The winner:
"I am sure it is just CMUD telling us the problem is still on our end."
-- Steven Meckler of Charlotte
The runners-up:
"Two-for-one coupons!"
-- Bolyn McClung, Pineville
"They'll use any excuse to raise the storm water tax."
-- With variations, from a multitude of readers
"Our mortgage is really underwater!"
-- From many, many readers
"I hope this isn't a recall letter."
-- From 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 or additional captions!
Here's a selection of some of the other lines we received:
"These recent weather reports are for the birds."
"If you don't enter, you can't win."
"I forgot my iPhone."
"We're getting internest reception again."
" I'll have to read between the lions."
"It's a tweet."
"G-mail!"
"What does PETA want now?"
"It must be from Obama -- apparently he can't walk out here, after all."
"Move to Charlotte you said, the weather is better."
“I won the Super Bowl pool.”
"Fan mail from some flounder?"
"Well, that's one way to get captions in when the server's down."
It's rare that a winner makes me chuckle out loud...but this one did. This is editorial-page worthy.
Posted by: Ken | February 12, 2010 at 11:26 AM