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CPA Exam Candidate’s Study Break Results in Caption Ingenuity
As many of you are painfully aware, accountants aren’t generally known for their sense of humor. DUIs? Maybe. Organizational skills? Definitely. Freakish ability to memorize a dictionary’s worth of FASB ASCs? Sadly, yes.
But every now and then, the world is blessed with an accountant who smashes the mold.
Case in point, 24-year-old David Woodbridge. A native of Lake Forest, IL, Woodbridge just won the New Yorker’s caption contest for his chortle-worthy caption which appeared in the magazine’s October 10th issue. Odds of winning the contest are estimated at 1 in 10,000 due to the large number of submissions, according to the magazine’s cartoon editor. Anyone care to take a guess on the odds that an accountant could win the contest?
The best part of the story? He came up with the winning entry while taking a break from studying for the CPA exam:
Woodbridge said he first tried the contest about three years ago but gave up after not winning after several attempts. Upon graduating from college, he decided to try the weekly contest again this summer while studying for the CPA exam.
Now I know what you’re asking… what was this hilarious caption?
Woodbridge’s winning caption was “Looks like they’re making cuts at the top” to a drawing of two janitors standing in the lobby of a building with headless corporate executives entering the building around them. He beat out “I dare anyone to say we missed a spot” and “It seems a bit extreme, but it does keep the zombies away” to win an original drawing of his captioned cartoon (valued at $250).
Uhhh… congrats?
Center for Audit Quality Gets Serious About Investor Protection By Introducing PR Campaign Featuring Cartoon Noir
Frankly, I find Garfield’s Babes and Bullets more convincing:
Your reactions are welcome at this time.
[via The Summa]