Welcome back to Slate’s caption contest. As always, please keep submissions to 20 words or fewer. Also, please no more than five submissions per person.
Winner: Tradecraft
“I’m tired of these mother****ing snakes in my mother****ing nose!”
Runner-up: Damon Moss
“Despite having over 2 million eligible bachelors, OkCupid-Chengdu does not have the success rate you’d think it should….”
Original Caption:
A performer inserts a live snake through his nose and mouth during a performance at the Ditan Temple Fair celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing February 11, 2013. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, began on February 10 and marked the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac.REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic