Occupy Dallas New Yorker-style Cartoon Caption Contest

Posted on October 12th, 2011 8:20am by Peter Simek
Filed under whimsy

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Now it’s your turn. Have fun in the comments!

38 comments

  1. Where do we get a latte?

    @ 8:22 am on October 12, 2011

  2. Neat-o! My 10-year-old nephew’s class has a blog too!

    @ 8:30 am on October 12, 2011

  3. “Is this the line to get ‘equity’?”

    @ 9:00 am on October 12, 2011

  4. “Couldn’t decide- Camping here, or for the new Iphone.”

    @ 9:03 am on October 12, 2011

  5. Tell me again… what are we opposing?

    @ 9:20 am on October 12, 2011

  6. What we had in mind was breakfast in bed for four dozen! It’s gonna be good food! And we’re gonna get it to you! It’s not just grass-fed natural beef with no hormones burgers with a fried duck egg and speck on a brioche bun with eschire butter and white Vermont cheddar, either! It’s everybody! We’re all feeding each other! WE MUST BE IN HEAVEN, MAN!!!

    @ 9:24 am on October 12, 2011

  7. Why do the Tea Partiers get a free pass, and we’re vilified? Are these people biased, or just plain stupid?

    @ 9:30 am on October 12, 2011

  8. Thank goodness for daddy’s trust fund… gives me plenty of free time to protest corporate wealth.

    @ 9:42 am on October 12, 2011

  9. Mm — Because the Tea Party has a somewhat cogent agenda — balanced budget, smaller federal authority — and this protest is a diaspora of whiners who don’t even understand their own agenda, let alone how it would be implemented.

    @ 9:46 am on October 12, 2011

  10. “This is the most people I’ve seen in the downtown area since the Mavericks won the championship.”

    @ 9:56 am on October 12, 2011

  11. Occupy Dallas ? WHATEVS ! I’m hoping to be on Dallas Most Eligible !!!!

    @ 9:57 am on October 12, 2011

  12. “Some of us girls are going to hit Uptown tonight for dinner and a few drinks – you & your friends want to join? Y’all can even stop by our place and use my shower if you want!”

    @ 9:57 am on October 12, 2011

  13. “They said there would be food trucks. Where are all the food trucks?”

    @ 9:58 am on October 12, 2011

  14. What do we want? Ummmm…; When do we want it? Now!!!

    @ 10:00 am on October 12, 2011

  15. “We’re not sure what want. Other than we want it for free!”

    @ 10:00 am on October 12, 2011

  16. What’s the menu like at the jail? I’m strictly vegan, you know.

    @ 10:04 am on October 12, 2011

  17. If you have an issue with us, contact my lawyer..I’m sure he’ll win as he makes millions…

    @ 10:05 am on October 12, 2011

  18. I want gold at $2,500 an ounce and silver at $150. That will fix everything.

    @ 10:06 am on October 12, 2011

  19. These are Neiman’s latest skinny jeans. Where are the TV trucks?

    @ 10:29 am on October 12, 2011

  20. This place is starting to look like Denton.

    @ 10:38 am on October 12, 2011

  21. Toons are cute…but as a hard working american..I do support this cause….I’m sick to death ofwatching my hard earned dollar but less n less each day….btw…withinthe Occupy movement here in Dallas. There are some Ron Paul supporters….the people of this country are being sold out while Mismanaged banks and corperations are being bailed out with our tax dollars…I’ve paid into the SS system since I was 16..almost 50 now…..and I have lil hope that I will. Eversee a dividend from my controbutions….I’m just asking for these folks to play bythe same rules as the working man…I HAVE NO LOBBIEST IN washington to pay off politicians…influence the their votes…so they can take my tax dollars to keep afloat..then turn around and pay out 6figure bonuses to the same morons who mismaneged those companies into the red in the 1st place….

    @ 10:43 am on October 12, 2011

  22. Occupiers, We had the same problem with our agenda:

    Phase 1. Collect Underpants
    Phase 2. ?
    Phase 3. Profit

    @ 10:43 am on October 12, 2011

  23. Ok… I held my sign. When do we start free love?

    @ 10:51 am on October 12, 2011

  24. Said w Bruce Willis’ Die Hard voice inflection: “She said come to Dallas, we’ll have a few laughs, sleep in a tent pee on the ground.”
    Well it’s been fun but it’s raining, my trust fund dividend check is sitting in my mailbox uncashed and DWTS is coming on. Gotta go!

    @ 11:08 am on October 12, 2011

  25. Found your D Spot? Try Pioneer Park!

    @ 11:13 am on October 12, 2011

  26. “This is sooo totally what Woodstock must have been like.”

    @ 11:31 am on October 12, 2011

  27. Rabble Rouser,

    I’d be willing to bet you feel persecuted because the Tea Partiers were lampooned as racists.

    P.S. Why are you so nakedly envious of people with trust funds?

    @ 11:51 am on October 12, 2011

  28. I just heard Kalachandji’s is bringing a big buffet. D mag says their Basmati Rice is to die for.

    @ 12:02 pm on October 12, 2011

  29. “This is the only day I can make it out. I would love to be a liberal hippy, but my $150,000 McMansion in Allen is over an hour and a half away. That’s just too far to commute everyday.”

    @ 12:27 pm on October 12, 2011

  30. Daniel:
    You have me all wrong. Love trust funds, have a few myself. Don’t like kids/folks who may or may not have trust, bellyaching cuz others that have worked hard to get where they are and set up t funds for their kids, are moaning that they are entitled.

    @ 1:03 pm on October 12, 2011

  31. Damn Dirty Hippy has checked in at Pioneer Park

    Corporate Overlord and 3 others liked this

    @ 1:14 pm on October 12, 2011

  32. “Less like Lollapalooza; more like Lolla-patchouli.”

    “I’d have made a smaller sign had I known this was going to be so heavy.”

    @ 2:25 pm on October 12, 2011

  33. Oh, me? I’m just here posing for a D Magazine cartoon artist.

    @ 2:51 pm on October 12, 2011

  34. “Tax the rich? Wait, what? That’s us!”

    @ 4:22 pm on October 12, 2011

  35. “What do we want?”
    “We have no idea!”
    “When do we want it?”
    “Now!”

    @ 5:10 pm on October 12, 2011

  36. “This will teach those know-nothing weirdos in the Tea Party.”

    @ 5:21 pm on October 12, 2011

  37. I just found out why we’re protesting…. for the right to camp out overnight in city parks. Now that’s what America needs!

    @ 5:32 pm on October 12, 2011

  38. We want private universities to be eliminated. But first, we need our SMU grad lawyers to win our lawsuit.

    @ 3:56 am on October 14, 2011

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