Oh well, you can’t win ’em all

As many of you already know, I did not win the New Yorker Caption Contest this week, though I did get many e-mails from folks saying they thought I should have.  But the winning caption was very funny and I figured it might very well win when I first saw it in the finals, and it did. Was it because the author had more Twitter followers or Facebook fans than me? I don’t know, but I bear him no malice because, well, his caption was quite brilliant and mine was, well, it’s not for me to say, though I liked it.  I can’t recreate the actual cartoon drawing here — it belongs to the New Yorker and they, naturally, want you to visit it on their site (I gave the link in my previous Peter’s Blog a few weeks ago).  But, for those who are wondering, it was a drawing of man in a restaurant, with a plate of fish in front of him, a whole fish, head on, mouth open, looking at him.  My caption was: “Or, I could teach you how to fish.”

The winning caption was, “Just water for me, thanks.”

I hate losing at anything but, in this case, I can live with it because that other caption made me laugh out loud. And, hey, there’s a new caption contest every week so I’ll try again — when the muse delivers something witty. But, next time, I’ll try to make it something that causes me — and everyone else — to laugh out loud. Till then, I will take solace in the old balm, “It was such an honor just to be a nominee….”