Please don't take me to court over my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #732 for November 9, 2020. The drawing is by P. C. Vey.
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| "If it please the court, may I take the defendant home?" |
These captions were dismissed as hearsay:
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| "And what did little Johnny confess to in his sleep?" "Your Honor, permission to treat the witness as cuddly but hostile?" |
November 16, 2020 Update: The Finalists
November 23, 2020 Update: I thought these captions were pretty good. I voted with the Big Apple.
November 30, 2020 Update: The Winner
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I'm the writer of the second caption, and what is confusing as anything is the fact that I've yet to see it in print, I thought it was going to be either a winner or not in the November 2003 issue and now it's not even in the November 30th shoe. Confusing how the New Yorker rolls out the sequence of these cartoons.
ReplyDeleteIssue, not shoe*& * 23rd issue not 2003
ReplyDeleteYour caption is indeed printed in the November 23rd issue on the last page as a finalist and again in the December 7 issue as the winner. Congratulations, Tricky Rick! It did not appear in the November 30 issue as the online voting had not yet been tabulated.
ReplyDeleteAnother possible caption, Your Honor, this is clearly a hostile witness.
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