It’s Monday, time for a brand new Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest. (Cartoon after jump.) Please let loose a clever caption (you are allowed two submissions) and place it in the comment section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a $10 cash prize. I will accept entries until midnight, Friday, January 30th, 2009. I’ll select five finalists over the weekend, which will be voted on starting noon Monday, February 2nd, and ending at midnight on Friday, February 6th, 2009. (There will be a new caption contest starting at noon, February 2nd, as well.)
This cartoon should make you think about the institution of marriage. I know there’s quite a heated battle going on about whether or not to allow gay couples the same legal rights afforded heterosexuals. But what about monsters? Does anyone care about them? And what would happen if their marriages didn’t work out? Well, that I leave up to you!
Also, don’t forget to vote for the best caption in last week’s giant gun cartoon contest.
Here are the five finalists:
1. “It’s for squirrel huntin’” From Christopher H.
2. “Remember, you’re in TEXAS now!” From Cindy Thurman.
3. “So you say you just lost your job at the Post Office?” From Kyle Banderman.
4. “Ooh, say can you see…” From Jonathan O’Dwyer.
5. “And this one was featured on ‘pimp my piece’.” From Cynthia.
Please cast your vote in the “What’s Your Opinion” section, located in the center column on the home page, below “Recent Marbles” and a box of useless ads. You have until midnight, Friday, January 30th, to vote for the best caption.
(To cast your vote, just click here to get back to the home page.)
Please note that I’ve changed the rules for the caption contest because too few people were voting (my fault because I chose to schedule voting over the weekend), and I want to give everyone two chances to come up with the best possible caption.
The prize is still ten bucks – obviously writing checks each week is not the road to building wealth, however modest those checks may be. I’m hoping to build up a large audience so as to entice the few companies that aren’t seeking federal bailout funds to offer some swell prizes. But, I must say that this is really proving to be a reliable source of entertainment for me. A good number of these captions produce semi-violent bouts of laughter – and I’m not one who is easily amused.
Are you still with me? Excellent. I will be posting brand new cartoons, with my very own captions, every Wednesday at noon, and I’ll have a new piece of thought-bending commentary for you to read every Friday at noon.
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“Till death do us part” nice sentiment for most of us…but for the undead…forever is a really long time!
Your Honor….my client’s grounds for divorce: the DNA results state 99.9 percent match that Igor is the father.
He trusted Mr. Dracula here with his wife while he was out of town on business, and he couldn’t keep his lips off of her
“She began to COMMUNICATE with my client!”
Judge, my client clearly deserves alimony, he has the mentality of a 2 year old, he can not make a living on his own
“Your honor, my client contends that they were made for each other.”
“She stole his heart…and wouldn’t give it back!”
Your honor, obviously this woman was just looking for someone to provide for her – my client is much too handsome for her. She just wanted him for his body parts and free utility bills.
He is leaving him for her? It is obvious his lover is a drag queen.
you may think she’s great now, but she’s a real cold stiffy in the sack.
Your honor, I rest my case, and my client rests in peace.
“According to Statute 13C 1 dash B, divorce on the grounds of no Life After Death insurance, has no weight in court Mrs. Stein.”
“Your honor, this is clearly a case of He Grunted, She Grunted and should be dismissed.”
“Your honor, Mr. Frankenstein’s Bride should not be entitled to half of his body parts.”
“And so, your Honor, my client deserves to have full ownership of the couple’s monster truck.”
Due to the recent push in green energy, she has been withholding the electricity. You cant expect my client to function this way!
Your honor, besides seeking a Divorce decree, my client is sueing monetary damages for the physical torture she inflicted on his head and face when she beat him multiple times a day with her hairdo when PMSing.
Your honor, when she joined the Pyramid Hairdo Witches Cult, she began using my client to try out her spells on. My client asks not only for divorcement, but that she pay for all his current and future plastic surgery needs.
we’re only going to shoot a red squirrel
The problem with my client’s marriage is that he never could figure out who his wife really was.
Pitchforks, fire, and angry mobs….Frankie this, Frankie that. Your honor, my client just wants to make a clean cut.
This woman claims “Frank” told her his “manhood” was one that any woman would want to have a stab at — later,she found out his “part” was from a man named Bobbitt.
Yes, your honor, he did rip off his head and throw it at her, but it was only because he found her in bed with the Wolfman!
My client shouldn’t have to pay alimony because she has freely admitted that she only married him to break into the movie industry!
Judge…my client can’t make ends meet…all she does is lie around all day and watch her favorite soap..The Munsters.
Your Honor, my client should be awarded all the family assets due to Mrs. Frankenstein’s exhorbenent spending habits as evidenced by her over-the-top hairstyle.
Your Honor I object,just because she is living dead is not an excuse for being frigid.
My client was NOT into rough sex, your honor, but the plaintiff should have known the risks of inner thigh damage when she married a huge man with “neck bolts”!
Your honor, like most celebrity marriages this one was doomed from the beginning
Her child came out WITH A HEARTBEAT!!
Your honor, the part in question is not dead. It was donated by a young man undergoing a sex change.
“Coleman, you lost already, just let Franken-stein have what he deserves!”
Minnesota anyone?
You can keep the kidney, just give me back my hair!
Frankenstein never suspected that the Mad Doctor would emerge as the other man in their divorce case.
Your honor. Anyone can see she is fabrica —, HAS fabricated her entire story.
“We are also asking for an injunction to stop Mrs. F. from selling her story to “Popular Mechanics.”
SIR! Hands on the table
“Your Honor, would you be able to endure the taunts if your nephew were Bart Simpson?”
Sir, my client doesn’t even know how she keeps her hair up like that.
Your honor, my client had no idea that he and his spouse had the same father.
“Your Honor, my client tell me the defendent is cold and unresponsive.”
You’re honor, my client just couldn’t put up with all the whining and moaning anymore. Who could blame him?!?!
Judge, not only could my client not deal with her infidelity with Dracula, he couldnt handle her obsession with her repulsive hair.
And, in spit of the prenup, she refused to be frigid. She was warm and loving, your honor.
They’re clearly incompatible! He’s AC,she’s DC!
“Irreconcilable Differences? Your honor, she was always busting my client’s nuts and bolts!”
She can’t have the bolts! They are his!
Your honor, Mr. Frankenstein is a beautiful hybrid of a man, she, on the otherhand, is a gas guzzler.
Your Honor, we intend to prove this is not the first time the screws were put to my client.
Theirs was a match made in hell!