CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION COVERAGE CONTINUES!

California resumes its winning ways in Caption Contest 134 (Jack Ziegler's couple in bed wearing protective suits):

"Next time can we just get flu shots like everyone else?"
Matthew May (Westlake Village, CA)

In Caption Contest 136 (Drew Dernavich's businessman with vulture), the candidates are

"Janice, hold all my calls. Indefinitely."
Peter Bruno (Rutland, VT)

"Could you order me a B.L.T. on whole wheat with a side of carrion?"
Wayne Martorelli (Lawrenceville, NJ)

"Let me guess—the lab results aren't good."
Jacob Kono (Jersey City, NJ)

My loser, which is very close to Wayne Martorelli's entry:

"I'll have a regular coffee, a danish, and a bloody carcass."

Dang!


In Anti-Caption Contest 137 (Gahan Wilson's man doing semaphore on couch), the winner is

"If your old bitch dead mother could see us now! Me with not one, but TWO flat screen TeeVees and you dancing around like an idiot on that couch of hers. Not to mention using her prized place mats for fun. I hope she's roasting in Hell."
SK

My losers:

"Oh, I get it now! You're parking your 'S' on the couch again.

"I'm sorry I took so long figuring that out. I was having trouble interpreting your left arm position, you see--it's like you have an accent in semaphore!

"Anyway, that was a fun diversion. So thank you!"

Caption Contest 137 is here, while Anti-Caption Contest 137 is here.


THE STANDINGS

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

24 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 Georgia (includes two-time winner Carl Gables)
4 Maryland (none named Mary)
4 Texas (two from Houston)

3 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
3 North Carolina
3 Ohio

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

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone