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.
What is a blog again?
“Luke, help me take this mask off… let me look on you with my own eyes.”
Yeah, I need more fiber in my diet.
Ok. Is my head on straight now?
Thinking up blog topics makes my head ache.
Why did someone post this picture & tag it in Facebook?
Why hasn’t Twitter added their new photo option to my account yet? I thought I was influential.
If I keep staring will I really be frozen in this position for eternity?
Maybe my mother-in-law was right and blogging won’t support my family.
Tiger!?!? They almost had that house of cards built. The boys were winning!
They canceled All My Children AND One Life to Live?
Jamie Oliver, you dashing rogue, you are right. We must get that sugar out of the kids’ milk.
Another Doctor Who? I was just getting used to the new one.
I can’t believe they are turning the last five minutes of the last Harry Potter movie into seven different films. WTF?!
I would use it in the next DPS book about posing with the caption:
“DON’T ever pose your models like this (and please finde prettier models).”
Usually, panic attacks are awkward. But this one is TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!
“Oh wait. Now I see it– yeah, with your hands like that you do look like Darth Vader. Let’s use it.”
Where has this blog-thing got me into?
Oh, gosh! Is that my blog?
1. I sit, thinking, on my throne, all I need now is a matching crown
2. ProBlogger ChairMan
3. Blogging Blues
4. Wanna see what I am left with after I started blogging? I am sitting on it :)
“2. ProBlogger ChairMan” -> that one actually made me LOL! You, sir, have my vote (or would have, if I could vote :) )
Bend spoon, BEND!
Keeler content: Pro blogger Darren Rowse, whose raft of blogs includes one dedicated to digital photography, pays his own special homage to an iconic 1960s black-and-white still.
Envisioning the future of blogging
Blogging + mind control
Oh *#!@, I should have kept my real job
Hahaha the one with your foot on the chair is even funnier :) And the caption is awesome: “Putting his feet up … the problogger.net site, started by Darren Rowse is ranked among the top 100 sites in the crowded blogosphere.” hahaha
Can’t believe they call me egg head. Just don’t get it.
*sigh* I should have waited until the blue paint dried on this chair before sitting down.
Hahaha… great idea! (and good sense of humor). My caption:
“Online buyer gets old blue chair instead of wig”
Suddenly Darren realised trying to recreate that Scandal movie poster might not have been a good idea.
At least Christine got a decent bloody chair
Harder to make jokes when you’re a native english speaker, but let’s give it a try, the picture is too fun to miss it :D (OMG this blue !)
“Oh my God, WHY did I paint this chair in a light-blue-Prius-like ?”
“The world is leaning so I have to hold my head or it hurts my neck.”
“This blue helps me to think about a new post. Maybe not.”
Must… Use… Mind… Control…
1. My new product “Problogger Cerebro…..reach your audience..wireless”
2. Time for Mind Mapping
3. Reflecting on past achievements
4. Problogger Cerebro…for generation X
Where’d my computer go? Need to blog moar!!!!1
Trying out Apple’s new iCloud.. remarkable – syncs from my brain!
This photographer needs to get outta the way.. I need to blog.. grr.
Oh noes.. where did I put that *third photo* of me posing on this chair :S
Ooops, my head almost fell off.
Must keep… holding my head, otherwise i will fall off this chair.
Dang, the glue of my mask is not dry yet.
Another one :-)
“entire house burgled (only ugly chair left)”
The letters are in my head – keep shaking until the words line up
Heavy – will it drop if I let go?
I can’t loosen the freaking screw. Darren may miss his head when he wakes!
my good if blogging activity done. And relation with my audience.
Christine’s best friend – Andy Rice-Davis
Caption:- OMG!! Facebook,Twitter,Blog,video, who’s got time for a baby? No rattles for this one get him an iPhone ;-)
It could be next posture on my motivational blog along with the caption, mention below:
“When you feel no body loves u, cares for you, ignoring you, jealous of you.Ask yourself. Am I Too Sexy “
The blue chair or the pink chair? I just can’t decide.
E- Vay!
That is what you look like you are thinking to me.
Sitting in Chair for the First Time, Rowse Realizes His Mistake
Really? You didn’t like that post? It’s my favorite.
I don’t know where to put my hands when I don’t have a keyboard in front of me.
This is where I get all my ideas. Right here.
No, my feet are down.
Man I look good on this chair. You could too, if you read my blog.
What’s wrong with this picture? 1. My feet are down, 2. My hands are up (I’m a blogger, those hands are gold to me and need much more blood than they get up there), 3. My body says ‘stress’ but my face says ‘must-not-laugh-at-the-unfortunate-resemblance-of-that-lady-walking-her-dog.-if-only-I-had-my-blogging-camera-on-me-I-could-share-it-with-the-world….’
Ergonomics: Oh no he didn’t *shakes right hand and head in manner of sassy African American woman*
Why yes I am one of the top 100 bloggers, would you like a peanut?
“I have lost my winning lottery ticket”
smile is not a mile away :)
“As Darren questions this pose, he contemplates the right way to suggest the photographer needs to log onto http://www.digital-photography-school.com for help.”
-Mortgages, Debts and Loans, The Solution is Blogging
-A Great Man, Bad Photography
-The God of Blogging Ready For Action
-ProBlogger, Massaging Himself As He Plans For Another Blogospheric Evolution
-An Incredible Genius, Cures His Earthquake-like Confusion In A Matter Of Seconds
Here are the five I can think of, look forward seeing other ones :)
1) I became a Pro blogger and all I got was this lousy tshirt?
2) Insert thought bubble here
3) If I concentrate hard enough I think I can move the camera with the power of MY MIND
4) Oh crap! I think I left the kettle on.
5) Mmmmm forehead, I like my forehead…. forehead…. forehead.
I said *duck egg blue*!
“This could have been so much worse if I hadn’t worn pants”
I can’t believe that I’m running this stupid contest just to get more Twitter followers — and that so many people are playing.
1 – This isn’t how she did it in Flashdance, is it?
2 – Quiet, I’m mind melding.
3 – I have this lolcats video in my head and it just won’t stop.
I can’t believe I spent $1000 bucks for this photographer and we’re not going to leave my hallway…
I see dead blogs ;)
“Well, Wolf — I can’t say definitively whether or not this crotch shot is of my package or not. You know what can be done by hackers, nowadays.”
I started this blog, now what?
In capital letters :)
“I CAN’T TAKE IT ANY MORE”
“Knew I should have written the password down”
“Chicken…no, egg…no, chicken…”
“And it’s the Pies over the Blues by 1 point in the 2011 AFL Grand Final”