my friend's in the new yorker caption contest

go vote for her.

(if you feel like it, i mean.)

she's the one from knoxville.

hers is clearly the best.

Seconded.

voted. best by a long way anyway.

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voted and twitter'd

correct answer is so obvious i suspect someone weakened the field as insurance

The contests always have one that's reasonably funny (your friend's), one that is really obvious and dumb, and one that doesn't even really function as a joke.

your friend's is def. the best.

my g.f. keeps prodding me to enter something in this contest; we spend time every week imagining captions.

also some of these cartoons are just magnificent without captions, truly surrealist. although some of them seem to be begging for a very particular type of joke, and those are less interesting.

I submitted once and wasn't picked (I realized later I had ignored a key detail in the cartoon). Another time I had a great idea -- better, I thought, then the ones that did end up as finalists -- but waited too late to send it in. Ah well.

Here is the one I missed out on:

http://i41.tinypic.com/2mqpz6a.jpg

My caption: "Marketing said the Jolly Roger 'wasn't jolly enough.'"

(Maybe it's too literal, come to think of it.)

no i like it better than any of the other three!

Agree "not jolly enough roger" is way better. Those three are pretty terrible (esp last one)-- do you think this contest is sometimes a passive-aggressive way for NY'er to assert superiority over their readership?

I enjoy that hypothesis! "See, this is why we get PROFESSIONALS to do this."

ha OTM

too soon for craigslist joek?

I am terrible at trying to come up with captions for these. Maybe a good start for any of them would be "Marketing called, they said __________."

I'm not a fan of Lynch's transcendental meditatation advocacy, but TM sounds like a pretty good technique for producing cartoon captions.

Maybe a good start for any of them would be "Marketing called, they said __________."

I know, right? It's such a New Yorker cartoon cliche, that sort of good-natured tweaking of corporate culture.

and once again...

this time it's one of my in-laws. you can vote for him here, if you feel so inclined. (it's the one from knoxville, again. knoxville seems to perform well, at least in getting into the finals.) i also think it is actually the funniest line -- helped by the other two not being funny at all.

voted!

ha! your in-laws' caption is really good! "internet" isn't too bad either but not as funny as euro disney. voted.

best one there.

is paul noth mr big from sex in the city, i ask?

google says.....no

yay, he won. thx for your votes.

awesome!

http://contest.newyorker.com/CaptionContest.aspx?tab=vote&affiliate=ny-caption

my friend ben!

My friend Roger Ebert!

haha! i like his!

A Godfather parallel for most anything in life; a Seinfeld parallel for whatever's not covered by The Godfather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_4M1Tz_SdM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active