Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

a+++ dn dmac

Yeah, slept on imo tbph

Does anyone actually enter these into the competition?

For the "tall picture frame on desk" cartoon, the New Yorker's picked these three for the vote:

"Damn, I loved that giraffe."

"It's my extended family."

"I love her. And she can dunk."

All of these are unbelievably weak. The one about the three kids in a coat upthread is a million times better.

Threadstarter pushed to pin of collar, world watches

Can i just say that the new yankee workshop is the best

^^it really is, love that show

"i am open to negotiation"

"And from now on you want to be called big stuart? I, I got no problem with that"

"I will barf up your wife for 4 cat bucks"

Once Upon a Time in An American Tail

9 lives, 6 shots otm!

"easy buddy, i'm just looking for the canary."

"go on, make one more peter sellers joke. i dare you."

"still feel lucky, cat?"

"boy, those fur trappers really disrupted traditional economic relations."

"squeak." "meow." "squeak squeak." "meow."

"I admit it was I who moved your cheese."

awesome.

Y^^

"I don't remember there being a gun in the board game Mousetrap..."

"With me around, there'll always be a bowl of milk to be found. With me gone, you'll never know what might be poisoned."

Feel like a splicin of the nine lives with dirty harry could do it, eg

"now, i know what you're thinkin. have i four lives left, or only three?" kind of thing

Oh, good idea.
But judging by the finalists for the tall frame one, I expect one would stand a better chance with something like "Eek! A mouse!"

Ya but we have to be true to ourselves

a+ for the dirty harry joke.

its nice to have some fun cartoons to work with after the totally hopeless stuff they were throwing up there for a while.

Amen to that

still really feel like there should be two competitions, one for the "unlock the caption that makes sense of the cartoon" competition that they so clearly enjoy running, and another for a "caption that would actually be in a real new yorker cartoon"

i always aim for "real new yorker"

Roger Ebert's contribution makes no sense:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/my-entry-371-in-new-yorker-car.html

If the Dirty Harry one doesn't one, I am considering cancelling my subscription.

"doesn't WIN..."

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/03/18/p465/130318_contest_p465.jpg

"Looks like it's only you and me putting in for Florian's leaving present"

The office's no-coffee policy has led to some extreme measures.

"We're a start-up."

"BOOP BLEEP"

"I don't know what's in the 'P.C. Vey' drawer but I'm dying to find out. We'll wait until he needs to be rewound."

Everyone's been so tightly wound lately.

"Funnily enough, parts and maintenance actually works out more expensive. But they really piss Michael Moore off"

"They seem great now, but it took our engineers six months just to get them to stop marching back and forth and clapping keyboards together"

Nice

"It's 3pm and there's Jones goofing off on the internet, like clockwork."

"I don't know why he doesn't just take a vacation and unwind a bit."

"Thanks Obama"

"Simons, why do all these people have wind-up keys in their backs?"

"One thing I'm unclear about is how they put their shirts on."

"PC VEY! Why have you carved your name onto company property? Do you realize that this is a fireable offense?"

if you position one right you can get it to give you a handjob

"You can tell by the flag affixed to his back that this is Employee #8. And yes, the employee behind us is also #8. As you can see, we find that unique identifiers are inherently dehumanizing, and avoid them whenever possible."

"Don't think that just because I'm looking over at our new wind-up employees that I don't notice you wanking yourself through your pants pocket."