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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!
These are super! Doug Cox, you are up to 45 mins now - keep up the good work! Good one Ross Levin - knew you'd be back! Love the "lead toys" one too - wonder who submitted it?
Posted by: LT | December 21, 2007 at 06:20 PM
I wonder if Siers might ever do a listing on the web page of the ones that were unprintable in the newspaper but gave the staff a chuckle anyway?
Posted by: Norm Daplume | December 22, 2007 at 01:33 AM
The Santa cartoon was a target rich environment-Kevin served up a great one to skewer. LT- Check your day of infamy comment responses...
Posted by: Franklin Delano | December 22, 2007 at 02:25 AM
Some of these captions are more wizardly than Harry Potter...Couldn't stop laughing.
Posted by: Pickle D. Mugglenet | December 22, 2007 at 03:15 AM
LT - Thanks for the word. I was on a string of duds, but hopefully I'm back on my game. Great one Doug! Did not even think of rhyming! Also, liked Alex's local rather than steroid reference. Thanks for such fertile ground Kevin. Keep em coming!
Posted by: Ross Levin | December 22, 2007 at 07:56 AM
I thought of one but forgot to send. "With Kwanza and Hanukah gaining in popularity, he had to do it to compete."
Posted by: jc | December 22, 2007 at 09:14 AM
Ross - I have the duds covered now. Saw your letter and picture on the editorial page today !! You're on a roll !!! So nice to hear from Frankie !!!
Posted by: LT | December 22, 2007 at 10:19 AM
I would like to thank my mother for the Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker action figures and Algonquin round table playset I received for Christmas as a child. Also, for her understanding of the Mad magazines and National Lampoons hidden under my mattress. Season's Greetings!
Posted by: Doug Cox | December 24, 2007 at 11:40 AM