Remember the innocent elephant jokes of our youth? You know the ones – What do elephants do for laughs? (Tell bad people jokes) or What do you call an elephant with a machine gun? (Sir).

A natural lead-in into this week’s caption contest, where we encourage child-like humor and abandon, but usually reward the opposite. Our new cartoon – Trunk Space – can be found at the top of this entry (email subscribers can click on “Read Full Post”). The winning caption receives a $30 iTunes gift certificate and their name in big beautiful orange font, like this week’s winner, JR Gunderson, whose caption appears below:

While JR may need an overview of the subjunctive, his caption was the most captivating.

This may be your last chance to win a weekly caption contest in 2008, so submit your entries now (yes, you can submit more than one).

P.S. Don’t forget to submit an entry to Check My Bait. Now that the holiday season is upon us, we expect to be assaulted with some of the best worst advertising out there. While there’s no iTunes prize for Check My Bait, we believe mocking bad ads is a gift in and of itself.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and who couldn’t use a little weekly feed growth! today?

Our new cartoon, Love is in the air, can be found at the top of this post (or click on “read full post” if you receive the (sort of) weekly via email). The winning caption receives a $30 iTunes gift certificate and much love from the feed growth! crew.  Check out this week’s winner – we adore risqué swordfish humor:

Think you can do better?  We do too, so get to captioning.

P.S. If you missed it, check out the Top 100 feed growth! Digital Marketing Ideas.  Lots of good stuff to review.

Hungry, kids? We’ve got a heaping helping of growth ideas, a brand new caption contest, and even a check-my-bait nibble.   But before you put your lobster bib on, let’s announce our previous caption winner.

Congratulations, James Ray!  Your caption for Come on in, the water’s just fine has won you a $30 iTunes gift certificate.

We can’t wait to see what you guys will come up with next.

Our new cartoon – En Garde, Captioners! – can be found at the top of this post. You know the rules and the rewards (winner receives a $30 iTunes gift certificate and his/her name in orange print). Remember- no limit on the number of entries. The more, the merrier.

Yes, friends, it is the (sort of) weekly feed growth! But first, congratulations are in order. Mark is last week’s caption winner. His humorous tweak of the Georgia public school system earned him a $30 iTunes gift certificate.

This just proves – if you don’t have anything nice to say, you should be participating in the feed growth! caption contest.

And here is your next chance. We just unveiled this week’s cartoon- Come on in, the water’s just fine. The rules and rewards are the same (winner receives a $30 iTunes gift certificate, his/her name in print, and oh yes, the glory).  Remember- no limit on the number of entries and no accounting for taste, so keep ‘em coming!

Congratulations to Ed Shaz! He crab walked over all the competition to be this week’s caption winner.  Ed earned a $30 iTunes gift certificate and the glory only a feed growth! caption contest winner knows.

Want your chance to shine?  We just unveiled this week’s cartoon- Sunday, Bloody Sunday.  The rules and rewards are the same ($30 iTunes gift certificate for the winner).  Remember- no limit on the number of entries, and on this fine Labor Day weekend, we strongly encourage drinking and captioning.

Congratulations to Aleisha Swartz! Her witty submission has earned her the (sort of) prestigious title of “The (Sort of) Weekly Feed Growth Caption Winner” and a $30 iTunes gift certificate.

An honorable mention goes out to Ryan Paddock for his submission- “Hooman lied to me. Der iz no cheezburger in dis spacesuit.”

Check out the week’s caption contest cartoon- Here Comes the Hotstepper. The prize remains the same. No limit on the number of entries and don’t forget to utilize our commenting plugin to grab an accompanying image for your caption. Still unsure how it works? Check out this quick how-to screencast we created to demonstrate the process.

Congratulations to Tyler Bagley. He just won a $30 iTunes gift certificate by playing our weekly caption contest. $30 dollars for 7 words? – good luck getting Conde Nast to pay that much.

As Tyler basks in the glory of his win, we invite you to try your hand at this week’s John Nelson cartoon, found here.

We will award another $30 iTunes gift certificate to the best submission. That’s right, we upped the ante from $25 (well actually, we learned iTunes doesn’t offer $5 increments). No limit on the number of entries- so, keep ‘em coming.

Don’t forget to utilize our commenting plugin. If you are unsure how, we’ve got you covered with this little screencast we created to demonstrate the process.

Congratulations to the first feed growth! caption cartoon winner, Frances. Her name will go down in the annals of feed growth! history… at least, for this week. Check out her contribution below:

Do you think you can do better than Frances? We’ve raised the bar and will award the next winner a $25 iTunes gift certificate. Try your hand at this week’s John Nelson cartoon, found at the top of this post.

If you are unsure how to work our commenting plug-in, check out this sweet little screencast we created to demonstrate the process.

You can’t win if you don’t play. No limit on the number of entries.

We will review all submissions and feature the winner on the next time around.

It’s here! You’ve always wanted to enter that oh so famous cartoon caption contest in the back of the New Yorker (or, um, maybe Field & Stream). This is your big chance. We’ll be featuring a new cartoon from John Nelson every week.

Of course, our cartoons will highlight some creative fishing techniques, a little inspiration for anyone who’s working hard to create a customer feeding frenzy.

So, what do you win? Beyond effusive praise and the adulation of your peers, you mean? Let’s just say that it’s a surprise.

Okay, here’s how to play. First, choose the post by clicking on the post title – a week of ideas. Then, click on the orange “add image comment” tab found above the cartoon. Mouse-over the cartoon, lineup the cross hair (note that the caption will be BELOW the box that you draw), and draw a box of any size where you want to add a comment. The system will take a snapshot and pop-up a comment box where you can type your witty caption. The image capture and your caption will be posted below. Click on “show image” next to your comment to see your caption inserted into the cartoon.

You can’t win if you don’t play. No limit on the number of entries.

We will review all submissions and feature the winner next week.