You don’t know how good you have it
If you’ve been intimidated by the apparently insurmountable challenge of winning the Smells Like Yukon Caption Contest, you should check out this article about the strategies required to win the New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest. Now, that’s daunting. What’s worse, the prize for this effort–wait for it–is a print of the cartoon and caption, signed by the artist.
Here’s a caption for you, New Yorker: “Whoop-de-doo.”
Personally, a potentially free coffee with either Jesse or Mark sounds a lot more appealing. The fact that the prize for the current contest has been sweetened to include some tacky magnetic fashion for refrigerators only strengthens the case for you to abandon the long-shot odds of winning the New Yorker’s contest and turn your attention, instead, to a contest you could probably win with the bare minimum of functioning brain cells, never mind a coherent strategy. (No offense to past winners.)
If you read the fine print in the New Yorker’s contest rules, you’ll also note that you’ll have to ask them not to use your e-mail address “for future marketing purposes.” Rest assured, Smells Like Yukon would never dream of using information gathered through a caption contest for crass marketing purposes.
No, our caption contest exists purely for the sake of its own crassness.