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Pat Myers's avatar

Hey, Invitational fan who doesn't like the results of the New Yorker caption contest: WE just happen to have a caption contest coming up this very Thursday!

Gotta tell you, though, that several Invitational Losers have won the New Yorker contests, sometimes more than once; they include Jay Shuck, Gary Crockett, and Carol Lasky (who also has done well in Invite caption contests). But those other people who enter -- yeah, bleah.

Actually, I think it's because they tend to go for a very short-form caption: When it's great, it's truly great; when it's not, it can just lie there.

You can, by the way, both help cull the New Yorker entries (by rating each one "funny," "somewhat funny," or "unfunny") and vote on one of the three finalists.

When it comes to The Invitational, of course, the Czar and the Empress will continue to confer their decisions autocratically.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/contest

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

I find responding to "Hello. How Are You Doing Today?" with the earnest mention of concern about a recent bowel movement and asking what the caller thought about it, tends to quickly end the conversation. Usually before asking their opinion. More usually on the utterance of "bowel movement."

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