Seeking a penguin caption

The New Yorker cartoon caption contest in the 3/6/25 issue features one of my totem animals, the penguin. Well, quite a lot of penguins:

The three finalists for the caption will be announced in the 3/30 issue

The caption — what the woman is saying to the man — could be about that pigeon (maybe the whole thing is stage-managed by the pigeon; or maybe it’s about a pigeon among the penguins, like a cat among the pigeons). Meanwhile, note the prevalence of penguins — driving a car, in the windows of a building, on top of the food truck; they’re everywhere.

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4 Responses to “Seeking a penguin caption”

cloudlucky7cb80bb994 Says:
March 14, 2026 at 7:36 pm | Reply
I told the pigeon to send them to your dad’s fish market.

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- arnold zwicky Says:
  March 15, 2026 at 4:24 am | Reply
  Perfect.
  
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arnold zwicky Says:
March 28, 2026 at 1:22 pm | Reply
Now the New Yorker’s 3/30 issue has arrived, with the three finalists in the caption contest:

“If they can make it here, they can make it anywhere.”
“I remember when you could walk down this street and never see a single penguin.”
“I think this means six more weeks of winter.”

Winner to be announced in the 4/13 issue. (I’m partial to #2 myself.)

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- J B Levin Says:
  March 28, 2026 at 5:40 pm | Reply
  I would have gone for #1 if only they had said “. . . they’ll make it anywhere,” because I was hearing it in Sinatra’s voice and the wording caught me up short. So #2 for me too
  
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