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!"
Obviously only Liberal senses of humor around this town.
Posted by: G. T. | October 17, 2008 at 03:51 PM
Not necessarily, G.T., but this cartoon sort of called for them. And well done on your sign-off line Kevin ... good take-off on the Rocky & Bullwinkle originals.
Posted by: D.T. | October 17, 2008 at 07:49 PM
Interestingly, I know one of the runners up is a conservative. "When in Rome?"
Posted by: B.O. | October 18, 2008 at 11:20 PM