Creative Captions: Oct. 5

Eating sweet corn is a true Nebraska affair — where kids are corn fed (say Marilyn Carleo of Columbus, Neb., Emilie Sporcic of Bellevue and Sheryl Cloyd of Omaha), and that’s how they become true Cornhuskers, according to several students at Minden High School and St. Patrick Elementary in McCook. Other idea from the nearly 150 submissions this week:

I don’t “ear” very good.

Roberta Maron, Council Bluffs

A baby photo of the dangererous new western outlaw, the Corn Cob Kid.

Parker Ayres, via e-mail

Sweet life to be eating corn.

Katie Pike, Minden, Neb.

Wait ... my antennae are receiving a message ... more butter!

Amanda Reynolds, Golden Hills Elementary, Bellevue

First time I have been fed hand to mouth by an ear.

Dick Schell, Omaha

She knows the importance of keeping her hair off of her ears.

Charles Kramer, Lincoln

Corn on the cob, and horns on the knob.

Pete Petrashek, Omaha

So good it makes her hair stand up.

R.F. Corderman, Bedford, Iowa

She’s feelin’ corny!

Breanna Redl, eighth grade, St. Patrick School, McCook, Neb.

Don’t tell ME my pigtails look “corny”!

Janyce Warneke, Plainview, Neb.

Getting an earful.

Ron Colling, Osceola, Neb.

The corn is as high as an infant’s eye.

John Hering, Omaha

Look everyone! Baby is chewing on her own ear!

Carolyn Rawlings, Bennington

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