CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST CONTINUES!

The Anti-Caption Contest remains on hiatus, but its spirit lives on in Caption Contest #69 (woman in suit leaving caveman), where one of the nominees is

"It's not just that he walks upright and uses complex tools. He also makes me laugh."
Andy Sapora (Union City, NJ)

You see, that caption kinda revisits the winner of Caption Contest #10 (woman breaking up with sad clown)--

"Well, if you must know, he makes me laugh."
Jacqueline Tager (Hollywood, CA)

--in the fashion of the many anti-caption entries that have referenced the winner of Caption Contest #27 (business meeting attended by men with parrots on their shoulders):

"Shut up, Bob, everyone knows your parrot's a clip-on."
Adam Szymkowicz (Shoreham, VT)

On top of all that, it appears that Sapora [is] a celebrity contestant--a member of The Flying Karamazov Brothers!

So those up against Sapora had better beware of airborne axes. The competitors:

"The fire went out."
Donald Barr (Charlotte, NC)

"I want to meet different kinds of Man."
Burton Hanson (Edina, MN)

And my loser:

"I'll tell Mom and Dad you say 'Ugh.'"

As for Caption Contest #67 (dog adding to pile of papers in office), Virginia finally joins its neighbors North Carolina, Maryland, and the District of Columbia on the winners' list with

"Don't laugh. He's made partner."

by Jim Dickerson of Richmond. Way to go, Jim!


Caption Contest #71 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

3 North Carolina

2 District of Columbia
2 Georgia
2 Illinois
2 Minnesota
2 New Hampshire
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 Virginia
1 Washington

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone