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My ploy continues to work like a charm. Once again I’ve been able to leave a cartoon unfinished, secure in the knowledge that Dear Readers will do the heavy lifting and provide us with clever captions, performing the kind of jobs that Real Americans like moi turn our noses up at. Wait a minute. Real Americans don’t use sissy French terms like "moi." Oh, well. On to the runners up in the latest caption contest. Click on the image to see this week’s winning entry, then look over these other captions and decide for yourselves whether we’re full of it when it comes to judging such things. Kurt Holmes of Wichita sent in a good caption which was weakened slightly by an unseasonable reference, this being Easter weekend and all: "Next year we’re putting a limit on Thanksgiving guests!" Wichita’s Frank Moore thought of another topic in the news: "See, son. You build a casino and they will come!" Larry England of Medicine Lodge also took a gamble with his caption: "Never trust those white guys. Soon they will want to build a casino close to ours." I really like Tracy McCue of Wellington’s caption, but the other judges didn’t concur: "There, you see what happens when our politicians cater to the ‘lost white guys who think it’s India vote!’" From Kurt Holmes of Wichita: "Son, I suggest they pick the corn this year." Cowboy poet Ed Parrish rustled up this caption: "We’ll watch them for five years. If they work cheap and learn our language, we’ll let them stay." Similarly from Judith White: "We’ll let them stay for 11 years, learn our languages, obey our laws, take only the jobs we don’t want and value what we value." Troy Davis said, "What could possibly go wrong if we just let them all in for their cheap labor? I’m sure they’ll assimilate and learn our language and ways." Here’s a twist fromMadison’s J.V. Shelton: "Well, there goes the neighborhood. My God, is that Fred Phelps waving???" Bruce Cole put a new spin on and old phrase: "Well, here comes the neighborhood!" Bruce also submitted "Maybe these men can help us build a wall to keep people out of our land." That one was similar to the winner’s caption, but we gave the winner points for brevity. Richard Julius, always prolific, sent lots of captions. Among the best were "Are they waving at us with one finger???" and "Hopefully, this is just a cruise ship!" Another caption I liked better than my fellow judges was from Sandra Cay of Wichita: "Iraq’s the other way!" Wichita’s Karen Wallace had several good ones: "At last the gardeners have arrived!" and "The work they won’t do, we’ll outsource to India!" and a pretty good pun: "More will come. They get 3,000 miles to the galleon!" Bernie Lantz of Bel Aire said, "We stop immigration, we never get to watch American Idol!" And finally, a few shots a me. An anonymous chap included a note which read: "Hey, Rich, let’s see ya publish this one, you liberal apologist! Only a liberal would compare the original immigrants to this country with the floods of illegals who now invade." And his or her caption: "Look, my son…a new way of life is here! Improved medicine, technology, industry, housing! Thank God!" Then from P.A. Lawrence of Mulvane: " Now get-um straight-um. No talk-um about Hopi cannibalism, Apache running buffalo over cliff for meat and NEVER tell them about plains Indian raids taking women slaves. They’ll think we are SAVAGES! Remember ‘we are one with the earth.’ In 500 years a so-called cartoonist CROWSON will spin history to meet our needs!"
Posted by Richard Crowson