Sunday, June 28, 2009

Contest #198

"Don't you think we should pick up dames later?"

The New Yorker picked:
  1. "That’s smart, Eddie. The first place cops look is in the trunk.”
    Submitted by David Wilkner, Pawtucket, R.I.
  2. "The instructions should have mentioned that you need a body of water.”
    Submitted by Peter Bleyleben, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
  3. "What do you mean you don't remember? Either he sleeps with the fishes or he don't."
    Submitted by Tim Wibert, Okemos, Mich.

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Contest #196

"They're recent graduates of the Wharton School."

The New Yorker picked
  1. “O.K., let's slowly lower in the grant money.”
    Submitted by Todd Bearson, Arlington, Mass.
  2. “The research is conclusive—mice are even cuter when you dress them up in little coats.”
    Submitted by Brad Hodges, Dungannon, Ontario
  3. “Relax, for them it's publish and perish.”
    Submitted by David Burns, Needham, Mass.