Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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"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)

"You're just being paranoid, Andy."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:47 (fourteen years ago)

"I hate people who bounce on my couch"

Mark G, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

"I think you should chalk this up to experience."

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:57 (fourteen years ago)

There can only be one answer..

(unless!)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/01/23/p465/120123_contest_p465.jpg

Mark G, Monday, 16 January 2012 09:30 (fourteen years ago)

multiple choice:

"this is normal" is a funnier generic caption than "christ what an asshole"

― max, Friday, 7 October 2011 12:38 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Mark G, Monday, 16 January 2012 09:31 (fourteen years ago)

"you sure have got a fat ass for a snake"

ledge, Monday, 16 January 2012 09:32 (fourteen years ago)

"sso i ssee you're an assp."

sunn :o))) (Merdeyeux), Monday, 16 January 2012 09:37 (fourteen years ago)

"I give up. Did you do something with your hair?"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 January 2012 12:41 (fourteen years ago)

submit that

the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Monday, 16 January 2012 12:53 (fourteen years ago)

"I don't care if they were on offer Charles, you look ridiculous"

modric conservative (darraghmac), Monday, 16 January 2012 12:58 (fourteen years ago)

"You should have had your eyebrows done first!"

Mark G, Monday, 16 January 2012 13:00 (fourteen years ago)

sit on it

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 16 January 2012 13:01 (fourteen years ago)

"Most of us are content with just rattles to shake."

EZ Snappin, Monday, 16 January 2012 13:11 (fourteen years ago)

"So don't ask me what I think, then!"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 January 2012 13:11 (fourteen years ago)

"Oh honestly, Angela!"

Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:36 (fourteen years ago)

"If you look closely, you can tell that that's not my tail."

lEEE (Leee), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:55 (fourteen years ago)

"Most of us don't eat our peaches whole."

EZ Snappin, Monday, 16 January 2012 20:20 (fourteen years ago)


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