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Cartoon caption contest

Posted by Shawn Callahan - 19/03/06
Filed in Fun.

The New Yorker is having its yearly cartoon caption contest. I noticed that anyone outside the US is uninvited so I thought we could have the rest of the world represented here.

So in 25 words or less what caption would you write?

Here’s the cartoon.

Add your captions to the comments. I’ll post the first one.

This is an incredibly good exercise to develop your right-brain aptitudes.

UPDATE: The cartoon has moved so here it is:

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Comments

Is that 1800 KNOWLEDGE? The system is broken. I'm unable to upload my emotions to the knowledge bank.

Posted by: Shawn Callahan at March 19, 2006 3:58 PM

Hi, is that Dan Pink? You never mentioned the downside for this caption competition :(

Posted by: ken at March 20, 2006 7:06 AM

With only hours to go, the Texas Governor was concerned that every time he tried to make a call for clemency, the line was engaged.

Posted by: Scott Callahan at March 20, 2006 10:29 AM

Hello - is that The Matrix? It's says here on the script that I get a nice leather jacket and meet someone called Trinity.

OR

Hello - is that The Matrix? Get me out of this office now before my boss comes in!

Posted by: Luke at March 20, 2006 3:20 PM

Sorry Ken, this is not Dan. But I loved his book and was inspired to enter the New Yorker competition after reading A Whole New Mind.

Posted by: Shawn Callahan at March 20, 2006 8:29 PM

Ok Dan, I've download a whole new mind, and I still can't enter the competition, will they ever embrace the Asian/Australian aspects of your book?

Posted by: ken at March 21, 2006 1:00 AM

hi, i'm having problem uploading..

it says i have insufficient memory?

yes, i have checked if it's plugged in!

yes, i have tried rebooting my amygdala!

but how do you know that i'm not a dog?

remind me never to chair this meeting again

honey, i've been promoted from a cog to a node

just what part of my cortex don't you understand

oh look, one of those old fashioned phone handsets

hi, you've reached my backup, i'm on holiday right now...

you've reached the end of the internet, how can i help you?

yeah, but when i agreed to test a google personal appliance...

it works, now how do we get the pointy haired boss to try it?

ouch, this new mp3 player really does mash up the experience

cough, sniffle: hi helpdesk, about that virus in my new PDA...

yes, i know it's not guidelined but all the other ceo's have one

yeah, me too, this knowledge harvesting program has gone too far

i don't really think the sense-probe-respond cycle meant to go this far

ok, i've installed the swim-tutor-2000(tm), can i swim like liesel now?

helpdesk: let me just connect to your system, oooh, your memory really is corrupt

yeah, i can connect to the intersense, but how do i filter out all the sensory spam?

Posted by: ken at March 21, 2006 5:04 AM

i told you never to ping me at work

trust me bill, 640v is not enough for everyone

Posted by: ken at March 21, 2006 6:48 AM

I suspect that the cartoon has changed - the link is now going to the 27 March Cartoon contest - number 43. (Either that, or I am having a hell of a hard time relating those captions to the cartoon...)

Anyway, here's a suggestsion for the current one:

"I thought you said you were calling a CROWN witness!"

Posted by: Keith De La Rue at March 21, 2006 12:43 PM

Yes, it's changed. Just put the original one up.

Posted by: Shawn Callahan at March 22, 2006 7:31 AM

Hi - can you find something for my other hand?

Posted by: John Barben at March 24, 2006 9:56 AM

 

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