Photo: Art Verduzco

Psst! Wanna win your very own Monkey drawing by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford? Here’s your chance – but first, the ’splanation by Art Verduzco, whose photo was featured in National Geographic Magazine’s Your Shot editor Susan Welchman’s Daily Dozen:

Her name is Minicooper and she is a one years old English bulldog. We where relaxing on the beach when I caught her looking thru the scope.

Your task is simple: caption the photo above to win! Place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please. You may enter as many funny ones as you’d like.

Good luck and be sure to visit Adam’s blog for your daily Laugh-Out-Loud Cats.

Update 11/11/09 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to sybann who won with this caption: I really wish you wouldn’t use a rocket launcher for "fetch."

Photo: William Lascelles

Today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia Caption Monkey game comes via National Geographic’s The Daily Dozen (October 2009 – Week 1), the always excellent user-submitted gallery of photographs curated by photo editor Susan Welchman.

This photo was taken by William Lascelles who wrote "My parents live very close to the city airport and every other year they host an air show. This year the Blue Angels were the highlight and were flying over the house during performances. I took my father’s dog outside and made him pose!"

Your task is simple: caption the photograph above. The best/funniest comment will win a Caption Monkey, courtesy of Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. You can enter as many as you’d like below, but please only one caption per comment.

For inspiration, check out Adam’s blog. Good luck!

Update 10/7/09 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to DeepForestGreen who won with this caption: Bernard was less famous that his brother, Clifford the Big Red Dog, but the locals knew that he was the best air traffic controller their town had ever seen.

Update 10/7/09 – Winner #2 (DeepForestGreen told us that he won before, and graciously offered the prize to another Neatoramanaut). Congrats to: nate who came up with this caption: Henry didn’t believe the fleas when they said “We’ll be back but in F-16’s.” He will now. Oh yes…he will now.

Photo: Vince Lauro

Pigs may never fly, but they certainly can swim! Vince Lauro won National Geographic Traveler’s Great Outdoors Photo Contest with this awesome photo of the Caribbean swimming pig. From the Intelligent Travel blog:

As the first mate on a 118-foot motor yacht, Vince Lauro has the opportunity to continuously travel across the Caribbean. This photograph was taken near a small key famous for the "swimming pigs." A colony of pigs lives on the key, and they often swim near visiting boats. To capture this clear image Lauro said, "I had to lure this pig into an undisturbed area with its favorite food: fresh watermelon."

Link – Thanks Marilyn!

Now, on to the Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey part of the post: funniest caption will win a custom black and white Monkey drawing by our favorite artist, Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.

Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please. You can enter as many as you can think of – just make ‘em funny! Be sure to visit Adam’s blog for inspiration. Good luck!

Update 8/26/09 – Adam has picked the winner! Congrats to Lisa G. who came up with this (very punny) gem: Oinkers aweigh!

Today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey hails all the way from China – it’s about a mountain that’s laying an egg. First the story, via the always amusing Ananova’s Quirkies section:

Officials at Gulu village, Guizhou province, claim a cliff of Gandeng Mountain has laid more than 100 eggs, reports Guizhou Metropolis News.

They claim the eggs, as big as car tyres, appear in ’sockets’ in the cliff around every two years.

Yang Shengjia, director of the local tourism bureau, said: "Another mountain egg is expected to be laid soon.

"If people, like visitors, can have long enough patience, they may view the astonishing scene of the mountain laying an egg."

Funniest caption will win a black and white custom Monkey drawing, courtesty of Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section, one caption per comment, please. You can enter as many funny ones as you’d like.

Be sure to visit Adam’s blog for inspiration. Good luck!

Update 7/8/09 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to CreamTrumpet who won with this caption: Apparently, there’s a baby mountain in here.

Photo: pyza* [Flickr]

This week’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey photo of a hamster named Piórko came to us via the always awesome Cute Overload. I think there’s more to this hamster than meets the eye.

As usual, the funniest caption will win a free black and white custom Monkey drawing from Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Game rules are simple: place your caption in the comment. One caption per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you’d like.

And "You shall not pass" is taken, mmkay? Oh, by the way, that phrase is a variation of a World War I propaganda slogan "They shall not pass" made famous in the Battle of Verdun on the Western Front. J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, was himself a soldier who fought during World War I.

Be sure to check out Adam’s blog for inspiration. Good luck!

Update 6/23/09 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to JB who won with this caption: I don’t mind the baths, but do you have to BLOW DRY?!?

Photo: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

Every month, National Geographic publishes a very neat photo gallery called Vision of Earth. This particular one, from the June 2009 selection (third pic, you can see the uncensored version there – warning: clear shot of the behind of a naked, 69-year-old man):

Belarus—Naked on an 18°F day, Valentsin Tolkachev clears an icy canal for swimming. The 69-year-old started the Optimalists—a Minsk-based club with 200-some members—in 1989 to promote hale activities in rural settings.

Your task, after you wash your eyes, is to caption the photo. Funniest one will win a custom black and white Monkey drawing by Adam Koford. Place your caption in the comment section of this post – one caption per comment, please, though you can enter as many funny ones as you can think of. Good luck!

Update 6/19/09 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to jj who won with this caption: The season’s first snow always reminds me of my childhood, of crazy Uncle Hank teaching me to swim like a man.

More cute photos of the big-eared hedgehog at Izismile – via Rue The Day

Long it has been since we last had a Caption Monkey game (sorry Adam!) I promise to be better, and thanks to Adam’s generous offer, we have an excellent prize for today’s game.

The game is simple: caption this cute "yoda"-eared hedgehog and win a custom black and white Monkey drawing by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Place your caption in the comment section – one caption per comment, please, though you can enter as many ones as you can think of.

So, in the immortal word of the Jedi master, may the Force be with you and good luck!

Update 6/10/09 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to Mor who won with this caption: “Why did I have to choose a personal trainer who wouldn’t put me down until I finished all 50 sit-ups?!”

My, my, my – it has been a month since we last had a Caption Monkey contest on Neatorama! Thankfully, our pal Adam Koford reminded me of my lapse (sorry, guys) and even provided the image (and prize) for today’s game.

Funniest caption (as judged by the esteemed Mr. Koford himself) will win the original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat panel above, with the winning caption inked in. Contest rules are simple: Place your caption in the comment section below – one caption per comment, but you can enter as many as you can think of.

For inspiration, be sure to visit Adam’s blog. Good luck!

Update 4/15/09 – Wow! Great submissions, guys! Adam has picked the winner … Congrats to Orkahm52 who won with this gem:

Photo via Cute Overload

W00t! For today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey contest, we have this incredibly cute photo via Megan Frost’s awesome blog Cute Overload.

Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you’d like. Funniest comment will win a free Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam Koford.

For inspiration, be sure to check out Adam’s blog (and be on the look out for his newest book: The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out) Good luck!

Update 3/19/09 – Congratulations to janedoh who won with this caption: “And to our left folks we have the rarely seen and endangered Boneless Panda.”

Photo from: Black is the New Black blog (I won’t pretend to know my Japanese monster, so can someone point out what it is?)

Oops – I’ve been so busy that little did I notice we haven’t posted a Caption Monkey game in a while (sorry, Adam!). So here it is!

The game is simple: come up with the funniest caption, and win an original Laugh Out Loud Cat comic by artist extraordinaire Adam Koford. One entry per comment, but you can enter as many captions as you’d like.

For inspiration, check out Adam’s blog (and new Kitteh and Pip wallpaper!)

Update 2/28/09 – Adam has picked the winner: congratulations to MadMolecule who came up with this gem: “Family reunions were always tense after cousin Toshiro married an illegal alien.”

Photo: wtf_inc [LiveJournal] – via Crunch Gear

Hello, everyone! It’s time for Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game. I don’t know the background story of this photo, the LiveJournal user who posted it only mentioned that it was taken in Seattle.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to provide the caption. Funniest caption wins an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat cartoon by Adam Koford.

For inspiration, definitely check out Adam’s blog. Good luck!

Update 1/20/09 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to Jay L. who won with this gem: “What!?! IT’s safer than pushing it with the car.”

Photo: Mary Anne Fackelman/The White House – via The Sly Oyster

Hooray! It’s time for the Neatorama and Hobotopia Caption Monkey game.

Yes, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. That’s Nancy Reagan sitting on Mr. T’s lap (Santa T?), giving him a smooch, at a White House Christmas party in 1983. The First Lady actually requested Mr. T come to the party dressed as Santa Claus. This photo was printed in countless newspapers and magazines around the world.

Your job is to come up with the funniest caption for this photo. I pity the fool that couldn’t come up with at least one. Funniest caption will win an original Laugh Out Loud Cat comic by our favorite artist Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.

For inspiration, don’t forget to check out Adam’s blog.

Update 1/7/09 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to jonathan who won with this gem: “I see it in the stars: your career will last forever.”

Photo: Geoff Pingree / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

W00t! It’s time for Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game – but first, here’s the story behind the photo, titled "Behold". It’s the Grand Prize winner of National Geographic’s Traveler’s "World in Focus" photo contest, and taken by Geoff Pingree of Oberlin, Ohio (he won a 15-day trip for two to Antarctica aboard the National Geographic Endeavor, which makes our prizes here on Neatorama look downright puny in comparison!):

Pingree, a professor of Cinema Studies and English at Oberlin College, took this photograph at Madrid’s Prado Museum, which was staging theatrical performances inspired by masterworks by Spanish artists. "The photo shows performers playing Spanish King Philip IV and his second wife, Mariana of Austria," he said.

Link – Thanks Marilyn!

Now, on to the contest. The funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud cat comic by Adam Koford. Place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you’d like.

Don’t forget to check out Adam’s blog for inspiration! Good luck!

Update 12/17/08 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to Adam D. Jones who won with this caption: “You said everyone would be wearing a costume!”

Photo via Ananova

Hooray! It’s time for Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game. But first, the story: that’s Sara the Walrus who is trained to play the saxophone!

Under the direction of her trainer, Sara the Walrus grips the brass instrument between her flippers and blasts out a note.

Russian trainer Sergiy has also taught her to strike a nonchalant pose, leaning on a worktop with one flipper under her chin and looking bored.

Sara’s skills at mimicking humans extend to dressing up as a railway platform conductor and blowing a whistle. (Source)

Now, onto the game: funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam Koford. Place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you like.

Don’t forget to check out Adam’s blog for inspiration! Good luck!

PS Yes, Miss C wrote about Sara earlier today, but since I got this post prepped beforehand, let’s just go with it!

Update 12/3/08 – Adam has picked the winner! He really liked the non-sequitur-ishness of this one:
Riiiiiiiicolaaaaaaa! by Scott-O. Congrats!

Photo: Bonnie Marsh via National Geographic Magazine – Thanks Marilyn!

Yum yum yum! It’s time for this week’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game. But first, the story: that’s an uninvited guest that joined Bonnie Marsh for dessert during her Hawaiian vacation. The gecko scampered down the restaurant wall, took a lick, and then ran off! The photograph was voted one of National Geographic Magazine’s Top Shots of 2008.

Now on to the game: your task, should you choose to accept it, is to caption the photo. The funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam Koford. One caption per comment, please, but you can enter as many times as you like.

And don’t forget to check out Adam’s blog (and upcoming book). Good luck!

Update 11/12/08 – Adam has picked the winner! Congrats to ikillhobos who won with this caption:

“Yes Mr. Waiter, while I do admit this did technically solve the problem of the fly in my soup, I think we’ve moved on to an entirely different situation here. I’m gonna need to see the manager.”

W00t! It’s time for this week’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game! But first, the story: believe it or not that’s a train covered with people (all men, it looks like) returning from a three-day Sunni Muslim festival in the ancient city of Multan, or the City of Saints in Pakistan. Organizers of the event claim that it’s the second largest gathering of Muslims after the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (Source)

Now, on to the game: the funniest caption will win a free original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat cartoon by Adam Koford. To win, simply place your caption in the comment section below. One caption per comment please – you can enter as many times as you’d like.

For inspiration, check out Adam’s blog (don’t forget to pre-order the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out book). Good luck!

Update 11/5/08 – Adam Koford has picked the winner! Congratulations to Patrick Scott who won with this caption: “Pakistan’s last surviving hobo finding it difficult to adapt.”

Photo: Yva Momatiuk and John Eascott / National Geographic Magazine

Today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game features this fantastic photo of a bull elephant seal and a king penguin in the South Georgia Island, a rugged wildlife sanctuary near Antarctica (National Geographic Magazine has a neat article about the elephant seals by Susan Casey | Gallery by Yva Momatiuk and John Eascott – Thanks Marilyn!)

Funniest caption wins an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford – all you have to do is provide a caption for this photo in the comment section. One caption per comment, please. You can enter as many funny ones as you can think of.

For inspiration, check out Adam’s blog. Good luck!

Update 10/30/08 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to nate who won with this gem: “Santa ain’t coming Frank. Not this year, not ever.”

Hooray! (Or perhaps better: Yeehaw!) Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game is here! You can win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat Comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford for the funniest caption, but first, the story.

Behold artist Matthew Harrison’s project "Hummer" at the fifth Zoo Art Fair in London, featuring a HUMMER H3 SUV sportin’ wagon wheels! (Source)

Now on to the game: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please. You can enter as many funny ones as you can think of.

For inspiration, check out Adam’s blog. Good luck!

Update 10/24/08 – Adam has picked the winner: Congratulations to Reverend Mike who won with this caption: “Rollin’ on 1822s”

Photo via TYWKIWDBI

Hooray! It’s time for Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game! Funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford – so make yours good!

Contest rules are easy: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please, but you can enter as many funny ones as you can think of. Good luck!

Update 10/15/08 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to EDG who won with this caption: “Meet the Angelina Jolie of chickens.”

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

(with apologies to
William Carlos Williams)

Photo via Arbroath (who knows what it’s all about?)

Hooray! It’s time for this week’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game. Funniest caption wins an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.

Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please. You can enter as many as you can think of.

For inspiration, check out Adam’s blog. Good luck!

Update 10/2/08 – Adam has chosen the winner! Congrats to brad who won with this caption: Well…..I see that first spell didn’t work….let me try another.

Dustin Black, author of The Book of Spam (featured previously on Neatorama here and here) and Toastvertising, sent us this photo and link to his newest website. And just in time for our weekly caption contest, too! (Thanks Dustin!)

So, for today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey contest, I give you … Kitty Toupee! Funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.

Contest rules are darned simple: place your caption in the comment section of this post. One caption per comment, please. You can enter as many funny ones as you can think of.

For inspiration, check out Adam’s blog. Good luck!

Update 9/24/08 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to erikerik who won with this caption “Remember, you can’t spell ‘meow’ without ‘emo’.“

Today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game brings you this strange photo via Scribal Terror. Funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.

Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you can think of.

For inspiration, check out Adam’s blog. Good luck!

Update 9/18/08 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to gail, who won with this gem: “He ain’t heavy, he’s my burro.“

Does anyone know the story behind this photo?

Yay! It’s time for Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game. Funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cats cartoon by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.

Contest rules are darn simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please. You can enter as many as you’d like.

For inspiration, check out Adam’s blog. Good luck!

Update 9/13/08: Adam has chosen the winner! Congratulations to megiddo who won with this caption: “Hydroponic cabbage patch kids.“

Photo: lisascenic [Flickr]

For today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game, you get to caption this cute photo of Lisa and Robb’s cat Linguine:

Lisa and I have been having a chuckle over the thought that this picture of our dear little Linguine is, unbeknown to us, an internet meme – a fad, which becomes almost inexplicably popular on the web.

This picture was taken about two years ago. I remember at the time, it was a major achievement for me to stand and balance well enough to take a picture while holding a camera in one hand and a bamboo-skewered strawberry in another and convince a cat we like to call "Fidget" to cooperate.

Funniest caption wins an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cats cartoon by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you can think of.

For inspiration, don’t forget to check out Adam’s blog! Good luck!

Update 9/4/08 – Well, though not exactly a caption, Adam really likes this one by Catsvillage “Strawberry Felines Forever.” Since he’s da man, whatever he says goes! Congrats to Catsvillage for winning this week’s Caption Monkey contest!

That’s Neatorama’s resident rock star, drummer Rober Birming of Eskobar (who also blogs at GeekAlerts) and his dubious cat Prosit (that’s Swedish for “bless you,” he told me). For today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game, funniest caption will win the O RLY shirt from our Online Store (all shirts on sale now! Hurry and get your own!)

Contest rules are darned simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please, but you can submit as many as you’d like.

By the way, Eskobar released their 5th album Death in Athens earlier this year (covered here on Neatorama). For inspiration and Laugh-Out-Loud cat shenanigans, check out Adam "Ape Lad" Koford’s Hobotopia.

Good luck and have fun!

Update 8/28/08 – Robert Birming himself chose the winner this time. Congratulations to “em” who won with this classic: Psh, I remember those halcyon days before the ORLY owl…days when the LOLCat was king…

Photo provenance and back story unknown, if you know, please share- Thanks Ricky!

I’m at a loss for words on this one, folks – the car is so … ghettofabulous!

So, for today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game, maybe you can do better: the funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud cartoon by Adam "Ape" Lad" Koford.

Contest rules are darned simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please (you can submit as many funny ones you can think of!)

And be sure to visit Adam’s blog for some fun and inspiring Laugh-Out-Loud cartoons.

Update 8/20/08 – Adam Koford has picked the winner! Congratulations to Gregg who won with “Hey, what kind of car is that?“

Image found via Miss Cellania.

Yay! It’s time for our weekly Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game!

The funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section (one caption per comment, please – but you can submit as many as you can think of).

Be sure to visit Adam’s blog for some inspiration and good luck!

Update 8/13/08 – congratulations to Jacoby87 who won with “Honey, Big Belly Deli’s reopened. That’s right. Bring me my lucky sweatpants.”

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…

Photo: sprkels [Flickr] – via the excellent Image of the Day from ParentDish blog – Thanks Lee!

Well, with the new Batman movie out and all, I thought this cute photo of Baby Batman would be perfect for Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game!

The funniest caption will win an original comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford from the recent archive of the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats. All you have to do is come up with some funny captions: please put your caption in the comment section (one caption per comment, please, but you can submit as many as you can think of). Good luck!

PS Check out this super cool sculpture of Pip of the Laugh-Out-Loud hobo cat!

Update 7/23/08 – Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to madhen who won with this gem of a caption: “Quick, to the Bat Bjorn !” (Don’t know what that’s all about? Here’s a BabyBjorn)