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afwriter
10/17/2016 1:54:33 PM
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20
I vote for 20, all funny stuff though.
mpouraryan
10/17/2016 6:49:04 PM
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Re: 20
My vote is for No 7--like the "neighbor" angle.
Good luck to all the distinguished entries--as always fun to be witness to it all :) :)
clrmoney
10/18/2016 10:33:36 AM
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Decision 2016 cartoon
We need better and more leaders out there overall.
Re: Decision 2016 cartoon
While I certainly agree with your statement, care to read the entries and cast a vote for your favorite?
Welcome marthasimons.
vnewman
10/18/2016 12:50:39 PM
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Re: Decision 2016 cartoon
At the risk of having history repeat itself again here, I'm going to vote for #2 (Joe) - I can't resist a good Neanderthal joke!
Ariella
10/18/2016 8:07:12 PM
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Re: Decision 2016 cartoon
As we can only vote for one, I'll for first the first (though I did read them all, and it is a tough choice).
DHagar
10/17/2016 4:51:11 PM
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Cartoon Contest
Great minds! No wonder we have fun!
I am placing my vote for #19.
Apocalyptic Humor
I'm voting for # 20. Nice sense of apocalyptic humor 
srufolo1
10/18/2016 11:43:40 PM
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Caption Contest
I like No. 6: "Install was so easy a caveman can do it." Reminds me of those caveman commercials. Cute.
batye
10/19/2016 11:22:18 AM
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freehe
10/20/2016 10:46:50 AM
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Caption Contest Entry
We can watch Dinasours now. Don't get too excited Fred, we will get a new version in six months and then have to pay for it.
elizabethv
10/19/2016 8:48:04 AM
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Caption Contest
I like the Star Trek angle. I vote for:
9. "So much for the Prime Directive. That Enterprise crew just can't leave well enough alone." Ariella
Michelle
10/20/2016 2:11:08 PM
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#17 - Cord Clubbers
Wow!! We've got some great captions this month. I hope we get to see a new 1st place winner this time around :)
democratic process
Michelle, I can say at this point that the Democractic process on TT will be honored. Unless there are ties, and then in Random.org we trust. Vote people. :)
JohnBarnes
10/20/2016 9:58:46 PM
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Re: democratic process
#20. Most definitely #20!
Re: democratic process
Personally, my non-me favorite was your "You'd think two talented guys like us..." caption (link), John. My vote would have gone there had it been nominated.
JohnBarnes
10/26/2016 2:48:20 PM
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Re: democratic process
Thank you, Joe. Enthusiasm for meta is hard to find, even among archetypes!
Re: democratic process
@John: Certainly! I think that that sort of humor is rarely done well (at least from what I have seen).
Your entry, of course, was the rare example of it being done quite well.
Michelle
10/21/2016 1:50:40 PM
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Re: democratic process
I have faith in our voting system here :)
Re: democratic process
It was a fine 1st-place caption indeed (congrats elizabethv!) -- and number of good entries all around (even among those who weren't nominated).
Re: democratic process
@Mike: I wonder how things would compare to real life if we relied on Random.org for US electoral processes.
elizabethv
10/26/2016 4:46:32 PM
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Re: democratic process
Thanks to those who enjoyed my humor. :-)
Haha, @Joe - I have to think we might fair just a little bit better if the electoral proces was left to random.org. Some days it feels like that's how the system seems to be working anymore anyway....
DHagar
10/26/2016 5:25:47 PM
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Re: democratic process
@elizabethv - congratulations - I like your caption!
I am in great company with you and our Hall of Famer - Joe!
Re: democratic process
As much as I enjoy reading all of the entries, it's so hard to pick the nominees or winners. It was great when John Klossner, the cartoonist, helped out. I usually read all of the captions two or three times over a few days. Humor shouldn't be work, so I read them when I don't feel pressed for time.
Going forward, one of the moderators suggested we have a contest on posting the oldest technology/device a person owns or still uses. I'm thinking about that for next month, or we could do another cartoon caption contest. Thoughts?
DHagar
10/26/2016 5:53:35 PM
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Re: democratic process
@Mike, I like the results - but it must be lots of work! I would imagine that by the time you finished you saw little humor in anything - it was drained!
Trust your judgment. It's hard to keep those creative juices at such a high level!
Re: democratic process
Agree with you @DHagar.
That is not an easy task to go over all captions multiple times to get all possible contexts. Many times just one read would trigger that connection, at least in my case. So must appreciate Mike for his effort and time to judge.
Eagerly waiting for the next one, only for much better.......
DHagar
10/31/2016 3:14:47 PM
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Re: democratic process
!ms.akkineni - thank you!
Michelle
10/26/2016 10:27:32 PM
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Re: democratic process
@Mike Thank you for taking time to read all our silly submissions! I think the old technology photo contest sounds good.
JohnBarnes
10/26/2016 10:52:17 PM
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Re: democratic process
Oldest actual device or device that has existed the longest time? I have a couple of knives in my kitchen drawer, and the "knife" concept has been around for a while ...
Re: democratic process
@JohnBarnes: Indeed, if we're talking technology, I had a gas stove until recently -- so "fire" might put me over the top.
Michelle
10/27/2016 3:34:07 PM
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Re: democratic process
@John good one! I think we'd need a few rules to narrow down the tech...
Re: democratic process
John, aren't knives tools instead of tech devices?
OK, I'm open to you guys submitting cartoons. Maybe we have a cartoon creation contest, and use the winner for a cartoon caption contest?
JohnBarnes
10/29/2016 2:42:00 AM
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Re: democratic process
Mike,
I don't know. What's the difference between a tool and a tech device? Given that tech usually stands for technology, and "technology" is just the set of methods by which a culture gets stuff done, aren't they pretty much the same thing?
Re: democratic process
Techology was used to make your knives (heat treat, the steel, etc.) but the end result is a tool. At least to me. Technology is also used to make a gallon of milk. Does that make the gallon of milk technology? Have a good weekend John.
JohnBarnes
10/30/2016 11:37:42 PM
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Re: democratic process
Mike,
Interesting ... so would a "tech device" be a tool that is used for making/changing/deploying technology? But then wouldn't that make a printed book a tech device?
We have grasped a significant thread in the great sweater of meaning.
Michelle
10/30/2016 6:29:47 PM
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Re: democratic process
@John I think you win...
Michelle
10/29/2016 6:30:11 PM
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Re: democratic process
@Mke that sounds good. I can't draw so it'll be super fun to lose this one! ;)
elizabethv
10/30/2016 9:20:32 AM
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Re: democratic process
@Michelle - You could always try something "new" and whip something up on good ol' paint!
Michelle
10/30/2016 10:48:46 AM
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Re: democratic process
@elizabethv I hear the new version of Paint for Windows 10 is pretty good!
Michelle
10/30/2016 6:31:18 PM
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Re: democratic process
@Elizabeth congratulations on your big win this round!! Maybe the previous month's winner should choose the next contest format.
Re: democratic process
What about the reverse? You supply the caption, we supply the cartoons?
Of course, I'd hate to put John out of a gig.
Michelle
10/27/2016 3:31:12 PM
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Re: democratic process
Maybe we could write captions before the cartoon is published, then see who guessed right ;)
Re: democratic process
@Michelle: Ha! Brilliant!
Reminds me of "Dave's Law of New Yorker Cartoons" (link), which states that any New Yorker cartoon can effectively use the caption "I think I'm going to kill myself."
Michelle
10/28/2016 3:00:06 PM
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Re: democratic process
@Joe I hadn't seen that before! Now I hope we get to write captions before the cartoon is published.
elizabethv
10/29/2016 9:59:04 AM
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Re: democratic process
@Joe - I hadn't heard about the New Yorker caption before. But it definitely makes sense, and I believe I will spend the rest of my life reading a cartoon, and then also reading that same cartoon with the same caption "I think I'm going to kill myself." And then I hear "Suicide is painless," play in my brain.....
freehe
10/29/2016 3:41:02 PM
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TT Carton Caption Winners
Congratulations to all the winners!
JohnBarnes
10/30/2016 11:45:11 PM
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Re: democratic process
As a virulent defender of New Yorker cartoons, I always thought that Seinfeld's "i'm such an idiot" schtick was really tiresome; he's like Jerry Lewis without the energy or Adam Sandler without the honesty, the "I don't get it" routine always wore very thin on me, because, honestly, I get almost all of them except the occasional cultural reference I have somehow missed, and if people don't get New Yorker cartoons, they should shut up and hang their heads in shame. So the thing I like about Dave's Law is that he points out that "I'm thinking of killing myself" would actually work on everything, including the Family Circus.
I think it would also make a nice last panel of every Garfield, Peanuts, and Doonesbury.
JohnBarnes
10/30/2016 11:50:29 PM
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Re: democratic process
Addendum thoughts: a few months ago there was a "Every New Yorker cartoon should have this caption" meme floating around Twitter, where the caption was "Chr*st, what an *ssh*le." That was much more annoyingly stupid because they hadn't made the Dave's Law observation that this works for everything, though I have verified that it works like a charm on The Family Circus, and also on the last panel of every Rose Is Rose.
Secondary thought: the current cartoon editor of the New Yorker now does a video blog where he writes little essays about how he doesn't get a lot of the classic NYer cartoons. Oddly enough, the cartoons under his reign have been far inferior to what there used to be. Do you suppose there's a connection?
Re: democratic process
@John: I literally just LOL'ed (L'edOL?) in my chair thinking about giving that treatment to Rose Is Rose.
Re: democratic process
@John: I have no problem "getting" New Yorker cartoon jokes, and many of them are quite good. Many others, however, I feel are lazy and sort of miss the mark in terms of true funny-bone tickling (the famous/infamous "Fusilli" one comes to mind) -- and I have certainly been nonplussed with some of the winners of the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.
Therefore, I have become a huge fan of The Monkeys You Ordered (link) -- a tumblog devoted to literal New Yorker captions, which make me laugh much harder than actual New Yorker captions better than 90% of the time.
In any case, humor is often subjective, and there's no accounting for taste.
Ariella
10/28/2016 11:03:47 AM
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Re: democratic process
Or do a contest for best cartoon to illustrate a caption.
Michelle
10/28/2016 2:58:37 PM
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Re: democratic process
@Ariella I'm sure that would result in some spectacularly bad artwork! I think I would want to outsource the work...
Ariella
10/28/2016 3:00:53 PM
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Re: democratic process
@Michelle well, we have to give the visual artists their opportunity to shine.
Michelle
10/29/2016 6:31:41 PM
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Re: democratic process
@Ariella that sounds good too. It would be really really interesting to watch the cartoon entries
elizabethv
10/29/2016 9:56:15 AM
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Re: democratic process
@Mike - I really like both ideas. Coming up with captions is fun, something I don't get to do on a regular basis. But old technological device, that could be fun just to see what everyone has. I'm game for both!!!
Michelle
10/30/2016 6:33:03 PM
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Re: democratic process
@Mike What do you think of having the previous month's winner choose the next month's contest format? You could lay out rules for a couple of contests and let the winner choose the next challenge.
Michelle
10/26/2016 10:39:44 PM
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Cheers
Congratulations to all our winners! You did very well. I found each of your capations amusing and appropriate for the time period :)
Congrats
Congratulations to all the winners...
I certainly enjoy the contest in any form. So looking forward to the next one.
Voting
Sorry to miss voting this time due to schedule. But hoping to chime in with my two cents for upcoming cycle. But I do enjoy all creativity. We do have lot of creativity around in this forum and I consider myself to be very lucky to be able to e-intercat with you all.
Thanks a lot everyone !
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