Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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."

"These are our key workers."

I didnt want to say..... xp

"Oy, PC Vey!"

"When the recruitment agency said they'd provide a turnkey solution, this wasn't what I had in mind."

"Hey, stop posting on that ILX site."

"I thought I was ahead of the times by being an early adopter of Google Glass, but these guys have Google Key."

"Hey PC, glad you finally got the stick out of your arse and the key back in your back."

"Despite my initial concerns that he was a retarded conman peddling quick fixes to a gullible public, I have to say that Timothy Ferriss really came through for me."

"it looks impressive, but each one is actually internally operated by a dwarf using a complicated system of hand and food levers"

"This is the film set for our steampunk re-imagining of The Matrix."

"And here's our YouTube comments spammer cube farm!"

"With a key between your shoulderblades you speak only in vowels."

"These guys really have the wind in their sales. GET IT? GET IT????"

"This team really closes sales like clockwork."

"I hate to say it, but this department is underperforming and needs to be wound down."

"Finally we've discovered why the New Yorker caption contest is so bad."

"We'll be replacing this department with monkeys by Q3."

"And this concludes our tour of [much-maligned company that features heavily in recent news]."

"...I just think that a clockwork orange would take up less space."

"If you think this is bad, wait until you see our Sim City server farm."

Terrible, awful cartoon makes me just want to mock pc vey and his juvenilely transparent concept of what it is to work in an office for a company for, like, money, maaaan

"I never should have told the executives to focus more on touring the workforce."

"we prefer the term automafun"

"What is this, some kind of wind-up?"

Please no more clockwork or windup ones please

"So, Johnson, do you have a really long neck and really sharp chin, or is that your nose, or . . .?"