Write a caption, win a prize

April 4, 2008 by Dr. Macenstein
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Humor, Microsoft Bashing, Photos, contests 

[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!

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125 Comments on Write a caption, win a prize

  1. Jason on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 1:28 pm

    2. The Newest Mac Pro: even though it can run 10 copies of Windows Vista simultaneously, they are still 10 copies of windows.

  2. tim on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 1:30 pm

    3. “Nostalgia?”

    “I see Blue! He looks glorious”

  3. Jason on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 1:34 pm

    4. The standard desktop backdrop of Parallels

  4. Boogieman on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 1:36 pm

    5. See Mac I told you it was my os and not the hardware like you said.

  5. Jason on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 1:36 pm

    6. The standard programming language of Windows is BSD (Blue Screen of Death)

  6. Mike on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 1:42 pm

    7. CRTBSoDFTW!

  7. cRaZyFaCKa on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 2:21 pm

    8. Without further adu, I present you the Windows top ten!

  8. bernd on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 2:46 pm

    9. Mac user should be aware, this machine could crash at any time so take care and be patient!

  9. Reclusive Monkey on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 2:56 pm

    10. We need blue screens. Lots of them.

  10. Paul on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 3:22 pm

    11. Braaaiiiinnns!!!

  11. A. Emre Unal on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 3:35 pm

    12. this is just uncaptionable

  12. Belasco on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 3:47 pm

    13. I’m warning you. You’re entering a big error. I’m going to have to put you on the game grid.

  13. LolZ on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 4:06 pm

    14. Apple got the blues.

  14. Boyo on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 4:14 pm

    15. For as little as 10 cents a day you too can help a PC user. So please think of the children.

  15. 8o on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 4:18 pm

    16. so many pcs’ dead body are found in my mac network, help!!!

  16. Marsman478 on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 4:54 pm

    17. DO you like the “NEW” windows default background!!!

  17. Andrew Cafourek on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 4:56 pm

    18. 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.

  18. Paul on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 4:59 pm

    19. Vista now comes in 10 awesome flavors — collect them all!

  19. blue mac group on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 5:17 pm

    20. Spotlight search: “Comdex Spring 1998 Convention.”

  20. rschnikee on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 5:21 pm

    21. 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

  21. Alex on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 5:33 pm

    22. Doctor, doctor! … (@_@)… I SEE DEAD COMPUTERS !!

  22. Michael on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 5:39 pm

    23. 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”

  23. Alex on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 5:42 pm

    24. … And … there goes the neighborhood… Again …

  24. Alex on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 6:12 pm

    25. Message:
    “Windows wants to spend the weekend with you”

    User:
    “… so much for “where do you want to go today?”

  25. Ivan Grimaldo on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 6:15 pm

    26. “after many years PC still feeling blue, get a mac, remember pc is not youre fault”

  26. Alex on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 6:20 pm

    27. “New anti-sharing technology!, when the new Windows 7 detects illegal file sharing, automatically, the culprit PC is erased preventing piracy”

  27. Drconehead2000 on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 6:55 pm

    28. The little blue men have arrived and they are scarier then I could have ever imagined!

  28. itaintskin on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 7:06 pm

    29. i see dead os’s

  29. Kevin Carroll on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 7:31 pm

    30. The view from Bill Gates’ desk on a typical day at Microsoft

  30. cipher on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 8:22 pm

    31. All your base are belong to us..

  31. Operator207 on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 8:39 pm

    32. “OMG its full of BSOD!!”

  32. Kevin Carroll on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 9:21 pm

    33. Holy Crap!!! I’m surrounded by ASSHOLES…KEEP FIRING ASSHOLES!!!!

  33. Ralphy Baby on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 10:24 pm

    34. 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”.

  34. Ralphy Baby on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 10:25 pm

    35. “De-Evolution”

  35. Ralphy Baby on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 10:26 pm

    36. “Big Brother is no longer watching you”

  36. Theo on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 10:44 pm

    37. Geez, Bill, how many scanners did you plug in today?

  37. Frank on Fri, 4th Apr 2008 11:27 pm

    38. The BSOD is the only Windows feature that has never changed through the course of time… and it never will?

  38. blue mac group on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 2:14 am

    39. Hidden Leopard feature: “Find Windows Machines on this Network”

  39. blue mac group on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 2:34 am

    40. Chernobyl’s computer network on April 26, 1986.

  40. Nemanja on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 6:41 am

    41. Never again!!!

  41. R on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 8:01 am

    42. The new revolution in MS software: Groundhog Day 1.0

  42. acidscan on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 11:45 am

    43. …”and here we have our quality control line”…

  43. Mac User on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 2:38 pm

    44. 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

  44. Middle School Educator on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 3:49 pm

    45. “All your base are belong to us …”

  45. Jim on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 4:12 pm

    46. Take the Red pill. The Blue pill is too hard to swallow.

  46. Not Really Me on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 6:42 pm

    47. Little Johnny shows a Cover Flow of the Windows machines that he tried to dual boot

  47. Brandon on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 8:33 pm

    48. 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!!!

  48. wes on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 12:29 am

    49. *sigh* If only blue’s clues actually led to something useful.

  49. wes on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 12:31 am

    50. Where’s your handy dandy notebook when you need it!?

  50. kweke on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 1:04 am

    51. 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.

  51. JoSe!! on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 1:30 am

    52. BLUEFLOW! or bsodFLOW

  52. geeze. on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 3:51 am

    53. OMG THIS IS WHY I WON’T BUY A MAC. CUZ OF THE JERKS THAT USE THEM/MAKE THEM.

  53. Danny on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 4:14 am

    54. Look SMBa, everything the light touches is our kingdom. Well…except those Blue Screens of Death over there.

  54. Danny on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 4:23 am

    55. Invasion of the OS Snatchers

  55. Kevin on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 10:11 am

    56. “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.”

  56. Andy on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 10:51 am

    57. Ashes to ashes… dust to dust…

  57. wes on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 11:26 am

    58. How many clicks does it take to get to the center of a pc? The world may never know.

  58. Charles Sporn on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 11:31 am

    59. This is what happens when you use a hackintosh.

  59. wes on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 11:47 am

    60. I look at this daily so that I don’t take my Mac for granted.

  60. Matt on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 12:29 pm

    61. So many choices; so little reason.

  61. lee on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 12:49 pm

    62. the original blue man group

  62. wes on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 1:17 pm

    63. I’d rather have blue balls.

  63. wes on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 1:18 pm

    64. It’s official. Macs can now do EVERYTHING that a Pc can do.

  64. wes on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 4:43 pm

    65. Microsoft’s first green is blue, her easiest hue to hold.

  65. Robert on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 7:09 pm

    66. Windows 7 at its finest!

  66. Brad Balach on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 7:26 pm

    67. damnit I can’t get a thing off these machines

  67. Zak Malik on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 3:04 am

    68. Even on a Mac, Windows is still Windows…

  68. Zak Malik on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 3:08 am

    69. “Microsoft’s answer to Coverflow.”

  69. erik on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 5:24 am

    70. (Bluscreen) Library of death

  70. EDIT-XTREEM on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 10:01 am

    71. 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

  71. Andrew M on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 11:26 am

    72. I’m afraid I can’t let you do that, Bill.

  72. Jim on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 12:29 pm

    73. “You played it for her, you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it.”

  73. Ralphy Baby on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 12:32 pm

    74. I finally crack the password to http://www.spankyourself.com, and then this happens!

  74. Ralphy Baby on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 12:33 pm

    75. This is Microsoft’s most popular application.

  75. Ralphy Baby on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 12:34 pm

    76. Can we please have a XXX rated Mac Chick?

  76. blue mac group on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 5:20 pm

    77. Dawn of the BSoD

  77. blue mac group on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 5:22 pm

    78. Welcome to the Windows ICU.

  78. Jim on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 5:50 pm

    79. If your ducks aren’t in a row; you blue it.

  79. Garrison on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 7:00 pm

    80. Windows Vista’s screensavers.

  80. Jim on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 7:32 pm

    81. You scream, I scream, we all scream at blue screens.

  81. DavidG on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 9:28 pm

    82. Resistance is futile.

  82. Brian on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 4:48 am

    83. Imagine life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

  83. Albert Kinng on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 7:48 am

    84. “…and this is what we called: “CoverFlow” … get it? NEXT!!!!”

  84. Albert Kinng on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 8:03 am

    85. “Yep.. it’s dark but as soon all of you run Leopard you will see light”

  85. Albert Kinng on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 8:22 am

    86. “Yep it’s dark… but as soon you realized Leopard i’ts better, you’ll be able to join our network.”

  86. Albert Kinng on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 8:27 am

    87. ” 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?”

  87. S Nowak on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 11:43 am

    88. 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).

  88. Jim on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 1:08 pm

    89. Microsoft Down Syndrome (aka, “Duck, You Sucker”): There are no soft landings.

  89. Jim on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 1:11 pm

    90. Creatures from the Blue Lagoon: “Bill’s deepest fear will rise again.”

  90. MacinKlotz on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 6:51 pm

    91. “My god. It’s full of stars.”

  91. Mat Lear on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 8:06 pm

    92. “Press CTRL-ALT-DEL now for an IQ test.”

  92. Mat Lear on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 8:08 pm

    93. Mac users swear by their Mac,
    PC users swear at their PC

  93. Ralphy Baby on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 8:54 pm

    94. Hey Spliv, give me some skin!

  94. Ralphy Baby on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 10:46 pm

    95. 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.

  95. chicano on Wed, 9th Apr 2008 9:22 am

    96. apple’s mac leopard can suck 10 copies of microsoft’s windows vista

    while microsoft is still trying getting a vacuum to suck.

  96. Jim on Wed, 9th Apr 2008 11:00 am

    97. Duck and Cover Flow

  97. Sean on Wed, 9th Apr 2008 2:34 pm

    98. And this tray is wet, and this tray is wet, and this tray is wet…

  98. blue mac group on Wed, 9th Apr 2008 6:47 pm

    99. Skynet became self-aware at 2:14am EDT August 29, 1997. D’oh!

  99. JorgeLuisBorges on Wed, 9th Apr 2008 10:18 pm

    100. “Remember the night all those Windows users crashed at my place?”

  100. RB on Wed, 9th Apr 2008 11:28 pm

    101. Windows is blue, da ba dee da ba die.

  101. Ian Budd on Thu, 10th Apr 2008 4:09 am

    102. “Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right, Here I am…. Stuck in the Middle with you!”

  102. Jim on Thu, 10th Apr 2008 2:08 pm

    103. 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.

  103. Greasy Wet Fart on Fri, 11th Apr 2008 1:41 pm

    104. Don’t you just love the color Blue?

  104. emil on Fri, 11th Apr 2008 3:12 pm

    105. “We make insanely great customers products, your products make customers insane”

  105. Jim on Sat, 12th Apr 2008 12:12 pm

    106. 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.”

  106. Teegan on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 1:10 pm

    107. Looks like the (windows) network is functioning like normal…

  107. kristof on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 3:32 pm

    108. dont need 20$

    “bill gates back in business?”

  108. Dakota Courtois on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 8:11 pm

    109. 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.

  109. Chris G on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 8:39 pm

    110. 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.

  110. Marty Zalega on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 9:10 pm

    111. 10 windows computers on a network, nothing but blue screen of death.

  111. Y. on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 9:25 pm

    112. *Blue Screens, now back by popular demand!

    *Blue Screens: they’re bringing sexy back

  112. Jeremy on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 10:01 pm

    113. “Oh god…oh god…It’s just like that nightmare I had…they’re still following me!”

  113. Ken on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 10:22 pm

    114. Windows in any color you want (as long as it it blue).

  114. Barry on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 10:43 pm

    115. I love the smell of blue in the morning… smells like… Windows.

  115. Corey on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 1:34 am

    116. 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, and terrorist activity worldwide. Many thanks go out to President Jobs for riding the world of this horrible evil.

  116. LowkeyLoki on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 12:31 pm

    117. Déjà Blue?

  117. LowkeyLoki on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 1:43 pm

    118. Leopard’s Time Machine meets Boot Camp running Windows

  118. Alex J on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 2:11 pm

    119. What?! The network is down again? That’s the sixth time this week!

  119. Kellie R on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 3:50 pm

    120. PICK YOUR POISON

  120. odin on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 11:30 pm

    121. …and when little Timmy got to college he opened up his MacBook and realized he was the only one in the dorm getting laid this semester.

  121. Tim on Tue, 15th Apr 2008 6:26 am

    122. Quick lock - all the performance of vista now with the connivence of quick look.

  122. Rowlings on Tue, 15th Apr 2008 10:32 am

    123. Holy Shit we’re surrounded! Ready EMP weapon on my mark! Three… two… one…

  123. Greasy Wet Fart on Tue, 15th Apr 2008 1:56 pm

    124. Gawd! I shouldn’t have put my DICK in the access port!

  124. odin on Thu, 17th Apr 2008 1:20 am

    125. Once you go mac, you’ll never go back.

  125. kmf on Mon, 21st Apr 2008 1:17 am

    126. “Attack of the Clones”

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