Caption Monkey: A Wheelbarrowful of Orangutans!

Posted by Alex in Animal, Caption Monkey on October 7, 2008 at 7:06 am


Hooray (and a barrel of simians!) - it’s time for this week’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game. But first, the story of the wheelbarrowful of orangutans. From the Daily Mail:

Orphaned by Man’s folly, [the orangutans] are unable to rely on their parents to teach them the ways of the animal world. So every day at the rescue centre which is their home, they are wheeled into the forest to learn.

Link (with loads of baby cute orangutan photos!)

Okay, onto the game: funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. One caption per comment, please. You can enter as many funny ones you can think of.

Oh, don’t forget to check out Adam’s blog for inspiration. Good luck!

Update 10/8/08 - Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to planettom who won with this poem (inspired by this Neatorama post):

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

full of
baby orangutangs

(with apologies to
William Carlos Williams)


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80 comments to "Caption Monkey: A Wheelbarrowful of Orangutans!"

  1. Algonkin
    October 7th, 2008 at 7:26 am

    Look! a wheel barrel of monkeys!

  2. internteswasyes
    October 7th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    “the structural integrity of this wheelbarrow has been compromised.”

  3. Jamie Grove - How Not To Write
    October 7th, 2008 at 7:47 am

    “What to expect when you buy your monkeys by the pound.”

  4. myleti
    October 7th, 2008 at 7:59 am

    No caption right now, but that’s adorable. (:

  5. Brent
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    Barrel full of monkeys the new adult version

  6. wot:?
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:22 am

    5 photo shopped orangs as well

  7. Mouserz
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:26 am

    more fun then a wheelbarrow full of monekys

  8. alex place
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:29 am

    the person: “I love makin hot dogs!”

    soo horrible but i had to

  9. Terry
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    To get your pie to have that truly exotic flavor, eight mashed orangutans will give it that much needed zest.

  10. planettom
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:35 am

    so much depends
    upon

    a red wheel
    barrow

    full of
    baby orangutangs

    (with apologies to
    William Carlos Williams)

  11. madhen
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:35 am

    Alright guys, questions for the candidates are due to Mr.Brokaw in a few hours.

  12. Patrick
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:40 am

    Screw you, they were on sale

  13. longoland
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:45 am

    Marco! Marco!……………Polo!

  14. Jeremy
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:55 am

    The secret behind Soilent Green’s new “95% genetically similar to our old meat” marketing campaign has been discovered.

  15. madhen
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:59 am

    We’re almost to the casting call for Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp : The Orangutan Supremacy

  16. Jessica
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:59 am

    “I asked for a baker’s dozen, and this is what I got.”

  17. Jessica
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    Old hotness, blackbirds in a pie. New hotness, Orangutan soup.

  18. Jessica
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:03 am

    “Nine little monkeys jumping on the bed…one fell off and bumped his head…called the doctor and the doctor said…that’s what you get for jumping on the bed. Eight little monkeys jumping on the bed…”

  19. Jessica
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:04 am

    “I’m telling you, this will be the best game ever!”

  20. Jessica
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:06 am

    Bad simians, you sank my battleship…er, flattened my tire.

  21. The other Don
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    Bush calls another meeting on the financial crisis.

  22. Craig
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:19 am

    The logistics of monkey business.

  23. VJESCI
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:23 am

    .simian mobile disco.

  24. Fatty P
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:35 am

    Time to feed the tiger!

  25. Aidan
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Simon Cowell is down to his top 8 for the live shows. Who will be the next American Idol? you decide.

  26. hhh
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    Lehman brothers family reunion

  27. Tim
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:56 am

    I told you guys we should have had a designated driver.

  28. chris newton
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:02 am

    “You can ride in the car again when you learn that throwing your poop at each other when you’re angry is not the right way to handle your problems.”

  29. Justin
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:11 am

    With the coal plant running low, it was time for desperate measures.

  30. Mary
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:16 am

    “Charleston Heston’s worst fear realized as the school children are bussed in for their first day.”

  31. Adam Jones
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:17 am

    If I get just a few hundred more and there will be enough of them to write the greatest literary work known to man…

  32. Mary
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:23 am

    “So Much Depends Upon A Red Wheelbarrow.”

  33. Jeremy (Gordon)
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:40 am

    After the head of research and development discovered his product procurement team came up with this after directives to “borrow a wheel and the Symbian OS” from the new Palm that his the market, a decision was made to improve communication channels at his company.

  34. Gordon Matson
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:40 am

    sarah headed to the sega tent where the plastic balls were stacked.

  35. michael diatalevi
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Barrel rider fails to make bailout bill!

  36. Dandy
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:53 am

    If only you had put more air in the tire…

  37. Rick
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am

    Last one out is a monkey’s uncle!

  38. John B
    October 7th, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Realizing how much you can collect during an 8 year stay. The Bush Administration was given a much needed “lift” today, as a Good Samaritan offered them a ride in his wheelbarrow. Ask to comment, the Samaritan said only that he hoped he could get the smell out of his prized wheelbarrow after the ride. It is also reported that the wheelbarrow will be donated to The Smithsonian Institution for their upcoming exhibit, “Tools used to remove politicians, throughout history”. Also in the display will be the 1st roll of toilet paper and the “rail” used to run many politicians out of town on during the youthful days of our country.

  39. hypertweeter
    October 7th, 2008 at 11:41 am

    The government is looking for new recruits all the time.

  40. Eden
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    “The kangaroos make this look a lot more fun.”

  41. Red Sox Nation
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    I always wondered what the Angels fans did with their mascots after being sent home each year….

  42. Shasta
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    Time to go to class!

  43. Sara
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    “But I like my skin..”

  44. Christophe
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    “But what I’d really like is to do Neatorama for a living. It might happen. Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.”

    (Wayne’s world *wink*)

  45. phil
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    “Well it doesn’t look like Disneyland to me…”

  46. AJC
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    It’s my favorite time of the year! When you the apes are plucked fresh from the garden.

  47. Don Bruey
    October 7th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    “Well isn’t this a kick in the teeth - I’m already late to the casting call for that new Clint Eastwood movie, and now I’ve got a flat tire!”

  48. Matt
    October 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    That ain’t no monkey ranch, them my kids!

  49. Toby Dot
    October 7th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    Brangelina’s latest adoption order being prepared for shipment.

  50. Ali S.
    October 7th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    If any of you say, “Are we there yet?” one more time I’m going to turn this wheelbarrow around!

  51. nick
    October 7th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Fertility drug testing on animals gone awry.

  52. Larry
    October 7th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Congress at lunch time.

  53. JMM
    October 7th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    I’m gonna make the coolest sweater ever!

  54. Corey Miller
    October 7th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Pepe, I told you NASA wanted a barrel of orange TANG!

  55. jochen
    October 7th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    After adopting children from all continents, angelina jolie switched to a different species…

  56. jochen
    October 7th, 2008 at 3:00 pm

    “All your monkeys are belong to us!

  57. Renata
    October 7th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    We see here the typical transportation to the Planet of the Apes Preschool.

  58. tspyro
    October 7th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    Itteh bitteh MONKEH committeh?

  59. fossilady
    October 7th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    “Bring out your dead”

  60. Savage708
    October 7th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    “more fun than a barrow of…orangutans?”

  61. Miranda
    October 7th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    This is not quite what I meant when I told you to bring a barrel full of monkeys for game night.

  62. DOJ
    October 7th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    “I’ll be right back after I finish feeding the lions”

  63. Chris
    October 7th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Wary of the recession threat, the President called a final emergency meeting with his economic advisors…

  64. Joshua Cole
    October 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    They say this Ron Jeremy guy has done it all before… that it’s time for him to “bring it up a notch.”

  65. Gerry
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    “Shhhhh… don’t talk and the stupid humans will keep carrying us around…”

  66. editor
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    “Wall Street hires consultants to help out the FED”

  67. Shaun K
    October 7th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    “Forget barrel full of monkeys, that’s childs play. Me and my buddies play by the wheelbarrow”

  68. Chunkie
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

    One of the monkeies, thinking about how people say a barrel full of monkies is fun. “Crap! This isn’t much fun at all!”

  69. ernest
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:38 pm

    The lowest, of the low-rent prostitution rings.

  70. SenorMysterioso
    October 8th, 2008 at 1:02 am

    I see your barrel of monkeys and raise you a wheelbarrow of apes

  71. LEon
    October 8th, 2008 at 4:58 am

    I can see everyone has picked their moving buddy.

  72. LEon
    October 8th, 2008 at 5:04 am

    So this is what the RED WHEELBARROW is used for…

  73. Micaman
    October 8th, 2008 at 8:27 am

    Everyone off! It’s my turn now…

  74. sybann
    October 8th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    Ma! We haz a flat!

  75. Cassandra
    October 8th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    What’s better than a barrel of monkeys?
    A wheel barrel full of monkeys of course!

  76. Tim Hilf-Barr
    October 8th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    While not as fun as a Barrel of Monkeys, a Wheelbarrow of Oragutans is certainly more portable.

  77. Ruth
    October 8th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    Not only is the commute a bitch this morning, but the bus has a flat!

  78. David Keech
    October 8th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    I like monkeys.

    The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.

    http://www.ilikemonkeys.org/

  79. planettom
    November 3rd, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    I received my prize in the postal mail today for this contest; an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic. Thank you, Neatorama, and Adam Koford!

  80. Jimbo
    January 18th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    Wonderful, you have taken a picture of My company’s management team, carpooling to work.


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