--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > > > Every other week I enter the New Yorker's online Caption > > Contest...that's where they provide you with the cartoon and you > > provide the caption. They then narrow it down to three finalists > > and then people vote for the winner. > > > > Well, I never make the finalists. But when I see who made it, I > > always think my caption is much funnier. > > > > Is it me? Do I think I'm so brilliant and witty only because it's > > wonderful, adorable me? Or are my captions really good? > > > > Do me a favor: go to the following website and check out the three > > finalists then week, then come back here and check out my entry, > > which I am putting several spaces below the following link and tell > > me if you think mine is funnier or not: > > > > http://www.cartoonbank.com/CapContest/CaptionContest.aspx?tab=vote > > > > My caption: "Racing stripes are passe. This year, chocolate mousse > > is in." > > I found all the captions, yours and the finalists, equally unfunny.
It strikes me that the whole idea of doing a cartoon drawing without a caption and then having others come up with captions for it is so backward it may make a genuinely funny result unlikely. Cartoonists don't *start* with just the cartoon drawing in mind and then dream up a caption for it, do they? Don't they usually have some idea of what the caption is going to be? I wonder if the drawings the New Yorker uses for these contests are recycled from cartoons that originally did have captions by the cartoonists and were just never used in the magazine. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
