“You can’t bury it here. This is a dessert aisle.”
(Winning caption: “If you’re going to bury that here, you need to buy something.” – Stephen Aslett, Houston, Texas)
<rant/>I realize that humor is amazingly subjective, but I just don’t get how the winner is funnier than mine. </rant>
“I don’t know how to make change for pieces of 8.”
Your second one is great.
I dunno. Some of the finalists for the New Yorker are lame some weeks. I have no idea what their criteria is. Maybe “buy something” relates to New Yorkers more? (Assuming The New Yorker’s editors are from NYC)
I never even vote on or look at the other entries anymore. Not enough time in the universe for that.