My censored entry? Inside Higher Ed caption contest, June 2017
Censored for a second time by the Elite Academia at IHE. This time my caption was innocuous, so the People In Charge must have designated me a Thoroughly Dangerous Man who must be silenced regardless of circumstance. Really looking forward to tweaking the IHE PIC with a subversive caption submission each month.
Update: After a delay of about three weeks, when no winning caption was posted, IHE finally posted the caption below. I suspect censorship and cover-up, but it could be an honest oversight and me over-estimating my dangerousness. In any case, I’m still looking forward to tweaking the IHE PIC with a monthly libertarian-leaning caption entry.
“With adversity comes opportunity, graduates. Evolve and take flight!”
(Winning caption: “So in closing I say….We did it fellow classmates…
and nothing can stop us now.”)
My loser entry: New Yorker caption contest #573
“Proposition 3.2 approved medical can-a-buds.”
(Winning Caption: “I was just transferred to the fraternity ward.”)
Insanity
Time travel
My loser entry: New Yorker caption contest #572
“Yep, one is a little swollen. Should I be concerned?”
(Winning Caption: “Put it down slowly—the mothers are very protective of their young.”)
Remembering our heroes
My loser entry: New Yorker caption contest #571
“Order for Ishmael is ready.”
(Winning Caption: “Complain all you want, but I haven’t lost a bathroom key yet.”)
My subversive entry: Inside Higher Ed, May 2017
“Had to be done. The microphone leans right.”
(Winning entry: “Prof. Smith’s re-enactment of his Weather Underground days
is much more interesting than his Powerpoints.”)
Cocktail napkin
My loser entry: New Yorker caption contest #570
“I warned you not to tweet so much.”
(Winning caption: “Shall I keep reading?”)
Listening devices
My finalist entry! New Yorker caption contest #569
“I’m from the oversight committee.”
The other finalists:
“Carry on. I’ll just be a fly on the wall.”
Submitted by Jake Hays, New York, N.Y.
“Mind if I jump in?”
Submitted by Daniel Ballen, New York, N.Y.
(Winning caption: “Mind if I jump in?”)
Scream
My loser entry: New Yorker caption contest #568
Contest #404
The broken image was eventually fixed. My caption would have been …
“The knotty aftertaste is captivating.”
(Winning caption: “So when are you two taking the plunge?”)
Project plan
My loser entry: New Yorker caption contest #567
“Because you gave me blanket authority.”
(Winning caption: “Like I’m the first person who’s tried sleeping their way to the top.”)
New project
My loser entry: New Yorker caption contest #566
“The legendary white tail.”
(Winning caption: “He calls it Ishmeow.”)
Free spirit
