Today's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey game is special ... it comes from my own garden!
A few weeks ago, my wife Tiffany planted a zucchini plant in our backyard ... and promptly forgot about it. Today, she discovered something strange about it. It has been very hot in Santa Clarita, California, so a lot of her plants didn't make it - but this one not only lived ... it also grew a humongous zucchini!
Just how big is it? Here's the Zuc posing with our son 7-month-old son Zach:
... and our 2-year-old daughter Maddy:
So, for today's Caption Monkey game, we have two prizes: One funny caption (chosen by Adam) will win an original comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford from the recent archive fo the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats, and another funny caption (chosen by me) will win a free Neatorama T-shirt.
Contest rules are darn simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please, but you can enter as many funny ones you can think of. Saying that my kids are cute will earn you good will, but won't necessarily win you the prize, mmkay?
Good luck!
Update 8/6/08 - A little prize confusion here (sorry, only one winner and the prize is the free shirt) - the winner is TripleX, with this caption:Our plan to destroy all vegetables by peeing in the garden backfired terribly, my young brother…
Ok, what kids?, where?, I remember a British (music hall?) song about "I've never seen one as big as that before". I remember as a youngster singing it (no doubt picked up from the 2 Ronnies, or Binny Hell etc). I'm sure my parents found it funny (stop running I will find you one day).
Larfin, the tune you're thinking of is "Oh, what a beauty" I think it was refering to the size of a over-size marrow.
I shall now go outside and stay there.
WOOT! Giant zucchini ftw maaaan!
"And with the po-WUH of JAE-SUS CHRISTT. I HEAL THEE!!"
your kids are cute...did i win did i win :D..lol im jus doing this for the good sport lol
"Once I figure out how to turn this thing on, no one will be able to stop me from taking over the world!"
Zach: " I sweyah..i dydnt do nuthhing"
Zucchini: " whos the wise guy who said that!!"
Facing high gas prices and lower turnout, many amusement parks have been forced to make subtle changes to their ride safety programs.
My friend had one like that last year and we had the best meal as a result. Just cut it into 1/2 to 1" slices, cook them on the barbecue and serve like you would a regular hamburger. They're the best topped with cheese.
I'm so jealous, they're amazing like that.
Lets hurry up and bury this thing before mom or dad find it and make us eat our veggies!!
I'm not going to eat it. You eat it.
Hey lets give it to Mikey. Hey Mikey!
Mikey will eat it. He eats anything!
Pic 2 : I've always said living next to a nuclear power plant had some advantages!
out of contest comment : yes they're cute ;)
"Once the castaways were finally rescued, the search party found one last radioactive vegetable, the consumption of which caused the Skipper to temporarily sprout bunny ears."
Captions...
First photo: "Dun-Dun-DU-U-U-U-UNNNN!"
Second photo: "O hai! I got squashed."
Third photo: "Organic dollie? FAIL"
"What the deuce? I specifically requested a Neatorama shirt - not an oversized zucchini derived from the dirt. Blast you, woman!"
PIC 2:
Maddy, once again, saves the day by subduing the Godzilla of zucchinis that rampaged out of the the clover field.
"Huge zucchini...cutting off...circulation to my...underdeveloped legs..."
PIC 2
Maddy and her zucchini partner wow the judges with their mad ball room dancing skillz.
zucchini: taking over the world?..*narff*
" With BIG power comes BIG responsibilities."
" dadddyy i thougdsadff u sayd big thwings come in litteser3le packages??"
Maddy:
Look we are doing salsa!!
hahah get it salsa? lol i know salsa has no zucchini ..but we can start :P ..lol and yea ill stop with the 100 comments now :)
BAM, BAM.
BAM BAM BAM...
3rd pic.
Pebbles:
Let me take this away from you before you hurt yourself.
3rd pic.
Mommy, when will i be GREEN??
2nd pic.
My name is GORDI(Star trek)
3rd pic..
They grow them THIS BIG..
2nd&3rd..
THIS IS A FISH??
“I love my new cabbage patch doll! Wait a minute … this isn’t a cabbage patch doll! This isn’t even cabbage!!!!”
D'oh it's supposed to end with "...pickle slices." ;)
~a Mommy
itsy bitsy teeny weeny green BIG 'cchini!
It's, it's,
it's a pinata...MMMM!
"Mom better buy the jumbo sized Pampers..."
2 and 3: "Thanks Dad for making sure I will need years of therapy in my future... and you HAVE to take a picture, uhm?"
"This is a thousand times better than Mr. Potato Head!"
pic 2: DDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMNNNNNNNNNNN!!!
;)
The best by far is "even days after the blast, they were still finding pieces of the incredible hulk.", and that's still crap. "Mommy!!! A dinosaur pooed in the garden!" is almost funny, though. Keep on trying!
Oh yeah. OK. They're cute.
Pic 3: If I plant this right here, we should be living inside a giant zucchini by the end of the year. And I'll finally have my own room!