Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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I'm sorry

Matt Armstrong, Monday, 14 November 2011 10:55 (fourteen years ago)

"This isn't working out."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 12:23 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

"Mavis, it's kicking in."

!!

This should totally join the pantheon of all-purpose captions

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 13:19 (fourteen years ago)

"Isn't this supposed to be an elephant?"

i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 13:23 (fourteen years ago)

"He's a little TOO loyal."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 13:32 (fourteen years ago)

"Now that I see it installed, it IS bigger than I thought"

₪_₪ (darraghmac), Monday, 14 November 2011 13:34 (fourteen years ago)

"It's just until he finds a new habitat."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 14:17 (fourteen years ago)

"It's not the hippo, Harry, it's you."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:48 (fourteen years ago)

"Honestly Ted, it's like we watch the same thing every night."

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 17:50 (fourteen years ago)

"Well, *I* think it brightens up the place."

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 17:51 (fourteen years ago)

"I said, 'Look into its majestic EYES.'"

sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2011 17:58 (fourteen years ago)

lol

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

"I miss Jeremy, but I still don't regret the trade"

your pain is probably equal (Z S), Monday, 14 November 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

"We don't have the room? Now who's being a hypocrite?"

pplains, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:07 (fourteen years ago)

"That's the last of the refried beans. Now... we wait."

sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2011 18:10 (fourteen years ago)

"What did you want me to do Bill? I told you he just followed me home."

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:10 (fourteen years ago)

"As souvenirs go, I suppose it's less showy than the Masai tribe in the dining room."

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:15 (fourteen years ago)

"Coffee tables are too conventional, you said. Let's be exciting, you said."

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:16 (fourteen years ago)

"I hate you."

sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2011 18:20 (fourteen years ago)

"Well, I'm not going to walk him in this weather."

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:41 (fourteen years ago)

"This is exactly why you need to stop drinking."

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

"57 channels and nothin' on"

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:46 (fourteen years ago)

"I am not happy about this hippo that you bought. We live in New York and our apartment is very small."

goole, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:55 (fourteen years ago)

"But darling, it's a Banksy."

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:57 (fourteen years ago)

"What else do you want me to do? I've already left two messages for the exterminator."

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 19:34 (fourteen years ago)

"he is, one might say, less a hippopotamus and more a hippo potty mouth"
"fuck you old lady"

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 November 2011 19:44 (fourteen years ago)

'The Olssons get a caddy, we get a caddy. Fine. The Olssons dig a pool, we dig a pool. That I can live with'

₪_₪ (darraghmac), Monday, 14 November 2011 19:59 (fourteen years ago)

some good ones forwarded here

Don't attack when he is black. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

"tonight is your turn to stand on his back and eat the parasites from his hide"

joygoat, Monday, 14 November 2011 21:35 (fourteen years ago)

"I'm not acknowledging this, either."

sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

"Yes, I agreed, but only because I assumed HIPPO was a new Ikea product line"

pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

ha, you could also do that one as: "When did IKEA become so literal?"

sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

"darling, would you pass the hippo?"
"i swear to god i left it around here somewhere"
"elephant in the room, george, elephant"

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 November 2011 21:46 (fourteen years ago)

"You just said, 'Jesus Christ you fat fucking hippo,' how am I supposed to take that?"

goole, Monday, 14 November 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

"I know I agreed to a threesome but this is ridiculous!!!!"

goole, Monday, 14 November 2011 21:48 (fourteen years ago)

dammit that's where I was about to go

sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

xp ...said the hippo

asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:52 (fourteen years ago)

'Well, one leg for an umbrella stand, but after that I'm really struggling'

₪_₪ (darraghmac), Monday, 14 November 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

"Okay, Mr. Bossypants, you try talking to him about the water bill."

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 22:19 (fourteen years ago)

But suddenly...

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 22:21 (fourteen years ago)

"Who are you people, and how did you get into my apartment?"

s.clover, Monday, 14 November 2011 22:21 (fourteen years ago)

"But darling, it's a Banksy."

― s.clover, Monday, November 14, 2011 2:57 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I hope you submitted this.

anorange (abanana), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 02:21 (fourteen years ago)

damn straight

Mark G, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 07:05 (fourteen years ago)

Sterling's are really good -- by which I mean, very New Yorker-y.

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:54 (fourteen years ago)

"Ok Brutus, CRUSH!"

pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

'Cesar Milan has stopped returning our calls'

₪_₪ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/01/09/p465/120109_contest_p465.jpg


"Could you fill in a bit more detail?"

Mark G, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 10:51 (fourteen years ago)

Captain Obvious Caption: "Well, we all feel dead inside sometimes."

do you want me to share what i know w/ you or not? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:32 (fourteen years ago)


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