CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

California continues to clobber the competition as we kick off the New Year. In Caption Contest #77 (man and boy watching amazing colossal woman carry car over Chevrolet plant), the winner is Michael Embley of Tiburon with

"Son, one day all this will be yours. Except her."

In Caption Contest #79 (briefcasemen by sideways apartment building), the nominees are

"Looks like another side-rise is springing up."
Margo DePhillips (Chicago, IL)

"The elevator takes some getting used to."
Terry McGurn (Reston, VA)

"I think I liked them the other way."
Eric Slade (Portland, OR)

My loser (which holds up well, I think):

"Donald calls this 'Trump l'oeil.'"

Maybe I should have written "The Donald...."


In Anti-Caption Contest #79, the winner is al in la with

"I heard that the bank put a lien on this place."

In Anti-Caption Contest #80 (creepy humanoid delivered to house during holidays), the winner is some Dave with

"Kids, remember when I told you about the miscarriage I had when I was fifteen? Guess who survived after all!"

My losers:

"Ready for yet another unfortunate event?"

"I hope you appreciate this one, children--it wasn't easy to exhume, substitute, and FedEx Peter Boyle's corpse in time for the holiday!"

Caption Contest #81 is here. Anti-Caption Contest #81 is here.


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

14 California

10 New York (9 from the Big Apple)

7 New Jersey

6 Massachusetts
6 Pennsylvania

3 Georgia (includes two-time winner Carl Gables)
3 North Carolina

2 Connecticut (both women, both from New Haven)
2 District of Columbia
2 Illinois
2 Maryland (both women, neither named Mary)
2 Minnesota
2 New Hampshire
2 Texas
2 Utah

1 Arizona
1 Iowa
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