Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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^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

"All giant killing and no play makes Jack a dull boy?"

Jesu swept (ledge), Monday, 11 June 2012 13:36 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Why won't you ever let me see what you're writing?"

Convert simple JEEZ to BDSMcode (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 11 June 2012 13:37 (11 months ago) Permalink

"The size of your book makes this room essentially unlivable, why would you do this?"

Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Monday, 11 June 2012 13:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

"your handwriting is really bad"

goole, Monday, 11 June 2012 13:40 (11 months ago) Permalink

"You going to forge Jonathan Swift's signature as well?"

Mark G, Monday, 11 June 2012 13:54 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Why did I marry a man whose ass is made out of blocks?"

Convert simple JEEZ to BDSMcode (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 11 June 2012 13:58 (11 months ago) Permalink

"yes, they can send books directly to kindles, but they don't use wonkavision, dear"

the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:45 (11 months ago) Permalink

"The phrase 'The Great American Novel' doesn't refer to great as in size!"

this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:47 (11 months ago) Permalink

"I'm pretty sure largehand isn't the opposite of shorthand."

EZ Snappin, Monday, 11 June 2012 15:48 (11 months ago) Permalink

"This isn't going to work."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:49 (11 months ago) Permalink

"The "Ted" captions they chose are all rub."

EZ Snappin, Monday, 11 June 2012 15:50 (11 months ago) Permalink

"What do you mean, 'What's wrong with this picture?' Who the hell uses the diaeresis anymore?"

Convert simple JEEZ to BDSMcode (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:55 (11 months ago) Permalink

95% of entries to use the caption "It's my day off"

Mark G, Monday, 18 June 2012 11:10 (11 months ago) Permalink

"My arms are tired"

Jesu swept (ledge), Monday, 18 June 2012 11:11 (11 months ago) Permalink

alternatively: "No, it's just a costume"

Mark G, Monday, 18 June 2012 11:13 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Elvis stole my haircut"

EZ Snappin, Monday, 18 June 2012 13:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

"FUI"

Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 June 2012 13:34 (11 months ago) Permalink

"I could punch straight through your head."

nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 18 June 2012 13:38 (11 months ago) Permalink

"After this flight, I'm gonna feel like crap tonight? Get it? Sounds like kryptonite? I'm Superman, and that was a joke about how no one likes air travel."

Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Monday, 18 June 2012 13:45 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Laundry day."

Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 18 June 2012 13:50 (11 months ago) Permalink

"It's not the fans, it's just a few people in white wigs and members of parliament. They got a problem because the law is from the 1800s."

nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:03 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Supes riding coach."

Mordy, Monday, 18 June 2012 14:07 (11 months ago) Permalink

"I'm excited to finally get a chance to relax and enjoy a good meal while flying."

nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:12 (11 months ago) Permalink

"No, I'm 1940's Cartoon Superman."

abanana, Monday, 18 June 2012 14:38 (11 months ago) Permalink

"I didn't notice. I can hear children screaming all over the world."

nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:48 (11 months ago) Permalink

Hahahahaa

Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:51 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Pretty soon the TSA will make you wear your underwear on the outside too."

EZ Snappin, Monday, 18 June 2012 14:55 (11 months ago) Permalink

I get a lot of frequent flier miles

Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:59 (11 months ago) Permalink

They overbooked Wonder Woman's invisible plane.

Mordy, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

"MY passport says Bruce Wayne."

EZ Snappin, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

Ebert's entry: "This way I don't get as many bugs in my teeth."

Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Monday, 18 June 2012 15:06 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Don't freak out, but both engines failed. I'm holding this plane up with my buttcheeks."

goole, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:15 (11 months ago) Permalink

"would you like to hear another of my superhero-themed bondage fantasies? Stewardess! 2 more vodka sodas for me and Amory Lovins, please!"

Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 18 June 2012 15:37 (11 months ago) Permalink

"I plan on getting drunk. You'll love Absolut All-Star Superman."

EZ Snappin, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:46 (11 months ago) Permalink

lolz

Mordy, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:48 (11 months ago) Permalink

"i can see through your clothes. right through them. does that turn you on?"

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:54 (11 months ago) Permalink

"It could be weirder. Like, just to pick an example at random, I might be wearing luggage."

s.clover, Monday, 18 June 2012 17:30 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Lol, this legroom sure isn't 'super'!"

s.clover, Monday, 18 June 2012 17:31 (11 months ago) Permalink


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