Watching Our Water Ways

Because folks seemed to enjoy the made-up captions for the Department of Defense photos a few weeks ago, I’ve decided to offer something similar this week.

“Yes” magazine provides a feature in which readers are asked to make up captions for cartoon drawings. With permission, I’ve included three on this page. Others can be found on the magazine’s cartoon page. If you’d like to try your hand at captions, click here for the latest cartoon.

“Yes” magazine, based on Bainbridge Island, tackles national and international issues in a rare, sophisticated way. The magazine also offers tips for consumers and a variety of other features. Most stories appear online not long after they appear in print, but I would rather sit back with the printed version.

I wasn’t aware until this weekend that ‘Yes” also updates stories at times, as proven by its discussion of the climate change bill that passed the House Friday.

Cartoon 1

“No! Wait for the euro, boys.” — Alane Cameron Miles

“These humans are stupid if they think we’re going to fall for the fallacy of consumerism!” — Carrie Bail & Darius Jonathan

“See, class. This is what humans think is real wealth.” — Laurence Smith

“Hey Bob, who do they think we are, suckers?” — Anonymous

“Boy, those phishing schemes are getting desperate!” — Mason Dearness

“What are they thinking up there? Now a twenty, that might get them somewhere. But with this economy? No one’s risking anything for a five!” — Anonymous

Cartoon 2

“Let’s ‘flip’ for it. Heads or tails?” — Erik Petterson

“I’M the early bird!” “No, I AM!” — Rebecca Tibbits

“Trust me, I’ll give it back.” — Gary Nelson

“With this worm, I thee wed.” — Anonymous

“I don’t think this bail out worm is big enough for both of us!” — Dana Allen

“And you said nothing would ever come between us…” — Heather Mariano

“Your half is bigger than my half!” — Mary Regan

Cartoon 3

So many ways to sink or swim. — Henning Drager

“I’m telling you. There’s no point in asking for directions. It’s always ‘clockwise’ or ‘counterclockwise.’” — Annie Ominous

I think we’re gonna need a bigger bowl! — Delphia F. Comstock

“Two roads diverged, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Terrence Zander

“Did you see which way the cat went?” — Linda Hutchinson

“When the rising waters reach that bottom arrow we’re out of this bowl, free to swim in any direction we want.” — Doug Brown

Oh where, oh where has the clean water gone, oh were, oh where has it gone…??? — Don Newman

More captions for this cartoon

“Didn’t I just see you on that last lap.” — Linda Hutchinson

Wherever we go, there we are…. — Don Newman

Don’t fret about which way to go, thanks to global warming the waters will rise and meet us! — Anonymous

“Yes, but have you checked their water?” — Carol

Good to the LAST drop! — David Sammons

I told you we should’ve followed the salmon up that river. — Neill Gibson

“There’s just no place like home, Dorothy!”
“Yes, as long as the water is clean!” — Mark Pomerantz

I think we took a wrong turn at Albuquerque! — Townsend Twainhart

“I told you we were swimming in circles!” — Suzanne Moyers

“Whew! I’m glad to be out of the traffic.” — Carol

Other captions:

“The only drawback in this plan is, how are we going to hitchhike without thumbs?”

“Do you think they’ll give us better ‘dehulled soybean meal and riboflavin enriched’ flakes in Sweden?”

“Trust me, I know we’re from China. That’s what’s stamped on our plastic house.”

“Well, the paper said there’s plently of jobs in Japan, apparently for some company called Sushi.”

“Right, there’s no cats here, but that Californian Condor is staring at us and salivating.”

“There it is – Miami! Our dream house is there! Oh, I can’t wait to see the Super Bowl!” — Andy Davey

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