Caption Contest
One of Brian's more endearing qualities is his odd persistence.
The New Yorker magazine holds a caption contest nearly every week. And nearly every week, Brian enters.
Almost a year ago, a cartoon ran, and Brian showed it to me, pointing excitedly, saying, "I have the perfect caption! It looked like this:
Brian's caption was: "Who farted?"
He entered it, but did not win. The winning caption was "You're just like your mother." Hardy, har, har.
Almost every week since, Brian has entered the contest with that same caption: "Who farted?" Sometimes it fits better than others. He has yet to be chosen as a finalist.
This weekend, we told our friend Sam and Val about this. Mostly because last week he entered the contest with a caption that wasn't: "Who farted." The cartoon featured a sea lion or something reading a book and talking to an angry-looking woman.
Brian had suggested something topical — about the about ash cloud from the volcano in Iceland disrupting airline flights. I thought it was pretty okay.
Our friend Val just emailed us with this week's cartoon. It is really too perfect.
How could the caption possibly be anything else? This could be Brian's moment in the sun. Keep your fingers crossed.