CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

In the derby that is The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, the winner of Caption Contest 96 (Tarzan with pregnant Jane) is

"Fine. If it's a boy, we'll call him Boy. But if it's a girl I want to call her McKenzie."
Fairleigh Brooks (Louisville, KY)

That's the first win for Kentucky--and another example of a close parallel with an Anti-Caption Contest winner:

"I was thinking today... Let's call it 'Boy' if it's a boy, and drown it if it's a girl."
Trout Almondine

In Caption Contest 98 (businessman peeping at office wall through telescope), the nominees are

"Let me know when the paint is dry."
Ken Pellerin (Groveland, MA)

"When you're finished here, Spencer, we'll need you on the bridge-to-nowhere project."
Richard Hine (New York, NY)

"Comrade Zinkov, I would prefer that you spy looking through windows and listening through walls."
Robert Cooke (Highland, IN)

My loser:

"I used to do that. Then I learned to use the Internet."

In Anti-Caption Contest 99 (doctor examining arrow-pierced patient), the winner (out of a big, strong field) is

"Do you have shooting pains? Haha... sorry, doctor joke. You're going to die."
Pyn

My loser:

"Sure, I can give you a hernia exam. But it's fifty bucks more if you want a happy ending. And that's out-of-pocket, if you catch my drift."

Caption Contest 100(!) is here. Anti-Caption Contest 100 is here, and already quite funny.


THE STANDINGS

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

17 California

13 New York (12 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 Illinois
3 Maryland (none named Mary)
3 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
3 North Carolina
3 Ohio

2 District of Columbia
2 New Hampshire
2 Texas
2 Utah
2 Virginia

1 Arizona
1 Florida
1 Iowa
1 Kentucky
1 Mississippi
1 Missouri
1 Nevada
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