How to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. - By Patrick House - Slate Magazine

How to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. - By Patrick House - Slate Magazine: "Most people who look at the winners of the caption contest say, 'I could've done better than that.' You're right. You could have. But that doesn't mean you could've won the caption contest—it just means you could've done better. And if your goal is not to win the caption contest, why bother entering? There is one mantra to take from this article, worth its own line break:
You are not trying to submit the funniest caption; you are trying to win The New Yorker's caption contest."