The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #131

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #131

Daniel Radosh

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

Update: I forgot to remind you that the winner of this week's contest will receive a signed copy of The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg.

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Winner

"I bet this is killing a tremendous number of people." �Dan McCoy

Finalists

"So much for my career as a safe salesman." �Ned

"This is just God's way of saying he has too many safes." �Francis

Honorable mention

"I have long argued that Ben Bernanke's efforts to encourage spending in the midst of a recession might have dangerous repercussions upon the nation, but I did not anticipate that it would so suddenly kill our only son."�dean @ t.a.m.s.y.

"I take back what I said about the pillow-top car." �Charles

"It's raining men! Men trapped in safes! Suffocating! ... Hallelujia!" �Ernest

(thinks to self) Sigh. Why can't it ever be raining men, like in that song? "Oh, uh, hello Doris. Just thinking some perfectly heterosexual thoughts here at the window. Hallelujah." �kejo

"Ahh the irony of a dangerous safe." �Amy

"Looks like go-kart Mozart got his answer." �Rubrick

"Two things haunted Edward's troubled mind: apocalyptic visions of a collapsing economy, and the legless ghost of his dead sister." �mypalmike

"In Soviet Russia, safe cracks YOU! ...Oh shit, it's actually happening here!" �Jacob C

"It's not the heat, it's the humidity. And the safes." � therblig

"God help us if his book ever gets a plug from Oprah. It'll take him a month to pick the fucking winner." �Anonymous