CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE! Who says Oklahoma is kink-free? The state just became part of a sixth-place fourteensome due to James Watts's victory in Cartoon Caption Contest #44 (military squad with mime):

"It's not good--looks like they've got a full interpretive-dance troupe."

In Caption Contest #46 (no-clothes people on dais at stockholders meeting), there's a nominee by Brendan Hasenstab of Brooklyn--

"First, I'd like to thank the podium."

--but there's also a promising one from Jon Lyons of Wisconsin:

"If all goes well, we'll get them back after the audit."

How do those compare with my submission?

"Sometimes it's good to have something to hide."

As always, you can be the judge!

Over at Anti-Caption Contest #47 (two men talk at desk while a small lynch mob seems to be chasing a tie-wearing man down a corridor), the winner is simsburybear with

"No! He's being strangled by his own necktie and those men are trying to help him! Jesus, you're negative and morbid and possibly psycho."

My loser was

"Assume the position to get the position. It's that simple!"

I'd like to give special recognition to frequent winner Tim C. for coming up with this very clever anti-caption:

"Here at Chase Manhattan, we like to think of our company's name as an imperative."

Excellent!

In other caption news, I noticed for the first time in months that, for a spell, there was no caption contest link on the main page of the website for The New Yorker.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone