Well, the Management here at Of Cabbages and Kings is just so excited today to share with you the winners of our caption contest. First off, we would like to thank each of you super-duper caption-savvy participants for sharing your time and brainpower on our poodle-paddler picture.
We had some great entries, which is what made this so fun.
And because there were so many excellent entries, I decided I would open this up to a panel of expert judges so this would be entirely fair and unbiased. (Meaning, I begged two of my friends to judge, too. I owe them big-time now... Probably my firstborn child. Or at least, like, chocolate.)
Anyway, special thanks to Kitty and Scoobie for stepping up to the plate and digging in and toeing the line and putting some elbow grease into it, and other metaphors that roughly mean helping out. You gals rawk! (For Scoobie, who is an editor, that's "rock," by the way.)
So, now, let's get to the winners, shall we? Based on voting, we had one caption in particular that captured the judges hearts universally-- without the winner even resorting to violent threats or bribes, which is surprising as those are just the sorts of activities the author normally considers hobbies. And that caption is:
"Production cuts to the Baywatch budget were beginning to bite hard."
...From our friend Tiggy, of Tiggyblog! So congrats, Tiggy, for winning one of the tacky Florida souvenirs. You can see what you will be receiving here...
A fine Florida Keys paperweight with happy floating alligators in it! It's what you always wanted, right? Just in time for Christmas... Oh yes, Santa has come early for you, Miss Tiggy!
The second winner of the caption contest, with the second largest number of votes is:
"Row faster, woman! We've got a shark off starboard!"
...From Melanie of Tulip House. As Melanie has a tasteful pinkish-peach tulip in her avatar, I can only imagine how her excellent eye for design will be piqued by the fine Florida souvenir I will be sending her-- this Key Largo kitchen magnet filled with valuable slidey-aroundy treasure! (Magnet pictured here is not to scale.)
It has been lightly played-around-with by me to, er, test it for quality control. (It slides nicely... Also, so sparkly!) But I will merrily part with it because of her fine caption efforts.
Also of note were some Honorable Mentions who I would just like to mention honorably here. We had votes for:
Jaffer's entry...
"I see your jeans! Floating! Over there!"
And Rethoryke's entry:
"This was the last time Sarah was going to leave Fifi alone with the compass...."
So congrats to them for catching the eye of the judges, and thanks to every one of you for playing along. You are groovy, keen and nifty even!
For my two winners, if you would kindly send me your mailing address information at: thriftshopromantic at mac dot com then I can prep your packages and send your winnings off to you.
Thanks for making my very first caption contest such a success!
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