The Scouting Magazine Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #1
Frequent New Yorker anti-captioner Walt alerts me to another cartoon contest rich with possibilities for subversively bad jokes. It seems that Scouting Magazine, the official journal of the Boy Scouts of America, is now giving readers "an opportunity to partner with long-time contributing illustrator Bill Basso in creating a captioned cartoon to be published in the March-April 2007 issue of the magazineand win up to $400 in BSA Supply Group gift certificates in the process." Oh, and it says here that "Entries can be submitted in two ways." I thought the Boy Scouts banned those people! [That's the kind of easy joke I'd like you to avoid]
The Scouting contest is open to BSA members only. But the anti-caption contest is open to everyone. Even girls. Winner and contest #2 (of 4) will be posted roughly one week from today.
Results after the jump
Winner:
"See what we're doing, boys? We're looking directly at the sun! You should never do this, because it will damage your eyes. Boys? Boys? Are you even paying attention? Because I'm throwing out gold here." Francis
Finalists
"Seeing these boys pitch a tent makes me pitch a tent too. By that I mean my penis gets erect. This is because I find young boys sexually attractive." Jesse Skinner
"This reminds me of back when I was a rookie scoutleader. The kids couldn't pitch a tent worth a damn back that first night, either. But with a little tough love, by the end of the week they were all experts at wilderness survival. Sure, they did start a small forest fire, but it only took out about five acres. Course, when Smokey Bear came by he started in on some bullshit about how all fires are dangerous, even the small ones. Even threatened to report me. So I shot that fucker in the back and took his hat. Worn it ever since then. God, I love telling that story." Jesse
Comments
I prefer my children roasted without the clothes, but it's your family recipe so I'm game.
Posted by: Charles | May 18, 2006 9:52 AM
If these idiots can get the tent up, we can have this forest clear-cut in no time.
Posted by: Charles | May 18, 2006 9:54 AM
"You know what makes these nice sunsets? Pollution particles. Ironic, right?"
Posted by: Eric | May 18, 2006 10:04 AM
"They always fight for the top bunk."
Posted by: Deborah | May 18, 2006 10:08 AM
"It looks like the Blair Witch was back - she left these weird berry juice stains all over the tent."
Posted by: Deborah | May 18, 2006 10:10 AM
Now that we've murdered our scouts, we can enjoy our tin cups of this delicious single malt, without fear that they'll tattle on us for being drunk on the job. Yes, I see no flaw in this plan at all.
Posted by: Dan McCoy | May 18, 2006 10:53 AM
"Yep, Bob, there's something satisfying in knowing we've taught these boy scouts how to set up a tent. Let's just watch the sunset while we bask in our accomplishment."
OR:
"Yep, I'm glad we finally taught these boy scouts how to erect a dick. - a tent! Erect a tent. Phew."
Posted by: Vance | May 18, 2006 10:57 AM
Seeing these boys pitch a tent makes me pitch a tent too. By that I mean my penis gets erect. This is because I find young boys sexually attractive.
Posted by: Jesse Skinner | May 18, 2006 11:01 AM
"*Some* scoutmasters would have helped these boys pitch their tent when we arrived last night. But then how would they learn self-sufficiency?"
Posted by: Francis | May 18, 2006 11:03 AM
"See what we're doing, boys? We're looking directly at the sun! You should never do this, because it will damage your eyes. Boys? Boys? Are you even paying attention? Because I'm throwing out gold here."
Posted by: Francis | May 18, 2006 11:05 AM
Your little-boy-trap was an ingenious idea, Jerry! After we rape and kill these kids, you should go patent it!
Posted by: Jesse Skinner | May 18, 2006 11:06 AM
Jesus Christ...are these little monsters stupid, or what!
Posted by: dwd | May 18, 2006 11:42 AM
"Ah...the sun's going down. That means the wolves will be coming out soon!"
Posted by: Francis | May 18, 2006 11:48 AM
"Personally I have no desire to share our secret with the valley folk below, even if it is just Peace on Earth, but if the General Secretary says we must we must."
"We never got sunsets like this at Al Qaeda camp. But they had stronger coffee and duskier boys."
"Hey! You can see my stash from up here!"
"I just ignore them until one emerges dominant. Then I beat the living shit out of him with a half full canteen held by the strap. Then they know you're boss."
"Look at the jugs on that raccoon!"
"Enjoy it while it lasts up here in the mountains. Next week we ship out to the Mexican border."
Posted by: TG Gibbon | May 18, 2006 12:28 PM
Well, Joe, you were right that Timmy could hold onto that bent tent pole for over 10 minutes. Guess I owe you $10.
Unless you want to go double or nothing on how far Bobby goes flying once Timmy loses his grip? I say he makes it at least 15 feet.
Posted by: Jesse | May 18, 2006 12:47 PM
"So, you seen 'Brokeback Mountain' yet?"
Posted by: Steve | May 18, 2006 1:03 PM
This reminds me of back when I was a rookie scoutleader. The kids couldn't pitch a tent worth a damn back that first night, either. But with a little tough love, by the end of the week they were all experts at wilderness survival. Sure, they did start a small forest fire, but it only took out about five acres. Course, when Smokey Bear came by he started in on some bullshit about how all fires are dangerous, even the small ones. Even threatened to report me. So I shot that fucker in the back and took his hat. Worn it ever since then. God, I love telling that story.
Posted by: Jesse | May 18, 2006 1:11 PM
....yeah, but gay scouts would have erected the tent a lot quicker, don't ya think?
No, I don't think this looks like one of the scenes from "Brokeback Mountain" at all , Steve!
(see Steve | May 18, 2006 01:03 PM) posted above
Posted by: dwd | May 18, 2006 1:40 PM
"Well, would you look at that. Two racoons just humpin' away. Man, I used to fuck like that, back in the day."
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Posted by: J | May 18, 2006 2:50 PM
"Timmy, when we let you down, we're going to send you back to your camp with a list of four names. You bring the children on that list back here - each one of them, and no one else - and we'll let you and Johnny go free. It goes down any other way, and you'll never see Johnny alive again."
"Well, that sure is one beautiful nuclear holocaust out there, ain't it, Tom? All right, let's help these boys set up the tent."
"Hank, have you ever read Nip the Buds Shoot the Kid,s by Kenzaburo Oe? One Hell of a book, just one Hell of a book. You really should read it sometime. Change your whole outlook."
Posted by: gary | May 18, 2006 3:19 PM
"Ahhh... there's nothin' better than watchin' a beautiful sunset while enjoying a steamin' cup of fresh boy's urine, is there, Frank?"
"Nope, Joe, there sure ain't."
Posted by: Vance | May 18, 2006 4:07 PM
"89550... 89550... someday in this enormous forest we'll finally locate that number scrawled on the ground and we'll have solved the mystery. Why, it could even happen as early as next week, don'tcha think, Frank?"
"Yep, Joe, I sure do."
Posted by: Vance | May 18, 2006 4:10 PM
Those pricks at abu ghraib got nothin' on us, nothin!
Posted by: jake | May 18, 2006 6:15 PM
Consider this the obvious example entry that you can do better than:
"That's right, after we get the rest of them stretched out on poles and staked down, we can unzip them and air them out before we... wait a minute, I was talking about the tents, what were you talking about?"
Posted by: Walt | May 18, 2006 6:41 PM
"Ah, yes, I now know how Michael Jackson feels. "
"I love the smell of little boys in the morning. The smell, you know that tube socks and fruit rollups smell. Smells like... victory. Someday this jamboree's gonna end..."
Posted by: Nyx | May 18, 2006 6:49 PM
"Boy, that bear looks like she's moving pretty fast. What say we stroll over to the lodge?"
Posted by: Naes | May 18, 2006 7:13 PM
Now that's a pole dance!
Posted by: whitsun001 | May 18, 2006 10:39 PM
I always say the better the bait the bigger the sasquatch
Posted by: viv | May 19, 2006 7:52 AM
"Another great Darwin lecture, Earl."
Posted by: Deborah | May 19, 2006 8:53 AM
'Ze Big Twee:
"Earl, we've created a really great world for ourselves here in the middle of your father's nature reserve. And the wolf costumes are keeping the kids from investigating the perimeter, which is great, but I think it's time to tell them the truth... that the notion of a Christian God is a myth."
"Does this stance make me look fey?"
"Them boys is right natural-like. Ayup, we's has got a right good con'stituency up here a'right. I reckon we's is been teachin' all what's God done made us do. Tent pitchin' is da Lawd's work."
Posted by: Josh | May 19, 2006 12:03 PM
"I thought it was all over when they drummed me out of the priesthood, but this is even better. Okay, boys, it's merit badge time..."
Posted by: Jimmy Beck | May 19, 2006 3:49 PM
I think our troop's got the Abu Gharib reenactment contest in the bag. Get it? In the bag?
Posted by: plw | May 19, 2006 6:11 PM
"As soon as they're plumb tuckered out, we can harvest their organs and live like kings."
Posted by: Berta | May 19, 2006 8:37 PM
"Ain't no wetbacks gonna get past us! Boys, it's time to earn your riflery badges."
Posted by: Anno-nymous | May 19, 2006 11:00 PM
I guess I should have studied the manual.
Tell me, is that a sun set or a sun rise?
Posted by: Amy | May 20, 2006 10:01 AM
"If my erection lasts for more than 8 hours, I'm going to see my doctor."
Posted by: Condi | May 20, 2006 11:05 AM
"Skilling, Abramoff, Cunningham, Delay......all Boy Scouts... just chokes me up to think of it."
Posted by: Square 4 | May 20, 2006 2:16 PM
"And all you tell them is 'Pitch the worst possible tent for this week's camping trip.'?"
Posted by: Cog in the Dissonance | May 22, 2006 12:57 AM
"Awwww. The troop is still so dazed from all that boy-sex that they're having trouble setting up a simple, 45-component tent."
Posted by: MPC | May 24, 2006 1:50 PM
"From now on, let's always camp next to a Starbucks."
Posted by: Kelvin | May 24, 2006 5:08 PM
"It's dawn and those kids still haven't put up that damn tent. On the other hand, this coffee is so good, I would have never guessed it was instant."
Posted by: jason | May 25, 2006 3:11 PM
"Yeah, Joe, As long as the Republicans are in control, these kids will always have high-level jobs in the administration."
Posted by: Boris | May 27, 2006 7:13 PM
"I didn't even know they MADE outdoor sexual positioning apparatus!"
Posted by: Adrian Wapcaplet | December 8, 2006 4:02 AM