CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

The Twin Cities just acquired a third win in Caption Contest #78 (couple in oversized bed in cell), thanks to David Ruebeck's

"How about we just stay in tonight?"

Viewed on a local level, Minneapolis is beating St. Paul 2-1.


In Caption Contest #80 (monster delivered to house during holiday time), the nominees are

"It looks like someone's going to have the complete set!"
Judy Lennon (Reynoldsburg, OH)

"Look, honey, it's the new Tickle Me Maniac."
Lynn Tudor (New York, NY)

"I thought Grampy Willis would enjoy being exhumed for the holidays."
Scott Ollinger (Eliot, ME)

My loser (which is at least as good, isn't it?):

"Where should we put it, Ned--under your bed or in your closet?"

At Anti-Caption Contest #81 (man answering long-corded phone in office setting with two desks, each with nameplate "T.A. Winchler"), the winner is

"T.A. Winchler Name Plates, Ltd. Greg speaking."
Jazzy

My loser:

"Hello? Hello? Yes. Yes. No. No. Fine. Fine. Not right now. Not right now. Tonight. Tonight. At 8. At 8. What? What? All right. All right. Okay. Okay. Bye. Bye."

Caption Contest #82 is here. Anti-Caption Contest #82 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 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
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 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