{"id":8107,"date":"2016-06-19T09:26:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T13:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2018-11-04T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:30:12","slug":"id-cartoon-caption-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/id-cartoon-caption-contest\/2016\/06\/19\/","title":{"rendered":"ID Cartoon Caption Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Yorker<\/em> magazine is justifiably famous for its fine writing, with its contributors a veritable Who’s Who of famous authors and journalists of the past century. Truman Capote, Ann Beattie, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Dorothy Parker, E.B. White, Philip Roth, Alice Munro, John Hersey, Malcolm Gladwell, Roger Angell, James Thurber … you get the idea.<\/p>\n

But for many (OK, I admit it, often for me), it’s mostly\u00a0just a print vessel for the cartoons. These\u00a0offer some of the most brilliant commentaries on the world\u00a0you will find anywhere — witty, profound, whimsical, silly — and my web browser has this link<\/a> bookmarked\u00a0in case I’m feeling glum.<\/p>\n

The magazine\u00a0also has a Cartoon Caption Contest<\/a>, in which readers contribute captions for a drawing that changes weekly. I’ve entered the contest dozens of times, and have won the same number of times as I’ve won Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

Oh well. You might think this brilliant entry could\u00a0have done the trick:<\/p>\n

\""I<\/a>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“I need the miles.”<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

I share this low success rate with my sister Anne, who in my unbiased opinion should have won with this one:<\/p>\n

\""You<\/a>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“You were right — I’m STILL not free.”<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Admittedly motivated by our failure, we hereby offer our own\u00a0ID Cartoon Caption Contest. The drawing is Anne’s\u00a0(I’ve featured her art before<\/a>), and it was inspired by a certain white coat controversy.<\/a><\/p>\n

Submit your caption either in the comments section, to my Twitter feed,<\/a> or if you want to keep it secret, email me at id.caption@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n

We’ll judge them on funniness using only the most highly objective and scientific criteria. In addition to widespread fame, the winner will receive a free lifelong subscription to this blog.<\/p>\n

Here’s the drawing — have at it:<\/p>\n

\"LabCoats\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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