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April 05, 2006
Cartoon
For a while the New Yorker has run cartoon caption contests—i.e., they supply the cartoon and ask readers to supply the caption. They used to do it once a year, but it was so popular they now do it every week.
Here's this week's cartoon, by Gahan Wilson. I think you'll agree it's fertile with possibility. One that occurs to me is below.
I also hope you may have some ideas of your own. If you want, you can enter them here.
Posted at April 5, 2006 10:55 AM | TrackBack
"Still think 'Open Borders' is a good idea?"
Posted by: donescobar at April 5, 2006 11:37 AMI love Gahan. Personally, I think his captions are better.
It has been pointed out that the correct caption to every New Yorker cartoon caption contest is: "Christ, what an asshole."
I tend to agree.
Posted by: Alexis S at April 5, 2006 12:30 PM"Once again, Constance, your ability to conjure up multiple sightings of zero-gravity children has cost us another swell apartment!"
Posted by: solomon at April 5, 2006 01:12 PM"I'm crazy?! Who's the one who thinks she sees a hallway and doors?"
Posted by: Tracy Q. at April 5, 2006 01:14 PM"Cogent?! Cogent?! What the hell's that supposed to mean?"
Posted by: Tracy Q. at April 5, 2006 01:18 PMWell, it IS a school for gifted children after all.
Posted by: geeno at April 5, 2006 02:03 PM"I say it's the Ritalin."
More as they occur.
Posted by: Mike of Rugoren at April 5, 2006 02:03 PM"Just keep the candy out of sight and we may get outta here yet."
Posted by: Silas at April 5, 2006 02:48 PMI liked it better when it was so full of stars.
Posted by: patrick at April 5, 2006 03:06 PM"Zing goes the information -- flush goes the content. It's as simple as that!"
Posted by: Carrie Bass at April 5, 2006 03:07 PM"Did I ever tell you what a genius Hitchens is?"
Posted by: Peter K. at April 5, 2006 03:09 PMI entered
"I told you that not paying the children's gravity bill would yield a host of unexpected benefits."
but yours is much more cogent.
Posted by: Jonathan Versen at April 5, 2006 03:12 PM"Canonization is fine for a time, Gwen, but good God, people grow out of it."
Posted by: mimi at April 5, 2006 03:19 PM"No doubt about it -- this is the most poorly run abortion clinic I've ever seen."
Posted by: Tremors II at April 5, 2006 03:20 PM"If any more kids show up, we're going to have to buy more nails!"
or
Touring the day-care center onboard the international space station.
or
"Somehow, in here, the invasion of Iraq makes sense."
Posted by: Bob at April 5, 2006 03:27 PM"Remind me, whose idea was it to let them study radioactive spiders?"
Posted by: Mike of Rugoren at April 5, 2006 03:30 PM"Resplendent isn't the word I'm looking for here."
Posted by: tony t. at April 5, 2006 03:35 PMGod, how I hate those illegal aliens!
Posted by: at April 5, 2006 03:41 PMThis is unfortunately not suitable for entry, but:
"You know, this is just going to make it harder to kick the little fuckers."
Posted by: saurabh at April 5, 2006 05:14 PMSeveral school dsitricts, having whet their appetite on zero-tolerance, experiment with zero-gravity.
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The one school that No Child Left Behind actually works for.
or
Little did the administration realize that excessive use of tasers in schools made the children magnetic.
"'Ennicup.' I believe he said his name was Eupie Ennicup."
Posted by: Mike at April 5, 2006 07:18 PMCareful. Smells like the boy above you just pinched a loaf.
Posted by: oyster at April 5, 2006 10:36 PM"Damn. This shit is good, man."
Posted by: abb1 at April 6, 2006 05:28 AM"There are children all over the walls. That's odd."
Posted by: Miss Literal at April 6, 2006 07:06 AM"Oh, they stopped squirming once I dipped them in shellac. The tough part was finding the right sized nails."
Posted by: axis of Evel Knievel at April 6, 2006 11:20 AMY'know, even if you only see a few of them, that means there are another thousand behind the walls...
Posted by: Bob Harris at April 6, 2006 12:51 PM"Here at the Southern Baptist Kindergarten our god-fearing children understand that gravity is just a liberal secular theory".
Posted by: floopmeister at April 6, 2006 10:20 PMI've actually just been submitting "The Aristocrats!" as an answer to all of them, but I have to admit that it lacks the directness of "Christ, what an asshole."
Posted by: Sully at April 7, 2006 08:25 AMThe Future of Yr. Children - now that Wall Street has Stolen & Destroyed Absolutely Everything.
Posted by: EnoughAlready at April 7, 2006 01:57 PM"The floor is for adults only."
Posted by: paradoctor at April 8, 2006 06:34 PMThat's the last time we let Willie Nelson's kid chair the bakesale committee.
Posted by: at April 10, 2006 06:32 PMFloopmeister is the winner!
Posted by: me at April 11, 2006 01:09 PM