CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

I know you're all wondering whether I won either of the past two Anti-Caption Contests. So let's look into that!


In Anti-Caption Contest #87 (man in tree trunk confronting man with saw), the winner is

"Hi. My name's Stuart. I'm sitting in for the Lorax and, in his absence, I speak for the trees."
Tim C.

My loser:

"Anne Heche is the lady for me, for I am a man in a tree. You saw. You see? Tee hee, yippee!"

Okay. Okay. Moving along to Anti-Caption Contest #88 (line of lookalike salesmen confronting dog), the winner is...

"Brains! Brains! No, not DOG brains. Is your owner home?"
Deborah

My loser (and it's an honor to lose to Deborah Grumet):

"Heels!"

It was actually a very good week for captioning women of the Big Apple: The winner of Caption Contest #85 (Robert Leighton's drawing of a businessman intruding on a couple busying themselves in bed) turned out to be

"Interested in a threesome? I'll just sit on the floor and sort tax receipts."
Kathy Kinsler (New York, NY)

Furthermore, there is at least one woman among the nominees for Caption Contest #87 (man in stump confronting man with saw):

"Next time, just knock."
Sara Curcio (Glastonbury, CT)

"O.K., now it's your turn to hide."
Jonathan Gottlieb (Santa Monica, CA)

"Good morning, sir, do you have time to answer just a few short questions for our survey?"
B. L. Delaney (Somerville, MA)

Caption Contest #89 is here. Anti-Caption Contest #89 is here.


THE STANDINGS

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

15 California

12 New York (11 from the Big Apple)

8 New Jersey

6 Massachusetts
6 Pennsylvania

3 Georgia (includes two-time winner Carl Gables)
3 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
3 North Carolina
3 Ohio

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
2 Virginia

1 Arizona
1 Iowa
1 Mississippi
1 Missouri
1 New Mexico
1 Oklahoma
1 Oregon
1 Rhode Island
1 Vermont
1 Washington

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone