Wednesday
Jan022008
New Yorker Shadow Caption Contest
New caption contest for January 7th (entries must be in by midnight of the 6th). I’m thinking about making this a thing. Just like last time, try to capture the absolute horror and misanthropy present in the New Yorker Caption Contest cartoons. Here are my preliminary attempts for this one.
1.) “Ted, I’ve come to realize that a dog can’t take the place of a child, no matter how enormous it is.”
2.) “At least he can sustain an erection for more than seven seconds without bursting into tears.”
3.) “What dog?”
And here’s a bonus: an interview with the editor of The Rejection Collection, a book of rejected New Yorker cartoons.
Play along at home. Remember, 25 words or less.
Wed., Jan. 2, 2008
Reader Comments (17)
"Quit calling me a huge bitch."
"Dang, I ask for black humans."
"Let's wrap him in a tarp and shoot him with your uncle's shotgun until he stops moving."
"Now is the time, Clifford. Kill! Kill the patriarchal man-beast!"
"I told you we should have bought into Alpo 6 weeks ago."
"Daaaamn Henry! Please tell me that was the dog."
"I told you I was a witch."
"The dog is a metaphor for our disproportionate wealth in relation to the rest of the world. It's also going to eat us alive."
"Think of this as a carpet harvest."
"For the last time, no, I don't want to know how much money an amateur zoophilia website would make in the first six months."
"The Korean restaurant called again. I told them we'd think about it."
"We hate it when you cross your legs like that."
"I don't know what I'm more allergic to: this fucking dog or that smug look on your face."
"Our life is a nightmare punctuated by giant turds."
"Maybe if we weren't spending all our disposable income feeding 'Tiny' over here we could afford some fucking shoes."
"I thought we agreed that I only had to sleep with Rex every other day. He's your problem, you fuck him."
It was sure nice of those huge people to let us crash here with their dog.