Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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"I'm terribly sorry; this was supposed to be the Backwards Tuck slide, not the Left Leg Conceal."

I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:42 (fourteen years ago)

"In summation, not all ideas are worth having. Thank you."

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 08:12 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amazing

flopson, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:55 (fourteen years ago)

half of the people who look at this will have no idea what TED is, which is a bummer, because it precludes all TEDxxx genre captions

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:25 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new yorker readers know what TED is!

flopson, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:56 (fourteen years ago)

"This is a picture of a TEDdy bear."

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:03 (fourteen years ago)

"... and this is how you smize."

Pot Leeedom (Leee), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:36 (fourteen years ago)

tbh the most scandalous thing about that cartoon is that the guy's using a Mac SE.

Pot Leeedom (Leee), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:37 (fourteen years ago)

Or in caption form, "I am trying very hard to distract you from the Mac SE I'm using."

Pot Leeedom (Leee), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:50 (fourteen years ago)

haha, I was going to post the same thing but I couldn't remember what those macs were called

this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:58 (fourteen years ago)

"It's called the 'treasure trail' because it leads you to my million dollar idea"

Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:00 (fourteen years ago)

"I got my father's hairline and my mother's sense of the spiritual in everyday things."

spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:25 (fourteen years ago)

"I always wanted to be... a lumberjack!"

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:27 (fourteen years ago)

"This is the uniform of posthumanism I bid you wear to accelerate the singularity"

Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:28 (fourteen years ago)

xxp lol

flopson, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:29 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/06/04/p290/120604_contest_p290.jpg

Mark G, Monday, 28 May 2012 08:31 (fourteen years ago)

The realities of the EU Structural Fund.

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Monday, 28 May 2012 09:12 (fourteen years ago)

"I think we could have made better use of this Homeland Security grant"

this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Monday, 28 May 2012 13:24 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/06/04/p465/120604_contest_p465.jpg

Mark G, Monday, 28 May 2012 13:27 (fourteen years ago)

"They cam over 'ere, stealin' our coconats"

Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 May 2012 15:31 (fourteen years ago)

"at least we know know why it's called 'atoll'"

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Monday, 28 May 2012 15:43 (fourteen years ago)

"okay, let's feel down the back of the seat one more time."

Merdeyeux, Monday, 28 May 2012 15:47 (fourteen years ago)

"I came here for the schools........ of fish!!!!!!!"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 May 2012 15:52 (fourteen years ago)

darragh FTW

ljubljana, Monday, 28 May 2012 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

"The exclusivity is top notch, the golf less so."

jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 May 2012 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

"Hey, maybe we should just ask the toll guard for a lift back home."

Captain Jean-Luc Godard (Leee), Monday, 28 May 2012 16:36 (fourteen years ago)

darragh FTW

― ljubljana, Monday, May 28, 2012 9:07 AM (7 hours ago)

Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Monday, 28 May 2012 23:44 (fourteen years ago)

^^^yep

EZ Snappin, Monday, 28 May 2012 23:49 (fourteen years ago)

you should def submit it.

s.clover, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:00 (fourteen years ago)

i prefer the eu one but i think y'all prefer the atoll one, right?

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:04 (fourteen years ago)

yes.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:05 (fourteen years ago)

you say that now, but if it wins you'll all claim to prefer the earlier work imo

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:09 (fourteen years ago)

yes

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

the atoll one was good but I stand by my belief that puns do not win

this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:33 (fourteen years ago)

otm imo

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:43 (fourteen years ago)

There's something about this one. Runner-up = forks

ljubljana, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 02:02 (fourteen years ago)

Needs more exclamation points imo

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 10:53 (fourteen years ago)

everyone's a person who criticizes

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:05 (fourteen years ago)

Needs less 'know' imo.

Mark G, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:07 (fourteen years ago)

one less k i'll grant you

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:07 (fourteen years ago)

"It's not huge, isle grant you that!!!!!

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:11 (fourteen years ago)

"i'll never view a place at low tide again"

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:14 (fourteen years ago)

"We need a davenport."

that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:42 (fourteen years ago)

"it is terribly ironic and not a little awkward that we have squandered our wealth on moving to a desert island with preposterously excessive immigration controls to isolate ourselves from the tyranny of sodomy and to escape the gay jihad on marriage only for me to now discover that i am in fact in love with you, and always have been"

Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:25 (fourteen years ago)

Please please submit that.

emil.y, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:40 (fourteen years ago)

at the very least to colin firth's agent

pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:41 (fourteen years ago)

short version:

"Why, do you fancy a shag?"

Mark G, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:43 (fourteen years ago)

But that doesn't make any mention of the toll booth/barrier/fence deal. The implications are completely different.

emil.y, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:46 (fourteen years ago)

it's irony/juxtaposition.

Mark G, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 13:51 (fourteen years ago)

"I said from the start this congestion charge was a terrible mistake."

s.clover, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:31 (fourteen years ago)

"this island satisfies me because i fucking hate mexicans"

goole, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:49 (fourteen years ago)

"You smell."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:49 (fourteen years ago)


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