Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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Holy shit Mark does that mean One of Us is a finalist??

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 March 2013 12:15 (eleven years ago) link

that's, uh, not a caption

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 March 2013 12:16 (eleven years ago) link

Six rounds. Nine lives. You do the math."
Submitted by T0m L30nard, Berkeley, Calif.

Mark G, Monday, 18 March 2013 12:23 (eleven years ago) link

Is that one of us? Because it is not me.

mister borges (darraghmac), Monday, 18 March 2013 12:27 (eleven years ago) link

You gotta agree, we all loved the idea of "transparency in business" – until "business" was on the rise.

Tuomas, Monday, 18 March 2013 12:41 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.facebook.com/thomas.c.leonard

I don't think this is an ILXor, or is he?

Tuomas, Monday, 18 March 2013 12:44 (eleven years ago) link

He's a dirty rotten caption-stealing cheat.

emil.y, Monday, 18 March 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago) link

did i say rounds or bullets? Either way twas hardly worldwide unique. So he v likely came up wi'th himself and wont be reading this. But if you are, tom, i hope you die roaring you dirty bollocks.

mister borges (darraghmac), Monday, 18 March 2013 13:08 (eleven years ago) link

i'd like to propose that we just assume that thomas c leonard is a lurker and stole it and deserves to die. YOU DESERVE TO DIE THOMAS C LEONARD

( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 18 March 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link

Well i didnt wanna say but obv

mister borges (darraghmac), Monday, 18 March 2013 13:20 (eleven years ago) link

EVIDENCE

"Don't be stupid kid. Nine lives, six shots, you do the maths"

― poll that whitey music pfunkboy (darraghmac), Monday, March 4, 2013 9:42 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ good one

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, March 4, 2013 9:44 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nine lives, six shots, you do the math

leave it at that and that's the winner imo

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, March 4, 2013 9:45 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha i fuckin knew the maths would need yankeed

― poll that whitey music pfunkboy (darraghmac), Monday, March 4, 2013 9:47 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 18 March 2013 13:27 (eleven years ago) link

THOMAS C LEONARD changed the commas to periods, that's it!

( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 18 March 2013 13:28 (eleven years ago) link

Thomas C Leonard - "you will regret this"

( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 18 March 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link

Aw c'mon. I know they're identical and all, but Tom Leonard's answer was actually much better than dmac's imo.

acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Monday, 18 March 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago) link

"you will regret this"

obviously i say that as a friend

( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 18 March 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link

"So... are we doing this?"

Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link

(dude swapped them around, also. Still, moving on...)

Mark G, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link

"One more margin call like this..."

s.clover, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link

"Even as tail risk scenarios go, this is a doozy."

s.clover, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link

"Well, if you're so sure, you tell him what a naked short position really means."

s.clover, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link

"We need to discuss the budget."

Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link

"No, you listen Cassandra. The Central Risk office says we're fully covered."

s.clover, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link

"This is quite an unanticipated exposure to market conditions."

s.clover, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link

"And that is how I really came to be known as the London Whale."

s.clover, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link

"Now that the board has fully bought in, we can take the Emperor clothing line to the people."

Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link

"You're just not modeling them right. These are bespoke products."

s.clover, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link

"We can't *all* have the four of diamonds!"

Mark G, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link

Ya i think the emperor avenue shall be fruitful lets send it to the lurkers for finishing

mister borges (darraghmac), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link

"I mean, really - what are the odds that we'd ALL mis-read a department-wide email about "naked shorting and tradeable assets"?"

Walter Galt, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link

I posted a winning caption sometime back that i didn't submit. Great minds etc. This isn't rocket science, it's TEH NWE YROKRE

"Well SOMEONE is going to have to go get coffee."

i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:00 (eleven years ago) link

"we must rebut this perception that we're motivated by naked greed. think, people, think!"

don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link

"i think i see the a/c unit arriving."

don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link

"no seriously you guys the tip is totally touching the ground"

mister borges (darraghmac), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link

"i wish once we could work late without taking half our time up with this eternal prada or armani debate."

don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link

Deep down, Clemence was still deeply uneasy with women in the boardroom.

mister borges (darraghmac), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link

"When I stand like this it looks like I'm peeing ants."

Øystein, Monday, 18 March 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link

"Please, Rachel, you really must stop chewing on that pencil."

Øystein, Monday, 18 March 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link

"well folks we've all seen the figures, and there's no point in dressing them up."

mister borges (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago) link

^ awes, tom is gonna shit himself when he sees that one

mister borges (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 02:12 (eleven years ago) link

"i think i see the a/c unit arriving."

― don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster)

this, tho

mister borges (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link

"haha. boobs."

No, not sinister (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link

i've met tom leonard and i've never heard him be so clever in real life.

wmlynch, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link

Im not that funny irl either, devise another proof

mister borges (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link

"And now we will fork their repos with our massive dongles"

emil.y, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link

loooool

Darth Icky (DJP), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link

"As you can see on page 3, Lysol now accounts for 23% of our yearly budget."

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link

"Those fucking suppliers really left us holding our dicks on this one."

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link

"Is this is breast we can do? Um, best. Sorry, I'm a little dicktracted. Um, distracted. Fuck me."

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link

"This fellow Tom Leonard will pay dearly for his transgressions."

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link

"Team, Chatroulette is falling on tough times in this economy."

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link


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