CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE! The news at the Anti-Caption Contest is that on February 7, 2006, Dan Radosh "will be joining New Yorker cartoonist Matt "Contest #35" Diffee for a presentation of rejected submissions to the actual contest and some highlights from the anti-contest." Sounds like fun...but the link to The Rejection Show at radosh.net wasn't working for me at the time of this post. So try this.

As for the contests themselves, Radosh.net and The New Yorker are both accepting submissions for Contest #37, another Gahan Wilson cartoon.

The winner of Contest #33 (suitcase filled with water and fish) is Chip Bolcik of Thousand Oaks, California, with

"So, then, I guess the Johnsons are feeding our clothes."

Congrats to Bolcik, whose victory bolsters California's lead over Pennsylvania, 6-4!

New York trails in a tie for fourth place with only two victories, adding to the significance of Contest #35 (Diffee's living room scene wherein a man drolly addresses a woman enwrapped by a snake), which pits Californian Brian Diamond's Albee-esque

"To be fair, Martha, you started it."

against two submissions from New York:

"Oh, he probably just smells your python."

"You see what happens when you carry rats in your purse?"

My own submission was the stilted yet (I'd like to think) conceptually hilarious

"I can't imagine where Fido might be. It's so unlike seeing-eye dogs to hide like this!"

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone