This baby is so ugly itâs a caption contest winner
This daddy’s baby story would be perfect for The Jerry Springer Show! But it settled for the Crowe Jam caption contest. (RIP, Jerry Springer.)
This is a Dad Day caption contest we started last week on my newsletter, Crowe Jam. If you haven’t signed up yet, I hope you will. The subscription button is right underneath the cartoon. Just enter your email address, mash that ‘Subscribe’ button and you’re in!
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You will be in on all the caption contests, story-telling, story-swapping and high drama insider cartoony info you can handle. It’s been fun so far. Come on in, the water is fine. (Don’t #*&@ it up.)
I’m happy to report good news: White smoke is pouring out of the Crowe Jam chimney which means we have a caption contest winner! And the winner is … fake digital drum roll, please …
Congratulations, David George!
The judges agreed: Your short, snappy role reversal caption made a few of us snort some weird stuff from our cartoony noses. Well played, D-George. You win a signed print of your winning entry. Send me an email to collect your prize – [email protected].
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We have no losers, but we do have a bunch of finalists.
In random order, here are the finalists: (The judges are hyper-sensitive to criticism, but if you think they picked the wrong caption as the winner, now’s your chance to pick your own favorite. You did not hear this from me.)
“It’s like I gave birth to him! He’s just like me.” – Elisa Dial
“Time for 2 diaper changes!” – Trey Le Blanc
“Here’s to us, wonderful parents and beautiful child!” – Trey Le Blanc
“It’s early, I know, but I can’t believe how good looking our son is! Feel like toasting to our good fortune?” Hugh Kilpatrick
“Time to feed my spirit animal” – Virginia Lee Moore
Beware of Pops Bearing Poop – Rex Roach
Father: “No matter how hard life gets, at least we don’t have ugly children.” – Charley Grimsley
Father: “Spittin’ image of his daddy, ain’t he?”
Mother: “Yep, and it’s driving me to drink.” – Charley Grimsley
“Hun, would you mind changing Junior while I go I-Pee-A”. – Lamar Smith
“Love my new spill-proof beer nipple – best Father’s Day gift ever”. – Lamar Smith
“Breakfast wine is giving me double dad vision.” – Paul Ellis
“My inner child and I are going out for a nightcap.” – Guy Tucker
“A toast to perfection!” – Laura Fields
“We thought we’d never have a grandson, but look at this boy, he’s my spittin’ image!” – Phillip Otts
”Damn, I must have had too much wine tonight, I’m seeing double!”- Phillip Otts
“Wilbur, that boy’s your spitting image, right down to the binky beer and the load in his pants!”- Phillip Otts
“Breakfast wine is giving me double dad vision.” – Paul Ellis
“Be honest with me. Am I Junior’s real father?”- Peter G. Eipers
“They grow up so quickly” – Jamie Roak
Betty catches Frank sharing the hard stuff with Frank, Jr on Father’s Day morning. – Bryant Whelan
“Your kid’s diaper is full.” – David Clemons
When we do these cartoon caption contests, I draw one with my own caption before turning it over to y’all, just to see how many freaking brilliant minds are thinking alike out there. My caption doesn’t count, of course, but here it is:
JDC Caption
Thanks to all for playing!
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.
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