ZS we shld do like we did with the poetry contest and everyone gets to pick the favorite one of theirs they've come up with.
― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Pick whichever one of mine you like. None are very good.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought about that Abbott, but I'm worried it would just get too complicated to do since there are already 2 different threads dedicated to the caption contest.
― timelord of the internet (Z S), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked dan's marco polo one.
― ledge, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
You could probably fix all of mine by deleting the preambles.
― he is substituite by Crime Club (HI DERE), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, did anyone ever submit their own caption? I get the feeling that no one did.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I did for the first one.
― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
eh, i guess i like my speedo and chuck e cheese ones. you can definitely can the rest. looking back over, i like the flight risk one, the snorkel/acquit one and the free willy one. good shit given the weakness of the source material.
― special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
xposts - i submitted the first two weeks' but i didn't see the third one until today.
― special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
The flight risk one is pretty excellent.
― he is substituite by Crime Club (HI DERE), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
Yeah, I wonder about that too. On one hand, I could submit the winner myself, but then if it actually got to top 3 territory I'd worry that I'd somehow be outed as a fraud because it wasn't my caption, and plus it would feel wrong to see my name listed as the caption writer.
And plus, anyone who writes a decent caption should enter, for sure. The more we enter, the better the chance that an ILXor will make it to the top three.
So then it's tempting to say "why have a poll and choose a winner?" But if we eliminate the poll, this whole idea will probably be dead within a few weeks (it may anyway, I suspect).
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jMCplra4Obw/SdI-9HkdumI/AAAAAAAAAo0/7LtEUfVSj9U/s400/teachers-head-explodes.jpg
― timelord of the internet (Z S), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't get the flight risk one ;_;
― ledge, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
The three NYer finalists for the plane caption:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2dhtqu0.jpg
“She thinks her bomb bay makes her look fat.”Submitted by Eric ScharesPortland, Ore.
“It's a pretty good aircraft, except that it keeps nagging you to ask for directions.”Submitted by Adam PfefferBoca Raton, Fla.
"She's a lover, not a fighter."Submitted by Robert McLeanTampa, Fla.
The three ILXor nominees:
"she was a bitch to land today"
"If comfort were a concern I'd take the train."
"I call her Ladybird, because she's my lady."
― timelord of the internet (Z S), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Was "If comfort were a concern I'd take the train" entered? Because that one is more New Yorkery than any of the official 3.
― timelord of the internet (Z S), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh those official 3 suck
― giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
ha ha bitches want you to ask directions
― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Seems like they're tired of satirising contemporary middle class mores, going for straight-down-the-line sexist gags. Good job.
― ledge, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Eric Schares, Portland, Ore.; Adam Pfeffer, Boca Raton, Fla.; Robert McLean, Tampa, Fla.: not funny
― goole, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
and they think they look fat! do u see the comedy!
florida is the saddest state
― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
The last one is way, way funny compared to the first two.
None are as good as ours.
― he is substituite by Crime Club (HI DERE), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't get the ladybird one?
― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, the fact that the winning captions routinely aren't funny kind of removes the one criterion we are all concentrating on.
― special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i just want to know when "new yorker cartoon captions" and "brick-wall comedy hell" started sharing the same tired jokes? or have i not been paying sufficient attention
― giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
as a weekly reader of the new yorker, i can't think of the last cartoon they published that even made me smile.
― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
okay, i have modified my approach. how about: "Uh oh, I'm in deep water now!"
it made me cringe just the right amount. i think it could be a winner.
― special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
"Well, your honor, I was going down on your wife when the incident occurred."
― special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
'So then it's tempting to say "why have a poll and choose a winner?"'The winner should be entered automatically by Ignatius Lem Xanadu, lest sloth tempt the winner not to enter.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
baby ruth?
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Agreed.
― great gabbneb's ghost (jaymc), Monday, 29 June 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
for the flight risk one, in the poll please put "your honor said" instead of "you said"
― W i l l, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
he wouldn't fuck w/ court etiquette
I think italicizing "flight" might help too
― nabisco, Monday, 29 June 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to enter "If the snorkel doesn't fit, you must acquit," I think it might be obvious and unfunny enough to have a chance.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 29 June 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
"I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque."
― s.clover, Monday, 29 June 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"I've been dressing this way since my business went under."
Yes, I do like this one. It's a pun, but it's elegant. And it has that New Yorkery "oh, the rich" dimension to it.
― great gabbneb's ghost (jaymc), Monday, 29 June 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wow, I didn't even get the "under" dimension -- not to workshop everything here, but maybe there's a way to bring that out
(it might be too, umm, specialized a reference to work it into something about a mortgage being "underwater," right?)
― nabisco, Monday, 29 June 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I was trying to work with "belly-up" somehow.
― great gabbneb's ghost (jaymc), Monday, 29 June 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I threw out six (!) of these things, and I think the one jaymc pointed out is the best of them. The floating debt one ("All my financial problems can be traced back to the fact that I don't float.") and the mortgage one ("I misunderstood the meaning of sub-prime.") don't quite get at the sort of knowing, unfunny, raised eyebrow humor of typical New Yorker cartoons.
So consider that one my entry.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 June 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
^ if only this one stood a chance.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 29 June 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
"When a reef needs protection, I'm the guy, OK?"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the first official answer has "bombay" in it
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess that makes it a bomb bay satire?
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
"HOW YOU LIKE MY AMICUS TRUNKS!"
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"No your honor, I wouldn't call it fishing for evidence exactly."
― Mordy, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"What do you mean I'm in deep water?"
*groan*
― Super Cub, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
"Oh, and the octopus gets off scott free? Typical."
― Super Cub, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
SO, what's happenin'
― Mark G, Friday, 10 July 2009 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i was wonderin
― Why? I forget what biologists have suggested. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 July 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Double issue last week, no issue this week.
― Eazy, Friday, 10 July 2009 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link