“HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” – Stacy Lawrence, Smiling Jesus Caption Game © co-creator
The Smiling Jesus Caption Game© is sweeping the nation by storm. As co-conceiver of this wildly fun, hilarious, fun for the whole family game, I offer an exclusive behind the scenes story of its conception and real life examples of how to play.
The initial inspiration for the Smiling Jesus Caption Game © was a sacrament meeting program featuring a painting of a smiling Jesus which looked an awful lot like Jesus was posing for a modern day senior yearbook picture. I featured the picture on my blog and my faithful readers were quick to award him a variety of Nazareth class of 18 A.D. superlatives including best beard, most likely to succeed and best personality, although unfortunately he came up way short in the biggest flirt and class clown categories. It was immediately clear that smiling Jesus provided an amazing amount of untapped comedic potential.
The game really began to take shape several weeks later when Stacy’s Grandma Henry, famous for circulating faith promoting emails, forwarded an absolute gem to Stacy entitled “Pictures of Jesus Laughing….Precious”. Little did she know the revolution that she had just set in motion (I still don’t think she knows, so please keep it on the D.L.). Attached to the email were 7 pencil sketches of Jesus laughing, having a good time, being the fun guy that he rarely gets portrayed as. It was clear to the games co-founders that these pictures were missing captions, hence The Smiling Jesus Caption Game © was created.
I promised real life examples at the beginning of the post, so I included several of the now famous pictures from Grandma Henry’s email along with some of the captions that Stacy and I came up with. Enjoy!
"and then i said, 'peace be still'... yep, nothing to be concerned about, ladies... all in a days work." -Stacy
"Jesus: Suffer the children to come to me, that's my motto!
Woman 1: (thinking) gosh! it's so hard to find a family guy these days!" -Stacy
"You give such snuggly wuggly huggies!" - Nate
"I KNOW YOU SWALLOWED MY CTR RING PUNK NOW COUGH IT UP!!!!!" - Stacy
After feeling a forceful rumbling from the baby's rear end, "Whoa Jr...Let's get you back to nursery Pronto!" - Nate
""The smell of his hair is unmistakeable!! I love Johnson & Johnson No more tears!" -Nate
