The votes have been counted- and once again, a winner emerges from a crowd of losers!

Congratulations to Mr. R. Anton for his winning entry “NON-CONFORMITY - The easiest way to stand out without having to be outstanding.”  For contributing the caption most favored by the semi-finalist voters, Mr. Anton wins $250!

But while this Caption Contest may have made a winner out of Mr. Anton, it also turned several thousand people into losers.  And, yet again, our crack team dove in to the lowest-scoring entries in the entire contest, and designated a few of them worthy of special recognition.  They were anything but mediocre.  Please help us recognize them now!

You had us at “INSANITY”.

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Unfortunately, there’s a lot more than one.

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Once again, a losing entry that scored a surprising number of “5″ ratings on the 1-5 scale.

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Now do you see why you really need to buy this shirt?

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Well played, sir or madam.  Well played!  Mr. Anton may have won the $250 prize, but our writers wanted everyone who gave you a poor score to know that you were waaaaay ahead of them. You deserve better!

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And there you have it folks- the “Meerkats” caption contest has come to a delightfully satisfying end- except for a few thousand of you who are not Mr. Anton.

But we do hope it was good for a few laughs. If it was, do us a favor and click one of those Facebook Likes above, will you? It helps the Marketing folks look brilliant in a way that standing in front of our bosses and telling them “we’re brilliant” doesn’t.

Once you’re done with THAT, why not put on your judges cap- and score some of the submissions in our “Faceplant” Caption Contest?

Or if you want to try to redeem your disastrous showing in that LAST Caption Contest, you could try ‘writing’ a brilliant caption for our Latest Image, “Pencils“.

And hey, seriously, not that you asked.  But you really should buy this new shirt while it’s on sale!  Price goes up $4 on Saturday!