Operation: Fill in the Lobster

In the end, one caption really made us chuckle, and so we’d like to award the victory in this operation to The Stolker. Here is his entry:

PAUL: What do you mean you can’t finish your mission?
LOBSTER: It’s because I’m in love!
PAUL: Then the communists have won…

We’re also offering Runners Up status to baggins_of_41, King Kool, and sk8sheep24.

sk8sheep24’s Runner Up Entry:

Paul: Ahhh! A talking lobster!
Lobster: Ahhh! A talking human!
Paul: Ahhh! Where?!?!

King Kool’s Runner Up Entry:

Paul: I hope my date isn’t allergic to seafood.
Lobster: So you’re Paul! What are you making?
Paul: Sssssssalads?

Here are some of the other entries that were sent in, including baggins_of_41’s Runner Up entry:

Edit: Thanks to Vigafre and King Kool for whipping up graphical versions of the winning and Runner Up entries which were just text-based! I’ve added those to the gallery.

We want you to do something along the same lines. Jer threw together a comic strip-style page using screenshots from the LRR video “Ways to Stay Awake”, and it’s up to you to fill in the blanks!

Here’s the image:

Fill in the blanks and win a forum medal!

Right-click here and choose Save As for a full resolution version.

You can edit your text into the image directly, or just send us the words themselves, with directions as to which panel they go in. For example, it might look something like this:

PAUL: I love radishes!

LOBSTER: I love radishes too!

PAUL: We’re best friends forever!

Send your entries to operations@loadingreadyrunners.com by midnight on Friday, August 21. If you’d like to be added to the Runners, be sure to include your forum name with your submission.

In the end, it turned into a bit more of a microfiction contest than a caption contest for some people, but those were entertaining, and we appreciate all the effort everyone put into trying to explain just what was going on in our photo.

In the end, we had to pick one person to win the medal, and that person is…

Send in your caption to win a medal!

RowanAmeth

Rowan submitted the following caption:

And so, the majestic LRR begin their long migratory trek from their seasonal home at Anime Evolution. Little is known about these reclusive creatures, but it is thought that the smaller LRR cling to the larger ones for safety. Seen here, the LRRherd attempts to take shelter in a large industrial vent, one adaptation they have made to human presence in their native habitats. Unfortunately, these LRR will likely be hunted by poachers for their pelts, which fetch a high price in some markets.

Thanks for the entry, Rowan! You’ll be getting your medal soon (hopefully).

We also liked the following two runners-up:

“Yep. Cockroaches. That’ll happen.” – From AKAnotu.

“She’s gone from SUCK to BLOW!” – From Jen519.

We chose Rowan as the winner, however, because both of those lines were quotes from other places (the first from Unskippable, and the second from SpaceBalls), and we wanted the winner to be an original line.

Thanks again to everyone who entered!

Send in your caption to win a medal!

On our way back from Anime Evolution this weekend, something crazy happened to us. The weird thing is that we can’t remember what it was!

When we got home, I checked my camera and found this picture on it, but for the life of us we can’t figure out just what was going on, or where and when it happened.

Can you help refresh our memories? We need you to come up with your best–and most amusing–explanation for what’s going on in this picture. Write your idea into a caption that is at most 100 words long and then either send it to us by email or leave it in a comment on this post, along with your username on the LoadingReadyRun forums.

You have until midnight, Pacific time, on Sunday, June 28, 2009, to get your caption submitted. The most entertaining caption will earn a medal!

If you want to see a larger version of the picture, click on it and you’ll be linked to the full-sized image.