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In Tom Toro\u2019s cartoon, two flying saucers are trying to abduct the same person, who is caught in the competing tractor beams. An alien in one UFO is saying something to the alien in the rival UFO.<\/p>\nIn Tom Toro\u2019s cartoon, two flying saucers are trying to abduct the same person, who is caught in the competing tractor beams. An alien in one UFO is saying something to the alien in the rival UFO.<\/p>\n
The abductee looks like a wishbone about to be pulled apart, so my first and most obvious thought was, \u201cMake a wish.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n I then had the aliens behave like high school students arguing over a cute classmate: \u201cYou want to conduct invasive experiments on him only because we want to conduct invasive experiments on him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Now let\u2019s see how you did.<\/p>\n My initial idea\u2014\u201cMake a wish\u201d<\/strong>\u2014was not very original. Close to a hundred entrants submitted the same caption.<\/p>\n Here are some clever variations on the idea of splitting the abductee in two:<\/p>\n There were a lot of anal probe jokes, but these were the best:<\/p>\n Many of you cast the aliens as parents in a custody dispute:<\/p>\n Number 4 is good, but I think it would read better as, \u201cLet\u2019s let him decide.\u201d And number 3 could do without the last word because the punch line is really \u201cvisitation schedule,\u201d not \u201cagain.\u201d<\/p>\n The next three entries make the dispute over the abductee sound like a romantic rivalry:<\/p>\n\n
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