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*** [[Memetic Mutation|GENTLEMEN]] |
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* ''The New Yorker'' runs a weekly caption contest. |
* ''The New Yorker'' runs a weekly caption contest. |
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* ''[[Dragon]] |
* ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine had a few of these with black-and-white single-panel comics in its later years. |
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* Satirical magazine ''Punch'' ran a famous and long-running competition to find new captions for old cartoons featured in its pages a century earlier... |
* Satirical magazine ''Punch'' ran a famous and long-running competition to find new captions for old cartoons featured in its pages a century earlier... |
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* ''Nickelodeon'' magazine had a caption contest at the end of each issue ("Say What?"). |
* ''Nickelodeon'' magazine had a caption contest at the end of each issue ("Say What?"). |
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** All-time winner was for Pietro da Cortona's [http://todaysnewsart.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/cortona_rape_of_the_sabine_women_01.jpg "Rape Of The Sabine Women"]: {{spoiler|'''Woman at upper right''': "Hey, Louise! I'm looking right at his Wang and it's this big!"}} |
** All-time winner was for Pietro da Cortona's [http://todaysnewsart.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/cortona_rape_of_the_sabine_women_01.jpg "Rape Of The Sabine Women"]: {{spoiler|'''Woman at upper right''': "Hey, Louise! I'm looking right at his Wang and it's this big!"}} |
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* The British Army in Germany in the '80s used to issue a magazine teaching their troops about Warsaw Pact forces, and it sometimes ran these contests. One picture showed two soldiers riding in a ridiculously tiny armored vehicle -- it looked smaller than a jeep (not a Humvee; a ''jeep''). The winning caption had one of the riders complaining that their vehicle had been a full-sized tank, until the other guy made a ''witch'' angry.... |
* The British Army in Germany in the '80s used to issue a magazine teaching their troops about Warsaw Pact forces, and it sometimes ran these contests. One picture showed two soldiers riding in a ridiculously tiny armored vehicle -- it looked smaller than a jeep (not a Humvee; a ''jeep''). The winning caption had one of the riders complaining that their vehicle had been a full-sized tank, until the other guy made a ''witch'' angry.... |
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== Newspapers == |
== Newspapers == |
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