In the CartoonStock Caption Contest number 186, we find ourselves in the Garden of Eden after the forbidden fruit has been eaten. Eve is wearing a great many more fig leaves than Adam and she is speaking.
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 $155 into the first thirty-one pay-to-play contests and this thirty-second challenge brings my total cash outlay up to $160. 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 may generally be considered favorable even for us less-gifted caption writers. My three entries are shown below, above the break. The cartoonist is Tom Toro.
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| "But we could change the course of art history." "And what if the rest of you gets chilly?" "Then do it for me." * * * "No, more is more." |
December 1, 2024 Update: The Winner
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