Weekend Fun: Contest Two: Write Caption for This Image
By Michael StelznerOk folks…
Take a look at the picture here.
Your task: Create a killer caption for this image.
I would like to reward the person who comes up with the best caption by giving him or her a free copy of my book Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged in e-book format.
Contest winner announced Fri. the 1st of Feb.
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January 26th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Let me at it.
“Anyone knows what we’re digging for? Wait, I think this key is in the right place.”
January 26th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Is your writing clogged up?
January 26th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Are your working hard or hardly working on your writing?
Are you too close to your writing?
Who has the best perspective on this problem? The one doing the work? The one closely watching? The “back seat digger”?
(Hint: It’s none of them. It’s YOU!)
Are you too busy banging the keys to notice what is wrong?
A: “Didn’t our customer order a train platform?”
B: “Yes, but this e-commerce platform is too great to pass up.”
C: “Less talking and more working! We’re almost done and ahead of schedule!”
Can’t see the keyboard for the keys?
Welcome to the information economy.
This website under construction.
This website under destruction.
This may be why your outsourced jobs are so expensive.
Construction ahead on the Information Super Highway.
Are your internationalization efforts still a bit rough?
Is your online goldmine more like a dry well?
Have you discovered the treasure in *your* keyboard?
Is your boss still breathing down your neck when you telecommute?
Do you have the right tools for the information age?
This ain’t your father’s data mining.
Are your offline marketing tactics a bust online?
January 26th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Pick a letter, any letter …
There’s no rush, Fred; we’re on double time!
Hacking into this computer is harder than I thought.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
“Man, I knew this copywriter has a big ego, but this is really ridiculous!”
January 27th, 2008 at 4:44 am
The training manual said to hit “any” key, not “pick” a key!
January 27th, 2008 at 6:22 am
“Its a ell” !
January 27th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Hi Mike, i just dropped you an e-mail. Please check the picture through this feed asap - it comes out very different.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Originally we linked to a different picture of a goldfish and somehow the image that ended up showing was an obscene one. We changed things rather quickly.
January 27th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Dammit. I hate the ones with Cheeto crumbs. They always turn me orange.
January 27th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
There’s nothing here. This is fool’s gold.
Let’s hurry, we’ve still got the rest of the alphabet.
D-oh!
January 27th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I didn’t expect this kind of community service work when they asked if we had ‘familiarity with a keyboard…’
January 27th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
“Think Big About the Little Guy: Does Your Writing Reach the Common Folk?”
And just for fun…
“Third one this week! If Gulliver doesn’t ease up on the keyboard, I vote we tie him up again.”
“I know Mike’s a writer and all, but I still say it’s an odd design for patio tile.”
January 27th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
After reading Zen and the Art of Keyboard Maintenance, Michael called in Captain Disassemble and his crew from Logitek’s RAMS to the Rescue.
January 28th, 2008 at 1:14 am
How about: writing is a block?
January 28th, 2008 at 7:57 am
“Some writers do all the work, while others merely sit around and take the credit.”
January 28th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Here’s a shot -
“Stelzner get’s all the credit, while we do all the work!”
January 28th, 2008 at 9:55 am
“Unearth the Key to writing killer captions”
January 28th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Well I look at it this way, at least we the view is different. Since Bob read Writing White Papers, we haven’t had to work on the letter “I.”
January 28th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
“Our job has been a lot easier since the Writer’s Strike.”
January 28th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Anti-QWERTY insurgents.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
“Let’s give this guy real writer’s block…”
January 29th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Stuck on a White paper Presentation?
January 29th, 2008 at 10:36 am
It’s time to hit the keyboard!
January 29th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Coffee spill. Duh, duh, duh!
January 29th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Traffic Backed Up Due To Road Works
The Information Superhighway went from “delight” to “e-light” earlier this morning as road crews scrambled to replace a missing ‘d’. Those most affected were post-holiday bargain hunters who tried to get onto the Dell site, but ended up in ‘ell. As one passer-by noted, this may have actually helped prospective customers since they were able to enter ‘ell *without* having to spend hundreds of dollars first…
January 31st, 2008 at 6:12 am
“C’mon guys! The key is to get it done right down to the letter!”
January 31st, 2008 at 9:42 am
Don’t push the Deadlines.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Folks - Check back tomorrow morning (Friday) to learn who the winner is.
Great effort everyone!
Mike
February 1st, 2008 at 10:32 am
Congratulations to Gwen from the Real World is Messy!
Your winning caption: I didn’t expect this kind of community service work when they asked if we had ‘familiarity with a keyboard…’
February 1st, 2008 at 10:47 am
What a terrific surprise this morning to receive an email announcing I won.
Thank you!
February 1st, 2008 at 10:49 am
Congrats Gwen — you’re truly a writer among writers!
And hey Mike, that was fun — how ’bout more of those in the future?!
~Graham
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:18 am
Nice job Gwen!! I agree Graham, a great way to get the creative juices flowing…
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
Gwen’s entry is a winner but the fella from writer’s ‘ell should get a definite runner up.
Great fun Mike. Let’s set another writer’s group play date soon. You certainly kept me coming back to see what other clever quips developed.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:20 am
What kind of keyboard is this? At least Q, A, W in the wrong spots.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
“So, after this you guys wanna head down to the Space-Bar?”
February 11th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
First thing I noticed were the scrambled letters/keys. What kind of keyboard IS it?
February 13th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
” Hit the right button “
March 1st, 2008 at 1:02 am
I wish I could find a word whose anagram on swapping letters “A” “D” and “Q” produced somthing very funny… that could have been the most funny caption for the pic.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:59 am
“I found the anykey”