I've won the caption competition in 'the Mirror' a fair few times now...
which is confusing, as I've never sent them an entry.

My dad thinks of himself as quite the wordsmith, writing poems for people's weddings and birthdays and the like. It's quite nice in many ways that he'd go to the effort, but they never sound...well...good. In his head a poem must always rhyme in couplets or it's not a real poem. In addition, he doesn't seem to have any sort of understanding of rhythm, making his work quite difficult to read.

Anyway, he's a sucker for the caption competitions in the Mirror, sending in 4 or 5 entries under different family member's names (for some reason he thinks they won't choose him if he's entered too many). Considering the few people who must enter, and the number of entries from my dad, I frequently get emails from my him with a scanned image of the caption competition, congratulating me for my 'witty' comment about some photo.

You don't even win a prize...
( guffguff fuckes your gradeds balls!, Fri 29 Apr 2011, 18:37, Reply)