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New Yorker Cartoon Contest--continued

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Sept 21. Cartoon: An office containing two people at a desk, a pile of bills on the floor, and a dog adding to the pile.
  • MM: In this company we expect everyone to pull his weight.
  • BM: Slip him a bill or two. He's close to retirement.
  • MY: He's our top producer. Your job is  to find out how he does it.

Oct 5. Cartoon: A woman has packed her bags and is leaving a cave. Her partner is dressed in a bearskin rug and carries a club.

Oct 27. Cartoon: A man with a balancing stick walks on a wire outside a tall building. A companion speaks to him from a window.

  1. BM: It might be of interest to you that they removed the net yesterday.
  2. MM: Come back, Bill. Remember your vertigo.

Nov 6. Cartoon Caption: Two men look through a doorway into a room where a single hand waves above a floor of foam.

1. BM: Just think. We laughed at Yuri when he babbled on about quantum foam and multiple universes.

Nov 16. Cartoon: About a dozen business people are seated around a piano. The chairman (or pianist) speaks.

  1. MM: We will open the meeting with the song "Speak to me only with thine eyes."
  2. BM: I move that we rotate the piano by 180 degrees. (He faces away from the large window)

Nov 20. Cartoon: Two Indians hide behind rocks ready to fire arrows at the settlers below. The arrow tip is shaped like a rocket head.

BM: Now we launch heap-big cutting-edge arrow.

Dec 19. Cartoon: A delivery man hauls in a large monster as a Christmas present for a small boy. His mother tells him:
 
 

  1. BM: So now, Yuri, you can have your very own Frankenstein monster.
  2. MM: It's the best monster on the market. All you have to do is make it come alive.
  3. MY: It's Dr Frankenstein's best model. All you have to do is to attach it to the lightning rod.

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