Scheduling Conflict
We received 772 entries in this week’s Cartoon Caption Contest. There were so many ways to approach this one and you folks found a bunch of creative avenues. Our winner played with the idea of Jazz Fest cubes and made his punchline short, clever and funny all at once! Nice job, folks!
As always, when we have duplicate entries, and we always do, we pick the earliest sent in.
Here are this week’s winner and finalists.
WINNER:
Stephen R. Barry, New Orleans: (Punchline lettered into word balloon)
FINALISTS:
David M. Prados, Metairie: “It looks like I’ve got some free time between the Thibodaux Firemen’s Fair and the Rayne Frog Festival.”
Denise Chetta, New Orleans: “Just look at the cubes. I’ll actually do MORE than you these next two weeks!!!”
Winn Stephens, Lexington, KY: “This happens every time corporate sends down a productivity specialist.”
Stuart Clark, Lafayette: “It’s gonna be a really busy month for me…. food… music… dancing… looking for a new job…”
Karen Poirrier, Lutcher: “You said at our last staff meeting we need to take more risks!”
David Weber, Kenner: “I thought PTO was for Party Time Obligations.”
Sam Johnson, Zachary: “I can tell that I am going to be sick 3 weeks from this Friday!!!”
Harper Vicidomina-Mills (Age 9), Metairie: “But I already bought tickets and don’t want to lose my money!!!”
David A. Briggs, LMT, New Orleans: “So I was thinking that I would just move my desk temporarily to the fairgrounds, what do you think?”
D. Sabrio, Metairie: “Of course it’s work! Have you tried workin’ your way up to the front of the stage at music festivals?”
Michael Kelly, Baton Rouge: “So boss, the way I see it, my list of 32 outweighs your list of 24!
Duke Rivet, Baton Rouge: “Boss, as Mick Jagger would say, ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’!!”
Byron Mayon, Morgan City: “How can you not be Jazzed about this?”
Richard Robbins, New Orleans: “Sorry, boss. I been in the right place, but it must’ve been the wrong time,”
Phillip T. Griffin, New Orleans: “Boss if you ever have a soft-shell crab po-boy, you would be a lot more reasonable about the schedule.”
Victoria Villemarette (Age 9), Metairie: “I’m on vacation, buddy!”
Harold Staub, Kenner: “I’m going to be under the weather (literally).”
Susan Wininger, Covington: “You are always telling me to prioritize!!!”
Jacquelyn Shulman, New Orleans: “Just forward all my calls to the hospitality tent.”
Barri Bronston, Metairie: “What if I promise to bring my laptop, check my email and stop dancing to respond to texts?”
Mike Walsh, Baton Rouge: “What we have here… is a failure to accommodate.”
Robert Kohn, River Ridge: “What if, I do Zoom sales calls between Irma Thomas and crawfish pies?”
Bland O’Connor, Baton Rouge: “Now that we have a mutual understanding on the office dress code, let’s get our schedules synced up.”
Anna Brenes, Metairie: “The doctor’s orders – get lots of FEST.”
Joseph Guidry, Lafayette: “I’ll face the music while I’m facing the music.”
Aggie Richards, New Orleans: “Look on this as improving my job skills in logistics, traffic and consumption!”
Adam Darragh, New Orleans: “It’s family leave. Papa was a Rolling Stone.”
Maury Berthon, Mandeville: “It looks like I can give you a couple of hours between the Rolling Stones and Trombone Shorty.”
John Taranto, Madisonville: “Welcome to Louisiana Boss – let me explain to you how this all works!”
Larry DeBlieux, Metairie: “The problem is both these schedules conflict with my Zurich Classic schedule!”
Happy Festing, Folks,
Best – Walt