“Breaking News: There is no breaking news. Repeat: No breaking news. More at 11.”
(by Kelasher)
My original caption: “This is breaking news, so stop reading the crawl at the bottom of your screen and listen up.”
Breaking News! The winning caption for Contest No. 228 will have the phrase “Breaking News” in it. Even my old original caption (which was from the last century) includes those magic words! Anyhow, my congratulations go out to you, Kelasher, on this, your fourteenth victory. Your last win was in Contest No. 210 early last year, and before that it was in Contest No. 165, way back in 2020. Don’t forget to claim all the bragging rights that go along with your victory.
Here are the other submissions that I judged to be worthy of consideration:
“Today’s news is there is no news. Good night.” (by Diane Weisman)
“Breaking News: there is absolutely no Breaking News tonight.” (by Joe Ayella)
“Breaking News . . . ‘There is no Breaking News’.” (by Harvey Appelbaum)
“Recapping the night in sports, half the teams won and the other half lost.” (also by Joe Ayella)
“If by the remote chance that you have a Television with knobs . . . don’t touch that dial!” (by Lee Lacewell)
“Closed captioning is provided for those that can’t believe their ears.” (by Mark S.)
“The good news is that you don’t need to water your lawn. The bad news is that a tsunami is coming.” (by Michael Lomazow)
And last but not least, another big shoutout to Captioneer Joe Ayella, whose caption won an honorable-mention cash prize in Cartoon Stock’s Cartoon Caption Contest this week. Now that is really Breaking News! Keep up the good work, Joe.
There will be a new Contest in due time, Captioneers, so keep a sharp lookout for it. Thanks for participating.
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Eli, thanks again for another shoutout.
The real Breaking News: not only is Eli a very fine and funny cartoonist, but he’s also a very nice and generous man!!
(Tried to post this yesterday, but I kept getting an error message.)
Thanks, Joe. Yes, there were some issues on the site for the past week or so, but I thought they were all resolved. Please let me know if you get any more error messages or difficulties — I’d like to keep the archive running smoothly.