Win an iPod Shuffle! Caption Competition!
March 20th, 2007 by Frank
Competition Closed!
Check out the winnner.
Check out the winnner.
That’s right! Win an iPod shuffle - and it’s fun, it’s a caption competition.
The only way we could make this more fun is if it was spot the ball, but I don’t know anything about football…
Anyway, look at the image at the end of this post and come up with what goes in the speech bubble. You can also have more text under the image, but that’s optional.
The rules are simple:
- Leave a comment below with your incredible caption
- Be sure and fill in a valid email so I can contact you if you win.
- Closing date is the 1st of April, unless there are less than 25 valid entry comments in which case closing date is extended.
- You don’t have to link to this post to win, but I’d sure appreciate it if you spread the word so we get as many quality entries as possible!
- I decide who wins on the basis of who I think has been most funny. My decision is final!
- I’ll contact the winner for delivery details and get an iPod Shuffle to them.
- Your caption doesn’t have to have anything to do with this.
UPDATE: For details on how to be in with a chance to be entered into a draw for a SECOND iPod Shuffle see here.
Entries (RSS)
March 20th, 2007 at 8:09 am
“Nothing that your government already have not done to you…”
March 20th, 2007 at 9:22 am
“How infrastructure is made”
“New pipes being laid”
“How Comreg loves Eircom”
“Eircoms fluffy secret”
March 20th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Get OFF her willya , I gave her strong new statutory powers only lasht week.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:44 am
“Come along now, hurry on! That eejit Cowen will be taxing stud fees from 2008.”
March 20th, 2007 at 10:58 am
“By now I shouldn’t need the lead”
March 20th, 2007 at 11:05 am
In any competitive pack, the Apha Always breeds first in class.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
I’m proud to say we’ve an open-door policy
March 20th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Breeding the next generation network
March 20th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
“Cruel? Nah, she loves it really”
March 20th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Proudly sponsored by KPMG
March 20th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
While they are losing interest in the mobile market, the regulator insists that there is nothing wrong with Eircom taking the French
Poodlemodel for a monopolistic landline provider. Eircom says it remains committed as ever to laying new pipes and seizing new opportunities!March 20th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Damn HTML tag stripper! There was supposed to be del tags surrounding the word “Poodle” in my last comment, doesn’t look half as funny now.
March 20th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Try the new eircom package and see how much you save!
March 20th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Fixed that for you Jonathon - I guess admin has the necessary rights or something…
Nice one!
Thanks everyone, I’m really enjoying this, all the entries are great… I should do this kind of thing more often!
Keep em coming!
March 20th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
speech bubble : “Don’t worry, she was neutered long ago!”
bottom line : “ComReg - “servicing” the market for 4 years”
March 20th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
speech bubble : “DSL me arse!”
bottom line : ComReg trials its new “Service Level Agreement”
March 20th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Dempsey - They’ve screwed the people: now they’re screwing my toothless poodle. That a boy!
Under - Who screwed up?
March 20th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
http://twentymajor.net/2007/03/20/win-an-ipod-shuffle/
March 20th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Jeez and I thought Broadband was slow….
March 20th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
“Check it out Beavis: Phone sex - Doggie Style”
March 20th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Speech bubble: “Tired of being raped by rabid phone-company dogs? Join o2!”
Strap-line “o2: making things better”
March 20th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Don’t you just love entering a new market
March 20th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Eircom performs line tests before extending the range of their broadband “package”…
March 20th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Bubble: And you think no-one will buy these puppies? Guess again, suckers!
Below : Minister Dempsey allocates next generation licences
or
Bubble: Think of it this way; would yez sooner be fucked by one of your own or some foreign multinational?
March 20th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
“OH YESH (a la Churchill dog)… I will make you mine Pearl…ico”
Eircom - screwing bitches since 1999!
March 20th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Now THATS a top quality service, not that I would know much about that kind of thing.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
In the speech bubble: “It’s times like this I wish I had wireless”
Below: “Although Polly the Poodle was finding it traumatic she couldn’t help but hope that Eircom was contention free”
March 20th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
It’s too late to get a room now…
March 20th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Tell me bruno, do you have any brothers? I know a lady that needs someone just like you good self. She’s been trying to bugger a health service for some time now and you nazi tendencies will remind her of a collegue of hers.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:43 am
A very “Smart” poodle.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:47 am
Eircom, get off her - that’s not Smart
March 21st, 2007 at 8:50 am
Strap-line: “Several years on and Minister Dempsey was no closer to unbundling the local loop.”
March 21st, 2007 at 9:08 am
Strap line: Modern Ireland is Changing
March 21st, 2007 at 9:35 am
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks
March 21st, 2007 at 10:48 am
“You’re next”
March 21st, 2007 at 10:53 am
“Surprise!”
March 21st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
“Mike Byrne Always Likes To Be In The Know…….So This is Eircom Always-On Broadband for Comreg”
March 21st, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Comreg keeps Eircom on a tight leash!
March 21st, 2007 at 1:33 pm
“Just showing you we care!”
March 21st, 2007 at 1:41 pm
greeninkpen.blogspot.com entry - click here!
March 21st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
The lenghts Eircom go to to keep their customer base happy
March 21st, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Bubble:
I’m not really looking – sure she can take care of herself…
Tagline:
ComReg Encouraging Competition
March 21st, 2007 at 4:28 pm
A lot done, a lot more to do.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Out of Dempsey’s mouth:
For sale state monopolies.
I only have 2 remaining to sell, 1 power and 1 post.
Once in a lifetime offer.
If You’re a vulture capital firm looking for an investment. Look no further.
Eircoms’ been sold and asset stripped a number of times and it’s still top dog.
Act now and I’ll throw in a free regulator.
terms and conditions apply
below the line
All sales considered final unless you fuck it up then I’ll buy it back. Any offers no matter how low will be considered. Friends of the government discount rates will apply. Booking deposits to be paid in brown envelopes.
March 21st, 2007 at 7:51 pm
My blog didn’t ping yours for some reason Frank. Here’s my entry:
http://explic.it/you-gave-him-the-licence-bitch/
March 21st, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Thanks Adam - I only noticed the other day trackbacks and pings don’t appear here - I spotted it in incoming links in admin section alright - and at least one person mentioned to me it was their favourite!
Stay tuned for update relevant to your entry… but you won’t like it much… ha ha ha…
March 21st, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Bubble: Not really a runner. She’s been sweating for the last mile.
Strap: Even the dogs ‘n’ the geeks know it.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Speech bubble: Didn’t i tell you that you would feel the increase!
Eircom:We screw the competition so you don’t have to!
March 21st, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Thanks Frank. But please refrain from talking about my ‘entry’. That’s a whole other caption competition.
March 21st, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Ack… not - thinking - about - Adams - caption - competition…!
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:50 am
Bubble : “Look on the bright side Steve; at least its not Roy Keane”
Below the line : “Staunton was happy to assume the ComReg position, how was he to know that it wasn’t just the FAI that had gone to the dogs.”
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
“Come on! It’s my turn now, you’ve had your hour”
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Bubble ‘ Reverse the charge?.. Please? ‘
March 22nd, 2007 at 5:32 pm
E.T. phone home
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:47 pm
[...] Have we lost our minds? Possibly we’ve been carried away on the wave of enthusiasm that swelled up in us upon seeing the quality of the entries to our caption competition! [...]
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
As you may see from the pingback above, we have another iPod Shuffle up for grabs - this time it’s a draw, anyone who puts the caption competition image on their site or blog gets entered.
Check here for details!
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Apologies Adam - ‘get’s entered into the draw’ that should read…
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Heh. I just got it.
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
(The joke that is.)
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:36 pm
The Attorney General has assured the Cabinet that eircoms treatment of the public is entirely consentual and does not require a mandatory sentence.
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:37 pm
The Attorney General has assured the Cabinet that eircoms treatment of the public is entirely consensual and does not require a mandatory sentence.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:13 pm
[...] I was planning on putting my idea forward for BiffSniff’s iPod Shuffle competition anyway, but the announcement of a second draw certainly encouraged me to do it sooner rather than later. [...]
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Doesn’t seem to have pinged here, so this is my attempt at humour:
http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2007/03/22/biffsniffs-ipod-shuffle-giveaway/
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:54 am
Sorry about the delay Adam - the pingback was in the moderation queue…
I moderate unless you’ve posted before, not sure if that goes for pingbacks as well, I assume it does.
Thankfully pingbacks are working now - took me ages get them working last night - turned out they were fecked because I had a plugin called Adhesive installed which for some reason stopped them working.
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:38 am
Heh, I like that one.
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 am
Here’s another one: my outgoing pings are not working for some reason but the problem is at my side. Anyway…
http://www.jbwan.com/weblog/archives/2007/03/caption.html
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:25 am
Just thought of another. Remove the bubble and under the line:
“Having just heard about Frank’s free iPod, Eircom couldn’t wait to finish what it was ‘doing’ and ‘enter’ the competition”
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:42 am
oooh… self referential… how postmodern!
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:06 pm
No worries - wasn’t sure if it was just being held up or not, but nay bother either way (sorry for posting my entry twice though!)
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:00 pm
In Bubble “Get off, ya Bollix, you’ve had your go, let the mobile lads tag team her next”
Underneath “Pimpin’ the populace”
March 24th, 2007 at 3:11 am
My caption for bifsniff competition……
I might as well try the bifsniff caption competition……
March 25th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
I wondered what that ringing in my ears was
March 25th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Hey, I’m a lap dog, not a lap dancer!
March 26th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
twas john brownes idea to paint the dogs..now they have to pay me overtime for my saturdays!!…tee hee hee…
March 26th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
As the line grew longer and longer, Biffy wished for a rolled up newspaper with all her might!
March 26th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
I dont know how to ping back, and im not that creative. I just linked the site here: http://gnzlo.blogspot.com/2007/03/shuffle.html
March 27th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Now that’s a public private partnership!
March 27th, 2007 at 11:03 am
[...] Have a shot at writing a caption for the following cartoon and you could even win an ipod shuffle for your troubles. And if you post the image on your own blog with a trackback/ping you could also win an ipod shuffle! Get your entries in before the 1st of April [...]
March 27th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
bubble Prick up your ears, boys, communication incoming.
caption Irish Tellecomunications… always coming from behind.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:53 am
iPod Shuffle….
win an ipod shuffle…
March 28th, 2007 at 1:19 am
Finally, here’s mine.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Bubble: C’mon, after this we’re goin to test drive the Broadband at Harvey Norman.
Caption (Poodle): I just hope it’s as fast as this guy!
March 29th, 2007 at 11:38 am
bubble: Is this legal?
Under: Dunno but if Fianna Fail can legalize under age sex, we have a good chance!!!!
March 30th, 2007 at 6:11 am
We talked about this Bruno!!!
March 30th, 2007 at 10:12 am
caption: ‘if only their broadband rollout came as quickly’
March 30th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
bubble : “Free market my arse, that’s just a shaggy dog story!”
strapline : “mount fat /private/interests /public/services”