Thank you for your outstanding submissions. I hate excluding anyone and I considered narrowing the captions down to thirty-five instead of five, but I realized thirty-five wouldn’t meet the strictest definition of ‘narrowing down’ since I received exactly thirty-five submissions. If you feel your submission was more deserving than any of these five, please remind yourself that the whole world has always treated you unfairly and some day you’ll have your revenge and we’ll all be sorry.
Please vote for the funniest caption of the five below. You can vote once every day. The winner will be posted on Saturday.
A. Why are you writing a letter to your sister when we will be there in 15 minutes?
(carldagostino)
B. “I’d love to fly color, but black and white is all I can afford on a stenographer’s salary.”
(japecake)
C. In this archival photo, therapy pioneer Dr. Hans Tinkerhoff attempts to help a young Henry Kissinger confront his fear of flying, typewriters, and dirty limericks simultaneously.
There once was a Jew from Nantucket,
Whose plane crashed and burned the young puppet.
Two lines in, it was clear that the well intentioned Dr. had chosen his limerick poorly, and the ensuing “freak out” became part of both aviation lore and good-natured White House ribbing for years to come.
(MattJ)
D. Having grown tired of the eavesdropping passenger to his left, Sid wrote him a letter even whilst feeling the stranger’s breath against his ear, mouthing each syllable : “Dear Passenger to My Left, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Sid Steinberg and I’m a business man. I suffer from a severe condition of a spastic nature. If you get my elbow to your forehead during the course of this flight. I want to offer you my apologies beforehand.”
(ReneeDavies)
E. “Ahh, this’ll be a barrel of laughs!”
“I don’t know fella, I don’t think that this airline takes bomb threats as a joke. Even if they are typed in Comic Sans.”
(Scott Oglesby)
The Good Greatsby 
ajg
March 30, 2011
I voted for Carl, but I also what my late submission as a write in.
shreejacob
March 30, 2011
I loved the last one by Scott Oglesby! maybe it’s because I like Comic Sans! hehe!
madtante
March 30, 2011
Thanks for commenting on my blog. Cool people are always welcome–they enhance the general atmosphere.
Renee Davies
March 30, 2011
I voted for MattJ because he made me.
spilledinkguy
March 31, 2011
Oh, I can never choose!
They all make me laugh! 🙂
omawarisan
March 31, 2011
Flying color gets my vote. It just speaks to me, I mean who doesn’t dream of flying color some day?
japecake
March 31, 2011
It’s about time that Susan Lucci gets her due.
carldagostino
March 31, 2011
I do that New Yorker caption contest each week. Every winner ans second and third they pick are dumb. All the others they decline including mine are funny, witty and insightful. In keeping with American protocol I will vote once only. Yep. I think President Roosevelt needs another term.
Tony McGurk
March 31, 2011
I’m new here & don’t know if I have yet earned the right to vote but I arrogantly took it upon myself to do so anyway. I voted for B, Hilarious!!!