Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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Mark G, Monday, 28 May 2012 13:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

"They cam over 'ere, stealin' our coconats"

Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 May 2012 15:31 (11 months ago) Permalink

"at least we know know why it's called 'atoll'"

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Monday, 28 May 2012 15:43 (11 months ago) Permalink

"okay, let's feel down the back of the seat one more time."

Merdeyeux, Monday, 28 May 2012 15:47 (11 months ago) Permalink

"I came here for the schools........ of fish!!!!!!!"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 May 2012 15:52 (11 months ago) Permalink

darragh FTW

ljubljana, Monday, 28 May 2012 16:07 (11 months ago) Permalink

"The exclusivity is top notch, the golf less so."

jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 May 2012 16:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Hey, maybe we should just ask the toll guard for a lift back home."

Captain Jean-Luc Godard (Leee), Monday, 28 May 2012 16:36 (11 months ago) Permalink

darragh FTW

― ljubljana, Monday, May 28, 2012 9:07 AM (7 hours ago)

Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Monday, 28 May 2012 23:44 (11 months ago) Permalink

^^^yep

EZ Snappin, Monday, 28 May 2012 23:49 (11 months ago) Permalink

you should def submit it.

s.clover, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:00 (11 months ago) Permalink

i prefer the eu one but i think y'all prefer the atoll one, right?

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:04 (11 months ago) Permalink

yes.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:05 (11 months ago) Permalink

you say that now, but if it wins you'll all claim to prefer the earlier work imo

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

yes

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:11 (11 months ago) Permalink

the atoll one was good but I stand by my belief that puns do not win

this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:33 (11 months ago) Permalink

otm imo

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:43 (11 months ago) Permalink

There's something about this one. Runner-up = forks

ljubljana, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 02:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

Needs more exclamation points imo

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 10:53 (11 months ago) Permalink

everyone's a person who criticizes

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:05 (11 months ago) Permalink

Needs less 'know' imo.

Mark G, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:07 (11 months ago) Permalink

one less k i'll grant you

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:07 (11 months ago) Permalink

"It's not huge, isle grant you that!!!!!

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:11 (11 months ago) Permalink

"i'll never view a place at low tide again"

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

"We need a davenport."

that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:42 (11 months ago) Permalink

"it is terribly ironic and not a little awkward that we have squandered our wealth on moving to a desert island with preposterously excessive immigration controls to isolate ourselves from the tyranny of sodomy and to escape the gay jihad on marriage only for me to now discover that i am in fact in love with you, and always have been"

Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:25 (11 months ago) Permalink

Please please submit that.

emil.y, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:40 (11 months ago) Permalink

at the very least to colin firth's agent

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:41 (11 months ago) Permalink

short version:

"Why, do you fancy a shag?"

Mark G, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:43 (11 months ago) Permalink

But that doesn't make any mention of the toll booth/barrier/fence deal. The implications are completely different.

emil.y, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:46 (11 months ago) Permalink

it's irony/juxtaposition.

Mark G, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 13:51 (11 months ago) Permalink

"I said from the start this congestion charge was a terrible mistake."

s.clover, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:31 (11 months ago) Permalink

"this island satisfies me because i fucking hate mexicans"

goole, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:49 (11 months ago) Permalink

"You smell."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:49 (11 months ago) Permalink

"I told you no one wants to live in a gated commune."

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:51 (11 months ago) Permalink

"i knew nobody else would be here this early, didn't i say nobody else would be here this early? i just knew nobody else would be here this early"

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:53 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Yes, I know you like having him around, but to be perfectly frank I feel it's another unnecessary expenditure we just can't afford right now"

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:56 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Come to think of it, I actually do feel safer than I did four years ago."

s.clover, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:07 (11 months ago) Permalink

^sounds like a winner

jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:21 (11 months ago) Permalink

"That sure was an unusual TED conference."

oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:25 (11 months ago) Permalink

^continuity

oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:26 (11 months ago) Permalink

"I thought YOU read the terms and conditions."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:23 (11 months ago) Permalink

Ryanair's tactic of flying into regional airports failed spectacularly in the Carribbean

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

caek, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 11:19 (11 months ago) Permalink

*farts*

oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:22 (11 months ago) Permalink

"There are so many islands!
As many islands as the stars at night
like falling fruit around the schooner Flight.
But things must fall, and so it always was,
on one hand Venus, on the other Mars;
fall, and are one, just as this earth is one
island in archipelagoes of stars."

s.clover, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:55 (11 months ago) Permalink

The "Ted" captions they chose are all rub.
Anyways, moving on..

Mark G, Monday, 11 June 2012 08:20 (11 months ago) Permalink

"The state arts board called and they revoked your grant."

Convert simple JEEZ to BDSMcode (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 11 June 2012 13:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Every day I write the book."

Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Monday, 11 June 2012 13:33 (11 months ago) Permalink

when you said great american novel etc etc

Jesu swept (ledge), Monday, 11 June 2012 13:35 (11 months ago) Permalink


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