Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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(btw, I am very mad that "LET'S START IT OFF WITH A BRIEF REVIEW OF YOUR LOCAL MIDLIFE CRISIS. WE'LL THEN DISCUSS THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS." is too long to be a screen name)

1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

(anyway back to the picture)

"Okay, NOW they're just mocking us."

1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

"And the best part is, we pay them in cheese."

would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

"this acid is strong"

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

^ works for 99% of all new yorker cartoons

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

"I'm not sure their hearts are really in this better-mousetrap project."

would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

"I know they have a grant, but do we really need more ways to skin a cat?"

would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

"I was expecting Soulja Boy to have a different effect on them."

1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

I always wondered how many people entered. Sometimes the finalists are so weak I assumed like, 6 people entered. My god some of those submissions are not funny.

I mean the ones copied above, not the ones currently being submitted by ILXors. Those are all comedy gold.

dan selzer, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

I like fork's "I think it's meant to be the one on the right's retirement party."

Eazy, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

"The one in glasses is not 'the cute one'."

1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

"auto-tune is dead"

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

I wonder how many times we'll have to do this until we get an ILX winner?
My money is over five, under twenty.

I used to like dem burgers boy (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

We should enter as Isaac L. Xevious

I used to like dem burgers boy (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

"I see your mice have little clothes."

cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

"These mice are different from the mice behind us; these mice have facial features."

cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Are mice very much like people?"

cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

"I am mildly disconcerted; apparently, I am carrying a water bottle."

cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Did you know? I can spit the words 'PAUL NOTH' across the room."

cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

"I am looking at mice. You are looking at mice. They are also looking at mice."

cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Hmm, I'm not sure -- she's a little mousier than the last woman I dated."

autogucci cru (deej), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

lolling at the paul noth one for some reason.

I used to like dem burgers boy (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

also "it's a reality show about my fantasies" has win potential

I used to like dem burgers boy (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

'NERDS!'

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

schwantz's wife made me laugh harder than I've ever laughed at new yorker cartoon

iatee, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Have the Chinese one removed for questioning."

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

From that long list of candidates above:

no this isn't MY evening gown i tied up a pedestrian on the way to your studio and robbed her blind.

Eazy, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

"The leader of the mice appears to have rounded up all the intellectuals in a gulag"
"Ha, Communism sounds great on paper - it just doesn't work in lab conditions!"

special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

12 more hours to go, and then I'll make a poll at about 11 pm (US Eastern) tonight.

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Thursday, 11 June 2009 15:02 (3 years ago) Permalink

And.....the new caption has appeared. Have at it!

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

"They look more like her but they take after me."

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

btw for anyone who may care, the winners of last week's ILX poll were:

1) Roberto Spiralli (10 votes)
2) Hi Dere (4 votes)
3) EZ Snappin and Dr Superman(tie) (3 votes)

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Sweden? It was MOSTLY uneventful..."

sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

(also where was the poll? I totally missed it)

sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

"I call her Ladybird, because she's my lady."

Philip Nunez, Monday, 15 June 2009 20:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Milk, toilet roll, wrapping paper. Got it."

farcottonloco, Monday, 15 June 2009 20:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

The "Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest" Poll: Week 1

D'oh!

Well to sum it up, Roberto Spiralli won, but in typical ILX fashion, there were concerns about bestiality. That made your caption the choice for entry. But then, I'm pretty sure no one ever entered it, because I stupidly assumed that you had seen the poll.

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

lol after seeing the controversy over emphasized words in a caption I have to rethink

sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

There really wasn't any controversy, it was just me worrying over nothing, as usual. Although I still do think that an entry with no emphasized words, all else equal, will probably do better.

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

"I'm going to take off now; we will never speak of this weekend again."

sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

"is this some kind of fucking joke, Steve? i could've been killed. you useless fucking cunt."

special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

"your...wife?"

special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

btw, Sweden one already strong candidate imo

special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

hey does anyone know who is talking in this comic: the pilot or the flag guy?

Philip Nunez, Monday, 15 June 2009 20:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

something about fly-me pumps

W i l l, Monday, 15 June 2009 20:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

theres gotta be a good dont ask dont tell joke in there

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

"I just want to feel pretty! Is that so wrong?"

sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

"she was a bitch to land today"

special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

looooooooooooooooooool

sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

theres gotta be a good dont ask dont tell joke in there

that's where I was going, best I could come up with was "I believe the policy clearly states 'Don't ask'."

鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Mistakes were made" is one of those universal captions that's surprisingly funny with about 80% of visual gags. Like the jet wearing stilettos upthread: "Mistakes were made."

Grampsy, Monday, 20 May 2013 22:00 (Yesterday) Permalink

"I feared the stiffness would lead to this. You have cooties."

Øystein, Monday, 20 May 2013 22:19 (Yesterday) Permalink

(kinda gave up on that -- was trying to come up with some crap about a tween curse)

Øystein, Monday, 20 May 2013 22:20 (Yesterday) Permalink

another caption i think is pretty funny with most of these is "jesus."

Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Monday, 20 May 2013 22:54 (Yesterday) Permalink


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