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For Fun: Microsoft/Yahoo Caption Contest

posted on July 29, 2009


Let’s face it, the news is going to be swamped with the MSFT/YHOO deal today. So, for some light-hearted relief, let’s have a caption contest. Here’s an official photo provided courtesy of Yahoo!/Microsoft:

Leave your caption in the comments below and the best one–as chosen by me tomorrow at 9am ET–will win a $25 Amazon gift card. Please keep them clean.

Here’s mine: “We’ll take care of search from here on out, you can keep the “goofy, over-sized pen” business.” ;-)

We have a winner!

I have to give kudos to all the Pilgrims that left a caption–you guys are funny! In the end, this one made me laugh the hardest:

…….now you go to the end of the road and take a left by the starbucks, follow the road about 20m till you come to a crossroads. take a right and the job centre is the second building on the right hand side.

I do want to give an honorable mention to the following:
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/07/for-fun-microsoftyahoo-caption -contest.html#comment-79683
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/07/for-fun-microsoftyahoo-caption -contest.html#comment-79700
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/07/for-fun-microsoftyahoo-caption -contest.html#comment-79720
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/07/for-fun-microsoftyahoo-caption -contest.html#comment-79739


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