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I’m disappointed in this week’s finalists for the New Yorker<\/em> caption contest<\/a>. They are:\n<\/p>\n A.) \u201cI think the Manhattan skyline is getting suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n B.) \u201cI just wish we could talk about something other than global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n C.) \u201cWell, that was abominable.\u201d<\/p>\n I don’t get A. I think I get C, but it’s not very funny. [BTW, when I was young I thought it was the abdominal snowman.] B is pretty funny but a bit pedestrian. I bet 1000 people submitted similar lines. I much prefer the one I sent in:<\/p>\n "Do all the frozen sperm banks offer seasonal specials?"<\/p>\n The most obvious, and yet unprintable, caption, of course, would have made reference to snowballing<\/a>. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if The New Yorker received submissions on that theme. I can only imagine relative obscurity of the term among their dignified readership as an excuse for not selecting one of those; surely prudishness would not have stopped them, as they are not the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m disappointed in this week’s finalists for the New Yorker caption contest. They are: A.) \u201cI think the Manhattan skyline is getting suspicious.\u201d B.) \u201cI just wish we could talk about something other than global warming.\u201d C.) \u201cWell, that was abominable.\u201d I don’t get A. I think I get C, but it’s not very funny. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}