He's been incorporating the caption contest into coursework for three years, he says. VanDenBerg encouraged the 20 students in the class to submit captions to the New Yorker. More: Pokin Around: A piece of submarine here in Springfield and its role in national security Professor promised extra credit "Once on my school email and once on my personal email."īy the time I called, he had already been interviewed by his hometown newspaper - the Woodford County Journal. Of course, he voted for his own caption - twice. You see, the New Yorker staff selects three finalists and then a vote is conducted online. Johnson was aided by the folks back home in Eureka, Illinois, a town of 5,334 near Peoria. No, he tells me, the "beheaded the groundskeeper" caption wasn't his first idea. He initially played with the phrase "prickly situation." (The News-Leader was unable to obtain approval from the New Yorker to reproduce the cartoon.) More: Pokin Around: How big is Big Baby of Bolivar today? And what animal weighs about the same? Johnson wrote this winning caption: "Well, after you beheaded the groundskeeper, we had to go with something low maintenance." It appears as if the knight is speaking to the king. The cartoon depicts a king seated on a throne. "But I am politically involved and I like to think I can be a funny person sometimes," he says. Johnson is not a political science major he is an accounting major. "They sent me an email and I just about jumped out of my chair," he tells me. So for the past several weeks he's been not only doing his homework for Professor Jeff VanDenBerg, he's been submitting weekly. And he eventually won. The New Yorker, noted for its witty-if-not-always funny cartoons, provides a cartoon and asks contestants to offer a caption. Kyle Johnson, an 18-year-old Drury freshman, figured he might as well send his homework to the New Yorker magazine.Įach week in his Political Satire class, he had to write a caption for a cartoon in the literary magazine's caption-writing contest.
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