the number of captions you may enter, but I will only post and consider the first 15 captions from any contestant. Entries will be accepted and posted for one week, after which the winning caption will be announced and printed and I will also reveal my original caption. I am the sole judge and the winning caption will be the one I deem to be the funniest one submitted (not necessarily the one that matches or comes closest to my original caption).

The cut-off time and date for you to send in your captions is midnight Wednesday, October 22, 2025.

Below is the drawing that needs your funny captions. Good luck, Captioneers!