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April 7, 2008

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #141

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

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Winner
"Yeah, and 20 gigs more than the white!" —Heather

Finalists
"How did you think they collected the cleansing blood?" —shadysidelantern

"I know you're new so here's how it works: I sit on one shoulder and say 'She's drunk. She's passed out. Go ahead! Fuck her!' You sit on the other shoulder and tell him 'Not without a condom you don't!'" —al in la

Honorable mention
"You don't understand. This is goth hell." —Francis

"Frankly, I was expecting my virgins to be chicks." —Joshua

"Yeah, but they let me keep my executive hair and my cock." —J

"You would tell me if there was something weird about my wings, right? I mean I can't see back there, but I'm getting some weird looks." —JohnnyB

"As far as I can tell, neither of us has enough wing surface relative to our mass to sustain flight, nor enough of the necessary musculature even to flap these things effectively. So don't you get all featherier-than-thou with me." —Walt

"After a lifetime of eschewing good works I'd like to thank God for his gift of grace and ask, Where all the hot Lutheran bitches at?" —Kevin Guilfoile

Worst Caption of 2004: "First I have to up-armor my Humm-Vee with part of a Syrian dishwasher, now this. Who knew the Republicans were in charge here, too?" —TG Gibbon

"I distinctly remember choosing 'rule in hell,' but here I am. May I take your order?" —therblig

"UPGRAYDD!" —TMo

"I kidnap one baby and this is what I get?" —LK

"From the stress of blogging, you?" —Charles

"Let's drop all the bullshit and just fly to the sun to see whose are made of wax, mothafucka." —boneguy

"Your band sucked" —ken hense

"Fuck the X-Men."
"Yeah, well, fuck Batman." —Leppo Softboy

"The hours there were obscene. So, I killed myself." —Harry

"Fuck off!" —Kathy H

Posted by Daniel Radosh

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"Fuck off!"

“Black is the new white.”

“Hi! My name’s Lucifer. I used to live here.”

“Gloooo-o-o-o-o-oooo-o-o-o-o-oooo-o-o-o-o-oooo-ria! In ex-cel-sis De-o…”

I kidnap one baby and this is what I get?

"There are some things even a utility belt can't reverse, Robin."

"I'm Batman."

"Yeah? Well, you look like a pussy."

"Let's just say I got a little too 'friendly' with the blessed Madonna and leave it at that, OK?"

"You would tell me if there was something weird about my wings, right? I mean I can't see back there, but I'm getting some weird looks."

"Whattaya mean it's not a costume party?"

"No, I'm not Batman, I'm Judge Reinhold. And apparently I'm dead. I find this very distressing, actually. I was going to have a recurring role on '30 Rock' but now I'm just the guy who died at about the same time as Charlton Heston. He's the Suez Crisis to my Hungarian Revolution. Hey, how come I haven't seen him around here? Oh, wait, I can guess. Anyway, you know how I can track down my Gran? The guy at the gate wasn't very helpful at all. All I did was slip him a double sawbuck--as a joke!--and he gave me these jerk-ass wings. Also why would you even ask me that? Batman's not real. Everybody here is fucked-up."

"It was either these or the Blue Morpho ones."

Worst Caption of 2004: "First I have to up-armor my Humm-Vee with part of a Syrian dishwasher, now this. Who knew the Republicans were in charge here, too?"

"I used to think people were staring because of the wings. But now I realize it's because of the hideous bloodstains running down my robe."

"Everytime a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. My bell was in a bellfry. With bats."

"Sure the black leather option is more expensive, but I'm worth it."

"Child-molesting priest. Why?"

"Everyone knows your wings . . . . never mind. Just forget it."

"So I ask one innocent question about whether there's billiards here, and now this."

Just 'cause I hated black people. Can you believe these assholes. Hey, I'm up here, ain't I?

What? Was I in a hurry to get out of hell? Ha...yeah, I've never heard THAT one before...real original...

Mold...why?

"UPGRAYDD!"

"Dance with the devil in the pale moon light just once and you never hear the end of it."

"I did what? Dude, I told you to never let me drink."

Apparently, if you masturbate more than three or four times a day up here, your feathers fall off.

"You don't understand. This *is* goth hell."

No... it's standing knee-deep in dead people's buttocks that's keeping us anchored here.

Actually, I believe these are just another by-product of my adventures in the parallel universe of Christian Pop Culture.

"I'm never going back."

I'm positioning myself as the "Angel for Change".

From the stress of blogging, you?

Sure I know someone who will do that. But if anyone finds out you came to me you are probably going to have to resign.

Mark Penn. Whose guardian are you?

"I lost o' pair a dice. Seen 'em?"

"Well, first I was with the Los Angeles Angels, then I was with the California Angels. Before long, I ended up with the Anaheim Angels, and then I was with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. That's when I killed myself."

"Yeah, I noticed that, too. I guess they had no black people on Wings 'cause there are no black people on Nantucket."

"See a doctor? What are you, a fucking moron? We're DEAD, dude!"

The opening scene in 'Touched By a Gay Angel', the latest film in the increasingly popular genre of gay Christian porn.

"One week we're hatching giant eggs. Now we're mashing potatoes with our feet. I hate this place. Oh, and my wings are different than yours."

"Its 10:13 AM. What possible difference could that make?"

Because I have a mammalian brain.

"How did you THINK they collected the cleansing blood?"

"Its the only way to get a clerical collar up here."

"Albrecht Durer, as far as I know."

"Gay."

"I don't belong here!"

"Neither do I"

Let's drop all the bullshit and just fly to the sun to see whose are made of wax, mothafucka.

I distinctly remember choosing "rule in hell", but here I am. May I take your order?

"That's right, I said, 'God damn America.' What are you going to do about it?"

"What do you mean, there's no Halloween in heaven?"

"April Fool! You really are in heaven, not hell. Sorry if I scared you."

"My mother was an old bat. What of it?"

"Ok, just take one more step towards me and our profiles will make He-man's magical sword."

"Uh.. did you fart? Oh ... lemme guess-- it wasn't you. It was the giant butts again."

"Yes, a bat is actually feasting on my Latismus Dorsi. But don't let that bother you. Can I get you a spritzer?"

"You know why Jesus can't eat M&Ms? They keep falling through the holes in his hands. Hahahahahaha."

"I don't know why no one believed the weekly world news about me."

"If you were Christopher Hitchens and I were Madeleine Murray O'Hare this would be extremely ironic."

"I died from the stress of blogging. You?"
"Lynched by impatient anti-caption fans."

"Your band sucked"

"I just flew in from Hell, and boy are my arms tired. Also, my wings are tired."

Yes it's Monday and yes my ass is dragon.

"Cheeeeee cheeeeee! Cheeeeee!" [High-pitched bat-angel sonar chirping noises.]

"I have sonar and rabies.SO BACK AWAY MISTER CLOSE TALKER!"

So...you're voting for Obama then....

"Yeah, well, at least I have two wings!"

"You're going to have to do something flashier than save some piss ant banker if you want cool wings like these Clarence!"

"I can't believe the letters Dd got into heaven."

RORSCHACH INKBLOT TEST #1: Please describe what you see in the space provided.

"Yeah, I won a bet with a gargoyle."

"In my previous life I was a giant Balinese fruit bat specializing in casaba melons. I had an unfortunate collision with a Dolly Parton billboard, and the next thing I know, I'm talking to you.You may call me - MISTER BAT.Drop the FRUIT."

"Curse this lousy wing-mange!"

"I left my harp in Sam Clam's disco."

"Wow, that sneeze blew all the feathers off my wings! God bless you! 'cuz I won't."

"Wanna fuck?" (Note: works with any cartoon, but is especially funny in this scenario, because they're both guys, and both angels, only one is kind of demonic looking and therefore, presumably, 'nasty,' like, aggressive and perverse sexually. Sorry, I mean 'funny.')"

"If you knew anything about New Yorkers you wouldn't be asking ' Why black?' "

"I was picking up a crate of crucifixes and discoverd that my groin was rupture ready."

"How did I earn my wings? I used to be an FAA inspector at Southwest Airlines."

I'd rather have kept the fangs and sex appeal.

"Well, I got in because I was a Christian. The wing job came from being a serial rapist. I'll take what I can get here."

I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: . . . I will be like the most High. ~ Isaiah 14:14

"Why is it always a BLACK thing with you??

...and yet we both can agree "City of Angels" sucked.

"So, I get to the front of the line at the wing dispensary, and it turns out, every time a balloon pops, an angel gets bat wings. Who knew?"

"Yeah, but they let me keep my executive hair and my cock."

(1) "Red Bull gives you wiiings! Blaaack ones!"

(2) "Oh yeah? Well your mother is in Hell, sucking Satan's dick!"

(3) "Yeah, they're black. Got a problem with that? Racist."

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"Heaven's no fun, Robin. No tights, no capes. But at least we still have each other!"

"In heaven, halloween is in April, right?"

"Heaven, heaven is a place. A place where nothing, nothing ever happens."

"The hours there were obscene. So, I killed myself."

I thought heaven was formal. And for bats. In retrospect, I guess i should have realized how improbable that was.

"I passed through a lion's colon along with an African Bat, and hey presto."

"I'm voting for Obama."

"No, no, no - not God bless America, God damn America."

"My man, one word: sunscreen. Peace out."

My master sends a message to your so-called god:

The end of time is at hand when you will sit in judgment for giving mankind false hope. The fires of Hell will rage until the only thing recognizable from your "paradise" will be the smell of burned, human flesh.

By the way, there's something I've always wanted to know. Can a guy can get laid up here? Cuz the pussy in hell is brahuuutal!

"My aged corpse has been laid out at the mortuary at last, and I confess to some measure of curiosity as to whether any will dare to pry my rifle from my cold dead hands. Wanna come watch?"

"I am priapic, hence grateful for these loose-fitting garments."

"I am too a butterfly, fuck you. I'm a butterfly! A pretty butterfly! *sobs uncontrollably*"

"Fiddy's White Party just gets better and better."

"I have a terrible itch -- could you scratch right between my shoulder blades? Thanks. Careful of the demon wings, though, they'll seriously burn your skin right off if you so much as brush against them."

"Toilet training sucks."

What do you mean you get free health care down there?!

"You're right. It's not a Sealy Posturpedic."

Dude, my wings are emo.

"No, I'm pretty sure it's 'just call me angel of the MOURNING,' Angel."

"What's wrong? Bat got your tongue?"

"Oh, yeah? Well, you should see the bat I've got under this robe!"

"I get that all the time. People can't fathom that Cheney would even HAVE a guardian angel."

"Spray paint. Why?"

These wings are supposed to symbolize something but I have no fucking idea what! And they're hideously creepy! I hate them! The fact that you like them disgust me, Trevor.

Farnsworth, what is the meaning of this infernal cartoon!

"A '59 Cadillac Eldorado. What are you going as?"

"God likes to play chess."

"Sleep all day. Party all night. It's fun to be a vampire angel."

"Yeah, my great-grandfather was a flying monkey, but we evolved."

"Gimme your wallet and you won't get hurt."

"Let's just agree to disagree so I can get back to napping on this pillowy-soft cloud."

"My wife doesn't approve of the exploitation of birds just so we don't have to take public transportation. But she thinks bats are icky."

"Leathery. Give 'em a feel."

Whoops - the above was mine.

"I sure wish I'd been Hindu."

"My wings are bat wings. Your wings are not bat wings. Why are my wings bat wings? My wings are the wings of a bat."

Just wanted to know: what soap do you use to wash your you-know-whats?

"After a lifetime of eschewing good works I'd like to thank God for his gift of grace and ask, Where all the hot Lutheran bitches at?"

My adviser says these will help me be elected President.

"Did you ever think about eternity? About never ending? Going on and on and on? When I did it would freak me out and I'd feel vertiginous. It was supposed to be what we all want, but it gave me a sense of dread. I couldn't really think about it. Now here I am. Plus I've got these fucking bat wings."

I was a driver on the NASCAR circuit and actually did pretty good, until I got put on probation for using non-regulation spoiler wings. I have to wear these things until hell freezes over... whenever that is.

"Don't give me that conformist bullshit about decorum and good taste. I'm an individual! And I can damn well wear my hair just as long as I want to!"

"I get Jay and Silent Bob as prophets, but do you see Alanis Morissette as God? I'm not sure that I do."

No, it's not my logo and I'm not Darkwing Duck.

How do you manage the feathers?

"Yeah, we all expected them to be paved with gold - not bubble-wrap."

Hi, I'm Ozzy Osbourne. Just got in.

"How did I get here? I only drank the blood of Christ and that of your bitch whore mother, that's how. Any more questions?"

"And then I'll be over on the left shoulder, and I'll say, 'Come on, didn't you have a salad at lunch yesterday? That's gotta balance out a little, teeny, tiny, all-natural piece of cheesecake.' And then you say, ..."

"Who's c--k did you have to s--k to get them baddass wings?"

(Who's 'cork' did you have to 'smack'?)

"My last meal request was 'hot wings'."

You obvioulsy lied to St. Peter.

"It's just St. Peter's sense of humor - I admitted to him I loved Bobby Vee."

"You mean Belinda Carlisle was wrong? Heaven's not a place on earth??"

"Odd thing, y'know. Gravity...in heaven."

"So, what you're saying is that I should chuck the phrase 'Feets don't fail me now' ?"

You don't, you get down off your wings.

As far as I can tell, neither of us has enough wing surface relative to our mass to sustain flight, nor enough of the necessary musculature even to flap these things effectively. So don't you get all featherier-than-thou with me.

Sure, I'll sign your Book of Life. Got a quill I can borrow?

We're in an everlasting state and this stuff on my wings is sticky. Not good.

"Yeah, I was making a killing in guano futures. And then I died."

You spend a lifetime being good and then you wind up in some dumb New Yorker cartoon.

No, you only get the black ones if you're a pedophile priest.

"Once He plays knight to queen’s bishop 3, you’re outta here.”

1) They're clip-ons.

2) The cherubs here are obscene!

"So I was fucking this guy in the ass the other day, and I go in for the reach-around, and he totally has a BONER. How gay is that?"

[Walt: Those are superb]

"I know you're new so here's how it works: I sit on one shoulder and say 'She's drunk. She's passed out. Go ahead! Fuck her!' You sit on the other shoulder and tell him 'Not without a condom you don't!'"

One day soon, you'll start to notice your wings turning black. I don't why they do that. One thing is for certain, though. NOTHING is going to get you laid in this place no matter what affectation you choose to parade around with. Fuck death.

In the buttock laden heaven above San Francisco, heaven is just a trolley stop away.

"Apparently when they say 'you can't take it with you' they aren't talking about eczema."

"Would you believe me if I told you I imported 10,000 sex slaves per year into the U.S.?"

"I started to customize my avatar in 'Second Afterlife' and then I got bored with it."

"The food's gone, the music sucks, the wall-to-wall moonbounce is an epic dud, and to top it all off no one else picked 'evil angel' so now I gotta walk around all night looking like a total ASSHOLE."

“You bought the farm. I got shot trying to hold up a liquor store.”

"Addicted to porn? I only ever read Playboy one time and that was only 'cause Radosh was in it!!"

"How about forever? Is forever good for you?"

"Wim Wenders ruined it for all of us."

What're ya looking at, ya racist?

It's so they can tell us apart.

You think that's messed? You should see my feet.

"Yeah, yeah -- I'm Masterson...No, don't tell me how you guessed."

"Frankly, I think yours look a touch gay."

"Fuck the X-Men." "Yeah, well, fuck Batman."

"The difference is, in hell, I'm the answer to fantasies of straight guys."

"I don't know, I guess I was just hoping they would make me feel more dominant in my current position."

Sorry Chuck, no you can't bring your gun here. We did like your Moses though. What, too soon?

So, this is how they tell the right-wingers from the left.

I hoped we would lose the hospital gowns when we died.

Yeah, this sucks--first they take our feet, then they stick us in this field of marshmallow fluff so we can't fly away...

You know what they say, once you go black...

And Radosh, He the Man ! Says "don't be coming 'round here with with your New Yorker self, 'two shoes'!"

"Yeah, HE's as ecumenical as....well, as ecumenical as hell !"

"Abandon 'HAND-SIGNED by THE CARTOONIST', all ye who enter here !"

"Knee deep in 'Gluteii maximi' : hope it was worth it !"

"In our RADOSH's house are many mentions: Winners, Finalists--Honorables. .....Come back next week."

I'll get you my pretty...and your little dog too!


Umm, hello...that is NOT a tramp stamp.

Ever since Commissioner Gordon lost his bat cut out,he pages me three times a night so I drop everything, fly under the clouds and he shines this bright fucking light that burns a hole in my eyeballs. I mean, why can't just pick up a fucking phone and CALL Batman?

"Why am I always the 'bad cop'?"

God can be such a dick sometimes.
---
Remember when they said to apply the wing lotion every night? Well they meant EVERY night.
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Evidently it's not funny to tell St. Peter to go to hell.

"You can keep the wings... I've got better rock songs!"

"Holy Batwings Batman!"
"erm... like DUH"

"I can't function in all this goddamn light!"

I was a God-fearing man. I even went to church every Sunday. But I guess I did vote for George W. Twice. Think that could have anything to do with it?

I was a God-fearing man. I even went to church every Sunday. But I guess I did vote for George W. Twice. Think that could have anything to do with it?

So, what do you think Abednego will be wearing?

"I thought 'In Heaven There Is No Beer' was just some dumb polka song. This sucks."

"Nah, he draws it with pen and ink, but he wants you to think it's a goddam linoleum cut."

I was a God-fearing man. I even went to church every Sunday. But I guess I did post the same lame caption twice. Think that could have anything to do with it

Feathers are so last year.


Batman! Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah, Batman!

yeah, AND 20 gigs more than the white!

Yeah, I had the feather ones for a while, but I thought they made me look like a fairy.

"What shatters your puny brain more: the fact that vampires don't live forever, or that St. Peter really has a thing for us?"

“Of course I love you—I’m programmed to love you. I’m a goddam loveangelbat.”

"Hi. My name is Windy. I have wings to fly, and I have stormy eyes that flash at the sound of lies... so watch it, buddy."

I'm a Mac. You must be a PC.

It's an allergic reaction. Don't ask.

"Witnessing the murder of you and Mom as a child lead me to train myself to physical and intellectual perfection and don a bat-themed costume in order to fight crime. That being said, why didn't you just toss the wallet on the ground Dad?"

Of all the things I thought might come back to haunt me up here, being a rabid Meat Loaf fan never crossed my mind.

In life, I was bald.
My "welcome to heaven" wish was for a full head of hair. I should have read the fuckin' fine print!

Do you have any cocaine? I'll suck your dick.

"What?!? We Flying Monkeys from Oz can't evolve, too?!"

"I always find these theme dances to be awkward, if not downright humiliating."

"You might want to try something a little more aerodynamic there, Icarus..."

"I'm Charlie. And you're gonna be my angel, bitch."

Half of me wants to believe you. The other half wants to slide its tongue down your throat and rip out your heart.

Y'know Steve, I WAS fucking your wife. So I guess this is goodbye you tiny cocked, impotent son-of-a-bitch. I've heard the hookers down there scream like she did.

"It's true, the dinosaurs were on the ark. Why is that surprising?"

I was one of the lucky ones who got a Lamborghini Diablo. This outfit came along as an accessory and I just couldn't part with it.

These wings are last-season Pradas. I got them from some dude with a pitchfork, dressed in a red cape.

"On my deathbed, surrounded by my wife and kids and both our parents, the priest administered last rites and asked if I'd like to make a final confession so that I might die in a state of grace. Realizing it was my last chance, I had to tell him I'd been jacking off pretty regularly to reruns of "Noah's Arc." Humiliating for my family perhaps, but I was dead five minutes later so fuck it."

Never mind the wings, where's the rest of my ear?

I remember when you said dressing like Gabriel and Satan while standing on a pile of cotton-wool was a bad idea, Freddy boy. Look at us now, eh? Isn't this the best feeling in the world? Doesn't it make you get a huge raging stiffy in that dress you're wearing, staring straight in Satan's eyes? I've always loved you Freddy baby. Loved you more than words express. It has taken this whole set-up for me to finally ask you this; will you marry me? Make me the happiest investment banker alive, Freddy darling. We can finally get that house in the 'burbs with that white picket fence you've always wanted. Yeah, sure the neighbors may stick up their noses at us, the conservative-minded bastards they are, but we'll be together, Freddy honey.

"I just asked God a simple question, 'Do these wings make my ass look big?' And this is the crap He pulls."

Do I have something in my teeth?

"Ha, you have bird-wings! What a freak!"

"Frankly, I was expecting my virgins to be chicks."

(good one Joshua)

"Shouldn't we be dancing... like... cheek-to-cheek... or something?"

[I]Testing[/I]

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