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The winner:
"It's the end of an error!"
-- Carolyn Hudson, Columbia, SC
The runners-up:
"Happy New Ears!"
-- Davis Sample, Charlotte
"I don’t spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history. I guess I don’t worry about long-term history, either, since I’m not going to be around to read it.”
-- George W. Bush, courtesy of Lee Baber, Charlotte
“They misunderestimated me."
-- George W. Bush, courtesy of Charles H. Hodge, Charlotte
"Time flies when you're having fun."
-- Kenneth Irving, Kannapolis
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:
"They said you didn't have much experience, but this is ridiculous!"
"Soon you shall reap what I've sown!"
"In 2009 I resolve to leave things better than I found them."
“There is always next year!”
“Mission Accomplished!”
Cold friends / Sat on their park bench like bookends / Silently sharing the same fears...
(Apologies to Paul Simon)
"A change is in the air and it’s about time!"
"The time is at hand for my daze in office to end."
"When your turn is over you will be bushed too!"
" But the best hiding place in the White House is ... "
Father Time to go.
“Acquaintances will be renewed
in the year of two thousand nine.
We’ll congregate on New Years Day
In the unemployment line.”
"I wish I could have let you use Blair House but it's fully occupied by candidates for the Illinois Senate seat."
"They love you now but give them some time."
“And I even have a pair of shoes for you to wear!”
"Always be careful about taking the advice of your VP!"
"Don't look at me, I only work here."
Join us for a new cartoon caption challenge Monday, January 5.
Bad pick. The error is what's coming.
Posted by: roge | January 02, 2009 at 01:47 PM
Congratulations Carolyn! Great beginning to a New Year!
Posted by: Doug Cox | January 02, 2009 at 02:18 PM
One of the best captions I've seen in a long time, and it's funny too! Way to go Carolyn.
Posted by: Kenneth Irving | January 02, 2009 at 05:30 PM
Kevin, thanks for selecting me. Doug and Kenneth, thanks for the compliments.
Posted by: Carolyn | January 05, 2009 at 11:53 AM