Caption Contest

By John Farrier in Contests, Horror on Aug 17, 2010 at 11:23 am


Welcome to this week’s caption contest. The winner, who will be announced on Friday, will get a free t-shirt from the NeatoShop!

So look around the NeatoShop and type in your choice of t-shirt with your caption. Submit only one caption per comment, but you can leave as many comments as you like. Please make sure that you provide a t-shirt selection or your caption will not be considered.

Image credit: unknown, via Boing Boing

WINNER — Thom:

The tentacles all go to eleven.

Congratulations, Thom! You win a Mosaic Skull t-shirt from the NeatoShop!


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  1. Gauldar
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    I keep trying to play Stairway to Heaven, but each time it ends up sounding like something from Ozzy.

    Remember: Pillage, Then Burn
    Chocolate XL

  2. Rob
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    Rush Limbaugh’s wedding gifts from Elton John.

    (D.A.D.D. – XL)

  3. Mike Fuellbrandt
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 1:28 pm

    Tuning it properly requires 2 people, 3 hands, a tentacle, 4 goats and the burning of an orphanage.

    I Scare My Own Family, Sand XL

  4. Jason G
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    You see? I told you not to play Stairway to Heaven backwards. It’s ’83 all over again!

    I find your lack of mask disturbing. M

  5. Stacey
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    This is the one instrument where it is most advisable to NOT drop the pick down the sound hole…

    Neato Turtle. Small

  6. Gauldar
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    Klatu-Verata-Nic-TOE, Klatu-Verata-Nic-TOE!
    N-EyE-Sea-Tee-Oh
    N-Eye-Sea-Tee-Oh
    N-Eye-Sea-Tee-Oh
    Klatu-Verata-Nic-TOE!

  7. Thom
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    The tentacles all go to eleven.

    (Mosaic Skull, XL)

  8. pismonque
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 2:26 pm

    The Spookulele.
    Hey, YOU try to string the cursed thing.

    mosaic skull, mil grn, xl

  9. Design Monkey
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 2:29 pm

    Prototype for “Rock Band 4: Cthulhu and the Old Ones”

    Certified Hokey Pokey Instructor (L)

  10. Barking Bud
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    ORDER NOW!!

    The new and improved “Kraken Passion Portal”.

    This beautiful piece of love(craft)-equipment made from the finest wood in the Dreamlands is Zoog-approved and comes with 4 different settings.

    It has a long neck for easy holding onto and a titillating design. The portal itself is equipped with pleasure fangs, for all you monkey bite lovers.

    The patented “Kraken Love Portal”, comes with a well-written manual featuring tips and tricks with hand drawn graphics.

    Order now and not only do you receive the “Kraken Love Portal” + “Necronomicuningligus Guide to Kraken Love”,

    But also the “Cthulhu gimp-mask”, for the more freaky lovers out there.

    ORDER NOW!!

    Amp-Bear-Sand, Chocolate, Size L

  11. Design Monkey
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    And the Eldrich Rock Movement was born.

    Yin Yang Mosaic (M)

  12. The Professor
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 3:19 pm

    “Music soothes the savage beast”…. but in this case we might need to make an exception

    Something went terribly wrong -XL

  13. kcooper
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 3:24 pm

    I cannot think of the Hawaii beach without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its grainy shores, worshipping their ancient luau idols and plucking some detestable tune on carven ukuleles with brine-soaked strings.

    Support cloning – Men’s small

  14. TW George
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    Cthulhu, my Lord, Cthulhu;
    Oh, Lord, Cthulhu.
    Someone’s cryin’, Lord, Cthulhu
    (sung to the tune of Kumbaya)

    Remember: Pillage then burn in 2X

  15. saint_toad
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 4:51 pm

    “Okay, so where do I put the chicken ???”

    abducted by aliens
    large
    navy

  16. Drakus
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    If you play me one more song about squamous, gibbering, tittering, gambrel roofs with batrachian like humanoids that remind you of a minority group, we can no longer be friends.

  17. Drakus
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    I never read rules, sorry. Vandelay Industries!

  18. lolamouse
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    Chuck kept wondering why the girls never stayed the night…

    I’d love the “I Scare My Own Family T-Shirt”, Black, M

    sdtardio@comcast.net

  19. lolamouse
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 5:16 pm

    I told you it was a bad idea to ask Marilyn Manson to participate in “Adopt a Child” for Christmas!

    “I Scare My Own Family” T shirt, Size M, Black
    sdtardio@comcast.net

  20. burninglily
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    I will eat your musical soul! Mwahhahaha…

    I Heart Horror

  21. Russell
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    The actual guitar Metallica used to record “Call of Kthulhu

  22. George Urdiain
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    The Cthukhulele… to rock like the deep ones!

  23. George Urdiain
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    Behold… the Cthukhulele!!!
    Have the Deep Ones rocking hard!!!

  24. ECA
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    Songs from the Deep
    Created and arranged by
    Cthulhu

    Song list
    Im calling to you
    I cast my Shadow over Innsmouth
    I Dun Did it
    Mountains will make you Mad
    U-go, Me-go
    Call me
    ———————————–
    Song list names are references to Mythos. Call-me= Who you gonna call(ghost busters)..U-go,me-go= the Mi-go worshipers. figure out the rest yourself.

    If Ignorance is Bliss, You Must be in Heaven – Large

  25. Horatio
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    Roll SAN.

    Hip, Hip Array, Small.

  26. pismonque
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    “When you said you were really into the Dead’s music, I thought….”

    mosaic skull, mil grn, xl

  27. Kryptonian
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    “In Ulthar no man may kill a cat.” Catgut strings are thus forbidden.

    (Busted, M)

  28. Landon
    Aug 17th, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    It is prophesied that one will come to string the Cthulu guitar, and on that day. The world will end. But it will, indeed, be rockin..

    BUSTED! -Large

  29. sirdooder
    Aug 18th, 2010 at 3:31 am

    “Tiptoe through the underworld
    Devouring souls, is where I’ll be
    Come tiptoe through the Cthulhu with me”

    – I Heart Robots

  30. Phorcys
    Aug 18th, 2010 at 10:46 am

    Somehow that ‘Wonderful World/Somewhere over the Rainbow’ song, now 100% more likely to drive you insane than it previously was.

    ‘Catnipped’ XL

  31. Sunfall
    Aug 18th, 2010 at 10:49 am

    “How often do I have to tell you, Charles Dexter Ward: Never leave your ukulele out on the Doorstep! It’s just a simple rule and certainly a small price to pay for living in Innsmouth in the shadow of the Mountains of Madness. Two more weeks of feeding the cats of Ulthar, young man!”

    +++

    I Survived the Large Hadron Collider (you guessed it), Ladies Fit S, please

  32. saint_toad
    Aug 18th, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    “Another proud export from luthiers in R’lyeh”

    alien abduction
    large
    navy

  33. saint_toad
    Aug 19th, 2010 at 4:35 am

    “Oh man, another beginner package from QVC”

    i want to believe, alien version
    large
    navy

  34. Augie
    Aug 19th, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    “Edgar Allen Poe Steel Drum: Got it.
    Bram Stoker Kazoo: Got it.
    H.P. Lovecraft Ukulele: NEED IT!”

    -Me trying to round out my collection of noisemakers-to-annoy-my-musician-lit.perfesser-wife-on-multiple-levels .

    Extendable Back Scratcher.

  35. Elnots
    Aug 19th, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    ‘It has sustain that can not be described..’

    BUSTED! -Large

  36. saint_toad
    Aug 20th, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    “with a tone that can only be described as ‘Eldritch’.”

    i want to believe, alien version
    large
    navy

  37. Elnots
    Aug 20th, 2010 at 4:04 pm

    What?! That’s the best caption?! Seriously, someone elses caption could be more pertinent, the Spinal Tap reference was about an AMP, not a guitar!

  38. Gauldar
    Aug 20th, 2010 at 5:05 pm

    Grats Thom!

  39. Barking Bud
    Aug 20th, 2010 at 10:24 am

    Congrats Thom!


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