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Try your hand at coming up with a winning caption!
August’s caption contest winners
I suck at multi-tasking. Which is unfortunate because my job pretty much IS multi-tasking. In the last two days I completed the final designs for my (exciting) January line and began work on my (at least as, if not more exciting) May line. I placed the final purchase orders for new designs for January. I reviewed inventory and placed last minute orders for product we need for this year. I worked on sales projections for our 2012 budget. I started writing copy for our January catalog. And I began work on a new book (!!!). Really, I love my job! This is just my roundabout way of saying: I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I know it has been forever since I posted.
Thank goodness caption-contest-winner-day rolled around to get me back in gear.
But before I reveal the August winner…
One of the reasons I post so seldom is I can’t imagine what you would possibly want to read about. My life outside of work consists pretty much of hiking and swimming, with an occasional stab at gardening. I could tell you about the early-August hike where I had to pull two of my dogs out of quicksand. I could tell you about the evening last week when the dogs and I had the entire lake to ourselves, and it was glorious… not a breath of a breeze to disturb the lake’s mirror-surface. I could tell you about the day my giant sunflowers finally burst into bloom, only to be torn to shreds within hours by torrential rains. If I were allowed to mention my granddaughter I could tell you how exciting it was when she actually spoke to me on the phone for the first time last week. The one thing I can’t tell you about is what I’m working on; my Sales Director likes to keep the new stuff top secret until it’s ready to go up on our web store. So tell me: what, if anything, would you like me to write about?
I also want to apologize for not responding to comments. The truth of the matter is, I don’t know how to. I actually email my posts to my brilliant nephew, who posts them for me. I’m certain he’s told me before how to respond to comments; I just happen to be very backward where this sort of thing (i.e. anything from the 20
One reader asked recently if there are any plans to sell products with the winning captions. Why, as a matter of fact… YES!
“Multi-tasking is for suckers”, the historic first-ever magnet by a caption contest winner, has been available at our web store since June, and I can’t believe I forgot to tell you about it! The caption was submitted by February winner Teresa McIntyre. It has become my new motto, and the magnet holds a place of honor on my robin’s egg blue fridge. Two more contest-winning captions will be available in February 2012, one as a magnet, one as a magnetic postcard. (Have you seen the postcards yet? They are terrific if I do say so myself.) Judging from the number of captions that are submitted each month, you don’t need any more motivation… but I do pay $200 for each everyday caption I use and $300 for captions I can put on birthday cards.
Unfortunately, some of the captions that make me laugh the hardest are not necessarily marketable. Take this month’s winner, for instance, from Ashley Plate:
A brilliant caption! The eye expects that last word to be “read” or “knit”… then the heart is delighted when it is not. But I’d have to take this magnet off my fridge every time a family member visited. And to whom could I send this card? I actually adore both my mother and my mother-in-law, so I don’t understand from whence my delight in this caption arises. I read somewhere years ago – was it Margaret Mead? – that as men grow older they tend to become gentler and less fierce, and as women grow older they tend to become meaner and less nurturing. I turned 57 last week, so maybe that explains it.
By the way, Ashley was a caption contest runner-up in July.
This month’s runners-up:
Ellen Mcdonald’s caption is another that delights with its subtlety. Just that one little three-letter word takes something we say every day and turns it on its head. Ellen, in case you have forgotten, was the July caption-contest winner!
Many of you already know how much I enjoy a good castration joke, so it will be no surprise that I loved this from Kathleen Newsom:
And yes, you guessed it: Kathleen is also a past winner.
I swear I’m not playing favorites. Ashley, Ellen, and Kathleen are just some very funny ladies.
Also just a tad mean… but very funny… is this caption from Marie McCune:
I changed this one from Kristin Packnett just a smidge:
For me it was just the tiniest bit funnier if the fellow in the apron was the son-in-law rather than the son.
| More laughs from Misty Searsy: |  |
| From Terry Krem: |  |
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| And last but not least from Kathleen Davis, because sometimes we need all the help we can get when writing captions: |  |
Thank you, all!
Please check out our September caption contest… and keep writing!
7 Responses to “August’s caption contest winners”
I don’t know about the other readers, but I really enjoy reading about life in New Mexico and the new A.T. products coming out, since I have quite a collection of magnets. Also, I think it’s exciting about the book that you are writing…can you tell us what’s about? P.S. The winning caption is laugh out loud hysterical!! I’ll definitely be adding this to my collection.
I wish you would make an iPhone app that has your captions but let’s us add our own. it would be FUN
You want to know what I would like you to write about? The workplace and all of the idiotic things that happen there. Since us “working girls” spend more time at work than at home
, anything that can bring a smile to our face during those 10 hours spent at the office would be greatly appreciated. If you need suggestions where to begin, let me know. You could start with those boring meetings in which we plan a meeting. You know the kind, “Poke me with a stick in 10 minutes to see if I am still awake” kinda meeting. Or
on Briar’s train of thought…”one more flippin’ team building event and my next work ID photo will be taken during my arraignment” or ‘should “convictions” be listed in my resume under accomplishments or job skills?’
the Company I work for increased my department’s workload 6 fold and adopted this new slogan: “More, Better, Faster…”
My new slogan is: “Vodka, Xanax, Lobotomy…”
I advertise for Ann Taintor.com a lot on FB–occasionally using a Taintor gal for my profile pic with the addendum to visit this site and buy stuff—Is that wrong? I love your site and products but am hoping you won’t sue my keister for using them as a profile picture now and again…
for the IPHONE App idea..There are actually people on this planet who do not own one and probably never, ever will. And the chuckleheads out there that develop apps ONLY for IPHONE users should write code for an IPHONE app I affectionately think of the Anal Antenna, so when you rectally insert the IPHONE you may actually get enough signal to complete a phone call. Lube is sold separately and available in several different scents.
Actually what would be cool is a do it yourself Ann Taintor magnet kit—several photos and different words and phrases that you can add to the photo to personalize your thoughts for the day—you could have kits for “stupid man stuff” –“idiotic work crap” —“resentful housewives” and “what a cocktail can’t cure you don’t want”
Yes, Evil is actually my last name…Its mine via marriage (the first one anyway), I divorced the man but never shook the Evil….
I’ve since remarried a couple times but Evil is easier to spell than my existing spouse’s last name…and those change of name forms are a b*tch to fill out everytime I need a new one…
Thank you, Anne, once again. I’m humbled and honored to have my entry chosen for this month, and I’m in wonderful company with all the amazing submissions. It’s the surprises in life that make it worthwhile. Thanks again for the nod.
I’m not sure, but I think Sheryl R. Evil might possibly be the funniest woman since Anne Taintor!!! I did a spit take AND almost peed my pants reading your comments, Sheryl. If I would have shot food through my nose and/or choked on said food, you would have had the comedy trifecta!
why Thanks so much Kathleen…see I just don’t know why men say I have anger issues…. maybe its because they have their collective heads up their rears and just know a good thing when they see or hear it, or when it hits upside the head with a 2×4.
Actually I once made a friend reverse snort SlimFast out her nose, French Vanilla I believe…since SlimFast is both a beverage and a food item I take great pride in that moment….I believe said friend also had a pants peeing episode (lil’ bit) that is infamously referred to as the ‘Chinese Food/Puppies On A Stick incident’…..
but to have both occur simultaneously is quite the kudos in any contest and I humbly accept your lovely compliment. Any day where Poise comes in handy is a good day for me….but I will continue to work towards the Trifecta…
Next week at my afore unmentioned company is Celebrating Customer Service Appreciation Week –NO its not where CS reps are actually kind/courteous to customers (cha right?) its where the company deftly shows their appreciation of the hard work that we CS reps do….by showering us with Dollar Store Candy and cheap swag with the Company logo printed on it, of course the obligatory Hawaiian shirt day…sigh….and we are to participate in “mandatory” fun team building events and still answer the phones–yah right. I keep expecting to see our bosses in mirrored sun glasses and shot guns at the side lines going.. “what we have here is a failure to communicate, some mens you just caint reach”….
till next time ladies….