CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

Maryland takes top honors in Caption Contest #90 (old woman in sleazy shoe zone) with

"Remember back when the worst thing you could catch around here was athlete's foot?"
Charles Beckman (Towson, MD)

In Caption Contest #92 (couple arguing over street dolphin) the nominees are

"Come on, George. You know he's only going to spend it on more oxygen."
Justin Sarma (New York, NY)

"If he's so damn intelligent, let him get a job."
Lawrence Wood (Chicago, IL)

"Give him money, and you feed him today; teach him how to earn money by somersaulting on cue, and you feed him for life."
Richard Nathan (Burbank, CA)

My loser:

"Isn't it enough that you stopped eating tuna?"

In Anti-Caption Contest #93 (office meeting: cheerful guy with six shrouded figures), the winner is

"Before we get started with the origami, I want you to close your eyes and imagine how you felt the first time you realized you were doomed to an eternity of board meetings that started with origami lessons."
Shawn

My loser:

"Why so grim? Why so grim? Why so grim? Why so grim? Why so grim? Why so grim?"

Caption Contest #94 is here. Anti-Caption Contest #94 is here.


THE STANDINGS

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

17 California

12 New York (11 from the Big Apple)

9 New Jersey

6 Massachusetts
6 Pennsylvania

3 Connecticut (all women, two from New Haven)
3 Georgia (includes two-time winner Carl Gables)
3 Maryland (none named Mary)
3 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
3 North Carolina
3 Ohio

2 District of Columbia
2 Illinois
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