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Remember that line from Monty Python, which they would use to segue from a singing lumberjack to someone trying to return a dead bird.

The reason I use that line today is the fact that this blog entry has absolutely nothing to do with IT security. I'm not sure how many of you readers realize that, before I started blogging for ebizQ, I was a humor writer, and had actually done quite well (one of my pieces made it into the book of the best humor writing in America).

And one of the biggest goals of any literary humorist was to make it onto the pages of the New Yorker (a literary humorists being those funny types who don't have the guts to do stand-up comedy). But making it on the pages of the New Yorker was and remains one of the absolute ideals, as the magazine was actually thought up by the group of wits and urbanites sitting around at a table at the Algonquin Hotel. And those wits, who became known as the 'Vicious Circle,' and consisted of people like Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker and George Kaufman, and pretty much defined written humor for much of the last century.

While many, if not most, could probably give too hoots about literary humor, most of the folks from the New Yorker went on to work in Hollywood, and came to write or rewrite many of the pictures that became known as Hollywood's golden age.

And the reason I bring this all up is, during my days as a humorist, I sent many pieces to the New Yorker (and got many rejections back). But for the past few years the New Yorker has been running a 'Guess the Caption Contest' on its back page, and it just so happens that this week one of the captions is from me!

So I ask you to go to the following link and simply vote for the funniest caption. And if the funniest caption isn't mine, then vote for mine instead. Anyhoot, you can check it all out right here.

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Posted by: Liz at January 14, 2008 01:26 PM