Cartoon Caption Contest Results
Our panel of ten judges (speakers and improv comedy players) have cast their ballots for the June Cartoon Caption Contest — Layoff Notice. Our contests feature the artwork of professional cartoonist Dan Rosandich.
Our next Cartoon Caption Contest is announced July 1.
New Joke Contests are announced mid-month.
Here are this month’s top lines.
** FIRST PLACE **
I guess I’ll have to do all my web surfing at home now.
Sandy Kampner, Evergreen Park, Illinois, USA
** SECOND PLACE **
After 20 years I finally got noticed.
Tom Nee, Oak Lawn, Illinois, USA
** THIRD PLACE **
I think I’ll start my own business, but I can’t decide between selling real estate or opening a car dealership.
Gary Bachman, Hagerstown, Maryland, USA
HONORABLE MENTION (in random order)
– I can understand laying off office personnel, but we’re the only two brain surgeons the hospital has!
– You, me, a torch, gasoline, right here, 8 tonight, you in?
– Can I hang with you until I get a job, my family sorta thinks I’m the boss where I work.
– Can’t believe I now bought these pens to make me look more professional!
– We’re partners, how could we do this to each other.
– I’d be afraid to give it to Bubba too.
– We are really lucky! We collect more in Unemployment than we would be paid under the new contract.
– My name is misspelled here…So it may not be me.
– Only 998 more of these and the CEO gets a bonus.
– I need a box for all my Employee of the Month awards.
– Sure I don’t have long blond hair and a nice body, but why me?
– I was expecting The Golden Parachute…but all I got was A Lead Balloon.
– Mine is addressed To Whom It May Concern.
– I should have known after they took my name off my parking space.
– Accidently e-mail the formula for Coca Cola to all our competitors and look what happens.
– Who knew the boss would track on-line Sudoku.
– I would have been happier if my WIFE had given me a lay off notice.
– Oh sorry, I didn’t realize I left your annual review in the Xerox.
– If only we had the cover letter, we’d know whom this fax was supposed to go to.
– Don’t worry. The guy who made my toupee said we can go into business with him.
– What really hurts is our company manufactures legal stationery for business use, and I designed this Form!
– For Lent, I vowed to lay off all vices. Now the company is laying off all the Vices.
– Well, as they say, “When one door closes, another opens.” Just so long as it doesn’t open onto an empty elevator shaft.
– No sweat, really…I’ve got enough money to retire on, provided I die within three months!
– Not so much a death sentence, it’s our get out of jail free card.
– Since we work for a top major league baseball team, I was expecting that we’d get a playoff notice!
– I’d retire but I’m lousy at golf, fishing and living on nothing.
– I knew it would come to this…but I hoped it would be after I retired.
– I had a full head of hair like yours when I started working for this company.
– I’m blowing the whistle, are you in or out?
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