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January 8, 2007

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #82

Submit the worst possible caption for this New Yorker cartoon. Click here for details. Click here to see last week's winner.

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Winner
"Hello ACLU? We're being harassed by a religious fanatic." —al in la

Finalists
"I've got to go. Apparently that wasn't the Tree of Unlimited Anytime Minutes." —charles

"Spying on us, eh? Well, this stick of dynamite should keep you distracted!" —Pat Broderick

Honorable mention
"Hi, Steve? Adam here. Look, next time I see you, remind me to tell you all about what God just did. Anyhoo, Eve and I are gonna go catch 'Dreamgirls', maybe do some shopping. I'll catch up with you at home later. Love you, bye." —Tim C.

"Geez, Yahweh, lighten up. Marduk would never spazz like this. HE knows how to treat a flawed creation. You're embarassing me, you're embarassing Cindy, but most of all you're embarassing yourself." —TG Gibbon

"Oh, sure God, go after us! What about the guy immediately to our right who's masturbating to The New Yorker?!"—Dan McCoy

"Hi, San Francisco Cab Company, I need a ride. I was just at Dolores park for the hallucinogen legalization rally. I believe I may be running naked down Dolores Ave. OK, thanks, see you soon."—mypalmike

"It's horrible! Terrorists set off a series of massive explosions at the Super Bowl. Our clothes caught on fire and we barely made it out alive. There's nothing left of the stadium except a memory and one of those giant foam #1 hands."—David John

"Find Richard Dawkins and tell him it's no delusion!"—Nell

"Eating the apple was an honest mistake, but then using the Apple iPhone to update good and evil on Wikipedia was, I have to admit, a really dick move."—dean

"Yeah we're getting deported. But I slipped the snake a few bucks so we should be back in a few weeks. It's not like there's a wall or anything."—Dex

"Hey! Shut the fuck up. I'm on the phone."—/\lex

Posted by Daniel Radosh

Comments

Well who the hell wouldn't want to try an apple that grew on a coconut tree?

He's just like the damn priests, always more than a little friendly touching.

"Hello, Evrolet? Yep, the giant woman is back. She seems to be following me."

"And, he's giving us the finger!"

"I can't talk now."

"Hello, 1-800-EVICTED?"

"The camping trip was going great, until Pac-Man showed up and went running to God like a little bitch to tell Him we were engaging in premarital sex."

"As God is my proctologist..!"

All I was seeking was the knowledge of how to use a corn dog, because holding it up to my ear sure isn't working.

Spying on us, eh? Well, this stick of dynamite should keep you distracted!

"Aw, come on ... just pull it!"

"The roaming charges east of Eden are gonna kill me."

"Hello, Accu-Weather? I got a complaint."

"Wherever we go this foliage jumps in front of our genitalia."

"Noah, it's Adam. Call back the broker immediately and tell him NOT to sell our condo in purgatory."

"The vacation was going great until Jim and Sue started dancing on the nude beach and awakened the local vengeful God, Proctologius."

"Police, yes I'm being chased by big bird. I managed to poke his right eyes out, but he's relentless."

"What? Oh, that? Yes, we see it. Thanks for pointing it out - we wouldn't want to step in it."

"Can you hear me now?"

"I don't know whether this is a cellular pussy willow or a mobile tampon but either way God doesn't seem too happy about it."

"Geez, Yahweh, lighten up. Marduk would never spazz like this. HE knows how to treat a flawed creation. You're embarassing me, you're embarassing Cindy, but most of all you're embarassing yourself."

"Hello, Ghostbusters?"

"I'll kill your son for this!"

"Oh, sure God, go after us! What about the guy immediately to our right who's masturbating to The New Yorker?!"

"YEEEEEOWWW! Oh great, thanks a lot, God, while you were distracting me I walked right into our campfire, severely burning my genitals! That's just perfect."

"Y'know, next time you lose a contact lens maybe you could just reach down and get it yourself - or at least communicate your instructions through the air instead of this oversized birthday candle."

"Hello, God? Look, I know this may be a bad time, but I have a major complaint. Radosh is entering his own caption contest. Can you fix it so no matter what, he doesn't wind up winning? Great, thanks.

"Don't look directly at it unless you are holding a lit candle to your ear. AHHHHHH, my hair is on fire!"

Hello, Fox? Have I got a reality-show treatment for you!"

"Hi mom - I've been meaning to thank you for the Target gift card. We'll put it to good use. Ever since Eve and I left Eden it's been obvious we need some clothes. I mean, these bushes are irritating my nards."

"I can't see Eve's bush because it's behind a bush."

"We'd like to lodge a complaint about a omnipotent being who seeks to harm us apparently because of my historically inaccurate navel. And because we're Jews."

"(Father of) Christ, what an asshole."

"Some creep with his head in the clouds is harassing us. Can you take care of it, Frank?"

"LOOOOOOK! BOOOOOOOBIES!"

"Hello, police? This Shady Palms Nudist Colony. We're being harrassed by a giant hand."

[I mean "This is Shady Palms," obviously..]

"Adam! I command you to call a landscaping service immediately! That grass is almost up to your waste!"

And by "landscaping," I mean "manscaping." Hi yo!

[Confidential to Vance: this entry is totally winning]

"I've got to go. Apparently that wasn't the Tree of Unlimited Anytime Minutes."

"... the big waving finger? Oh, yeah, I see you. We'll turn around."

"If that was the Tree of Knowledge, why are we still naked? And why are you calling me on my cell phone? I can hear your booming voice all around me."

"The eternity here is obscene."


I'm never praying for a hand job again!

Hello? fall from eden reality t.v. casting, I think we've found our adam and eve.

"No, I don't know who I could possibly be calling, either."

"Boy, some apples are worth breaking Atkins for, and some apples ain't."

(submitted on the off chance this cartoon is taking place in 4000BC, or 2003)

"Why is that snake constricting something it can't swallow? Why is that cloud accusing us? Why do my wife's breasts look like hand-coiled pots? Why am I playing hackysack with a crab-apple? Why am I holding onto a bloody tampon? Why are we sinking into the bog? Why..?"

"Hi, Steve? Adam here. Look, next time I see you, remind me to tell you all about what God just did. Anyhoo, Eve and I are gonna go catch 'Dreamgirls', maybe do some shopping. I'll catch up with you at home later. Love you, bye."

"Wait - You want me to put my whatwhat where? I told you -- I've no interest in her! I don't find her remotedly attractive! I find the snake more arousing! Just look at how... tightly... wrapped it is around that... Anyway, what say you I just stimulate her with this popsicle thingy and we call it a deal?"

[God makes a forceful appearance in this week's cartoon, Radosh decides to assert himself in the comments section. Discuss.]

(Remotedly = remotely. It's the gas, kids.)

Daniel, it's embarrassing! What do I tell people - my son the anti-caption blogger? Enough already! Get a real job.

"Ja, ist dieses Winchler! Was die Hölle du...... oooops, Sorry! Forgot what week it was.

"Hello? Oh, hi, yeah. Just jogging naked through the grounds now with Cheryl. Uh huh, she says hi. Yeah, it's actually a really nice place - I gotta admit, when I heard 'Nude Fitness' I thought it would be trashy, but it's really well-designed, and - what? Wait, I can't hear you, there's some sort of - hang on, I gotta turn around for a second and se - HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!"

"Fucking Eve, you took a bath in the ocean and now all the fish are gonna smell like -- hold on, there's a call on my anachronistic cell phone."

"Hi, San Francisco Cab Company, I need a ride. I was just at Dolores park for the hallucinogen legalization rally. I believe I may be running naked down Dolores Ave. OK, thanks, see you soon."

"I want my deposit back."

Did I hear you say we're entering a dead zone?

Whatever it is tell me quick, I think my service is about to be cut off

"Yes, I know I have a tumor on my right shoulder! Thanks for pointing that out! Look, I'm trying to talk on the phone here, okay?"

"No, really, I'd love to hear about the new curtains, but I've gotta go. I've been bitten by a snake, God is about to smite me, and I think I just fucked Eve in a patch of stinging nettles."

"He wanted to know where I keep this phone when I'm not using it. That's what I get for being honest."

Look on the bright side, dear, at least god gave us a lovely sex toy as a parting gift.

Eve, the editor of the New Yorker says you're being thrown out of paradise because your last caption sucked. I told you there was nothing funny about talking pasta!

"Phone's for you -- it's your mother."

"He must be really angry, I havn't seen the rectal exam sign since He caught me fantasizing about another rib."

"HOLY SHI..., I mean GOSH DARN IT!!!"

"Hello, is this quality control? Yeah, I just wanted to applaud the return of nakedness to the contest, I mean... two desks? What the fuck was that all ab - hang on, I gotta get offa here, there's some kind of enormous spectral finger-pointing hand coming after me."

Steve? He broght it!

Sweetie? Adam again. I meant He bought.

"Hello ACLU? We're being harassed by a religious fanatic."

"...So I says to Maybel, I says..."

"Yeah, I know you said to remove our clothes and then angle toward the tall grass, but God's telling us to back up and take a left."

" Tell me it's only 'The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right by Michael Lerner,' before I soil myself!"

"He had a Halo."

"It's horrible! Terrorists set off a series of massive explosions at the Super Bowl. Our clothes caught on fire and we barely made it out alive. There's nothing left of the stadium except a memory and one of those giant foam #1 hands."

"Doc, I'm having my prostate exam done by another provider- what number should he fax the results to?"


"Do you guys still deliver? Even to Nod? Oh, good. And is the Noid still your mascot? No, that's a shame. Do you know what he's doing these days? Oh, he was fictional? Well, trust me, sometimes you can't count on that to stop them; You wouldn't believe the scene we have going on here. I don't know it's either the White Glove Car Wash glove or the Lord God Almighty action finger. Either way it seems to have an unusual attitude towards human sexuality. Anyway, you still have crazy bread, right? No, that sucks, what happened? The Noid? Really? Oh, that's why he was fired. Damn it, call waiting, look we need a large Hawaiian pizza over here, okay? Yeah, sorry, I have to go; President Lincoln is calling on the other line. What do you mean you didn't hear a beep. That's how my phone works, you don't need to hear the beep. Oh, you heard it last time when Eve called. Well, that's her phone. It's different. Motorola. She's even on a different plan. Yeah, T-Mobile. Cain's wife's mother put her onto it. Anyway, seriously, Lincoln. I gotta go. Thanks, Bob."

I need a quick favor, could you google the official rules to eenee meenee minee mo.

The descendant biblical scholars long forgot that the mighty arm of God that created the heavens was severly overcome with a chronic case of elephantitis.

"She said she was eighteen!"

"I've had it with this motherfucking snake on this motherfucking tree of the knowledge of good and evil."

"Find Richard Dawkins and tell him it's no delusion!"

"...You have selected "Apocalypto." If this is correct, press 1."

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

-Genesis 3:22-23

(The above entry has to be imagined in context, appearing as the caption to the cartoon in the New Yorker.)

"I think my favorite moment on 'DeGrassi: The Next Generation' was when Marco caught Dylan in bed with the African-Canadian guy. Well, ok, my FAVORITE favorite was when Spinner got a boner in Ms. Kwan's class."

Can you connect me with any of the people at AnswersInGenesis.com? It's pretty urgent.

Yeah, Mike, we're just clearing out until he finishes goosing the T-Rexes. So I was saying... the sunburn, yeah. All the time. Comes from having lily-white skin in a tropical... ow! Damn! I just stepped on another trilobyte. You know, sometimes I think we're just not well adapted to this environment at all.

Walt 2:14

"Dump Apple. Go long on anything related to textiles and apparel...And tell the boys on K Street this religion things is gonna be big...we can use that."

Can you hear me NOW?

"I like guys, but I'm not what you'd call 'broken in'...My wife? Oh yeah, she can handle it."

"Hell yes we're running!!! What if a space giant from another galaxy asked YOU to stand under his finger!"

"All I said was, 'Now that I'm seeing nakedness, I wouldn't mind losing more ribs."

"Looks like God is raising cain...hey...isn't that our job."

"OK, OK. No more mother-in-law jokes"

"The special effects here are truely AWESOME.

"He told us to go forth and multiply, but not in those words."

Hello Verizon ... what do you mean I have no minutes left?

"Like, who am I calling?"

"OK, well now I know: Dylan doesn't do interviews."

[Oops, sorry Tim C., you definitely got there first with your effulgent genius.]

I thought the serpent was a clip on.

Hello? This is Adam, I don't know who I could possibly be calling either, considering I am the first man.

"Fucking MapQuest!"

"Hello, Gloria Allred? We'd like to retain your services. We just got kicked out of where we were staying for eating an apple, but Eve thinks it's really because she's a woman."

"Hi, is this Tony Roma's? I'd like to order two dozen ribs, with a side of lube."

"Eating the apple was an honest mistake, but then using the Apple iPhone to update good and evil on Wikipedia was, I have to admit, a really dick move."

Listen Dave, me and Eve are going to have to stay at your place for a few nights if that's alright. Well, remember that pervert freak living upstairs. Yeah, well it looks like he's finally flipped.

I keep telling you, there's no one here named "Timmy!" No, no "Tommy" either! Now stop calling me!

"The pitch meeting didn't go well. These fucking producers think they're God!!"

'Walt 2:14?' What the heck's that supposed to mean? Something about finding moneylenders in the temple? Aren't we getting WAY ahead of ourselves here?

(Taking it as a slightly misnumbered compliment, thanks! :) )

"He wants us to smell it, but we don't know where it's been."

"Dude, remember when your parents caught you with your prom date? This is much worse."

"No, I'm not interested in the friends and family plan. Who the hell is this?"

I don't know about omnipotent, but judging from the size of his index finger -- he's hung like a horse.

"This new GPS system is AWESOME."

"Hello? Finger-envy hotline?"

"Whaddaya mean who is this? You're the one who called me, you sonofabitch!"

"Don't get mad. All I'm saying is, if I could have a few more wives my children wouldn't have to be quite so incestuous."

Hello Cellular One ... your right, looks like I'll need 'roaming 'on my plan!

Hello Dr. Phil ... how could we do such childish things when we didn't even have one?

"I'm starting to think that this was not such an Intelligent Design after all."

If they can't find Bushwick, I really don't think they will find this either. In any event, does it look like I have any money on me?

"The sex here was sooooooo obscene."

"FEMA here. This is going to be even worse than Katrina!"

"Christ, I can't wait for the day when they can put someone else on the cover of People."

"The snake was cheap. You know Eve is a sucker for anything remotely phallic."

"You know me. I can resist anything -- but temptation."

"Isn't this a bit harsh. Your sentencing me to 900 years -- with one women."

"Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me...So leave the bitch alone, ok?"

In a recent survey, 25% of Americans said that Jesus' second coming will occur in 2007. A mere 13% of respondents believed that Adam and Eve had cell phones. And 85% felt that viewing cartoon nudity should be punishable by 5-10 years in jail.

"Coed Naked Jalapeno Tossing used to be just a t-shirt slogan. Now we've got fans waving foam fingers in the air."

"Yeah, what if the first three letters of the movie title do contain a 'Q' or a 'Z'? What then? What? Fucking? Then? Oh, I press '1' now? Thanks, God."

Apologies to D.W. My above entry's too close for comfort.

He beat me to the punch with a Moviefone--press 1 joke.

"THOU SHALT NOT TALK ON CELL PHONE WHILE HAVING SEX!!!!!!!"

"Nah, it's not that bad. I can see two big desks -- side by side -- just down the road a piece. With a LAN line."

Oh no, you're not sticking THAT up my ass again!

"I don't know. Maybe we'll look for an ark around here somewhere?"

I'm just leaving now. Yeah, some guy gave us directions.

Christ! What an Asshole!

Thanks to Eve's newfound shame, phone sex will have to cover all my tabooed fetishes. And you can bet one revolves around a fucking serpent!

"Yeah we're getting deported. But I slipped the snake a few bucks so we should be back in a few weeks. It's not like there's a wall or anything."

"Hey! Shut the fuck up. I'm on the phone."

"God's right handed, right? Must be one of her interns."

Hello, I would like to order a large cheese pizza, I don't know about you homey, but I ain't eatin' bread by the sweat of my brow, no way.

"We tried. It's no use. You can't get anywhere near that Apple iPhone."

you're jack bauer aren't you? did chloe get a boob job?

"I need to take this."

Doc, Marty here. Listen, this is heavy, me and Jennifer took the delorean back to the dawn of time and we need your help getting back. Is there anything about plutonium in the bible?

"Yeah, that's right, a giant cursor in the sky that calls Eve a 'sweet link' and wants to 'click on her fine ass.'"

It's that damn caption contest, I think that everyone has had enough already, I think this is the sign.

“Tell my listeners I need raise five million dollars to stay in Eden.”

"It was a worm infested soggy macintosh for cri sakes!"

"OK! OK! You can have your damn Saints. I'll take the Eagles...But you have give me at least 6 1/2 points."


"I need that Notre Dame sweatshirt NOW!!!"

"You booked us here, Henry--now the least you can do is get us a refund!"

"Hef? Can we go back to Playboy? We're still not wanted at The New Yorker!"

"It's an emergency, Doc! I grew a navel but lost my toes, five fingers, a rib, and my neck. And Eve? She's missing one finger--and her penis!"

"We just lost our shirts buying scalped tickets to see Kristin Chenoweth in The Apple Tree--and now we can't even find Studio 54! Which street is it on, again?"

"Hello? Hello? Yes. Yes. No. No. Fine. Fine. Not right now. Not right now. Tonight. Tonight. At 8. At 8. What? What? All right. All right. Okay. Okay. Bye. Bye."

Hello, New Yorker? Could you make the big hand black and make Eve Chinese?

Hi. Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

I swear on me muther's grave, O'Malley, dere's a real live snake on de Em'rald Isle.

So he's sending more troops to die in the unwinnable civil war he created? Well that's President Dumbya Bush for ya, Powell.

"hey, winchler, is that extra desk job still open?

Give 1000 monkeys 1000 typewriters for 1000 years and eventually they would write the winning caption, the winning anti-caption?, hold on a second, he never mentioned that.

On the next episode of "House"...

"Oh we'll be fine, Eve already has a deal with a douche company."

"Hey, the only way to deal with this is with a battalion of trained manicurists. And, oh yeah, tell that Roto-Rooter guy he left his snake behind."

The good news is, it's a buyers' market. And our next place won't have an association with stupid rules to follow.

"Oh believe me we're better off. He's a total control freak."

"Did Adam have a navel? Did Eve? Perhaps we will never know. It all depends on how God "made" man: if he was grown in some kind of artificial womb -- if is DNA were made first and then allowed to grow -- then he probably would. Although, one would think that God would give him a more perfect navel than one from an umbilical cord tied in a knot. However, the Bible only refers to have Adam and Eve as fully-grown adult humans, so if they were made piecemeal and assembled somehow, then possibly they would not have a navel at all. These same arguments can be applied to Eve."

The weather service just issued a Severe Denunciation Warning for our area.

Apparently he doesn't like Eve's tattoo.

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