Caption This: Vote for winners!
by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Oct 28th 2008 at 11:30AM
It's been one week since we opened our most recent Caption This! contest to entries. We've allowed them to age to perfection over the weekend, and they're now ripe enough for you to pick the winner! Members of the WoW Insider staff have chosen their favorite captions from the bunch. Now you get to decide who goes home with a 60-day game card, a More Dots! or Ding! Grats shirt from J!NX, or nothing but an overbearing feeling of failure. Just pick the best caption for the above picture. Voting closes tomorrow, Wednesday, October 29 at 11:59 PM EST, and winners will be informed shortly afterward by e-mail.
Remember, entrants must be U.S. or non-Quebec Canadians at least 13 years old. If you'd like to peruse the contest's official rules, they can be found here. Happy voting!
Note that this week we have three entries that are too long for the poll form. See the super-sized entries behind the cut!
"I'm going to be honest here... when they showed me the brochure to study abroad in Eastern Kingdoms, it literally had hundreds of hot Blood Elves on the cover. I mean, the brochure talked about farming, but I figured it meant instance and raid farming not... well... actual farming. You know what? Now that I think about it this whole "cultural exchange" thing may not be worth 6 credits at Thunder Bluff University..."
And I picked my two favorite of the many Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres parodies. Here are our song choices, available for votes at #9 and #10:
Come and listen to a story about a Scourge named Dead,
A poor goldfarmer, barely kept his family fed.
Then one day he was shootin at some n00bz,
And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.
Oil that is, black gold, Tauren Mills tea.
Well the first thing you know ol' Dead's a millionaire,
Kinfolk said "Dead move away from there"
Said 'Lordaeron is the place you outta be'
So they loaded up the tauren and moved to Undercity.
Underground, that is. Toxic pools, Sylvanas Windrunner.
Well now its time to say goodbye to Dead and all his kin,
And they would like to thank you folks for not droppin limbs.
You're all invited back again to this locality,
To have a heapin helpin of their hostility.
Undead Hillbillies that is. Cast a spell, Take your jaw off.
Y'all come back now, y'hear? -- yeng
Green barrens is the place to be.
Farmin' gold is the life for me.
Mobs spreadin' out so far and wide.
Keep PVP, just give me that countryside.
She sings:
Undercity is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore Sylvannas' room.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Silvermoon. -- Jenna
| Great, now we're going to have to put clothes on all the other cows. -- peagle | |
|---|---|
| Ma never had the heart to tell Pa about that time with the milkman. The fact that his brain had rotted away only helped her keep her secret. -- Nadrysta | |
| The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. -- Itaque | |
| rainska's exchange student mea culpa (above) | |
| Gomez, Morticia and Lurch adapt to their new lives in the witness protection program. -- Scaramanja | |
| EAT MOR UNDED! -- Chris | |
| With another month to spare before the expansion, role players' scenarios have been getting more and more kinky. -- Milktub | |
| Studies show 2 out of every 3 farmers are worked to death. -- Nobby | |
| yeng's "Beverly Hillbillies parody above | |
| Jenna's "Green Acres" parody above |
Filed under: WoW Insider Business, Contests
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Alex Oct 28th 2008 11:40AM
This is a legit comment:
These are horrible, again. Please get someone new to do this.
MDC Oct 28th 2008 11:46AM
^ this ^
offday Oct 28th 2008 11:57AM
Agreed.
It's confusing too. I go to the poll box, and see all these "see above." Why are people allowed to submit novels?
pungkow Oct 28th 2008 12:01PM
The captions are all reader submissions, if you don't like them, submit one yourself.
Ironhide Oct 28th 2008 12:17PM
yeah can you add a "None of them" option to the poll, they all suck.
qann Oct 28th 2008 12:22PM
Agreed.
Either the submissions all suck, or the person picking them is doing a horrible job.
I doubt it's the former.
offday Oct 28th 2008 12:28PM
@pungkow
We've tried. But they're never selected to be in the final poll. I've laughed my face off at a few, but not surprisingly, they never show up in this phase of the contest.
Also, on a side note, what's with the milk man and kinky quotes? I could have sworn that a big thing with the last couple caption this contests was that some of the funny entrees weren't selected because of their sexual nature.
Ted Oct 28th 2008 1:21PM
First off the interface sucks, you can't tell at a glance which is winning because the damn poll goes 3 pages long.
Second, everything is so fractured. This is partially the poll interface and partially the fact there are 10 choices every week. Either fix the poll format (or shop it out to a better 3rd party site) or offer fewer choices. Does anyone really need 10 entries separated by 1.5% each?
The worst part is definitely the 3 page result though. Get rid of that.
Milktub Oct 28th 2008 1:31PM
This round is better than the previous ones (and not just because I finally have one in the running). None are great, but at least there are fewer old and tired memes.
Metal Geario 360 Oct 28th 2008 1:48PM
LOL agreed!
What "caption" is a full blown song, last time i waste my time even responding to the caption posts...
I'll continue paying for my accnt. and if i want a Tee shirt, that can be bought too...
/sarcasm
great work judges...
MDC Oct 28th 2008 11:47AM
Oh and also:
"Tauren Mills"
EPOCH FAIL
Seriously, I play Alliance and I know the name of the effing town that raids Southshore daily.
--> Tarren Mill
zappo Oct 28th 2008 12:29PM
Could have been referring to those wind driven machines in Mulgore. Those are Tauren Mills.
ven Oct 28th 2008 11:56AM
i agree with alex. There are some of the worst choices that were posted. Please find someone knew to select the finalists. I'll give it 1 more shot and then i'm just gonna ignore this post altogether.
Naix Oct 28th 2008 11:54AM
These are the best you picked? 1 or 2 of them were ok, but nothing to write home about.
bdaneila Oct 28th 2008 11:57AM
"Son, I don't know how your Ma and me can break this to you but - you're adopted".
offday Oct 28th 2008 12:01PM
Also, WTF is this?
"EAT MOR UNDED!"
Seriously? This gets chosen?
Caption this needs to go away.
Robert Oct 28th 2008 12:37PM
That's a parody on Chick-fil-A's commercials, where they have a cow with a sign that says EAT MOR CHIKIN.
Not that funny, though.
Smurk Oct 28th 2008 1:40PM
I thought that was the best one by far.
Erinar Oct 28th 2008 12:04PM
In all fairness these choices may be the best of what was submitted. You can't blame the poster if all the submissions were of generally low quality. Sometimes it's a matter of picking the cream-of-the-crap.
offday Oct 28th 2008 12:25PM
Not exactly. You can go back and read all of the submitted quotes. I guarantee you'll find some funny ones, but they're never even chosen to be a part of final poll.