Jeremy Weinstein, Walnut Creek, California<\/span><\/p>\nThank you to all those who submitted caption entries for our Fall 2025 cartoon, based on Genesis 11:6\u20137: \u201cAnd the Lord said, \u2018Look, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another\u2019s speech.\u2019\u201d We are pleased to congratulate Jeremy Weinstein of Walnut Creek, California, who wrote the winning caption, and our runners-up:<\/p>\n
Runners Up<\/h4>\n
\u201cI thought speaking in tongues wasn\u2019t invented yet!\u201d
\nMilo Velebir, Ranford, Western Australia<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cIf we could only find that darn Rosetta Stone!\u201d
\nJerry Kliot, Painesville, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\nHonorable Mentions<\/h4>\n
\u201cHow do you expect me to understand you when you\u2019re speaking in hieroglyphics?\u201d
\nW. Arthur Hays Jr., Murphy, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cSo \u2026 what\u2019s the name of that translation app? Begins with a \u2018B\u2019 \u2026\u201d
\nDebra Bream, Beachwood, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cThat\u2019s the smartest thing you\u2019ve said all day!\u201d
\nS. Cintron, Tuxedo Park, New York<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cYou\u2019re babbling. Hey, how about naming the tower that?\u201d
\nFrank Fischer, Farmingdale, New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t need the Tower of Babel; we need the Power of Babbel.\u201d
\nRichard Wolf, Westminster, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cMaybe we should learn sign language?\u201d
\nTerry Gahagan, Davenport, Iowa<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWhy would you say a thing like that?\u201d
\nGeorge Kundert, Tucson, Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWhere is Google Translate when you need it?\u201d
\nWilliam Cordes, Ramsey, New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re way beyond tomato, tomahto!\u201d
\nMichael Carniello, Deerfield, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cSay, what do you think is going on here?\u201d
\n\u201cFine, thank you, and you?\u201d
\nDorian Alu, Belvidere, New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWhat we have here is a failure to communicate.\u201d
\nJill Schirtzinger, Jacksonville, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\nThe first debate between a Calvinist and an Arminian.
\nDoug Ebert, De Soto, Kansas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And the winner is… \u201cZiggur-what?\u201d Jeremy Weinstein, Walnut Creek, California Thank you to all those who submitted caption entries for our Fall 2025 cartoon, based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":93319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caption-contest-winners"],"acf":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[62,50],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"yoast_head":"\n
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