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Drawing by Mick Stevens
Contest #176, January 12, 2009

Each week, we provide a cartoon in need of a caption. You, the reader, submit your caption below, we choose three finalists, and you vote for your favorite. Finalists for this week's cartoon will appear online Monday, January 19th, and in the January 26th issue of The New Yorker. Any U.S. resident age eighteen or older can enter.

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