Contest #217

"Look, I've embraced your stay-cation concept."

The New Yorker picked:

1. "Don't worry, I ate lunch more than an hour ago."
   Submitted by Michael Cianfrani, San Francisco, Calif.
   
2. "My wife won't let me put one in the back yard."
   Submitted by Claude Lempereur, Levittown, N.Y.
   
3. "Make yourself useful—fake some Russian and hold up a 9.9."
   Submitted by Christopher Rulff, St. Paul, Minn.