CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

Connecticut emerges from the three-win pack to take the fifth-place position with this winner of Caption Contest #91 (motorcycle cop writing ticket for caveman rolling big wheel):

"Yeah, yeah—and I invented the ticket."
Scott Gerschwer (Redding, CT)

In Caption Contest #93 (smiling businessman surrounded by shrouded figures at office meeting), the nominees are

"Marketing sent me. I'm the new, fresh face of death."
Marcus Mastracco (Rotterdam, NY)

"Perkins here, representing taxes."
Andrew Kosztyo (Daytona Beach, FL)

"Well, I thought it was funny."
Ian Lambert (Whitefish Bay, WI)

My loser:

"Why is everybody so grim?"

In Anti-Caption Contest #94 (two angels see another angel with grill and golf clubs), the winner is

"Dibs."
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My losers:

"Forget about that guy--here comes Vonnegut!"

"Only a week ago he was smiling and laughing at a board meeting."

"Just call him 'angel of the suburbs.'"

Caption Contest #95 is here. Anti-Caption Contest #95 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

4 Connecticut (two from New Haven, two not)

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