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Cartoon caption contest backlash
 The New Yorker cartoon caption contest, introduced this year, has been lauded as a way to incorporate some input from normal folks into the famously stuffy institution. But now it's getting some blog backlash. Two recent anti-caption contests have come to light lately. This one takes a profanity ridden approach, and inspired the comment, "I'm so tired of that NY'er contest. It's stopped me from reading the backpage altogether." Another one, also a bit profanity laden, encouraged readers to come up with the least funny captions for a recent contest cartoon—which, paradoxically, provided sort of hilarious results. The cartoon shows a giant monster truck crushing an orchestra. The winner of the anti-cartoon caption contest: "There is a man pinned under this truck who requires immediate medical assistance. Someone please call for an ambulance. Please, before it's too late." Ha ha.
—Posted by Mae Anderson
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November 9, 2005 | Permalink
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So, is the moral of this story that the grasping, wannabe stuffy and sophisticated readers of the New Yorker don't want to be reminded that most of the readers are grasping, wannabe stuffy and sophisticated people?
DanO
Posted by: DanO | Nov 10, 2005 7:03:43 AM
Regarding the stuffy New Yawker cartoons, I've been having a good time entering a caption each week and love to challenge my brain each Sunday evening. As for the monster truck crushing the string quintet, I entered, "Is there a flutist in the house?"
Posted by: Marlene Goodman | Dec 24, 2005 12:32:19 AM
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