You Write The Caption

Your New Challenge: Jan. 28, 2008

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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, Jan. 31.

For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.

Good luck, and have fun!

The Jan. 21 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"It's missing the right side!"

-- Nelson Hudgens of Charlotte

The runners-up:

"We weren't using it so Obama borrowed it."

-- Steven E. Davies, Charlotte

"We're going to need some right-wing nuts."

-- Douglas R. Cox, Albemarle

"No one seems to know which is the head and which is the rear."

-- Keith E. Smith, Charlotte

"And I thought it took a lot of us to change a light bulb!"

-- Chris Flowers, Charlotte

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:

"At least we have a foyer for the Bush Library."

"Not sure we can get it together before November..."

"I hope it doesn't look like a donkey when we finish!"

"OK..I know where the trunk goes, but what do we do with the extra baggage?"

"Let's try thinking inside the box now!"

"Let’s wait for Rudy, he’s good with disasters."

"Instructions:  Step #1 -- Don't step in #2."

"We don’t have all the pieces.  Reagan took the heart and soul of this thing with him years ago."

"The instructions are in Spanish."

"Severely damaged!  Send it back to Texas."

"Do you think he will work for nuts?"

"Wouldn't cloning Reagan be easier?"

“Let’s start with ‘all the king’s horses and all the king’s men’ and see how far we get …”

"They didn't send instructions on how to connect church and state!"

"First time I've heard an elephant ticking."

"Looks like GW lost the instructions."

"We need the weapon of mass instructions. "

"This may turn out to be a huge undertaking."

"He says he won't come out until he sees a republican!"

"Can we sell it after we build it?"

"The box is actually full of empty rhetoric!"

"Let's just hang a 'Mission Accomplished' banner instead!"

Your New Challenge: Jan. 21, 2008

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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, Jan. 24.

For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.

Good luck, and have fun!

The Jan. 14 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"I know the Fairy Tale is your idea, but it takes a President to sell it to the country."

-- Ken Gatlin of Rock Hill

The runners-up:

"Fairy tale?  You don't ask and I won't tell!"

-- Steven E. Davies, Charlotte

"I did not have sexual relations with that old woman in the shoe!"

-- Mark C. Mahoney, Glens Falls, NY

"'I didn't inhale' was NOT a fairy tale!"

-- submitted by several readers

"It depends on what the definition of 'fairy tale' is."

-- submitted by many, many readers

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:

"My wife tells me you're the new Karl Rove."

"If you don't stop writing for Obama, somebody's not going to live happily ever after!"

"All I did was ask for Little Red Riding Hood's number."

"There once was a man from Nantucket . . . ."

"We need another story, what else you got on Oboma?"

"We are headed to South Carolina -- help me explain to her what it is like to lay an egg."

"And his position on the economy is a nursery rhyme!"

"Listen!  I'm the expert on being goosed."

"Hillary, dillary dock.  Help us defeat Barack."

"From now on I'll decide what is and what isn't a fairytale."

"If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck and acts like a duck then it must be racial issue."

"That fairy tale fractures me!"

Your New Challenge: Jan. 14, 2008

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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, Jan. 17.

For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.

Good luck, and have fun!

The Jan. 7 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"We thought the witch was melting, but she was just 'tearing up'!

-- Linda Sarazen of Charlotte

The runners-up:

"Oprah paved it in gold for you!"

-- Clay Kiser, Charlotte

"Just follow the Yellow Barack Road!"

-- Tom Hodge, Denver, NC

"SC, NV, MI...oh my!"

-- Tom Haines, Charlotte

"You really brought the house down!"

-- submitted by several readers

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:

"Heading for Washington?  Brainless, Heartless, and Cowardly will meet you along the way."

"Run!  John Edwards is suing you on behalf of the deceased witch!"

"I didn't realize his platform would be red sequined heels."

"The White House is that way but you're gonna have to leave Hillary outside."

"Guliani needs a brain, McCain needs a heart, Edwards needs courage, & Hillary is on her broom as usual screwing things up."

"I've got... a feeling I'm not going to canvas anymore. "

"You don’t need wizardry to catch up, just a few tears!"

"And I thought Slick Willie knew how to ruin a blue dress!"

"How many times must I tell you ...... You are in a dream!"

"Look out for the wicked witch."

"There's no place like change!"

Please join us again Monday, Jan. 14, for a new Cartoon Caption Challenge.

Your New Challenge: Jan. 7, 2008

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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, Jan. 10.

For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.

Good luck, and have fun!

The Dec. 24 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"Just this one, last cover-up for old time's sake!"

-- Kenneth Irving of Kannapolis

The runners-up:

"Well, I told them to shred all the incriminating evidence!"

-- Ray Ostott, Charlotte

"You sure look '08-full!"

-- Roland Marechal, Concord

"In hindsight, 2007 didn't look too bad!"

-- Douglas R. Cox, Albemarle

"Out with the old war, in with the new!"

-- submitted by several readers

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:

"After seven years, you really have nothing to hide."

"Looks like another banner year! "

"I think you've covered all your inadequacies. "

"You've exposed your political greatness. "

"I knew that old 'mission accomplished' banner would come in handy for something."

"I guess the end is almost in sight!"

“Hi George!  What brings YOU to the Oval Office?”

"Gotta tell ya – it’s still better than seeing Hillary in that outfit…"

"No, George, A.D. does not stand for 'After Daddy'!"

"May old administrations be forgot."