It's time for another round of the CartoonStock Caption Contest. In number 180, two wrestlers meet up in the ring. One of them is a clown. The rules of the monthly cash prize contest have not changed (and neither has my description of them): five dollars buys up to three entries. Real cash prizes are $500 for first place and $100 for each of five runners up. As of this writing, I've put $125 into the first twenty-five pay-to-play contests and this twenty-sixth challenge brings my total cash outlay up to $130. Having achieved runner-up status with two previous entries, I've collected $200 from CartoonStock, so I'm still playing with the house's money, thank goodness. In fact, so few contestants enter that the odds are generally favorable even for us less-gifted caption writers. My three entries are shown below, above the break. The cartoonist is Rich Sparks.
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| "Even in clown college, you couldn't have been a contender." "Usually I dominate three rings." "When I took on Ringling they went down for six years." * * * "I've got a kid's party right after this." "I'm a clown—grapple with it." "Laugh at your own risk." "Why can't you take this seriously?" "Only one of us can give 'em the greatest show on earth." |
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