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Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:50 am
by IanKennedy
It's been said before but yes speed does count. If there are duplicates then the person who gets there first is the one that gets the credit. The only exception to that is if the second person gets a truly funny twist on the joke or phrases it in a much more humorous way. Basically we read them in the order they where posted, short listing those we think are worth a second look. The the other of us removed the ones he doesn't like or which are not as good as the others. We then bounce ideas off each other for the winner, the rest of the remaining short list are the special mentions. Last week we had about 400 entries to go through and it took me an hour.

As for the pictures, yes we do aim to the them with funny looks on their faces some of the time, others we get because there's a good grouping of people or they're all staring at some strange item. Those types of picture generally make for variation in the captions. It's also worth noting that this is a star trek site and a clever reference to some event in trek history (applied in a funny way) will often make us think that it's clever, and will often get at least a special mention.

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:09 pm
by Mikey
IanKennedy wrote:this is a star trek site
Surely you jest! When did that happen?

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:38 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Damn, and all the time I thought this was a site about the Civil War.

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:04 pm
by Grundig
I want my money back!

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:49 pm
by Deepcrush
NO REFUNDS FOR YOU!

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:04 am
by Mark
OMG!!! Does mom know???

:::calling mom:::

MOM!!! Did you know the DITL was a Trek site? You did?! Why didn't you tell me?

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:22 pm
by Sonic Glitch
What VOY Episode was the picture from about 8 competitons ago? This was the winning name/caption: "Winner : The Good Knight Fartsalot
It's nice when you finally find that special person you want to grow mold together with."

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:09 am
by stitch626
Wow, I got a special mention, Tsu won and got a special mention, twitch2oh got a special mention and so did mwittington (sorry if I botched your name) and Bryan Moore. The regular folks here did good on this one. :cheers:

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:20 pm
by Tsukiyumi
I finally won!!!! :party:

:D

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:32 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Congrats. :)

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:34 pm
by Grundig
Good Job, Tex!

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:13 am
by Tsukiyumi
I'd like to thank Jesus, and the orphans, and that adorable litter of kittens I found, and Satan, and...

Ah, who am I kidding, I'll thank myself. And GK and IK for finding it funny. :)

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:36 pm
by Mark
:laughroll:

Your victory has given me hope for the future!!! At least odds of my own victory someday :mrgreen:

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:27 pm
by Mikey
Congrats, Tsu. I personally think you should have thanked me, most of all. I'll try and come up with a reason for that.

Re: Caption Competition

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:32 pm
by Lt. Staplic
do most of you use different names on that or are there just that many, nonforum users posting?