Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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'who is your favorite marketplace reporter? mine is chana giraffe-wolt'

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link

"and then bitcoin plummeted, so now we do this for awhile i guess."

am0n, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:36 (eleven years ago) link

"I think I'm still in shock about how badly I fucked up, like I'm not really dealing with it yet, you know? Because this is terrible."

Treeship, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link

"I wish I was taller."

lazulum, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link

"what giraffes?"

your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link

"....and then I got to thinking, well, in a flood, I mean a real flood, standing on a cat or whatever aint gonna do you any good, but..."

al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:45 (eleven years ago) link

"I'll give them this, they got a helluva union"

al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link

"I've read Leviticus- these're the only fucking things we can eat."

al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link

haha those are all great

Treeship, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link

Your last one was the most 'ilx' funny imo

al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link

"Guess those antediluvian bridge makers weren't so incompetent after all"

Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link

leviticus one + treeship's "dealing with it" + girraffle + We're too late + rabbits are all lulz.

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link

"Look at their fuzzy little faces and then tell me you would have said no."

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:16 (eleven years ago) link

"I know what you're thinking. But this is really just one giant giraffe-headed hydra"

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link

Liking pretty much all of these

Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link

"I hope you know what you're doing. We've got a whole lot of necks on the line here."

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link

"Jehovah? I thought he said his name was Jah-Raffe"

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link

"Look, it's a small ark, and there's a surprising abundance of giraffe species. Priorities had to be set."

lazulum, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link

"So this is what happens when you get me drunk. I wonder what happens the next time."

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:17 (eleven years ago) link

along those lines

"Well that must have been some bachelor party. I imagine it will take us up until the wedding to piece together the sequence of events last night that led to this incongruous situation."

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago) link

"Every ship has girats."

EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link

Union joke is excellent

UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link

"Act natural; there's a low bridge coming up fast."

Grampsy, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link

"I'm not good at this job."

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link

"Fuck what God says. What's he gonna do, fire me?"

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:16 (eleven years ago) link

"Fuck what God says. I'm running this ship."

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link

"Giraffes, muthafukkaz!!"

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link

"i wish new yorker cartton captions could just be a glance, a gesture, a shifting of hands... punchlines are too direct. they don't penetrate the heart of the image, or the reality it discloses and at the same time conceals."

^ this is a caption

Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:34 (eleven years ago) link

"you remembered the giraffes alright but what about the beer?"

Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 05:32 (eleven years ago) link

God, I'm so sick of this Gir-Raffi tape.

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link

"Giraffes, muthafukkaz!!"

this is killing me

far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link

"oh you said GI-ant RAFT"

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link

"Because I got high."

jaymc, Thursday, 9 May 2013 03:25 (eleven years ago) link

"I'm not planning to go anywhere particular, it's the voyage that matters"

Van Horn Street, Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:59 (eleven years ago) link

"YOLO!"

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link

"I thought you'd like it."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago) link

"Emzara.... Will you marry me?"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link

"We're never gonna survive unless we get a little... crazy."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link

'You know that when we get back to the boardroom Lord Sugar's going to be all "this is a bleedin' shambles", right?'

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link

"and they said zoos were exploitative."

whiskey and ice cream sandwiches (Treeship), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link

"Think about it, we'll be the sole supplier in all of Waterworld!"

lazulum, Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link

"This mash up of 'Speed 2' and 'Ace Ventura' isn't working out."

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link

"The way my back is these days, ease of milking was paramount"

i gave ten pounds and all i got was a lousy * (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:34 (eleven years ago) link

"Naaah, everyone'sdoing alpacas now, we're way ahead of the curve on this"

i gave ten pounds and all i got was a lousy * (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link

DJP's still wins, but "union" is great too

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link

"There are few things more humiliating than being held hostage by giraffes."

Poliopolice, Thursday, 9 May 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link

Venn Gott asked me if I vanted giraffes I told him, "nein!"

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 9 May 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link

You remember the "two people in a large nest" one?

"It's only fair. He has a man cave."
"I come here to brood."
"After the kids moved out, the tree house was just too big."

Nothing about "bough house" or similar...

Mark G, Monday, 13 May 2013 08:59 (eleven years ago) link

"Fancy a shag?"

Mark G, Monday, 13 May 2013 09:01 (eleven years ago) link


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