Caption Contest Winners
The Lefty Loosey, Righty Tighty Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.
Yahoo – Reuter Photo Highlights
The Winners
First: McGehee –
Rumsfeld: “These are not the condolence letters you’re looking for.”
Reporter: “These are not the condolence letters we’re looking for.”
Rumsfeld: “Move along.”
Reporter: “Let’s move along.”Second: Sortapundit – You wanna know why I didn’t sign those letters? I got The Claw in ‘82 during a Pacman tourney. Haven’t been able to hold a pen since.
Third(tied): Kate – “As you know, you go decorate the Christmas tree with the ornaments you have … not the ornaments you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
Third(tied): Jason – Well, that’s no ordinary rabbit. That’s the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! He’s got huge, sharp — eh — he can leap about — look at the bones!
Honorable Mention:
bryan – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shows proper knuckleball form during a press conference announcing his tryout for the (possible) Washington Nationals. “I’ve been throwing knuckleballs past the national media for three years now,” Rumsfeld said. “I think I can put a few past Sammy Sosa and that juiced-up Barry — what’s his name? — Bonds.”
KJ – Tired of waiting for nude pyramids and sleep deprivation to work, Rumsfeld decides to personally administer his Vulcan mild meld technique to get the Al Kae Duh prisoners talking.
Cassandra – “Let me state for the record, that smiley thing-a-majigger is not official US Army-issue”
“It’s some crazy thing Joyner rigged up. I can’t be held responsible” (editor: seemed like they belonged together)
Leopold Stotch already has a Festivus Edition contest started. The abnormal Monday/Thursday schedule of caption contests will be a little erratic over the holiday week between Christmas and New years.
Rodneys Bottom of the Barrel (below)
“…but I’m not a monster, I have the heart of the child, I keep it in my desk drawer.”
AP BREAKING – At a press conference Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld blames Dr. James Joyner for the smiley face icons that keeps showing up on the condolence e-mails.
DRUDGE REPORTING – Even though Donald Rumsfeld has previously blamed Dr.James Joyner for the condolence letter email smiley face fiasco he later confirmed his belief that Cassandra was behind the mishap.
Rumsfeld is quoted as saying, “It gives me no pleasure to admit that the recherche blog princess is behind this debacle.”“Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times …”
Well, I didn’t win or even get an honorable mention but I can’t help but feel I nevertheless had an impact on this contest. 🙂
Congrats to the winners.
I have been beaten by a worthy opponent. Congratulations, McGehee. You will receive a letter bomb… er, I mean Christmas card… in the post shortly.
Note to self: eliminate all competition. Today, McGehee. Tomorrow, the world! Or James Joyner.
There’s a normal schedule?
There’s a normal schedule?
James had been running a contest around once a week, when I started I decided to go twice a week (mon-thu and thu-mon) and I’ve kept pretty much to that. I’ve thrown in a bonus caption contest or two and the worst blog christmas present contest. You’ve added a few weekend contests and the festivus contest. When James
put me up toasked me to do this he pretty much said “do what you want, run one every day if you want to.” We’re way under that pace.I’m glad to see you’ve thrown out another contest. I thought you’d tried a few and decided to stop. You’ve picked some really good pictures for contests.
I doubt I’ll ever run one a day, putting together the winners post is too time consuming and I’d have to spend some time looking for pictures to keep one a day running.
Whoo-hoo! And it only took me a week to find out about it.
Sorta’s (ahem) Christmas card still hasn’t arrived, but at this time of year the mail is notoriously, er, slower than usual. I should get it by Groundhog Day. Hope it wasn’t on a timer.