“I think my little talk with him may have motivated him. He uncrossed his arms a couple of hours ago.”
(by Lee Lacewell)
My original caption: “He received an Error Message on his computer yesterday, and he hasn’t moved from there since.”
Congratulations, Lee Lacewell, on your second victory in Eli’s Cartoon Caption Contest. Your first win was in August 2023, in Contest No 202. Once again you can bask in the glory of being one of the funniest people around.
Here are the other entries that I was seriously considering for top honors:
“My husband’s new theme song: I got plenty o’ nuttin, and nuttin’s plenty for me.” (by Diane Weisman)
“He wanted to do all his favorite things before the tariffs kicked in.” (by Jonathan Stein)
“He started on a La-Z-Boy and graduated to a La-Z-Man.” (by Joe Ayella)
“On the positive side, I always know where to find him.” (also by Joe Ayella)
“I really wish he wouldn’t eat crackers in bed.” (by Silvana Lagrotteria)
“He’ll wake to place his lunch order very soon.” (by Michael Lomazow)
“He’s the big spud of couch potatoes.” (by Pat Foley)
“He was devastated by the ending of White Lotus.” (by Kelly Nagle)
A few SHOUT-OUTS:
First, to Captioneer Joe Ayella, who really scored a huge one. He recently won the New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest, as announced in their March 10th issue. As Caption Contests go, Joe, you can’t get any higher than that. Big congrats!
Second, Captioneer Mark Schaeffer was a cash prize runner-up last week in Bob Mankoff’s CartoonStock Caption Contest. That’s the way to go, Mark. Congrats!
Also, while I’m writing about Mark Schaeffer, I’m pleased to report that he did some outstanding detective work recently. He found several published versions of some of my King Features Syndicate “Laff-A-Day” cartoon panels, some of which go back to the 1970’s. I didn’t have them, and I thought they were lost forever, but he managed to track a few of them down and now I’ll be able to add them to my archive. Many, many thanks, Mark!
The next Contest will be posted in due course, Captioneers, so keep an eye out for it. Thanks for participating!
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Thanks for the kind words Eli. Congrats Lee and Joe!
Eli, as always – too kind with your words! And thanks so much for all your cartoons and for allowing us all to have some monthly fun with our captions.