Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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"At least he walls don't have ears"

EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link

not he - the.

EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link

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

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link

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

Give the dialogue to the dog.

jaymc, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link

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

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link

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

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link

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

Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link

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

Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link

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

antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link

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

Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link

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

loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link

"ah, retirement"

anorange (abanana), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link

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

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link

the steins misunderstand the concept of cornholing

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link

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

Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan M. (Phil D.), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link

"next stop, heroin!"

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link

^kinda feeling that one

loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link

Your Ethanol Subsidies at Work

irl lol

Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link

"Harry, I shaved my vulva!"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link

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

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link

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

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link

did i win yet?

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link

Haha OK I got one.

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link

"I never promised you a rose garden."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link

gnerrrrrrrrr

Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link

Well look at what we have to work with!

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link

tru

Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link

"Damn Mabel, this weed is so good I can't tell if that's a mirror, or a picture frame, or a window."

triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link

The pope pup smokes dope.

triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link

as high as an elephants eye he said, christ what an asshole

brownie, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

"Christ what a mousehole"

Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link

someone should have a booth for this at occupy wall street

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link

(late, I know)

Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link

current one:

"I guess he's finally going through with that plan to murder and maim thousands of civilians"

Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link

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

This is normal.

max, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

"Depressing couple is depressing"

Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link

"you know what my favorite thing is about corn?"

Z S, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

"the real joke here is that she's reading print media"

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 October 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

"wanna shuck this corn and see how many holes it'll fit into?"

rated r

Z S, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link

"I don't know what this week's winning caption will be, but I'll bet it will be corny"

Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link

Sorry, xpost, that was for the one with the dude with the weapons.

Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link

lol

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 October 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link

"That's it, the vegans downstairs have got to go."

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link

"this cotton harvest should be really profitable once our slave shipment arrives"

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 October 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link

enter that

Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2011/10/24/p465/111024_contest_p465.jpg
"ALL TOGETHER THEN! Croc-Croc Crockaway Beach..."

Mark G, Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link

"wait a second - new yorker cartoons don't have color!"

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link

"Wow, our crocodile costumes are really realistic, aren't they?"

Waka Flocka Floccupy Wall Street (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link

"This is normal."

max, Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link

:D

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link


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