Editorial Cartoon: California Wind Storm Caption Contest

Editorial Cartoon California Wind Storms Caption Contest

Today’s editorial cartoon started as usual with me reading about the terrible Wind Storms in California last week.  Of course nature was the cause but what if it were something else.  Thus began my problem.  There are so many choices for the cause of severe wind….

  • A Republican National Debate was in town.
  • The Friggin Loon visited California last week (for the uninformed she is reported to have terrible gas)
  • An A-list actor purporting to support the Occupy movement while reaming his/her accountant for not finding enough tax shelters/loopholes.

So do you like any of those?  Or come up with something to top it.  Let your creative juices flow…

Comments

69 responses to “Editorial Cartoon: California Wind Storm Caption Contest”

  1. J.P. Keslensky Avatar

    My guess is … that someone stuck a pin into Nancy Pelosi.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      haha JP. One I didn’t even think of.

    2. Tony DiGerolamo Avatar

      He said “wind” not hurricane force winds.

      1. Bearman Avatar

        thanks for stopping by Tony!!

  2. Eric Johnson Avatar

    …Madea farted?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Madea or the Nutty Professor’s Dad.

      1. DadaHyena Avatar

        “Way to go, son! That’s my boy!”

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Sad…but not surprising you can quote that movie..hhaa

  3. Jande Avatar

    I know very little about California. I heard that parts of it keep breaking off and falling into the Pacific Ocean. I heard that The King Elvis is still alive there somewhere. That it is always warm, and it is entirely populated by movie and TV stars and cartoonists.

    So my guess is… probably some butterfly* is screwing up somewhere.

    *(butterfly effect joke)

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I thought Elvis was living in Vegas. At least he was there last time I was in Vegas.

      1. Jande Avatar

        Oh, does that mean Vegas isn’t in California? #GeographicallyChallenged

        1. Bearman Avatar

          uh….close but no cigar.

  4. Comedy Plus Avatar

    I live in California, and this state is messed up big time. I’m not even going to go there with your question. The list would be a mile long and it would raise my blood pressure.

    Have a terrific day. 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Keep blowing in the wind!!

  5. George Avatar

    My guess is….George Ford of Addanac City started making audio-tapes of his long, drawn-out blog postings. That blowhard produces enough hot air to lose kites.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Shouldn’t you have at least signed in as Hank so we don’t think you are talking in the third person?

      1. George Avatar

        George Ford always refers to himself in the third person. That’s what great men do. And psychos and professional athletes.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          George ford is full of it..haha

          1. George Avatar

            But I know when to let it go, and that’s what this current problem is all about. So when you hear “Breaking News…”, you know it’s me. 😀

  6. Tony McGurk Avatar

    My guess is the Baked Beans Eating Contest from last weekend

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I wondered why it smelled like sulfur up in there.

  7. maria Avatar
    maria

    Congressional Farts are getting stronger and stronger

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Can you smell it? The government in California is pretty airblown too.

  8. Craig L Avatar
    Craig L

    Gee, some of us living in California like the place; maybe it’ll get better when all the in-state haters move to Arizona instead of trying to turn this state into Arizona.

    Anyway, I heard that the Breaking Dawn movie made the entire state of Utah hyperventilate and the ill wind had nowhere else to go.

    Or maybe they finally let some of the air out of the overinflated Silicon Valley startups.

    Or the entire Inland Valley areas had the bean crops ripen at the same time.

    Or maybe things in Mexico really DO suck that badly.

    Or the Hollywood campaign to censor the internet (SOPA & PIPA bills) finally got some blowback.

    And for the record, the difference between a Left Wing Wacko and Right Wing Wacko in California (and a lot of other places): A Left Wing Wacko gets a stupid law passed in his home town, a Right Wing Wacko gets a stupid law forced on the entire state.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Man I had a long response to this and it didn’t come through.

      Thanks for stopping by Craig, it seems you and I will get along great.

      Maybe Mexico does suck so bad (love that one) but then again given the economic conditions in CA, maybe the sucking noise is all the illegals rushing back to Mexico for a better life. haha

    2. George Avatar

      Hey there, Craig! I’ve only been a transplant to California for a bit more than two years, but I’m lovin’ it out here. My wife (a life-long Inland Empress) wants to move to my home-state of VA, but I’m not budgin’ for anything. I think I’ll plant roots out here. 🙂

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Just make sure you plant them firmly for when the BIG ONE Comes.

  9. MJ Avatar

    Fresh out of funny this week. Sorry.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      OK…let me know next week.

  10. Friggin Loon Avatar

    It was silent, I didn’t think anyone would have noticed!!!!!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Paint melts when you are around.

  11. Friggin Loon Avatar

    Wasn’t Charlie Sheen in town? You know, blow goes where ever he goes 🙄

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Yes but it wasn’t snow blowing…just wind.

  12. Young American Wisdom Avatar

    The Apocalypse. Stock up on bread and water…and bug spray. Don’t swarms of locust come next?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      the apocalypse could be sucking the life out of you.

      1. Young American Wisdom Avatar

        You’re right, they are. That’s why I’m sending them to your house this weekend. Rest up!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I have video games…they will love it.

  13. DadaHyena Avatar

    When in doubt, go with the fart joke. Scatological humor is the first form of humor most any of us know (since we learn it at age three or four), so it reaches the audience at their very core.

    Plus farts is funny. Hee hyuck hyuck.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Unless you are dropped one by the Loon. Then that is criminal.

    2. JerryBenedict Avatar

      A well placed fart noise never fails to get a good chuckle. To Make hand farts during a political debate is to create comedy gold!

      1. Bearman Avatar

        First politician to do that will get my vote.

  14. nursemyra Avatar

    I vote for frigginloon

    1. Bearman Avatar

      figured you might..haha

    2. duncanr Avatar

      hard to imagine a more destructive force than a loon fart – unless it’s a loon fart fuelled by yoghurt loaf !

      1. Bearman Avatar

        You can’t fart after eating the Yoghurt loaf. It backs you up that bad.

  15. G Avatar

    A spokesman for the all of the California Public Labor Unions was delivering the usual statement saying that the unions really do care about economic situation in California and really do want to help solve the problem.

    BTW, I wrote a post about you that will appear Wednesday, which was due to you being one of two people who were able to correctly identify the song that my post was connected to. 😀

    1. Bearman Avatar

      No way. That was it? HA! It was a total guess but it seemed all to uppity to be anything else in my mind.

      1. G Avatar

        Yup. Most of my readers are either a little too young to remember a song from the early days of MTV, or were smart enough to avoid New Wave music. 😀

        1. Bearman Avatar

          NEW ORDER all the way baby!!

  16. jynksie Avatar

    My guess is…. Bearman had one to many Burrito’s for lunch!

    OR

    …. Hollywoods balloon of self importance just deflated!

    OR

    …. Those winds were the last gasps of Herman Cains campaign!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Someone on g+ said Oprah had burritos. Hope she was buying.

      Herman Cain…hmmm Very Timely..

  17. Bo Lumpkim Avatar

    I think it was the air being let out of Herman Cain’s campaign.
    Or it was caused by the collapse in the economy.
    Or it was all the people in Europe taking a deep breath at once because they won’t all go broke at one time.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Two Herman Cain’s within 10 minutes of each other. You copying Bo?

      1. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

        Musta missed that one. You know I don’t copy and I threw in a couple more for extra credit.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          With the stuff that comes out of that brain…I know you are an original.

  18. Barbaric Bob Avatar
    Barbaric Bob

    the japanese finaly perfected their typhoon machine D:

    god wants everyone to have that movie like hair swirl

    its from asking to manny questions about the weather instead of actually asking somthing insightfull

    my *sucky* idea’s 😀 and the explenation why i will never ever be able to make cartoons/comics 🙁

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Sucky ideas are always good. Shitty ones are the ones to worry about.

  19. SpilledInkGuy Avatar

    Wait for it…
    wait for it…
    a high pressure trough? Because… that would be… crazy hilarious… right?!
    🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Like for animal feed?

  20. Frank M Hansen Avatar

    Who knew so many people want to talk about the weather. By the way – what caused the wind was …………………

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I am blown away by that response.

  21. Mark Stokes Avatar

    That practical joker Stumbo the Giant did his infamous “pull my finger” joke.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      But who was big enough to pull it?

  22. bschooled Avatar

    Like I always say, “When in doubt, blame Friggin Loon…”

    (Er, if Friggin Loon is reading this, I mean it as a compliment.)

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Usually there is no doubt when it comes to the Loon.

  23. Ahmnodt Heare Avatar

    …God hates California.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Don’t you need that state for the upcoming election? Be careful

  24. Brian Hagen Avatar

    Wind storms? I’ve been too worried about artists “letting their creative juices flow”!

  25. planetross Avatar

    “Your lips move, but I can’t hear what you’re saying”
    Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd

    When I talk to some people, I become Uncomfortably Numb.