CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION COVERAGE CONTINUES!

In Caption Contest 128 (Carolita Johnson's big ol' dog in living room), one nominee was from New Jersey and the other two were from New York. A win for New York would push the Empire State ahead of California to claim sole first-place honors for the first time since Caption Contest 1. So which caption won?

"I'll walk, you shovel."
Zachary Phelps (Laurence Harbor, NJ)

Yes, Zachary Phelps: You've played the spoiler and advanced the Garden State while holding New York in check—for now.


In Caption Contest 130 (P.C. Vey's snowman with waving arms), the nominees are

"He has a summer job as a scarecrow."
Parizad Motiwala (Denver, CO)

"It's all the witness-protection program would offer him."
Suzanne Geba (San Francisco, CA)

"It's mostly water weight."
Vincent Coca (Staten Island, NY)

My loser:

"This is much cooler than burying him in sand."

In Anti-Caption Contest 131 (Mick Stevens's safes raining on house), the winner is

"I bet this is killing a tremendous number of people."
Dan McCoy

My loser:

"You think it's safe, kejo? Only if you have no vault insurance! Hyuk hyuk snort!!"

In other New Yorker contest news, you can inspect the contestants in the silly Eustace Tilley contest here.


Caption Contest 132 is here. Anti-Caption Contest 132 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
20 New York (17 from the Big Apple)

11 New Jersey

6 Massachusetts
6 Pennsylvania
6 Virginia (three from NOVA, two from Richmond, one from Charlottesville)

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

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 Florida
2 Michigan
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 Iowa
1 Kentucky
1 Nevada
1 New Mexico
1 Oklahoma
1 Washington

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Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone