CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

Alaska has a chance to enter the winner's circle in Caption Contest 110 (bandaged crash test dummy in wheelchair at hospital), where the nominees are

"I wish I had those knees."
Art Berg (Reading, MA)

"I hear he's got one-hundred-per-cent coverage—parts and labor."
Barbra Holian (Juneau, Alaska)

"Dibs on his left hip!"
Tim Jegla (La Jolla, CA)

My loser:

"Look who failed the crash test."

In Caption Contest 108 (caveperson sweeping in front of modern-looking structure), the winner is

"He's always thinking outside the rock."
Jonathan Williams (Owings Mills, MD)

That makes it four winners from Maryland. None are named Mary.


In Anti-Caption Contest 111 (naked man, bare room), host Dan Radosh unexpectedly stopped the contest early and skipped town before I managed to post anything. The winner turned out to be

"Hi. I'm a door-to-door rapist. Ha ha-- just kidding! I'm not going door-to-door. I'm targeting you specifically."
Dan McCoy

Blog About Town did get some indirect representation, though, as Friend of BAT B'nai the K merited an Honorable Mention with

"Well I just had it out with the boss."(laughter) [script consultant note: I suggest sticking with the "classic" setup for that punchline, with the man clothed, zipping up his fly, exiting an office bathroom. While this is a nice absurdist twist on it, the gag itself is probably unfamiliar to enough of the young demo that it'll work fine the straight way. Also, since this beat falls midway through Act I, we should really build gradually toward -- or "earn," if you will -- the surrealistic payoff of Act III.]

Caption Contest 112 is here. Anti-Caption Contest 112 is here.


THE STANDINGS

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

19 California

16 New York (14 from the Big Apple)

9 New Jersey

6 Massachusetts
6 Pennsylvania

4 Connecticut (two from New Haven, two not)
4 Maryland (none named Mary)

3 Georgia (includes two-time winner Carl Gables)
3 Illinois
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 Vermont
2 Virginia

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

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone