The June 30 Cartoon Caption Winner!

Welcome back to You Write the Caption!

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The winner:

"Uncle Sam is Bushed!"

-- Tim Yount of Claremont, NC

The runners-up:

"The economy is on the mend!"

-- Douglas R. Cox, Albemarle

"Here's looking at YOU, kids!"

-- Suzanne Estro, Charlotte

“I did not have relations with that oil company.”

-- Michelle Scovill, Moorseville

"Can you spare a euro?"

-- James Robert Jernigan, Woodland Hills, CA

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:

"If you think I look rough after 8 years of this Administration wait till you see what they did to the Constitution!!"

"Oh say does that Opec strangled banner still wave?"

"This administration has run me ragged."

"...then swing left onto pennsylvania avenue, and you'll see a big white house in ruins..."

"This is no way to treat a veteran!"

"I want you to tell me where I can find some clothes made in the USA!"

"You're turning me into 'Uncle Sham'!"

"I want BREW!"

"I AM YOU!"

“You celebrate the Fourth with the economy you got.”

"Need cheap gas? Pull my finger."

“I want YOU to remember that Freedom isn’t Free!”

"I want YOU to Democratize the world, pay higher taxes, and subsidize earmarks."

"Spend those rebate checks now, before they bounce."

"I don't know about you, but for me it's starting to feel more and more like Dependence Day!"

"Don't blame me, you voted for him twice."

"This outfit made of 100% moral fiber!"

"I told YOU you should have voted for RON PAUL!"

Please join us again Monday, July 14, for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Comments

[Suzanne & co.]

Well chosen winner! Liked the ones with mend and ragged pertaining to the pic, and my other favorite was the one about the clothes being made in the USA, truly where are they?????

[pms]

Uh huh. This contest is as legit as Kevin Siers is tall, dark and handsome.

[Jay Mann]

All things considered, the judging on this one seems pretty good, probably better than most. :-)

However, a likely better result would have been:

1. 'I am You' (definitely the most pithy, creatively re-interprets who 'Uncle Sam' is, and, importantly, is an elegant & meaningful verbal play on 'I WANT YOU' ..which any winner of this caption REALLY MUST DO.
2. 'The Economy is on the Mend'
3. 'Uncle Sam is Bushed'
4. 'Can You Spare a Euro?' which is definitely the FUNNIEST of the lot..so could easily be 2. or 3.

Overall..though..nice job!

-Jay

[D. Cox]

Thanks Jay! Often we do forget that we the people are supposed to be in charge of the country...

[Kevin Siers]

"I am You" is a great caption. Unfortunately, several people sent that one in, meaning it couldn't take first place.