Some might say I'm not fit enough to enter the CartoonStock Caption Contest #160, but all it really takes is a credit card. Here's how the contest works: Three entries cost $5. Real cash prizes are $500 for first place and $100 for each of the five runners up. As of this writing, I've invested $30 in this my sixth contest, with no success whatsoever to report in the first five. My three entries are shown below at the top of the list; the lower captions were considered but not entered. The drawing is unsigned, but I'm going to guess it's by Jeremy Nguyen.
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| "My housekeeper hates me." "I don't date." "Mostly I sleep at my desk." *** "I can't go to bed drunk." "I always go to bed sober." "I avoid fluids after 8." "I'm looking for a twice-a-day spotter." "My girlfriend wanted more excitement." "My housekeepers keep leaving me." "My housekeeper keeps charging me more." "In the back, there's a slide." "My dates have to pass a fitness test." "I wear sneakers to bed." "I believe in the reward system." "I date only Division 1 athletes." "I'm going to put in an elevator." "It seemed like a good idea." "That's just for show. I have a sleeping bag." |
November 26, 2022 Update: The Winner
There is some icing on the cake as well. Eight-time New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest winner Lawrence Wood included all three of my captions in his commentary, a first:
To update the accounting, I am now $70 ahead on this contest so at last I'm playing with the house's money.
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