Roger Ebert Captions a New Yorker Cartoon (Finally)

Bob Mankoff on Roger Ebert's attempts to win the New Yorker caption contest, cites a post from Ebert's blog from 2009:

I have entered the New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest almost weekly virtually since it began and have never even been a finalist. Mark Twain advised: “Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.” I have done more writing for free for the New Yorker in the last five years than for anybody in the previous 40 years.

Well, Ebert has finally won with this entry

Though I like this one, which didn't make it past censors

I've submitted what I thought were brilliancies to the contest a bunch of times to no avail.

Thumbs Up Mr. Ebert. Congrats.