# Art imitating art in The New Yorker

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitating-art-in-the-new-yorker/628545>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 17, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitating-art-in-the-new-yorker/628545 "2012-07-17T17:45:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitating-art-in-the-new-yorker/628545/21 "2012-07-20T05:24:28Z")

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> [@bouv](#):
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> [Here’s the current cartoon caption contest for The New Yorker.](http://contest.newyorker.com/CaptionContest.aspx)
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> They know what’s going to happen, right? I mean…30% of people will submit "I wish I was taller, 30% will submit “My wife is a slut,” 20% will submit “I can’t find my receipt, my place is a sty,” 10% will be something else Seinfeld related, and maybe 10% at best will be actual submissions.
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> Personally, I submitted “My wife is a slut,” and I hope that’s the one that gets submitted most, and some editor at The New Yorker who has never seen Seinfeld will be confused off his rocker.

It’s not a coincidence. If you go to their website you’ll see that they know all about the Seinfeld reference, and are clearly doing it deliberately. They have a whole page talking about that Seinfeld episode.

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitating-art-in-the-new-yorker/628545/22 "2012-07-22T02:14:45Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> Weird coincidence! I submitted, “Happy Lendervedders wife is a slut!”

You submit that every week. I see it did win the consolation prize back in May: third stall from the left, Pike Place public men’s room, Southwest Stairway.

_ **phreesh** _, which caption was yours? That’s great!

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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitating-art-in-the-new-yorker/628545/23 "2012-07-22T03:20:03Z")

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> [@jz78817](#):
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> I would have gone with [“Christ, what an asshole.”](http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/christ-what-an-asshole-is-only-001-of-new-yorker-caption-contest-subs/)

Me too, it actually works for every cartoon in the magazine, not just the contest ones.

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