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Recursion

(56,582 posts)
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 10:07 AM Oct 2013

Literalistic New Yorker cartoon captions

http://www.themonkeysyouordered.com/

Some are great:



"We put wigs on the statues to make them look like Mitt Romney"



"This isn't my car. I drive that chariot"



"I have a complaint"

The New Yorker caption editor once did a great interview on Fresh Air. I can't find the image, but the cartoon was a bunch of suits in a meeting with parrots on their shoulders. 95% of the submissions were something along the lines of "we have to have a better way to record the minutes of the board meeting." The one that won was, "Shut up, Frank. Everybody knows your parrot is a clip-on."
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Literalistic New Yorker cartoon captions (Original Post) Recursion Oct 2013 OP
I don't get the last one Sanity Claws Oct 2013 #1
That particular cartoon was a plot point in a Seinfeld Recursion Oct 2013 #2
I think his complaint is that he's a pig pinboy3niner Oct 2013 #3

Sanity Claws

(21,869 posts)
1. I don't get the last one
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 12:21 PM
Oct 2013

If it were a cow or a cowboy with cattle, I could imagine it saying, "I have a beef," at the complaint window. But I don't get a pig at the complaint window. Help!!

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
2. That particular cartoon was a plot point in a Seinfeld
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 12:27 PM
Oct 2013

At any rate, what's funny (to me) is anyone (pig or not) at a complaints window and the caption is, "I have a complaint".

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