Creative Captions

The ideas came rolling in for a picture of that man with the bank roll. A fistful of dollar ideas were about government bailout plans, but readers fanned us with plenty of other suggestions, too. Some of our favorites of the nearly 70 submitted:

Howard, will this buy two shares?

Pete Petrashek, Omaha

Let's see, that seems to be the smallest bill I have.

Dick Schell Omaha

The congressional $3,000 fan.

Amanda Applegate, Oakland, Iowa

This is what a “Sub Prime” lender looks like.

Todd O'Keefe, Hastings, Neb.

“Wow! this is the best hand I've held all night.”

Dorothy Sciford, Omaha

Proceeds from the sale of Chrysler Corp.

R.F. Corderman, Bedford, Iowa

Now that's what I call a flush.

Cindy Boomgaarn, Table Rock, Neb.

“For my next magic trick, I will raise the cash to buy GM!”

Richard Thies, Omaha

Wow! It's rewarding to have the ticket outlet sell my CWS season tickets!

Karl Kerst, Omaha

$500, $600 … and my ex-girlfriend said I wouldn't be successful!

Stephanie Pleiss, Omaha

Honey, hold it, I don't think we have enough to completely fill the gas tank.

Jim Brooks, Bellevue

Up next ...

Write a caption for Photo 2, above. We print a new photo each Monday and its best captions the following Monday. Entries, including name and city, are due by noon Friday. Send to:

creativecaptions@owh.com or

Creative Captions
Omaha World-Herald
1314 Douglas St., Suite 700
Omaha, NE 68102