Kevin Siers: You Write The Caption

Your New Challenge: Oct. 30, 2006

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Welcome to the Charlotte Observer Cartoon Caption Contest, an opportunity to test your wit and win a prize. Each Monday, Observer editorial cartoonist Kevin Siers will post a cartoon that needs a caption and invite readers to write one.  To learn more about our contest and see our caption writing guidelines, please click here. 

To submit your caption on-line, just click here to e-mail us!  Please include your mailing address and daytime phone number. To mail your caption to the Observer, address it to You Write the Caption, Editorial Department, The Charlotte Observer, P.O. Box 30308, Charlotte, NC 28230-0308.  Submissions must reach us by noon Thursday, Nov. 2 .

We'll post the winner's name and caption and the runners-up here Friday afternoon and publish them in the Observer next Monday.  The winning writer gets the original cartoon art with the caption added. Good luck, and have fun!

The Oct. 23 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"Karl, I thought you said November was in the bag!"

-- Richard Welch, Fort Mill

The runners-up:

"I got Iraq!"

--Teresa Carroll, Charlotte, (who was the first) and a multitude of other readers

"Don't call 'em 'empty'. Let's say we're adjusting our satchel fulfillment strategy."

-- Noel Bankhead, Indian Trail

"Condi gets Kisses, Cheney gets Butterfingers, and all I get is Snickers!"

-- Kenneth Irving, Kannapolis

"Hey, where is my October surprise?"

-- Steven A. Meckler, Charlotte

Thank you for all your entries.  Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:

"Geez, it seems everybody's got enriched plutonium now."

"Looks like a huge deficit again this year!"

“Hey look, weapons of mass CONFECTION!”

"Our strategy to scare the American people just isn't paying off!"

"Dang, no weapons of mass destruction again this year!"

"Now they're only hunks of coal, but if we stay the course, someday they will be diamonds."

"Next year we skip Congress!"

"Oh great, another worthless resolution.  Why do we keep going to Kofi Annan's house every year?"

" I think Foley said something about having to hide this."

"I had heard my approval rating was low,but this is ridiculous!"

"You know, Hillary,  you'd probably get better treats if you'd wear a costume!"

"Trick or Treat  just isn't the same without Jack Abramoff."

"Should have dressed up as Barack Obama this year!"

"...Osama?"

“Why did everyone say, 'That’s what I’d like to know'?"

"Maybe next year I shouldn't dress up as Fear Itself."

"Every time we go to that Pelosi house, we come up with an old bag full of hot air."

"How come you two got Tootsie Pops and I got Dum-Dums?"

"This is an act of war!"

Got another caption to add to the list?  Want to judge these yourself, and let us know your winners?  Feel free to click on the little blue "Comments" link just below this post to discuss or comment on any of this.  Please visit us again Monday for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Your New Challenge: Oct. 23, 2006

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Welcome to the Charlotte Observer Cartoon Caption Contest, an opportunity to test your wit and win a prize. Each Monday, Observer editorial cartoonist Kevin Siers will post a cartoon that needs a caption and invite readers to write one.  To learn more about our contest and see our caption writing guidelines, please click here. 

To submit your caption on-line, just click here to e-mail us!  Please include your mailing address and daytime phone number. To mail your caption to the Observer, address it to You Write the Caption, Editorial Department, The Charlotte Observer, P.O. Box 30308, Charlotte, NC 28230-0308.  Submissions must reach us by noon Thursday, Oct. 26 .

We'll post the winner's name and caption and the runners-up here Friday afternoon and publish them in the Observer next Monday.  The winning writer gets the original cartoon art with the caption added. Good luck, and have fun!

The Oct. 16 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The Winner:

"Nice bangs!"

-- Chris Stonnell, Charlotte

The runners-up:

"Oh, dear!  Now everyone is going to want one of these!"

-- David Williams, Mount Pleasant, SC

"I've heard that fertilizer in an enclosed space can do that!"

-- Patrick Box, Charlotte

"North Korea's weapon of mousse destruction!"

-- Dave Bachman, Charlotte

"I don't think Rogaine is going to help THIS fallout!"

-- submitted separately by Larry Monroe, Charlotte, and Tony Jackson, Iaeger, WV

Thank you for all your entries.  Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:

"I see you have tried Aunt Bea's pickles."

"How did you make it past Checkpoint Chickie?"

"We've got to nip this in the bud!"

"That looks like an UN-settling development."

"You think that was an explosion?  Imagine a goat full of dynamite!"

"Hair today, gone tomorrow."

"This haircut's da bomb ."

“I’ve heard of keeping a bullet in your pocket, but never a nuclear bomb in your hair!”

"Mr. Kim, I think now would be a good time to stop the teasing."

"Floyd Lawson has no other choice but to cut and run!"

"Oh! Oh gosh! Well, you said you wanted something with a POP."

Mayberry R.F.D.*     (*Radioactive Follicled Dictator)

"Oh my, punk is back, with a bad case of hair trigger."

"Don't you mean a little off the top, not over the top ?"

"Testy little fellow, must be from up north!"

Got another caption to add to the list?  Want to judge these yourself, and let us know your winners?  Feel free to click on the little blue "Comments" link just below this post to discuss or comment on any of this.  Please visit us again Monday for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Your New Challenge: Oct. 16, 2006

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Welcome to the Charlotte Observer Cartoon Caption Contest, an opportunity to test your wit and win a prize. Each Monday, Observer editorial cartoonist Kevin Siers will post a cartoon that needs a caption and invite readers to write one.  To learn more about our contest and see our caption writing guidelines, please click here. 

To submit your caption on-line, just click here to e-mail us!  Please include your mailing address and daytime phone number. To mail your caption to the Observer, address it to You Write the Caption, Editorial Department, The Charlotte Observer, P.O. Box 30308, Charlotte, NC 28230-0308.  Submissions must reach us by noon Thursday, Oct. 19 .

We'll post the winner's name and caption and the runners-up here Friday afternoon and publish them in the Observer next Monday.  The winning writer gets the original cartoon art with the caption added. Good luck, and have fun!

The Oct. 9 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"And for an extra $36 million, Ron Tober will autograph it for you!"

-- Jim O'Loughlin, Charlotte

The runners-up:

"I just love these books about the Bush presidency!"

-- Mark Majors, Charlotte

"They're all copies of Bill Clinton's My Life!"

-- Brantley Barfield, Stanley, NC

“It’s amazing.  Karl Rove has a best seller in each pile!”

-- Phil Busher, Charlotte

"All these pages must have been too much for Congressman Foley!"

-- Kenneth Irving, Kannapolis

Thank you for all your entries.  Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:

"It's hot off the press -- Rumsfeld's War for Dummies!"

"Why do you think they call it The Library of Congress?"

"These are usually in the SECOND GUESS section."

"The DNC is having a sale!"

"You wouldn't believe how many times 'Charlotte' and 'Mass Transit' are mentioned in here!"

"It's called Marketing Oil in America by Hugo Chavez."

"Oh look, it's Martha Stewart's investment guide."

"It's called Know Your Audience by the Dixie Chicks."

"I found FEMA's hurricaine response manual."

"It's How to Get into the Hall of Fame by Pete Rose."

"It's Dick Cheney's hunting safety tips."

"I expect an addition to this table by Speaker Hastert."

"It's Terrell Owens' guide to media and fan relations."

"I found Mel Gibson's book on temperance and religious tolerance."

"Usually a President doesn't write his memoirs until AFTER he leaves office!"

"They've kept me in Congress for 20 years."

"Oops, I think I sold the wrong book to the Yankees!"

Got another caption to add to the list?  Want to judge these yourself, and let us know your winners?  Feel free to click on the little blue "Comments" link just below this post to discuss or comment on any of this.  Please visit us again Monday for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Your New Challenge: Oct. 9, 2006

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Welcome to the Charlotte Observer Cartoon Caption Contest, an opportunity to test your wit and win a prize. Each Monday, Observer editorial cartoonist Kevin Siers will post a cartoon that needs a caption and invite readers to write one.  To learn more about our contest and see our caption writing guidelines, please click here. 

To submit your caption on-line, just click here to e-mail us!  Please include your mailing address and daytime phone number. To mail your caption to the Observer, address it to You Write the Caption, Editorial Department, The Charlotte Observer, P.O. Box 30308, Charlotte, NC 28230-0308.  Submissions must reach us by noon Thursday, Oct. 12 .

We'll post the winner's name and caption and the runners-up here Friday afternoon and publish them in the Observer next Monday.  The winning writer gets the original cartoon art with the caption added. Good luck, and have fun!

The Oct. 2 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"I would have caught Bin Laden if he ever came out of hiding!"

-- David Scovill, Mooresville

The runners-up:

"I did not have relations with those 72 virgins!"

-- submitted separately by Larry Monroe, Charlotte and Chris Folk, Huntersville

“I may not have taken out Fox News, but at least I TRIED.”

-- Arthur Fisher, Hickory

"You know, It's those ultra-right-wing fundamentalist religious types  that are the problem."

--Bart Cracraft, Charlotte

"You Fox News guys are terror-fying!"

-- Jibril Hough, Charlotte

Thank you for all your entries.  Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:

"Not funny, Chris."

“Now I know the CIA concluded that you wanted Bush to win the last election, but taking a job with FOX News is just going too far!”

“Knock that smile off your face, or I’ll have to do absolutely NOTHING about it!”

"I hope you are more "fair and balanced" than that Wallace guy!"

"We'd like to hire you to write a comprehensive plan on dealing with terrorists.  Oh, and it should be dated January 2001."

"This must be a setup, you know that I'm allergic to Flowers!"

"It depends on what your definition of 'tried'  is."

"Nobody tried harder than ME to root out the right-wing media!"

"I did not have sexual relations with Whitney Houston!"

"Listen, Osama, if I didn't have to destroy Ken Starr first, I would have gotten to you sooner or later."

"So now you are doing conservative hit jobs for Fox."

“Now repeat after me, with feeling,  ‘I did not have political relations with Bill Clinton!’”

"Admit it.  All this Jihad nonsense is just another part of the right wing conspiracy against me."

"I did not lie to that reporter".

"No one takes the media spotlight from William Jefferson Clinton!"

"Pull my finger!"

Got another caption to add to the list?  Want to judge these yourself, and let us know your winners?  Feel free to click on the little blue "Comments" link just below this post to discuss or comment on any of this.  Please visit us again Monday for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Your New Challenge: Oct. 2, 2006

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Welcome to the Charlotte Observer Cartoon Caption Contest, an opportunity to test your wit and win a prize. Each Monday, Observer editorial cartoonist Kevin Siers will post a cartoon that needs a caption and invite readers to write one.  To learn more about our contest and see our caption writing guidelines, please click here. 

To submit your caption on-line, just click here to e-mail us!  Please include your mailing address and daytime phone number. To mail your caption to the Observer, address it to You Write the Caption, Editorial Department, The Charlotte Observer, P.O. Box 30308, Charlotte, NC 28230-0308.  Submissions must reach us by noon Thursday, Oct. 5 .

We'll post the winner's name and caption and the runners-up here Friday afternoon and publish them in the Observer next Monday.  The winning writer gets the original cartoon art with the caption added. Good luck, and have fun!