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...have our peculiar talents: an uncanny sense of direction, a knack for knowing when to dump a stock, an ability to bake the perfect cake. Larry Wood's forte is winning the New Yorker's Caption Contest, in which readers are invited to submit the perfect quip to accompany the magazine's back-page cartoon. At least 5,000 would-be wordsmiths play the contest each week; of those, three entries are selected by the magazine as finalists, and the winner is chosen in an online vote. On June 1, Wood, a 46-year-old attorney from Chicago, found...
...woman yelling something at him. I just tried to think about stereotypical things people think about dolphins and panhandlers. Dolphins are intelligent. And one of the most common and nastiest things people say about panhandlers is that they should get a job. And I thought of the caption (registration required). That didn't go over well with my colleagues, because I'm a poverty lawyer...
...Maktoum. The sheik has been rumored to have suffered significant health problems from the strain brought on by the emirate's economic woes. The billboard is meant to belie those rumors; it shows the sheik, 59, looking sharp, vibrant and healthier than ever. Behind his picture is a simple caption in Arabic: "We don't wait for things to happen, we make them happen." And if you want to say otherwise, Dubai doesn't want to hear...
...Eliot resident took issue with the t-shirt design depicting Pertile as Vito Corleone, complete with the caption "The Housemaster." The Godfather, the resident wrote on the house list, portrays a "rather romanticized notion of mob violence that has helped propagate the stereotype associating Italians with violent crime." In other words, the mafia likes to kill people, and Pertile is certainly not the man for the job (he'd rather take a stab at Dante's Inferno, thank you very much, after the jump...
...reach to wonder whether the Post cartoonist was inferring that a monkey wrote it.' Civil rights leader AL SHARPTON, slamming the New York Post for an editorial cartoon that depicted the police shooting of a chimpanzee with the caption "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill...