My Submission to the New York Cartoon Caption Contest

The New Yorker has rejected my cartoon caption several times but I think I have a funny one.



Contest #399, October 14, 2013

Your Caption:

I'm working on my knight moves. Trying' to make some front page drive-in news.


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Do you get my Bob Seger reference?   Here is the song on YouTube.    When I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I used to play chess against some physicists.  Whenever somebody made a good knight move, we would sing "night moves".  Get it?

UPDATE:  I lost the competition.  Here are the winners.   Only the last one is funny.

"This can only end in a draw."
Submitted by Samuel Kaplan, Vienna, Va.
"Did you hear the one about the bishop and the queen?"
Submitted by Clyde E. Smith, Napa, Calif.
"I suggest that you back up slowly two paces and take one step to the side."
Submitted by Matt Schneider, Hilton Head Island, S.C.


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