The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #168

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #168

Daniel Radosh

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

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First place

"Remember when you said you couldn't decide between a nice meal out or going to the freak tent at the circus? Well, I've got a surprise for you... I'm fucking your sister." �Mork

Second place

"Here's our sushi. There's no escaping the long arm of the raw." �Damon

Third place

"This is the weirdest restaurant I've ever been in! What's next - a tiny flying saucer emerging from the kitchen trailing a plume of thick exhaust from its tailpipe?" �Vance

Honorable mention

"Don't freak out - the waiters here have extremely long arms." �Gary Goldsmith

Waiter Wily's


Wily limbs


Made them wait a while

In the sort of place


That favors


Carpet over tile

Both he and she


Sat slack-jawed


Staring into their laps

Not realizing
The waiter's plan;


Lure them into a trap!


(He ran a human meat stall
In a room around the back) �Donny

"I should be home picking last week's New Yorker cartoon anti-caption contest winners. As most of the entries are completely uninformed by the delicious and subtly delineated rules I carefully composed long ago, what started as a lark has become an onerous chore, sapping my strength, my hope and my will to live." �J.D.