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...been a four-time winner. There could have been 100 people who sent in something along the same lines. There was one time when I turned in what ended up being the winning caption, but perhaps 1,000 people sent it in; I think it was a pretty obvious fit for the cartoon. When more than one person submits the winning caption, they just choose a winner at random. That's just the luck of the draw...
What are the top two or three tips you have for caption writers? Be brief. Try to incorporate everything that's going on in the cartoon. Sometimes somebody will submit a caption that addresses one thing going on in the cartoon, but not something else that's pretty obvious. I think the more successful captions address everything that's going on. I'll depart from Patrick House here. He said not to try to be too funny. I think you should try to be as funny as you can. He's right that sometimes you see a winning caption that...
...spontaneous injuries are as obvious as a rupture of the Achilles tendon. That ropelike cord in the back of our ankles carries enormous loads. It resists, literally, a thousand pounds of tension when a person, even of normal weight, runs or jumps. When the tendon pops, it's not subtle; many patients report actually hearing a bang. It hurts a lot. And most characteristically, they suddenly lose all "down power" in the ankle, making it impossible to get up on tiptoe...
...stating the obvious to say the Somali crisis that involves millions of people receives almost no attention while the Somali crisis that involves millions of dollars receives unprecedented military action. (Menkhaus says the pirates raised $20-$40 million in ransoms last year. They also cost the shipping industry millions more in hiked insurance premiums.) It's also true that land intervention in Somalia would be immeasurably bloodier than the sea operations underway, and the ineffectiveness of peacekeepers in Darfur, and the DRC raises big questions over whether such operations can ever be successful. It is widely acknowledged that finding...
...already an obligation for professors in principle. “We’ve given almost no carrots to dispense, and the only stick we’ve been given is to refuse proposals, which we don’t like to do unless it’s obvious that they don’t fit the Gen Ed mandate,” says Gen Ed committee member Edward J. Hall, who adds that he wishes that the body had the money to give professors summer stipends to create new courses. Since more classes still need to be developed...