Day 1 ["Out-of-the-box" cartoon caption contest]

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Let's start the 5 days "Out of the Box" cartoon caption contest.

Terms and rules are pretty simple:
- Each morning we'll post a new cartoon without a caption.
- To win the contest, you must supply the best caption in the comments.
- The supplied caption must be in decent English & include word "box" or any derivative forms.
- You may submit as many variants as you have. There are no limits.
- Each next day we'll select the best captions and will award the winners.

Day 1 / 08-Jun-2010

... your caption with word "box" in it ...

The winning comments will be announced in the comment thread for the post.

... AND THE DAY 1 WINNERS ARE .....

Submitted by Indigo on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 09:01.

1'st place - Yee
for
"Employee Relocation from a Branch Office"
and
"Thinking Out of the Box Problem"

2'nd place - Rob
for
"Stuck in a cube"

3'rd place - Scribbly
for
"Are You Kidding?"
and
"We Thought it was a Joke!"

Congratulations! We'll contact you soon regarding your prizes!

Thank you everyone for all your contributions! All comments are very fun.

This was just the Day 1 out of 5. So, let's proceed to Day 2 cartoon.

Out of competition from TBS staff

Submitted by Indigo on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 07:02.

Instead of outsourcing our programming tasks we decided to order frozen ready-to-cook engineers and to use them out-of-the-box on site.

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The Day 1 contest is over. Winners will be announced in 1 hour. A new cartoon for Day 2 will be published as well.

Employee Relocation from a Branch Office

Submitted by yee on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 03:00.

Oh, that's Harry from our office in Alaska. They shipped him back in a box because it was the cheapest way.

Trying Too Hard

Submitted by yee on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 03:01.

He wanted to be a cool programmer, but he got a bad case of programmer's block instead.

Thinking Out of the Box Problem

Submitted by yee on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 02:20.

You said, "Think outside of the Box", but he couldn't even get out of the box!

FedEx

Submitted by donridley on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 23:38.

Well, we could just FedEx the box...

Budget cuts....

Submitted by mburris on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 22:37.

I know our budget has been cut, but purchasing has to realize that THAT isn't what I meant when I said we need new cubicles.

Contortionist

Submitted by donridley on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 20:40.

Ricky's doing his contortionist in box thing again!

Cube

Submitted by lanmicro on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 20:17.

But, he wanted a cubicle!

Actually it is very high

Submitted by davbrat on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 19:25.

Actually it is very high tech, it’s a virtual box!

BoXoR

Submitted by rathead on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 18:59.

"sure it's marvelous... but i still need to be a hagler on price."

New employee

Submitted by damnik on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 18:12.

A job center had only box editions

A disaster not waiting to happen...

Submitted by hamradio on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 03:26.

Grey suit guy: "This is a disaster we keep trying to tell him its company policy to think outside the box, but he keeps insisting he thinks better while inside the box." -/-
Blue shirt red tie guy:
"*frowns* So what do you want me to do, be like Trump and tell him your fired?"

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