Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

"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."

"I told you no one wants to live in a gated commune."

"i knew nobody else would be here this early, didn't i say nobody else would be here this early? i just knew nobody else would be here this early"

"Yes, I know you like having him around, but to be perfectly frank I feel it's another unnecessary expenditure we just can't afford right now"

"Come to think of it, I actually do feel safer than I did four years ago."

^sounds like a winner

"That sure was an unusual TED conference."

^continuity

"I thought YOU read the terms and conditions."

Ryanair's tactic of flying into regional airports failed spectacularly in the Carribbean

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."