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Caption challenge: and the winner is

By Scott Feschuk - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 14 Comments

The entries were more peculiar funny than ha-ha funny

UPDATE: In a close race, it’s danby that emerges victorious. Do I have your email address, danby? I think I do. But if I don’t, please send it to me at scott.feschuk@macleans.rogers.com. And congratulations. (Meanwhile, I’m usually not one who respects the views of others – or the terms of most restraining orders – but I too have been growing a tad weary of the challenges. I think we’ll suspend them, at least for now, as a weekly feature – and hold the occasional challenge as the mood suits and hilarious photography allows.)

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I wouldn’t call this our most successful caption challenge ever.  We had some funny-peculiar entries but not a lot of funny-ha-ha entries. I’ve narrowed it down to three finalists. Vote for your favourite – the winner gets an Amazon.ca gift certificate, just in time for Continue…

  • Caption challenge: Robert Gibbs. Team Canada.

    By Scott Feschuk - Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 6:06 PM - 69 Comments

    White House press secretary wears a Team Canada sweater

    Hey, look: it’s the press secretary to the U.S. President. And he’s wearing a Continue…

  • Caption challenge: PM. GG. Cast your e-vote.

    By Scott Feschuk - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 5:57 AM - 25 Comments

    The finalists are announced

    UPDATE: Congratulations to Jack Mitchell on a close victory over Not Stephen Colbert. Your Amazon.ca gift certificate will be arriving via email, Jack.

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    This week’s caption challenge attracted a few good entries and several not-so-good entries. More importantly, it attracted the entry from Earth’Ln. Believe me: it’s worth the trip back to read it. It’s mesmerizing, with its hint of conspiracy and its jaunty nautical theme toward the end. I didn’t choose him as a finalist, but that doesn’t change my belief that Continue…

  • Caption challenge: PM. GG.

    By Scott Feschuk - Monday, March 8, 2010 at 7:32 AM - 78 Comments

    Enter today, vote tomorrow

    For this week’s caption challenge, let’s travel back in time – way, way back to a simpler era when the federal government decided to change the national anthem to make it gender-neutral.

    Come up with your caption entry today. Vote for your favourite finalist tomorrow. The winner will receive Continue…

  • Caption challenge: Vote now

    By Scott Feschuk - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 5:42 AM - 9 Comments

    UPDATE…: WDM wins it, with ease. Not sure if I have your address,

    UPDATE: WDM wins it, with ease. Not sure if I have your address, WDM, so can you please flip it to me at scott.feschuk@macleans.rogers.com. Thanks, and congrats.

    To begin: I wrote yesterday a thing that referenced Jason Kenney. I am now informed that the citizenship guide in question, while failing to mention gay rights, equality, same-sex marriage or snug jeans, did include Continue…

  • Caption Challenge: Ignatieff. Trudeau. Laptops!

    By Scott Feschuk - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 10:25 AM - 85 Comments

    Make with the funny. Get a prize.

    Okay, the photo is a little small and I don’t know why. Although I look like a tech nerd, I am not a tech nerd – I’m just the regular kind. But it’s Michael Ignatieff and it’s Justin Trudeau and they’re pecking away on their lappity-toppity devices. There, I’ve painted you such a detailed picture you needn’t even gaze upon the photograph.

    Make with the funny in the comments below. The winner gets a Continue…

  • Olympic Caption Challenge: Vote Now!

    By Scott Feschuk - Monday, February 22, 2010 at 11:15 PM - 6 Comments

    Winner = prize

    UPDATE: Mike T. wins – again! Are none of you man or woman enough to stop the Mike T. caption juggernaut?!

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    Lindsey Vonn and I are very happy together, thanks for asking, but I suppose we should nevertheless get some closure on the Caption Challenge. I’ve selected five finalists. Vote for your favourite. Winner as of 6:30 a.m. Wednesday gets some official Olympic merchandise valued in the Continue…

  • Caption Challenge: Special Olympic Edition No. 2

    By Scott Feschuk - Monday, February 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM - 73 Comments

    Cue the theme from An Officer and a Gentlemen

    Lindsey Vonn, poster girl of the 2010 Winter Games, has just crashed out of the Ladies’ Super Combined. Gamely, she walks the media cattle chute to answer the same questions over and over, though – to be fair to reporters – they are sometimes asked with hilarious accents. Finally, she reaches the wretches of the print media. She is weary. She looks around. Once and then again she meets the gaze of Continue…

  • Olympic Caption Challenge: Vote Now!

    By Scott Feschuk - Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 9:14 AM - 9 Comments

    Winner = prize

    UPDATE: And the winner, by a narrow margin over Sean, is Mike T. Congrats, Mike: Now please email me your address at sfeschuk@sympatico.ca so I can send you your Olympics-themed prize. And do it quickly: despite the air holes, Juan Antonio Samaranch seems a little uncomfortable in his cardboard box.

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    Because I’m caught up in the spirit of the Olympics (translation: way hungover), I’m placing seven entries into the finals — with a nice, even split between saucy entries with sexual connotations and other entries I barely care about because of the lack of sexual connotations.

    Vote for your favourite in the poll area below. The finalist leading in the vote as of 8 o’clock ET Wednesday morning will receive by mail a Continue…

  • Caption Challenge: Special Olympic Edition

    By Scott Feschuk - Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 11:49 PM - 96 Comments

    Play along and win a prize

    One silver medalist wearing a well-earned smile of satisfaction. One prime minister wearing mittens. Come up with a funny-type caption for this picture. The winner, to be decided Tuesday by popular vote, gets a genuine piece of overpriced Olympics merchandise direct from Whistler! (Translation: My new Quatchi thong doesn’t fit.)

  • Caption Challenge Vol. 2, No. 6

    By Scott Feschuk - Monday, February 8, 2010 at 10:15 AM - 80 Comments

    Hey, look: It’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, left, up there in Iqaluit

    NOTE: The outcome of the Maclean’s Super Bowl XLIV Over/Under Challenge will be posted here sometime this afternoon after the results are compiled and a winner declared by the accounting firm of I Can’t Believe I Have to Do This Myself.

    Hey, look: It’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, left, up there in Iqaluit for the big meeting of the G7 finance ministers. Your task: Come up with an amusing caption for this photograph. Your potential reward: a Continue…

  • Caption Challenge Vol. 2, No. 5: Vote Now

    By Scott Feschuk - Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 4:52 AM - 4 Comments

    UPDATE… @ 2 p.m. ET: In a photo finish, Not Stephen Colbert edges out

    UPDATE @ 2 p.m. ET: In a photo finish, Not Stephen Colbert edges out Shakois by a handful of votes to become the Caption Challenge’s first two-time winner. Congratulations, NSC. Prizery coming your way. And thanks to all for playing, reading and voting.

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    Some fine work, captioneers. I’ve expanded the list of finalists to six and, still, several high-quality entries have been left on the cutting room floor, along with Kevin Costner’s scenes from The Big Chill and, in my dreams, Vince Vaughn’s scenes from pretty much every movie since Swingers.

    The winner, as declared by a jury of y’all all y’all, will receive an Amazon.ca gift certificate courtesy of Feschuk.Reid, a speechwriting and communications firm that works with blue-chip corporations, leading political figures and motivated domestic pets with an agenda. Feschuk.Reid: Look Ma, no cavities! (Voting closes at 2 p.m. ET.)

    A note: People, let us not get too sensitive about the pluses and the minuses and so forth.  If someone “minuses” your caption entry, it doesn’t mean he or she doesn’t like you. This isn’t high school. (I know it’s not high school because I didn’t spent three hours yesterday skipping class to play euchre.) The minuser is merely indicating that Continue…

  • Caption Challenge Vol. 2, No. 5

    By Scott Feschuk - Monday, February 1, 2010 at 8:16 AM - 130 Comments

    This photo has more comic potential in its little finger than Stockwell Day has in his entire murse

    Is this photograph new, or even newish? Don’t think so. Don’t care. It has more comic potential in its little finger than Stockwell Day has in his entire murse (not counting the makeup mirror).

    Entries today. Voting tomorrow. Then the bestowing of the prize.

  • Caption Challenge Vol. 2, No. 4

    By Scott Feschuk - Monday, January 25, 2010 at 10:04 AM - 94 Comments

    Put your words in Van Loan’s mouth

    Forgive the quality of the picture (it’s a screen grab) and the quality of the minister (it’s a Van Loan.)

    None of this should stop you from regarding this image from outside Rideau Hall and making with the funny.

  • Caption Challenge Vol. 2, No. 3: The Voting

    By Scott Feschuk - Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 5:27 AM - 28 Comments

    UPDATE… just before 2 p.m ET: A convincing victory for Not Stephen Colbert, who

    UPDATE just before 2 p.m ET: A convincing victory for Not Stephen Colbert, who is, I am assuming, not Stephen Colbert. Whoever you are, email me at scott.feschuk@macleans.rogers.com and I’ll send along your reward.

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    I’m not saying this wasn’t one of your finer efforts, people, but it’s only 5:15 in the morning and I’ve already been exposed to twice the recommended daily allowance of subpar.

    Some solid finalists, though, so let’s get to them. Winner receives an Amazon.ca gift certificate courtesy of Feschuk.Reid, the world’s first and only speechwriting and communications firm ever. Feschuk.Reid: Because You’re Continue…

  • Caption Challenge Vol. 2, No. 3

    By Scott Feschuk - Monday, January 18, 2010 at 5:39 AM - 69 Comments

    Scott Feschuk wants you to set the scene

    Go.

  • Caption Challenge Vol. 2, No. 2: The Reckoning

    By Scott Feschuk - Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 4:59 AM - 11 Comments

    UPDATE @ 2 p.m. ET… – Congrats to tobyornottoby on a well-earned, hard-fought, hickory-smoked

    UPDATE @ 2 p.m. ET – Congrats to tobyornottoby on a well-earned, hard-fought, hickory-smoked victory. Send an email to scott.feschuk@macleans.rogers.com, tobyornottoby, and I will dispatch your prize via the series of tubes we affectionately call the infotainment highway.

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    A fine selection of entries – well done. I found it difficult to narrow this batch to a final five, but luckily my God complex got me through it. I admire you all for being able to focus and remain calm at a time when the late-night television landscape is so clouded with uncertainty.

    Time to vote. Cast your e-ballot below. The winner receives a Continue…

  • Caption Challenge Vol. 2, No. 2: Electric Boogaloo

    By Scott Feschuk - Monday, January 11, 2010 at 4:48 AM - 72 Comments

    Finish this sentence: “Oh, hi. I didn’t see you come in. I was just…”

    Just when you thought you’d mastered the format of the Monday caption challenge, I sneak up and smack you over the head with the candlestick of change.

    (I’ll give you a moment here to wrap the wound in the gauze of reluctant adjustment.)

    The goal of the challenge Continue…

  • Caption Challenge Vol. 2, No. 1: The Voting

    By Scott Feschuk - Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 5:20 AM - 4 Comments

    And the winner is . . .

    UPDATE @ 2 p.m. ET: A convincing win, never in doubt, for deaner. Congratulations, deaner! Please fire an email to scott.feschuk@macleans.rogers.com for prize-based reasons.

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    The challenge was to come up with a funny-type caption for this photograph of our Prime Minister, who is seen wearing a brand new pair of murderin’ gloves (a gift – Harry Rosen) and an easy smile (a gift – Hammacher Schlemmer) during his recent trip to the DMZ in Korea.

    Voting concludes at 2 p.m. ET.

    • Prime Minister Steven Harper, seen in rural Korea, flanked by his special Seoul-issued personal detail. When asked to comment on the unusual military deployment, President Lee Myung-bak said: “Keeping Prime Minister Harper out of the can during photo-ops requires a military-grade solution. – sea_n_mountains
    • Hawkeye’s really let himself go… – Don Rickles
    • Elected? And that’s the best they could do? – tobyornottoby
    • Members of the Canadian media donned elaborate costumes in a futile attempt to gain access to the elusive Prime Minister. – deaner
    • The Koreans mulled over the idea that perhaps their hats weren’t the silliest, after all… – SeanStok

  • Caption Challenge Vol. 2, No. 1

    By Scott Feschuk - Monday, January 4, 2010 at 4:59 AM - 69 Comments

    Scott Feschuk urges you to come up with something funny/clever/both for the picture above

    Welcome back. As you may have read, the Monday Caption Challenge was prorogued over New Year’s and is today being reconstituted as Monday Caption Challenge Vol. 2. This is certain to stymie any and all investigations into whether we’ve been complicit in the torture of innocent verb tenses.

    (Once again, I am playing chess while the rest of you are playing checkers – which may help to explain why I am so very, very lonely.)

    For our first challenge of 2010, we go all the way back to the year 2009 – an innocent time when men were men, dogs walked on four legs and Susan Boyle and Lady Gaga ruled the album charts (though not yet as a Hall & Oates-style duo).

    I snagged this Korea-based photograph from the Prime Minister’s official website, which as of this morning Continue…

  • The caption challenge's sexy cousin: the definition challenge

    By Scott Feschuk - Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 9:12 AM - 22 Comments

    For the final challenge of 2008 (not counting my post-Christmas “Fitting into those pants”…

    For the final challenge of 2008 (not counting my post-Christmas “Fitting into those pants” challenge, which I prefer to conduct in the privacy of my own shame) I invite you to click on over to my column from this week’s magazine, read what I have attempted to do and then effortlessly come up with your own definitions that are funnier, more clever and more likely to make the famous person named in the definition collapse weeping, alter his ways and dedicate his ensuing inspirational self-help book to you and your penetrating insight.

    The winner, as declared by a jury of me early next week, will receive a lovely prize with an actual cash value in the two (2) digits!

    Please put your entries in the comments section beneath the column itself, not here. The comments below this post are reserved for names of Christmas carols we’d sing if we were singing honestly about the holiday season. My entry: Christmas Is Coming (And I’ve Got So Much Shit to Do).

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