Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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"Do you know what planet this is, son? EARTH"

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link

"What if...like, this is the Planet of the Giraffes and we're the rescued human pair!"

lazulum, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link

i'd expect a drowning witch to be grateful

oxygenating our wombspace (abanana), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link

'... other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the show?'

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link

"I'm as surprised as you. I didn't think giraffes were carnivorous either."

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link

"I did love you, once, but the Deluge is my life now."

lazulum, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link

(in a yiddish accent) "What can I say? I won them in the girraffle."

huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link

"Think they misread the part before 'Rides For Free' on the bumper sticker"

Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link

"Christ, what a giraffe"

UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link

Amazon insist that this was the order as received

al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link

"This is a funny looking coffee table. Did you follow the self assembly instructions correctly?"

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link

'who is your favorite marketplace reporter? mine is chana giraffe-wolt'

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link

"and then bitcoin plummeted, so now we do this for awhile i guess."

am0n, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link

"I think I'm still in shock about how badly I fucked up, like I'm not really dealing with it yet, you know? Because this is terrible."

Treeship, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link

"I wish I was taller."

lazulum, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link

"what giraffes?"

your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link

"....and then I got to thinking, well, in a flood, I mean a real flood, standing on a cat or whatever aint gonna do you any good, but..."

al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:45 (ten years ago) link

"I'll give them this, they got a helluva union"

al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link

"I've read Leviticus- these're the only fucking things we can eat."

al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:48 (ten years ago) link

haha those are all great

Treeship, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:51 (ten years ago) link

Your last one was the most 'ilx' funny imo

al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link

"Guess those antediluvian bridge makers weren't so incompetent after all"

Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:41 (ten years ago) link

leviticus one + treeship's "dealing with it" + girraffle + We're too late + rabbits are all lulz.

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link

"Look at their fuzzy little faces and then tell me you would have said no."

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link

"I know what you're thinking. But this is really just one giant giraffe-headed hydra"

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link

Liking pretty much all of these

Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link

"I hope you know what you're doing. We've got a whole lot of necks on the line here."

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:24 (ten years ago) link

"Jehovah? I thought he said his name was Jah-Raffe"

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link

"Look, it's a small ark, and there's a surprising abundance of giraffe species. Priorities had to be set."

lazulum, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link

"So this is what happens when you get me drunk. I wonder what happens the next time."

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:17 (ten years ago) link

along those lines

"Well that must have been some bachelor party. I imagine it will take us up until the wedding to piece together the sequence of events last night that led to this incongruous situation."

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link

"Every ship has girats."

EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link

Union joke is excellent

UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link

"Act natural; there's a low bridge coming up fast."

Grampsy, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:06 (ten years ago) link

"I'm not good at this job."

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link

"Fuck what God says. What's he gonna do, fire me?"

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:16 (ten years ago) link

"Fuck what God says. I'm running this ship."

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:19 (ten years ago) link

"Giraffes, muthafukkaz!!"

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:19 (ten years ago) link

"i wish new yorker cartton captions could just be a glance, a gesture, a shifting of hands... punchlines are too direct. they don't penetrate the heart of the image, or the reality it discloses and at the same time conceals."

^ this is a caption

Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:34 (ten years ago) link

"you remembered the giraffes alright but what about the beer?"

Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 05:32 (ten years ago) link

God, I'm so sick of this Gir-Raffi tape.

Poliopolice, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link

"Giraffes, muthafukkaz!!"

this is killing me

far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link

"oh you said GI-ant RAFT"

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link

"Because I got high."

jaymc, Thursday, 9 May 2013 03:25 (ten years ago) link

"I'm not planning to go anywhere particular, it's the voyage that matters"

Van Horn Street, Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:59 (ten years ago) link

"YOLO!"

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link

"I thought you'd like it."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link

"Emzara.... Will you marry me?"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link

"We're never gonna survive unless we get a little... crazy."

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link

'You know that when we get back to the boardroom Lord Sugar's going to be all "this is a bleedin' shambles", right?'

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link


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