[Funny Pharm] You write the caption and win!

The winning cartoon caption will be featured on the Pharma Manufacturing website, social media, and the winner will be mentioned in upcoming e-newsletters. The winner will receive a $25 Amazon gift card

Pharma Manufacturing presents "Funny Pharm," featuring drawings by award-winning cartoonist, Jerry King.

★Winning Caption★

“Well now, I am going to catch the heat for this!” 

— Gary M. Dull 

The winning cartoon caption will be featured on the Pharma Manufacturing website, social media, and the winner will be mentioned in upcoming e-newsletters. The winner will receive a $25 Amazon gift card.

Please submit your caption to Andrea ([email protected]) with the subject "Funny Pharm Sep. 2022" Thank you for your contributions!

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Contending submissions

Please note: Funny Pharma caption contests are for entertainment purposes only. Reader submissions reflect their own personal experience and opinions. Winning submissions are chosen for their humor and industry relevance; Pharma Manufacturing reserves the right to delete any entries deemed inappropriate.

  • "Quick! Get me some Tamiflu!! Oh, wait... I thought that was my body temperature."
  • "It's a good thing we're not in Quebec. We'd have to pay 1.5 million Canadian dollars for having the refrigeration so warm. Even though that's only 75 cents in US money."
  • "Future-proof alternatives in refrigeration technology are presented which do not use refrigerants that are harmful to the environment. In this case, no refrigeration, period."
  • "The most important variants range from cascade refrigeration to liquid nitrogen cooling and air refrigeration, or, in our case, no refrigerant."
  • "Forget the medicines... my ham n cheese on rye is ruined!"
  • "Well, at least it has an ergonomically designed control panel."
  • "Moderna's mRNA-1273 was in there. I doubt their stock will go up today."
  • "I promised Bancel that I would take care of his vaccine. Sorry, Frenchy."
  • "Moderna's mRNA-1273 is in there. Now I'm the 1 2 get the blame."
  • "I'm gonna leave here fast. I'll drive my BNT162b2 Continental GT."
  • "I just hope that means -102."
  • "As far as the manufacturers of vaccines are concerned, tolerability is gonna be very low on this one."
  • "I'll tell FedEx and DHL International to stay home today."
  • "Germany's CureVac has advanced to phase 2a trials in Peru. Since it was their vaccine that I ruined, I have to go to South America and tell the Germans about it. Traditionally, not a good thing."
  • "Moderna said their vaccine is stable in refrigerators for 30 days. Not any more."
  • "Refrigerant gas occurs right after unrefrigerated food."
  • "It looks like we allowed for unsuccessful cold chain management with existing infrastructure."
  • "Maybe we don’t have enough ultracold storage capacity to make a large vaccination campaign feasible."  
  • "Oh, you're supposed to CLOSE the door."
  • —Bill Russo
  • Global Warming <-> Central Air Conditioning. It’s a vicious cycle.”
  • “These personal arctic chillers are getting out of hand!”
    — Tara Bronson 
  • "Taking advantage of Mother Nature to perform the annual defrost of the lab freezers!" Laura Sands
  • “Now’s a good time to pretend I’m an overgrown lab specimen!” — Etah Kurland
  • "Looks like our thermal validation team is having technical challenges with the wireless data loggers again" — Bruno Romero
  • “Well now, I am going to catch the heat for this!” — Gary M. Dull, Ph.D.
  • "Better call Calibration department it feels more like 39 C to me." — N. Paul Kaluzniak
  • “Finally, I can take my stability samples out on a walk to get some fresh air”  — Ben Justice
  • "My oh My, these metrological trends are alarming…." — Rick Gagnon
  • "Quickest way to sublimation of man." — Jaya Agnihotri