This week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ celebrates the return of humor and free speech in at least one venue in America. The caterwauling is already epic!
The assignment this week was to caption the following picture:
Here are the winning entries:
1) (Mary Gehman) – ““It IS my monkey…It IS my circus…””
(EricSteel) – “Buying a Left wing social media company that oppresses free speech? $44,000,000,000
Firing most of the Left Wing employees? No charge
Watching Left wing heads explode? Priceless
Musk-r-Card don’t takeover the world without it.”
2) (RadiCalMan) – “One small step for Musk, one giant leap for MAGA!”
(Tom Morrow) – ““No, you blithering shitbiscuits, your Soviet-style censorship is NOT compatible with the concept of free speech.””
3) (guido81_MA) – “Sure, you can still work from home……for somebody else.”
(patriciamcc) – “Yes, it’s true. I am one of Arnold’s illegitimate sons. I’m the smart one.”
4)(cathymv) – “Firing censors on the first day… crying in the aisles… teeth gnashing from the media… whining from the politicians democracy is dead…. Musk playing the two smallest violins in sympathy”
(BluesHarper) – “As Chief Twit, Elon demonstrates his ability to tweet with either hand.”
5) (Porkopolis) – “Musk channeling Donald Trump:
“You’re Fired!””
(Par4Course) – “I have here in my hands the names of the Twitter employees whose jobs are safe.”
6) (Brian Brandt) – ““Mr. Musk, I’ve been working here two weeks. Why am I not a project director yet?””
(Kaptain Krude) – “Okay, let’s go over the list of people who are still employed here: Japanese bouncer, keep track. Old dude, back him up. Guy with the ear bud in his ear, make sure I don’t over look anyone. Cute Asian girl in back, you can tell the two on the wall behind you. Guy in the red sweatshirt, you can keep an eye on the two in front of the camera. Now, how about….
Parag Agrawal:……………………………………………………………………………
Nope, that’s it! Have a good day, everybody!”
The Readers Choice Award this week goes to:
(RockThisTown) – “Musk plans to reduce the Twitter workforce down to 280 characters.”
Best Use of a Movie Quote
(yetanotherjohn) – “Elon, what is best in life?
To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.”
(Paul Hooson) – “Rootin’ tootin’ roto rootin’!”
Best Song Parody:
(McGeehee) – “Mean tweets are made of this
Who are you to disagree?
I travel the web and the blogosphere
Everybody’s being offensive”
(yetanotherjohn) – “Tweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I’ve been inclined
To believe they never would”
Most Inappropriate:
Any caption containing the phrase “Paul Pelosi”
Best Banter Weight:
(Kaptain Krude) – “I brought you a doughnut, shouldn’t that be enough to keep me on the pay roll? Or some biscuits? Or some gravy? I had a good gravy train all ready to go. No? Fine.”
(rodney dill) – “I’m not sure what nightmares might torment Musk, but some of them must include a ginormous Bezos bobblehead.”
Best Sunday-11th Hour entry:
(RockThisTown) – ““I have a dream that one day in these red hills of San Francisco, the sons of former Tweeters and the sons of former banned Tweeters will be able to sit down together at the table of the Twitterverse.””
(Joe_Miller) – ““Okay, who said my name three times?””
Best How Will They Explain This in 30 Years:
(Retired military) – “Dateline 2052
Teachers “and here is a picture of Elon Musk right before he fired 75% of his bloated Twitter workforce which resulted in his company skyrocketing in value and leading to him becoming the worlds first Trillionaire”
Best reference to a previous caption contest”:
(McGeehee) – “Musk and Twitter employees discuss changing Twitter’s mascot to a budgie.”
(retired military) – “Musk “Where are the Swedish dancing girls? They promised me swedish dancing girls””
Best Halloween:
(Mary Gehman) – “The Halloween Costume Party at Twitter HQ was a real hoot this year. Someone actually dressed up like Elon Musk and said ‘You’re Fired’…others dressed up like employees and pretended like they still had jobs…and yet another came to the gala event disguised as a sink…”
(rodney dill) – ““You know what holiday is coming? Elonoween, time for Twit or Tweet””
That’s all for today. A new edition of the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™ will debut Friday morning.
