The winner:
“If elected, I promise you brighter days ahead!”
-- Phil Clutts of Harrisburg
The runners-up:
“We have some glowing economic numbers to report.”
-- Douglas Cox, Albemarle
“I did light up but I did not inhale.”
-- Bill McGloughlin, Charlotte
“Red-nosed and blue-nosed reindeer will pull in the same direction next year.”
-- Phil Chubb, Charlotte
"As I have told you before, I was hired merely as a historian for the Sleigh Makers Association.”
-- Robert Smith, Troutman.
Thanks for all your entries.

I did NOT have reindeer relations with that doe, Miss Vixen.
Posted by: Joe Johnson | December 23, 2011 at 09:54 PM
May all our holidays be as bright as the caption above...Wishing all the past winners and losers a very Merry and to believe and never give up trying! All we can do is hope for that Kevin Siers cartoon with our caption inscripted on it!!!!!!
Posted by: suzanne & co. | December 24, 2011 at 11:43 AM