The June 25 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"Mayor McCrory finally paid off his bet with Seattle!"

-- Steven E. Davies of Charlotte

The runners-up:

"The new Charlotte Coffee Cup!"

-- William Owens, Marvin, NC

"Of course, a few of our revenue streams for light rail are controversial."

-- John Bailey, Davidson

"I hear they don't offer a local flavor."

-- Linda Sarazen, Charlotte

"She's now called Queen Char-latté!"

-- from multiple readers

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

"Remember when Queen Charlotte symbolized freedom?  Now we're the city of chains"

"Who says we can't have a 'well-balanced blend' of history and progress in Charlotte?"

"I remember when you could buy a cup of coffee inside the airport!"

"The Queen Bean!"

"It's just a little something to keep Charlotte flying high."

"They use that one to refuel the jets."

"It's such a wonderful symbol of our great city, but can you get rid of the lady?"

"Shouldn't the world know we beat Austin in cups sold?"

"Did you think Anderson's restaurant would be their last acquisition?"

"While it is very welcoming, it does contribute to global warming."

"And they put a big dunkin' donuts around the necks of the Panthers."

"Hollywood has the stars, New York has the bucks, Charlotte has the identity crisis..."

"I'd heard the Charlotte gals have bigger cup sizes."

"Considering how long your flight is delayed, that might not actually be a big enough cup."

"She's Queen Charlotte, shouldn't she be holding a bowl of grits?"

"As you can see, Charlotte is not the sleepy, southern town that it once was."

"Well, it was either this, or raising the airport departure fee again."

"It's our  new airport guidance system: no radar, just follow the aroma!"

"This was the last corner without a Starbucks, we had to do something!"

"We asked for a Venti but they said our population was only large enough for a Grande Cup."

Want to discuss the winners?  Got another caption to add to the list?  Want to judge these yourself, and let us know your favorites?  Feel free to click on the little blue "Comments" link just below this post to share your views on any of this.

You Write the Caption is going on summer vacation for the month of July, so no new challenge on Monday. Thanks for all your interest and enthusiasm for our contest, and I hope we'll see you back here when we resume in August.  Enjoy your summer!

Comments

[Steven E. Davies]

An honorable mention last week and now this. Next thing I'll be asked is to pee into a cup.

This is the pinnacle of what has been, up until now, a rather pathetic life.

I wish to thank my mother and father for not throwing me into the river at birth.

To my brothers and sisters, Linda, Kathy, Mike, Jim and Matt who helped my feel not so dumb by comparison.

To Sister Marie Henry who taight me to spell, or else.

What could I say about my lovely wife, Brenda, who said to me, "Why can't you put down the toilet seat?!"

And then there are the fine judges who chose my entry the best from all the other wonderful witticisms, the checks are in the mail.

I'm choked up! I know there are far more of you that I should thank but at my age I'm lucky to remember what I had for breakfast. So, I'll just leave it at that.

Thank you all and have a pleasant tomorrow.

[LT]

GONE FOR A WHOLE MONTH ?!?!?!?

I feel the withdrawl symptoms setting in already !!!

[Joy]

The New yorker online also has a caption contest for U.S residents

[LT]

Thanks Joy !!! I just checked it out, and it looks like fun. Even entered just to see what happens. This could be the start of a new addiction.

[John Bailey]

I would like to thank Kevin Siers, the Academy, oops...wrong speech.

I was as thrilled to get runner-up as Steven Davies was to win. And Steven and I seem to be of a similar age where simply remembering to submit a caption before the deadline is a major achievement in itself.

The contest has taught me two things:

First, a picture truly is worth a thousand words,

Second, Kevin Siers job is a lot harder than I thought!