You Write the Caption will be taking a short break for the New Year. We'll return, posting the winners of our last week's challenge, Jan. 4. We'll publish those in the newspaper, and present a new cartoon challenge Jan. 7.
Wishing you all the best in 2008 --
Kevin Siers
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Your New Challenge: Dec. 24, 2007
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Welcome to You Write the Caption, 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 political 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.
Enter as many times as you wish. 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, Dec. 27.
For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.
You Write the Caption will be taking a holiday break -- we'll return with the winners of this week's challenge in two weeks!
Good luck, and have fun!
The Dec. 17 Cartoon Caption Winner!
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The winner:
"With muscles that grew too lively and quick, I knew in a moment: steroids in St. Nick!"
-- Doug Cox of Albemarle
The runners-up:
"BALCO, HG Hormones, injections and creams -- these are a few of my favorite things!"
-- again, Doug Cox, Albemarle
"Santa misunderstood when Baseball said they needed a Steroid Clause."
-- Ross Levin, Charlotte
"BALCO should just leave out milk and cookies like everyone else."
-- Rhonda Hermann, Charlotte, with variations on this theme from many readers
“Santa’s new weight-lifting routine includes carrying Nick Mackey’s personal baggage around our workshop.”
-- Alex Philbeck, Clover, SC
Thank you for all your entries. As usual, feel free to discuss any of this in our "Comments" section. Just click the blue link below this post and add your observations, criticisms or additional captions!
Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:
"Didn't he play for the Reds?"
"He prefers to call them Holiday Greetings Hormones."
"It's a Wonderful Life -- in Baseball!"
"Hey, check out that Christmas package!"
"Deck the Halls with BALCO Folly!"
"Not on the juice? You sleigh me!"
"I hear George Mitchell's making another list . . . "
"He plays baseball in the offseason."
"I always wondered how he did it all in one night."
"It's just one icon after another."
“Looks like Santa got his vitamins from the Island of Misfit Pills.”
"Santa! For the last time...put Senator Mitchell down!"
“He’s gonna find out who’s fraudy and lies.”
"Last season, he was just another elf in the minors."
"Who knew Reindeer Games would get as competitive as MLB?"
"Bad Santa"
“Santa made the Yankees' roster."
"Carrying all those lead toys is really doing a number on Santa."
"Looks like Santa has been having lunch with Barry Bonds again."
"I wonder if HGH works on elves."
"We have to stay competitive -- the Grinch is using them."
Join us again Monday, Dec. 24, for a new cartoon caption challenge!
Your New Challenge: Dec. 17, 2007
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Welcome to You Write the Caption, 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 political 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.
Enter as many times as you wish. 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, Dec. 20.
For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.
Good luck, and have fun!
The Dec. 10 Cartoon Caption Winner!
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The winner:
"Help me remember -- which is the world's oldest profession?"
-- Bruce Baily of Charlotte
The runners-up:
"With the competition eliminated, we're sure to move up in the poles."
-- Carrie Scovill, Mooresville
"It's a shame how some people don't care who they get in bed with."
-- David Merritt, Charlotte
"We really have to do something about those Independents."
-- Peter Vazquez, Charlotte
"Amateurs!"
-- Kevin Siers, Steve LaDue, Ross Baily, Stanton Geller and multiple others
Thank you for all your entries. As usual, feel free to discuss any of this in our "Comments" section. Just click the blue link below this post and add your observations, criticisms or additional captions!
Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:
"It's bad when you get caught."
"These people don't know how to work the streets!"
"If the lights on Brookshire worked ... we could read this."
"How come Concord could beg Bruton Smith to do it to them - and it was legal?"
"Madam Secretary, call the roll."
"It’s getting harder for us party girls to make a living."
"How can you justify hustling citizens out of their money?"
"She could have had such a promising career in politics."
"Politics does make strange bedfellows or is it the other way around?"
"Ain't that awful, sellin' yourself for money?"
"In this article they don't call it campaigning."
"Free publicity is great!"
"And they did it all without television."
“Hey, looks like some market share opened up in Charlotte.”
"BIg Deal! We've been for sale for years!"
Please join us again Monday, Dec. 17, for a new cartoon caption challenge!
Your New Challenge: Dec. 10, 2007
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Welcome to You Write the Caption, 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 political 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.
Enter as many times as you wish. 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, Dec. 13.
For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.
Good luck, and have fun!
The Dec. 3 Cartoon Caption Winner!
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The winner:
"Whenever I want a new toy, I just create another tax to pay for it."
-- Charles Held of Charlotte
The runners-up:
"Duke Power has been good, but they'd still like lumps of coal."
-- Carolyn Hudson, Columbia, SC
"All I want for Christmas is an Eastern North Carolina background!"
-- Steven Meckler, Charlotte
"I heard everybody in Raleigh is a good ol' boy!"
-- John Crowell, Charlotte
"Can we borrow Rudolph to light the interstate?"
-- Mary Henry, Fort Mill
Thank you for all your entries. As usual, feel free to discuss any of this in our "Comments" section. Just click the blue link below this post and add your observations, criticisms or additional captions!
Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:
“All I want is a Governor’s Mansion.”
"Can you bring us the water from the melted polar ice?"
"Can you deliver some campaign literature to the eastern part of the state?"
"Lower crime, less taxes, art -- oops, this is my constituents' list."
"Why can’t a sitting mayor have the governorship?"
"Charlotte could learn a lot from you about rapid transit!"
"I'm sorry -- Rudolph will not be allowed in our red light exclusion zone."
"I'd like some Christmas lights -- for the freeways!"
"More roads, more trains, street lights Oh! And the governor’s mansion if that’s not asking too much."
"Yeah, Raleigh didn't want to hear it either..."
"....and most of all Santa I want to be made into a real boy! "
"I want an all expense paid vacation in Europe. Oh wait, I already had that."
"Please don't leave any more empty big boxes this year!"
",,,lights on the interstate, tickets to Wicked, and a new job for Sue!"
In the mood for more Mayor McCrory? Check out Kevin Siers' slide show of cartoons on the mayor's career!
Please join us again Monday, Dec. 10, for a new cartoon caption challenge!
Your New Challenge: Dec. 3, 2007
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Welcome to You Write the Caption, 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 political 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.
Enter as many times as you wish. 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, Dec. 6.
For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.
In the mood for more Mayor McCrory? Check out Kevin Siers' slide show of cartoons on the mayor's career!
Good luck, and have fun!
