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December 28, 2009

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #222

Harry Effron

Submit the worst possible caption for this New Yorker cartoon.

———Last week's results. ———Rules and tips.

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First Place:

"Can't ... breathe ..." -- Charles

Second Place:
"Honey, maybe you should see a doctor. Your eyes are bigger than my tits." -- J.D.

Third Place:
"I can't figure out where my asshole is." -- David

Honorable Mention:
"Fuck you and your sweater vest. Stop being such a cheapskate and turn up the thermostat." -- A. Jorgensen

"The doctor with the shadow puppets said it's supposed to smell like fish." -- mike

"Honey, don't you see? One tit in the last issue, my luscious breasts in this issue. By next week, the readers will be ready for some camel toe, and it won't be long until the readers will expect nothing less than graphic girl-on-girl lovin and hair-tearing all-nude catfights!" -- Barb

"Fuck the rules! This week, I'm showing my tits in the New Yorker and submitting more than 5 captions to the anti-caption contest." -- mypalmike

Suck up to the judge award:
"The whore here is piscine." -- J.D.

The "Fuck the rules!" / "50th time's the charm" award:
"I'm getting tired of the same old routine, Yuvie. You read, I show my tits, and morons propose clever captions and anti-captions until some deadline passes. How about we take a stance...end it right now...shake things up: LET'S GO ANAL TONIGHT!!!!" -- m hartman

(but seriously, 5 entry limit.)

Comments

"Whaddya mean 'We should Scotchgard —— the furniture'?"

"O.K, Ahab, now what?"

"When you get a chance, can you help me with this picture frame impaled in my head?"

"For your information, I take a size 6 1/2, EEEEEEEEEEEE."

"...and he was all Hans, if you know what I mean."

"What do you mean my fish smells like vagina?"

"Clean the house yourself. I'm not a fucking maid."

"I told you--my father was an orthopedic surgeon, and my mother got away.

"Swimming? Is that all you think about?"

"Who was that blowfish I saw you with last night?"

"Pisces. Why do you ask?"

"Enough with all that mercury bullshit. If you don't like giving oral sex, just say so."

"No, you may not join the Mile Low Club with me!"

"Well, you're no Tom Hanks."

"Bastard. You haven't even noticed the new lampshade."

"We could take turns flipping each other off."

"Did you enjoy it last night when I screamed out, `Make me feel like a woman'?"

"It was okay. I still like `Dip me, eat me, throw my tail in the garbage' better."

"I choose...truth."

"Lemme see. Here's a good one: are you hiding a gigantic cock in your tail?"

"HA HA HA!"

"HEE HEE HEE!"

"Okay, okay. Dare."

" I said, 'Dick in' not 'Dickens.'"

Is that all I am to you -- tits and fins?

"Would look up from that book already, you bald, boring bastard? For god's sakes, there's bare-chested mermaid in your living room!"

"Would look up from that book already, you bald, boring bastard? For god's sake, there's mermaid tits in your face!"

"Fuck you and your sweater vest. Stop being such a cheapskate, and turn up the thermostat."

I know what you're thinking, but I can't spread my legs.

"If you were really straight you'd still fuck me."

"Honey, maybe you should see a doctor. Your eyes are bigger than my tits."

"Honey, I know 'Serving Fish' is a cookbook."

"My father was right; surf and turf marriages never work out."

"Your turn. Show me your wood."

"I know it was you and your drunken friends that put butter and lemon wedges in my tank."

"Mom was ichthyoid, wasn't she...?" "

"My uncle filet-ed me when I was a fingering."

"I need to get this off my chest too...I haven't foreborne you mer-babies because I"m a latent egglayer."

"They stuck a sign on me that said "The dermis and the drapes don't match."

"The whore here is piscine."

One more (love this one...)

"I made gravy with Fusilli, that crazy bastard."

Can't ... breathe ...

...ok last one, I promise:

"Did you ever get high...and imagine that 'Leo Wilson' wrote his name on our floor...and created us...and all of our unfinished possessions ... because we live in some sort of weird parallel two-dimensional universe...inside of another universe with even more dimensions...which is inside another one with more...and so on...until infinity!?!?!"

"Whatever"

"Men can't fake orgasms, Harvey. Besides, I saw all those empty packets of sea monkeys in the trash beforehand."

"I'm sorry, Sir, but Dostoevsky is not considered sex."

"It's a tail and a vacuum cleaner that can suck a basketball through a garden hose."

"You're going to cook my ass and serve it over fusili, you crazy bastard?"

"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to dive in."

"They called him Flipper. Flipper, faster than lightning. No one, you see, was smarter than he. And so my mother fell in love with him. Am I boring you?"

You want to order in sushi again?

I appreciate your sympathetic gesture towards the pain I felt when I had feet and every step felt like being stabbed, but you can put your leg down now.

Does this tail make me look fat?

"I thought siding with Roe WAS pro-life in Roe v. Wade."

"One of your pens must have gotten in with the sheets- I did NOT have sex with that squid."

"Yes I have crabs, and I'm in love with them."

"Before Ray there was Marlin, then you, honey."

"I used to be a grouper with Phish."

Want me to suck you off?

Yeah, I'm up for it if you don't mind getting a little
slimy.

"Honey, don't you see? One tit in the last issue, my luscious breasts in this issue. By next week, the readers will be ready for some camel toe, and it won't be long until the readers will expect nothing less than graphic girl-on-girl lovin and hair-tearing all-nude catfights!"

"I'm drying out, Dan. You never even try to find my pussy anymore."

"You want Ariel? Is that what you want? I saw that Little Mermaid porn on your computer, you sick bastard! Do you know what happens after you get registered as a sex offender? Are you even listening to me???"

"I've fallen into this chair and I can't get up."

"I found cocktail sauce on your shirt. Who is she?"

"Did you ever get high...and imagine that 'Leo CULLUM' wrote his name on our floor...and created us...and all of our unfinished possessions ... because we live in some sort of weird parallel two-dimensional universe...inside of another universe with even more dimensions...which is inside another one with more...and so on...until infinity!?!?!"

Sure, put on a sweater, turn down the heat, and stare at my nipples, you pervert.

"My eyes are up here.
And they look exactly like my breasts."

"I smell a tabloid inside a novel wrapped around a penis."

"I'll never forget the first time I saw whale nipples."

What do you mean you can't find the clitoris? We need to get a new icthyology textbook.

Douche? Why should I douche?

When I said I wanted surf and turf, I expected something a bit different.

So I used to think the guy drawing me was a dirty old man, but I'm beginning to believe all the anti-captioners are, too. Even Kathy H is a 62 year old man who beats off to these things.

"I suppose you're wondering what an egg-layer needs with nipples?"

"I can't figure out where my asshole is."

"Do you think it's dry in in here?"

"I'm sorry that I ate the baby, but you were the one who forget to put him in into the safety net. "

Why don't you stop hiding your boner with that book and just ask me to spawn with you?

"You want ANOTHER blow job?"

"And to think, yesterday we were two strangers -- a performer in a freak show and a mermaid."

"Amputation is considered elective surgery. Unless I get diabetes!"

"I can't decide which is more terminally unhip, Williamsburg or the Upper West Side."

In every other way I'm perfectly normal, except my menses looks and smells like Mott's Clamato——. Actually that's pretty normal too come to think of it.

"Honey, you used to love it when I gave you that koi look."

"I'm sorry, Bill. I tried, I really did. But this relationship just doesn't have legs."

"Throw me back."

""You know, Bob, I'd leave you if I could."

"No, I can't get you the remote, you mean s.o.b.!"

"I'm a mammal, Ted, not a fucking fish! Mammary glands, see? I swear you're an idiot sometimes."

"Look, in the end Alyosha becomes the hero existentially because he succeeds at deceiving himself and therefore doesn't deteriorate like his three brothers who have to resort to masturbation. Now fuck me. "

"Look, in the end Alyosha becomes the hero existentially because he succeeds at deceiving himself and therefore doesn't deteriorate like his three brothers who have to resort to masturbation. Now fuck me. "

"This is just great. Neither one of us can get up."

"What? Fuck the open sea. I stayed offshore a resort. That's where the money is, honey."

I'd love a cock tail before
dinner

"Honey, this year Iresolve to finally forgive Josef Mengele for forcing my grandma to have sex with a goldfish"

"Well, I'm no Mandy-Ray."

"My advise? Either day dream about your daughter's friend OR your fishing trip last summer...not both."

"No Mr. Bond, I expect you to dive."

"My tits are up here, pervert."

"I'd die for some krill, Gil - you know I married you because you had that name. But how would I eliminate the waste products?

"Every time I pass by that statue of Hans Christian Andersen in Central Park I can't help but think of the gooey nut dribbling out of his mouth, freshly squirted from the thick Danish penis of his young, hung ballet dancer boyfriend."

"In mermaids, reproduction is much like that of dolphins. The reproductive organs of both the male and female are akin to the dolphin and whale, and mermaid babies are born live (as opposed to hatched from eggs). But how do I fuck?"

"So, you can read. I like that in a man."

He's a corporate recruiter, and he's trying to find an opening.

"I feel like you're scaling me with your eyes."

"Honey, the sight of you gets me so wet that I went all mermaid again.

"Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Take me to the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down..."

"If we have mother for dinner, do you want her poached, pan-fried or broiled?"

"...oh, yeah, Bono called and he's all on board for MERM AID 2010."

The doctor called. It's not ich. It's herpes type 2, and you more than likely have it too."

"I may be only half human, but even I continue to mourn the wholesale slaughter of babies and their civilian parents in Gaza. I wonder at the depraved indifference -- or worse -- of some people to Israel's US-funded apartheid/genocide of the Palestinian people, and wonder how they can dismiss someone as 'uninformed' or 'deeply troubled' simply because their natural human empathy brings them to agree in this matter with Amnesty International, Richard Goldstone, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finklestein, Eric Alterman, Tony Judt, Howard Zinn, Roger Cohen, Michelle Goldberg, Adam Horowitz, Philip Weiss, Leon Wieseltier, Michael Walzer, Medea Benjamin, Naomi Klein, Rabbi Brant Rosen, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Ta'anit Tzedek, Jewish Voice for Peace, American Jews for a Just Peace, Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Spencer Ackerman, Dana Goldstein, Hannah Schwarzschild, Alexander van Leer, Jane Fonda, Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, Julie Christie, Eve Ensler, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Brian Baird, Keith Ellison, Rush Holt, Donna Edwards, Sir Gerald Kaufman, and countless others. Perhaps I am mistaken, and it is not depraved indifference that prevents people from speaking out against Israel's US-funded crimes against humanity, but instead hypocrisy and careerism. AIPAC is ruthless and has demonstrated its propensity to destroy the political and/or show business careers of any in the US who dare to suggest Israel's policies are anything but infallible. Multibillionaire Israel chauvinists like media moguls Rupert Murdoch, New York Mayor-for-Life Generalissimo Michael Bloomberg, Sumner Redstone and others take a dim view of that. Since Redstone with his Viacom empire owns most media outlets available to comedy/variety acts such as Comedy Central, MTV, BET, Showtime, Paramount, CBS, and I am an aficionado of comic genius, I wonder how the late Bill Hicks, nonpareil compulsive truth teller and screamingly funny stand-up, would have fared in today's climate."

"Anal Ariel" was a long time ago, and it paid for the gill change operation.

He may be sweet old King Nemo to the rest of the world. But Daddy hasn't spoken to me since he saw a YouTube clip of "Barely Legal Seafood: The Wet Little Mermaid."

I had an affair in a pineapple under the sea.

You try regurgitating plankton for hundreds of ingrates that swim off and never call...

Our "just for us" video was in the stolen camcorder. Maybe we should tell your mother about us before she sees us on YouTube....

Disney can kiss my green scaly ass if they think i'm gonna play Ariel in Branson.

You think you're genetically superior, Mr. Dildo Nose? *


*Thie beat out "Mr. Male Pattern Baldness" by a pubic hair...

Where I come from, "Fudgy the Whale" has a whole different meaning...

"...GRAMMAR AID ... POLYMER MADE ... BERM AID ... Argh .I'm soooo close...I KNOW I can win some kind of contest if come up with a clever play on the word MERMAID."

I'm a lesbian, Melvin. Deal with it.

Cancer, Shmancer. When my hair grows back, Myron, I can lose the wig. And they look so real, you can't even tell I had a double-mastectomy!

At least I have ONE opposable thumb, Hershel.

Would you rather I had a dorsal fin and a vagina, Stanley?

So you REALLY thjnk that peeing in a porcelain bowl and flushing it into the same water you end up drinking is MORE civilized?

I hate swimming...But love having swam.

"If you'd rather read than fool around, Harold, I hope you enjoy the part when Santiago catches the marlin and ties it to the boat, but it gets eaten by sharks before he gets back to shore. I used to LOVE when my father read that to me before tucking me in to my sea anemone for the night..."

The East River is faster because of less traffic...PLUS you have the view of the new Stadium. But if you don't mind the PCB dredging and the smell from the occasional decomposing body, NOTHING compares to the Hudson when the Striped Bass are running..."

Let's see same sex marriage and medicinal marijuana here, Simon, before we hold out any hope for mermaid rights.

"My hovercraft is full of eels. Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?"

I think you're a pussy, Seymour... reading "Going Rogue" with a fake cover so people on the subway won't know...


You and your auction rate securities and hedge funds. I wish you never jumped off that Staten Island Ferry and kissed me, transforming me into a land-maid, Marvin.

Yes, Aaron, some of us do have tight asses and great legs ... if you don't mind finlets instead of breasts and the face of a moray eel.


It wasn't until I got home that I realized that they were laughing at the long string of fecal matter hanging from my anus.

I refuse to spend another New Year's Eve drinking like a fish.

Holy Mackerel, what did I just say? WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME?

Of course I'm rooting for the Jets, Leonard. Why would you ASSUME that I'm a Dolphins fan?

For a support group they're pretty judgemental, is all I'm saying. EXOPHTHALMOS is freaky to look at too.

"Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,and o-old la-ang syne . . ."

"I caught you trolling porn sites and lying about your profile on the Internet...And you caught me lying on a bed of kelp with a trolling net. I would hardly call that even, Steven."


"You call it Seafood Pasta Fra Diavalo. I call it Genocide on Fusilli, you crazy, sadistic, mother-fucking monster, bastard."


Yeah, well, not only does Bumble Bee blow away Chicken of the Sea. Ask any tuna YOU happen to see...a "Blumpkin of the Sea" is no big deal. What you people do on land is just plain disgusting.


I no longer fit into sea shells. I need a different sized cup because of the breast augmentation surgery.


He arched my back and pleasured my crack...that Barnacle Bill the Sailor.

You're the first pirate I ever met that wished for "Domestic Bliss." Maybe for the last two, you ought to play it safe with a barrel o'gold doubloons and nailing me till I squeal like a pigfish.

Yes, I know you're vegan, but isn't eating me *out* different?

"I'd rather play 'Heidi' instead of 'Das Boot.'"

The doctor with the shadow puppets said it's supposed to smell like fish.

"In my blowhole?"

"I'm not a mermaid. I'm a drawing of a mermaid."

"Fear of mercury poisoning is a ridiculous rationalization, Jeremy."

"You fucked Michael Phelps, didn't you!"

Willard deeply regretted leaving his Mermaid RealDoll——— and glue gun where his 14-year-old son could find them.

"I'm not fully human, am I?"

"I'm tired of your flippant tales."

"I told you the genie would fuck with us. Sure, he gave me perfect tits, but now I have a water-tight vagina."

[Take a bow, Melvin, Myron, Hershel, Stanley, Harold, Simon, Seymour, Marvin, Aaron, Leonard and Steven! Ladies and gentleman, give it up for The m hartman Players !]

"So how many more pages do you have left to read?"

So, why are you seeing a therapist?

"So, this is it? This is how we spend New Year's Eve?!"

"What happened to us, Melvin? Apart from me becoming a mermaid and you becoming district manager."

It's not a coffee table. It's my little wading pool with a book, magazine and bowl of fruit floating on top.

Having four eyes is the least of my problems!

"I may be only half human but blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah in today's climate."

"Entries for this drawing, by Leo Cullum, will be accepted through Sunday, January 3rd."

"I don't like that sailboat painting anymore. It brings back bad memories of that guy's fish hook in my mouth."

Are there any nightcrawlers in the fridge?

Remember when you told your friends you were going to master bait and they all thought you meant "jerk off"?

[With best wishes to Tim H and all for a Happy New Year...]

"I'm sorry, Kanye, but Beyonc—— is NOT the best catch in fishnet stockings of all time!"

I'm scared, Morris...cats keep following me when I walk past Fulton Street

Abe, why did that blind man in the dark alley say 'Hello Lady' to me?

I'm tired of living in a goldfish bowl, Sheldon

It's called 'Downward Facing Flounder,' Manny, and maybe it will help?

Momma always told me to wear clean underwear in case I get gaffed in the lip and dragged on board a trawler.

[Dedicated to Bell Bialys, Brooklyn NY:]

"The key, Murray, is slicing it paper-thin."

That's how I like my men, Izzy: Firm, tender and with sliced onions and capers.

Mordy, any yutz knows the difference between "sable" the antelope and "sable" the smoked cod fish appetizer.

Yes, Leo, I would mind if you smoke salmon.

It's the sephardics that like butter and salt, Riffy. My family is always served with cream cheese.

[And so on...]

It's easy for you to say, Sy, you're not the one with barnacles stuck to your ass...

This neighborhood used to be nice ... until all the crustaceans started moving in.

The plural of "larva" is "larvae" not "larvas," Fusilli you ignorant bastard.

We NEED to talk about it, Zalman...We haven't spawned since spring. Do you find my species unattractive? Or is it just me?

"O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, the home of the brave and the free.. C'mon you're not singing!"

"Teach me how to cross my legs like that. Wait, oh shit."

"No, I don't have herpes. But I DO have scale rot and that parasite that eats your tongue."

"Why don't we ever go to my folks for Christmas?"
"We tried that last year, remember? Both kids drowned."

Has the special wheelchair come from Amazon yet? I thing I'm getting scale sores.

"Why do we never have sex? You're hung like a goldfish. That's why."

"I don't know if I'm more upset that you slept with my sister or that you sauteed her in butter afterwards."

You seem quite calm, Artie. What if EMS CAN'T get the rest of the costume off and restore circulation to my legs without taking me to the St. Vincent's...like the time the double dong broke in me?

By the way, you need to get me back before high tide ends, or your dick falls off...


I know Aquaman, and you are no Aquaman.


I didn't say "I want to be Neptune." I said "I want a PRENUPTIAL."

How would you like it, Gabe, if I ripped out your gastro-intestinal system and called it "deveining?"

Heshy, please, can we try Arizona or California this winter? I'm sick of all the rude New Yorkers that flock to the Gulfstream.

Would it kill you, Jake, to give me something bright and shiny that isn't attached to a hook and 200 pound test?


I've seen filets with more backbone than you, Irving.


It happened at Sheepshead Bay, and it was a very long time ago, Louie.


Whatever, Ronnie. I can always join a freak show. But you're a douchebag lawyer for life.

"My tits are down there."

"Oh my God! We're not going to have time to go to Costco, Trader Joe's, and Fairway."

Why don't you see me as half angelic water nymph, Mitchell, instead of half 'bitchy bane of my existence, you pessimist?

Go Ahead Anton, look it up: Mark 1:17: "Come after Me, and I will make you become fishers of men." AFTER ME, Anton, you premature ejaculator.

At least you can hide the fact that you are half Sasquatch by covering your tail and opposable thumbs on your feet with clothing and shoes. What am I supposed to do, put wheels on a bath tub and roll into work every day?

"At least I'm a step up from your first wife. Bottom half woman, top half fish. Now THAT was a FREAK!"

"Don't you think I want to get into my pants, too?"

Do you have a problem?

No, do you?

Don't answer a question with a question...What the hell are you looking at?


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"Symbolically, of course, mermaids represent an infant's pre-sexual desire for his mother. What does it say about you that you'd marry one?"

"Next time, I want to be the man."

"Murray, I'm pregnant."

"I'm tired of sneaking around on the sly, meeting you in hotel rooms... When are you going to tell your wife about us?"

"They did say that common side effects include runny nose, dizziness and decrease in seamen."

It's happy hour somewhere, Sammy

I'm guaranteed a Sea World audition if I can flip a grape from my fin into my mouth on the first try.

"Do you like my scales? Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do,..."

"It's Friday. Eat me."

Can you believe it's been more than twenty-five years since "Splash!"...is Daryl Hannah even still alive?


...so when I asked for some rouille with my bouillabiasse the waiter said "You're soaking in it" and played me off with that dreadful keyboard cat...


"Just one, but she gets electrocuted because she's screwing in the lightbulb underwater."


"I'm getting tired of the same old routine, Yuvie. You read, I show you my tits, and morons propose clever captions and anti-captions until some deadline passes. How about we take a stance...end it right here and now...shake things up: LET'S GO ANAL TONIGHT!!!!"


[That's it (as I slam my laptop closed) I'M OUT.]

"Fuck the rules! This week, I'm showing my tits in the New Yorker and submitting more than 5 captions to the anti-caption contest."

"My last boyfriend was a reader."

Just answer the damn phone!

"So, how long have you been in Leo Cullum's fantasies?"

"Honey? Can you give me a facial? Or are your little swimmers not up to it?"

"I'm in love with a merman. Ethel Merman."

"I married you because you have really log legs. Like a woman."

"All right, all right... I _am_ carrying John Edwards' love-child."

"I'm leaving you for a real man -- one who carries a trident."

"For crying out loud... if you don't like the plastic fruit ensemble, replace it yourself."

"For Christ's sake, Hank... you won't find ichthyophobia in the DSM."

"I don't buy it, Mervyn... you DID promise me a Japanese rock garden."

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