CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

Congratulations to Jay Shuck of Minneapolis for his smashing success in Caption Contest #63 (living room scene with two women observing an out-of-shape man, posing as a discus thrower, who is perhaps using a saucer instead of a discus) with

"We have company, Henry. Use the good china."

That makes two winners from Minnesota--one from each of the Twin Cities!


In Caption Contest #65 (man voting with robots at business meeting), a nominee from NYC (not me) is among the three candidates, each of which imagines a different name for the voter.

"Jenkins, if I want another yes-man I'll build one."
Brent Sheppard (Morganton, NC)

"You're voting with your pacemaker again, Hargrove!"
David Gilbert (Middleburg, FL)

"They're programmed to be idiots, Higgins. What's your excuse?"
Brendan Gibbons (New York, NY)

My loser eschewed the name-calling and, I'm afraid, might have put the words in the wrong mouth.

"They're more in touch with the nuts-and-bolts of this operation."

In Anti-Caption Contest #66 (couple reading ancient tablets like newspaper), the winner is Rubrick with

"Ah, anachronism is such an endless fount of humor. I chuckle every time I look at that early Klee piece in its ornate Renaissance frame."

My losers were

"That Savage guy recommends lubricant for begetting."

"Looks like Harry cooked up another winning caption."

"Heh. It seems that laughter has always been the best medicine!"

"Oh, that Cindy Adams! Her column never gets old!"

That last one was independent of Tim C., who beat me to the punch with

"Hey, they've got a new columnist starting today -- some kid named 'Cindy Adams'."

Caption Contest #67 is here. Anti-Caption Contest #67 is here.


THE STANDINGS
Here is the current New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest breakdown by state. You can find it all mapped out here.

12 California

9 New York (8 from the Big Apple)

6 Pennsylvania

4 Massachusetts
4 New Jersey

2 Georgia
2 Illinois
2 Minnesota
2 New Hampshire
2 North Carolina
2 Texas
2 Utah

1 Arizona
1 Connecticut
1 Iowa
1 Maryland
1 Mississippi
1 Missouri
1 New Mexico
1 Ohio
1 Oklahoma
1 Oregon
1 Rhode Island
1 Vermont
1 Washington
1 Washington, DC

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone