CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

The winner of Caption Contest 123 (Leo Cullum's cows watching bull breaking window by red curtain) is

"You should be happy. How many husbands even notice window treatments?"
Lawrence Wood (Chicago, IL)

So double congratulations are due to two-time winner Wood, who previously prevailed in Caption Contest 92!


In Caption Contest 125 (Michael Crawford's couple watching TV in bed with four guys in suits), the nominees are

"I liked it better when we just had your people call my people."
John Late (Satellite Beach, FL)

"So this is what it's like to be a Nielsen family."
Richard LeBlanc (Dallas, TX)

"Next week I pick the fantasy."
Peter Bruland (New York, NY)

My loser:

"We were cuter 40 years ago."

As for Anti-Caption Contest 126, Dan Radosh is having a tougher week than I am, so the results will have to wait.


Caption Contest 127 is here. Anti-Caption Contest 127 is here.


THE STANDINGS

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

20 California

19 New York (17 from the Big Apple)

10 New Jersey

6 Massachusetts
6 Pennsylvania

5 Connecticut (two from New Haven, three not)
5 Illinois (four from Chicago—two captions by Lawrence Wood, two drawings by Leo Cullum)
5 Virginia (two from Richmond)


4 Maryland (none named Mary)

3 Georgia (includes two-time winner Carl Gables)
3 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
3 North Carolina
3 Ohio
3 Texas

2 District of Columbia
2 Mississippi
2 Missouri
2 New Hampshire
2 Oregon (both named Eric, both from Portland)
2 Rhode Island
2 Utah
2 Vermont

1 Alabama
1 Alaska
1 Arizona
1 Delaware
1 Florida
1 Iowa
1 Kentucky
1 Michigan
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