We’ve got a winner for our caption contest of last Friday. Yes, the shoe designer really made an ass out of himself with these, but we’ve gotten out our shovel and burro’d deep to get a caption that can carry its weight. It’s been donkey’s years since I had this much fun.

All things considered, I’m still surprised Jennie didn’t win.

gemdiva Says:
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:44 pm

In Shrek 4, Donkey gets booted.

There can be only one prize here: the
Cole Haan – Air Reina riding boot in gorgeous black patent.

Who would have thunk that the King himself would be rejected by the voters at Teeny Manolo, peanut- butter and banana sandwiches and all. I guess you guys are having some major “rugged man” moments lately.

Uh, that sounded faintly dirty. Sorry.

But, I’m not sorry to present today’s challenger. We’ve been going rugged, so how do you feel about hairy?

VERSUS

Um, wow. I don’t know any kids with a particular thing about donkeys. I mean, they’re not like dinosaurs or horses or robots or other cool things like that. But I suppose if you do happen to have a kid whose every item of clothing must be adorned with donkey ears, these woolenstocks Little Kid/Big Kid Donkey Woogo Slipper Boots would be just the thing to solve the tricksy footwear question.

Captions? Excuses? Donkey stories (keep them clean, please; we are a family blog, yo).

My new favorite blog, Awkward Family Photos, is an unending treasure chest of delights, sort of like Mary Poppins’ bag or Mister Dressup’s Tickle Trunk, only with other people’s families in it instead of props and costumes. I can already sense that it will become a regular source of thieved material for the Friday Caption Contest.

In homage to my own light-fingered lifting of the following image, we present a posse of prestidigitators for your perusal:

The ruggedly handsome Steve McQueen managed to deliver a beatdown to Richard Burton, whom I must confess lasted much longer than I thought he would.

Today’s challenger is someone I can’t believe I almost missed! He’s coming in a little late on the timeline, but still within bounds. As for this one, the only word that comes to mind is “legend.”

And hot. OK, two words.

VERSUS

Oh, my. Martha Stewart is indeed a woman of intimidating power and awesome reach. Why, simply the expectation of retribution was enough to prevent our intrepid commenters from doing their worst as per usual.

For the first time in the history of Teeny Manolo, we hereby declare the winner of the Friday Caption Contest to be the subject of the Friday Caption Contest. Congratulations, Martha!

And what shall we give Martha to commemorate her victory? What could possibly meet her famously high standards, have some bling factor, yet also be practical enough for her to find handy? Hmmm, how about this Crystal Saver Diamond File? You just never know when a small, portable file will come in handy.

Blimey! In the battle of the Brits, poor Mick Jagger definitely realized he certainly can’t always get what he wants. So if barely twenty percent of you think he’s good looking, who are all those girls screaming at the Rolling Stones concerts?

As for today’s challenger, we’ve got someone who in his heyday was labeled “Mr. Cool.” He is known as a rough and tumble rider of motorcycles, and most famously, a green Mustang.

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Apparently, poor Martha, patron saint of … rich suburban matrons? dunno, something… recently suffered through over an hour of powerlessness, a state of being which surely must not agree with her. In any case, how did the world learn the news? Martha is a Twit. A Twitterer. A Twittererer. Whatever. Martha is, you know, it.

You can just ask her.

Our captionable pic today comes (probably apocryphally, but you can never tell) from that self-same Twitter stream, an unfettered, unfiltered window into the Mind of Martha in realtime. Are you ready for this? Click to enlarge and as always, do your best or your worst in the comments section. But Martha demands nothing less than your best!

The Friday Caption Contest: It’s a good thing.