The Cartoon Bank has a single page each week for all the cartoons in the current issue. How convenient! Not sure for what, exactly, but it's ideal for you emdashes readers who tell me you need me to get you through the bleakness of a workday without the magazine. I remember temping once, in the early '90s before the information superhighway made its spectacular ribbon through our so-called lives, when I sat perfectly still for seven hours each day and tried to look alert and efficient, while young and restless Ernst & Young vice presidents sat on each other's desks, shot baskets with crumpled-up company stationery, and discussed upcoming Giants games. How did I cope? I must have lulled myself into a wonderful catatonia, because I can't remember anything about Ernst & Young other than the murmur of the copy machine and the view from my desk, which was of the three boyish vice presidents whose secretarial work I was never asked to do, and of the three slices of sky I could see when their doors were open, just.

Speaking of cartoons, Lisa Goldberg of Silver Spring, Maryland has won the firing-squad caption contest with "I guess my wife couldn't make it." What I really wanted to know was what beef the fellow's dog had with him. It must have been something serious, for man's best friend to turn like that. And now it's time to go vote for Michele Sugg, who wrote a pithy, witty caption for the current contest. It's not crazy-out-there, but it's right. Let's reward her for that. I'm delighted to report that Gahan Wilson is responsible for the brand-new contest's supremely odd drawing, so get on the immortality bus and contribute something!

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