I’m likely to post little over the next week or so, as I’ll be in Devon, quite inconveniently, and how much I post depends entirely on the density of 3G coverage.
In the meantime, to liven things up a little, let’s have a caption competition!
Original image by ElinorD on Wikimedia Commons. Modified under license. An octopus in a zoo, discerningly eyeing the photographer.
Submit your entries using the comments form below. Entries should be in by 6pm on Friday, and by Sunday I should have chosen a winner. If I’m not feeling particularly stingey, that winner might obtain something more tangible than a small quantity of kudos.
You’re too late to enter the Crashed Pips April Fool’s Day Challenge 2008. Oh well. Anyway.
A £15 iTunes voucher was up for grabs to anyone who could correctly identify a specific link between these items:
- a cup
- a loudspeaker
- a hat
- a saw
- a domino
- a scar
- a coathanger
- a pair of knickers
The obvious answer was that they were ‘all things you might find in your house’. Whilst perfectly valid, not the answer I was looking for, sadly. Of course, it was far more obscure than that.
The answer was that they’ve all been used as booby prizes on the French TV programme, À Prendre ou à Laisser, which is the French franchise of Deal or No Deal. From its launch to some time in 2006, around 3 booby prizes were normally added to the blues on the left side of the board, which also had cash prizes ranging from €500,000 to 1¢. Within this was also a joker, which was worth €10,000 for every person who got a selection question correct. In 2006, the show was revamped, getting rid of the joker and booby prizes and upping the top prize to €1,000,000.
So there you are. In the event, no-one won the £15 iTunes voucher, so the prize (may) roll over to next year to become a £25 iTunes voucher.
(Yes, a competition! On this site! Really! It’s NOT an April Fool’s joke!)
A £15 iTunes gift voucher is up for grabs to anyone who can correctly identify the link between these items:
- a cup
- a loudspeaker
- a hat
- a saw
- a domino
- a scar
- a coathanger
- a pair of knickers
Rules
I will only accept one answer. You may enter by E-mail to hello [at] crashedpips dot co dot uk, with “Competition” in the subject line.
The competition closes at 11pm GMT on Friday. That is midnight London time on Saturday. No entries will be accepted after that, and no correspondence will be entered into. In the event that more than one person submits the correct answer, the winner will be selected randomly in a draw carried out and overseen by an independent adjudicator. In the event of no-one answering correctly, no-one will win the prize, which may (mood permitting) roll over to next year to become a £25 iTunes voucher.
Anyone who is eligible to hold an iTunes account may enter, as long as it is feasible to deliver the item to them.
Additional rules apply: please see the
legal page for more details.
Good luck!
NB: This competition has now closed. Thanks to those who entered.
