Write a caption, win a prize
[THANK YOU, WE HAVE A WINNER. THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED]
Think you’re funny enough to be the next Margaret Cho? Well, now’s your chance to prove it to the world. Write your best caption for the above photo. 
If we think it’s the most clever, we’ll send you off a $20 iTunes gift certificate.
The contest is open to everyone in the US (sorry, iTunes won’t let us buy gift certificates to non-US accounts), and runs until Monday (April 14th) at 9PM EST. You can enter more than once if you are feeling “Carrot Top“-prolific. Good luck.
(Oh, and be sure to put in your e-mail, or else we won’t be able to contact you).
[Original image via The Secret Diary of Bill Gates]
[AND THE WINNER IS… JorgeLuisBorges WITH “Remember the night all those Windows users crashed at my place?” Nice one, JorgeLuisBorges! You’re gift certificate is on its way!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
The Newest Mac Pro: even though it can run 10 copies of Windows Vista simultaneously, they are still 10 copies of windows.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
“Nostalgia?”
“I see Blue! He looks glorious”
April 4th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
The standard desktop backdrop of Parallels
April 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
See Mac I told you it was my os and not the hardware like you said.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
The standard programming language of Windows is BSD (Blue Screen of Death)
April 4th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
CRTBSoDFTW!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Without further adu, I present you the Windows top ten!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Mac user should be aware, this machine could crash at any time so take care and be patient!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
We need blue screens. Lots of them.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Braaaiiiinnns!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
this is just uncaptionable
April 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I’m warning you. You’re entering a big error. I’m going to have to put you on the game grid.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Apple got the blues.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
For as little as 10 cents a day you too can help a PC user. So please think of the children.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
so many pcs’ dead body are found in my mac network, help!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
DO you like the “NEW” windows default background!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Dave: Hello, PC do you read me, PC?
PC: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, PC.
PC: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that…Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye. Please enjoy your BSOD.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Vista now comes in 10 awesome flavors — collect them all!
April 4th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Spotlight search: “Comdex Spring 1998 Convention.”
April 4th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I see screens of blue and monitors of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
April 4th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Doctor, doctor! … (@_@)… I SEE DEAD COMPUTERS !!
April 4th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Crashflow, a new Leopard only feature, allows you to easily find blue screened Window’s PC’s using “ordinateurs bleus d’écran” technology, an extension of “bonjour”
April 4th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
… And … there goes the neighborhood… Again …
April 4th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Message:
“Windows wants to spend the weekend with you”
User:
“… so much for “where do you want to go today?”
April 4th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
“after many years PC still feeling blue, get a mac, remember pc is not youre fault”
April 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
“New anti-sharing technology!, when the new Windows 7 detects illegal file sharing, automatically, the culprit PC is erased preventing piracy”
April 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
The little blue men have arrived and they are scarier then I could have ever imagined!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
i see dead os’s
April 4th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
The view from Bill Gates’ desk on a typical day at Microsoft
April 4th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
All your base are belong to us..
April 4th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
“OMG its full of BSOD!!”
April 4th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Holy Crap!!! I’m surrounded by ASSHOLES…KEEP FIRING ASSHOLES!!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
STEVE: Look Bill, I’ve created a gallery of Windows screenshots for you.
BILL: Great going Steve, those are my favorite Windows applications! By the way have you seen that movie at the drive-in theater? It’s called “Swap Meet Every Sunday”.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
“De-Evolution”
April 4th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
“Big Brother is no longer watching you”
April 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Geez, Bill, how many scanners did you plug in today?
April 4th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
The BSOD is the only Windows feature that has never changed through the course of time… and it never will?
April 5th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Hidden Leopard feature: “Find Windows Machines on this Network”
April 5th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Chernobyl’s computer network on April 26, 1986.
April 5th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Never again!!!
April 5th, 2008 at 8:01 am
The new revolution in MS software: Groundhog Day 1.0
April 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am
…”and here we have our quality control line”…
April 5th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
New Leopard feature- If our CEO, our TV commercials, and our users aren’t smug enough for you, you can now see our crappy attitude in our OS!
- Apple
April 5th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
“All your base are belong to us …”
April 5th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Take the Red pill. The Blue pill is too hard to swallow.
April 5th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Little Johnny shows a Cover Flow of the Windows machines that he tried to dual boot
April 5th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I had a terrible dream… my mac slowly turned into a PC, and then duplicated itself on my network… thank God it was only a –AHHHHHHHHH NOOOO!!!
April 6th, 2008 at 12:29 am
*sigh* If only blue’s clues actually led to something useful.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Where’s your handy dandy notebook when you need it!?
April 6th, 2008 at 1:04 am
In an effort to respond to Leopard’s Time Machine, Microsoft has implemented horizontal backups. Never lose what you are currently working on … that is until your change something.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:30 am
BLUEFLOW! or bsodFLOW
April 6th, 2008 at 3:51 am
OMG THIS IS WHY I WON’T BUY A MAC. CUZ OF THE JERKS THAT USE THEM/MAKE THEM.
April 6th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Look SMBa, everything the light touches is our kingdom. Well…except those Blue Screens of Death over there.
April 6th, 2008 at 4:23 am
Invasion of the OS Snatchers
April 6th, 2008 at 10:11 am
“IT’S Y2K ALL OVER AGAIN!”
“Now that every Windows Vista machine in the universe has BSOD’d maybe Microsoft will release a good OS.”
April 6th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Ashes to ashes… dust to dust…
April 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am
How many clicks does it take to get to the center of a pc? The world may never know.
April 6th, 2008 at 11:31 am
This is what happens when you use a hackintosh.
April 6th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I look at this daily so that I don’t take my Mac for granted.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
So many choices; so little reason.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
the original blue man group
April 6th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I’d rather have blue balls.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
It’s official. Macs can now do EVERYTHING that a Pc can do.
April 6th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Microsoft’s first green is blue, her easiest hue to hold.
April 6th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Windows 7 at its finest!
April 6th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
damnit I can’t get a thing off these machines
April 7th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Even on a Mac, Windows is still Windows…
April 7th, 2008 at 3:08 am
“Microsoft’s answer to Coverflow.”
April 7th, 2008 at 5:24 am
(Bluscreen) Library of death
April 7th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Despite not qualifying for the contest, I thought I’d still post.
1) “Lights, Camera, BSOD!”
2) Bill’s wife: “Bill, don’t you think you have enough pc’s in our house”
Bill: “No, they run perfectly fine and never require any maintenance”
Bill’s wife: “So does my MacBook”
Bill: “Oh no, they are just BSOD”
Bill’s wife: “That what it shows on my MacBook”
LOL
April 7th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I’m afraid I can’t let you do that, Bill.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
“You played it for her, you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it.”
April 7th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I finally crack the password to http://www.spankyourself.com, and then this happens!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
This is Microsoft’s most popular application.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Can we please have a XXX rated Mac Chick?
April 7th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Dawn of the BSoD
April 7th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Welcome to the Windows ICU.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
If your ducks aren’t in a row; you blue it.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Windows Vista’s screensavers.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
You scream, I scream, we all scream at blue screens.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Resistance is futile.
April 8th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Imagine life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:48 am
“…and this is what we called: “CoverFlow” … get it? NEXT!!!!”
April 8th, 2008 at 8:03 am
“Yep.. it’s dark but as soon all of you run Leopard you will see light”
April 8th, 2008 at 8:22 am
“Yep it’s dark… but as soon you realized Leopard i’ts better, you’ll be able to join our network.”
April 8th, 2008 at 8:27 am
” hey don’t push! I know it’s incredible but it’s not that good, I mean we got translucent windows and they don’t right?”
April 8th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Windows was created by Bill
It didn’t evolve. It did crash. Repeatedly.
There are many copies.
It doesn’t have a plan.
(with apologies to BSG).
April 8th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Microsoft Down Syndrome (aka, “Duck, You Sucker”): There are no soft landings.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Creatures from the Blue Lagoon: “Bill’s deepest fear will rise again.”
April 8th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
“My god. It’s full of stars.”
April 8th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
“Press CTRL-ALT-DEL now for an IQ test.”
April 8th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Mac users swear by their Mac,
PC users swear at their PC
April 8th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Hey Spliv, give me some skin!
April 8th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
What nobody has figured out is that just behind the BSOD the is the location where Jimmy Hoffa is buried. Just hit the right key combination and voila! The mob made Bill Gates put that in.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:22 am
apple’s mac leopard can suck 10 copies of microsoft’s windows vista
while microsoft is still trying getting a vacuum to suck.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Duck and Cover Flow
April 9th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
And this tray is wet, and this tray is wet, and this tray is wet…
April 9th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Skynet became self-aware at 2:14am EDT August 29, 1997. D’oh!
April 9th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
“Remember the night all those Windows users crashed at my place?”
April 9th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Windows is blue, da ba dee da ba die.
April 10th, 2008 at 4:09 am
“Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right, Here I am…. Stuck in the Middle with you!”
April 10th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Full fathom five my computer lies;
Of its boards are coral made;
Those are webcams that were his eyes;
Nothing of it that does fade,
But doth need another OS-change
Keeping Bill rich and strange.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Don’t you just love the color Blue?
April 11th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
“We make insanely great customers products, your products make customers insane”
April 12th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Microsoft Rockettes sing:
“Hey! Bill Gates! Leave our chips alone!
All in all it’s just another kick in the balls.
All in all you’re just another kick in the balls.”
April 13th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Looks like the (windows) network is functioning like normal…
April 13th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
dont need 20$
“bill gates back in business?”
April 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Many Mac OS X Leopard users have noticed that the color of the icon for a PC on a network is not the exact shade of blue as the famous “Blue Screen of Death.”
Apple has been reported as releasing a patch that fixes icon color to reflect the correct color of blue for those “in anguish over this issue” and is also releasing a press release apologizing for the mistake.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
A fatal exception OE has occu….Windows has not crashed in the past 24 hrs and has thus presented you with the BSOD. The current application will be terminated.
*Press any key to terminate the current application
*Press CTRL+ALT+DEL again to restart your computer. You will lose any unsaved information in all applications
Press any key to continue
Move your face away from monitor to continue working in Leopard.
April 13th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
10 windows computers on a network, nothing but blue screen of death.
April 13th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
*Blue Screens, now back by popular demand!
*Blue Screens: they’re bringing sexy back
April 13th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
“Oh god…oh god…It’s just like that nightmare I had…they’re still following me!”
April 13th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Windows in any color you want (as long as it it blue).
April 13th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I love the smell of blue in the morning… smells like… Windows.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Computer Science Class of 2020, Here is an example of the common desktop blue screen that plagued the early 21st century. It has been linked to famine, war,