tracer it still cracks me up, so much funnier than "christ what an asshole"
― max, Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
I am particularly proud of it!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Mainly I guess because it feels New Yorkerish to me, i.e. privileged people fooling themselves, or overplaying their hand, about some aspect of the world
It is befuddling to me how UN-NEW-YORKERY the winning caption nearly always is
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
Possibly my favorite NYer cartoon ever was captionless. It had a guy on a desert island and a guy floating on a raft, both looking at each other, and one thought balloon they shared between them: "I'm saved!"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
"I hope this train is going to Croccuppy Wall Street!"
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^^
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― max, Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
"With these crocodile costumes, no one will know we're alligators!"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
I know, I know... but I think that starts to pick the lock of the style a bit, i.e. "solve the puzzle" of the cartoon basically
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
"I know; I didn't expect New Yorkers to be so friendly either!"
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 October 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
"they're staring, maurice, i told you they would stare"
"this must be the...buffet car"
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 20 October 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
"vernon......don't look now....but.....her boots
― shite pele (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 October 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
"So is this the C or the A?"(obscure crocodile v alligator / subway line joke)
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 October 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
"I was just going to go for the Botox, but I think I'll also have him look at this alligator skin."
― Blue Doggie Sweater (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 20 October 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
"You can't cross your legs, you are a crocodile!"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
"Excuse me miss, do I have any human flesh left over, in my teeth, from when I was eating a person before???"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
"... Excuse me."
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Thursday, 20 October 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
"These people act like they've never seen a gay-tor couple before!"
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 October 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
"If this train doesn't start moving soon, I'm going to rip somebody's head off! FOR REAL!"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
"Did he just say 'We are delayed because of CRANE traffic ahead of us'? Crane? As in the bird that I like to eat?"
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 October 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
"Crocodiles on the subway? What is this, OHIO?"
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 20 October 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:12 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
I very nearly posted this exact sentence.
― Waka Flocka Floccupy Wall Street (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 October 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
lol, iv real.
― foxes freud (Leee), Friday, 21 October 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/images/2011/10/31/cartoons/111031_cartoon_108_a16256_p465.gif
"So I guess that's how babby is formed."
― hounds heidegger (Leee), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
"It beats walking"
― anorange (abanana), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
Mine was "That's all very well, but how are we going to get home?"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 10:57 (twelve years ago) link
"they're pretty good but i wish somebody would invent cream cheese"
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
aw, that was the gist of where i was going"Just give me ten minutes, then we can invent lox"
― google sluething so hard right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
"it's a hard life, being a miniature vagina caveman, surviving off of platelets"
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
"I'm WHEELY full"
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
"Eating these giant NuvaRings failed to prevent male pregnancy."
― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
i just had my first exposure to the idea of nuvarings this weekend; amazing what being in a committed relationship for seven years does to your awareness of new birth control methods
― google sluething so hard right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
'prehistoric stakeout'
― occupy wall street 2: rummy never sleeps (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
amazing what being in a committed relationship for seven years does to your awareness of new birth control methods
yours was also for seven years? *solidarity*
and, this is probably really embarrassing to admit, but yeah i have not been following the new birth control method scene
― double whooooaaaaa! (Z S), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
"O! what a night!"
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
women are putting things inside them again! this is new! i mean it's old, but it's new!
― google sluething so hard right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/images/2011/11/21/p465/111121_contest_p465.jpg
http://www.newyorker.com/images/2011/11/21/p290/111121_contest_p290.jpg
"Be careful how you sit, Hugo, there's a man in an armchair right behind you"
― Mark G, Monday, 14 November 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
"you may be po-faced, but you're not hip."
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 14 November 2011 10:54 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 14 November 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
"This isn't working out."
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
Is this a hippo which I see before me, The tail toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A hippo of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? Mavis, it's kicking in.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 November 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
"Mavis, it's kicking in."
!!
This should totally join the pantheon of all-purpose captions
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
"Isn't this supposed to be an elephant?"
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
"He's a little TOO loyal."
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
"Now that I see it installed, it IS bigger than I thought"
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Monday, 14 November 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
"It's just until he finds a new habitat."
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
"It's not the hippo, Harry, it's you."
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
"Honestly Ted, it's like we watch the same thing every night."
― s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
"Well, *I* think it brightens up the place."
― s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
"I said, 'Look into its majestic EYES.'"
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link