Category: Caption This

  • Caption This: The Octopus on the Desk

    Caption This: The Octopus on the Desk

    Caption This Wednesday — an original work of fictional comedy from the FunnyNews.lol staff.

    An octopus librarian in a cardigan juggles library tasks behind the circulation desk as a tortoise patron offers a tiny book.
    Editorial illustration: one very busy octopus librarian and one patient tortoise patron.

    Staff caption

    “I can handle eight things at once. I just can’t tell which one is the phone.”

    FunnyNews.lol staff caption

    The octopus librarian stamped a book, shelved another, and caught a teetering stack while the tortoise waited with a single, very small checkout.

    Staff note: This edition features a staff-generated caption. Community submissions are coming later.

    The scene, characters, and caption are fictional comedy.

  • Caption This: The Octopus on the Desk

    Caption This: The Octopus on the Desk

    Caption This Wednesday — an original work of fictional comedy from the FunnyNews.lol staff.

    An octopus librarian in a cardigan juggles library tasks behind the circulation desk as a tortoise patron offers a tiny book.
    Editorial illustration: one very busy octopus librarian and one patient tortoise patron.

    Staff caption

    “I can handle eight things at once. I just can’t tell which one is the phone.”

    FunnyNews.lol staff caption

    The octopus librarian stamped a book, shelved another, and caught a teetering stack while the tortoise waited with a single, very small checkout.

    Staff note: This edition features a staff-generated caption. Community submissions are coming later.

    The scene, characters, and caption are fictional comedy.

  • Caption This: The Ice-Cream Shop’s Coolest Customer

    Caption This: The Ice-Cream Shop’s Coolest Customer

    In two comic panels, an ice-cream shopkeeper offers a fan to a snowman in oversized sunglasses, who enjoys a cone on the sunny patio.
    Editorial illustration

    Caption This: The Ice-Cream Shop’s Coolest Customer

    A summer afternoon brings one very prepared guest to the neighborhood ice-cream parlor. A shopkeeper offers a fan while the snowman settles in with a cone, and the sunny-day crowd looks on.

    Staff-generated caption: “I asked for a cool place to sit. They took me literally.”

    This original scene is fictional comedy created for FunnyNews.lol’s Wednesday Caption This feature.

  • Caption This: The Elevator Has a Growth Plan

    Caption This: The Elevator Has a Growth Plan

    Original fictional comedy · Staff-generated caption

    Editorial illustration of office workers sharing an elevator queue with a tall fiddle-leaf fig and a small cactus.
    Caption This: The Elevator Has a Growth Plan

    Staff caption: “I can take the next floor—I’ve got a little room to grow.”

    Today’s Caption This scene is an original work of fictional comedy created for FunnyNews.lol. The caption was written by staff.

  • Caption This: Please Board at the Library Book-Return Slot

    Caption This: Please Board at the Library Book-Return Slot

    Caption This — staff-generated

    This fictional comedy scene imagines the Riverside Public Library’s book-return slot as a very busy airport terminal. The librarian has the clipboard, the pigeon has the tower, and one tiny suitcase is ready for takeoff.

    A librarian checks a tiny suitcase at a library book-return counter beneath a departures sign while a pigeon watches from a bird traffic-control perch.
    Caption This: a one-panel newspaper-style scene from the FunnyNews.lol funny pages.

    Staff caption: “Your 4:15 to the mystery aisle is boarding at the return slot—please keep your bookmarks handy.”

    We’re saving the caption box for a future community-caption edition, so keep your best punchline ideas ready for that day. Today’s published line is staff-generated.

  • Caption This: File the Organizing

    Caption This: File the Organizing

    Caption This Wednesday — an original work of fictional comedy from the FunnyNews.lol staff.

    A beaver office manager happily gestures toward an enormous tangled wall of filing folders while a pigeon coworker holds one blank folder in a newspaper cartoon panel.
    Editorial illustration for FunnyNews.lol’s staff-generated Caption This.

    Staff caption

    “Good. Now file the organizing.”

    FunnyNews.lol staff caption

    The beaver had arranged the folders by urgency, color, height, and the number of times they had fallen over. The pigeon had found the one remaining blank folder. Progress, it turns out, is often a feeling.

    Staff-generated caption: this edition does not accept or feature public submissions.

    The scene, characters, dialogue, and caption are fictional comedy.

  • Caption This: The Fitted Sheet Has Eight Corners Now

    Caption This: The Fitted Sheet Has Eight Corners Now

    Fictional comedy. This Wednesday’s Caption This is an original FunnyNews.lol comic.

    A purple octopus tries to fold an enormous blue fitted sheet in a laundromat while an orange cat rests on a dryer.
    Caption This — staff caption: “I had it in the first tentacle.”

    Staff caption

    “I had it in the first tentacle.”

    Our staff-generated caption accompanies this original fictional scene. Public caption submissions are not currently collected or featured.

  • Caption This: Deadline, Bread Line

    Caption This: Deadline, Bread Line

    Caption This Wednesday — an original work of fictional comedy from the FunnyNews.lol staff.

    Vintage newspaper cartoon of a pigeon editor pointing from a typewriter at a squirrel delivery worker pushing an improbably tall cart of toast.
    FunnyNews.lol Caption This: the newsroom receives an urgent toast delivery.

    Staff caption

    “Deadline? I thought you said bread line.”

    FunnyNews.lol staff caption

    The pigeon editor had the pencil, the typewriter, and the clock. The squirrel courier brought the carbohydrates. Together, they produced the most buttered misunderstanding in newsroom history.

    Launch note: This caption is staff-generated. Community submissions are coming later; this launch edition does not accept or feature public entries.

    The scene, characters, and caption are fictional comedy.