Heyooo what happened to summer? There are CHRISTMAS WREATHS for sale at the grocery store. We're unsettled by this sudden and abrupt seasonal rug-pulling, so we're having a caption contest while we come to terms with having to imminently wrest ourselves into sweaters and close-toed shoes. If this isn’t your first caption rodeo you know the rules, but here they are again:
- Leave your funniest clean caption to the photo in the comments section below. We reserve the right to delete captions that we deem inappropriate. We’re not too stingy, but try to keep it moderately PG-13.
- Captions submitted any other way besides in the comment section will not be accepted! That means do not use the feedback form, though you may really, really want to.
- Since it's a short week we'll give you the weekend, too - captions will be accepted from the moment this post goes live until Monday, September 14 at 10 a.m. Mountain Time.
- A crack team of humor experts will pick the winner and we will announce it shortly thereafter.
Now that that's out of the way, let's enter the Humordome:
The prize for the winningest hilarity? A SparkFun MYSTERY BOX OF WONDER worth approximately $250, which may or may not also contain 11 multimeters (it definitely contains 11 multimeters). What are you going to do with that many multimeters? That's half the fun, friendos. Now get in there and make us forget that winter is coming.
T-Rex hates flossing!
I'm just hair to hunt ducks.
Lets see that dog laugh at me now!
CRT - Cathode Ray Terminator
REAL programmers use a modded NES Zapper
"Clever girl" thought the T-rex. . . until he saw the beard.
From the year 2240... As the staff at the science museum lovingly assembled their latest exhibit, painstakingly reproduced from a photo discovered at the Sparkfun Historical Monument, they had a nagging feeling that something was not quite right. The wooden T-Rex was easily explained as having ritual significance, but they couldn't quite persuade themselves that the scale was entirely correct.
Shh! Be VEWWWWY quiet... I'm hunting fossiws!
When there's not enough joy in a stick...
I agree, you should enjoy living in your parents basement for as long as possible.
Technology advances, boys grow into men, species go extinct, but that blasted dog just keeps laughing!
Once the controller and gun came together, the hair was kind of inevitable.
Duck-dog, if you snicker at me again, I swear my my pretty blond locks, I will end you!
a representative from l'oreal got more than he bargained for during a recent tour at Sparkfun
Don't Settle For Less Than High Quality Hair With Vidal Sassoon! We've taken aim at gamer funk. You can still shoot'em up with silky flowing locks. Because if you don't look good, we don't look good.
Dude, this is so lifelike...
Game of Bones
Give a man a gun, he'll shoot for a day. Give a man a toy gun, T-Rex will eat for a day.
Would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses or 1 horse sized duck? I say, why not both?
A Sparkfun haiku:
Is that a giant NES controller or are you just happy to see me?
Chilling out after being promoted to lead pick and placer after returning from an ill fated tour of the Wonka factory.
He couldn't put the rifle down, not for haircuts, not for shaving, or even for upgrading to a smaller console. Note, that is not T-rex carcass you smell.
Et tu goldylocks?
It's Flashback Friday at SFE! Glam Metal attire and hair, NES Remotes, CRT Televisions!
A wild Trinitron appears!
Sometimes Jimbo doubts your commitment to Sparkle Motion..
You call that an NES remote? Wait 'til you see our giant WII Remotes!
This part's fun. It's the written test that scares new Sparkfun employees
The CRT is winning.
This is how Thor plays Duck Hunt!
I should have embiggened the TV not the controller!
"Anode Ray" meets cathode ray.
Honey, I Shrunk The Duck Hunter!
As the unsuspecting duck hunter is about to be eaten by a dinosaur.
Thor gets distracted. Grimlock attacks.
PEEEEW pew pew pew pew pew / PEEEEW pew pew pew pew PEEEEW PEEEEW pew PEEEEW pew PEEEEW pew PEEEEW pew pew pew / PEEEEW pew pew pew pew pew --> Morse Code gun fire translation “Die duck die”
Elvis, bearing a grudge against Mario, shoots another TV.
YOU will not press either red button!
After the shrink ray malfunctioned playing the NES got a little more difficult.
You're on a desert island with King Koopa, Shredder, and that snickering dog. You have a zapper with two bullets. What do you do? ... You shoot that blasted dog twice!
By Odin -- those pesky mortals were right, after all! Shooting this NERF weapon IS superior to throwing that stupid Hammer!
What is older (A) The retro arcade game? (B) Dinosaur bones? (C) Or gunge/hair band hair cut?
Thor plays a trick on Loki by supersizing his NES with his brand new Sparkfun Make-it-bigger-zapper.
Release the T-rex, and nobody gets hurt.
They told me to beat this game I had to develop hair-trigger reflexes.
"Haha, I'm invincible" he thought as he was shooting at the characters on screen. Little did he know that he was just about to find out the ugly truth.
Colorado lawyer training for upcoming Caribbean trip. Not gonna end up like his NY city predecessor.
Magazine empty? Stomp "B" to reload!
"Doug" Hunt
While simply wanting to jump back to the 80's to enjoy retro gaming, Thor accidentally brought back the prehistoric era with him.
CRT? um.... why?
(Can't tell if this was serious, so I'm answering just in case) The NES Zapper will (pretty much) only work on a CRT screen.
Wellcome to the 21st century with our latest development tool for debugging software. Just point and shoot!
Things sure come full circle, this game system and old TV like the dinosaur long extinct and put back together so people can enjoy them. What are the black string things? Only another legend of wires connecting things together.
Looks like my abnormally sized child forgot to put away his controller again...
And the next stop on the tour is our 1980s-themed "Blast from the Past" game room. What's that?... Yes, that man over there is a prop. We basically pay him to stay in this room all day... No, he's not allowed to get a haircut. We also have some extra Metallica shirts and sandals just in case we need them.
Introducing the Sparkfun Maximizer 5000. This indispensable tool maximizes fun by enlarging objects with the simple pull of a trigger. NES controller too small for your delicate hands? ZAP! Problem solved. T-Rex model not big enough to impress your little brother? ZAP! Problem solved. Hair not long enough to do that hair flip thing you know you always wanted to do? ZAP! Problem solved (and in style). No small problem is a match for the Maximizer 5000. Get yours today!
Call of Mario, Supersized, with a side of dinosaur
Sparkfun's new interactive pick and place system. If you get it wrong, Nate rises out of the bushes chuckling.
CRT sets, light guns, NES controllers and the Tyrannosaurus Rex. All items remembered fondly by nerds from yesteryear.
This explains the Sparkfun AVC building tour delays!
I get that ducks are descendants of dinosaurs but this seems excessive.
You miss one hundred percent of the pixels you don't shoot
Duck hunt has never been better.
Watch, as the T-Rex, in his natural habitat, uses 8-bits of bait to spring the trap on the hippy treat.
This stand in will have to suffice, as the lens we ordered for the 26 foot zapper is on backorder.
Die you inefficient, commy CRT monitor!
The prototype Transmogrifier gun didn't quite work as planned, but we acquired a pretty badass mega-sized NES controller.
Awww... shoot! I forgot to upsize the monitor!
Having fun beta testing the new Mantendo laser blaster for the halo port.
Sparkfun Customer Support enjoys Bug Hunt
T-Rex has next, finally a controller that fits in his hands. Now if only he can reach it with his tiny arms.
"Let's see you cheat Track and Field® with an electric toothbrush on this controller"
Even the monitor is retro!
See if you laugh at me this time duck hunt dog...
Man. I love this gun mod for Bubble Bobble.
Muldoon's replacement reenacts "Clever Girl" scenario for the class.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jurassic+park+clever+girl
A Norseman practicing for a modern day t-rex hunt!
I dare you to move!!!
TOP SECRET S.T.A.R.S Training Facility.
Location: SubT InGen Compound, Isla Nublar
The mistake every rookie makes.
This is not your mothers Nintendo!
You gonna the pod bay doors now, HAL?
At Sparkfun, we do not play Duckhunt. At Sparkfun, we play Dragonhunt. THIS. IS. SPARKFUN.
After Jeremy spent 4 years developing an oversized NES controller and the zapper of his dreams, he forgot duck hunt only works on old CRTs. Thus he was forces to play on an undersized TV. Classic Jeremy.
"Stay really still, Billy. Dr Lasik will fix your astigmatism from across the room!"
Clever girl....
A full three decades after the rest of the 80's culture, Yanni finally figured out what every 38 year old already knew -- that you could cheat at Duck Hunt.
With my new Annihilator IV I should be ready for another Night at the Museum. But if I DO have to run, the coolant hose may prove problematic.
Sparkfun's low budget remake of Jurassic World...
All Sparkfun needs now is a PowerGlove and the Retro gaming experience will be complete
Professor Proteus thought he was safe with his "remote battling platform" hidden in our solar system far from Spondylus. Unfortunately, he had not realized that the mighty Robosaur had made the journey with him, ironically stowed away in the very same over-sized battle controller that he intended to fight it with.
Thor was bored with his hammer. He traded it in for a laser gun.
Entranced by the video game, Thor doesn't see the dinosaur ready to attack.
The only thing that is not extinct or going extinct in this picture is the robot in the foreground, and possibly the glass. Nope, according to Wall-E, the beard or long hair is not gonna survive.
Time to send this to widget@sparkfun.com to submit this as a new product idea!
New Million dollar facility, and they give me a tube TV and an obnoxiously large cardboard controller to do my gaming on?... I'll show them
But he compensates by having a big gun.
Without thought of the consequences, a mild mannered dentist takes aim at Cecil, the last remaining CRT Monitor of its species.
Sparkfun's secondary firewall protection against hackers!
Look left, LOOK LEFT!
Thor's younger brother "Score" practicing his "superhero" powers.
"And here is patient 2346, The poor soul thinks the television is on."
T-Rex, CRT-ceratops, Nintendo-saurus, and Red hang out in the Sparkfun time capsule room.
The Enlargenator. ill test it on the controller first. It works! I have always wanted a big screen TV.
Duck Nukem 4D: Mesozoic Mayhem
Despite the relentless march of technology, Link still preferred a little old school gaming. Or, more precisely, some old game schooling.
Ant-Man finally goes hippy!
Not to be out done by Apple, SparkFun today released the T-Rex gaming system.
...(it definitely contains 11 multimeters) Oh, shoot!
So what if we missed the deadline? Take the picture from behind the monitor. They'll never know it doesn't really work.
Thanks Jerry! I keep shooting all the civilians because you ordered the oversized controller instead of the oversized TV. I hope their virtual souls haunt you in your sleep.
This TV Remote won't get lost in the couch!
Hey, there are other ways to get rid of old technology.
Brain Washing, Social Control and Programming – Why You Should Kill Your Television
Not a caption... just curious, are we aloud to submit more than one caption...?
Yep, one is ALLOWED to post as often as you like. Spell check is your friend...
aloud is a word, so no, in this case spellcheck is a jerk.
Aloud is not appropriate for this usage. Allowed (admit an event or activity as legal or acceptable) vs Aloud (audibly; not silently or in a whisper) Spellcheck like any tool requires one pay attention, jerk (a contemptibly obnoxious person) or not.
Yo - everyone cool it, and please take this moment to check over the comment guidelines.
To become a Sparkfunion one must pass the test of skills, Grasshopper
Light guns don't kill ducks... I kill ducks.
"Well at least they shrunk me a TV too"
"And that's when the game of Duck Hunt took a turn for the worst."
T-Rex: These short arms sure make using the exerband difficult!
Honey, I blew up the game controller
Inexplicably, the only hope Bob had of restoring the world to normal size was shooting the television.
(in best Pacino accent) "Say hello to my little Nin.......tendo"!
Get a real job they said, well I showed them!
You stare at him…and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side.
With the new ShotZapper attachment for NES, never miss those pesky ducks again!
And the leader of our company, Thorin Oakenblaster
Bigger Gamepad, bigger ammo. Sparkfun's logic !
Just because that snickering dog is getting on your nerves doesn't mean you can get on the target side of the rail. After all, that kinda takes the sport out of it doesn't it...
I don't know how, but the first person shooter version of "The Borrowers" for SNES will actually shrink you down to the correct size.
"Die mother ducker!"
Nintendope!
No time to figure out who spiked my drink, or why Yoshi got so skinny - must get the Super Mushroom so l can return to normal size.
TELL ME WHY! I don't like New Product Fridays... TELL ME WHY! I don't like New Product Friiii-days....
Duck Dienasty
Those "Wild Gunman" gunslingers never had a chance.
Kids, here's your NES. Here's Antman on your NES!
What's this!!! A CRT, I thought I annihilated the last one years ago. Die you LEAD soaked Power Eater!
Gosh darn World Cup Brazilians! This time, they’ll never know what hit them!
"Flipping the polarity worked - my shrink ray is now a GROW RAY!"
Say PC load Letter one more time! I dare you.
He doesn't realize he's shooting at the wrong dinosaur.
Duck Hunt Extreme!
And this is why we sterilize before using the enlarging ray.
Clever girl....
Are you ready for Dunk Hunt, RELOADED? The feathers will fly!
pew pew / pew PEEEEW PEEEEW pew pew PEEEEW pew --> Morse Code gun fire translation "I win"
Just play that commercial again... Cadbury Bunny Stew time!
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