One More Funny Pirate Caption
Okay, now open up and say “aaaarrrrggghhhhh”…
It’s a funny line. And I meant to include it in the Honorable Mention list.
I also indended to include an explanation with the results post. And I forgot. We normally get an average of 400-500 submissions. And surprisingly, we rarely have duplicates. In a normal contest we might have one line duplicated in all the entries. In the pirate contest, over 20 people submitted jokes with “say arrrrrrgh” as the punchline. Good writing. I like the line. The problem with recognizing the line with so many duplications is that when you publish it as a top-three line, 20 other people are thinking “hey, that was MY line!” Or, as an Honorable Mention, they’re thinking, “there’s my line, but they changed the words a little.” A second consideration; with so many people submitting the line, it was considered by the judges to be too obvious. In my opinion, however, it’s good writing and is funny. I had intended to publish one of the variations as an Honorable Mention with an explanation. Arrrrrrrgh!
The full results post immediately follows this post.