Chew On These Shark-Inspired Captions | Capitol Quip

By Jason Dick

Posted June 26, 2013 at 5:39pm

The five finalists for this week’s caption contest are ready for your votes.

Using the comments section below, vote for your favorite caption until 5 p.m. EDT Thursday.

Here are this week’s finalists:

I think they’ve all crossed the red line.
I’m on top of the situation.
I think we’re going to need a bigger moat!
“Arab Spring” sounded SO much nicer than “Shark Week.”
Fins to the left, fins to the right …

The cartoon with the winning caption will appear on this blog July 1 and in the next day’s print edition of Roll Call. The contest winner will receive a signed color print of his or her Capitol Quip cartoon from the cartoonist, R.J. Matson.

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