See the two links. The original cartoon from 1993 was the first time an Internet joke showed up in the New Yorker and it was a pretty good one, especially since it was pre-Web and not many people were using the Net.
The second one was the more recent discovery that all New Yorker cartoons can be captioned "Christ, what an asshole!" successfully. I didn't want to ruin the joke in the post but it's okay in comments ;)
Sadly, such poetry seems only to come when I least expect it. I've been trying to think of a clever response to your lovely compliment, but all that mental exertion has led mostly to napping and candy eating. But that's only because I don't have any pie handy.
I got it. I realized after reading your analysis that I had seen the original cartoon long ago, forgotten this fact, and that now I had thought that EVERYBODY had seen the cartoon. Furthermore, I thought this was a knockoff of the original cartoon (which EVERYBODY had seen, remember), with an updated caption which was diagnostic that it was not a New Yorker cartoon. So it must be a knockoff, see.
The net was that I thought it was a VERY funny update. But, after reading the analysis, and thinking through my tortuous reaction, I now think that it's too internet-savvy to be generally funny. Like, on the Onion, but not in the New Yorker.
And I bet I'm wrong. I haven't read (i.e., thumb through the cartoons of) a New Yorker in a few years.
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Date: 2006-08-30 01:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-30 07:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-30 08:21 pm (UTC)The second one was the more recent discovery that all New Yorker cartoons can be captioned "Christ, what an asshole!" successfully. I didn't want to ruin the joke in the post but it's okay in comments ;)
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Date: 2006-08-30 07:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-30 08:18 pm (UTC)Moof
Date: 2006-08-30 10:27 pm (UTC)Re: Moof
Date: 2006-08-31 06:34 am (UTC)If not, at least maybe someone, somewhere, has a desire to hand me lots of kleenex and, eventually, tie on my bib and hold my drool cup.
So sudden was my chorf
Date: 2006-09-06 08:03 pm (UTC)Re: So sudden was my chorf
Date: 2006-09-08 05:52 pm (UTC)Thank you!
nice
Date: 2006-08-31 03:07 am (UTC)The net was that I thought it was a VERY funny update. But, after reading the analysis, and thinking through my tortuous reaction, I now think that it's too internet-savvy to be generally funny. Like, on the Onion, but not in the New Yorker.
And I bet I'm wrong. I haven't read (i.e., thumb through the cartoons of) a New Yorker in a few years.