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21 April 2009

Caption Seven

Filed under: award — Tags: , , , , , — staff @ 12:31

Hello, friends! After a bit of a delay, the Bugle staff prepared another photo for your captioning virtuosity. Remember that your entries for one of Captions Six, Seven and Eight will be worth double-points.

Caption Seven

The staff will award points for Caption Six in the next twenty-four hours, so contribute your best work to that post right now! Will says that the submissions so far are outstanding. Go Bugle Readers!

(We’ll also award a prize in the Guess the Number Taken!™ contest today. If you haven’t guessed yet, take a stab at it!)

11 March 2009

Caption This! Round 6

Filed under: award — Tags: , , , , — staff @ 10:47

It’s back to ancient Rome with Round Six. It looks like some of our participants are getting close to the goal, so we’ll have to actually create the prize in the next week or so!

To keep you hooked until then: The Bakker Bugle is happy to announce a twist to the contest. One of the next three rounds (6, 7, 8) will be declared a Double-BuglePoints™ Round after the first comment by the staff awarding points for that round. (more…)

12 February 2009

Caption Five

Filed under: award — Tags: , , , , — staff @ 12:23

Hello, Bugle readers! You’ve probably had enough of Italy, from the photos posted this week. So Caption Five is once again from a photo taken in England.

As usual, click on the image for the full-size version.
Caption Five thumbnail

10 January 2009

Caption This! Round 4

Filed under: award — Tags: , , , , , , — Will @ 16:31

Caption Image Four is a departure from ancient Rome. It is also a tribute to our fellow residents of the British Isles.
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9 December 2008

Caption This! Round 3

Filed under: award — Tags: , , , , , , , — Will @ 22:11

Good job to all who participated in Round Two. Click to see the next photo: (more…)

21 November 2008

Caption This! Round 2

Filed under: award — Tags: , , — Will @ 20:15

Here’s your second photo, ready for clever and comic captioning:
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20 November 2008

The Caption Contest Rules

Filed under: administrative,award,entertainment — Tags: , , , — Will @ 12:41

The Bakker Bugle is proud to announce another contest for its beloved readers!

BuglePoints™ for your captions!
For the next few weeks, you can earn BuglePoints™ by making up funny, wry, tendentious, or otherwise pleasing captions for the photos that the Bugle staff post in special CaptionPosts™. Be sure to include your name with your caption, so we can award you the BuglePoints™ you’ve earned!
A few days after a CaptionPost™ appears, the Bugle staff will add its own comment to that CaptionPost™, letting each of you know how many BuglePoints™ you’ve earned on that CaptionPost™.
If you’re looking for an example, check out the Coming Soon: foto di Roma post. Although some people have earned points already, you’re welcome to add your own captions and get your BuglePoints™ total started!
The goal

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3 November 2008

Coming soon: foto di Roma

Filed under: administrative,award,travel — Tags: , , , , , , — Will @ 20:40

Anita and I spent all last week in Rome — on vacation no less! There will be lots of photos on Flickr soon.

To get us started on the right foot, the Bugle is delighted to announce a new contest with a Very Special Prize. (more…)

27 August 2008

Olympic Summer Fun continues!

Filed under: award,sports — Tags: , , , , , — Will @ 3:04

Here at the Bugle, the Olympic fun doesn’t stop just because the events in China came to a close!

The Bugle staff wants to know: Which Olympic events are the best preparation for the coming collapse of civilisation as we know it?

We’ve given you a few choices regarding the end of days, but what we really to see is your own ideas in the comments. Write a comment with the name of the event and the reason why that event’s greatest athletes will survive the post-apocalyptic wastelands. We’ll add it to the polls and you might just win the Post-Apocalyptic Prize*!

Which (summer) Olympic athletes would survive the collapse of civilisation as we know it?

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30 October 2007

Commenter of the Fortnight & Poll of the Fortnight

Filed under: administrative,award — Will @ 20:46

First things first: The Commenter of the Fortnight is Jaime B, mostly due to her comment relating the “ominous and quite condemning description of hurling by Philip Stubbes in 1583.” hurley30oct2007.jpgThe staff of the Bakker Bugle are proud of their inquisitive minds and thorough approach to research, and they detect a kindred spirit in Jaime’s contribution. Jaime B is, therefore, the winner of the coveted Broken Hurley.

It’s worth revisiting the hurling post to appreciate Jaime’s find. It also recalls the question asked here in August, “Is Hurling Violent?” That discussion is currently on hiatus, but we may need to bring it back in the near future, given Mr Stubbes’s observations.

An honourable mention must go to Dave, for bringing a celebrity to the ranks of the Bugle’s commenters.

Second: A new poll for our faithful readers! The “Web Log” post, just prior to this one, is little more than a collection of links. Here’s the story:

The staff find interesting tidbits as they diligently research primary topics for the Bugle. And, once in a long while, they drift around the internet — only on break, of course. Day after day, the staff bring Will these links, eager to share them with the Bugle’s readers.

But the staff don’t work for free, and Will demands high quality writing for Bugle Blog posts. Some of the links are lost, and others become stale.

An enterprising member of the staff made a business case for posts like “Web Log” and Will and Anita were impressed. Phase One of Project Minutiae is market research. Hence, the current Poll of the Fortnight.

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