Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #439 for August 25, 2014. The cartoon is by Corey Pandolph.
I had difficulty with this one. There were other captions I considered for a while, but eventually they got derailed.
Note: Last week Matthew Diffee drew a gigantic cat and I submitted a caption I thought was just purr-fect, only the contest judges didn't agree. It seems they never do. See the pet-friendly results for Contest #438.
Corey Pandolph's previous Caption Contest drawing was a scene right out of my daily commute with the possible exception of a giant squid. No wonder I couldn't come up with a decent caption. See the results for Contest #417.
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| "Two out of three customers can't tell beer from WD-40." |
I had difficulty with this one. There were other captions I considered for a while, but eventually they got derailed.
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| "It's the end of the drinking car as we know it." "There's no one here from that line." "I thought I'd heard every line." "We need a designated conductor." "We need a designated engineer." "I'm serving WD-40, but they don't know the difference." "The derailment was really hard on them." "The drinking cars are soon to be sleeping cars." "They've gone off-line." "That's right, they need a ride home." "They come from the wrong side of the tracks." |
Note: Last week Matthew Diffee drew a gigantic cat and I submitted a caption I thought was just purr-fect, only the contest judges didn't agree. It seems they never do. See the pet-friendly results for Contest #438.
Corey Pandolph's previous Caption Contest drawing was a scene right out of my daily commute with the possible exception of a giant squid. No wonder I couldn't come up with a decent caption. See the results for Contest #417.
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