In the CartoonStock Caption Contest #178, Count Dracula gazes into a tailor's mirror. 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 $115 into the first twenty-three pay-to-play contests and this twenty-fourth challenge brings my total cash outlay up to $120. Having achieved two previous runner-up 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. The cartoonist is Seth Fleishman.
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April 14, 2024 Update: The Winner
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