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.
Who’s behind the door? Who? I can’t take it anymore, I want to know who is behind the door. Ack!
Darren tries to hold the ideas in.
Ugh… I could have had a V-8!
I can’t believe it’s not ProBlogger.
I can’t believe I’m still here.
I can’t believe I haven’t sold this chair.
“I can’t believe I hit send.”
No matter how hard I concentrate, I can’t seem to rotate my house more than 30 degrees from vertical.
Hmm… What should I write about?
I don’t know if you have kids, but this is mine: “Oh, my gosh, is this impromptu play EVER going to end?”.
“Why did I ever try to cancel this print job in the middle?”
Oh no, I forgot to add the meta tags!
“If I don’t sleep for the next two weeks, I’ll only be behind by three weeks.”
To write or not to write? That is the question.
Caption Entry:
“I’ve heard that in the world of blogging, you could suffer blows to the ego and heart, so I’ve armoured those areas, but forgot about the ‘below the belt’ jibes that I clearly wasn’t expecting.”
“There, now, I’ve finally got it on straight!”
1. “Dang it I’ve done it again! I’ve gone and sat on the chair backwards again!”
2. “Where has all my hair gone??”
3. “Now, where did I put my mouse?”
4. “I always brainstorm on my blue chair! So what?”
5. “Darren, leader and member of the BBA: Bald Bloggers Alliance.”
Oh no! I forgot how to sit in a chair and look into the camera…
Problogger Darren Rowse, in the gut-wrenching moments before his seductive chair dance routine streams live via the Web.
“…Blogging…What was I thinking?”
“Do I really want this attention?”
“Too many viewers….My site is down!”
“Who knew all of this would come from blogging…”
“What am I doing?”
C’mon… C’mon… I can do better than Clark Kent… C’mon… Heat up already!
Darn! That’s it! Anyone got a matchstick? Need to light up that darn dinner candle before my wife gets home.
How do I reach these kids!
“Maybe if I put my hands here, people can’t tell I’m bald.”
1) I really need to take something for this vertigo.
2) The doorbell is about to ring……now!!
Skullduggery: you’re doing it wrong.
Thinking outside the box.
“I don’t know. Do you really think this head goes well with this chair?”
Why does this chair completely clash with these walls…
Producer : How about I get few bloggers to help out in my acting jobs?
Me : Well, you can look at this guy in the photo.
Producer : . . . .
Me : [self-explanatory] **winks**
“I always knew things before anyone else.”
1. I knew I shouldn’t of eaten that…
2. Where’s my pants? Oh, there on me… What a relief!
3. Now what was that randomly generated password?
4. I’ve had um bop stuck in my head for there days!
5. Another diaper?
“Do I really have five other chairs in this same color?”
How to hold it all together – in a nutshell.
“Why do I keep singing ‘I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt’ in my head?”
“Thank goodness I didn’t wear a skirt today.”
“How much should I offer to buy this chair for?”
“Damn I’m sexy.”
“I think I’m a genius. Am I a genius? Noooo. Seriously??! Really. No, I am a genius. But I can’t be!! People think I am but I’m not. But everyone says so…it must be true. Really??? Nooooo…. Wow. I hope no one finds out.”
Man Fears Alien Attack Is Imminent… Uses Hands To Protect Intellectual Property
lol
Darren Rowse says he’s “dazed and confused” by his success in blogging.
Remaining seated while administering a solo Vulcan Mind Meld is highly recommend.
I…I… really CAN haz cheezburger? Whoa!
“I’m REALLY afraid someone’s going to knock on the door, so if I sit down with my back to it I’m sure it won’t happen.”
“Cool dad speech…gotta remember the cool dad speech…”
“I’m moving the toaster with my mind…”
“A darker chair would have definitely been more manly.”
“The hat will sit like this, and there will be some feathers spreading over it like this…”
Another reason not to use frames.
“Must. Think. Of. More. Blogging. Tips.”
After hours of interrogation by reporters, Darren Rowse, of the Melbourne-based Problogger.com, begins to question the idea that anyone could ever actually make living by writing a blog.
When asked where he comes up with his ideas for blog posts, Darren Rowse, of the Melbourne-based Problogger.com, replied “From deep inside the recesses of my mind. If you look inside my eyes, maybe you can see the next one. Can you? Can you see it?” The reporter declined to comment on whether or not she could, in fact, see Mr. Rowse’s next idea inside his mind.
1. After an unfortunate accident involving supaglue, Rowse was forced to watch Rebecca Black’s Friday video replay over and over…
2. “Mother in law on skype, Must… not… fall… asleep…”
3. “Like the sands through the hourglass, so too are the days of our lives”
4. David Rowse tries on his new invisible thinking cap.
5. “Head and shoulders, Knees and Toes…”
I’m stuck in the blogosphere and can’t get out!
“I should be able to blog telepathically now, right?”
I’m really Mark Zuckerberg’s half brother?
My blogs are my reality ….now, what was the question?
Has anyone seen my escape button???