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Each week The New Yorker magazine has a contest wherein readers are asked to provide captions for a cartoon. This week's is particularly relevant to us pianists. Put on your thinking caps!
(I was trying to find a way to paste the actual cartoon into this message, but couldn't. Maybe one of you talented folks can.)
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I never get most of those even WITH captions.
But lemme try my hand anyway....
Let's see, which one is "the Horowitz piano"....
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Let's see if this attempt to copy/paste the cartoon works (never did this successfully before)....
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"I'm quite certain this is NOT what Mr. Higgins meant when he asked you to put ten grand into the room."
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It was difficult to decide, so the dealer delivered my first 8 choices..., so the dealer delivered my first 8 choices... I bought these as an investment, the salesperson said they’ll appreciate significantly… There was a huge sale on these, I got them at 10% off the MSRP…
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"I'm quite certain this is NOT what Mr. Higgins meant when he asked you to put ten grand into the room."
ding, ding, ding, we've got a potential winner here!
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I spit coffee on my keyboard reading your captions! Too funny!
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"I'm quite certain this is NOT what Mr. Higgins meant when he asked you to put ten grand into the room."
All the captions were great, but I love this one the best!
Has it been submitted properly to the New Yorker yet?
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Well, the confirmation screen didn't come up, so I kept re-submitting the order.
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