Caption Contest: 10/13/24

Last week was a rousing success!

I am the judge and jury here. I make the rules. And so I formally declare: the first edition of the Chortle caption contest was highly successful.

Huge thanks to the eight intrepid entrants who wrote new captions for a nearly 100-year-old cartoon. Read on to see our next caption contest cartoon, as well as last week’s winner.

THIS WEEK’S CONTEST

As a reminder, here’s how it works: the following cartoon is an aging comic pulled from public domain archives and in desperate need of a new caption. Leave your funniest submission(s) in the comments—next week, I’ll award one winner a free month of Chortle’s paid subscription tier.

This week’s comic comes from the December 1926 edition of Laughter Magazine.

Enter now! Leave a comment below!

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LAST WEEK’S WINNER

Thanks once again to all the entrants who took a shot at updating this 97-year-old cartoon! I would say that all of them beat out the original caption:

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The snakes’ hips.

From a bit of light research, this seems to have been a reference to a dance popularized in the 1920s by Earl Snakehips Tucker. I guess you had to be there.

Before we get to the winner, I want to give special shouts to Jaz Garewal, who made me laugh with his historical take:

November 1775: Christopher Gadsden notifies the three 'Don't Tread On Me' finalists.

Meanwhile, fam of animation submitted a more recent topical caption:

“Henry Kissinger just died!”

I also appreciated Steve’s extremely 2024 submission, which will hopefully make zero sense 97 years from now:

Logan Paul, KSI, and Mr Beast while selling lunchly.

But for the weekly winner, I chose Zacky P’s entry—a great combo of silly and surprising:

Three snakes celebrate graduating speech therapy.

Congrats, and enjoy your free month of Chortle! See you back here next week for another winner!