{"id":8242,"date":"2016-11-25T19:01:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/?p=8242"},"modified":"2018-11-04T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:29:20","slug":"id-cartoon-caption-contest-2-winner-new-contest-end-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/id-cartoon-caption-contest-2-winner-new-contest-end-summer\/2016\/11\/25\/","title":{"rendered":"ID Cartoon Caption Contest #2 Winner \u2014 and a New Contest for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every so often, one of my regular readers (which must number at least a dozen\u00a0at this point, including my extended family, dog, and cat)\u00a0asks me where I come up with ideas.<\/p>\n

The answer, of course, is that there are infinite sources of inspiration in the field of Infectious Diseases —\u00a0the difficulty is choosing what fascinating topic will be the target of this week’s cogent and definitive analysis.<\/p>\n

Or, I can just steal something, which is what I’ve unabashedly done with the Cartoon Contest, modeled after the more established version from The New Yorker.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s the winner of the summertime contest<\/a>, an outdoor scene that might bring back fond memories of warm\u00a0breezes, long days at the beach, and dining\u00a0al fresco:<\/em><\/p>\n

\""No<\/a>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“No thanks, I\u2019m watching my carbon footprint.”<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

We’ll give Philip Morgan<\/strong>elli the top prize on this one, though he’ll need to share the generous honorarium with John Lee, who introduced the whole “carbon footprint” theme and might have provided Philip some\u00a0inspiration.<\/p>\n

But I confess this contest turned out a bit differently than anticipated. With such an\u00a0ID-oriented crowd, I figured the obviously\u00a0very<\/em> well-done burgers would generate plenty of funny captions about food safety. If you’re wondering what I mean, take a look at this most unappetizing food truck:<\/a><\/p>\n

\"salmonella-pitstop\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Concern about underdone burgers prompted my next door neighbors Ben and Carol to call the well-done hockey pucks favored by ID specialists “Madoff burgers”. It’s in honor of Dr. Lawrence Madoff<\/a>, an ID doctor\u00a0who works at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, who\u00a0periodically attends our neighborhood cookouts — you can guess Larry’s emphatic answer to the question, “And how would you like that done?” Perhaps he\u00a0will be introducing\u00a0his own line of crispy fast food soon.<\/p>\n

Yet none of the top three captions chosen by our AHA (Advanced Humor Algorithm) had anything remotely to do with infectious food safety:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. “No thanks, I\u2019m watching my carbon footprint.” <\/em>(the now-famous Philip Morgan<\/strong>elli)<\/li>\n
  2. “Sorry, I was using fire in the belly as a figure of speech.”<\/em> (JRMD)<\/li>\n
  3. “No thanks. They always give me heartburn.”<\/em> (Aaron Kassoff)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Perhaps I poisoned (ha) the ID\u00a0entries by introducing the drawing with this gloomy\u00a0sentence: “We must be vigilant to the ever rising threat of both foodborne pathogens and carcinogenic heterocyclic amines.” Come to think of it, that\u00a0alone could have been a (very unfunny) caption.<\/p>\n

    This time, you’ll get no such leading leading statement — here’s the cartoon, let your inspiration\u00a0run wild:<\/p>\n

    \"docsignoringpatient\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Post captions in the comments section (preferred), or if you’re shy, email them to me at\u00a0id.caption@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n

    (Drawing by Anne Sax.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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