Perhaps Slightly Embarrassing…
March 1st, 2006One symptom of my profound dorkyness is that I’ll occasionally submit a caption to the New Yorker Caption Contest.
I have yet to win.
I was going to submit this week, but I never got around to it. What I came up with, I thought, was funny (in a hacky sort-of way)…
“If you lift my tray, I’ll show you what I think of high-yield bonds”
March 1st, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Makes me laugh.
Here’s mine:
Clothes are so coach.
March 1st, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Here’s mine:
“It’s my birthday.”
March 1st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
How about:
“Holy SHIT! I’m naked!”
March 1st, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Here’s another!
“Nice turtleneck.”
March 1st, 2006 at 4:25 pm
what about, “Be a friend and fetch me some toiletpaper. You see, I’m about to take a dump in my seat.”
Although, I don’t know why he would have to be naked to do that.
March 1st, 2006 at 7:16 pm
I’m going to punch up Kirk’s last one…
“Nice turtleneck… ASSHOLE!”
March 2nd, 2006 at 2:35 am
I think yours is much funnier than all of these, Mitch. You see, it leaves a little scene to be imagined by the reader, and let me tell you, it is hilarious. I mean this; I’m not being facetious. I mean it! It’s hard to convey earnestness in type.
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:24 am
I don’t know, sharky, “It’s my Birthday” (as if that explains it) is pretty funny, I think.
I think the others beat me in the brevity-test, which is essential.
Will’s has the ring of a real New Yorker cartoon.
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:32 pm
It’s intimidating to be amongst all you professionals, but I’ll try:
#1
“What’s the deal with airplane seats? These things were made for midgets. What do they think they’re doing, shipping sardines across the country? The only cold fish I know is my wife, ho ho ho. And what about this airline food?”
#2
“Sometimes, late at night, I take a razor blade and cut myself, because that’s the only way I can FEEL.”
March 4th, 2006 at 10:05 am
I like both of those.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:12 am
#1:
“Edelweiss, edelweiss, every morning you greet me…”
#2 (the Dyna Moe re-mix):
“Edelweiss, edelweiss, every morning you greet me…ASSHOLE!”
December 17th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
I actually used the cartoon for a seminar, caption:
Together with airlines the Department of Defense is in the process of testing an alternative to T-Ray scanners, that might prove to be more cost efficient.