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I wasn’t thinking of the Wizard of Oz when I drew this week’s contest cartoon, but some of you made that connection. In fact, it worked for Shelly White whose winning caption can be viewed by clicking on the image here. Obviously my inspiration was those Halloween decorations that have become popular over the last couple of years. But we are never very far from our Ozzie heritage here in Kansas. Or from road construction, as of late. Similar to Shelly’s caption was one from former winner Brad Allen of Wichita: "So much for the yellow brick road!" We liked Shelly’s slightly more because it worked in the orange cone element from the drawing. The very prolific Richard Julius of Belle Plaine made an interesting comparison: "And I thought finding an exit strategy from Iraq was tough!" From Linda Stowe came "I should have turned off my cell phone!" Wichita’s Bruce Cole, probably our grand national champion winner, based on the number of times he’s triumphed, submitted "I think I found the only tree they didn’t remove for the Water Walk." Larry Staton of Wichita said "I thought this was a fly-over!" Former winner Karen Wallace was in a similar vein with "So much for the fly-over concept," and she also sent in "Hello, On Star. I have a problem." Angela Ceradsky came up with "Wow. A road map to ‘No Child Left Behind’!" Going back to the Oz theme was Pam Hanson of Wichita: "Just how did Dorothy get back here?" Wichita’s Nan Hauser was more in mind of Cowtown than of Oz: "I was just following Rooster Cogburn who swore he know the way!" And, finally, we have the inevitable puns. From Pamela Vang: "Witch-ita. Home of the very brave." Also from Wichita, Chandra Cain said "I didn’t know ‘witch’ way to go!" From Rob Junod: "I’m extremely ‘impressed’ with all the new wicked ‘witch-way-to-go-signs’!" And from former winner Larry England: Yep. Kellogg and Mid-Continent. Fly one now, get one tree." Ouch.
Posted by Richard Crowson