CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

The winner of Caption Contest #86 (golfers confronting tanks) is

"I support our troops as much as the next guy, but do we have to let them play through?"
Charlie Freund (Glendale, CA)

So it's yet another victory for first-place state California.


In Caption Contest #88 (Acme salesman lined up in front of teeth-baring dog), the nominees are

"Are you sure Mr. Coyote left no forwarding address? This is going to be quite a blow to our sales team."
John Bunyan (Cincinnati, OH)

"I'd like to talk to you about a unique opportunity."
Kim Pelkey (Philadelphia, PA)

"You don't scare me. I come from a long line of salesmen."
Mike Ford (Brick, NJ)

My loser:

"Welcome to doggie heaven."

In Anti-Caption Contest #89 (lion on phone while liontamer whips other lion), the winner is

"Warrior TOC this is BlackJack 77. OP grid 74702819. One unfriendly with whip and chair marked with VS-17 panel. Make it hot, Warrior TOC, say again, make it hot."
TG Gibbon

My loser:

"Yes, that's right. Elsa was my grandmother. And let me tell you: Everything went to hell after Born Free."

Caption Contest #90 is here. Anti-Caption Contest #90 is here.


THE STANDINGS

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

16 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