![]() ![]() The magazine has seemed heroic to me for decades, and there was a frisson in the thought that I had run up against its high moral standards, considering how hard Harold Ross and William Shawn, its first two editors, fought to keep such low-lifes as me out of its pages. I can now say I've appeared in the New Yorker. New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest This can only end in a draw Did you hear the one about the bishop and the queen I suggest that you back up slowly two. Finalists for this week’s cartoon, by Tim Hamilton, will appear online October 16th and in the October 23, 2023, issue of The New Yorker. You, the reader, submit your caption below, we choose three finalists, and you vote for your favorite. Still, winning the contest under any circumstances at all must be counted as a career milestone. Each week, we provide a cartoon in need of a caption. My caption: "Now watch how I lift my tray table to its original and upright position." I think that's a funnier caption than the one I wrote for my winning entry. ![]() The cartoon shows a naked man seated on an aeroplane. Looking out over the vast and mysterious ocean makes me wonder if Meghan is feeling any FOMO. One of those entries, which even Mankoff describes as "great", was rejected by the magazine's caption contest board of censors. Mankoff reprinted four of my earlier losing entries, and there is the cause of my discontent. Correcting my hyperbole, he was able to conclude I had not entered every week, but only 107 times – which placed me in "569th place out of 502,416 unique entrants, who have submitted a total of 1,595,506 captions". In a blogpost, Robert Mankoff, the magazine's cartoon editor, reveals that not only does the magazine read all the entries, it preserves them in a database.
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