Gang, due to some pressing family business, our weekly cartoon contest is going on another break. We'll return with the winner and runners-up of our last challenge on Friday, Nov. 7. See you then and thanks!
« September 2008 | Main | November 2008 »
Your New Challenge: Oct. 27, 2008
Click image to enlarge.
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. (Or address your e-mail to caption@charlotteobserver.com) 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, Oct.29.
For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.
Good luck, and have fun!
The Oct. 20 Cartoon Caption Winner!
Click image to enlarge.
The winner:
"I was going to wear a Karl Marx mask but felt it would be redundant."
-- D. C. Campbell of Mooresville
The runners-up:
"All the mavericks sold out!"
-- Kevin Hall, Charlotte
"You were expecting change?"
-- Brent Sheppard, Morganton
"Why yes, I did get my costume from ACORN, how did you ever guess?"
-- Chris Toomey, Fort Mill
"See, Obama really is a-head."
-- Hanna Danzinger (age 11), 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:
"Trick or Trick!"
"What you see is what you get!"
"This was the scariest mask I could find!"
"With the election almost in the bag, it’s hard to disguise my glee."
"Whom did you expect, Joe the Plumber?"
"Do you want a lie or a half-truth?"
"Please give me your 100 Grands, but save your Snickers for McCain."
"No hidden agendas for me!"
"It's a convenient way to avoid campaign contribution limits."
"They were all out of Robin Hood masks."
"Even I don't know who I am."
"I'm disguised as a community organizer!"
"If you give me twice the amount of candy and I'll give half to the kids too lazy to trick or treat."
" 'Two-faced'? That's the nicest name I have been called in weeks!"
"My face did freeze this way!"
"I'm masking for your support!"
"He grows on you after a while."
"My inspiration? Me, course!"
"Booorack!"
"Who did you expect? Tina Fey?"
"I need twice as much since I'm sharing the wealth!"
Please join us again Monday, Oct. 27, for a new cartoon caption challenge.
Your New Challenge: Oct. 20, 2008
Click image to enlarge.
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. (Or address your e-mail to caption@charlotteobserver.com) 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, Oct.22.
For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.
Good luck, and have fun!
The Oct. 13 Cartoon Caption Winner
Click image to enlarge.
The winner:
"Now, for my next trick, I'll pull John McCain out of his slump!"
-- Jordan Schwarz of Charlotte
The runners-up:
"Here's something you'll really regret."
-- Bob Simmons, Huntersville
"Obama is not like us!"
-- Linda Sarazen, Huntersville
"Be with us next time for 'Danger in the Oval Office'!"
-- Steven Meckler, Charlotte
"I can see Boris and Natasha from my house!"
-- 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:
"THIS is how you dress a moose."
"It’s the Rocky and Bullwrinkle Show!"
"Vote for us and you'll be able to watch a new series of our goofy disasters on TV!"
"Bore-us Bidenov must be stopped!"
“But this trick never works!”
"Gotta get a new hat."
"Hockey Moms can do hat tricks."
"This trick just might finally work..."
"And now for my next trick, I will attempt to win an election in the face of a biased media!"
"For our next trick, we are going to attempt to fix the mess the Democrat-led Congress has created these past two years."
"And now here's something you'll really like! A MAVERICK!"
"What? You were expecting maybe Obama's latest tax plan?"
"WATCH ME PULL A MAVERICK OUT OF A HAT....."
"Troopergate is just a buncha Bullwinkle!"
"This whole thing is the biggest Fractured Fairy Tale I’ve ever seen.”
"Can BULL-winking can pull this election out of the hat? You betcha!"
"Has anyone seen the way back machine?"
"Watch as I pull a rabid out of my hat!"
"What happened? I thought I teamed with Dudley Do-Right."
"You betcha I could be a good vice-president. I used to be the mayor of Frostbite Falls!"
"And after the election, watch me disappear faster than the polar bears!"
"And now, here's something we hope you'll really like!"
Rocky: "We're in real trouble now!" Bullwinkle: "Oh, good, I hate the artificial kind."
Be with us next time, Monday, Oct. 20, for "Another Cartoon Challenge" or "You Write, I'm Left!"
Your New Challenge: Oct. 13, 2008
Click image to enlarge.
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. (Or address your e-mail to caption@charlotteobserver.com) 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, Oct.15.
For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.
Good luck, and have fun!
The Oct. 6 Cartoon Caption Winner
Click image to enlarge.
The winner:
“It’s OK as long as no one looks behind us and sees the mess.”
-- Larry Bumgarner of Mint Hill
The runners-up:
"Baraaaaaack! Yes, matey, I can parrot the party line."
-- Lloyd Dillon, Charlotte
"As Lt. Governor, I've been looking over the shoulders of NC politicians for years!"
-- Lee Baber, Charlotte
"Charlotte has gone from being treasure island to just plain outta banks."
Kenneth Irving of Kannapolis
"How would you like to be my Commissioner of Plunder?"
-- Charles Randall, Cherryville, NC
Thank you for all your entries. Don't know if it was last week's break, the subject matter of this week's challenge, the economic downturn, or what, but we had the lowest number of entries we've ever had for this challenge. Luckily, the quality was as good as ever!
Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:
"My candidacy's passed on! It's no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired
and gone to meet its maker." (Apologies to Monty Python fans everywhere!)
"And I can see the State Capitol from my house."
"If I keep repeating what you say, can I command the ship?"
"I alone shoulder the responsibility for my views."
"Baaarrraaakkk!! Steal and plunder! Steal and plunder! Baaarrraaakkk!!"
"Yea, Yea, what he said!"
"We have a special platform plank for you, Pat!"
"As your Governor, I’ll run our state the Easley way."
"At least we have the East Carolina Vote locked up."
"Don't worry. I just said I would open an office in Charlotte, I never said I would use it."
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!
And please join us again Monday, Oct. 13, for a new cartoon caption challenge.
Your New Challenge: Oct. 6, 2008
Click image to enlarge.
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. (Or address your e-mail to caption@charlotteobserver.com) 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, Oct. 8.
For a discussion about last week's winners, please see the "Comments" section below the previous post.
Good luck, and have fun!
The Sept. 22 Cartoon Caption Winner
Click image to enlarge.
The winner:
"So much for those sound foundations!"
-- Lou Desser of Indian Land, SC
The runners-up:
"I voted for change, but this is ridiculous!"
-- Lloyd Pontier, Charlotte
"Where are all those golden parachutes when we need them?"
-- Jesse McCulloh, Gastonia
"Technically, we're not in a recession."
-- David Scovill, Mooresville
"Mission Accomplished!"
-- submitted separately by Lee Baber, Charlotte and Patricia Ringle, 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:
"Ooohh, so THIS is the Bush Doctrine!"
"I've fallen and I can't get up!"
"Wonder if the Super Collider has an 'undo' button on it?"
"The last thing I remember was that someone said 'Drill baby, drill'!"
"We'll be right up as soon as we find some oil."
"Play your cards right, Sarah, and one day this will all be yours!"
"We're losing the moral high ground, Mr. President."
"Low risk. High profits. Besides, what could go wrong?"
"Atlas shrugged!"
"Did someone move my cheese?"
"To boldly go where no economy has gone before . . . ."
"I'd like to report a pothole on Wall Street . . . ."
"Chaaaaannnnnggggeeeeee!!!!!!!"
“Quick everyone, open your golden parachutes!”
"Ever since McCain picked Palin the whole country has become more like Alaska: Just two hours of daylight."
"Well, it seems I may have misunderestimated a soft landing for the economy."
"See, that wasn't so bad, was it?"
"So what you’re saying, Mr Paulson, is if these big banks collapse, we’ll all be buried."
"I think that the economy has finally hit bottom!"
"Depression, what depression?"
“Mr. President, about the collateral on those loans we just bought . . .”
"Honey, the newspaper says that Americans are overweight. "
"Looks like a great place to drill!"
"Who cares? Just tell me more about Sarah Palin's new son-in-law!"
Please join us again Monday, Oct. 6, for a new cartoon caption challenge!
