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This week's cartoon caption contest was drawn from the real-life protests over the Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed. Our readers' responses were drawn from their imaginations.
The winning caption:
"'Death to Everyone!' was taken."
-- submitted by Guy P. DiCenzo of Matthews.
Mr. DiCenzo has taken our grand prize, the original Kevin Siers artwork, with his caption written on it.
The runners-up:
"Irony? What's Irony?"
-- submitted by Marshall Davis of Charlotte.
"I copied from the Patriot Act."
-- submitted by Robert Moore of Monroe.
"Particularly, 'Peace Train' by Cat Stevens!"
-- submitted by Keith Mason of Matthews.
Thank you all for your entries. Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:
"The death part I understand -- it's the other part I'm having trouble with."
"It jihads itself!"
"We have found a way to execute the principles of western style democracy!"
"The bad news is, I can only use the sign once!"
"It's part of our new truth-in-advertising initiative"
"But death has alway been our only freedom of expression."
"I hope the Ayatollah doesn't mind if we take another approach -- the suicide bomber class of '06 was pretty slim."
" Here's my homework, Professor Goss - do I graduate CIA training school now?"
"Except for rioting and embassy burning."
"If it all works out, at least I won't have to write another caption again."
If you'd like to add any of your own late captions, or if you'd like to discuss or comment on the judges' selections, feel free to click on the little blue "Comments" link just below this post. Please visit us again Monday for a President's Day cartoon challenge.
The winning caption was a bit vanilla as were the runners-up. It seems that the "honorable mentions" were edgy and more consistent with a good political piece and perhaps more "sting"-worthy.
Posted by: Bryan | February 17, 2006 at 12:46 PM
Wait till you see the cartoon on the other side.
Posted by: | February 17, 2006 at 01:54 PM
Please, the posted winner and also rans are all lame. My entry of "And on the back it says 'Islam is a religion of peace!'" is perfect, especially with today's announcement of a 1 million dollar bounty on the Danish cartoonist.
Posted by: M. Brian Bauer | February 17, 2006 at 05:33 PM
I think the perfect caption for "Death to Freedom of Expression!" would have been: "What cartoons? I work for the Bush Administration."
Posted by: Dan Ericson | February 21, 2006 at 08:10 AM