Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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"apparently he's the god of orthodontics"

Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 March 2012 12:43 (twelve years ago) link

ok, that's way too good...

Mark G, Monday, 5 March 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link

I say that every week, and every week, there's something gets chosen that's like "Oh, I forgot, the Joneses are coming over for Polenta" or something.

Mark G, Monday, 5 March 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link

"Apparently the soil contains traces of Prozac."

Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Monday, 5 March 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link

"I'm afraid of what we'll find if we dig any deeper."

EZ Snappin, Monday, 5 March 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link

"Welcome to Christmas Island."

Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Monday, 5 March 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link

"the irony is that they were wiped out in a mass suicide cult"

Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 March 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link

"this is not normal..."

Philip Nunez, Monday, 5 March 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link

"they say this island illustrates 'the comedy of the commons'"

goole, Monday, 5 March 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link

comedy of the commons is awesome but too obscure, i fear.

s.clover, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link

"This hill has an unobstructed view of Mt. Bosom."

Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Monday, 5 March 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link

"The first line of the inscription reads 'Something going to something something up. Never something something down.' I don't understand it either."

s.clover, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link

"Well, they were certainly handsome devils, eh? Some say they simply admired themselves to death."

s.clover, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link

"what's with all these rock hard penises?"

this is my receipt for your receipt (Z S), Monday, 5 March 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link

"I'm afraid of what we'll find if we dig any deeper."
― EZ Snappin, Monday, March 5, 2012
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drop these whiners on a island (Surviver style) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link

orthodontics line a dead cert

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 10:43 (twelve years ago) link

"they really like this punchline"

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link

oh shit EDIT "they really like this caption"

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link

haha that's great

Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link


"Believe me, it's what's under the ground that's most interesting."
Submitted by Webb Harris
Winter Springs, Fla.

Verry close to EZ Snappin's version!

Mark G, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/03/26/p465/120326_contest_p465.jpg

Mark G, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link

Damn it! Mine was better.

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EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link

"This isn't what I meant when I asked you to lock up the house."

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link

"marco"

Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link

"It took me ten hours to inflate, you can at least turn around and look at it."

butvi wouls (Phil D.), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link

nice one forks!

"Sigmund's all grown up now Johnny. He can hold his own with his crazy family."

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link

"For goodness sake, I don't care what Maud got up to with hers! We really need a poolboy"

less of the same (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link

"Oh god, why did it just get about 20 degrees warmer in here?"

Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link


"Believe me, it's what's under the ground water that's most interesting."

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

"marco"

― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:40 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this actually made me laugh, it cannot win

i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

"I could play bass, but c'mon, THREE bass players?"

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link

"did you remember to use the SPF 75?"

i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link

Loch Ness called, they want their patio furniture back

are chads electorate (brownie), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link

"You don't want to wake the dragon." /obvious

Johnny Favre (Leee), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link

"You sure you want to pass on this psilocybin tea?"

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link

forks ftw

but also:

"prepare to die"

Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 05:51 (twelve years ago) link

"i thought you said you cleaned the pool"

Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 05:51 (twelve years ago) link

"no, really, i love your mother. she can stay as long as she wants."

Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 05:52 (twelve years ago) link

"i know the piranha were getting to be a problem, but..."

Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 05:53 (twelve years ago) link

"i picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue"

Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 05:54 (twelve years ago) link

"This is Norman"

ledge, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 11:55 (twelve years ago) link

"prepare to die" should be a caption in more nyer toons, esp the ones with some boring couple sitting on couches

i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link

"Just til they get back off holiday you say?"

red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago) link

"Told you that dwarven pool company was a mistake"

red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago) link

"did you remember to level up honey?"

i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 12:35 (twelve years ago) link

poolboy caption is pretty good.

this is a pretty tough one, I think.

s.clover, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link

"You know, this is a bit improbable from the perspective of volume displacement"

i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link

the pic is not that funny on its own, is the problem

goole, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link

and it's a chinese dragon, another kink

goole, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link


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