March 31, 2009
Submit a caption #2

This week's winner: 
#17 by 2wheelsisbest. "Angry and fed up, the potatoes decided
to confront Dr. Atkins eye-to-eye."

Local cartoonist - Rick Parker is supplying the cartoons: http://www.rickparkerart.com

Contest will run through Midnight on Tuesday, April 7th.

Last week's winner: 
#11 by tigerlilly. "I think you're taking your job as
headhunter too seriously"
 

Comments:
1) One potato, two potato, three potato

AAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!

Posted by: bets at April 01, 2009 at 12:16am
2) just how many of those little blue pills did you take exactly?!?!?
Posted by: Hankzona at April 01, 2009 at 12:21am
3) This is your bed. This is your bed on drugs.
Posted by: dave at April 01, 2009 at 12:26am
4) That genie has a hearing problem -- I said stud!!
Posted by: organizeubetter at April 01, 2009 at 01:58am
5) How vegetarian Godfathers make their point...
Posted by: doulamomma at April 01, 2009 at 10:53am
6) Dear God! Maybe you're right I do have the Irish disease!
Posted by: SHADEAUX at April 01, 2009 at 12:16pm
7) The day famed elephant trainer Dr. Fritz Plonker proposed his theory on the extinction of the wooly mammoth.
Posted by: Dytunck at April 01, 2009 at 12:49pm
8) I told you those didn't look like eyes growing on those potatoes!
Posted by: KSS at April 01, 2009 at 01:29pm
9) You say potato, I say potatahto!!!
Posted by: jdranove at April 01, 2009 at 03:34pm
10) Call the exterminator, we have bed spuds!
Posted by: chanteusie at April 01, 2009 at 08:47pm
11) Potatorgeist
Posted by: Towngirl at April 01, 2009 at 10:07pm
12) And you say I'm boring in bed!?!
Posted by: fiche at April 01, 2009 at 10:07pm
13) Potatogeist...
Posted by: towngirl at April 01, 2009 at 10:09pm
14) Stud? I thought you said spud!
Posted by: fiche at April 01, 2009 at 10:18pm
15) When the Irish Godfather makes you an offer you can't refuse.
Posted by: nohero at April 02, 2009 at 11:36am
16) I told you to plant the vegetable garden in the old FLOWER bed.
Posted by: joan crystal at April 02, 2009 at 01:28pm
17) Angry and fed up, the potatoes decided to confront Dr. Atkins eye-to-eye.
Posted by: 2wheelsisbest at April 02, 2009 at 02:06pm
18) Marge call the exterminator!!! I think I've figured out what that sucking sound is????
Posted by: dano at April 02, 2009 at 03:52pm
19) We've got our eyes on you...
Posted by: towngirl at April 02, 2009 at 06:29pm
20) This has never happened to me before. I swear.
Posted by: Aplewood Man at April 02, 2009 at 06:33pm
21) Revenge of the kidney stones...
Posted by: towngirl at April 02, 2009 at 06:38pm
22) You can set your clock to it, I poop every morning at 8:00, the only problem is I get out of bed at 9.
Posted by: Aplewood Man at April 02, 2009 at 06:41pm
23) If this is the size of the droppings, how big are the bed bugs?
Posted by: towngirl at April 02, 2009 at 06:43pm
24) Honey, we have to stop letting the dog sleep on the bed!
Posted by: Aplewood Man at April 02, 2009 at 06:44pm
25) Honey, what are all those things in our bed, and why does everyone in this contest assume they're potatoes?
Posted by: Aplewood Man at April 02, 2009 at 06:50pm
26) Couch potatoes got sick of the sofa so they invade the bed.
Posted by: eyetry at April 02, 2009 at 07:23pm
27) "I...I...I...I think the couch potatoes are tired of the sofa and invading our bed"
Posted by: eyetry at April 02, 2009 at 08:15pm
28) Beans Beans good for the heart, the more you eat the more you
Posted by: vacanculo at April 02, 2009 at 09:22pm
29) These potatoes want to know who won the first caption contest!
Posted by: angelak at April 02, 2009 at 09:49pm
30) Atkins Diet nightmares...
Posted by: JDeez at April 03, 2009 at 09:19am
31) "Looks like someone got their rocks off"

Posted by: eyetry at April 03, 2009 at 12:29pm
32) "Okay, okay! No more mashed potatoes!"
Posted by: Bluetylerson at April 03, 2009 at 03:42pm
33) That was "Keep the home fires burning...not home FRIES."
Posted by: sodisenchanted at April 04, 2009 at 12:19pm
34) Yours isn't so a-peeling anymore, either.
Posted by: sodisenchanted at April 04, 2009 at 12:21pm
35) Honey, go get the salt. I think the slugs are getting out of hand...
Posted by: wolfmak at April 04, 2009 at 07:46pm
36) POLITICAL HOT POTATOES!!!!!!!

Posted by: gentlemanjim at April 04, 2009 at 11:01pm
37) The growth hormones really worked on the bed bugs. I can't wait until we start human trials.
Posted by: joan crystal at April 05, 2009 at 10:05am
38) What if they are not vegetarians?
Posted by: joan crystal at April 05, 2009 at 10:06am
39) My dreams of dreaded cellulite have come to fruition!
Posted by: sheltiemum at April 05, 2009 at 04:04pm
40) I knew it was dangerous to accept a kidney transplant from an alien!
Posted by: thoreau at April 05, 2009 at 04:44pm
41) I'll never get my rocks off with those curlers in your hair!
Posted by: eyetry at April 06, 2009 at 02:12pm
42) First a horse's head and now this!
Posted by: joan crystal at April 07, 2009 at 07:48am
43) Dan Quayle continues to have the same nightmare
Posted by: tom_kerns at April 07, 2009 at 09:07am
44) Dan Quayle continues to have the same nightmare
Posted by: tom_kerns at April 07, 2009 at 09:07am
45) Coming soon to a theatre near you: Attack of the Killer Potatoes!
Posted by: Calliope at April 07, 2009 at 09:25am
46) What the hell was Parker thinking.
Posted by: towardtheone at April 07, 2009 at 12:39pm
47) Nooooo! Not the middle-aged Rock and Rollers reality check!
Posted by: weemaa at April 07, 2009 at 01:18pm
48) We can't look -- we're petrified of what we might find!
Posted by: weemaa at April 07, 2009 at 02:24pm
49) "Honey, there in everybody's eggs."
Posted by: mikesbrain at April 07, 2009 at 07:38pm
50) For Heaven's sake Harry, couldn't you leave the couch potatoes in the living room?
Posted by: weemaa at April 07, 2009 at 10:08pm
51) It's Spuds, Nick!
Posted by: weemaa at April 07, 2009 at 10:12pm
52) Honey, this new stonewashed blanket rocks!
Posted by: weemaa at April 07, 2009 at 10:14pm



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