Monday, January 16, 2006

CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTEST CONTINUES. The winner of Contest #32 (man in bunny suit in office setting) is Karen Dakich of Livingston, New Jersey with
"It's not just Henderson. Corporate laid off the entire bunny division."
Congrats to Karen, who moves New Jersey ahead of New York 3-2.

In Contest #34 (bedroom setting with woman and guy in Dracula cape), the nominees include one from New York City: Doak Sargent's
"I bet the bride of Frankenstein gets to cuddle."
My own candidate was
"Come in and put on your pajamas--Jon Stewart is about to start!"
In Anti-Caption Contest #35 (living room scene in which a man nonchalantly addresses a woman encircled by a snake) the winner is lindsay with
"Oh heck, it's up to your neck."
My own submission was
"Back in the 1940s, The New Yorker published a Charles Addams cartoon in which a woman says 'Oh, speak up, George! Stop mumbling!' to a man who has been swallowed by a giant snake. More recently, in 1999, the magazine published a Frank Cothan living room scene in which a woman says 'I believe we’ve entered the dark underbelly of pet ownership.' to a man who has a snake wrapped around his neck.' But not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that the two of us would find ourselves in a similar predicament, except that it is you, the woman, who is ensnarled by the snake and it is cartoonist Matthew Diffee who is drawing the scene as I speak!"
And now The New Yorker has unveiled Contest #36. Good luck!

Meanwhile, emdashes has posted an interview with contest winner T.C. Doyle, author of "And in this section it appears that you have not only alienated voters but actually infected them, too.”

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone

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