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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!"
Sure is quiet around here today! Great job capturing all the "quibbling", and (for me) one of the most thought provoking captions in the year since I've been hanging around.
Posted by: LT | January 18, 2008 at 04:52 PM
Great caption this week....kudos to Ken..I was going more for the goose and golden eggs comments way off base I guess! But enjoyed all the fairy tale winners...
Posted by: suzanne and co. | January 18, 2008 at 05:09 PM
It seems that the line between fairy tales and nursery rhymes has gotten a little blurred this week. Having said that, the winning caption is very deserving of the top spot this week! Way to go Ken. (I kinda like the sound of that)
Posted by: Kenneth Irving | January 18, 2008 at 07:05 PM
Kenneth, you have a good point. I think Pres. Clinton may be at the bottom of this. He mentioned something about not taking a nickel to see the cow jump over the moon during the same "vent" when he described something Obabma said or did as a fairy tale. Have fun in the snow!!!
Posted by: LT | January 18, 2008 at 09:03 PM
make that Obama !! sorry
Posted by: LT | January 18, 2008 at 09:07 PM
Both Irving and Clinton appreciate the subtle differences of oral tradition.
Posted by: D. Cox | January 18, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Man from Nantucket? Oral tradition?
When, exactly, did this become an R-rated blog? I guess it's just symptomatic of our modern society, where those who choose to be disruptive or offensive have more rights than the rest of us who are forced to put up with it.
Posted by: Randy Thomas | January 19, 2008 at 09:35 AM
How sad that Clinton's actions ruin a good discussion on the origins of popular literature. Off to a Polite Society skeet match..
Posted by: D. Cox | January 19, 2008 at 01:58 PM
...you might want to change your outfit before you go...
Posted by: | January 20, 2008 at 07:42 AM
Could be the high moral fiber cereal...
Posted by: D. Cox | January 25, 2008 at 03:14 PM
...this too shall pass...
Posted by: | January 25, 2008 at 06:04 PM