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- Monday, June 28, 2010:
Caption Contest Results Congratulations to the following winners of this month's Caption Contest ! First Place ($15) : Chris Smith for Entry #3 Second Place ($5) : Steve Morton for Entry #9 Third Place ($1) : Katie Morton for Entry #14 Runner-Up (Hugs) : Mom for Entry #6 Sam Edwards will also get a $1 consolation prize, because I left his entry out of the voting pool.... - Tuesday, June 22, 2010:
Caption Contest Day We had a surprisingly successful turnout for this month's Caption Contest -- so much so that I cut a few "second" entries that were too similar to others. Vote for your favourite using the Poll in the sidebar of this site by Sunday, June 27, at 6 PM . First Place: $15 Gift Certificate to Amazon.com Second Place: $5 Gift Certificate to Amazon.com Third Place: $1 Gift Certificate to Amazon.com Runner-Up: Hugs &nb... - Tuesday, June 15, 2010:
Caption Contest Day The picture below was taking from Reuter's Pictures of the Month and is the subject of this month's caption contest. Invent a funny, insightful, or witty caption for this photo and submit your caption to me using the email link in the top bar by Monday the 21st at 6 PM EST . (Limit 2 per person). Examples can be seen in last year's contest involving shapeshifting tubas and Barack Obama here . Last year'... - Monday, July 20, 2009:
Caption Contest Results Congratulations to Katie Morton for getting the most votes in last week's caption contest ! Katie will receive a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com and bragging rights. The voting was quite close this time around with first place only one vote ahead of second, and the submitters of the various captions can be seen in the image on the right. Congratulations to everyone who entered! If you have any ideas for future contests, please be sure ... - Wednesday, July 15, 2009:
Caption Contest Vote for (only one) favourite entry using the Poll in the right sidebar! Voting closes on Sunday the 19th. Remember that the winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com! Cats exploit humans by purring Students have the right to an orgasm Buzz Aldrin and Snoop Dogg team up - Wednesday, July 08, 2009:
Caption Contest Day It's been a while since I gave my Mom any money, so I thought I'd have my annual caption contest. These pictures were taken from Reuter's Pictures of the Month , and since yesterday was Doobie's birthday, one of them includes a tuba. Invent a funny, insightful, or witty caption for either one of these images (your choice). Submit your caption to me using the email link in the top bar by Tuesday the 14th at 6 PM EST . Make sure you ... - Thursday, March 05, 2009:
Name that Tune Results Congratulations to Anna Ahlbin and Kathy Smith who correctly guessed all ten answers in the Name that Tune contest (within the first three days of the contest, even!) Each winner will receive a $12.50 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Runner-ups were Doobie (8 of 10) and Rebecca (7 of 10). They were each going to get $2.22, but Amazon is now lame and makes $5 the minimum gift card amount (so Doobie gets $5, and Rebecca gets a hug). No other guys submitted ... - Monday, February 23, 2009:
Name That Tune! It's time for my annual Name-That-Tune contest! Past contests have incorporated crazy antics like " five songs at the same time ", " only the breaks ", and " only the bass lines ". The new gimmick for 2009? I have uploaded 10 movies of me singing classic songs. The catch? There is no sound! If you can figure out the band and the song title for the tunes below, you stand to win a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Depending on how many p... - Thursday, October 16, 2008:
Audience Participation Day Caption Fun Post an amusing caption to this photo from last night's debate in the comments section. No voting or prizes this time around -- I'm saving up to buy a wife! New father names daughter Sarah Palin, without mommy knowing Suit against God thrown out Fecal bacteria joins the commute - Thursday, September 25, 2008:
Name That Tune Contest Results Congratulations to Anna Ahlbin for getting 15 points out of 20 on the Name That Tune contest! Anna wins a $20 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Runner-up was the team of "Mike, Chris Green, Kathy and everyone they know" with 8 points, followed by Rob with 4 points. The original clips are posted below, with a new clip playing the tunes in sequential order afterwards. The clips with stars next to them were not guessed by anyone. Highlight the empty space below t... - Tuesday, September 16, 2008:
Contest Day Name That Tune: Cacophony Edition It's been seven months since the last Name That Tune contest, mainly because it took about two months to mix these samples to perfection. There are 20 song fragments bunched together into just 4 clips. The person who correctly identifies the most songs out of 20 will win a gift certificate for $20 to Amazon.com. Read on for the rules! Each clip contains five songs mashed together, one from each of five genres. Yo... - Wednesday, July 02, 2008:
Caption Contest Results document.write(makePoll("Which Caption Contest entry is the best?", new Array("1 - 2 (13.3%)", "2 - 5 (33.3%)", "3 - 0 (0.0%)", "4 - 2 (13.3%)", "5 - 4 (26.7%)", "6 - 0 (0.0%)", "7 - 0 (0.0%)", "8 - 0 (0.0%)", "9 - 2 (13.3%)", "10 - 0 (0.0%)"))) Congratulations to my Mom, who won first place in last week's Caption Contest. She wins a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com! Thanks go out to everyone who submitted a c... - Wednesday, June 25, 2008:
Caption Contest Vote for (only one) favourite entry using the Poll in the left sidebar! Voting closes on Monday the 30th ! Anti-stink machine to mask sewage smell Man selling his life on ebay Man jailed for adopting bear - Wednesday, June 18, 2008:
Audience Participation Day: Annual Caption Contest Invent a funny, insightful, or witty caption for either one of these images (your choice). Submit your caption by Tuesday the 24th at 6 PM EST . Make sure you note which image your caption goes with, and who is speaking if your caption involves dialogue. Examples can be seen in last year's contest involving Sumo wrestlers and babies . Entries will be voted o... - Thursday, February 28, 2008:
Name-That-Tune Results Day First Place (tie): Anna (13 pts), Mike and Kathy (13 pts) Runner Up : Dan (10 pts) No one got #5, 9, or 10. Dan also skipped #7 and guessed the wrong title for #4. Congratulations to the winners! Anna will receive a gift certificate for $10 and Mike and Kathy each get one for $5. The answers can be found in the table below -- highlight the empty boxes to read the answers. Thanks for playing! # &... - Wednesday, February 20, 2008:
Name-That-Tune Day Them's The Breaks It's become a yearly tradition here at the URI! Zone to have at least one Name-That-Tune contest, with such oddball rules as "you can only hear the bass line" or "everything's from an 80s sitcom". For this year's contest, I've decided to make it a little more accessible to new players by extending the lengths of the snippets and weighting the scores for each one based on how difficult I think it is. The theme for this contest is "instrumental breaks... - Thursday, January 17, 2008:
Caption Contest Vote for your favourite caption in the left sidebar by Tuesday the 22nd! Happy Birthday Robin! Son restrained with Packer tape Researchers finally realize that clowns suck Parasite makes ants into berries - Monday, January 07, 2008:
Audience Participation Day Caption Contest Submit a funny caption for the above photo. If the caption contains dialogue, make it clear who is speaking. Do not post your caption in the Comments section. All URI! Zone visitors are eligible to enter, even if you're nothing more than a shifty lurker. All entries will be posted for voting next week, and the most popular entry will win a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. I will not vote on entries, but I have the final ... - Thursday, May 10, 2007:
Double Day: Contest Results & House Status Congratulations to my Mom, who won the Caption Contest in a landslide of votes to earn a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. My Mom has been entering contests professionally since birth, and is often the honorable mention in the Washington Post Style Invitationals. She plans on using her gift certificate to buy something nice for her son. Thanks go out to Rob, sick Mike, and Anna for their entries as well! Since the suspense about the outcome of this contest was lacking li... - Monday, May 07, 2007:
Caption Contest Entries Vote for your favourite entry using the poll in the left sidebar by Wednesday night, 8 PM EST . No voting shenanigans please -- you can enlist your friends to come to the site and vote as long as you don't tell them which one is yours. Obvious ballot stuffers will be shot. Happy Birthday Jason Chrisley! A little bat guano found in attic Des'ree boasts worst pop lyric of all time ... - Thursday, May 03, 2007:
Audience Participation Day Caption Contest This photo was taken at the annual "Baby-cry Sumo" event, held in Tokyo on April 28, 2007. For today's contest, submit a funny caption or dialogue for this picture to the e-mail address at the bottom of this page by Sunday 6:00 PM EST, May 6th . The winner of a popular vote will get a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. If your caption is self-explanatory, feel free to mail it as plain text. If it's more complex, you can r... - Wednesday, March 21, 2007:
Name that Tune Contest Results Congratulations to Kathy Biddick Smith for correctly guessing six of the ten bass lines in last week's Name That Tune contest! Runner-up was Anna with four -- each of them will receive a gift certificate to Amazon.com for $10 and $5, respectively. Kathy (6) Anna (4) Kim and Sam (2) Rebecca (1) The table below contains the original bass lines as well as a sample of the actual song. Highlight the super secret invisible ... - Wednesday, March 14, 2007:
Audience Participation Day: Name That Tune v3.0 For those of you keeping score, I've had two other Name That Tune contests in the past. The first only had incredibly brief snippets from rock music, but people did surprisingly well anyhow. The second contest was themed, and had participants chasing down sitcoms from the 1980s. (We are not including the two mini Name That Tune contests from 2005 because, frankly, they sucked worse than a solar-powered Dustbuster). Today's contest involv... - Monday, March 12, 2007:
"Write My Lyrics" Contest Results Congratulations to Chris "Doobie" Fraker, for winning the popular vote and a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com! Chris' song, Shac's Lamentable tells the tale of another VT alumnus who randomly decided to up and move to Israel for no apparent reason. The song received 5 votes and beat entries by Kathy Smith and Carol Uri (as well as two more entries hastily scribbled down by me to make the contest look bigger than... - Monday, March 05, 2007:
For visitors not already in the throes of late-stage Alzheimer's or alcohol-induced memory loss, I had a "Write My Lyrics" contest a couple weeks ago . Today you get to read and vote upon everyone's lyrical masterpieces, with the winner receiving a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com and and a contract to write the lyrics to a new song by the grindcore band, Seven Minutes of Nausea . There were five entries: The Eff... - Thursday, February 22, 2007:
Audience Participation Day: Write My Lyrics Happy 222 Thursday! In the spirit of the harmlessly funny movie, Music and Lyrics , which I saw on Sunday, I've come up with a song without words which is just crying out for your lyrical prose. Now is your chance to put all those AP English classes to good use and bury me in your artistic gerunds and dangling participles of doom. Here are the rules for this contest: Write 2 verses, a chorus, and a bridge to the melodies below (There is a 3rd ve... - Wednesday, November 01, 2006:
Name that Tune Contest Results Congratulations to Kathy Smith who correctly guessed every song but #10 (although she had to enlist the aid of other old people to learn what #7) was. Runner-ups were Anna Ahlbin and Sam Bristol -- Anna correctly guessed everything but #7, #9, and #10, while Sam missed #1, #7, and #10. Kathy wins a $5 gift certificate to Amazon.com, and she has to share $0.50 of it with her Lifeline friends, Beth and Marty. I've included extended versions of each clip for everyone playing at hom... - Thursday, October 26, 2006:
Audience Participation Day: Name That Tune It's been six months since the last Name That Tune contest which was handily won by Anna and Beavis. The rules are what you've come to expect: Correctly guess each song and send your responses to my e-mail address (there's an e-mail link at the bottom of this page). Song artists are not necessary this time around! The person who gets the most correct will win a $5 gift certificate to Amazon.com. If I get multiple correct entries, the first three to get all of them correct will each g... - Monday, August 21, 2006:
Caption Contest Results Congratulations to my Mom, who won last week's Funny Caption Contest ! She wins a $5 gift certificate to Amazon.com for her efforts. While tabulating the results, I noticed that I forgot to include poll choices for #9 and #10. This is okay for two reasons: no one complained, so obviously no one was going to vote for them, and also I made both entries and why would I want to win my own contest? I'd like to do many more of these audience participation ... - Wednesday, August 16, 2006:
Caption Contest Voting Vote for your favourite entries from last week's caption contest via the poll in the left sidebar! The winner and results will be announced on Monday morning. Secure relationships diminish the female sex drive Windfall for Whale Vomit Stored AOL searches show the human race is very scary - Thursday, August 10, 2006:
Audience Participation Day Caption Contest This photo is taken from an article in yesterday's Post . Your instructions are simple: to submit a funny caption or dialogue for the picture! You can just send me the text if it's self-explanatory, or you may add cartoon speech bubbles if necessary, but you cannot doctor the photo itself to add more smoke. Mail your entries to me at the e-mail address at the bottom of the page (don't put them in the Comments section) by Sunday... - Thursday, May 11, 2006:
Name That Tune Contest Results Congratulations to Anna and Dan, who will each get a $5 gift certificate from Amazon.com sent to their e-mail addresses! Anna A. got 8 correct. She got the artist but not the song correct on #8, and got #10 totally wrong. Dan S. got 8 correct. He missed #4 completely and got just the artist for #9. Joe C. got 7 correct. He completely missed #3 and #10, and got just the artist on #7. Mike C. got 6 co... - Thursday, May 04, 2006:
Name that Tune It's been a year and a half since the last time I had a Name that Tune contest . Since repetition is the key to Western music and blogging, it's time for another one! The rules are simple: Correctly guess the song title and artist of each excerpt below and send your responses to my e-mail address (there's an e-mail link at the bottom of this page). The person who gets the most correct will win a $5 gift certificate to Amazon.com which should cover the ship... - Monday, December 12, 2005:
Congratulations to Rachel, who submitted entry #6 in last Thursday's Funny Caption contest ! She wins a picture of a pencil with her name on it, presented by the ineffable Booty. Runner-up with 5 votes was Mike with entry #1 and Anna with entry #3. They each win a picture of a pencil with Rachel's name on it, presented by the charming Booty. Full results are posted in last Thursday's post. My weekend was quite laid back. When not devising new ways to pla... - Thursday, December 08, 2005:
Vote for your favourite in the left sidebar. Voting ends Monday morning! In other news, we're supposed to get 3 to 6 inches of snow and sleet by noon tomorrow. This is a meteorological synonym for "Work at Home". Home Makeover goes to Virginia Tech It is not yet known whether alcohol was involved. Classical music makes you feel like a yuppy&nbs... - Monday, December 05, 2005:
Monday Morning Football VT ended up losing to FSU, 22 - 27. The funniest part of the game came in the fourth quarter when Vick ran a touchdown in (bring it to a five-point game), spiked theball in celebration, twisted his ankle in the celebration, got a flag for said celebration, and then hobbled through a failed two-point conversion. Classic. My favourite player on our team is Clowney, solely because his name is Clowney. He complained a lot during Saturday's game, and someone should tell h... - Friday, January 28, 2005:
Sadly, no one submitted any entries to this week's Name That Tune contest. The answers were: Trista , Hector Berlioz Faces , Earth, Wind and Fire Underground , David Bowie for Labyrinth NASA Attacks from Conspiracy Theory Also, for your listening displeasure, I found an online recording of the song I mentioned in my January 12, 2005 update: With Thos... - Friday, January 21, 2005:
Congratulations to the group effort of Mike & Kathy who managed to get all four songs from Tuesday's Name That Tune contest (their entry came in AFTER yesterday's hints though. They get to write a guest entry which I'll post sometime next week. Here are the songs for the next Name That Tune contest (or Find That Tune, if that's how you like to play). Because the first one was so hard, I've doubled the length of the clips and I'm providing a little more context to them (Deadline is next... - Thursday, January 20, 2005:
People have said that my Name that Tune challenge is way too hard, so here are some hints for all the folks who haven't already named them all. It's a concerto. The singer's name is David, and he has a hyphenated last name. A signature song of a group who had several songs with the word Artistry in their titles. This song can be heard on Amazon, on a "Best Of _____" CD for this group. This was a cartoon in the 80s. ... - Tuesday, January 18, 2005:
It's time for a round of Name That Tune! Be the first visitor to identify all of the following (reasonably obscure) tunes based on a five second clip. The winner will get his or her picture posted in a news post with a suitable obituary-style aggrandizement (must provide photo if I don't already have it). Group entries are welcome. Honorable mentions will go to anyone who can guess at least one of the clips. Deadline: Friday at midnight. In the case of a tie, winners must duke it out in a ... - Wednesday, March 03, 2004:
One last entry in the Living Room contest, post-deadline, submitted by Kathy Biddick. It's actually pretty close to what I had in mind already. I may switch the couch and its end table, or put the TV diagonally in the corner where the stereo is. My sister got accepted to vet school at Virginia Tech and is now in the Class of 2008. Congratulations! I guess buying that house out in the middle of nowhere was a good gamble. I have nothing important to ... - Tuesday, March 02, 2004:
This was the only entry in my "Design My Living Room" contest, submitted by Mike Catania: It obviously loses because the snake pit is far too close to the venus flytrap for there not to be a daily rumble. My house is slowly coming to order -- I've spent the weekends and a few hours each weekday cleaning, fixing, and helping with things like water heater installation. It looks like I'll be moved out of the apartment and into the house by the end of... - Friday, February 20, 2004:
It's time to play a game of "Design Brian's Living Room"! Print out the picture at this link and arrange the furniture in an aesthetically pleasing manner. If you have Photoshop, I've even made your job easier: you can download this image (682KB PSD) and drag or rotate the Layers around the floor plan instead of using archaic scissors. If you have an especially worthwhile design, take a picture or send me the PSD file and maybe I'll use it. In the image, all the f...
