As we head towards the end of the year and the unveiling of the winners of the 2008 Sitting Tennant Awards (any ideas what the prizes should be?), there's now everything to play for and some people are playing for it very hard.
Today's Sitting Tennant, for example, comes from a big stack that Ms Rullsenberg has sent me, meaning she's opening up a lead on Ms Rosby that seemed unthinkable just a few weeks ago – we might even have enough for a Sitting Tennant advent calendar this week. It comes from Love in the 21st Century and clearly involves a Land of the Giants crossover, judging by the laptop DT is using.
As a result, the Sitting Tennant picture competition table now stands as follows:
- Rullsenberg: 9.5
- Rosby: 8
- Persephone: 6.5
- Toby: 5
- Poly, Scott: 3.5
- Jane: 2.5
- Anna, Electric Dragon: 1.5
- Marie: 1
The Witty And Amusing Captions league table sees Toby recover a very small portion of his old lead over Marie thanks to some extreme captioning, in a round that also saw a surprising number of back-related captions:
- Toby: 24
- Marie: 22
- Jane Henry: 15
- Rullsenberg: 14
- Persephone: 12
- Rev, Electric Dragon: 5
- Stu_N: 2
- Poly, Andrea: 1
As always, captions and new submissions for the gallery, please. Remember, you can submit as many (witty) captions as you like for each and every picture, with topical captions getting extra marks – as do pictures of David Tennant in current productions.
The final Sitting Tennant of 2008 will be on December 23rd when the results will be announced.
Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it's judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. You can also enter the witting and amusing captions league table by commenting on existing photos in the gallery.
December 15, 2008 | Reply
Now, this is a schematic map of London. I have plotted all the streets where Marie might live, and here with the black dots I am marking all the ones where I have walked from door to door, ringing all the bells, posing as someone who wants you to change gas and electricity supplier, in the hope of - finally! - meeting her. If I carry on at the current rate, by my calculations I should have - hey, are you even listening to me?
December 15, 2008 | Reply
You've sunk my battleship!
December 15, 2008 | Reply
Do you think we should turn the central heating on?
December 15, 2008 | Reply
Let me see. I'm in bed with David Tennant. He's playing the biggest game of naughts and crosses I have ever seen, while I lie staring boredly up at the ceiling. He's in a jumper. I'm in some kind of drab shirt thing. What's wrong with this picture?
December 15, 2008 | Reply
(I'm going away for three weeks over Christmas so I need to establish a good lead now...)
December 15, 2008 | Reply
John wondered how much longer he could put off her entreaties with the old "This laptop is crushing me nuts" excuse.
or....
She: Are you going to be sitting up all night?
He: Well! I'm not exactly sitting, am I? More like... lounging. Oi! That's a lovely round word, isn't it? Lounging! Quite like the sound of that! Looooouuuunnnnnging!
She: Right. I'm getting the fire poker.....
or....
She: Do you have a TARDIS in your jammies or what? Where were you hiding that thing?
or....
When you told me you had something big to show me in bed, well naturally......
or.....
Honey? Wake up! I need another rhyme to go with "Judoon Platoon upon the Moon!"
December 15, 2008 | Reply
"Damn this broken caption generator! Now I'll never catch Toby or Marie!"
December 16, 2008 | Reply
Rats. That pesky Marie's foiled me again. I can't possibly win now.
December 16, 2008 | Reply
Oh sorry, you wanted a caption referring to the picture?
What's wrong with this picture? The real reason David Tennant gets through so many girlfriends.
December 16, 2008 | Reply
And the real reason you got that last one was that I meant to say this and then promptly forgot:
What marriage is REALLY like.
December 16, 2008 | Reply
Technically, that's not "witty and amusing" - that's "sad and depressing". And, I would also add, "Speak for yourself." ;-)
December 16, 2008 | Reply
Okay, I've worked out the bathroom schedule -- whaddaya mean, you want more time in there? I've got to get that hair gel just right, and you're not even blond....
December 16, 2008 | Reply
"Wwll, you were right. There comes a point where lolcat pictures just aren't funny any more."
December 16, 2008 | Reply
(Gah, that should read "Well". As it is it looks vaguely Welsh.)
December 16, 2008 | Reply
Incidentally, Rob, have you seen the headline to this column from The Guardian?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2008/dec/10/rsc-shakespeare-hamlet-david-tennant-understudy