Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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"We'll need at least four to complete our Tetris set."

Øystein, Friday, 1 November 2013 11:30 (twelve years ago)

"Try for a clean shot or we'll get a wrecked angle"

Øystein, Friday, 1 November 2013 11:31 (twelve years ago)

"this triangulation method is working like a charm"

midwife christless (darraghmac), Friday, 1 November 2013 11:34 (twelve years ago)

"they'll cgi in the real deer in post and - voila - paleolithic park"

conrad, Friday, 1 November 2013 12:17 (twelve years ago)

"We all start off with rectangles -- with time you'll move on to more complex polygons and before you know it you'll be skinning hypercubes with Grogh."

Øystein, Friday, 1 November 2013 12:25 (twelve years ago)

"I miss skeuomorphism."

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 1 November 2013 12:30 (twelve years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/10/28/g290/131028_contest_g290.jpg

  • "I'd like to try group therapy with a different group."
  • "I don't need therapy—I just need the remote!"
  • "This is why I didn't want a Monday-night appointment!"

Mark G, Monday, 4 November 2013 12:24 (twelve years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/11/11/p465/131111_contest_p465.jpg

Mark G, Monday, 4 November 2013 12:25 (twelve years ago)

"Bang! Bang! Bang! heh....heh...Bang!"

midwife christless (darraghmac), Monday, 4 November 2013 12:32 (twelve years ago)

"Skype-ing again, huh? I remember when we had to make trunk calls"

In times of osterity, these Eton-educated poshboys (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 4 November 2013 12:46 (twelve years ago)

"This room ain't big enough for the both of us."

Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 4 November 2013 12:47 (twelve years ago)

"Look at my walking stick"

Mark G, Monday, 4 November 2013 12:48 (twelve years ago)

"I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!"

In times of osterity, these Eton-educated poshboys (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 4 November 2013 12:49 (twelve years ago)

"there are still two important issues we're afraid to mention here!"

Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Monday, 4 November 2013 12:52 (twelve years ago)

Dammit beaten to that one

midwife christless (darraghmac), Monday, 4 November 2013 13:01 (twelve years ago)

"For fucks sake Jonathan will you ever stop writing WALSH on the carpet?"

nashwan, Monday, 4 November 2013 13:01 (twelve years ago)

"All this time and I never thought to lie down."

Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 4 November 2013 13:06 (twelve years ago)

"Take out the trash! Did you honestly think I'd forget?"

midwife christless (darraghmac), Monday, 4 November 2013 13:19 (twelve years ago)

"It's an elephant gun! Geddit?!"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Monday, 4 November 2013 13:25 (twelve years ago)

"Maybe you can explain why that table lamp has a handle on it like a jug."

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Monday, 4 November 2013 13:26 (twelve years ago)

"Why is the top half of your body elephant but the bottom half sea lion?"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Monday, 4 November 2013 13:26 (twelve years ago)

omg the return of the jug lamp!

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 November 2013 13:26 (twelve years ago)

"And why do we both have ears like bats?"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Monday, 4 November 2013 13:27 (twelve years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/ReturnoftheMackSingle.jpg
Return of the lamp
You know that I'll be camp

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Monday, 4 November 2013 13:28 (twelve years ago)

"She left us son. Just upped and gone just like that. All that time trumpety trumping on about that damned circus...never thought she'd follow it up. Alright well I'm off to the peanut shop again, see you at dinner."

nashwan, Monday, 4 November 2013 13:35 (twelve years ago)

"Don't you know it's September 11? Never forget."

#fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 4 November 2013 15:41 (twelve years ago)

"When I was your age there wasn't even such a THING as elephant incest porn!"

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 03:15 (twelve years ago)

"An elephant never Googles" seems about right

there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 05:22 (twelve years ago)

like i'd bet even money that or some permutation will be in the three selected

there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 05:23 (twelve years ago)

"If I'd been born in 1159, when the world was steadier, I might well have felt, at 53, that the next generation would share my values and appreciate the same things I appreciated; no apocalypse pending. But I was born in 1959, when TV was something you watched only during prime time, and people wrote letters and put them in the mail, and every magazine and newspaper had a robust books section, and venerable publishers made long-term investments in young writers, and New Criticism reigned in English departments, and the Amazon basin was intact, and antibiotics were used only to treat serious infections, not pumped into healthy cows. It wasn't necessarily a better world (we had bomb shelters and segregated swimming pools), but it was the only world I knew to try to find my place in as a writer."

Treeship, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 05:29 (twelve years ago)

"Can you find my dead wife, Ella Phantzgerald, on Facebook?"

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 05:37 (twelve years ago)

hahah

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 05:48 (twelve years ago)

"Netscape?"

Mark G, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 06:28 (twelve years ago)

Or "In my day we DIDN'T forget"

there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 06:38 (twelve years ago)

"That thing will give you whirlpool knees!"

Grampsy, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 13:47 (twelve years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/11/04/g290/131104_contest_g290.jpg

  • I'm really more of a painter-gatherer."
  • "Me thought Ugg just bad artist."
  • "We use every part of the animal, even the rhombus."

hmm, me thought ug just rub at captions..

Mark G, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:49 (twelve years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/11/18/p465/131118_contest_p465.jpg

Mark G, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:49 (twelve years ago)

MOM!!!

Very Gelb; thanks for asking. (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:55 (twelve years ago)

"has it really been four score and seven years?"

Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:21 (twelve years ago)

What the fuck with ghis one

there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:48 (twelve years ago)

i'm not sure. maybe the mirror is supposed to show the other side of his face? so the left half of his face looks like lincoln but the right looks like some aging guy?

reckless woo (Z S), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:16 (twelve years ago)

i like how baffling it is, though. they should just print the angry letters they get rather than the captions

reckless woo (Z S), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:17 (twelve years ago)

i am having a really hard time seeing that wall join as heading anywhere but in the wrong direction, escher's bathroom shit imo

golfdinger (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:21 (twelve years ago)

the key question for me is, is the reflection in the mirror supposed to illustrate this man's sudden realization that he resembles Abe? or is it supposed to show that he IS Abe?

reckless woo (Z S), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:24 (twelve years ago)

perspective being trusted, it's not his reflection tbh

golfdinger (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:28 (twelve years ago)

i mean this is quite clearly a man shaving through the window of abraham lincoln's house

golfdinger (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:28 (twelve years ago)

it is a picture of abe lincoln in pajamas with the same bathroom tile walls, hung above the sink

reckless woo (Z S), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:37 (twelve years ago)

honey, do you think i need to shave before going to the theater?
mom, can you draw the 3d lines for me again?
dad, can you send me money? i can't draw worth shit.

brand nubian wafers (bnw), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:45 (twelve years ago)

"oh boy"

conrad, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 15:35 (twelve years ago)

"I HAVEN'T FINISHED SHAVING YET!"

Mark G, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:22 (twelve years ago)


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