CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CREEP AHEAD!

This is one of those weeks when The New Yorker doesn't start a new contest, so many of us must seek another object of obsession.

The ever-thoughtful Dan Radosh fills the gap by recycling a James Thurber cartoon for recaptioning and promises to reveal the original caption as well.

I'd be willing to wager that Emily of Emdashes already recognizes it.

She and Radosh have also linked to this interesting profile of Caption Contest winner Fairleigh Brooks of Louisville, Kentucky. Here's the winner that put Brooks on the map.

ADDENDUM And now Emdashes offers an original (and funny) interview between intern John Bucher of Canada and Caption Contest 98 winner Richard Hine of New York. Hine, it turns out was also a nominee in Caption Contest 82 with "It's like paradise for the first few days. But you wouldn't want to live here."


Caption Contest 101 is here. Anti-Caption Contest 101 is here.


THE STANDINGS

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

17 California

14 New York (13 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 New Hampshire
2 Texas
2 Utah
2 Virginia

1 Alabama
1 Arizona
1 Florida
1 Iowa
1 Kentucky
1 Mississippi
1 Missouri
1 Nevada
1 New Mexico
1 Oklahoma
1 Oregon
1 Rhode Island
1 Vermont
1 Washington

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone

CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

After two weeks of winners from newbie states, things return to normalcy in Caption Contest 98 (man looking at office wall through telescope) with

"When you're finished here, Spencer, we'll need you on the bridge-to-nowhere project."
Richard Hine (New York, NY)

In Caption Contest 100 (sunglassed couple on ark), the three nominees are from the top five states:

"Don't tell Noah about the vasectomy."
David Kempler (Island Park, NY)

"I told you it was a couples cruise."
Mary Albon (Arlington, MA)

"I think we should see other people."
Carl Hammarskjold (San Francisco, CA)

My loser:

"I should have brought an umbrella."

In Anti-Caption Contest 101 (a priest, a cop, and a fireman on a ledge), the winner is

"Help! A young boy started a doughnut on fire!"
LV

My losers:

"Come inside, fellows. This isn't funny."

"Lighten up--it's St. Patrick's Day!" [apologies to Gibbon]

"I'm sorry--the nest-building class was cancelled after the teacher flew off with Jeff Cronin."

Caption Contest 101 is here. Anti-Caption Contest 101 is here.


THE STANDINGS

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

17 California

14 New York (13 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 New Hampshire
2 Texas
2 Utah
2 Virginia

1 Alabama
1 Arizona
1 Florida
1 Iowa
1 Kentucky
1 Mississippi
1 Missouri
1 Nevada
1 New Mexico
1 Oklahoma
1 Oregon
1 Rhode Island
1 Vermont
1 Washington

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone

CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

In the derby that is The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, the winner of Caption Contest 96 (Tarzan with pregnant Jane) is

"Fine. If it's a boy, we'll call him Boy. But if it's a girl I want to call her McKenzie."
Fairleigh Brooks (Louisville, KY)

That's the first win for Kentucky--and another example of a close parallel with an Anti-Caption Contest winner:

"I was thinking today... Let's call it 'Boy' if it's a boy, and drown it if it's a girl."
Trout Almondine

In Caption Contest 98 (businessman peeping at office wall through telescope), the nominees are

"Let me know when the paint is dry."
Ken Pellerin (Groveland, MA)

"When you're finished here, Spencer, we'll need you on the bridge-to-nowhere project."
Richard Hine (New York, NY)

"Comrade Zinkov, I would prefer that you spy looking through windows and listening through walls."
Robert Cooke (Highland, IN)

My loser:

"I used to do that. Then I learned to use the Internet."

In Anti-Caption Contest 99 (doctor examining arrow-pierced patient), the winner (out of a big, strong field) is

"Do you have shooting pains? Haha... sorry, doctor joke. You're going to die."
Pyn

My loser:

"Sure, I can give you a hernia exam. But it's fifty bucks more if you want a happy ending. And that's out-of-pocket, if you catch my drift."

Caption Contest 100(!) is here. Anti-Caption Contest 100 is here, and already quite funny.


THE STANDINGS

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

17 California

13 New York (12 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 New Hampshire
2 Texas
2 Utah
2 Virginia

1 Arizona
1 Florida
1 Iowa
1 Kentucky
1 Mississippi
1 Missouri
1 Nevada
1 New Mexico
1 Oklahoma
1 Oregon
1 Rhode Island
1 Vermont
1 Washington

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone