Photo by Ken Krayeske

 

A wesome readers, supporters who have overwhelmed me with calls and emails of support, any expression of gratitude falls short of the depth of thanks I feel.

Enough of the mushy stuff. Let's cut to the laughs. Click here to see the original InauguRELL Caption Contest and Photo Essay!!!. Drumroll for the first round of captions, which we'll start with a quote from a great American, which I saw somewhere recently (sorry if I'm missing an h/t to a blogger), I can't recall, but, from "The Mikado," the famous Gilbert and Sullivan opera (which I know nothing about):

 

I've got a little list
(Sung by the Lord High Executioner)

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list--I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground [...]

- W. S. Gilbert (The Mikado, 1885)

 

I support bail and jail for journalists.
Grant Leonhart

 

Ah, so that's how you goose step...
Eddie Friend

Do those security guards...make me look fat?
Susan A. Kitchens

In this soon-to-be-classic photo from her upcoming film, "The Three-Year Itch", Gov. Jodi Rell stands over a storm grate while Lisa Moody screams at her from the sewer below.
Rick Usifer

 

Freedom of the press? That is just so last century.
Aldon Hynes

 

Oh Fairy God-mother, how could you not know John Rowland was an evil Orc?
Dave Ionno

 

I told them the gloves didn't match & they made me wear them anyway.
Betty Ann Krayeske (Thanks for the great entry, Mom! And I hasten to add she is a grandmother, too! Shout out to Diya!)

My coat collar is caressing my inner thigh, and over there who do I spy? Why it's Ken Krayeske, the activist guy! I'm having an erotic thought, oh my oh my. ARREST HIM!
Alan Bisbort

 

Let them eat cake!
Tom Sevigny

 

A gust of wind exposes a bit of skin as Governor Rell celebrates her inauguration, a moment captured in a photo so unflattering that Rell had the photographer jailed.
Steve Fournier

Campaign: [insert budget] - Coat: $1,980 - Photo: 13 hours in prison - Getting Governor Rell to flash some leg for the camera: priceless/not worth it [whichever you prefer]
Jo Lutz

 

"Officer! I kneed this photographer out of my face!"
Dennis Hamilton

 

"Like my fur trim? Wait till you feel my claws!"
David Bedell

 

Keep the entries coming to ken@the40yearplan.com. I'll post the responses as I receive them, and I'll keep the contest open until my next court date on Jan. 30, when I'll announce a winner. To keep it on the up and up, I won't accept anonymous submissions.

Why? Because out of the 56 signatures on bottom of the Declaration of Independence, not one of them reads "Anonymous." For all their faults, those rich white landholding males, including our Connecticut forebears, understood that if their little experiment in self-governance failed, they were signing their death warrant.

So Children of Liberty, pay your debt to Samuel Huntington, Roger Sherman, William Williams and Oliver Wolcott and email that caption.