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June 20, 2008

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest

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How to play (and win!) the New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest | Radosh.net: The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest is an interactive — no wait, Web 2.0 — parody of The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. Every Monday, when the New Yorker publishes a new uncaptioned cartoon, I post that same cartoon on this site. But while the New Yorker is looking for (and rarely finding) good captions, I'm looking for the worst captions possible. I'll choose one winner and two finalists who will be "rewarded" with a prominent spot directly under the cartoon and web links if any were provided. Below those I'll post any number of anti-captions deserving honorable mention...

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Some of the entries are good, but I'm not sure I understand the difference between these and a straight New Yorker caption. I'm not sure the contributors do either (except maybe the one about the guy pinned under the monster truck).

"What, you thought they'd put a black person in a New Yorker cartoon" almost always works as a caption.

"What, you thought they'd put a black person in a New Yorker cartoon" almost always works as a caption.

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