by Travis
Do you lend people your books and never get them back? Do you love Harry Potter? Harry Potter can help you solve your problem. Enter The Hog’s Head August Giveaway and receive 5 packs of Harry Potter bookplates (4 packs are 18 count, 1 pack is a 12 count). These bookplates let you personalize your library while displaying your love of all things Potter.
If you win this month’s giveaway, you’ll get three packs of “Chinese Fireball” bookplates, 1 pack of “Chudly Cannons” bookplates, and 1 pack of “Muggedom Mysterium” bookplates. Great gift for a kid, if you’re not into bookplates.
How do you enter? It’s a caption contest! Someone grabbed this shot of me speaking at Convention Alley, which means this is your chance to pick on me mercilessly. You write a funny caption by midnight (EST) of Thursday, August 30. The Blogengamot will vote on best caption, and best caption wins. Good luck!
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“That monster was THIS TALL! Seriously!” This is the first time I’ve entered a contest like this. Hope my caption isn’t too lame, but those bookplates look cool!
Catherine
“Troll……… THIS big!!! Really!!! “
So Mr. Miyagi said, “UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN…” And that is how I learned Karate.
“If I was Gambon playing Dumbledore, here’s how I would’ve choked Harry.”
“This would look sooo much better if I hadn’t forgotten my wand again.”
Travis: “$1.50 for bottled water? Screw that – Aguamenti!”
(Awkward silence)
Travis: “Er, maybe I need to brush up a bit on wandless magic.”
revgeorge, your words fill me with unholy joy. Yes, I say, yes! That is what the man’s anxious brow and foppish beard clip masks: the soul of a villain.
First place is taken (see above) but I’ll try for second:
“Igor will bring brain from very tall man, Master.”
I couldn’t help it, Red. I flipped on the tv tonight. Saw that GOF was on ABC Family Channel. Flipped over to that & what was the first scene I saw? That horrible scene with Gambon’s DD manhandling Harry & shrieking like a mad man!
I tried to turn it to good, though, using it as inspiration for a caption.
Personally, if I could influence the Blogengamot, although they’re incorruptible, I’d vote for Ruby’s comment.
“…I would have to compare that with Harry’s meeting with Aragog in Chamber of Secrects. Now Rowling has gone through great effort to…”
The guy was this big and he took my wand… I cant tell how tall it was so I had to show you
‘My mate thought he’d hidden his Harry Potter bookplates really well up on top of the fridge. Quick feel like this, hey presto! August giveaway!’
“Good question. I’m pretty sure you should be THIS TALL before beginning to read Harry Potter…”
So, since you’re doing a giveaway, Travis, does this mean there’s a pubcast in the works to announce the winner?
Starting to into withdrawal…
So, since you’re doing a giveaway, Travis, does this mean there’s a pubcast in the works to announce the winner?
Starting to go into withdrawal…
Sorry about the double post. Forgot to put the ‘go’ into the ‘go into withdrawal.’ That’s how bad it’s gotten without a pubcast.
revgeorge, would have had a podcast to ya last night, but Sophia was having a really fun time testing boundaries, and I couldn’t get more than a few minutes recorded. I hope to record Wednesday, and then I’ll probably just announce the giveaway winner in a post on Friday (you know – with the picture and the caption as the post title).
Wanted to share the caption that inspired this contest. Fellow blogger at the Boar’s Head Tavern captioned the photo like so:
“So that [You-Know-Who-RA] posse that confronted me in the parking lot…the smallest one was about this big. Good thing I was packing my wand.”
Ah, so we’re still not saying the name. I wondered when I got the post in my email inbox & it had the name in it.
That’s a very good caption, though. Maybe that fellow blogger should win.
Meant to ask. Is your avatar of Bob Dylan or just a Dr. Who circa Tom Baker impersonator?
Yes, please don’t say the name. There was a law suit recently. (Go ahead and Google the name to learn all about it.) I’d like to avoid that.
Bob Dylan, cover of Blonde on Blonde, one of the greatest albums of all time.
Levicorpus! (vbl)
Travis is convinced that Harry is under his invisibility cloak.
hahaha we’re taking a page out of anderson cooper 360 for this contest!
Jordan, never watched him – does he have caption contests?
“Down came the rain and washed the spider out . . . “
“And this is my impresion of how Dumbledore was playing the puppetmaster…”
“You’ll have to BUY MY BOOK for all the details but yes, the fight started when I grabbed Gambon by the hair… did I mention this is all in my book?”
I tried very hard to remember exactly what you were saying during this presentation, but alas!
“So, I was looking for Sirius in aisle 97, but he wasn’t there… Then all of a sudden Neville said; ‘Hey, Harry, your name is on here’. So a walked over and saw the orb. So I took it off the shelf like this, and before you know it… all hell broke loose !”
Just to mention that I’m not in it for the prize, I just love caption games ! The book plates are better off with someone that really likes them
I do lend books, and sometimes they don’t come back – and it’s really surprising the kind of person who “forgets” to return books: people who are otherwise very respectable and responsible – so if Victoria wins, I’ll take ‘em off your hands.
But here’s a suggestion: can we all vote on the winner? Not only would that be fun, it should appeal to the libertarian in you.
To date,
That’s a great suggestion, Red Rocker. Setting up a single-post poll would be the easiest way to do it, though I couldn’t prevent people from voting from both their home computers, all the computers at their work, etc.
Let me get back to you on how we’ll do it.
Libertarians aren’t much in for the voting thing, really. We’re much closer to anarchism in the best sense of the word.
If you do that Travis does that make it open for Blogengamot members? I don’t reckon but here is my entry:
Weak minds are easily influenced by the Force!
…or maybe:
Travis Prinzi demonstrates his five baby fontanelle lift- “Useful for the speedy handling of quintuplets,” he says.
BTW: Rena…who are you?! Because you’re not me…
Up! Up! Up! Sigh…. This broom doesn’t work either.
Rena Black, yes, it is true: I am not you. Look at me. While you are a beautiful Elf with black hair, a blue eye and a pointy Spock ear (or probably two of each), I am a freaky blue creature with only one leg, two eyes looking into different directions, five hairs and a remarkable trunk. There is no danger of confusion