You Write The Caption

The May 26 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"I'm Dennis Kucinich and I approved this message!"

-- Douglas R. Cox of Albemarle

The runners-up:

"Finally, we have some alternatives to the two-party system."

-- Jibril Hough, Charlotte

“I owe it to my constituents to stay in the race until the election is over.”

-- Susan Smith, Concord

“I’ll take losers for $200, Alex.”

-- John Crowell, Charlotte

"I'm the REAL Green Party candidate!"

-- submitted by many, many folks

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:

"Take me to your superdelegates!"

"We are all after the alienated vote."

"Wow, Its great to be sharing the stage with other Martians!"

"Don't laugh, my polling numbers are better than either of yours."

"Not-you, Not-you!"

“The chances of either one of you winning are out of this world.”

"No thanks guys. I want you to take me to someone who actually has a chance of being your leader."

"They don't understand what I say, either."

"The choice is abundantly clear, far right, far left or far out!"

"So it is true! Anyone can run for president."

"I want to set a precedent.  Two Presidents in a row from outer space."

"Don't give up yet. Remember, all the others could die before the election!"

"I have the utmost respect for my colleagues...Darth Nader and Barr-Barr Stinks."

"The city of Roswell is pleased to host another off-the-radar event."

“Speaking as the mainstream candidate on this stage …”

"I'm planning to pick up where Ron Paul left off!"

"You guys are sooo last year."

Please join us again Monday, June 2, for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Your New Challenge: May 26, 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, Wednesday, May 28.

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

Good luck, and have fun!

The May 19 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"All this mudslinging is bad for circulation!"

-- Ross Levin of Charlotte

The runners-up:

"You can't get a good grasp when you're always just trying to grab the headlines."

-- Steve LaDue, Fort Mill

“Thank God we don’t have to tell the truth or we’d both be out of business.”

-- Tom Strohl, Charlotte

"You can't handle the truth!"

-- Suzanne Estro, Charlotte

"Nobody wants to read about the elephant in the room."

-- Richard Dale, 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:

"Give it up Mac - you've already broken every window in America."

"If I really wanted to hurt you, I'd throw the Thanksgiving edition!"

"Extra! Extra! Spin all about it!"

"Quit your whining! The only part they'll read is "Paid to Party!"

"My Observer beats your Rhino Times anyday!"

"This is not what I had in mind when we said we were going to manipulate the media!"

"I thought the media worked for us!"

"I thought Fox delivered your news exclusively."

"It's hard to throw like this when we're used to doing everything underhanded."

"I thought McCain's message would be on clay tablets!"

"Crikey! We're here again in the jungles of the Potomac, watching two old and tired political animals fighting for dominance!"

"You cannot be a Republican and work for The Observer!"

"I hear the Observer is narrowing it’s pages to better reflect your political views."

Rehash or rewrite?

"I deliver the Observer, and the Observer delivers for me."

FOX news and CNN debate the issues.

Please join us again Monday, May 26, for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Your New Challenge: May 19, 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, Wednesday, May 21.

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

Good luck, and have fun!

The May 12 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"Until the City conducts a RAID on crime, our picnic will continue!"

-- Laura Thompson of Charlotte

The runners-up:

"I'm hoping the new police chief has a small shoe!"

-- Brent Sheppard, Morganton

"This is a lot like an election. The money follows the tracking that follows the biggest loudmouth!"

-- Lee Baber, Charlotte

"Relax!  Unless the Mecklenburg D.A. is moonlighting with Orkin, we'll never do time for this!"

-- Tom Johnson, Charlotte

"Hup, two three four, ain't enough cops so steal some more!"

-- Joe Marshall, 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:

"No voice, no direction, no money.  Got these from a school board member's car."

"Grass roots campaigning at it’s finest!"

"We're a bunch of scrap metal thieving miscreants."

"The little one stopped to shoot his gun, and we all go marching down, to the jail, to get out, once again. Boom, boom, boom."

"Don't worry. If they catch you, they only slap you on the mandible and let you go."

"Quit complaining, Ralph.  That’s an American wallet.  How heavy can it be nowadays?"

"There are still a few bugs in Charlotte's crime-fighting system!"

Please join us again Monday, May 19, for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Your New Challenge: May 12, 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, Wednesday, May 14.

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

Good luck, and have fun!

The May 5 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"Which came first, the chicken or the ego?"

-- Lee Baber of Charlotte

The runners-up:

"I like my eggs scrambled, like my ideas!"

-- Nelson Thompson, Fort Mill

"It's not the sky that's falling, Mr. Little.  It's Obama's standing in the polls."

-- John Patterson, Charlotte

“The U.S. government invented bird flu to wipe out all you chickens.”

-- Joel Zauss, Charlotte

"You came home to roost, but I'm the one who laid an egg."

-- Jim Price, Huntersville

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:

"We do chicken Wright."

"Therefore never send to know for whom the chickens come home to roost; they come home to roost for me."

"When I said America's chickens have come home to roost, I didn't mean in my living room."

"Shouldn't you be in the Oval Office?"

"The yolk is easy and the burden is light."

"Ya know, it's really just a figure of speech."

"I didn't say you were deficient.  I said, different."

"I can't believe how fowled up the media are!"

"Every time I open my mouth, someone gets their feathers ruffled!"

"And Barack, Barack, Barack to you too."

And today's Loony Tune special:  "Looky here, I say, son, I'm not chicken, just a loud-mouthed schook!"

Please join us again Monday, May 12, for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Your New Challenge: May 5, 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, Wednesday, May 7.

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

Good luck, and have fun!

The April 28 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner: 

"A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another four years."

-- Jim Novak of Charlotte

The runners-up:

"A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for."

-- Ross Levin of Charlotte

"All things considered, I'd rather be in Washington."

-- Again, Jim Novak, Charlotte

"I went to Carolina one time -- but it was closed."

-- Gene Armstrong, Charlotte

"Poker and politics are games of chance, but not the way I play the race card in Carolina."

-- Lee Baber, 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:

"Children, dogs and Red States. I have no use for any of them."

"Now don't you say you can't swear off womanizing; it's easy.  I've done it a thousand times."

‘Sir, there’s no such thing as a tough opponent… if you parboil them for a few days, they always come out tender!”

"I love campaigning for president when I don't have to keep any of my promises."

"Go away, son, you Obama me."

"What did I take from my White House years? The fifth and some furniture!"

"If you liked me, you'll love my little chickadee!"

"Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?"

"I've spent the night in all 30 White House bedrooms! Slept in two of them."

"My girl in the white house is worth five in the phone book."

"Everything I do is illegal, immoral, or fattening!"

"Life was so much easier when I was Elvis!"

Please join us again Monday, May 5, for a new cartoon caption challenge.