This "no kissing in flu season" is the pits. Lovers during flu season. What happens when hypochondriacal lovers forget to have their flu shots.
All of these submissions were O.K. idea-wise, but did not cut it word-wise. As Mark Twain said, "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." For me, lightning struck with David Jewell's elegant and allusive "Love in a Time of Influenza." So I'm choosing that as one of my favorites.
was another prominent theme for the captioneers. Tara Dowd's "Couldn't we have just turned off the lights?" and Ryan Wong's "Darling, couldn't we go back to just turning off the lights?" are essentially the same, but for some reason I liked Wong's better. Then, for no reason at all, Dowd's seemed preferable, but then I figured some reason has to be better than no reason at all, so I ended up staying with Wong's as choice two.
The submitter Barry Finkelstein seized on the obvious—Magritte's lovers cannot see each other—to come up with "I'm seeing someone else." That's a ridiculously obvious caption—once you see it, that is. Choice three.
So, until next time, chew on that, but don't chew me out if yours wasn't picked. Taking humor that seriously will take all the fun out of it. Believe me, I know.