CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Kaufman of Natick chalks up another victory for Massachusetts (and women caption writers) with this winner in Caption Contest #64 (man with giant foam #1 glove exhorting boxer):

"Two? Close enough—give 'em hell!"

Massachusetts now has five wins, moving it out of a tie with New Jersey into the fourth-place spot, one behind Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, front-runner California is going through its longest dry spell so far.

As for the nominees in Caption Contest #66 (living room scene with couple reading stone tablets), California is not to be found...but there is one contestant from South Dakota!

"Same old, same old."
Kate Steinbacher (Roanoke, VA)

"Wait, this is yesterday's."
Alex Wellen (Washington, DC)

"There's something about holding a rock in your hands that newspapers can't replace."
Bernie Hunhoff (Yankton, SD)

My loser:

"I love the new column format."

As of this posting the results of Anti-Caption Contest #67 (office scene with dog adding to a pile of tiny papers) were not available. (Hm. I wonder what kind of restroom that dog would use on its coffee break....)


Caption Contest #68 is here. Anti-Caption Contest #68 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

5 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