CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST CONTINUES! Like a bevy of businessmen levitating over Nutley, California rises above the pack to clinch its fourth victory with the weekly New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #24. Kudos to Eric J. Adams of Penngrove, California for the winner (and Blog About Town pick): “Hold my hand and we can use the car-pool lane.”

Working to caption Contest #26 (monster truck disrupting chamber music concert), I thought I was pretty clever when I came up with something along the lines of "Will the owner of a monster truck, license KRUSHA-1, please move your vehicle?" But then I saw that something like that had already been covered by Dan Radosh at his New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest: "Would the owner of the giant truck please get it the fuck off my stage."

So I wound up submitting "And now...The Aristocrats!" That meant no nomination for me this week! Choosing among the three contenders, I guess I'll put my money on “This season, we welcome a new corporate sponsor.” That's by Fred Barrie of Valparaiso, Indiana, a state that has not yet produced a winner in the contest thought it does produce a lot of corn in real life. What did you submit?

Getting back to the New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest, I note that, despite claiming to seek and reward the worst possible captions, it continues to out-funny the regular contest. The New Yorker has its droll, urbane style, but who can argue with the belly laughs provoked by many of the captions submitted at Radosh's site? I know I can't! So, for a good time, I strongly recommend browsing through the many submissions at Anti-Caption Contest #27 (conference of men in suits, all but one with a bird, probably a parrot, perched on a shoulder).

Lest I forget...here's the new pre-caption cartoon, for Contest #28.