It's time to serve up another round of the CartoonStock Caption Contest. In contest number 182, a couple sit down at a dinner table with no food in sight and then work through their problems as only they can. The woman has thrown a fork at the man's forehead, apparently, and her stunned companion reacts.
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 $135 into the first twenty-seven pay-to-play contests and this twenty-eighth challenge brings my total cash outlay up to $140. 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 Derek Evernden.
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| "Are you sure it's my turn to cook?" "You're beautiful when you're hungry." "But we have two more hours of intermittent fasting." * * * "Very well, why don't I get the chopsticks?" |
The Judges Deliberate
Video added July 27, 2024
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