Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Suicide is Painless

The New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest #150 almost had me jumping out of a window.



My entry:
"And you wonder WHY I nag you about being such a failure."
The winners all seem to miss the target:
  • "Bullets don't grow on trees, Harry." - cute, but not funny

  • "I told you to hire a professional!" - fair

  • "Just come to bed and kill yourself in the morning." - zzzzz

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think the "failure" joke was probably a common one for this cartoon, which could be why it wasn't picked. My fiancee submitted an almost identical version. I submitted "Henry, you know the maid is off until Thursday." It gets at the same sense of upperclass ennui in the face of a dire situation that the winner did ("...kill yourself in the morning"), but probably not as well.

Matt Maul said...

I suppose mine was a bit obvious.