The winner:
"You sunk bipartisanship!"
-- Ross Levin, Charlotte
The runners-up:
"The Blame Game isn't fail-safe; sometimes it backfires."
-- Deanna Hungerford, Lancaster
"You've got the smoke part down, now let's work on the mirrors."
-- Phil Clutts, Harrisburg
"It's the sequester, sir. We're out of quarters."
-- Bill McGloughlin, Charlotte
"Boy, that McCain moves fast for an old guy."
-- Ray Otstott, Charlotte
"Sorry, sir, there's nothing we can do to change the season finale of Downton Abbey."
-- Steve Schwartz, Charlotte
"I think your control may have malfunctioned."
-- Steven A. Meckler, Charlotte
"It's 'Call of Duty Barack Oops.' "
-- from several readers
Thanks for all the great entries. Here's just a selection of some of the other better lines we received:
"How was I to know they'd broadcast my emails?"
"I think I'll be hanging on to that nuclear football."
"Your repairman was furloughed by the sequester."
"You can't manipulate Congress like you can a drone."
" 'Budget Wars' is tricky. You have to lean to the right or it blows up in your face."
"We'll address drone transparency after the smoke clears."
"It seems all your left-wing media commentators' pants are on fire."
"It's OK to use the buttons on the right side of the controller, sir."
"You have to do something about Syria to win this game."
"So much for our Congressional Simulator."
"I see you found the self-destruct button."
Best Winner by far, congrats to all the other great entries....
Posted by: suzanne & co. | March 08, 2013 at 09:10 AM
I made the top ten, two weeks in a row.
Posted by: bill | March 08, 2013 at 09:16 AM
Perfect, Ross!
Posted by: Carolyn | March 08, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Coming from a soon-to-be furloughed federal employee, I liked the repair man one the best. But all were great!
Posted by: Brandon | March 08, 2013 at 10:05 AM
the winner of the elvis-santa contest is the best so far
Posted by: bill | March 08, 2013 at 10:25 AM
Way to go, Ross (and others). Party time?
Posted by: Phil Clutts | March 08, 2013 at 11:29 AM
Loved it!
Posted by: Cat | March 08, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Nice pun, Ross. Liked Ray's, also, but there were lots of good ones this week.
Posted by: Bill | March 08, 2013 at 05:13 PM
Thanks all and thanks to Kevin and the judges! For me, it is always an honor to have a mention in YWTC, win, place or show. Congrats to the others!
Posted by: Ross | March 09, 2013 at 03:34 PM
Phil and all, with weather breaking I am going through I think surveymonkey.com to organize a captioneer get together. Would have to include Kevin! I was thinking Hickory Tavern at The Metropolitan on a weekend aft. Keep an eye out.
Posted by: Ross | March 09, 2013 at 03:37 PM
The repairman's gonna be late. Paula Broadwell's writing a book about him.
Posted by: bill | March 13, 2013 at 12:39 AM
SACEUR BLEU!
Posted by: bill | March 13, 2013 at 12:40 AM
When I said the sequester will affect things in Grafenwöhr, I wasn't talking about Paula Broadwell.
Posted by: bill | March 13, 2013 at 12:56 AM