Comical Processing: You Write The Cartoon Caption

Here we are again -- Soliciting captions for Jerry King's newest cartoon.

A Jerry King cartoon portrays engineers looking at a pipe with oodles of valves. The workers don't know what to do.

Submissions

"Beats me. How am I supposed to know which valve looks like an amaryllis?" By Jennifer Gould

"Choosing the right color is like arguing with a traffic light: everyone has something to say, but in the end you're still stuck on red, thinking." By Javier Granda

"They told me that we could play Row, row, row your boat, if we press them in the correct order." By Pam Starrett

“They taught me in chemical engineering class that the toughest color to turn is the right one.” By Marv Sager

"Ralph: What to do, Peter? You studied AI. Now tell me.
Peter : Just repeat after me and count: Inky Pinky Ponky, Father had a donkey, Donkey died, Father cried, Inky Pinky Ponky. Open the valve you got on the last count.
Ralph : Sure
Peter : Yep. That is my Artificial Intelligence talking." By Kambal Rao

“Someone should have considered that we are both color blind before color coding everything.” By Jeanne Clark

“Nothing like a game of "Valve Twister" to keep the operators entertained on a weekend!” By Simon Blackmore

“Oops-a-daisy!” By AJ Wells

"The instructions said it was critical to set them in order by spectral frequency sequence. They didn’t want to use any particular language characters to label them, figuring a color code would be universal. Do you happen to remember which color would be the lowest frequency then?" By Robert Bauer

"It's strange. Whenever we start up the process, the pipes just spit out the yellow valves. Must be for lukewarm water." By John Paulk

The SOP clearly said: "You must open the left valve before the right valve!" By Ivo Dujmovic

"Now I see why we are replacing the previous two engineers that are both having Carpal Tunnel surgery!" By Chuck Lewis

‘Marketing’ said we needed to offer every custom car color under the sun as a sales gimmick. ‘Marketing’ said it was a simple job of mixing pigments. ‘Marketing’ said that just required a ‘simple’ mixing machine. ‘Management’ decided to cut costs and do it manually since it was so ‘simple’. Neither bothered to do the research or ask a process engineer. I think both are ‘simple in the head’, and Henry Ford was right. Should’a stuck with black." By Robert Bauer

"Maybe we can start a new car color fashion trend. Turn them all ON, and you get kind of a funky dark purple. Think the customers will go for that? It would sure make our job easier." By Robert Bauer