Caption Contest Winners
The Pate’-O-Matic Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.
Many of the captions are ‘Honorable Mention’ worthy, but it just wouldn’t be Cricket to select them all, so I parsed it down to my (expanded) take on the best.

REUTERS/HO/US Army/Spc. David J. Nunn
The Winners
First : charles austin – “Where in the hell is that quagmire Senator Kennedy keeps talking about?”
Second: Laurence Simon – Allahu Aflackbar!
Third: Abu Fnu Lnu – After asking Rumsfeld for orders on dealing with IEDs, the troops took his suggestion of “duck” a bit too literally.
Honorable Mention:
Bithead – “Hey, I’ve got an idea for dinner. . . Pressed Duck. Gun it, man. . .”
charles austin – The ducks all quacked in unison, “It’s rabbit season!”
Steve Taylor – Clearly, the administration was trying to get all its ducks in a row in anticipation of the new constitution.
The Man – Improvised Explosive Duck
Kent – Senator Byrd and his staff attempt to block the latest military action in the Middle East.
David Harris – It wasn’t exactly Tienamen Square, but the ducks got their point across.
Rodney’s Bottom of The Barrel
The Bush Administration had hoped that things would improve faster in Iraq before something ran a-fowl.Republican Wet Dream: Hillary in Photo Op driving tank and shooting ducks at the same time.
“You’re Dethpicable.”