Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

btw the italics are an essential part of it

the captions are already in italics

how the hell did tracer's not win

http://i.imgur.com/UHOCr.gif

Would vote for.

the captions are already in italics

― max, Monday, September 5, 2011 3:10 PM Bookmark

So then "My masseuse is out of champagne."

http://i55.tinypic.com/2n069g1.jpg
"Chris, what an asshole."

i recently started cutting out new yorker cartoons that works particularly well with that caption and placing them into a small journal dedicated to the subject. it's not my joke, of course, but i think it'll be fun to have a whole book full of them.

Chris, huh?

That formulation would be your joke, though.

haha, whooooooops

weird, i haven't cut anything out of magazines since.... don't even wanna play that game

a project like that ZS would equate to a decent tumblr, albeit one with followers wondering why you keep skipping months worth of comics

I dunno, man. letmec*monyourt*ts.tumblr.com is just not taking off.

I actually have a few ideas for the new one. Does anyone know if they let you submit multiple entries?

Just submit them as "Roger Ebert, Chicago"?

Ha. I found the FAQ: only one entry per e-mail address.

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2011/10/10/p465/111010_contest_p465.jpg
"Big Mouse Strikes Again!"

"In his favor, he's not as bad as my last boss."

"lol, we fucked up that mouse's office but good"

"This is normal."

I actually just entered that.

laughed out loud at tracer's

"this is normal" is a funnier generic caption than "christ what an asshole"

"Did I do that?"

Good god these are abysmal

http://contest.newyorker.com/CaptionContest.aspx?tab=vote&affiliate=ny-caption

Yeah, "Christ, what an asshole" is like 1000x better than those. Somebody couldn't slip a Tea Party joke in there someplace?

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2011/10/17/p465/111017_contest_p465.jpg

struggling with this one. i think if i were the art editor i would leave it captionless. i can't even tell if either of those people have their mouths open.

"At least he walls don't have ears"

not he - the.

maybe something classically oblique, but those never seem to win. "I'll miss your maize, Harry."

i can't even tell if either of those people have their mouths open.

Give the dialogue to the dog.

"I told you I'd take care of it, didn't I?"

"we are happy that victoria roberts has vandalized our indoor corn field"

"It's just Crabgrass, dear" is a better caption for this week!

"Someone's scribbled their name on our carpet!"

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work

"Well, at least we'll have fresh olives next year!"

r. chast style titling rather than dialogue seems appropriate there
Your Ethanol Subsidies at Work

"ah, retirement"

"Harry, there is corn growing in the living room!"

the steins misunderstand the concept of cornholing

"I'm not sure this is how 'stalking' is supposed to work."

"next stop, heroin!"

^kinda feeling that one

Your Ethanol Subsidies at Work

irl lol

"Harry, I shaved my vulva!"

"'work from home'? i thought you said 'jerk farm home'!"

"i suppose this is what passes for progress in president obama's amerikkka"

did i win yet?

Haha OK I got one.