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“Boot Canyon” Cartoon Caption Contest

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This is the World Famous Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest- so dig it!

  • Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could 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 FIVE submissions.
  • I will accept entries until midnight, Sunday, January 24th 2010.
  • I’ll select five finalists, which will be voted on starting noon Monday, January 25th 2010.
  • That’s it!

Here’s your opportunity to vote on last week’s “Feline Armageddon” contest:

I love cats.

Time to vote on the "Feline Apocalypse" caption!

  • 3. "“Thumbs equal trouble”…I’ve said it a thousand times…" - Thom (35%, 20 Votes)
  • 2. "That puts the ow in meow." - David Patterson (30%, 17 Votes)
  • 1. "So, what’s your sign?" - Andrea Hodge (18%, 10 Votes)
  • 5. "Don't you ever get tired of using the catbox?" - Ian Heimbigner (14%, 8 Votes)
  • 4. "I think I just heard a mouse run up the clock. Dibs on the tail." - Peter Hepburn (3%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 57

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You, Mr. Fran Welch, are a very funny guy - nicely done.

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147 comments for ““Boot Canyon” Cartoon Caption Contest”

  1. Waiting for the second shoe to drop as usual.

    Posted by Mark Cherry | January 18, 2010, 9:25 am
  2. I guess he wasn’t Jellin.

    Posted by Mark Cherry | January 18, 2010, 9:26 am
  3. I wonder why they call them the “Foothills?”

    Posted by Mark Cherry | January 18, 2010, 9:28 am
  4. The Persistence of Tide

    Posted by Pat Connors | January 18, 2010, 9:38 am
  5. Noooooo, looking at a giant naked man doesn’t make feel uncomfortable at all

    Posted by Joseph Conn | January 18, 2010, 9:39 am
  6. And you said you weren’t a size queen

    Posted by Joseph Conn | January 18, 2010, 9:41 am
  7. I wan’t a divorce

    Posted by Joseph Conn | January 18, 2010, 9:41 am
  8. We are witnessing One Giant Leap for Mankind!

    Posted by Lisa Masters | January 18, 2010, 9:44 am
  9. People at burning man are really running out of ideas

    Posted by Joseph Conn | January 18, 2010, 9:49 am
  10. Happy Anniversary Honey! Refreshing view isn’t it?

    Posted by Cindy Lee | January 18, 2010, 10:03 am
  11. Big Foot’s just a myth, right?

    Posted by Qwerty | January 18, 2010, 10:05 am
  12. Wow, if only this guy would play for the Philadelphia Sixer’s.

    Posted by Cindy Lee | January 18, 2010, 10:13 am
  13. Something tells me that we’re not in Kansas anymore!

    Posted by Cindy Lee | January 18, 2010, 10:14 am
  14. We must be in the Land Of The Giants.

    Posted by John Ferris | January 18, 2010, 10:16 am
  15. Um honey, I took a wrong turn, so you can check this out.

    Posted by Cindy Lee | January 18, 2010, 10:16 am
  16. Wow, Yao Ming is already a stop on the Great Wall tour!

    Posted by Fran Welch | January 18, 2010, 10:18 am
  17. Watch what you say or they will give you the boot and we will have to sock it to them!

    Posted by Jeri | January 18, 2010, 10:30 am
  18. “Yes, I can see he doesn’t have a woman to clean up after him.”

    Posted by Kenneth Treacher | January 18, 2010, 10:48 am
  19. “I’d say our suspect is about 30 feet tall, 1100 pounds, and is wearing one shoe.”

    Posted by Kenneth Treacher | January 18, 2010, 10:54 am
  20. This place gives one the feeling that there is some force greater than humanity at work in our lives.

    Posted by Bob | January 18, 2010, 10:54 am
  21. “Is that a Rolex?”

    Posted by Kenneth Treacher | January 18, 2010, 10:55 am
  22. “Now I see why he’s call Paul BUNYAN!”

    Posted by Kenneth Treacher | January 18, 2010, 11:00 am
  23. I’m sorry honey. I didn’t realize Big “Sur” was short for Surrealism.

    Posted by Melissa | January 18, 2010, 11:05 am
  24. YOU tell him to pick up after himself.

    Posted by Gary Welch | January 18, 2010, 11:13 am
  25. I hear they used to film Married With Children around these parts.

    Posted by Gianna | January 18, 2010, 11:53 am
  26. “you know what they say about a man with BIG FEET!”

    Posted by Angel Redoble | January 18, 2010, 12:09 pm
  27. “must take a truckload of detergent to do his laundry”

    Posted by Angel Redoble | January 18, 2010, 12:11 pm
  28. “i can imagine the food bill!”

    Posted by Angel Redoble | January 18, 2010, 12:12 pm
  29. “These Salvado Dali landscapes fail to do much for me.”

    Posted by Sandy | January 18, 2010, 12:12 pm
  30. “how am i suppose to compete with that?”

    Posted by Angel Redoble | January 18, 2010, 12:13 pm
  31. “and you want us to adopt a kid that size?”

    Posted by Angel Redoble | January 18, 2010, 12:14 pm
  32. “…and here we have the testing grounds for Timex watches, Timberland boots, and Woolrich socks, survivors all.”

    Posted by Sandy | January 18, 2010, 12:14 pm
  33. “at least you don’t have to worry about him being bullied”

    Posted by Angel Redoble | January 18, 2010, 12:15 pm
  34. “It makes me question if dinosaurs were real or not.”

    Posted by Sandy | January 18, 2010, 12:15 pm
  35. “It’s obviously fake. There’s no footprint.”

    Posted by Sandy | January 18, 2010, 12:16 pm
  36. “having given birth to this child, i now petition the court to change my name to CANDY CANYON!”

    Posted by Angel Redoble | January 18, 2010, 12:17 pm
  37. “Where’s the nesting birds? Every monument has bird poop on it.”

    Posted by Sandy | January 18, 2010, 12:18 pm
  38. “i’m so glad we build macmansions!”

    Posted by Angel Redoble | January 18, 2010, 12:20 pm
  39. Paul Bunyan’s Teenage Years – The Exhibit

    Posted by Marc J Ouellette | January 18, 2010, 12:20 pm
  40. “Funny..they don’t seem so big up close”

    Posted by OZ | January 18, 2010, 12:26 pm
  41. Just be glad we don’t see any pants or underwear laying around… but if it starts raining run for cover.

    Posted by Bob Swanson | January 18, 2010, 12:27 pm
  42. How come it always look better in the brochure?

    Posted by Bernie S. | January 18, 2010, 1:01 pm
  43. I knew Italy looked like a boot but I didn’t know it came with a sock and a watch.

    Posted by Bernie S. | January 18, 2010, 1:03 pm
  44. I know Italy looks like a boot but I didn’t know it came with a sock and watch.

    Correction

    Posted by Bernie S. | January 18, 2010, 1:05 pm
  45. “Where’s the beef” honey, mind your manners.

    Posted by Cary Dion | January 18, 2010, 1:26 pm
  46. I told the zoo keeper to never let the giants have tequila, now look what happened.

    Posted by Cary Dion | January 18, 2010, 1:36 pm
  47. Oh my! We really are going to see the Pitiful Helpless Giant.

    Posted by Les Burrows | January 18, 2010, 1:49 pm
  48. Dang. I knew we should have taken up the car hire company’s offer of excess insurance.

    Posted by Les Burrows | January 18, 2010, 1:52 pm
  49. This was the land of the Jolly Green Giant before global warming.

    Posted by GILBERT DOERING | January 18, 2010, 1:53 pm
  50. I know you said your father was a big man in these parts Elma, but I wasn’t expecting this.

    Posted by Les Burrows | January 18, 2010, 1:53 pm
  51. Like I told you honey, be firm,look them in the eye and they just can’t take it.

    Posted by Les Burrows | January 18, 2010, 2:00 pm
  52. Amazing. No-one has any idea why their civilisation came to an end. They were once the biggest thing around in these parts.

    Posted by Les Burrows | January 18, 2010, 2:02 pm
  53. Well Tina – what do you think of Optical Illusion Valley?

    Posted by Les Burrows | January 18, 2010, 2:04 pm
  54. “The war in Iraq costed an arm and a leg, these are the remains.”

    Posted by Victor H. | January 18, 2010, 2:54 pm
  55. See, I told you there must be a pool here-somewhere!

    Posted by barbara | January 18, 2010, 2:55 pm
  56. “The Valley of Kicking Butt and Rocking Socks Off, was not as rock and roll as the brochure made it out to be.”

    Posted by Victor H. | January 18, 2010, 2:56 pm
  57. “This is where David challenged Goliatch to a game of strip poker.”

    Posted by Victor H. | January 18, 2010, 2:57 pm
  58. Uh have you given any thought to what might have scared him off?

    Posted by barbara | January 18, 2010, 2:57 pm
  59. “This is where David challenged Goliath to a game of strip poker.”

    Sorry about another comment but I had a typo above ^

    Posted by Victor H. | January 18, 2010, 2:58 pm
  60. Hey hon, look around for a wallet!

    Posted by barbara | January 18, 2010, 2:58 pm
  61. My guess, is he is in BIG TROUBLE!

    Posted by barbara | January 18, 2010, 3:00 pm
  62. We’re gonna need a truckload of crime scene tape, for this one…

    Posted by barbara | January 18, 2010, 3:05 pm
  63. “Honey,I don`t think this Dr Martens will cure your Blood Pressure.”

    Posted by ken wilkinson | January 18, 2010, 3:12 pm
  64. Gulliver is skinny-dipping again.

    Posted by Steven Benson | January 18, 2010, 3:55 pm
  65. “I don’t see the need for the binoculars…”

    Posted by Steven Benson | January 18, 2010, 3:56 pm
  66. “Wow, what an amazing site! This reminds me of my old college entrance exam. Boot is to sock, as watch is to what?”

    Posted by Marilyn Brenden | January 18, 2010, 3:58 pm
  67. “Did you ever feel small and insignificant…”

    Posted by Steven Benson | January 18, 2010, 3:59 pm
  68. Disney re-thinks it’s “Small World” attraction.

    Posted by Steven Benson | January 18, 2010, 4:01 pm
  69. Hmm, the woman living in the boot must not have liked her neighbor in the Stiletto Heel.

    Posted by Diggin | January 18, 2010, 4:33 pm
  70. Wow, isn’t it just so beaut… OH MY GOODNESS!!! It’s 3 o’clock! We gotta go!!!

    Posted by Diggin | January 18, 2010, 4:39 pm
  71. “You had to go ahead and climb the bean stalk, Jack. You couldn’t just climb a tree.”

    Posted by Catherine Algiers | January 18, 2010, 5:46 pm
  72. Uh, honey? He’s heading back this way. Maybe we should get in the car.

    Posted by Catherine Algiers | January 18, 2010, 5:49 pm
  73. Feel At Home Desert is bigger than expected.

    Posted by Yvonne Coronado | January 18, 2010, 6:04 pm
  74. The Valley of Undressed Time!

    Posted by Yvonne Coronado | January 18, 2010, 6:06 pm
  75. “This is really the worst flea market I have been to.”

    Posted by Greg | January 18, 2010, 6:16 pm
  76. Timeless Foothills!

    Posted by Yvonne Coronado | January 18, 2010, 6:39 pm
  77. They say these are the wonders of the modern world!

    Posted by Sheila P | January 18, 2010, 6:58 pm
  78. The treasure map said nothing about a boot and sock, but I think we’ve found the large time piece!

    Posted by DeeAnn S | January 18, 2010, 7:34 pm
  79. Kinda makes ya wonder if those are really mountains in the background!

    Posted by DeeAnn S | January 18, 2010, 7:38 pm
  80. How was I to know it was a ray gun. I thought it was for sightseeing!

    Posted by DeeAnn S | January 18, 2010, 7:41 pm
  81. “Wow honey……look at his stimulus package.”

    Posted by Cary Dion | January 18, 2010, 8:14 pm
  82. I’ve finally figured out the puzzel, Martha, “It’s time, to boot, the white sox.”

    (Yes, I am a creative genius)

    Posted by Cary Dion | January 18, 2010, 8:31 pm
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  84. “Well I’ll be, Connie.” “Things really ARE bigger in Texas!”

    Posted by K | January 18, 2010, 9:14 pm
  85. Wow,just beautiful.

    Posted by Andrea Hodge | January 18, 2010, 10:41 pm
  86. I’m in awe.

    Posted by Andrea Hodge | January 18, 2010, 10:41 pm
  87. So, on what day do you think God created this?

    Posted by Andrea Hodge | January 18, 2010, 10:41 pm
  88. It’s raining men.

    Posted by Andrea Hodge | January 18, 2010, 10:42 pm
  89. I wish the kids were here with us to see this. They would just love it!

    Posted by Andrea Hodge | January 18, 2010, 10:42 pm
  90. Now how do you like that!!!
    And I always thought that the
    Old Woman Who Lives In A Shoe
    was a fairytale!

    Posted by Amy Downs | January 18, 2010, 11:42 pm
  91. I told you not to give me that last drink.

    Posted by Doug Howland | January 19, 2010, 12:17 am
  92. I’m must be reliving my youth. The mushrooms are making me to imagine things again.

    Posted by Doug Howland | January 19, 2010, 12:19 am
  93. See? Bigger isn’t always better!

    Posted by ksaucy | January 19, 2010, 3:49 am
  94. “they still haven’t figured out how to set the watch”

    Posted by Jeff | January 19, 2010, 4:52 am
  95. I thought you were telling tall tales when you described this place.

    Posted by Judith | January 19, 2010, 8:56 am
  96. The guide book says that he used to be short and scrawny until he enrolled in a bodybuilding program.

    Posted by Judith | January 19, 2010, 10:25 am
  97. Picasso’s art display.

    Posted by Emily P | January 19, 2010, 11:51 am
  98. Grand Canyon 2021.

    Posted by Emily P | January 19, 2010, 11:51 am
  99. The guidebook was right Elaine, Ed Smith’s bathroom floor IS picturesque!

    Posted by Jeffrey M. | January 19, 2010, 2:01 pm
  100. The belt, wallet and the rumored candy wrapper are an hour east-let’s hurry before the maid gets there!

    Posted by Jeffrey M. | January 19, 2010, 2:04 pm
  101. It is pretty and all, but I just can’t help but think of that poor village under the sock.

    Posted by Jeffrey M. | January 19, 2010, 2:06 pm
  102. Ever since the Green Valley dried up, the Jolly Green Giant has lost his zest for life.

    Posted by Steve Naso | January 19, 2010, 3:19 pm
  103. I hope this isn’t the new shoe bomber training center.

    Posted by Jim Cavanaugh | January 19, 2010, 4:46 pm
  104. “Wally… I thought you said this was PG 13?”

    Posted by Roxy Lane | January 19, 2010, 5:27 pm
  105. My mother would have LOVED this.

    Posted by Roxy Lane | January 19, 2010, 8:59 pm
  106. He says he’s a big boy now–why can’t he just pick up after himself?

    Posted by Steve Long | January 20, 2010, 10:07 am
  107. “You smell that?”

    Posted by OZ | January 20, 2010, 10:15 am
  108. This trip has been nothing but a big waste.

    Posted by Fran Welch | January 20, 2010, 10:20 am
  109. I wonder how Mark Mcguire got that big.

    Posted by Fran Welch | January 20, 2010, 10:28 am
  110. You’re right, Shaq is a slob.

    Posted by Fran Welch | January 20, 2010, 10:39 am
  111. “Area 51 magnified”

    Posted by April Marshall | January 20, 2010, 11:03 am
  112. I didn’t think your mother would be here.

    Posted by Douglas Howland | January 20, 2010, 1:29 pm
  113. So uh… You come here often?

    Posted by Diggin | January 20, 2010, 1:42 pm
  114. I cannot believe they call this art.

    Posted by Mike | January 20, 2010, 2:30 pm
  115. Looks like Paul Bunyan is finally getting some.

    Posted by Mike | January 20, 2010, 2:31 pm
  116. We’re gonna need a toe truck.

    Posted by Jim Cavanaugh | January 20, 2010, 5:32 pm
  117. Blisters, I suppose.

    Posted by Jim Cavanaugh | January 20, 2010, 5:33 pm
  118. I brought you here to talk about your foot odor.

    Posted by Jim Cavanaugh | January 20, 2010, 5:33 pm
  119. honey it looks like it is time to get on with the tour and see what happens next.

    Posted by dean welcome | January 20, 2010, 6:29 pm
  120. “Time to kick a bobbysoxer’s ….”
    The rest of the rebus seems to be missing.

    Posted by Fran Welch | January 20, 2010, 11:33 pm
  121. “Honey, I blew up the kid…again”

    Posted by Ezizabef | January 21, 2010, 4:24 am
  122. “Historic landmark for the Battle of Little Big Foot”

    “Evidence that Paul Bunyan was in Area 51”

    “Modernization attempts for the Jolly Green Giant have failed”

    “Future site of Giant’s Stadium”

    “Proof that Jack and the Beanstalk was no fairytale”

    Posted by April Marshall | January 21, 2010, 11:13 am
  123. “So this is where the story of Jack began?”

    Posted by Janis Ford | January 21, 2010, 11:20 am
  124. Deleted scene from “Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves”.

    Posted by Janis Ford | January 21, 2010, 11:22 am
  125. “Is there any chance of making it to those mountains without getting trampled?”

    Posted by Janis Ford | January 21, 2010, 11:23 am
  126. “Sleepless in Colorado”

    Posted by Janis Ford | January 21, 2010, 11:24 am
  127. “It always pays to have a second opinion!”

    Posted by Janis Ford | January 21, 2010, 11:25 am
  128. And these are the foothills of the Rockies

    Posted by jason h | January 21, 2010, 11:46 am
  129. Do you have a quarter? I want to use that viewer and get a closer look.

    Posted by jason h | January 21, 2010, 11:51 am
  130. Hey honey, can you believe we’re just “one foot” away from those mountains…

    Posted by Diggin | January 21, 2010, 4:00 pm
  131. I told him not to “set foot” on death valley…

    Posted by Diggin | January 21, 2010, 4:07 pm
  132. Honey, you should’nt have said those shorts made her butt look big.

    Posted by leo | January 21, 2010, 11:29 pm
  133. ” Next stop…Underpants Lookout”.

    Posted by Greg | January 22, 2010, 12:25 am
  134. “Probably taking a break while the cropduster powders his feet.”

    Posted by Keith in Dallas | January 22, 2010, 12:51 pm
  135. “You oughta see his skate key.”

    Posted by Keith in Dallas | January 22, 2010, 12:52 pm
  136. “No. Let’s don’t open our shine parlor here.”

    Posted by Keith in Dallas | January 22, 2010, 1:04 pm
  137. The clocks wrong. I want a divorce.

    Posted by Thom | January 22, 2010, 5:50 pm
  138. I am Christo…It’s what I do. Plus, I make 75 € a month on the telescope.

    Posted by Thom | January 22, 2010, 5:55 pm
  139. “Looks like you win. I had Col. Mustard in the library with the candlestick.”

    Posted by Kenneth Treacher | January 22, 2010, 11:44 pm
  140. with mastercard you get all most any thing you want like a giant boot 427 dollars a giant sock 216 dollars a giant watch 791 dollars and not seeing where they came from priceless

    Posted by dean | January 23, 2010, 1:07 pm
  141. I’ve been here a hunderd times and I still don’t get it.

    Posted by Thom | January 23, 2010, 3:32 pm
  142. Apparently it was time for some new boots.

    Posted by Jim Cavanaugh | January 23, 2010, 6:32 pm
  143. It’s Indian sign language.

    Posted by Judith | January 24, 2010, 12:59 am
  144. Sweaty socks need love too.

    Posted by Leslie Hudson | January 24, 2010, 9:18 pm
  145. Shoe says to sock,”Was I silly to think that we were made for each other?”

    Posted by Leslie Hudson | January 24, 2010, 9:21 pm
  146. Man says to woman,”See I told you! Giants really do exist!”

    Posted by Leslie Hudson | January 24, 2010, 9:24 pm
  147. “Honey, please calm down. It’s not always true what they say about the size of a man’s shoe…”

    Posted by Mark Revis | January 30, 2010, 3:02 pm

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