Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

But isn't it the woman on the side of the pool who appears to be talking?

forks I saw that it was nom'd and was psyched. didn't know it won.

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/04/23/p465/120423_contest_p465.jpg

"Christ, what an asshole"

oh yeah, also awesome that it won!

"What is this joker, blind? The left lane is wide open."

"I am driving a Mini and therefore I deserve death"

"that may look like a ufo that is immediately behind us but it is actually a streetlamp that is in the foreground. representing three dimensions in a two-dimensional medium can be difficult."

go forks!

"did you bring condoms?"

"i'm so glad that i just had my anus whitened"

"Maybe it's time we upgraded to a space barge."

"Orson will be pleased."

"Fuck, I hate cops."

"You first."

"You've got your papers, right?"

"What is this joker, blind? The left lane is wide open."

― s.clover, Monday, April 16, 2012 5:41 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like this cartoon immediately suggests about a thousand variations on this basic theme.

"i didn't do anything wrong, this is just another case of 'driving while human'"

"Not again. My ass is still full of eggs from the last time."

"Wow, I always figured those "Speed Limit Enforced By Aircraft" signs were just scare tactics"

"Highway 61? More like AREA 51, amirite?"

"This 'Bluetooth Connected' station sounds just like your phone."

"What did I say about talking to Scientologists?"

"Is it just me or does something seem perspectivally off about that UFO following us?"

"I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque."

"Sometimes when I'm driving... on the road at night... I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The... flames rising out of the flowing gasoline."

"There are four lights!"

"you can too tell if people are here illegally by how they drive"

btw, i didn't enter with marco; that's somebody else

aww

it's a moral victory though

i wonder how often they get dupe entries

Had to look "Marco" up, so..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_(game)

. . .

I didn't get the "Marco" thing either, I thought it was some oblique reference to Italian poolboys.

That makes me feel better.

looooool

"I don't think they're happy I refused the probe."

"oh yeahh.... all right... take it easy baby... make it last-make it last all niyeet... she was... an amahrican girl"

Both the rectum-related ones made me irl lol.

I didn't get the "Marco" thing either, I thought it was some oblique reference to Italian poolboys.

It sort of is, in fact.

ya I don't think we really do Marco Polo in the UK. I remember I learned it from one of the Monkey Island games.

people used to say it to each other when i was a kid and i had no idea wtf they were talking about. i assumed it had something to do with doing it

"Just think of the gas mileage that thing must get. Probably some republican hunting nut."

"can you believe that this asshole's been tailgating us for five million light years?"

people used to say it to each other when i was a kid and i had no idea wtf they were talking about. i assumed it had something to do with doing it
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S)

"You said this was a shortcut."

"Dip, don't dazzle"

^^^ was gonna do something like that but figured it was UK-centric :D

"can you believe that this asshole's been tailgating us for five million light years?"

― michael nyman cat (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:06 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this is the best one so far

^ yeah, was gonna say