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Caption Contest: SGH-G800 stars at Vienna State Opera House
We can't say we would've chosen Samsung's SGH-G800 to star at the Vienna State Opera House, but we heard the iPhone and N95 both refused to leave their respective dressing rooms. The show must go on, right?Josh: "2 b or not 2 b, tht is the qstn"Ryan: "An elaborate getup for a videocall, I know. But I assure you, dear madam, that I'm wearing no pants."Evan: "Can ye hear me now?"Don: "A bar, a bar, my kingdom for a bar!"Thomas: "Figaro, figaro... hello, mom?"Darren: Samsung: "Idiot, we meant the Opera b r o w s e r"Paul: "Not enough sparkle? Are you sure?"Steve: "Line?"Nilay: "Alas, poor Yorick, for he was not in my 5"Ross: "This is Puccini. You know nothing of my work."
Caption Contest: World's cutest phone can't place a call
Who cares about CDMA, GSM and endless 4G bickering when you don't have any circuits to worry about? This here super-mini Nokia 5200 model might not turn into a proper sized phone when dunked in water, but with that kind of cute-itude, world peace is within its grasp.Paul: "Sure it looks great now, but will it still be sexy when Nokia gets a 3G version to the States?"Darren: "Stuart Little said he's keeping this till the 3G iPhone is announced"Josh: "Barbie called... she's breaking up with you."Dante: "Finally a real reason to get your fingers whittled."Chris: "You dried my pants on high heat? My phone was in there!"Ryan: *ring* Zoolander: "God? You're a kitten?"Thomas: "Rat Man, your nemesis is calling."Ross: "And the next version will have a full PURRTY keyboard."[Via intomobile]
Reminder! Caption This contest ends tomorrow!
Happy Wednesday, everyone! This is just a friendly reminder that our Caption This contest is ending tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM EST. So if you wanting to enter, all you have to do is check out our contest announcement and leave a brilliant caption to the above screenshot in the comments. If our readers vote your entry as their favorite, you could walk away with a free 60-day gamecard or a class t-shirt of your choice from J!NX!So what are you waiting for? Check out the official contest rules and then get to captioning!
Caption Contest: does not compute
Evidently, even robots get bad assignments. Evan: "After their defeat at the hands of the Autobots, the Decepticons were forced to perform the most humiliating of jobs."Ryan: "Trust us, you really don't want to pull out Mini Killbot 3000 with the dangling claw. Might we suggest Snoopy?"Darren: "And to think, those Americans have to settle for a pathetic claw."Josh: "In retrospect, XL-250 probably had an unfair advantage, since he was made of high-test iron and programmed to kill, while his opponents were just fur stuffed with cotton, and programmed to hug."Paul: "We could live offa the fatta the lan'."Conrad: "These creatures are the only sentient race in this sector and they're made out of foam? This can't be right."
Caption Contest: poultry vs. robot in a duel to the death
We're told this type of battle is indeed legal in certain corners of the universe, but we honestly never thought we'd see the day when a gallinaceous bird came to the human's side to fend off the impending robotic takeover. Ryan: "That sound? Seth Green and Adult Swim filing suit over the Robot Chicken trademark."Thomas: "Quit your cock blocking and fight!"Darren: "These wooden posts are such lame excuses for adequate prostheses."Paul: "Look, I know you're scared. We're all scared. But if robots and robo-chickens can't learn to live in harmony, we might as well just let the humans have the earth all to themselves."Evan: "Not surprisingly, the martial arts sequel to Howard the Duck tanked at the box office."Don: "2019: Despite repeated protests from People for the Ethical Treatment of Robots, the title bout between Robo Chicken and BD "Boxy Hands" 209 went on as planned."Josh: "I love you!" -- "It'll never work!"
Caption contest: Samsung's phone ball
We don't know what's going on here, but mimes, phones, and spheroid frameworks are always a recipe for buffoonery.Chris: "Having failed its FCC approval testing in spectacular fashion, Samsung's SGH-S999 'Multicall' is rolled toward the nearest dumpster by company engineers.""You realize that if even one of these things is set to Discoverable, our cover's blown.""Desperate to rid itself of a troublesome mime pandemic, South Korea eventually enlisted the help of Samsung to craft the 'Voicemaker 3000,' a sphere-like weapon capable of felling upward of 80 mimes per minute when properly deployed."Darren: "If I could speak, I'd have this many phones."Joshua: "Milo and Arlo knew at once that their investment was in vain -- alas -- neither could say 'Hello.' ""Those 'pay as you go' phones are kind of unwieldy."Ryan: "Do not taunt happy phone ball."Thomas: "French police bust Chinese cloning rings."Donald: "Leaving things 'til the last minute, Samsung was forced to turn to some mimes from the street instead of the usual spokesmodels."Evan: "Can you hear me n... ah, guess not."
Caption This contest winners!
Miss last week's Caption This contest? Well, even if you missed out on entering, you can still enjoy reading through our winning entries. In first place, with 571 votes, was Lustig, who submitted the following caption:Hmmm... why does my display say that I'm still in combat?However, I'm afraid Lustig wasn't eligible to take home a prize, so he's just leaving our contest with the pride of winning. In second place, we have Angus, with 215 votes, who is taking home a 60-day gamecard due to his entry:Just run through them, they said. No problem, they said. You're a big bad level 70, they said. Pull the entire instance to the front door and we'll AOE grind them all, they said... Cheap blues for enchanting mats, they said. We need to go, they said...And in third place, we have Trevin, with 211 votes, who is going to be getting a quest-giver hat from J!NX after entering this caption:Indiana Jones 5: The Temple of Zul'Farrak"THIS MASK BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!"Didn't have a chance to enter? Check in with us next Monday for another edition of our Caption This contest!
Caption This! [Updated]
A new week is upon us -- and that means it's time for a new caption contest! All we're asking you to do is submit a great caption for the above screenshot (click for a higher-resolution version) in our comments, and in return you get a chance to win a 60-day gamecard (first place) or a quest-giver hat from J!NX (second place). You've got until Wednesday at 11:59 PM EST to come up with your caption, and on Friday, we'll be asking you to vote on your favorites to pick the winner!Now, for the legal business: this contest is only open to US residents of age 18 and up. I'm sorry if this excludes you, but our legal team says we just can't run a more inclusive contest. And with the option of doing contests for some of our readers or doing contests for none of our readers, I pick the former. For all the details, please check out the official rules.But with all of that out of the way... what are you waiting for? Enter your caption in the comments!Update: Sorry, folks, but as of 11:59 PM EST on Wednesday, the entry period is closed. Check back on Friday to vote for winners!
Caption This: Vote for winners! [Updated]
I hope everyone had a blast participating in this week's Caption This contest! However, as of Wednesday night at 11:59 PM EST the entry period officially closed, and I'd like to thank everyone who participated for making it a success! (And if you missed this week's contest, never fear, there will be another one starting on the Monday after next!) But now it's time to pick a winner -- the staff of WoW Insider has narrowed hundreds of entries down to ten finalists, and we want your opinion on which captions for the above screenshot are the best of the bunch. The winner will be walking away with a 60-day gamecard and second place will snag a More DoTs t-shirt from J!NX. So come on -- let us know which entry you liked best (polls will be open until 9am EST tomorrow), and on Monday we'll announce the winners!Update: The voting period is now closed -- we'll announce the winners soon!
Caption This! winners
Somehow I get the feeling that everyone who voted on our finalists had spent a little too much time grinding Timbermaw reputation in the past...! By 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, we'd gotten a total of 2,477 votes -- an excellent turnout! And while competition for second place was very close, first place was no contest. With 33% of the vote (and 825 votes total), Justin wins with his caption: Alright, guys. We still have 6,352 more humans to slaughter before we can buy the new potion recipe.And in second place? With 11% of the vote (and 283 votes total), Guy wins with his caption:"I knew we shouldn't have trusted that mage who said he had a port to Timbermaw Hold..." "Move his status to hated..."So congratulations to Justin and Guy -- and thanks to everyone for participating! Justin will be taking home a 60-day gamecard and Guy will receive a Burning Crusade t-shirt from J!NX. But if you think you can do better than they did (and I've read the comments, you can't deny that you haven't been thinking it!), then check back with us next Monday for another round of Caption This -- you could be our next winner!And, if you're curious to see how all of our finalists fared, check here.
Want to win a 60-day gamecard? Caption this!
WoW Insider is offering you a chance to win a 60-day gamecard or a Burning Crusade t-shirt from J!NX. All you have to do is submit a caption for the above picture in the comments on our contest announcement post -- later this week our readers will vote and pick the winners. Why am I telling you this? Because today is the last day to enter! Hop on over to the contest announcement and leave your cleverest caption idea in the comments before 11:59 PM EST tonight. And if you miss the deadline, that's okay -- because the Monday after next (that's June 11th) we'll be giving away another gamecard.Good luck!
Caption contest: J Allard / N'Gai Croal mashup
So the story goes that Microsoft's bald J Allard and Newsweek's bedredlocked N'Gai Croal are at dinner together, and they make a bet: if the PSP sold 10m units faster than did the PS2, Allard has to dress up like N'Gai (during his next E3 keynote, which never came); if not, J gets to shave N'Gai's head. Guess who won. Not that we think of ourselves as particularly cruel, but surely we can't be expected to let this one go without a caption contest, can we?Evan: "After that unfortunate night with the Rastafarian gamers, Allard swore off marijuana forever."Ryan: "Headline: J Allard hired to manage Weird Al's White & Nerdy tour."Don: "You mean it doesn't cost an extra $100 to add WiFi to this thing?" [Snap! -Ed.]Paul: "Yeah, but does this come in Simpsons yellow?"Ross: "Behold the Zune Elite. Now with HD-UMD and minoxidil."
Caption contest: eternal rest inside a Nokia
Yep, it's a coffin. Mobile phones have become such a critical part of our daily lives, and apparently they're becoming a critical part of our deaths now, too -- but if you're going to spend the rest of eternity inside a single phone, do you really want it to be a Nokia 7250? Seriously?Chris: "Giving 'Early Termination Fee' a whole new meaning."Ryan: "Nokia: connecting dead people."Paul: "Of course it comes with an FM radio!"Sean: "Though it will never pass the pocket test, the coffin does include the rarely used AG2GP (Audio Grave to Grave) Bluetooth profile."Evan: "*Casket will only work in certain graveyards, $200 reburial fee applicable"
Caption Contest: the wireframe car
Behold Benedict Radcliffe's "Modern Japanese Classic," a 1:1 scale Subaru Impreza wireframe art project. We heard it was still in dev though, they haven't enabled textures yet. Casual caption contest? Oh sure, why not:Chris: "Ten days of intensive wind tunnel testing yielded... no data."Ryan: "Let's see you crap on THIS, friggin' pigeons!"Paul: "Bill's invisible car experiment would've been a resounding success were it not for a clever prank by a few of his engineering buddies."Jeannie: "Neither an electric, hybrid, or gas-powered car, this beauty runs on straight-up crack."Ross: "Thanks, but I'll keep my Light Cycle."[Via Core77 and Winding Road]
Caption Contest: Giant Wiimote rivals original Xbox controller in size
Look, see? Her face is blurred out, it's totally anonymous. We don't know where this gargantuan Wiimote came from, and we don't know where it's going, so don't hold back. Let's hear the worst console-related cheap shots you've got, we know you have it in you.Paul: "Sadly, Susy's brand new Wiimote suffered from a defective strap as well." or "Despite controller innovations, the Wii2's graphics capabilities remained relatively unchanged."Evan: "Julie and her little friends would always regret the day they decided to play Wii baseball with that oversize novelty controller."Ryan: "They make you buy this for Wii Sports: Surfing and Bodybuilding."Chris: "Affectionately known as 'The Duchess,' Nintendo's first-generation Wiimote never saw the light of day after a rousing round of Bowling left eight dead at Nintendo headquarters."Donald: "This new Wii exercise regime is really starting to pay off."Thomas: "Someday your Mii will control you."[Via Wii Fanboy]
Caption Contest: Operation Red Ring of Death
The US Army just wrapped up its first live-fire exercise for Future Combat Systems technologies and equipment in Texas last week, with 36 soldiers testing out robotics, UAVs and remote sensors -- though it looks like Bogden here wasn't quite putting in his fair share of the work.Ryan: "Is it just me, or is the Xbox Live connection hella laggy out here?" Or, "Dude, have you guys played this America's Army game?!"Evan: "Um, I'd love to keep playing UNO fellas, but I'm a little busy right now." Or, "Hey guys, anyone know how many Achievement points I get for taking out a landmine?"Paul: "Just a sec guys, they're doing the romance dance!"Thomas: "What's the command for safety off?"Chris: "Just give me a sec, Sarge... I'm playing out this scenario in GRAW to see if we live or die." Or, "Gold subscription expired... I can't connect to the drone. Can I use your Visa, sir?"Donald: "Hang on guys, we need a firmware update before we can go any further."Darren: "I admit, I feel a little bad for keeping the head-mounted displays biz lucrative."
Countdown to Burning Crusade: Day 7
Horde lovers, yesterday you had a chance to win an I survived Barrens chat t-shirt, and today is the day of the Alliance. The same deal applies as yesterday -- you need to provide the best caption for the image above in order to take home a Team Paladins shirt in your choice of size. We'll choose 10 finalists from all the entries received by 2pm EST tomorrow, January 7, and put it to a vote to let the popular opinion determine the winner. Happy captioning!P.S. Don't forget to get your entries in for the lyrics, fan art and machinima contests!
Countdown to Burning Crusade: Day 2 winner
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Day 2 caption contest. You made it tough to pick a winner, but the results are in -- commenter Odgit is going to take home the 60-day game card! We've listed the winner and a close runner-up below, and the honorable mentions after the break -- and a general hats off to everyone for all the great Matrix, Hitchhiker's, and Star Wars references and general pop culture pot pourri. Don't forget, you have three chances to win our grand prizes as we Countdown to Burning Crusade. Grats to Odgit for taking the prize for Day 2, you've still got plenty of time to win a Leeroy t-shirt, and join us tomorrow for Day 5 of the Countdown. Day 2 caption contest Winner: "Nerf warlocks" by Odgit Runner up: Lazor was concerned when he stumbled upon his friend getting high. by larek
Countdown to Burning Crusade: Day 2
Welcome to day 2 of our Countdown to Burning Crusade! Yesterday you got off easy with a need roll to win a 60-day game card (we'll announce the winner later today), but you'll have to work a little bit harder to take one home today -- it's a caption contest! The reader who leaves the best caption (judged by the WoW Insider staff) for the image above (click the image for a link to a full-size version) will be the lucky winner of another 60-day time card. You must post your entry by 3:30pm EST tomorrow, Wednesday January 3 to be eligible to win the caption contest. And again, no duplicate entries -- pick your best and make your comment. Let's see what you got! [Image courtesy of Warcraft Gallery]
Caption contest: the last crusader astride his trusty Segway
Look, we don't know the where, we don't know the when, and we sure as hell don't know the why, but there's no way that's going to stop us from getting a few chuckles in at Mr. Segway Crusader's expense.Ryan: "In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, et Segway. Amen." or, "O blessed art thou Segway firmware upgrade, which keeps thyself upright."Paul: "Orlando Bloom's got nothing on this"Evan: "Wilford Brimley found out a little too late that habitual consumption of Quaker Oats can lead to insanity."Chris: "With parallel parking in 13th-century Bethlehem virtually impossible to find, Bill found his handicapped permit priceless."Conrad: "Maximus Decimus Meridius Segwius."[Via Fark]
