The new winner

The winner:

"I've heard of bath oil, but this is ridiculous!"

-- Scott Herr of Charlotte

The runners-up:

"Stop complaining.  There aren't many places left to drill."

-- David Bradley, Charlotte

"I told you drilling in our own backyard wasn't a good idea!"

-- Richard Randall, Cherryville

"I told you to stop dipping into our natural resources!"

-- Steven Mowery, Misenheimer

"The oily bird gets the urn."

-- David Jennings, Winston-Salem

"I didn't know BP stood for 'Bathing Petroleum.'"

-- Andrew Mansell, 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 or additional captions!

Here's a selection of some of the other lines we received:

"I told you to install a wind turbine!"

"Offshore drilling?  Nevermore!"

"This is the last time I stop at Dick Cheney's house!"

"It looks like we'll all be taking a bath now!"

"You think this is bad, you should see the windmill farm next door."

"Drilling is as safe as a nuclear plant."

"Not in my birdbath!"

"First the Gulf, and now the Ballantyne Basin."

“Looks like you’re stark raven mad over the oil spill.”

"In retrospect, cap and wade was a poor strategy,"

"Now we know what happened to the Carolina parakeet!"

"You think this is bad, you should see the windmill farm next door!"

"We prefer the mountains."

"You must be the canary at the oil well."

"Did you not get my tweet about the oil spill?"

"Quit whining - I flew over a tea party and they shot off my left wing!"

Please join us again Monday, May 17, for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Comments

[Jim@smashcommunications.com]

I can't believe no one referred to an albatross.