"Apparently, they think we're some sort of gods."
― If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play? (Dr. Superman), Saturday, 6 June 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow. That note about the "not the funniest one" was really OTM - I just looked at the previous 25 contests' top results :-/(exception: the first two of this one were LOLworthy: http://contest.newyorker.com/CaptionContest.aspx?id=189 )
― StanM, Saturday, 6 June 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Christ, what an asshole.
― Telephone thing, Saturday, 6 June 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
"What arouses me is that they're speaking German."
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Saturday, 6 June 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Any more entries? I figure we'll collect them until Thursday night, and then have a quick 2 day poll on Friday and Saturday to select the winner, and then I'll submit it on the Sunday deadline.
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i42.tinypic.com/14l7ywm.jpg
"If you didn't spend all your time watching mice, I wouldn't have to be fucking your wife."
― Eazy, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"This seems to answer the nature vs. nurture question pretty decisively."
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait wait"If you didn't spend all your time here, Williams, I wouldn't have to be fucking your wife."
― Eazy, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
(Larry Flynt needs to start a caption contest.)
― Eazy, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
"Flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
"They look more like her but they take after me."
― special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ grebt
would never win though
― Aimless, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
"I call the big one 'bitey'."
― I used to like dem burgers boy (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I entered the PETA one on my own, so you can leave that one out.
My wife did one for this one:http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/09/22/p323/080922_contest_p323.jpg
"Ok...I'll put down "Claws". And what you describe as your greatest weakness?"
― schwantz, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"I'll wring your neck if one of these bastards publishes before I do"
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^hahaha xp
― autogucci cru (deej), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
lol!
xpost to "claws"
― collardio greenous (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
schwantzs wifes one is hilarious
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
― special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:54 PM (46 minutes ago)
this is genius and will get my vote
― collardio greenous (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
also massive lolz at "claws"
(btw, I am very mad that "LET'S START IT OFF WITH A BRIEF REVIEW OF YOUR LOCAL MIDLIFE CRISIS. WE'LL THEN DISCUSS THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS." is too long to be a screen name)
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
(anyway back to the picture)
"Okay, NOW they're just mocking us."
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"And the best part is, we pay them in cheese."
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"this acid is strong"
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
^ works for 99% of all new yorker cartoons
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"I'm not sure their hearts are really in this better-mousetrap project."
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
"I know they have a grant, but do we really need more ways to skin a cat?"
"I was expecting Soulja Boy to have a different effect on them."
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I always wondered how many people entered. Sometimes the finalists are so weak I assumed like, 6 people entered. My god some of those submissions are not funny.
I mean the ones copied above, not the ones currently being submitted by ILXors. Those are all comedy gold.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I like fork's "I think it's meant to be the one on the right's retirement party."
― Eazy, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
"The one in glasses is not 'the cute one'."
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"auto-tune is dead"
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder how many times we'll have to do this until we get an ILX winner?My money is over five, under twenty.
― I used to like dem burgers boy (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
We should enter as Isaac L. Xevious
― I used to like dem burgers boy (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
"I see your mice have little clothes."
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
"These mice are different from the mice behind us; these mice have facial features."
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"Are mice very much like people?"
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"I am mildly disconcerted; apparently, I am carrying a water bottle."
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
"Did you know? I can spit the words 'PAUL NOTH' across the room."
"I am looking at mice. You are looking at mice. They are also looking at mice."
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"Hmm, I'm not sure -- she's a little mousier than the last woman I dated."
― autogucci cru (deej), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
lolling at the paul noth one for some reason.
― I used to like dem burgers boy (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
also "it's a reality show about my fantasies" has win potential
― I used to like dem burgers boy (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
'NERDS!'
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
schwantz's wife made me laugh harder than I've ever laughed at new yorker cartoon
― iatee, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"Have the Chinese one removed for questioning."
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
From that long list of candidates above:http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/05/11/p323/090511_contest_p323.jpgno this isn't MY evening gown i tied up a pedestrian on the way to your studio and robbed her blind.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
"The leader of the mice appears to have rounded up all the intellectuals in a gulag""Ha, Communism sounds great on paper - it just doesn't work in lab conditions!"
― special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"i dont care what google maps says"
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 06:53 (five years ago) link
"Are you finished with that beer?"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 07:10 (five years ago) link
"All I'm saying is if it's global warming why is my beer still cold?"
― Ctrl+Alt+Del in Poughkeepsie (fionnland), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 07:42 (five years ago) link
too good to win, per uszh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link
also right in the wheelhouse of our one-size-fits-all ringer: "This is normal."
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 08:05 (five years ago) link
Guest Comic By Steve Bannon Entitled 'The Rising Floodwaters Of Immigration'
― imago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 08:51 (five years ago) link
the new one-size-fits-all is "I’ve thought this through and talked to colleagues — and I’ve re-considered"
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 08:57 (five years ago) link
http://i65.tinypic.com/aad8w3.jpg
"i continue to be unhappy regarding the state of the subway system"
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Saturday, 12 January 2019 08:24 (five years ago) link
"Did you know that there's a bear hidden in the Toblerone logo?"
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Saturday, 12 January 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
"Let me know if you see anything that people believe doesn't exist. Like Donald Trump's sense of humility."
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Saturday, 12 January 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
“Holy shit, do you see that?! It says ‘W A R P’ on the snow”
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Saturday, 12 January 2019 11:29 (five years ago) link
yes he slept over and no its not any of your business anymore
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 January 2019 11:55 (five years ago) link
I've always thought of the SkiFree monster as a metaphor for the inevitability of death.
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 12 January 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
Press 'F' to pay respects go faster than the monster and escape.
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Saturday, 12 January 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
Darraghmac ftw
― Mark G, Saturday, 12 January 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
Def
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Saturday, 12 January 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
did anyone else here get a spam email from the "founder" of this contest - who has quit the new Yorker and set up his, er, own captioning contest? surely it's a massive breach of whatever privacy policy the NYer has for him to abscond with the mailing list for his own purposes!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
christ, what an asshole
― brownie, Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
ha
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
"Asshole. You just HAD to tell him he was looking a little mangy..."
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
"Well you're an abominable HUSBAND."
― jmm, Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
"HE didn't have any problems asking directions."
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
Lol
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
Sigh. Another day, another Bigfoot sighting debunked.
― Øystein, Saturday, 12 January 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
i would've said hi but i don't know the yetiquette
― conrad, Saturday, 12 January 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
"I thought we agreed, no politics!"
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 12 January 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link