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Comical Processing: You Write The Cartoon Caption Winner January 3, 2019

Congratulations to Indiana's Paul Studebaker. Paul is also editor of our sister publication Control Global. We promise that connection did not factor in to his win.

Honorable Mentions

"I'm trying to remember which one is the rapid growth formula. Look what happened when i got it on my nose." by Sandy Exum

"I think we need another category for this batch!" by John Opiola

"How did we ever get the Army contract for prophylactics?" by Morton Evans

"On your job application you listed amateur magician. These are the samples that you need to make disappear." by Jeanne Clark



Other Submissions

"Eenie, meenie, miney mo seems to be working so far." by Ronald Drumpf

"I dropped the two boxes and now I am not sure which of these vials are "OK" or "Instantaneously Lethal"." by David Debari

"And this is where we sort the samples for asbestos diagnostic. They come in three sorts: negative, positive and flase positive." by Romain Raballand

"I don't think that going with the generic packaging was a good idea!" by Scott Mourier

"How did we acquire some of these bottles from the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant?" by Marvin Sager

"Where do these go again?" by Mike Dolan

"Since the boxes are full, let's dump the rest of these in the sink." by Richard Molsbee

"Go ahead, taste it." by Joe Davis

"They are actually all the same, except for the price. Good goes to the schools @ $, Toxic goes to industry @ $$$, and Shhhhh goes to the military @ $$$$$$..." by Larry Shade

"Tell me your sorting criteria once more?" by Joe Davis

"So much for reducing inventory by standardizing on a single packaging format!" by George Hudak

"I was told that it depends on the degree of how much it burns your fingers when holding the tube." by Joe Davis

"I heard if you fill these up with water they glow in the dark." by Brian Frick

"What does it mean when the caps blew off ALL of them?" by Joe Davis

"It was a joke!" "Who knew HR would fire Ernie for filling these leftover tubes with coffee for the 9:00 AM meeting." by Chuck Lewis

"What does it mean when the caps blew off ALL of them?" by Joe Davis

"The accounting department employees all sitting in a circle holding hands." "The entire R&D lab playing nude volleyball in the executive parking lot." "I think we have found the smoking gun." by Chuck Lewis

"um, so how do we sort these?" "I don't know mate, they all looks the same so.." by Nurain Mukromin

"So, the new quality control kid's an expert in his field, ain't he, Ben?" by Chenny Compuesto

"On Take Your Kid to Work Day 2018: I went to the bathroom, and when I came back all these tubes were empty and a new box with the label with "Shhh" appeared. At least the kids are happy." by Christina Hermens

"Ummm, what do they define as 'GOOD? Never mind, I don't think I want to know." by Joe Davis

"Do you think it’s just a coincidence that all the Toxic samples occurred the morning after the Xmas party?" by Colin Prickett

"Your task is to sort these out." by Bill Stuble

"Darn. I haven't a clue which box these were in." by Kiven Kiersey

"These may need a new classification, all contain radioactive mercury." by Richard Kajander

"You're right... We will never have enough tubes to freeze the leftover of the Chilli cooking competition..." by Martin Tremblay

"The boss said to sort them by taste--just don't swallow any." by Craig Koerner

"So the drug testing is not going as planned. Your job is the get the test specimens from management." by Kenneth Russell

"Let's put a "clearance" sign and let the crowd pick" by Jacob Nagar

"I don't know Eddy... I swear Lenny was standing here looking into one of those less than a second ago... Then I hear a swoosh..." by Martin Tremblay

"These ones are to go in a box labelled "Good -- Shhhhh", and they don't show in our inventory too" by Assem Abdou

"This is what happens when your lose your cesium level source and it gets melted down into widgets." by Ronald Strybos