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Cartoon caption contest winner: "Full backup"

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July 14, 2009, 9:00 AM — With his twist on redundancy and backups, random_cole is the winner of this week's contest. You can see the winning caption below, along with some very funny honorable mentions and Phil Johnson's original cartoon.

The winning caption
I know I'm always preaching redundancy and full backups but this is really weirding me out.

The original cartoon

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Honorable mentions

Perhaps you didn't understand what we meant by dual processors.
by Pam
I think that when management said they wanted back up services installed, they didn't mean it to be taken quite that literally.
by James C
Look Bob, tell management that somehow, I don't think cloning us qualifies as an IT disaster recovery plan
by admin09
I said I got burned by the coffee! Not burn a copy of me!
by Michael Lopez

See all the captions. Or add your own.

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Phil Johnson used to write jokes for late night television and his jokes have been told by David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno (read his TV material here). In addition to his cartoons and television writing, he spent many years working as a web developer and currently works in public broadcasting. When he's not drawing, working or farting around with his wife and two daughters, he loves Tweeting!

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Anonymous 2 years ago

Lots of great entries, but working in that swine flu reference ensures that the original caption remains the funniest...

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Anonymous 2 years ago

I actually like the winning caption better than the original. Sorry Mr. Johnson.

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Anonymous 2 years ago

This made my day. Keep up the great work!

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