Babies in the Corner: Caption Contest Finalists
After two weeks of non-stop layoff and bonus news, it looks like we might finally make it through a whole day without anybody getting fired or jobbed out of their expected year end compensation.
This gives us an opening to bring you the finalists from last week’s caption contest. We’ve read through all 275 comments, disregarded the ad hominem attacks, and brought you the ten best caption ideas. First, here’s the picture again (courtesy of photographer Joshua Landau):
And now, the finalists:
A. Typical day for attorneys in the structured finance group.B. Don’t move! They can’t lay us off if they don’t see us.
C. We’ll now hear oral argument in the case of Length v. Girth.
D. Too tall. Too fat. Go home, you’ll never be cut out for Project Mayhem.
E. So, I take it you asked about your bonus too?
F. It’s amazing what a CWT guy will do for a few bucks these days.
G. In contrast to the waterboarding at Guantanamo, under the Obama administration enemy combatants will be subjected to much milder forms of discipline.
H. Rather than suffer the negative publicity arising from associate layoffs, BigLawFirms now dress underperforming associates in symbolic black, line them up, and shoot them.
I. In bad job market, law grads meditate to seek enlightenment, loan forbearance.
J. umm did the Kool-Aid taste funny to you?
Vote in the poll below. Once again we ask that you not reveal that backstory for this picture, and we demand that you do not out the contest’s (unwilling) participants.
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all of those suck. I mean bad. i vote not to vote.
The T3:
B. Don't move! They can't lay us off if they don't see us.
E. So, I take it you asked about your bonus too?
H. Rather than suffer the negative publicity arising from associate layoffs, BigLawFirms now dress underperforming associates in symbolic black, line them up, and shoot them.
D is a sold Fight Club reference...tops the others, no doubt.
trig palin could have come up with better captions
Vote for unlisted option K:
John became suspicious that his associate job was in jeopardy when the firm combined his office with the urinals on the 42nd floor.
Are you kidding me?? These are the finalists you picked? These are horrible.
Awful
Oh shut up, if they suck so much come up with something better you whiney little girls.
Fucking shameful. These choices make me want to kill stuff.
yeah this sucks and so does Elie.
Unfunny picture yields unfunny captions.
9 = racist midget in the picture
Elie,
add in comment K. it is better than most of the current ones.
9 nailed it!
Another write-in vote for Comment K!!
Oh shut up, if they suck so much come up with something better you whiney little girls.
I voted for my CWT NY 05 girlfriend.
Lots of people did come up with better ones, look at the comments from the original post.
Terrible job in selection of captions...
One flag!
better caption than any of the options:
"the last documented sighting of the two men reportedly devoured by disgruntled blogger Elie MysTTTal"
Lots of people did come up with better ones, look at the comments from the original post.
Terrible job in selection of captions...
10 - start with yourself.
i vote for #21
Write in vote for option K in post #6
I vote for #10 killing himself blog stylie!!
Another write in vote for K
Special K to 1 vote.
African Americans to 3/5.
I'm somewhat disappointed at the lack of an "In Soviet Russia..." option.
Thank you, 4.
- D
I realize mine was the only non-law related comment, but oh well. I think most of the voters that didn't vote D just didn't get the reference.
30 - everyone got the reference, it just wasn't that clever. please refrain from over-used pop culture references, HTH
Just because it's a reference to Fight Club doesn't make it funny. I got the reference, but I didn't laugh. Of course, none of the rest made me laugh either, so I guess it's as good a basis as any other. But there are certainly plenty of reasons not to vote for D that are not, "you don't get the reference!"
I vote for "I" - the only one that ties in all the elements: bad economy, echoes of Buddhist/Asian influence in photo and law grad angst and crushing debt. "C" is just a penis joke.
6: It wasn't funny enough to be considered the first time, and it wasn't worth the time it takes to read it on the re-post either.
Vote for K
Why do people find it odd that BigLaw lawyers and arrogant law students with no personality don't find the captions funny? It almost would be easier to tell a joke to retarded kids, at least they would laugh because everyone else was.
C with a bullet, baby!
I vote for "I" - the only one that ties in all the elements: bad economy, echoes of Buddhist/Asian influence in photo and law grad angst and crushing debt. "C" is just a penis joke.
The best comment was the one about a makeshift western wall and praying to have Elie booted...
39 - dude who made the comment nobody else remembers.
None of the above.
I submit that option B) should be disqualified.
http://www.someecards.com/upload/workplace/they_cant_lay_us_off.html