CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

After two weeks of winners from newbie states, things return to normalcy in Caption Contest 98 (man looking at office wall through telescope) with

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

In Caption Contest 100 (sunglassed couple on ark), the three nominees are from the top five states:

"Don't tell Noah about the vasectomy."
David Kempler (Island Park, NY)

"I told you it was a couples cruise."
Mary Albon (Arlington, MA)

"I think we should see other people."
Carl Hammarskjold (San Francisco, CA)

My loser:

"I should have brought an umbrella."

In Anti-Caption Contest 101 (a priest, a cop, and a fireman on a ledge), the winner is

"Help! A young boy started a doughnut on fire!"
LV

My losers:

"Come inside, fellows. This isn't funny."

"Lighten up--it's St. Patrick's Day!" [apologies to Gibbon]

"I'm sorry--the nest-building class was cancelled after the teacher flew off with Jeff Cronin."

Caption Contest 101 is here. Anti-Caption Contest 101 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

14 New York (13 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 Alabama
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