Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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"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

"and they said zoos were exploitative."

whiskey and ice cream sandwiches (Treeship), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link

"Think about it, we'll be the sole supplier in all of Waterworld!"

lazulum, Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link

"This mash up of 'Speed 2' and 'Ace Ventura' isn't working out."

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link

"The way my back is these days, ease of milking was paramount"

i gave ten pounds and all i got was a lousy * (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link

"Naaah, everyone'sdoing alpacas now, we're way ahead of the curve on this"

i gave ten pounds and all i got was a lousy * (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:37 (ten years ago) link

DJP's still wins, but "union" is great too

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link

"There are few things more humiliating than being held hostage by giraffes."

Poliopolice, Thursday, 9 May 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link

Venn Gott asked me if I vanted giraffes I told him, "nein!"

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 9 May 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link

You remember the "two people in a large nest" one?

"It's only fair. He has a man cave."
"I come here to brood."
"After the kids moved out, the tree house was just too big."

Nothing about "bough house" or similar...

Mark G, Monday, 13 May 2013 08:59 (ten years ago) link

"Fancy a shag?"

Mark G, Monday, 13 May 2013 09:01 (ten years ago) link

"Where do you buy your nappies diapers?"

Elvis was a hero to most but he never her (ledge), Monday, 13 May 2013 09:08 (ten years ago) link

"mine's funner to watch on the way down"

r|t|c, Monday, 13 May 2013 09:19 (ten years ago) link

To avoid bbc staff"

i gave ten pounds and all i got was a lousy * (darraghmac), Monday, 13 May 2013 09:25 (ten years ago) link

Big balls mate, but you should see my Castor and Pollux - they're a right handful.

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Monday, 13 May 2013 09:33 (ten years ago) link

"Rock? Like Rock Hudson? How adorable."

Grampsy, Monday, 13 May 2013 09:51 (ten years ago) link

"Sisyphus? You just met us"

Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 May 2013 09:54 (ten years ago) link

"Just because your baby's fat, it doesn't mean you're a bad parent. It's just karma."

Grampsy, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:11 (ten years ago) link


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