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2007 submissions to the New Yorker caption contest

  1. Jan 9. Cartoon: Jehova chases Adam and Eve from paradise. Adam carries a cell phone

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  1. BM: Run for your life. He's just shut down our cell phone.
  2. MM: Hey Big Man! Chill it.
  3. MY: So much fuss over a snake and an apple.
  4. One crummy apple and he's totally out of control.

Jan 16. Cartoon: Three people sit around a table. A huge toaster can be seen in the adjacent room.

  1. BM: We just love your supersized appliances!
  2. MM: We decided to shrink ourselves. Now food and housing cost nothing.

Jan 28. Cartoon: A surgeon washes up in the bathroom. A man, cut off at the hips is attached to the back of the door.

BM: Don't worry. We'll install you on the Sea Cloud in a week or so.

Jan 31. Cartoon: A man and woman are in bed. He works a laptop computer. Her husband appears at the door.

BM: Damn. You've taken my best laptop.

Cartoon: Two golfers face the next hole. Their way is blocked by an array of battle tanks.

BM: They make the eighteen hole tougher every year.

Mar 6. Cartoon: Inside a cage an animal trainer snaps his whip at a lion on a chair. Another lion speaks into the telephone.

  1. BM: Hello, 911. I want to report repeated abuse.

May 28. Cartoon: Adam and Eve stand in the bow of their ship, surrounded by all the animals.

  1. BM: Next time let's travel first class.
  2. MM: I'm starving. We'll have to start butchering the animals tomorrow.

June 2. A clergyman, a policeman and a fireman stand on the window ledge of a tall building. A man leans out of a nearby window, councelling them.

  1. MM: When I count to three, jump.

June 28. Two angels are slumped on the sidewalk of  rundown apartment house. They are watched by two policemen in a squad car.

"Things haven't been the same since that leveraged buyout."