The winner:
"If the DNC hopes to fund a convention in this town, she's gonna need a bigger cup size."
-- Sandy Moore of Indian Trail, N.C.
The runners-up:
"Our future is Dem."
-- Douglas R. Cox, Albemarle
"We're braying for the convention."
-- Gary Ellison, Davidson
"Now we will be known as the Queen Pity."
-- Charleen Bolt, Charlotte
"Queen Charlotte sure has an asinine look lately!"
-- Rodney Robinson, Lincolnton
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 better lines we received:
"This city is highly unconventional."
"Charlottans."
"A mule and his money are soon parted."
"Queen Charlotte is looking a little different since Mayor Fox took office."
“If we have to spend $40 million to sell ourselves to the Democratic National Convention, then maybe we should call her ‘Queen Harlot’!”
“The political winds are blowing back to the right!”
"DNC = Do Not Contribute."
"If it doesn't land the Democrat Convention it might get us a rodeo."
"All parasites need a host."
“A small concession to get the 2012 Democratic convention!”
"It truly represents our Demographics."
"Begging is so unconventional."
Please join us again Monday, July 19, for a new cartoon caption challenge.

Congratulations Charleen. Who knew the plastics world had such creativity?
Posted by: D. Cox | July 16, 2010 at 11:41 AM
Are all of the cartoons a right wing conspiracy? I swear, it's anti-DNC week after week.
Posted by: Clay | July 16, 2010 at 02:42 PM
Weren't these same two guys looking at Queen Charlotte holding a Starbucks cup a few years ago?
Posted by: Original Thought | July 16, 2010 at 09:28 PM
It's called "an incongruent twist on a stock situation" -- You Write the Caption's stock in trade!
Posted by: Kevin Siers | July 19, 2010 at 08:21 AM