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I think I'm a reasonably clever guy. And yet the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest is in its 126th week and not a single caption has ever come to mind.
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6:46 PM
Thursday, December 20, 2007
I think I'm a reasonably clever guy. And yet the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest is in its 126th week and not a single caption has ever come to mind.
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My entry for this cartoon:
"Hmmm. There's lots of people crawling around out here, which is weird. More importantly, though, we're heading south, as are a number of other people, but an equal number seem to be crawling north. So in all probability, none of us are going the right way; there's certainly not going to be water anytime soon in either direction. Perhaps we should head either east or west - no-one's heading away from those directions, so one of those is a safe bet. I hope we don't choose incorrectly. With this hot sun, if we don't find water soon, we'll be dead within a day."
i think i'd have to be the kind of cartoonist who has a funny idea and then draws it, not the other way around.
Maybe that's what the cartoonists do, but then the New Yorker doesn't like the caption but buys it from them anyway, just for the contest.
Ruben Bolling ("Tom the Dancing Bug") had a similar cartoon, a single man crawling across a desert, and the caption was "I am not long for this earth. Lord, I suffer. I doubtless shall never see my loved ones ever again, and only a painful death awaits me. Anyone who might gaze upon my plight and think some sort of humorous punchline might be forthcoming would have to be some kind of psychopath."
How about: "Another week, nary a caption, it's like salt to a wound, isn't it?"
or: "the problem with crawling in a desert is that YOU'RE CRAWLING IN A DESERT."
Maybe we can come up with winning captions week to week if we all work together? Would it be worth it?
"this is the weirdest yoga class"
Elizabeth, that is EXACTLY the sort of caption that wins! If this is the current contest, you could enter it.
in retrospect, instead of having the big splash party to kick things off, we should have saved some water for later.
We always got them a week late. So I'm willing to play the game, if someone could show me the current contest. (But isn't the prize a year subscription or something?) (Which we cancelled because it was always so late)
My husband thinks this contest is insulting to cartoonists so I don't even try.
If Tony Millionaire says this contest is insulting to cartoonists then I wholeheartedly agree.
Tony is also shocked every Sunday that the newspaper comics aren't funny. He's very naive.
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