CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

In Caption Contest 105 (tidal wave in a built-in pool), the winner is

"I told you this house was too close to the moon."
Laura Hipp (Jackson, MS)

Now Mississippi and Missouri have two wins each.


Leaders California and New York are looking good in Caption Contest 107 (man and dog wait with beer and junk food bag while woman and cat work on equation):

"Trust me, my lessons have way more real-world applications."
Oren Uziel (Brooklyn, NY)

"You want to impress me? Drive to the store and get me more beer."
Ken Hoffman (Los Gatos, CA)

"Don't worry—they'll never actually build it."
Warren Dennis (Santa Barbara, CA)

My loser:

"It's easy to calculate. Take away the beer and the chips, then all that remains is you and me, old friend, just you and me."

At Anti-Caption Contest 108 (cavepeople watching caveperson sweeping outside modern building, with volcano erupting in distance), the winner is

"Since we lost the baby, he just spends all day out there, in this 'garage' thing he built. It's like he can't even stand to be around me."
Ed C

My loser:

Cleanliness is next to troglodytes.

That might remind you of my Honorable Mention in Anti-Caption Contest 84:

Cleanliness is next to Ghostliness

Caption Contest 109 is here. Anti-Caption Contest 109 is here.


THE STANDINGS

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

18 California

16 New York (14 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 Mississippi
2 Missouri
2 New Hampshire
2 Oregon (both named Eric, both from Portland)
2 Rhode Island
2 Texas
2 Utah
2 Virginia

1 Alabama
1 Arizona
1 Florida
1 Iowa
1 Kentucky
1 Nevada
1 New Mexico
1 Oklahoma
1 Vermont
1 Washington

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone