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http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Seaver/100000749821097 David Seaver

The Great Jamba Juice Catastrophe of 2012.
katkins

Oh. Dude!
BBanzai

Winner of this year’s Nickelodeon Lifetime Achievement Award Harvey The Moo Cow died during a freak stage accident. Harvey The Moo Cow’s handler is in critical condition.
hyph3n

When growing your old guy from seed, make sure you fertilize liberally.
signsofrain

Christ, what an asshole.
http://twitter.com/vonslatt Jake von Slatt

Soylent green is people?
niktemadur

Gesundheit!
http://whimsicalacious.tumblr.com/ Patrick McGorrill

The radical gay agenda.
http://twitter.com/mspspeak matt perkins

“Well, it seems Martha was right about this country club after all.”
Carlos Huezo

We have entirely too much guacamole and absolutely no chips.
Smoobly Renfrew

What’s that old guy doing in my oobleck?
signsofrain

Okay here’s my real caption attempt:

“Ahhh damnit sonny, the farm’ll smell of pea soup ’till the second coming! Ah told yer not to touch that valve!”
Suburbancowboy

I said do you speak-a my language….
katkins

Bier auf wein
petertrepan

Get your filthy pet out of my pool!
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OKEONAMLFIOS5WI7MPQY6SXBCQ IRMO

I suspect the backstory here involves too much hardship and suffering on that man’s part to warrant a funny caption. Sorry to be the wet blanket.
- petertrepan
  
  “Only seventy cents a day could supply him and countless others with the sunglasses and innertubes they need.”
  - Cowicide
    
    petertrepan, that was fricken’ funny.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

This is the best hiding place yet! That cow will never find me in here.
CSBD

Charles began to rethink the wisdom of accepting the position of official vatican cow exorcist.
- Steve Faiella
  
  Thanks… I’m not even going to bother submitting one now… :o
- jfaehnle
  
  Aw, man. I didn’t read this before posting my own. Well, done, sir or madam.
- http://twitter.com/MrAaronSwainEsq Aaron Swain
  
  In my book, you won this round.
- Andrew Rockefeller
  
  Captioned, credited, linked and Tumblred http://ocdinagoodway.tumblr.com/post/25696479180/boing-boing-caption-contest
david miller

Funny how some pets look remarkably like their owners.
Ambiguity

This will end badly.
lknope

Waiter! Waiter, there’s a guy in my pea soup!
http://twitter.com/sultanica sultanica

Gesundheit, Bless you!
katkins

Maybe you’d like it back in your cell, your highness!
- katkins
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5_OSsawz4&t=1m24s
katkins

(or… “I have a bad feeling about this…”)
http://twitter.com/adriannagiuls adrianna

That is the least appetizing Saag Paneer I’ve ever seen.
- katkins
  
  http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cook_home
katkins

(or.. ”Get in there, you big furry oaf!”)
petertrepan

Preserve the natural beauty of America’s wetlands.
gorfulator

From the primordial soup came man … I’m david Attenborough…blah blah blah
http://www.facebook.com/nick.paradise.3 Nick Paradise

Famous billionaire, salsa verde fanatic, and bovine enthusiast installs salsa pool at his residence.
http://www.facebook.com/kevin.b.pratt Kevin B Pratt

greenwashing
petertrepan

Shut that outhouse, son. You trying to fertilize the outdoors?
gorfulator

That will make your hair green!!
24601

Ugh. This is the second most I’ve ever thrown up.
Jorpho

As the last man sank beneath the waves, the ungulates knew their plan had succeeded at last. From this, a new world would arise.
- http://twitter.com/abrAaKaHank Kevin Barboro
  
  This. Thisthisthisthisthisthisthisthsi. You win.
Sofia Ortiz

At this moment, Bessy ardently wished she possessed opposable thumbs.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=637442663 Max Baskin

I don’t remember eating that…
methodius

A bumper crop in Algae-ria.
peterblue11

sea of blood (colorblindness test #73843)
jimh

Behind the scenes photo released from the set of George Lucas’ next feature!
- niktemadur
  
  Oh, I get it, green screen.
Felton / Moderator

The Aristocrats!
dbc249

Farmer Old Macdonald attempts to recreate the Shamrock Shake recipe for generic brand rip-off; 4 dead
hungrylens

Pesto is ready!
theorymagazine

Our correspondent takes a dip in the worlds last natural slime reserve. Tragically, most of the worlds slime has been depleted over the last 20 years by Nickelodeon, a branch of Viacom International Inc.
Alexander Churchill

OK. Who farted?
niktemadur

Ahhhh… refreshing cilantro dressing while we wait for the monsoon!
http://excelsior-station.wikidot.com Sarge Misfit

This is NOT what I meant by “going Green”!!
show me

Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit smelling foulness I can’t even imagine, or maybe I just don’t want to. Five hundred yards… that’s the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.
Mister44

Cha-cha-cha-chia!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1200768594 Carl Burke

The Green Party according to Bob.
Ihavenofuckingname

I threw up.
- katkins
  
  as in Dorothy Parker’s review of The House at Pooh Corner:
  http://www.todayinliterature.com/stories.asp?Event_Date=10/20/1928
  “…Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”
http://www.youtube.com/user/PipLagenta Pip_R_Lagenta

Welcome to The Republic of Elbonia!
chaopoiesis

A man swims in the polluted waters of a pond next to his buffalo on World Environment Day on the outskirts of Jammu, June 5, 2012.

Source: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/mukesh-gupta
- Ambiguity
  
  BoingBoing needs an anti-like!
- Steve Faiella
  
  Dude, BUZZKILL! But seriously Rob, maybe you should make sure there isn’t a bummer “true story” to these caption contest photos…
http://twitter.com/markmcan Mark McAndrew

Problems emerge with Monsanto’s new strain of ‘nano-grass’
pupdog

“Waiter? There’s a human in my soup!”
relawson

Elbonia, IRL.
relawson

In the time it took for me to go through the comments and come up with my own……………… LOL!

er, this was supposed to be a reply to Pip_R_Lagenta
Jack Daniel

The astonishingly scanty turnip harvest, left Francois and Buttercup no choice but to green-screen this year’s holiday photo cards.
Hegemonik

This is what happens when You Can’t Do That On Television gets lost in translation…
- stillcantfightthedite
  
  My version of this joke was:
  
  Earlier…
  “Mooooo?”
  “I don’t know!”
- noah django
  
  Heeeey Alisdair?
  
  Yeah, Water Buffalo?
  
  What can you tell me about the reproduction of algae?
  
  I don’t know…
Hollando

I…*guess* I’m glad we found this water after being stranded for days in the middle of the desert, but…
bill stanley

Green Screen FAIL!!
James House-Lantto

Meanwhile on the set of what was once Nikelodeon Double-Dare….
Paul Coleman

Man: A-a-a-a-a-a-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Cow: Gesundheit.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RFUDTKNBJKTPBSJECUEPIGPUAE TulsaTV

What did I treat you like? A water buffalo?
theyallhateme

You got Gak on your yak, bro.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=557683737 Adam Greenfield

Man: Marco…
Cow: MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Ritzmann/1532420118 Jeff Ritzmann

As our hero meditated upon the nature of reality, he suddenly realized he’d been transported to the pea soup dimension. Surprisingly, along with his favorite cow Festus.

Undaunted, he said:”All is as it should be. Now find me a spoon and some crackers. Oh right. There is no spoon.”
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1514949644 Timothy Jeffries

Cow: “Oops…”
diginferno

Look, Fred, that’s not what I meant when I said we need to go green…
http://twitter.com/DJPeanutNose Daniella

I guess Popeye was wrong afterall
social_maladroit

“A man and his buffalo are caught up in the aftermath of an industrial accident at a Miller Paint factory in Bhopal, India.”
mustardpie

Tiger lines up his putt on the third green.
Allan McCoy

Soylent green IS people!
IronyElemental

In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, ‘Au revoir, gaffer’.
http://profile.yahoo.com/3F7ASZQBT7GNHQAF334OXONKLA John

This is the best St. Patricks day EVER!
- niktemadur
  
  Yup, there it is: Big Mac and Shamrock Shake.
Adrian McCardle

Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
- malindrome
  
  Whoa, great minds thinking alike …
http://ryankiefer.me/ Ryan Kiefer

“Should have taken a left turn at Albuquerque.”
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500010887 Craig Clawson

On the 14th, a Par 3, Bovine McMasters looks to the judge to determine what the stroke penalty is for hitting the old guy stuck in cup.
- Preston Sturges
  
  Behind the scenes on the set of “Caddyshack.”
bo1n6bo1n6

Man: Don’t look, some asshole is taking our picture.
Cow: Fuck it. It’s probably just gonna wind up on some website getting made fun of, let me get a little more sludge in my beard…
jpdellanno

Well this isn’t where I parked my car
http://www.facebook.com/michael.brian.chamberlain Michael Brian Chamberlain

Man vs Wild: The “You Can’t Do That on Television” Outtakes
http://www.facebook.com/Dakota.Browning Dakota Browning

Forty five minutes after daring the goat to drink a gallon of milk in less than an hour.

Man: “Told you so.”
http://profile.yahoo.com/7P7AXJCYPS3BDRA2ROEXPOQ3ZI Bobo

Was that Linda Blair?
skabob

duh duh duh duh… Guacamole shark! We’re gonna need a bigger boat! Man goes
into cage, cage goes into guacamole. Shark’s in the guacamole. Our shark..
Felton / Moderator

Excuse me, White Cliffs of Dover?
Gnou

[Adult Swims]
politeruin

“SOON”
unit_1421

Can I just graze in peace without Fakir McFucknuts trying to organically bleach his own asshole and invading my space?
http://www.facebook.com/roytruax Roy Edward Truax

“He slimed me”.
http://twitter.com/gratefulvideo gratefulvideo

Cow: “I’ve had the runs for three days”
AquaDad18

Man (thinking to himself): Jiminy H. Christmas! Never seen so much god damned mucus in all my life.
Man (out loud to cow): You ever heard of tissues?
Cow (thinking to itself): Geez, that felt like stomach compartment #3. I do not feel good.
Cow (translated from the original moo): Shut-up Old Man! That was no mucus!
Cow (making a mental note): I gotta stop drinking my own milk.
Cow (follow-up mental note): Check with Vet…probable lactose intolerance.
rhodian

El mundo es un
pañuelo…
Dave X

“Now kiss!”
http://twitter.com/acm_redfox acm

“Matcha,” you said, “what could possibly go wrong?”
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=590642704 Kevin Redman

“just add water” it said.
sam1148

Worst Rave Ever.
- zish
  
  Oonce Oonce Oonce Mooo Mooo Oonce Oonce
  (I really don’t know why I was compelled to do this. So very sorry)
malindrome

They give birth astride of a grave; the light gleams of an instant, then it’s night once more.
http://gruffguano.wordpress.com/ Gruff Guano

“That Hunter S. Thompson is full of shit, man. ‘smoke the finest green where the buffalo roam’, my ass.”
Manntis

The grass is greener where you bathe.
AquaDad18

American firepower: 1
Gamera the Flying Turtle: 0

Related Stats and Casualties:
Local villagers: 13 dead, 58 wounded, 900 tons of surplus Turtle Soup and zero remaining deities based on giant flying turtles.
petej

“Nah, I can’t come in to swim, I just ate a burger less than a half hour ago”, said the cow.
liquidstar

Wow! What a pea-souper!
chowlie

“Please remember to clean your Vitamix with warm soapy water after each use” The more you know!
operator99

Pea soup, why does it always have to be pea soup.
Wayne Allen

Mom was right. Green apples go right through you.
corey good-dry

How do I let him know I love him?
zish

Following the events of December 21′st of that fateful year, Michael Phelps, Former US Gold Medalist discovers the Fountain of Youth after many years. Unfortunately, the fountain is no longer effective, and far too polluted. Shortly after this photo was taken, he was devoured by zombie cattle.
andyhavens

Hindu artist creates “Holy Guacamole” interactive exhibit
andyhavens

The bottle clearly said, “Lather, rinse, repeat.”
http://twitter.com/VicDijon Vic Dijon

After a tender moment in the bog Raymond was crestfallen. Bessy couldn’t even look him in the eye after what had just occured. ”Sacred my ass.” he thought to himself.
snagglepuss

“Knock-Knock”

“Who’s There ?”

“Elsie the Borden Laboratory’s Recombinant DNA Bioweapon Cow”

“Elsie the – OH MY GOD !!!”
http://www.diamondguidehq.com/ Richard Scott

Looks like Linda Blair was here…
http://twitter.com/lappy_cmd Lappy_CMD

It’s a tough spot on the newly remodeled back nine of Pebble Beach this year. Golfers this year will have to wedge their way out of a newly bioengineered quicksand/grass/meadow/piranha pit.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

Looks like it’s 6 more weeks of winter.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

When that ship docks I’m going to ask if any of them have an allen wrench I can borrow.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

“You know Bessie, we could have had it all. Rolling in the deep.”
“Moo.”
WaylonWillie

The palak paneer at this place is great!
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

This place needs a lighthouse. Oh, crap! Now here comes the Pepto Bismol tanker.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Ritzmann/1532420118 Jeff Ritzmann

The “Atom Heart Mother” album cover photo shoot went horribly wrong when Roger Water’s envy spilled out all over the place.
safety meeting

note to self, “do NOT feed the yak epicac”
AquaDad18

“I get this part okay…really, I’m okay with it…the Americans and Soviets join together to fight a common enemy…Big alien dies…
…but why did Rorshach have to die? He was so cool.”

“Haha, hey cow, I’m not stuck in here with you, you’re stuck in here with ME!”

“That Rorshach, what a badass!”
Maria Pranzo

After years of fighting for their love, Carl and Bessie married, taking their honeymoon at the luxurious Green Spas. But alas, their celebrity made time alone nearly impossible. “F***ing paparazzi,” thought Bessie, “their prying eyes are bad enough, but their telephoto lenses always add 10 pounds to my ears.”
llamaspit

The Bovine Overlords commence enforcement of the new Human Cleanliness Standards.
OhNoYouDidnt!

Wheat-grass Juice!
Now available in movie theater super-size containers.
(yak and old man sold separately)
http://profile.yahoo.com/YKYITF57QI3WPPB73K6YKO76P4 mike

note to self: never give Messy Bessy another spinach smoothie.
http://twitter.com/FifthofEleven Christine B

New restaurant dining experience immerses customers and their soon-to-be main course in a pool of their favorite appetizer soup. Private and community soup pools available.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1380360065 Sam Thurman

THEY’RE EATING HIM. AND NOW THEY’RE GOING TO EAT ME. OHHHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDD
gumbowing

Christ, what an asshole.
http://twitter.com/OswaldGuadalupe Oswald Guadalupe

split pea soup anyone?
Lee Brown

I FWEW UP! :(
irobata

Gesundheit!
Chuck

“HEY, YOU! GET OUT OF THE THERE! THAT SMOOTHIE IS FOR THE CATTLE!”
Chuck

Undercover agents, posing as corpses, blow the lid on illegal use of protein sources in cattle smoothies.
Rev. Benjamin

“Put your yak in the Ooze”, they said. ”You’ll get a Mutant Ninja”, they said.
http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

With the beef having been added to the pea soup, it was time for the taste test.
Emily Penick

We’re all in this together.
Robbie Boyd

Bless you
RadioSilence

Buffalo: “No, you get him out”
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770773700 Eric Schultheis

From humble beginnings the Green Lantern Corps was formed.
ludd

Screw that John Malkovich.
Presley Martin

Humans are so stupid!
Aric Forbing

Spinach & Oxen: The aftermath of Popeye vs. Paul Bunyan.
http://www.lamidesign.com/plans lava

Today’s special? Why yes, its pea soup.
mfgang

Damn, the Republicans were right… Green Jobs suck!
heliotropicnorsk

You’re gonna’ have to reblend it, guys. This batch of Soylent Green’s got lumps.
http://twitter.com/wilmcdaniel wilmcdaniel

Who Are The People In Your Neighborhood?
http://twitter.com/dbarak dbarak

Cow rental: $125 per day.

5,000 gallons of split pea soup: $25,000.

Winning front row tickets to the sold-out Insane Clown Posse show: Priceless.
Culturedropout

Sprout was never quite the same after Jolly’s horrific combine accident…
Just Good Sense

#thirdworldproblems
Michael Hood

Every year during the festival of the goddess of pureed spinach, man and beast alike are invited to bathe in the sacred palak paneer.
randyman

I was told this was a par 4.
http://profile.yahoo.com/O5ASHA2GHOVA3Z4JOM4M2522LA J Seed

Internally, Joe gloated over being the first person to reach Stage 8 of the Vegan hierarchy….then the delicious cow appeared, and he realized he was back where he started.
arbitraryaardvark

i don’t have a caption, but i got an image of a field of yaks grazing, sped up through time lapse photography, with yakity sax playing as the audio. can anyone make it so?
Gabriel Meister

Neither of us has yet to find ONE PIECE of ham.
Michael Garber

Tell Reagan it finally trickled down!
patrock

a rare photograph from Muammar Gaddafi’s private miniature golf course
wahine13

It’s Not Easy Being Green
Andy Spencer

Ummmm…. was that me? Or was that you…?
Clint Pickney

I think I’m gonna yak!
l l

Diner: “Waiter, there’s a bull in my guacamole.”
Waiter: “Shh!! Not so loud… all the other people will want one.”
http://www.facebook.com/jason.edwards.16940 Jason Edwards

Still cleaner than New Jersey
or
It looks like Snooki had a boy
Teller

It’s give peace a chance.
http://twitter.com/leemeade77 Lee Meade

So, we’re exporting ‘green slime’ now? Think the cow knows where it comes from though.
omems

No, I ordered the vegetarian red curry
http://redesigned.com redesigned

Moooooooo!!! (which is cow for “photobomb biatch”)….
http://naamaak.blogspot.com/ naam

*achoo*
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003731914053 Mark Fletcher

One cow, no cup.
Jacek Nawrat

Where will you be when your laxative kicks in?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=542711514 Eran Thomson

Split Pea or Lentil? I always forget the difference.
Alex Susemihl

I just LOOVE pesto!
Wallace

I didn’t think he had it in him.
Wallace

I didn’t think he had it in him.
Wallace

I didn’t think he had it in him.
keiren david

Waiter….! There’s a human in my pea soup!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QOWYIHXOVQ2IQ5PNAORV6VOKH4 Randy

Now you know where that Wheatgrass Juice comes from.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QOWYIHXOVQ2IQ5PNAORV6VOKH4 Randy

Local residents take advantage of the annual flooding of the Split Pea River.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QOWYIHXOVQ2IQ5PNAORV6VOKH4 Randy

Obviously nobody informed this man the pond was located in the middle of the world’s largest population of bulimic water buffalo.
http://profile.yahoo.com/IMA3CHHP35YTDEI4BMR66HOBBE DavidG

Holly river of Cud Batman! Utility belt my ass outta this mess!
http://profiles.google.com/eliotfur Илья Найдов

Cyanotoxin intoxication…
http://www.facebook.com/lahjik Scott McDaniel

Waiter! There’s a guy in my soup.
http://www.facebook.com/pmears Paul Mears

I’ve got to lay off the fermented grass!
http://geekwordofmouth.blogspot.com Jon Jones

Boy, when they said it was a thick, pea-souper, they weren’t kidding!
http://twitter.com/s0mekindawizard Kenneth Coyne

Ireland, we’ve got 40 shades of the stuff….
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000806621090 Sylvain Menouillard

“Hehe, I pooped”
jfaehnle

“May the power of Christ compel you!”
http://profile.yahoo.com/Q44CL555YV5TZ3R5HUXV67JOZ4 LaRocket

Paul was relieved he’d eventually agreed to donning a cow costume for ‘Shrek: The Big Sneeze’.
Jack Hackett

An oasis of pea soup is still an oasis.
Paul Boudreaux

Frolick with your power animal in our organic jojoba baths.
jbwillard

Tragedy struck today as India’s largest pea soup factory exploded sending 187,000 metric tonnes of deliciousness cascading over New Delhi. There were only two survivors.
Chad Tatum

I’m sorry, waiter? I ordered the LARGE pea soup.
Four Cultures

Bargain or not, that’s the last golf lesson I take from a cow.
Dan Boldman

Linda Blair should never travel.
Nicholas Cueva

Look’s like someone said “I don’t know” too many times.
http://www.facebook.com/Jeffrowedotnet Jeff Rowe

There ain’t no party like a Guacamole Party!
Halle Amick

Soylent Green: now available in beef flavor
http://dailygrail.com/ Red Pill Junkie

Yakiti YUCK!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1199176774 Jerry Sneede

“He’s naked, you know.”
http://profile.yahoo.com/JUULVGIDAUZEBS6C7N27Z4XDYQ iz

“Prometheus, are you seeing this?”
http://profile.yahoo.com/JUULVGIDAUZEBS6C7N27Z4XDYQ iz

“That is NOT what I planted.”
http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up swilling pond scum.
Jaryd Wolfsberger

Well… There goes the neighborhood!
Urbane_Gorilla

“Waiter! There’s a guy in my soup!”
Urbane_Gorilla

“Oh fine….Now you find your contact lens….”
Urbane_Gorilla

“I guess those Adult Depenz don’t hold as much as they say they do…..”
airwinds

Buffalo Bill
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=538727150 Bill Phillips

“Yep. Still made of People”
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=543876405 Michael Kaneva

We obviously took a wrong turn at Algae – rea
http://twitter.com/unkle_jake jacob

Mom and Dad Spring Break ’98
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QOWYIHXOVQ2IQ5PNAORV6VOKH4 Randy

The scientists said all life came from a primordial ooze, but I didn’t believe them until now!
Stephen Anderson

“Whatever you do, do NOT pull his tail!”
Stephen Anderson

Remade classics, “The Old Man and the Pee”.
Stephen Anderson

“I’ve had it up to here with your crap!”
Robert Wood

Soylent Green is people….and cows.
J. Alex Campoe

“My turn now, watch this: CANONBALLLLLL”
Professor59

“You know, I just can’t seem to get it through my head that it’s Thursday.”
http://oimon.wordpress.com mungojerry

mad cows and englishmen go out in the midday scum
http://www.facebook.com/craig.whyte.54 Craig Whyte

Confucius say … man who swim with cow get pat on head …
CrackWilding

I don’t always drink pea soup, but when I do, I swim in it too. Stay thirsty, my friends.