Okay, time for a little light-hearted fun. Caption Contest!
This morning on Twitter (follow me @Problogger) we were sharing our most embarrassing moments as bloggers and I shared the above picture which appeared in newspapers across Australia.
When the article came out five years ago, it was one of my first. I was excited about the mainstream media mention and looked forward to showing family and friends to legitimize this crazy blogging business I was running. But the photo became the focus of the piece, and generated quite a few laughs.
When I shared it earlier today on Twitter the captions for it started coming in thick and fast, so I thought perhaps it’d be fun to open it up. What would you caption that picture?
I’ll choose my favorite submitted caption in 48 hours’ time, and send the winner a copy of the three existing ProBlogger ebooks, plus a copy of our new one, which will be released next week.
Enter up to five times to increase your chances of winning! To enter simply leave your caption in comments below.
PS: There was another version of the article with a different picture, featuring the same chair here.
My caption entry: “Dude! Where’s my computer!”
‘Darren Rowse performs a solo vulcan mind meld’
my fingers don’t know what to do with themselves when they’re not on a keyboard (!!)
Lesson learned – next time I should really get them to install the doorbell on the OUTSIDE.
Darren Rowse is shattered after receiving the news that Foxtel have rejected the pilot for his new program ‘Darren And The Rowseketeers’
OMG… 457 blog comments !!!
Last time I checked I had a head full of hair. But after problogger…
I’m staring at the future right now and it seems very ummm a-Rowsing…
“Being a problogger is hard work and very tiring, at times Darren needs to hold his head up and eyes open just get that next post done.”
“I woke up this morning and my hair was gone, it used to be here…”
“I don’t know what I’m doing, is this still hip?”
If I concentrate really hard and stretch my fingers a little more, maybe I can cover my receding hairline.
Oh crap – what do you mean I launched a comment competition with a broken comment form?
“Need…more…coffee..”
I’m pmsl right now. (Wet patch seen in hi-res only :-)
“OMG. Where did my cheques go?”
“No more coffee..?!”
“Where to get coffee?”
“Coffee…………”
“C’mon Darren, Hold it together”
Darren Rowse poses for IKEA*
*IKEA = I Know Everything Already
OK, Darren, here it goes: “What the hell did I just do? I quite my real job so that I could put my deepest thoughts (and not so deep thoughts) out on the web for everyone to read and I thought this would pay the bills? Oooops!”
“Can’t…stop…watching…site stats”
Bloody IPv6 test!
Analytics? What’s that?
“I love my job, don’t I?”
‘OMG! I’ve forgotten my problogger admin password!’
“I swear I left my car keys here… Somewhere. Now how am I suppose to go to that interview? “
Caption contest: 1. Darren, having completely misunderstood the correct way to use “jazz hands”, does not get the part.
2. Darren shows the execs at The Hair Club for Men his idea for the “finger wig”.
“If I can’t see him… he can’t see me!”
“Must.. not.. enter… all-girls dorm…!”
“Im funny… right? Sure! IM A FUNNY GUY AREN’T I?”
“Problogger Darren Rowse has no idea how to sit on a chair properly”
What do you mean iPad2 is out? I just got my first one last week!
“Darn it, where did I last leave my glasses?”
Suggested Photo Captions:
• Darren’s best Johnny Carson “Carnac” impression
• Where did my hair go?
• Damn. My sinus infection is back
• I can’t believe I straddled the WHOLE chair
• I’m thinking triangles
where should we be sending our captions?
just here in comments Ihsan
Reporter: So, Darren tell me about this blogging and tweeting business.
Darren: I blog about twitter and tweet about blogging. Sometimes I blog about tweeting about blogging and tweet about blogging about twitter.
Reporter: Ok…. how about we just take this embarrassing photo then and call it a day?
“Ugh, Should not have had that bean burrito”
“Maybe if I hide my head no one will notice I have no hair”
“I learned this move in my stripper class”
I can feel my brain expanding from all these great ideas I’ve got
‘Professor X mentally reads all the comments people make (and actually intend to make) on his current blog post.’
“uh oh, I think I sat down too fast. I just busted a nut”
“Where the hell is my latest copy of the ebook that I’m going to release next week?”
Caption: Nope, there’s no hair here, but feel those thinking muscles. Yep, got those!
“I will hypnotize you all in my scheme for world domination!!!! *Mwahaha (evil laugh)”
“I can’t believe… I forgot… I can’t remember…er…um… What were we saying?”
“My… hair.”
“Darren Rowse attempts to perform the first ever instrument-free lobotomy”
“Damn cat stole my wig again”
“My horse is in the shop so they had me pose on this stupid chair instead.”
“There it is! Hogwartz!”
“The kids did WHAT with my New Kids On The Block box set?”
Haha. Funny little contest :)
1. Blue with Blog-ache
2. Blog-ache Blues
3. Bloggercalifragislisticexpialidocious
4. Darren Growsed
5. Look mama no hair!
“I do my best work facing blogwards.”
“Your card is…the ace of spades!”
That’s what I was going for.
I wish I could slap the person that took this picture!
“What WAS I thinking!”
NO! I want the photo taken like this!
I feel it highlights my package much more flatteringly.