Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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My wife did one for this one:
http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/09/22/p323/080922_contest_p323.jpg

"Ok...I'll put down "Claws". And what you describe as your greatest weakness?"

― schwantz, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:27 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

still loling at this one

Bobby Wo (max), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

man i once had the BEST caption ever but never submitted the entry

it was a screwdriver laying on a couch in a shrinks office

my caption was "i've been dreaming i'm screwing my mother"

cutty, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:53 (sixteen years ago)

Grr... Don't use "arial"!

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:38 (sixteen years ago)

i was working on a comic sans gag...

Does the hole come standard or did you have to special order it (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:45 (sixteen years ago)

your first one was really good, forks

sarahel, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:46 (sixteen years ago)

thenk yew; i was weirdly happy with the tablets one

Does the hole come standard or did you have to special order it (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:47 (sixteen years ago)

So I married a chiseler!

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:58 (sixteen years ago)

your first one was really good, forks

Yeah, this one seems most New Yorker-y to me!

M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

"covet... thy... neighbor's... wife... now read it back to me."

This is hilarious!

existential eggs (Abbott), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 22:23 (sixteen years ago)

I don't care what the bottle said, this is not what "Take two tablets to sleep" means.

Is this one of those "Groany Pun" ones?

Mark G, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

it's really quite nicely "formed".

Does the hole come standard or did you have to special order it (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 01:36 (sixteen years ago)

"I don't care, if He was that bothered about his commandments, he'd have carved them Himself!"

Mark G, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 07:19 (sixteen years ago)

the 'claws' one is seriously funnier than any new yorker cartoon I have seen in my life

iatee, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 07:59 (sixteen years ago)

yes.

Mark G, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 09:41 (sixteen years ago)

'i dn't care how many followers you have, put that thing away already'

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:31 (sixteen years ago)

maybe 'followers' in quotes

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:37 (sixteen years ago)

"I'm guessing 'thou shalt not procrastinate' isn't on your little list."

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:55 (sixteen years ago)

Tracer, I'd go for a "Twitter for Luddites"" joke.

the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:57 (sixteen years ago)

"people who yelp are scumbags"

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:57 (sixteen years ago)

"I've got a hot chick waiting in bed for me so I'll just chisel this last one:"

StanM, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:37 (sixteen years ago)

"moses i'm real happy for you and i'm gonna let you finish but aaron had one of the best idols of all time"

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:10 (sixteen years ago)

j/k

i want my first one included in the damn poll though

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:13 (sixteen years ago)

with the quote marks

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:14 (sixteen years ago)

"but if i fucked you marjorie i'd still be chiseling a cold, hard piece of stone and i'd still have the commandments to do in the morning"

aarrissi-a-roni, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:32 (sixteen years ago)

"when i said you should get a laptop to write on instead, that isn't exactly what i had in mind."

aarrissi-a-roni, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

"You could have just tweeted - they're all under 140 characters."

EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)

"if I knew you'd become this obsessed with your iSlab I never would have bought it"

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 16:02 (sixteen years ago)

"George's luddite tendencies were not improved by going mobile"

ever dream some dude? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 16:04 (sixteen years ago)

"Please, Hammer, don't hurt them"

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:20 (sixteen years ago)

"a little less chiseling and a little more bangin', God. I want my own Jesus."

husband of blood - because of the circumcision (Z S), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 23:06 (sixteen years ago)

Shonda! Shonda for the goyim!

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 23:18 (sixteen years ago)

what about "shall not" instead of "should refrain from".

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 23:19 (sixteen years ago)

(like that one)

Mark G, Thursday, 22 October 2009 07:02 (sixteen years ago)

(although it should be 'shalt' innit?)

Mark G, Thursday, 22 October 2009 07:02 (sixteen years ago)

"shalt" is the informal second-person conjugation of "shall"

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 22 October 2009 09:34 (sixteen years ago)

Truly, god loved us all, informally.

Mark G, Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:23 (sixteen years ago)

"it's shalt nor shart"

cutty, Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:30 (sixteen years ago)

woops "it's shalt NOT shart"

cutty, Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:30 (sixteen years ago)

Shart?

Mark G, Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:45 (sixteen years ago)

go on "cutty", explain it

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:54 (sixteen years ago)

google provides

cutty, Thursday, 22 October 2009 11:00 (sixteen years ago)

OK, got it. it's another suggestion for the caption:

"it's shalt nor shart, woops it's shalt NOT shart oh nevermind.."

Mark G, Thursday, 22 October 2009 11:05 (sixteen years ago)

"wait, which one are you 'oops'-ing about?"

husband of blood - because of the circumcision (Z S), Thursday, 22 October 2009 13:57 (sixteen years ago)

haha

cutty, Thursday, 22 October 2009 13:58 (sixteen years ago)

"I think he was meaning "ass" as in Donkey there"

Mark G, Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:25 (sixteen years ago)

"What's it worth to you to drop the "cunnilingus" one?"

Mark G, Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:27 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

did anybody submit anything? man, we suck at this.

鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 9 November 2009 16:56 (sixteen years ago)

this is promising tho

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/11/16/p465/091116_contest_p465.jpg

鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 9 November 2009 16:56 (sixteen years ago)

"It's her night off, actually."

you get ribbons when you're in 4H (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 November 2009 17:20 (sixteen years ago)

or more NYorker-y: "Funny you should ask. It's her night off."

you get ribbons when you're in 4H (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 November 2009 17:21 (sixteen years ago)


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