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Worm Family Cartoon Caption Contest

Dysfunctional earthworms?

Dysfunctional earthworms?

It’s Monday, and I’ve got another new cartoon that needs your help; just follow the instructions below:

This is the Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest, and the rules are pretty simple.

  • Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to the Splendid Marbles gallery of caption contest winners.) (Check out all the winners of the caption contest.)
  • You are allowed three submissions.
  • I will accept entries until midnight, Sunday, August 16th, 2009.
  • I’ll select five finalists, which will be voted on starting noon Monday, August 17th, 2009.
  • That’s it!

You can vote for your favorite caption in last week’s the “Ant Cowboy” contest.

It's time to vote for your favorite caption.

It's time to vote for your favorite caption.

VOTING WILL TAKE PLACE ON MONDAY AT NOON WITH THE START OF THE NEXT CAPTION CONTEST.

And here’s the winner of the “Family Dragon” contest:

Congratulations goes out to Greg G.

Congratulations goes out to Greg G.

I post brand new cartoons, with my very own captions, every Wednesday at noon, and I have a new piece of fantastic commentary for you to read every Friday at noon.

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And, check out more cartoons and the winners of the caption contest in the Splendid Marbles Cartoon Gallery.

Please note: I will send out an email on Mondays to remind you about the contest. I will NOT pester you at any other time during the week, and I will NOT share your email with another living soul – or organization run by the living. AND, I will take you off of the list as soon as you request to be removed – just send a reply email with “UNSUBSCRIBE” in the subject line. Thank you, and have fun with this week’s cartoon. (Please be advised: I reserve the right to remove comments that contain foul language.)

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Discussion

79 comments for “Worm Family Cartoon Caption Contest”

  1. Well Kids “you see” your momma don’t have eyes, so you don’t have eyes either….

    Posted by Russ | August 10, 2009, 12:08 pm
  2. you think you got it bad…when I was your age, I had to dig through frozen clay to get to school in the winter…

    Posted by tyler pomeroy | August 10, 2009, 12:11 pm
  3. Dad, when can I separte myself and have another brother?

    Posted by jason h | August 10, 2009, 12:12 pm
  4. No excuses boys…If you end up on the end of a fish hook..You be the best darn bait you can be…

    Posted by Russ | August 10, 2009, 12:13 pm
  5. Dad sits down to give his kids the hermaphrodite version of the “Birds and the Bees”.

    Posted by tyler pomeroy | August 10, 2009, 12:14 pm
  6. Ya, I’m not sure how she is going to dry the dishes either..

    Posted by Russ | August 10, 2009, 12:16 pm
  7. Hey dad, why is Timmy’s clitellum larger than mine?

    Posted by jason h | August 10, 2009, 12:19 pm
  8. Here’s what were going to do if that early bird shows up.

    Posted by Todd Barwick | August 10, 2009, 12:48 pm
  9. Dad, why are there birds watching us through the window?

    Posted by Cary Dion | August 10, 2009, 12:56 pm
  10. Johnny, do your homework, your not going to “worm” out of it.

    Posted by Cary Dion | August 10, 2009, 12:57 pm
  11. Dirt for dinner? AGAIN?!

    Posted by Jeffrey M. | August 10, 2009, 1:08 pm
  12. Weird thing is, your mother and I used to be the same worm.

    Posted by jason h | August 10, 2009, 1:10 pm
  13. Grandpa tried to scare the kids straight with the ghost story of the “Early Bird”.

    Posted by tyler pomeroy | August 10, 2009, 1:13 pm
  14. You know how hard it is for your mom to wash dishes without arms or hands?

    Posted by Bernie S. | August 10, 2009, 1:53 pm
  15. Why do I wear glasses if worms don’t have eyes? Good question son!

    Posted by Bernie S. | August 10, 2009, 1:57 pm
  16. Ok kids, repeat after me….I am NOT a screw, I’m a bolt

    Posted by Susan | August 10, 2009, 1:58 pm
  17. “I`m sorry guys, our Woodworming days are over,the owners have just bought a plastic table and chairs.”

    Posted by ken wilkinson | August 10, 2009, 1:59 pm
  18. Dad, Johnny says vacuum hoses aren’t welcome here…., is that true?

    Posted by Susan | August 10, 2009, 2:00 pm
  19. Aw honey, can I eat those flowers? Or are they for company….

    Posted by Susan | August 10, 2009, 2:02 pm
  20. Someday you won’t meet someone you love, and you’ll decide to bud a new you. And thats how babies are made.

    Posted by Scott | August 10, 2009, 2:03 pm
  21. The principle called today. It seems one of my twins has been hiding in the teacher’s apple again?

    Posted by Scott | August 10, 2009, 2:06 pm
  22. …. and that’s how uncle Morty became an extra in the movie “Tremors”

    Posted by Chucky B | August 10, 2009, 2:07 pm
  23. What have I told you two about burrowing under the house? Now the kitchen isn’t level!

    Posted by Scott | August 10, 2009, 2:08 pm
  24. After it rained, yep, haha … and that’s when I realized I was stuck in the driveway

    Posted by Chucky B | August 10, 2009, 2:11 pm
  25. “How dare you call your father a snake.”

    Posted by Mark | August 10, 2009, 2:16 pm
  26. “Yea….Like I know where the humanhole to the Universe is located.”

    Posted by Mark | August 10, 2009, 2:18 pm
  27. “Stop hiding in the apples and do your homework!”

    Posted by Mark | August 10, 2009, 2:20 pm
  28. “Hey why is your dad wearing glasses?”

    “He like’s to pretend he’s a bookworm.”

    Posted by Chucky B | August 10, 2009, 2:20 pm
  29. “Earthworms travel underground by the means of waves of muscular contractions which alternately shorten and lengthen the body. I used to do this uphill in the snow every day on the way to school…”

    Posted by Bill Rabello | August 10, 2009, 2:44 pm
  30. “So I jumped off the hook and swam like a bat outta hell to the surface.”

    Posted by Bill Rabello | August 10, 2009, 2:46 pm
  31. “That’s right kids, earthworms are hermaphrodites. YOU HEAR THAT HELEN, GO SCREW YOURSELF!”

    Posted by Bill Rabello | August 10, 2009, 2:49 pm
  32. what do you mean its as hard as shoving a worm back in it’s hole.

    Posted by Mark O | August 10, 2009, 2:58 pm
  33. “Dear Lord… thank you for making the Heavens and the earth…”

    Posted by Steven Benson | August 10, 2009, 3:16 pm
  34. “We come from a long line of dirt farmers…”

    Posted by Steven Benson | August 10, 2009, 3:17 pm
  35. “Boys, I told you: ‘No talking dirty at the table!’”

    Posted by Steven Benson | August 10, 2009, 3:26 pm
  36. Get over it. All worms are bisexual.

    Posted by Qwerty | August 10, 2009, 3:40 pm
  37. Father is telling his little worms about the birds and the bees.

    Posted by GILBERT DOERING | August 10, 2009, 3:46 pm
  38. For the last time we don’t have a favourite…we did back when you guys were just one worm…

    Posted by Ryan N | August 10, 2009, 3:52 pm
  39. Now its your first swimming lesson, every worm has to learn….

    Posted by Tom | August 10, 2009, 4:20 pm
  40. Listen up, you three – NOBODY gets more ‘wiggle room.’

    Posted by Marc J Ouellette | August 10, 2009, 5:24 pm
  41. Larry, stop baiting your sisters!

    Posted by Marc J Ouellette | August 10, 2009, 5:30 pm
  42. “No Willy, I don’t care that it will grow back, you still can’t stand on your bother’s tail!!”

    Posted by OZ | August 10, 2009, 6:41 pm
  43. In what could only be described as the last act of a lonely individual, Walter gathers random scrap air ducts to create his “perfect” family

    Posted by OZ | August 10, 2009, 6:48 pm
  44. Stop trying to wiggle your way out of the dishes. Two mouths get it done faster than one.

    Posted by Cassandra Boyd | August 10, 2009, 7:22 pm
  45. “You see children, I left your father because he was a nightcrawler……”

    Posted by Greg | August 10, 2009, 9:59 pm
  46. Edgar! Apologize to your sister for putting a hook under her bed this instant!

    Posted by Jeffrey M. | August 10, 2009, 10:14 pm
  47. So June says,”Ward, go easy on the Beaver”.

    Posted by Brian | August 10, 2009, 10:16 pm
  48. I have bad news kids, your grandfather rose early this morning and…

    Posted by Jeffrey M. | August 10, 2009, 10:17 pm
  49. “…because we, the family of Rothchild, returned to our original physical form during this most recent human evolution.”

    Posted by Sandy | August 11, 2009, 2:32 am
  50. “Well in my day, all we had was dirt.”

    Posted by DWR | August 11, 2009, 2:33 am
  51. “Anybody else see the roast of Joan Rivers? I was born in her face you know.”

    Posted by DWR | August 11, 2009, 2:34 am
  52. Non-entry:

    It was never clear why Uncle Zim would wear glasses to correct his vision, after all he had no eyes and couldn’t stand to see himself in the mirror.

    Posted by DWR | August 11, 2009, 2:38 am
  53. “Boy`s,it`s bad news,the Fire Brigade says you`re to small to join as Fire Hoses.”

    Posted by ken wilkinson | August 11, 2009, 5:57 am
  54. “Yes, it’s true. The rest of the world does suffer from penis envy.”

    Posted by Sandy | August 11, 2009, 10:01 am
  55. I’m telling you both now, DON’T play with the neighbors! There’s something very fishy about them!

    Posted by Diana | August 11, 2009, 10:11 am
  56. Dad, just because we stop leaving in dirt and start wearing glasses, doesn’t mean the neighbors will finally accept us as “normal”…

    Posted by Mike | August 11, 2009, 1:17 pm
  57. Manure this, manure that – Harriet, if you miss composting so much you should have married Tom instead of an apple borer like me!

    Posted by Marc J Ouellette | August 11, 2009, 3:01 pm
  58. Grandpa tells the kiddies all about the giant bird that almost got him back in the old days.

    Posted by Peter Hepburn | August 11, 2009, 3:04 pm
  59. I am your mom and your dad. Can you spell hermaphrodite?

    Posted by Peter Hepburn | August 11, 2009, 5:03 pm
  60. I told you two that if you got into trouble at school again you would be hosed and I mean it!!

    Posted by John Flynn | August 11, 2009, 5:31 pm
  61. Did I tell you that I was once a famous actor? I played the part of Robby the Robot’s arms in “lost in Space”

    Posted by Bob Swanson | August 11, 2009, 5:33 pm
  62. Kids, in these hard times it is good that our family is flexible. We need to stick together.

    Posted by John Flynn | August 11, 2009, 5:33 pm
  63. Kids, you need to stick up for yourselves when those other kids tease you. Just because you are a Hoover extension does not mean you suck!

    Posted by John Flynn | August 11, 2009, 5:38 pm
  64. “Count your blessings. Last week we would have had Amish dudes riding our backs.”

    Posted by Sandy | August 11, 2009, 7:33 pm
  65. “We’re trying to keep up with the Leeches, so concentrate on becoming a blood sucker.”

    Posted by Sandy | August 11, 2009, 7:45 pm
  66. I was part of the underground movement and helped overthrow the humans.

    Posted by Peter Hepburn | August 12, 2009, 2:51 pm
  67. “Oh no… Not another one of grandpa’s World Worm II stories!”

    Posted by James | August 13, 2009, 9:31 am
  68. “Father can’t help but cry when he talks about the early bird that got grandpa…”

    Posted by James | August 13, 2009, 9:33 am
  69. “Earl, what did I say about telling the kids stories about fish hooks”

    Posted by Reaunna | August 13, 2009, 10:36 am
  70. Luke, I am your father. And your mother.

    Posted by Marc | August 13, 2009, 11:26 am
  71. …and that, kids, is why the late worm lives.

    Posted by MRF | August 13, 2009, 11:37 am
  72. What do you say we go camping soon? You know, get back to the earth, turn over some top soil like the old days.

    Posted by MRF | August 13, 2009, 11:41 am
  73. “We`ve been made redundant,the plumbers decided to use Plastic Pipes from now on.”

    Posted by ken wilkinson | August 14, 2009, 6:29 am
  74. “You don’t want to end up like your Uncle Bobby” gramps said. “Decided he’d rather go see the world instead of going to school, made it as far as Mexico, and has been living at the bottom of a tequila bottle ever since!”

    Posted by Lisa Keller | August 14, 2009, 12:04 pm
  75. “Tell us another story grandpa!” “Yeah gramps! Tell us about the time you were on a playground and that gross boy almost ate you!”

    Posted by Lisa Keller | August 14, 2009, 12:22 pm
  76. Don’t worry kids we will never become obsolete. The next invention is just around the corner . Remember the flexible flashlight?

    Posted by Bob Swanson | August 14, 2009, 12:39 pm
  77. Just make sure you don’t end up in one of those white styrofoam cups and life will be all sunshine and dirt.

    Posted by GLR | August 14, 2009, 2:04 pm
  78. O.K. kids, tell your mom who left the worm droppings all over the house!

    Posted by DeeAnn S | August 15, 2009, 12:14 pm
  79. Two by two is four. Four by four is eight. Then after we take the kitchen, we hit the den.

    Posted by Marla K | August 16, 2009, 10:16 am

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