A well-meaning gazelle helps to prepare a nervous colleague for a speech to be given before an auditorium full of lions. This is not the veldt but The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #864 from the issue of September 4, 2023. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Meredith Southard.
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| "See if you can put them to sleep." |
These captions were easy meat:
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| "They're used to plain speaking." "You may want to speed read." "Try to run through it quickly." |
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