Issue 03

The Topic At Hand: This Is A Test

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Cartoon Caption Contest II

by Liza Donnelly

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Publisher’s note: Welcome to another caption contest! Write your caption as a comment. Enter as many times as you like. Vote on other’s captions by clicking on “like.” The winner will be decided by the Revolving Floor editors, but you can show your support for any given caption by clicking “like.”

The winner will receive a personalized copy of Sex And Sensibility, by Liza Donnelly.

Update 12/13/09: This contest has been extended. We are accepting submissions through 12/31/09.

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    • billriling
      “On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water,
      Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward,
      O'er the water pointing westward, To the purple clouds of sunset...”
    • Les Burrows
      Apparently he's had a premonition.
    • Les Burrows
      He says he's training for a round the world rowing trip but I think its part of some sexual fantasy - which doesn't involve me.
    • Les Burrows
      Its George's. He says he sent away for a scale model of Manitoba, but the way I see it there seems to have been a misunderstanding about the spelling.
    • Les Burrows
      I don't know. She came with the rescue team when we were flooded, and simply seems to have adopted us.
    • Les Burrows
      I've no idea. I thought I'd bought mother a goat for an African villager. But now we seem to be stuck with it.
    • What's truly exceptional is his patience. We're still in a drought.
    • I call this his "regatta phase."
    • amandaemerson
      You wouldn't believe what the crew team did to the wall behind the sofa.
    • amandaemerson
      "So, I told the decorator I want more flow, the room needs more flow.'"
    • Did you ever have one of those days when you wake up and find life is like an inexplicable New Yorker cartoon?

    • (Last One)

      She insists on not getting caught up a certain creek without a paddle....
    • I'd ask her to leave but she makes the most delicious fish sticks...
    • Don't mind Agnes, she hasn't got both oars in the water if you catch my drift.
    • Don't mind mother, she' just a little dinghy.
    • I wanted a coffee table, she wanted a cruise, we compromised so no one is happy.
    • sttaylor
      I told Martin we could afford a rowing machine, but...
    • David Cruickshank
      Well, he's simply a very literal child. He heard his father tell me that with only one of us working now, we will be sinking quickly.
    • Tara
      They used to laugh at Rudolph too, but once global warming really hits, Santa will be glad that someone was prepared.
    • The art teacher asked them to reproduce a Winslow Homer.
    • julietharrison
      "He'd better row fast if he wants out of this marriage."
    • jodyschoger
      When it rains, it pours.
    • Jody Schoger
      When it rains, it pours.
    • Helga
      An indoor moat! Now there's an idea!
    • Helga
      Glad to see her ship has finally come in!
    • Well, I did tell him to row his own damned boat.
    • Glenn Beck said a flood is coming. He's waiting for instructions.
    • I know, I know, I'm helicopter mom.
    • Charlie Post
      "Bob put this in here instead of fixing the leak in the roof."
    • kathyriordan
      "It's a coffee table that doubles as exercise equipment."
    • "I'm telling you, these videogame accessories are getting out of hand."
    • Liznwyrk
      Ishmael, I thought I told you to stay in your room.
    • "Menopause, she's expecting a flood of emotions."
    • "It looks more lifelike than it did in the catalog, don't you think?"
    • "I'm starting to think Liza Donnelly has a hangup about water..."
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    The Author

    Liza Donnelly

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    Liza Donnelly is a contract cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine. Her work has appeared in many other publications and exhibitions world-wide. Her cartoons are regularly featured on Slate's doubleX, and wOw. Donnelly's recent books are Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons (Prometheus), a history of the women cartoonists of the magazine; and Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love...in 200 Cartoons (Twelve Books). She and her husband, New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin, collaborated on a book in 2009: Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony by The New Yorker's Cartooning Couple (Random House). Chronicle is publishing her next book of cartoons, due out in 2010. Donnelly is on the faculty at Vassar College, where she teaches Cartoons in American Culture and Women’s Studies. She is also the Cartoon Editor for Revolving Floor. She lives in New York. View all of Liza's Revolving Floor contributions.

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