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"I don't think this decoy business is going to work—after all, it's not the Mimes who falsified intelligence information, inflated the danger surrounding Saddam, intimidated several countries into unwittingly going along with us, and launched an illegal pre-emptive invasion in order to fill the pockets of their billionaire plutocrat pals."
"Anyway, I'm just saying, it feels like we're trapped in a big box, and trying to walk against a strong wind, but there's really no way to illustrate this"
But, what the heck. I just submited mine on the New Yorker site. I'd been submitting every week for the first month or so, but it turns out I'm not really as funny to the rest of the world as I am to, well, me.
Someone posted a website (here or at MeFi, I don't remember), that claimed that every New Yorker caption contest can be answered with "Christ, what an asshole." I hate the caption contest so much that every time I open that page of the magazine, I say that line out loud. It does usually work for the picture.