{"id":1271,"date":"2013-08-30T20:42:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T00:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/2013\/08\/30\/oh-well-you-cant-win-em-all\/"},"modified":"2013-08-30T20:42:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T00:42:24","slug":"oh-well-you-cant-win-em-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/oh-well-you-cant-win-em-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh well, you can&#8217;t win &#8217;em all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you already know, I did not win the <strong>New Yorker Caption Contest<\/strong> this week, though I did get many e-mails from folks saying they thought I should have.\u00a0 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&#8217;t know, but I bear him no malice because, well, his caption was quite brilliant and mine was, well, it&#8217;s not for me to say, though I liked it.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t recreate the actual cartoon drawing here &#8212; 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&#8217;s Blog a few weeks ago).\u00a0 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.\u00a0 My caption was: <strong><em>&#8220;Or, I could teach you how to fish.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The winning caption was, <em><strong>&#8220;Just water for me, thanks.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s a new caption contest every week so I&#8217;ll try again &#8212; when the muse delivers something witty. But, next time, I&#8217;ll try to make it something that causes me &#8212; and everyone else &#8212; to laugh out loud. Till then, I will take solace in the old balm, &#8220;It was such an honor just to be a nominee&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 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. 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