Year: 2009

Got the tingles? Full of excitement? Yes, you have that Friday feeling, otherwise known as “anticipation of a forthcoming Sitting Tennant”.

First of all, I’ll start you off with this bonus “ultimate” Sitting Tennant, which I’ve had sitting around for ages and that no one else has submitted yet but I thought you’d all enjoy – no need to caption.

Thought you’d like it. But moving on, time for the contributions from the regular Sitting Tennanters. Ms Jaradel’s fallen over and is too far away from her keyboard to send us something this week, but Ms Rullsenberg and Sister Chastity have served you all with a couple of treats:

Must. Avoid. Making. Obvious. Jokes. Too. Much. Effort.

So I’ll leave that up to you (you can make less obvious jokes as well, if you’d like).

Last week’s suggestion of a scavenger hunt won approval from Sister Chastity, but unfortunately no one else so that wasn’t a goer. But then I came up with, IMHO, an even better idea: inspiration points. Whichever picture gets the most captions (or even the best captions) that week, will get two bonus points for having inspired others. How does that sound? To me it sounds like an incentive to come up with really provocative Sitting Tennants, that’s what.

Anyway, the picture leaderboard now stands as follows:

1. Rullsenberg: 20.5
2. Jaradel: 16.5
3. Sister Chastity: 15.5
4. Rosby: 2.5
5. Persephone: 1

Witty captions looked in a dire state for most of the week, with only two dedicated captioners feeling their creative juices flowing. But a flurry of activity at the last minute, from the holidaying Marie among others, saw life once more breathed into an otherwise prone Sitting Tennant.

The first stab at a bonus points option saw three people trying their luck, with Marie eventually proving she had what it took to combine David Tennant and swine flu. Meanwhile, witty points went to Rullsenberg for picture one; Electric Dragon for picture two and picture three, which if not the best use of Carol Ann Duffy in a caption was at least the most random and amusing.

Ten bonus points will be awarded this week to the best caption involving expenses claims, Marks & Spencers bras and/or the world’s smallest pigs.

1. Toby: 109.5
2. Marie: 102
3. Rullsenberg: 61.5
4. Jane Henry: 60.5
5. Persephone: 45.5
6. Jaradel: 38.5
7. Electric Dragon: 25
8. Rev/Views 16
9. Scott: 3
10. Aaron: 2
11. almostwitty.com: 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 (and pictures of David Tennant in current productions) getting extra marks. The wittiest caption for each picture will get double points. And there’s a bonus point for using Gary Numan lyrics appropriately.

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.