Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

"I'm terribly sorry; this was supposed to be the Backwards Tuck slide, not the Left Leg Conceal."

"In summation, not all ideas are worth having. Thank you."

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 08:12 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amazing

half of the people who look at this will have no idea what TED is, which is a bummer, because it precludes all TEDxxx genre captions

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:25 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new yorker readers know what TED is!

"This is a picture of a TEDdy bear."

"... and this is how you smize."

tbh the most scandalous thing about that cartoon is that the guy's using a Mac SE.

Or in caption form, "I am trying very hard to distract you from the Mac SE I'm using."

haha, I was going to post the same thing but I couldn't remember what those macs were called

"It's called the 'treasure trail' because it leads you to my million dollar idea"

"I got my father's hairline and my mother's sense of the spiritual in everyday things."

"I always wanted to be... a lumberjack!"

"This is the uniform of posthumanism I bid you wear to accelerate the singularity"

xxp lol

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/06/04/p290/120604_contest_p290.jpg

The realities of the EU Structural Fund.

"I think we could have made better use of this Homeland Security grant"

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/06/04/p465/120604_contest_p465.jpg

"They cam over 'ere, stealin' our coconats"

"at least we know know why it's called 'atoll'"

"okay, let's feel down the back of the seat one more time."

"I came here for the schools........ of fish!!!!!!!"

darragh FTW

"The exclusivity is top notch, the golf less so."

"Hey, maybe we should just ask the toll guard for a lift back home."

darragh FTW

― ljubljana, Monday, May 28, 2012 9:07 AM (7 hours ago)

^^^yep

you should def submit it.

i prefer the eu one but i think y'all prefer the atoll one, right?

yes.

you say that now, but if it wins you'll all claim to prefer the earlier work imo

yes

the atoll one was good but I stand by my belief that puns do not win

otm imo

There's something about this one. Runner-up = forks

Needs more exclamation points imo

everyone's a person who criticizes

Needs less 'know' imo.

one less k i'll grant you

"It's not huge, isle grant you that!!!!!

"i'll never view a place at low tide again"

"We need a davenport."

"it is terribly ironic and not a little awkward that we have squandered our wealth on moving to a desert island with preposterously excessive immigration controls to isolate ourselves from the tyranny of sodomy and to escape the gay jihad on marriage only for me to now discover that i am in fact in love with you, and always have been"

Please please submit that.

at the very least to colin firth's agent

short version:

"Why, do you fancy a shag?"

But that doesn't make any mention of the toll booth/barrier/fence deal. The implications are completely different.

it's irony/juxtaposition.

"I said from the start this congestion charge was a terrible mistake."

"this island satisfies me because i fucking hate mexicans"

"You smell."