Cartoon 12 [The Twelve Days of Christmas Giveaway]
June 16th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized 41 Comments »
The winner of this caption contest, the final day of the contest, receives a free copy of Author-it. Good luck. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading or participating in these captions throughout the last couple of weeks. I’ll be compiling all the cartoons with the winning captions below them in an upcoming post.
Cartoon by Ben Minson. For full details about the giveaway, see this post.
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Boss, Bob said you told him to just dress up the old help, so he sent us right over….
Hi, you ordered a costume help solution?
Prototypes for a post-Clippy world.
Jody, I liked your caption best.
I didn’t even understand that caption. It’s like I’m reading The New Yorker. — grumble grumble… I wanted that AuthorIt
We understand that you’re into old-style writing, so we were sent to provide the quill and ink.
“We heard you were looking for new characters for a Nickelodeon cartoon.”
“I’m sorry you had to find out this way. Yes, I’ve been seeing my sponsor again.”
QA sent us to help with the system sanity test.
“We Sprinted over and now you’re telling us you said Chicken and PIG?”
But it’s casual Friday!
“Sir, we’ve come to aquire all things in your house of seafood and poultry value. Oh, and we also want your entire colletion of ‘Star Wars’ movies.”
The Star Wars costumes were already rented out.
“Hi, we want to invite you to join the neighborhood watch program. We take note of suspicious people around here.”
Please hide us! A Scotsman mistook Squirt for a bagpipe!
…and this is my pointy headed boss.
You queried our help system. The answers are “To get to the other side” and “The egg.”
Hi, we’re the ending to the next M. Night Shyamalan movie. Do you mind if we wait here while he bangs out the script? It should only be a few minutes.
We only moonlight at the restaurant. We’re really a top-notch technical writing team in disguise.
Sure, we get a little stressed and need to blow off some steam every now and then. Why do you ask?
The job market is tough. It was either this or write cartoon captions…lesser of evils, you know.
“Good afternoon, sir. This is kind of…well, really awkward. But we had a litter and we just can’t take care of all of them, so we’re looking for good homes. Can you find it in your heart to adopt a baby cocktopus?”
“So you see, Mr. Smith, dressing like this and showing up to your house was the only way I could get your attention. Now about those drafts I sent you last month…”
We’re looking for some free-range technical writers that escaped from the office. Have you seen any?
They always said tele-commuters were a strange breed.
The Society for the Prevention of Overusing Idioms and Phrases pays a visit to Mr. “Tastes just like chicken.”
Gear up Bob! We’re late for the World of Warcraft convention.
Just humor him … he’s the expert in configuring Squid to run behind your firewalls.
Hi, Scrummaster. We’re just trying to set this straight: was it the Chicken and the Pig… or the Squid?
We’re here to talk about “Free Credit Report.com”
We’re from the church of the other white meat
“The boss told us drop the ink and tweet about our new product, you keen to join in?”
We moved to Agile, but the pig costume was already taken.
Thinking outside the Jack-in-the-box.
I know, I know, I told him he looks ridiculous but he simply refuses to shave that goatee.
This is not the output i was looking for…..haven’t you got the new spec?…..Not Again!!!!!
OctoRooster- For mobile publishing solution!
Hey boss “coming to the cock show”
Door is open for five …… Five is too high !!!!!!!!!!
Jody won the caption contest for today. Thanks to everyone who participated. There were a lot of good ones this time.
“Prototypes for a post-Clippy world.”
“We’re wearing thee costumes for a reason! Squidly, here forgot to shave his back yesterday!”