If you’ve read The New Yorker, you may have seen its caption contest, in which it presents some wacky, wordless cartoon and asks readers to come up with a punch line.
Now, the school bus industry has its own way to show its funny side: BUStoons.
Do you have 'wit' it takes?
Now, the school bus industry has its own way to show its funny side: BUStoons.
April 1, 2009
1 min to read
SchoolBusMart.com recently launched the school bus-centric caption contest, with the first edition depicting a cloud dropping some unusual precipitation (see picture above).
To vote on finalists for the current BUStoon and submit a caption for the next edition, go here.
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