{"id":14611,"date":"2014-03-26T22:57:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T03:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14611"},"modified":"2014-03-26T22:58:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T03:58:07","slug":"cartoon-caption-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14611","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon caption contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some of you know, every week the New Yorker magazine runs a contest in which readers compete to supply the best caption for a cartoon. Several weeks ago I saw a cartoon that just cried out for a caption, so for the first time ever, I entered the contest.<\/p>\n

Here was the cartoon in question:<\/p>\n

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The winning caption for this cartoon, which you can see as contest #417 on their website<\/a> was “Why does this never happen on the way to<\/u> work?”<\/i><\/p>\n

Now, I don’t mind not winning. After all, the odds of winning one of these contests is extremely small. But that winning caption is just not very funny.<\/p>\n

Yes, I do realize I’m not objective about this. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

My caption was: “I hear the Tunnel is even worse.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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