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This happened more than a year and a half before this? Weird.

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Eight cartoons by Jacqueline Kennedy were auctioned off earlier this month at the Wright Auction House in Chicago. The First Lady apparently completed the drawings as she waited to be interviewed for the July 4, 1961 issue of Look magazine. Here is one of her noticeably uncaptioned images. I think you know what to do.

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Submit the worst possible caption for this New Yorker cartoon.

•Last week's results. •Rules and tips.

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Hey everybody. Since I didn't post the original, I'm posting my results as a separate entry, so now you can comment on my amazing choices. Also, new rule: You can only enter 5 times, although I'm pretty sure this is already a rule. I'm lookin' at you, Sam L.

First Place:
"I think the guy on the roof farted." —The Confidence Man

Second Place:
"You should keep your eyes on the road. We didn't even remotely secure that guy."—t.a.m.s.y.

Third Place:
"Look, no matter what the joke is, there's no way it's going to explain the fact that I haven't shaved in 3 days and am sipping a fuckin' frappuccino."—Phil G.

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Guest Bloggers: David F / Deborah

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Associated Press:

A spokeswoman for the Commerce Department said Friday that initially plans were made to only visit Brazil, but Sanford asked for extra meetings in Argentina.

Sanford said the trip was legitimate but he put the agency in an awkward spot "based on what I did in terms of eating dinner down there."

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Just as posting has begun to pick up speed around here and it's beginning to seem like I wrote my own blogituary prematurely, I'm taking off for a summer break. This could be good news. I mean, it's definitely good news for me, suckers, but it could be good news for readers of this site as well, because I've invited several extremely capable and funny people to guest blog in my absence. You may remember the terrific stuff they came up with last summer. It kind of put me to shame.

On the other hand this could be bad news, since none of them have actually, formally accepted the invitation. Including the guy who's supposed to be handling the anticaption contest. If it doesn't show up here, I'm sure you'll be able to find it somewhere.

Either way, when I return I should have more time for blogging that I have in a while, so whether it's tomorrow or after July 13, this blog's best days are ahead of it.

Possibly.

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Here's the cover of The Post New York Post, a 1984 parody about how the tabloid would cover a nuclear holocaust. It was edited by, I believe, Tony Hendra and Robert Vare and Lewis Grossberger with Kurt Andersen and Warren Leight. I remembered it today for obvious reasons, and not finding an image online I dug it out of my closet and took a few pictures with my iPhone. And not the new iPhone with the decent camera, sorry.

Excerpts and images from the cover story after the jump.

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I don't care who's on other front pages. This blog makes room for Sky Saxon.

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Update:

If it's ever not made sense to you what the big deal was, this is what the big deal was. This performance, in May 1983, was, in its time, probably almost as significant as the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.

A lot of this stuff — all this regrettable, awful stuff with him over the last 20 years or so, and the continuing fascination with it, has roots in this moment.

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They shut down the Internet. They arrested the reporters. They beat us in the streets. But they will never overcome our sleeve faces.

[h/t Frank K.]

More here, there, and everywhere.

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