The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #31
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Starter anti-captions:
"Excuse me, but the customer waiting for attention in your establishment takes priority over the one calling on the phone. That's just basic service sector etiquette."
"You know, they make 'em cordless now."
"I'll bet you hate having to answer the phone here. You really shouldn't have named the joint Ho West."
"Hey, there's a Negro sitting at this counter."
And the bad caption I'll actually submit this week on the theory that it has a chance to win: "Let her use a damn ball of string like anybody else."
Update: Results after the jump.
Winner:
"Call the cops and I'll jerk this nigger's cock right off. Ho ho ho, yes, jerk probably was the wrong word to use in that sentence. Nonetheless, you should probably call the paramedics now because his penis is no longer attached in the proper way." kickassninja
(Skittish disclaimer: Ok, yes, I would not have used the word nigger. I don't think it adds enough to the joke to make up for the problem it causes. Still, you can't argue with the overall result.)
Finalists:
"Imbecilic mortal! Thou movest toward the speaking-machine at the pace of the very snails of the earth, yet thou expectest to be the eighth caller?" Kevin
"I believe the Dow Jones Industrial Average will go up."pukebot
Comments
"Okay, so now you know I'm a minotaur. Just put down the bottle. Reeeeeeeeal slow."
"I asked for a *vodka* martini."
"If you're planning on calling the police to come enforce your 'no shirt, no shoes, no service' sign, I should warn you that I could disembowel you in, like, less than a second."
Posted by: Francis | December 5, 2005 10:11 AM
"I don't think it's that cold outside."
"Want to see my twelve-inch pianist?"
"If that's my better half, don't tell her I'm here. She's a real ass."
"I would've been here sooner, but they shut down the West End Highway and I got lost driving city streets."
"You don't mind if I smoke, do you?"
"I didn't like Harriet Miers much, either."
Posted by: Ted | December 5, 2005 10:20 AM
"Onions? Do I look I'd be ordering a fucking Gibson?"
Posted by: michael | December 5, 2005 10:52 AM
"No, I am not an alcoholic."
"Someone has vandalized your bar by carving the name 'Shanahan' in the back, there."
"Why don't either of you have mouths? It's creeping me out. Seriously."
"Tell her to meet me here at the 'Ho West' bar."
Posted by: rjwhite | December 5, 2005 11:17 AM
"It's the last time I go to a plastic surgeon with a spy in his office I tell you that much."
"For many years I did not drink."
"Ne touchez pas le telephone, Judge Reinhold."
"Because 'Hung like a guppy' doesn't sound very good, does it?"
"If that's my wife tell her I'm not enraged."
"If that's Judith Miller tell her I'm just another chimera."
"Nice ringtone, jerk."
"Upgrade to sell my ass! Capitalism is a lie!"
"Okay, fine. I'll leave. Just don't call the cops. I ain't goin' back. Not for this. You're a real piece of work, you know that, Steve? Doin' that to a friend."
Anticipated real life winner: "If that's my broker tell him I'm not here."
Posted by: TG Gibbon | December 5, 2005 11:41 AM
You don't serve bulls!? Take off your apron and let us bullfight, matador.
So, an enraged bull walks into a saloon wearing deflated kiddie pool floaties on his arms...
I'll have what Malcolm Gladwell's having.
Posted by: martyb | December 5, 2005 12:04 PM
"Hey! Who's a guy gotta blow to get a Malibu Bay Breeze in here?"
Posted by: Marc | December 5, 2005 12:43 PM
"Imbecilic mortal! Thou movest toward the speaking-machine at the pace of the very snails of the earth, yet thou expectest to be the eighth caller?"
Posted by: Kevin | December 5, 2005 1:20 PM
"When my ship comes in, boy, I'm gettin' me some water wings that fit."
Posted by: Kevin | December 5, 2005 1:27 PM
Okay, so I'm a bull-man and you've got your head facing backwards. Looks like it's a whole bar of freaks! Him? Oh, he's got three testicles.
Posted by: Muffin | December 5, 2005 1:31 PM
Make sure to tell them I want the ambrosia on the side.
Posted by: 99 | December 5, 2005 1:52 PM
"bull***t!"
Posted by: anon | December 5, 2005 3:17 PM
And that's when they asked me to leave the china shop. I guess nobody likes it when you piss all over their floor.
Posted by: Xalf | December 5, 2005 3:52 PM
Call anyone you'd like, but I can tell you right now that I really am the horniest guy in town.
I am the proverbial bull that one grabs by the horns. A walking metaphor for living life to the fullest. Personified. And you wanna call the cops?
If you're calling take out, I'll have some oats.
Go ahead! Call the Labyrinth. I have perfect credit there.
Posted by: Arthur | December 5, 2005 4:29 PM
"Moo, my good man."
Posted by: RichM | December 5, 2005 4:52 PM
"Why the long face?"
Posted by: jason | December 5, 2005 5:11 PM
No, I don't want a white Russian. That's disgusting.
Posted by: Kois | December 5, 2005 5:12 PM
"Want to hear a cock-and-bull story?"
Posted by: Tom S | December 5, 2005 5:43 PM
"He took my testicles. I took his heart."
Posted by: Tom S | December 5, 2005 5:46 PM
I'll have a vodka and Red Bull. Get it?
Posted by: JasonG | December 5, 2005 6:03 PM
"It will show up on your phone bill as Minotaur Services Inc., so just fuckin' relax."
Posted by: pukebot | December 5, 2005 6:20 PM
"Shut up, Bob, everyone knows your dick's a clip-on."
"He's into bestiality and I'm into dark meat. Now, if we could only find an androgynous man, pudgy in the middle, preferably with no mouth, we'd be in heaven."
"These peanuts taste like ASS!"
Posted by: mykull | December 5, 2005 6:33 PM
I have a syringe full of mad cow disease in my left hand. If you make me another weak martini I'm gonna stick it in your God damned head. Oh, pardon me, go ahead and get that call.
Posted by: pukebot | December 5, 2005 6:59 PM
"I had a long day on the high density feed lot, OK!"
Posted by: pukebot | December 5, 2005 7:03 PM
"I'll have another vodka antibiotic martini and no you don't have to call my vet."
Posted by: pukebot | December 5, 2005 7:05 PM
I have just been diagnosed with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly know as mad cow disease. I have very little time left. Why!!!
Posted by: pukebot | December 5, 2005 7:11 PM
cow trouble.
Posted by: aaron | December 5, 2005 8:05 PM
Me so horny.
Call the cops and I'll jerk this nigger's cock right off. Ho ho ho, yes, jerk probably was the wrong word to use in that sentence. Nonetheless, you should probably call the paramedics now because his penis is no longer attached in the proper way.
Posted by: kickassninja | December 5, 2005 9:10 PM
"I take offense to the satyr reference, I'm 100% minotaur."
Posted by: Kimmy K | December 5, 2005 9:24 PM
"Give me fifty on the bulls"
Posted by: pukebot | December 5, 2005 9:29 PM
"Did somebody here order a pair of mountain oysters?"
Posted by: Kimmy K | December 5, 2005 9:37 PM
"What's with the blank look?"
Posted by: Kimmy K | December 5, 2005 9:49 PM
"It's only beastiality if it involves my mouth."
Posted by: pukebot | December 5, 2005 10:48 PM
"I'm about to rip your friggin head off your body, your obviously calling the police and preparing to defend yourself and yet the gentleman beside me is calmly enjoying his drink. Do you find that odd?"
Posted by: pukebot | December 5, 2005 11:12 PM
"I said a nose ring. You sold me a cock ring. A used cock ring."
Posted by: pukebot | December 5, 2005 11:18 PM
"So easy a half-bull-half-man can do it? Did you hear that? That is SO condescending."
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 5, 2005 11:40 PM
"...As for my condition, it shall pass by morning. You, however, shall still have no mouth."
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 5, 2005 11:54 PM
"Can't a horny guy have a drink with his boyfriend without someone alerting the media?"
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 6, 2005 12:04 AM
"You might as well put down the phone. You don't have a mouth, you know."
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 6, 2005 12:06 AM
"I believe the Dow Jones Industrial Average will go up."
Posted by: pukebot | December 6, 2005 12:32 AM
"Excuse me, but I'm a bit confused. I was supposed to meet someone at their apartment, and the address they gave me was '40 West.' Do you know if there's an alternate entrance, somewhere, for the apartments above this bar?"
Posted by: J | December 6, 2005 12:33 AM
"Ever considered oats in these snack bowls?"
"uh... what kind of martini was that?"
"Yeah, my old lady's a real ball-breaker... she won't let me dress like this at home."
"Of course, now it all done with computers."
Posted by: jake | December 6, 2005 12:36 AM
"Yuck! Too much vermoooooth."
"You're not gonna call Theseus. How gulli-bull do you think I am?"
"Don't make a phone call now. I'm about to make another cow-related pun."
Posted by: Spanner | December 6, 2005 2:21 AM
"Well, me-ow!"
Posted by: TG Gibbon | December 6, 2005 9:20 AM
"The toilet room is out of men's paper"
"Man, you need to work out."
"Countryman, lend me your vest. My nipples are titillatingly erect. And I don't want to mislead anyone nor have rough sex with an Indian man. Not this afternoon; I have a meeting at Conde Nast. Which makes me wonder: will that security sticker of theirs stick to my chest glistening with musky oils? Oh well, I'll just put it on my forehead."
"Hey! This creep i'm trying to pick up keeps stealing my olives and sticking them in his eye sockets. Oh, wait --that must be a sexual message..... never mind."
Posted by: wasoe | December 6, 2005 10:12 AM
"Make that hardtack AND weevilly biscuits."
"How dare you turn away while I'm talking to you."
"Geez! All I did was ask you where you got the loincloth."
Posted by: wasoe | December 6, 2005 10:24 AM
"pffffftttttt. Oh powerful Zeus, why have you cursed me with this martini that tastes as if had been drawn from the river styx itself."
Posted by: pukebot | December 6, 2005 10:44 AM
"Yeah? Well, at prices like these, I'm not surprised."
"Man, these arm rings are killing me - I wish I could find out who slipped them onto me while I was asleep! Say, bartender, can you call a doctor? Or wait, a detective. No, even better, a doctor/detective partnership! Thanks."
"Call the FTC for me - those 'steroids' were more like 'steeroids!' Heh. Get it - steeroids?"
"We are dressed in the clothing of different professions, are we not? ...What."
"If that's my wife, I'm not queer."
"Man, Ho West has really gone downhill since last time I was here. Now you let negroes in... what's next, Catholics?"
Posted by: Vance | December 6, 2005 11:26 AM
Gay cowboys? That's ridiculous.
Posted by: Kois | December 6, 2005 12:45 PM
"Am I the only person in here with a mouth? It would appear so. Except that I am not a person. I am a bull."
"If you didn't want me in here, you should have said so before you served me. I mean now you're out the cost of a martini. That's not good business at all. Also I've soiled your barstool."
Bull: "Hey barkeep, what's a guy gotta do to get another drink around here."
Bartender: "Mmmm mmmm mmm mmmmmm."
Bull: "Oh yes. I forgot that you don't have a mouth. I should not have been so rude. Please accept my apologies."
Bartender: "Mmmmmmm."
Posted by: Xalf | December 6, 2005 1:31 PM
If that's the china shop, tell 'em I'll be right over.
Posted by: Drew | December 6, 2005 1:43 PM
"Can I prod you for another martini.
Posted by: pukebot | December 6, 2005 3:17 PM
"I've gotta say, Jerry, you've been much better at remembering my pal Shanahan's name this time around. And see? You didn't need any crude mnemonic devices after all."
Posted by: Vance | December 6, 2005 4:57 PM
"Who do I have to sleep with to get some service around here?"
"I know you didn't ask to see my breasts. It's just that alcohol always makes me a little horny."
Posted by: Mitchell | December 6, 2005 5:11 PM
"You wouldn't believe the security deposit my landlord made me pay."
"I like that your bar has curtains on the window. It adds a homey touch."
"You don't have *anything* on tap? Not even down at the end of the bar that I can't see because of my untreated myopia? That's pathetic."
"I said, this is an a-MAZE-ing martini. Get it? Because I'm a minotaur? Oh, just answer the phone already."
Posted by: Francis | December 6, 2005 6:10 PM
"No, there hasn't been a mistake - I'm EXACTLY what you wished for when you rubbed your magic telephone and asked for a big horny guy to walk into your bar. And this guy sitting next to me - he's exactly what you wished for with your second wish: a well-dressed black gentleman with a flat head...unfortunately for you, you didn't say anything about him having a mouth. For your next wish, big fella, perhaps you might want to make an effort to choose your words a bit more carefully."
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 6, 2005 8:48 PM
"Actually, this gag set-up is perfect for those stuffy NYer readers. It allows them to show off their knowledge of classical mythology. Like those people, I would have attended an ivy too--hell-- even a state school, if I weren't so caught up actually living a fantastic life in the hills of Ancient Greece. So....what am I doing in here, again?"
Posted by: wasoe | December 7, 2005 8:52 AM
"... and then she - You can answer that, Joe. I'll wait. I know that you are trying to run a business here."
Posted by: Charles | December 7, 2005 8:55 AM
"He'll say 'martini' means 'gin martini.'"
Posted by: Erik | December 7, 2005 10:51 AM
"Oh my GOD! I just realized something! I'm not wearing pants!"
Posted by: Vance | December 7, 2005 11:50 AM
It's exceptional that your disability has not prevented you from finding a fulfilling job. After all, being a good listener is one of the top requirements for being a successful bartender and you can't drink on the job either, so your boss must like that too.
Posted by: scoxsmith | December 7, 2005 11:56 AM
"If that's the stool repair guy, mention that this stool is really wobbly....in fact I can feel a couple of loose nuts...probably 5/8" hex, but I could be off by an eighth."
Posted by: wasoe | December 7, 2005 11:57 AM
"'Clip on Parrot' my ass"
Posted by: anon | December 7, 2005 12:20 PM
"Do you ever get the feeling you're just a big man-bull sitting in a diner eating nuts and drinking martinis with two losers while wearing something weird on your arms? I do."
Posted by: anon | December 7, 2005 12:22 PM
"I'm for gore in 2008."
Posted by: pukebot | December 7, 2005 12:47 PM
"I'm not voting for gore in 2008. Do you know what his wife did "as a prank" to my mother and sisters one night as they were standing in a field?"
Posted by: wasoe | December 7, 2005 1:41 PM
Don't pick it up, she thinks im at the Opera.
Posted by: Jack | December 7, 2005 2:09 PM
"Jake Gyllenhaal was just helping me over the fence."
Posted by: pukebot | December 7, 2005 3:54 PM
"If you ask me, I'm voting for disembowel in '08. I WOULD vote for gore but he's married to a prankster who did bad things to my mother and sisters one night while they were standing in a field sleeping, legs locked, innocent, unsuspecting. Also, I don't care for his running mate, blood."
Posted by: wasoe | December 7, 2005 4:48 PM
I didn't say "I need to call someone." I SAID, "I need to MAUL someone". Sheesh.
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 7, 2005 5:37 PM
"Hey, buddy, listen, if that's my girlfriend, tell her I'm not here. I really can't deal with her bullshit right now."
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 7, 2005 5:44 PM
"Excuse me, barkeep, sorry to interrupt your phone call, but I'm with the City Health Department, and I'm afraid you're in a heap of trouble: This fellow here tells me that you didn't wash your hands after using the bathroom."
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 7, 2005 5:56 PM
"Sarah Connor?"
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"If it's that bitch, I'm not here."
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"If it's that cow, I'm not here."
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"Oh shit! I think my abomasum's displaced!"
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"Ever been electroejaculated before?..."
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"...it hurts like a mofo..."
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"Wanna massage my prostate?"
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"Give me a steak...medium rare..."
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"Did you know walking canes are made from bull penises? Wanna see one?"
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"That fucking ho gave me lumpy jaw, wooden tongue, and hardware disease all in one night...Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout!"
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Posted by: Fire Slam | December 7, 2005 9:36 PM
"I don't mean to horn in, but I've been sitting here for twenty minutes."
"If that's my wife tell her I'm out goring. Bitch."
"Did you catch Desperate Housewives last night? That Marcia Cross really brings out the beast in me."
"Yes, I do work on Wall Street, why do you ask?"
"I was told this was a bull friendly environment. If I am mistaken I can take my business elsewhere."
"Nice ass."
"No, I don't really know what the nose ring if for, either."
Anon
Posted by: Anon | December 8, 2005 12:30 AM
You can't discriminate against me because I'm a Cretan!
You can't fire me, I quit!
Posted by: Nyx | December 8, 2005 3:14 AM
If that's Fusilli tell him he's a crazy bastard.
Posted by: St. Onge | December 8, 2005 9:26 AM
"I won't come back to the 40 West for the lively conversation, that's for sure."
Posted by: pukebot | December 8, 2005 9:53 AM
Animal Control? hahaha. Put the phone down...you want everyone to know you're hallucinating?
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 8, 2005 1:55 PM
"You said a moment ago that everybody you look at seems to be a minotaur. Now just what do you mean by that, Mr. Sprague?"
Posted by: Slide | December 8, 2005 6:08 PM
"I meet alot of great dames on the stun line, but then I have to kill them. So that's kind of a downer."
Posted by: pukebot | December 8, 2005 6:35 PM
That minowhore you set me up with was a cow.
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I can't even LOOK at another Bloody Mary.
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Don't you have any Athenian maidens to go with these nuts?
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Answer that and there will be chunks of you in my stool.
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As a matter of fact, I am hung like a bull. And I'll just bet you're making assumptions about my friend here as well.
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Posted by: AMy | December 8, 2005 9:02 PM
That minowhore you set me up with was a cow.
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I can't even LOOK at another Bloody Mary.
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Don't you have any Athenian maidens to go with these nuts?
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Answer that and there will be chunks of you in my stool.
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As a matter of fact, I am hung like a bull. And I'll just bet you're making assumptions about my friend here as well.
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Posted by: AMy | December 8, 2005 9:02 PM
"Yep... somebody sure cut through that fence all right."
Posted by: Vance | December 8, 2005 10:59 PM
"My nipples are so hard they could cut glass."
Posted by: Tim M. | December 8, 2005 11:27 PM
"Why can't I just sit here and bullshit?"
"Snort snort snort snort snort snort snort, snort!"
"I curse the day I was steered into this Taurus trap!"
"If you're impressed by my head, take a look between my legs."
"Sure, I'm bull-headed. But is that a good reason to reach for the phone?"
"Mind if I borrow your apron? I just had an accident. You see, I am not just sitting on your stool. I am also sitting on my own stool."
Posted by: David | December 9, 2005 11:09 AM
"It is a good day to die."
Posted by: Raistlin | December 9, 2005 11:29 AM
If that's my wife, tell her I DON'T have her armbands...
Posted by: Bruecks | December 9, 2005 12:04 PM
I don't think I should drive, but I'm definitely going to the china shop.
Posted by: Amy | December 9, 2005 3:13 PM
"It's not my fault those kids are sitting at the bottom of the pool. Look at the god damn arm floaties they gave me."
Posted by: pukebot | December 9, 2005 10:46 PM
"I know they say size doesn't matter... but that's got to be the smallest phone I've ever seen."
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"NO... I do not want to 'ride the bull."
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"The only things from Texas are steers and queers... see these horns?"
Posted by: spedwig | December 10, 2005 1:33 PM
"Yeah, that's right, I said my name is Mordechai Gimmelstein.....So, who are these Prussian Blue girls you're talking to anyway, and why do they want to rush down here and see me?"
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 10, 2005 1:55 PM
"I don't care what they say, bovine growth hormone is totally safe... AND tasty."
Posted by: spedwig | December 10, 2005 1:57 PM
"Yeah, maybe you SHOULD call someone and ask them how to make a decent martini. You're lucky this is the only bar in the Labyrinth."
"If that's my dad, tell him I'm not very hungry."
"Look, I'm sure your dial tone contains subliminal messages, but that's no excuse for making me such a small drink!"
"Would you mind calling a cab? My friend here has become mildly intoxicated."
"I get soooo tired of people asking me my sign and then being surprised when I'm not a Taurus. Virgo's have feelings too!"
"Do you serve Cret- I mean, crepes, here?"
"My back hurts."
Posted by: Ahniwa | December 10, 2005 3:27 PM
"I'd like to get Karl Rove *on the horn*."
Posted by: pukebot | December 10, 2005 11:43 PM
"Nothing. What's amatador with you?"
Posted by: Shanon | December 11, 2005 2:43 AM
"They said Johnny, you'd better stop drinking all those before you turn into a Red Bull...GOD, HOW I WISH I'D LISTENED!!!!"
Posted by: Shanon | December 11, 2005 3:07 AM
Don't even THINK about waving that napkin at me. You DON'T want to go there. Trust me.
Posted by: YogaChickie | December 11, 2005 12:08 PM
"That wasn't the phone. That was me making the 'brrringgg, brrrringgg' noise. well, not really me. I'm the dummy. It was he to my left, Vijay, the greatest ventriloquist in the world. Look! You can't see his mouth move, nor even his mouth. And he uses his right foot in ingenious ways, as Indians are known to do."
Posted by: wasoe | December 11, 2005 4:30 PM
If that's the insemination clinic, tell them I'm replenishing my fluids for god's sake!
Posted by: Amy | December 11, 2005 5:20 PM
oops: me thinks vijay would say 'I' instead of 'me'
Posted by: wasoe | December 11, 2005 6:17 PM
"All of Olympus mocks your grammatical error, lowly mortal."
Posted by: pukebot | December 11, 2005 7:12 PM
"Milk?!? Is this some kind of fucking JOKE?!? 'Cos if it is some kind of fucking joke, it AIN'T FUCKING FUNNY!"
Posted by: Adrian Wapcaplet | December 8, 2006 3:02 AM