I Finally Remembered

After two weeks of futility (and public acknowledgement of my inability to add a simple recurring suspense to Microsoft Outlook), I finally remembered to enter the DDN's "Open Mike" contest. Below is the panel for this week:

I felt this cartoon was a 'target rich environment' in the amount of obvious and underlying items that the contestants could infer from within its boundaries. Popeye is (was?) an American icon and his strips are widely known both here and abroad. Stories surrounding his favorite organic 'pick-me-up' have been in the news forefront over the past week or so—some documenting loss of life. Lingering political issues, although a little more difficult, could be shoehorned into the setting or the pictured scenario.

Over the weekend, I was able to come up with NINE different submissions covering all of the above. I will wait until they announce the five weekly finalists before I share them online; however, if one (or more) of those is (are) chosen by the paper as a finalist, I will stick with that one (them) as my #1 choice (top choices)—but I won’t identify it until after they announce the weekly winner.

Speaking of winning, my Fairborn Warbirds continued their unbeaten streak in our office’s fantasy football league over the weekend. It was a lot closer (a 14-point victory) than the previous 50-point blowout because my main running back (LaDainian Tomlinson of the San Diego Chargers) had a ‘bye’ week and had to sit out. If I didn’t mess up my starting line-up in the first week, I’d have the only undefeated or untied team in the league. The only sports ‘downer’ was the OSU victory over my Nittany Lions…