Sunday Contest: Caption That Stupid Picture, Fifth Edition

Come to me my pretty, and your little dog Toto, too…

Well, a pretty good turnout for the 4th Edition of the Caption That Stupid Picture Contest! I have to say this was a toughie. Some good funny stuff. I had some belly laughs with this set! However, in any contest a winner must be chosen. So here goes, the winning entry from Douglas at Boomer Musings:

"Now, after planting the ginger snaps and marking the row, carefully water them..."

I don’t know why, but I kept coming back to it and giggling like a giddy schoolgirl*. That, and Douglas even said in his comment “Here’s the winning entry…”

So a big round of digital applause, raise a glass and give a hearty “Woot!” to the winner and to everyone who commented:

Rawan at It’s All Good
Joanie at Joanie’s Random Ramblings
Angie at GUMBO WRITER
Beth at What I Should Have Said
The King at King Of New York Hacks (I’m out of Spam, bro!)
Ron at Clark Kent’s Lunchbox (He’s an author!)
Mike at Rambling Thoughts
Pseudo at Pseudonymous High School Teacher
only a movie at Only A Movie
flutter at Flutter Dark & Divine (see the photos)
IB at Idiot’s Stew (go.read.dig it.)
Jeanne at The Raisin Chronicles

Thanks so much, one and all! Now sharpen your….whatever it is that you sharpen when you get ready to use your noggin, because here comes the Stupid Photo Contest, 5th Edition:

I have faith in you, my lovelies. Make me proud! Mostly, make me (us**) laugh!

*Not that I know what that’s like, really. I mean, I’ve never wanted to be a giddy schoolgirl. At least not since I got rid of the saddle oxfords and plaid skirt. Damn, I had the legs for it, too…
**I don’t mean that in the royal ‘us’ sense. I mean, ‘us’ in the sense of ‘you and I’. And ‘you’ meaning all of those I am blessed enough as to have as visitors to my humble blog.

Sunday Contest: Caption That Stupid Picture, Third Edition - WINNER! WINNER!

Yippee! Yippee! Hey, everybody, the new phone books are here!*

I want to thank everyone who stopped by and commented on this the 3rd edition of Stupid Photo Caption Contest, this was an amazing turnout, and there is an embar-ASS-ment** of riches this time around! With that in mind, I had a very difficult time picking a clear winner. There quite a few laugh out loud types, ‘spit-takers’ as we say in the biz. Very, very good stuff. You can all be proud!

Given that there were so many to choose from, I decided to break it down into some different categories, sort of like the Academy Awards with less cleavage. Well, frontal cleavage anyway. Here are the categories:

Honorable Mentions:
People’s Choice Award – self explanatory, I think.
Best New Vocabulary Award – For most interesting new word.
Far Side Award – For tapping into that ‘Far Side’ Spirit.
Golden Boot In The Ass Award – I have a weak spot for the footie.

And the Grand Prize:
Golden Wiener Award –They get the coveted ‘Irish Gumbo’ wiener award.

To mix things up a bit, I have also decided to randomly award one lucky person from the Honorable mention category to receive a IG wiener award as well. So, with further ado, let’s get to the awards, shall we? Let’s keep the acceptance speeches short and sweet, m’kay?

People’s Choice Award goes to…Michelle, at Michelle’s Blog! for “The lengths a man will go to avoid munching a rug..." She’s got something on her mind, what is it? Hmmm…

Best New Vocabulary Award goes to…Pseudonymous High School Teacher at Pseudonymous High School Teacher! for ‘sodomator’ as in “Daarth Vaaaader. I am your brother, lover, sodomator”. I don’t really know how she came up with that.

Far Side Award goes to…Kat, at 3 Bedroom Bungalow to Let in Crazytown! for “Jimmy thought rock climbing would be easy until he ended up on a sheer cliff and broke his neck. Bummer Jimmy, bummer.” I dig it. And out a shout out to Cambridge, UK!

Golden Boot In The Ass Award goes to…Red Squirrel, at Passably Content! For “Arsene Wenger's newest signing had heard of his Manager's reputation.....” Alright, probably only Red Squirrel, cIII and myself will get this one, but I’m a sucker for the football reference and, hey, Gooners have a sense of humor, too!

Randomly selected IG award: (roll a die, roll die) – Michelle!

And the big wiener, the ne plus ultra,

Golden Wiener Award goes to…Malisa at Moonlight Hollow Musings! for…
“Rump Ranger says, "I always keep my eyes open during sex!"

It could be a weird educational film mascot, or bizarre talking toy, even a cheesy action show: Rump Ranger Rides Again! (or should that be, 'Is Ridden Again')

Congratulations one and all!

To streamline the awards process, lucky winners can pick it up here:

And no cheating, this is the honor system. I think. Thanks so much to everyone for chiming in on this edition of the Stupid Photo Contest, I’m pleased and honored by your visits!

AN ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW FOOTBALL LEAGUE FORMATION
I hereby announce the formation of the Gumbo Primo League, consisting of some of the finest football***teams in the world. The Founding Teams are:

Arsenal – The Gunners – English (Irish Gumbo)
Tottenham Hotspur – ‘Spurs – English (Red Squirrel)
Liverpool – The Reds – English – (cIII at The Goat and Tater)

There is certainly room for more. If you would like to be included, please send me your favorite team, their name or mascot, the league and your name/blog or website. Favorite rallying cry or song would be cool, too. I will try and get links set up periodically. FOOTBALL; The Beautiful Game!

*Bonus points for the first person to correctly identify the movie quoted.
**’Bare ass’, get it? Hee, hee. I said ‘ass’.
***Soccer for the US fans. Although the other ‘football’ may be considered, if I like your team. I might even consider cricket and rugby. Send it in, let’s see what happens. I’ll work out the scoring later.

Sunday Contest: Caption That Stupid Picture, Second Edition - Golden Wiener Award

WHOOOOOOAAAHHHH!

Well, well, WELL, what have we here? Yessiree, can it be? Is it? It has to be!

Ladies and gentlemen and those in between, the Second Edition of the Irish Gumbo “Caption That Stupid Picture” contest has a winner! Or is that winners?

But before I get to that, I’d like to take a moment to bring your attention to the beverage service here on Air Gumbo. It’s right there on the left side of the page. Feel free to indulge, but be warned, Air Gumbo flight attendants don’t take no mess when it comes to inebriated oafish behavior. So please, drink responsibly. They are armed and can be dangerous.

On to the official announcement! Note: Links are in blue.

There was a really good turnout this time! Quite a few laugh-out-louders this go round. Wee Lass kept asking me what was so funny. I kept directing her attention to the panda video on the Henry the Dog Diaries. Quite funny and a splendid diversion. With all the quality, it was a tad difficult to pick a clear favorite. However, in a flash of Guinness-inspired genius, things came together! The winning quotes (and I do mean quotes) make a pretty bit of giggleicious (non)sense when combined:

"I don't want,

Anybody else,

When I think about you I....
Uh…oh holy crap…uh…you’re, uh, home early….”

HA! Boy, we all know what that feels like don’t we? HaHaHa, ha….(crickets)

Not that I do. People talk you hear things. It made me laugh a lot when I strung them together. It made me think of something like that ‘Dancing Dad’ Armstrong flooring commercial that came out earlier this year. Funny stuff!

The first part of that is from Michelle at Michelle’s Blog, and the second part is from Braja at Lost and Found In India. So let’s have a big round of applause and a couple of ‘whut-whuts’ for the joint winners of the Golden Wiener award! (Winners, look below the free beer for your award.) Please visit them and petition them for some attention, now that they are like rock stars and all.

Special note to Braja: Irish Gumbo humbly apologizes for the tardiness in posting the winners. He knows better than to keep a lady waiting! (his mom raised him so).

And a special thanks to all who played in this edition of Stupid Photo Contest. Let’s all spread the joy to:

Captain Dumbass at Us and Them
Jen at Sprite’s Keeper
Sweet Cheeks at Sweet Cheeks has an idea…
Henry at Henry the Dog Diaries (good dog!)
Christina at Text Imps
Mama Dawg at Two Dogs Running (like the stoner concept!)
IB at Idiot’s Stew
Sarah at Sarah’s Blogtastic Adventures
Krystal at Mommy’s Escape 6.0
Ashley at Hunt and Beck
Charmaine at Middle Aged Dating (wish her luck with Bachelor #1)
Comedy Goddess at You Have to be a Comedy Goddess to Endure
Jan at Jan’s Sushi Bar (yumm…)
SSP at Smarty Pants Rants
Rawan at It’s All Good (give that lady a napkin!)
Miz blo at I Went Looking For Trouble

And a special shout out to Rebekah at Waffles Waffles All Day Long. Her ship has hit a patch of rough seas as of late, so if you haven’t already done so, drop by and drop some luv. Good vibes for you Rebekah – If I haven’t said it already, thank you for your help on the resume!

Last call, folks! Drink up!

Beer Poll! Winners! and a Little Housekeeping

Well, well, WELL!
Gimme a little time to think,
While you fix me another muthaf**kin' drink!

-"2 Brothers" intro by R.L. Burnside, "A Ass Pocket of Whiskey"

Whoo, well its time to reel in some outstanding items here on the GumboNet. You may have noticed the Beer Poll widget I have up. To those who participated, thank you very much! Let's parse the results, shall we?

Of nine total votes cast, 5 went to tasty Guinness Stout. Big round of applause for lovers (or just likers) of one of Ireland's multitude of gifts to modern civilization!

Full disclosure: Guinness is probably my favorite all-time malted beverage; scout's honor that I only cast one vote for it! Anchor Steam is one of my favorite all-American beers by far, and I accidently hit the button for it while scrolling over it. As to the "Beer tastes like ass", alright, I'll go with it, but seriously? how do you know? (I'm teasing, settle down!)

The Sunday Contest: WE HAVE A WIENER!

The entry that made me laugh the most, because it was non-sensical and logical at the same time, and I read it when I was really tired, from the lovely Charmaine, I give you this:

"Do they take (me) for an idiot? he pondered. I know we're near a lake and all but you can't submerge New York City."

(Applause, applause)

Please drop by Charmaine's blog and leave her a message of congratulations. Plus, she has some funny stories...

Also, let's give a shout out to the other fine folks who put some eyeballs on the page:

Miz Blo - Video! Audio! Lizards!

Captain Dumbass at Us and Them - no finer combo of Star Wars wisdom and grilled cheese men.

Ryan at Pacing The Panic Room - Amazing photos. I'm jealous.

Mama Dawg at Two Dogs Running - You will laugh. Plus she says "patootie"!

Drop them all a line and say hi!

To all: Today was my last official day at work after the Lay Off (and no, I don't mean the soccer move) and I am bit worn out. For all of you who tuned in, thank you for the good vibes. I am grateful. I have some thoughts on this, and tomorrow when I am not so tired, I'll share them. Good night!