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Richie Furay on Poco, Buffalo Springfield, leaving the pulpit and his bumpy Rock Hall of Fame induction

Our mailbox was just packed with good captions

Caption writers were red hot this week

Finalists “The Good, The Bad and The Off-Key.” Suzanne Elassis, online submission Advertisement “And that is why I hate Tic Tok.” Al Stehly, Valley Center “I thought he said ‘duel,’ not ‘duet.’” Josh Hamilton, Carlsbad “I reckon he ain’t from around these parts.” Bill Owens, San Carlos Advertisement “Next time, proofread your ad for ‘gun slinger.’” Susan Wiczynski, La Jolla “I told you that gull darn idiot would sing ‘Oklahoma’ if you put a nickel in his ...

Print This week, readers were on a roll (of toilet paper!). Half the submissions that came in were about T.P. Plenty of Lysol gags, too. We thought Mark Palmerton found the right combination of brevity and cleverness. Congrats, Mark! He will receive Steve Breen’s signed original in the mail. The cartoon for next week’s contest is below. To enter, email your captions along with your name, address and phone number to steve.breen@sduniontribune.com by 10 a.m. Tuesday. Please remember...