Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

"now that you mention it, the whistling sound *is* kind of irritating"

"The third film was by some margin the darkest of the Weekend at Bernie's trilogy."

the burrito joke is supported by the fact that if you look at the drawing, there ARE sort of fart lines

"he is soaking his feet in epsom salts"

"Forget about the past, Malone, and start thinking about the approaching overpass."

"I'm sorry, but I'm getting really tired of people telling me how great the wire is"

okay, feeling that one.

"Christ, I'm going not going to be able to close my eyes tonight without seeing a twitching bushy tail."

was gonna add "besides, I'm more of a sopranos guy" but thought it would be overkill

xp

"The Sopranos is SO much better than the Wire" would be a good contender if the voting audience consisted entirely of 20- and 30-something transplanted Brooklynites

"i'll admit the look on his face is priceless, but i still wonder if we shouldn't have just hired a stripper"

"i'm actually an electrician by trade, i just do this for fun"

"Christ, I'm going not going to be able to close my eyes tonight without seeing a twitching bushy tail."

― W i l l, Monday, June 22, 2009 1:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest

haha

forks & goole had good ones too

Burrito and live in a studio/what am I gonna do with it are my favorites so far.

Playing off the driver's petulant expression:

"Not that you even asked, but I _don't_ think he'll go with the sofa."
"I didn't say I didn't like it! I said that, for a hood ornament, it's a bit ostentatious."

ah, just saw the studio one, that works better than mine.

"No, that was too loud for something a pigeon might have dropped"

"They always shit themselves after ya get the shoes on 'em."

Week Three poll is up!

The "Let's Obliterate the New Yorker Caption Contest" Poll: Week THREE

Week Four!

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Same format as always, submit captions until Wednesday-ish, poll on Thursday-Saturday, and winners should submit their nominations to the NYer by Sunday, July 5th.

".. and then he nicked my submarine!"

"Flight risk, you said. My conscience is clear."

I'm having trouble figuring out what is going on in this one. Why is he standing out in front of the two lawyers? Is he being sentenced? But don't defendants stand back with their lawyers when the sentence comes down? And is one of the bailiffs supposed to be the one speaking?

I feel like my mom watching ANY movie in the theater. "Who is that? Why is everyone so angry with each other now?"

"This isn't the pool?"

CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT: This entry should now be "This isn't the jury pool?"

"Who is that? Why is everyone so angry with each other now?"

Is this an entry? Because I like it.

"Correct, Your Honor. Now, put your right hand out."

Judge Williams always came down harshly on those found guilty of Diving Under the Influence.

HI DERE on the right path, something about pooling the jury.

standard New Yorker entry: "Well, it's a funny story..."

If ILX is really going to win the New Yorker Caption Contest, we need to think more like the New Yorker. A lot of people's submitted captions are funny, but they're not constructed in the pithy, slightly groan-inducing style that the magazine favors. Ideally, we also need to write more captions that mildly satirize the ruling class and/or the contemporary work-a-day world.

A kind of comment on contemporary mores?

sorry i can only do embarrassing puns

"No your honour, they're Speedos! The 'S' fell off!"

"I think I misunderstood the meaning of carpool."

"Flight risk, you said. My conscience is clear."

― W i l l

A+

jaymc OTM

puns don't really do it

Alba, more of a comment on contemporary foibles of the upper-middle class I'd say

Although this one may be an exception

Yeah, my comment was more of a general thing, not about this cartoon specifically.

the dudes are wearing badges so I don't think they are lawyers fwiw

"In my defence, Your Honor, even you have to admit the phrase "secretarial pool" can be misleading."

"I've been dressing this way since my business went under."

Hi DERE that's pretty good

"How else are you supposed to dress for air travel these days?"

"In this economy??"

^^^doesnt actually make sense but i might submit it for every cartoon until it does

The new Law Degree from the Marine Institute just wasn't working out in practice.

Whaddaya mean not dressed for the occasion? We're in FLORIDA

"OK, I admit: I was paid to take a dive!"

(groany enuff for yiz?)

HI DERE why 'secretarial pool' rather than 'jury pool'?