ATL Caption Contest Finalists: American Pie
Last Thursday, we posted a photo of VP Joe Biden enjoying some good ol’ blueberry pie at his alma mater, Syracuse University College of Law. It was up to you to come up with a caption for the picture, and now it’s time to choose the best one. Here’s the photo once again:
After the jump, check out the finalists.
These finalists were some of our favorites and some of the commenters’ favorites (I’m looking at you, E):
A. “I hope you like it - the chef was one of our best students.”B. “This pie is blueberry—”
“YOU LIE!”
C. “Blueberry, oh give me a f**king break.”
D. Dropped by his health insurance, Vice President Biden turns to anti-oxidants to cure his UTI.
E. “Oh, no, I’m sorry … the government share of the pie is there in the pan … this slice is the part you keep.”
F. Phase 1: Eat Pie
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Healthcare!G. The vice president insisted that pictures be taken from both sides simultaneously because “both sides are his good side.”
H. Rumors that Biden is a soulless ghoul are confirmed when his image fails to reflect on a mirror while being photographed at an educaTTTional institution Thursday.
I. Hell, yeah, we can probaly pay for universal healthcare with bake sales.
J. My goodness, your African American students here are almost as clean as Barack.
The combination of SU College of Law, “gaffe machine” Joe Biden, and the dividing of a pie was fertile ground for comedy. But who hit the nail on the head? You have until this Wednesday, September 16, 11:59 p.m. EST to vote.
Earlier: ATL Caption Contest: American Pie
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Figgiti-FIRST!
Captain FIRST!
I win!
I like Entry F's take on one of the best South Park jokes ever.
I don't understand H.
Also, Patrick Swayze has a new message:
http://www.collegehumor.com/picture:1920115
I want to vote, but none of my faves from the original thread are options. Thus I must abstain.
This has to be the weakest caption contest ever. Normally there are some really good ones, but this is just choosing the lesser of all evils.
I hate the Figgity First guy. If you're going to say first, come up with a decent schtick, not some idiotic meme that even a 5th grader agrees is douchery.
ugh...
I suppose I should know the answer to this but is ATL a fully accredited member of the world wide web?
Who is "Karen Sosa" and why is she interfering with my intarweblife?
He's no Dick Cheney. Cheney always thought that it was better to flunk out of Yale Law School, like he did, than to graduate at the bottom of the class at Syracuse Law.
This was a good caption contest (for once).
God damn lawyers are the most un-funny douche bags in the world. Always with an attempt to try and mix intellect with humor and always the result is douche. Very stoopid.
(I spelled stupid incorrectly on purpose to fuel all of the lawyers who like to attack comments based on mispelled words. Pointing out mispelled words in lawyerville is the equivalent to having a bigger dick than someone.)
I presume you ironically misspelled "mispelled" as well?
yeah, 13 was being so ironic that he 'mispellled' misspelled twice... for emphasis.
mispelllllllllllllllled
14 & 15 = Why I love fellow lawyers. (Well, that and the UPenn State thing - do people seriously not understand that the school just has two campuses?)
6, I'mma let you finish, but this is one of the best caption contests of all time!!
Although Biden graduated at the bottom of his class (pulling the extremely difficult "reverse magna"), I don't think Cheney ever even attended law school-- he flunked out of Yale as an undergrad.
That being said, Choice A is the best. It's weak, but speaking as someone who graduated top five from SU Law . . . I'm baking pies.
- Syracuse Law Apologist, '09
"A" must win
I went to Fordham. I am unemployed. all id o is tis
These are all dumb. I like mine waaaayyyy better:
"May I please have another slice"
"You gotcha!"
Kindly include my caption into this contest.
THIS IS A FORMAL NOTICE.
17--anyone who thinks "UPenn State" is funny needs to go take a long drive in a closed garage.
This is much better:
"If you think using blackberry is going to get you in good with Mr. President, then you need to go read a book about cultural sensitivity"
This should win:
"Crackberry? Now we're talking! Where's my girl Whitney at?"
I wonder if it's as good as the pie Joe gets all the time when he visits Katie's restaurant in Wilmington...
Can't believe I'm winning an ATL caption contest. This almost makes up for getting laid off.
I can haz editor job?
- Guy who wrote A.
PS I am serious about the job
26 - I hear you. Katie's pie is a little slice of heaven.
The fact that F is being beaten out by truly unfunny comments like A and E proves that you're all a bunch of troglodytes.
29 = Jack Abramoff ( who practically put the word troglodyte on the map)
19 -- If you really are top 5 in the COL's class of 2009, then you should be able to land a decent job by tapping into the school's very good alumni base (many alums helped me get a very good gig, and I'm not ranked nearly as high as you).
SUCOL alum NOT baking pies (2009)
Heck yes. One of mine was selected. I really hope I win. It would give my life meaning. Ive never won anything before.
23 = UPenn State Alum.
Is UPenn State an accredited law school?
There should be two ATL sites, one for first tier law school alumni, the other for TTT schools like UPenn State.
Elie sucks.
NY to 190k.
ha, 13 = total FAIL. moron.
I suppose I should know the answer to this, but is Joe Biden accredited by the electoral college to be vice president of the united states?
Way back when Biden went to Syracuse, it was considered a top 40 program- competitive with Cornell...
Top 5 % at Syracuse will land you a V50 gig
Top 20% at Syracuse will land you a V100 gig
Top half= employed
Bottom half= prob. should not have majored in History, English, Philosophy or some other useless liberal arts major and gone to trade school because you have nothing to offer- absolutely nothing. And lose the sense of entitlement because your Doctor/Lawyer daddy is paying for your toilet degree.
-'09 NYU grad
Way back when Biden went to Syracuse, it was considered a top 40 program- competitive with Cornell...
Top 5 % at Syracuse will land you a V50 gig
Top 20% at Syracuse will land you a V100 gig
Top half= employed
Bottom half= prob. should not have majored in History, English, Philosophy or some other useless liberal arts major and gone to trade school because you have nothing to offer- absolutely nothing. And lose the sense of entitlement because your Doctor/Lawyer daddy is paying for your toilet degree.
-'09
Get a load of her kashlobster!
Get a load of her kashlobster!
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Not just another J.D.. After three years of law school and work experience in DC, New York, London, and Los Angeles (private and public; litigation and transaction; criminal and civil; paid and unpaid; good, bad, and ugly), I am still plotting my course.
I've been told I'm a good writer and a terrifying lawyer, so I find myself at the Machiavellian cross-roads: Do I want to be feared or loved? In the meantime, I write as the opportunity presents itself. Also, I study for the California Bar Exam.
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Oh my God Karen Sosa may be the biggest fucking loser of all time. How do you have such experience in vast substantive areas of all just coming out of law school Karen? Misleading much. I'm glad you're working on such important shit. Oh yeah, that summer doing "Law in London" or whatever it is called doesn't qualify you as a terrific lawyer. Also when you write "[t]he combination of SU College of Law, 'gaffe machine' Joe Biden, and the dividing of a pie was fertile ground for comedy. But who hit the nail on the head..." is this what you mean by being a terrific writer? B/c Syracuse is lower ranked, the cliche media driven "Biden gaffes," and cutting a piece of pie from his former school, this is what constitutes wit? You're a complete failure. ATL, Lat and Lat alone should be the only one allowed to post on this festering website, it's truly becoming its own inside joke.
#37 - Biden was around the bottom of his class.
All options are terrible. So not funny.
From a summer associate to Mayer Brown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ILDFp5DGA
36/37 - fairly accurate, although top 5% usually can get V20-10 . . . a lot of Syracuse alums are partners at big NYC firms. (Then attended when Syracuse was a top 50 school.
Second 42. These options are bad and you should feel bad.
Nothing against Syracuse Law but Joe Biden is semi-retarded if not full fledged. At least he got into Syracuse legitimately - unlike Obama - who got into Harvard because he is half black. For the love of God can I please get an LSAT score for one Barack Hussein Obama?
46, racism is so last century. Please free your slaves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
41- Biden was at the bottom of his class at SU and was nearly kicked out for plagarism. He's a much better politician than he was a lawyer.
Biden was an adjunct at Widener U, one of the worst law schools in the nation. Funniest thing I saw about Biden's Widener gig was a full-page, color advertisement that ran on the back page of the Legal Intelligencer after the election showing Biden in a Widener cap and gown stating, "Widener celebrates one of its own."
"One of your own" should refer to the accomplishments of a school's alums, not its hired gun teachers. Biden can't teach worth a lick, but Widener hired him for name recognition alone. That's why they are a bottom-tier school- they hire teachers in an attempt to enhance their school's name, and not to educate their students.
26, that restaurant closed in the 1980s. The MSM let it go. I'm sure they would have extended the same courtesy to Palin though.
Syracuse? From that lady's haircut I would've guessed they were in Ithaca!
While I enjoy the TTT being worked in there, I must vote for the F as a great way of working in a South Park reference.
It's a sad commentary on the state of the ATL commentariat that E is doing so well. The joke is tired and sad, and not because of its conservative underpinnings. If the conservative commentators had a sense of humor (and were South Park fans), they'd choose F. G is also funnier than E.
Is that a picture of Palin on the front cover of the magazine next to Biden?
36/37/44:
I graduated magna and have a gig at a V20. Syracuse may not be a great city to live in, but my law degree was well worth the money it cost.
I think I know you, 19.
22 - "You gotcha?" I think you mean "You betcha." Still not funny.
These are not funny and too long. I voted for "c"--primarily because it's the only pithy option. Captions should be pithy and incisive.
"Geez, everything out of your mouth consists of a fruit, a crust, and September 11."
This is crazy. I'm losing to that unemployed TTT grad (A.) by four lousy votes.
-E.