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
"Well, your honor, I was going down on your wife when the incident occurred."
^ 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
I think groany puns are the wrong approach. New Yorker captions almost never do that.
― the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Friday, 10 July 2009 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh shit, I forgot to set up the poll last week. Sorry!
― timelord of the internet (Z S), Friday, 10 July 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/07/the_new_yorker_no_the_new_york.html#more
― thomp, Saturday, 18 July 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I came up with what I think would make a perfect New Yorker cartoon --
It's a relatively close frame of two women talking, and one his showing her hand, and one is showing an engagement ring with a very large diamond and a kind of clip-on spotlight attached to the ring, lighting the diamond, and the woman is saying "You don't think it's too ostentatious, do you?"
― the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
So, uh, if that's ever the contest drawing, there's my entry.
let's win the imaginary new yorker caption contest
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
weird, I kinda miss these threads
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone is welcome to keep them going if you want! I've been ultra unreliable the past two weeks because I've been relocating to a different city, visiting friends out of town, and starting a new job. Hopefully next week I'll be able to set it up (which just means saving a copy of the new caption on tinypic.com so the link won't disappear in the future, and starting a new poll thread later in the week), but if not anyone can do it too of course.
― save your lover! (Z S), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
It's been a while, so...
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1318/091026contestp465.jpg
Entries for this drawing, by Zachary Kanin, will be accepted through Sunday, October 25th.
― sleighdog mcdonald (unregistered), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
yay, it's back!
"Alright, _I've_ got one for you."
― Does the hole come standard or did you have to special order it (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
"'...but thy father-in-law and mother-in-law can go fuck themselves'!? Efface that, now!'"
― sleighdog mcdonald (unregistered), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
"covet... thy... neighbor's... wife... now read it back to me."
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't care what the bottle said, this is not what "Take two tablets to sleep" means.
― Does the hole come standard or did you have to special order it (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"i'm your wife, and even i don't care about your Top Ten list"
― sarahel, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"give it up, moshe. they're never going to fall for it."
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
"how did I let you talk me into bible reenactment camp! the franklins are in aruba!"
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
"i just dreamed this killer riff and i had to carve it down before i forgot it"
― aarrissi-a-roni, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
"if you think i'm going to help test your hand-carved breast implants, you're crazy"
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha this one is great
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
My wife did one for this one:http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/09/22/p323/080922_contest_p323.jpg"Ok...I'll put down "Claws". And what you describe as your greatest weakness?"― schwantz, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:27 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
"Ok...I'll put down "Claws". And what you describe as your greatest weakness?"
― schwantz, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:27 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
still loling at this one
― Bobby Wo (max), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
man i once had the BEST caption ever but never submitted the entry
it was a screwdriver laying on a couch in a shrinks office
my caption was "i've been dreaming i'm screwing my mother"
― cutty, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Grr... Don't use "arial"!
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i was working on a comic sans gag...
― Does the hole come standard or did you have to special order it (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
your first one was really good, forks
― sarahel, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
thenk yew; i was weirdly happy with the tablets one
― Does the hole come standard or did you have to special order it (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
So I married a chiseler!
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, this one seems most New Yorker-y to me!
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
This is hilarious!
― existential eggs (Abbott), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Is this one of those "Groany Pun" ones?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link