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!"

Comments

[Tom]

"By George, I think someone's White House office shredded the instructions!"

[David]

We had to send it back . . . It only got three miles to the bale.

[wildthing]

It's another Sier's political cartoon. Inflate it, and it only get's bigger! Full of hot air, and no intelligent content!

[A. Nonnie Moose]

I thought about the "right side" angle for a while but decided to go with the very lame..."The darn thing was shipped without any legs!" I guess I was thinking it might survive without the right side, but it wouldn't get very far without any legs!!! Really like the "Rudy" one in the other better lines, and the "three miles to the bale" from the comments section.

[Randy Thomas]

I definitely understand the confusion on their faces ... it must be hard to figure out exactly where to aim your pitch to Republicans these days. Also, given the chances of a GOP victory this Fall, I think Nonnie's caption about not having any legs is a pretty good one.

[Kevin]

And once again another lame caption is picked.

[Kevin Siers]

Another unsatisfied customer. (Sigh) as Charlie Brown would say. Did you have some creative alternative? If so, this is the place to let us know. We want everyone to have their say . . . .

[Jerry Lewis Swift]

Maybe we could modestly propose a telethon to raise funds to cure lame caption and comment submissions as well as the Republican party. We could get the elephant some legs and a right side and offer unfulfilled readers meatier captions. The Jocular Dystrophy Association???

[Trogg Lodyte]

Wildthing- your comment really moved me...
You make everything groovy.

[Lomonosov Lavoisier]

This caption defies the law of conservation of matter-How can half be missing, yet everything is left? I'm also concerned about
the time posted on these comments: they jump
3 hours into the past or else the server in located somewhere in the Middle of the Atlantic-no wonder the comments are often unpacific.

[L Lavoisier Cool J]

Actually my space time continuum is fluxed-This blog is a pacific zone.

[Ross Levin]

Um, I thought I was "with it" but some of the comment posts over the past month or so are going right over my head. Oh well, ignorance is bliss. I'll try to catch up best I can. In the meantime, wow, there sure are a lot of supremely happy people out there!

[Steven E. Davies]

Geesh!

I'm Runner-up, two weeks in a row. Now I know how Adlai Stevenson must have felt.

[Tom]

Tough decision, there are some really good responses to this weeks contest. Your contests are sharpening the wit of many in the Charlotte area.