Pictures of Doctor Who actor David Tennant sitting down, submitted by readers. Yes, that is silly. We know.
A request was made. Your wish is my command, etc, so here is the whole of the Sitting Tennant gallery to the sound of James’ ‘Sit Down‘. Don’t spend too much time staring at it.
Credit, of course, to Persephone who came up with the idea.
Gosh. It seems that nothing can excite fans of David Tennant in a sedentary position more than him in a white suit, pulling faces for charity. Within a matter of minutes of Comic Relief last Friday (although, in some cases, the number of minutes was as high as 8,000), Mesdames Rullsenberg and Jaradel as well as Sister Chastity were seeking to wow the world and dominate Sitting Tennant with pictures of one of its hosts – clue, not Davina McCall.
In fact, we have so many Comic Relief pics, I’ve had to ration our submitters to one each per Sitting Tennant, so we might have to have a mid-week Sitting Tennant next week. Would that be popular? Let me know.
Anyway, with topicality bonuses, that gives us the following picture leaderboard:
Alas, it seems not even David Tennant’s ‘o’ face is enough to wake Rosby from her coma. Oh well.
Back at the cut and thrust of the captioning competition, Marie got bonus points for wittiest (and maybe very slightly scary) caption for picture 1 while Electric Dragon came through against stiff competition for picture 2. Toby nearly lost marks for a groan-inducing pun, but I felt merciful and stayed his execution at the last minute.
That means we’ve had a couple of position reversals, with Electric Dragon charging (ho ho. Oh crap. A pun. What have I become?) past Rev “still huddled round a candle at his new house” Views and Ms Rullsenberg leaving Persephone behind in the underworld without so much as a glance behind her to see if she’s okay.
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.
Today’s Sitting Tennants are all from Ms Rullsenberg. She’s assailed with me with a vast collection of them, in fact, so today’s are the edited highlights: everyone else needs to get their finger out, I think.
The first sees David Tennant and Catherine Tate listing the possible causes of small ‘Play’ and ‘BBC’ balloons appearing in mid-air, while the second sees the bucolic David in the Blue Peter garden, working out if he can use his well-practised tactic of sliding away down the grassy bank to escape from some enthusiastic gay men who have him cornered.
Captions please.
Thanks to Ms Rullsenberg’s powerful photo-collecting skills, the pictures leaderboard now stands as follows:
Meanwhile, picture captioning has sunk to an all-time low, with captions from just a loyal few. It’s almost like the rest of you are content just to look at pictures of David Tennant sitting down, rather than pass comment on them or compete with others. How bizarre.
Nevertheless, we can award points to the truly dedicated – lovely people that they are. Electric Dragon does, of course, get a bonus point for appropriate use of Gary Numan lyrics*, Persephone and Jaradel both get a point for wittiest picture 1 captions, Toby gets bonuses for both his picture 2 and his picture 3 captions, as does Electric Dragon for his picture 2 caption, and Persephone gets another bonus for her picture 4 caption.
That leaves the witty caption board as follows, with Persephone just edging ahead of Rullsenberg and Electric Dragon finally putting a huge distance between himself and Scott:
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.
* A full, laminated set of Sitting Tennant rules is available from the Mornington Crescent advisory committee, which holds them in trust.
Once more to the Sitting Tennant breach, dear friends. Once more. Wherever David Tennant’s breach might happen to be, that is.
Today’s Sitting Tennants come from Sister Chastity and Jaradel. Sister Chastity shows us David trying his very best to make room on his chaise lounge for what he no doubt hopes is the blonde invisible woman, who quite generously then turns up to snog him during a photo shoot with someone who looks suspiciously like Christian O’Connell.
Meanwhile, Jaradel has a photo from the pilot by BBC Scotland for a home-grown version of Superman – in which Superman crash lands in Britain in the 60s instead of on a Kansas farm and gets taught the virtue of “not trying too hard” instead of “truth, justice and the American way”; as well as a picture of David on his way to that first audition for the part of the Doctor, wearing his mum’s home-made Tom Baker scarf – pity she didn’t have the right wool.
That means Sister Chastity has overtaken the apparently comatose Rosby (won’t someone play the cello to her?) and Jaradel has closed the gap with Rullsenberg to give us a scoreboard which looks like this:
Back at the witty caption competition, we had an international distress call raised by Persephone, seeking anyone with pictures featuring both David Tennant and Ioan Gruffudd, although no one’s answered her cry for help yet – any takers?
But again, something of a lull in the captioning. What’s up there? Don’t let Sitting Tennant wither and die on the vine/chair/chaise lounge! Come on newbies, everyone’s welcome to join in. And all you have to do is write 31 captions in one go and you’ll be at the top of the board.
Nevertheless, with the added benefit of credit crunch topicality to boost the scores of a few loyal captioners, Toby gets bonus points for wittiest picture 1 caption, as does Marie for this picture 2 caption while Rullsenberg gets a boost (ooh er Mrs) from her picture 3 caption.
That means the caption leader board now looks like this:
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.
Today’s Sitting Tennants come from Ms Rullsenberg, new arrival Sister Chastity and Jaradel. Ms Rullsenberg’s (who also provided us with these two alternates but they’re so similar I couldn’t count them as separate shots) comes from that ubiquitous video diary camera that DT seems to carry with him everywhere. He seems to have been scared by something, again, probably someone bringing in another cushion to match his existing nettle flax monstrosity.
For her first Sitting Tennant, Sister Chastity (everyone give her a big hello of welcome, please) has answered Marie’s call for lounging/louche Tennants and gone for something not in the least provocative at all, no doubt trying to stun some of the leading captioners into silence to give some of those at the rear a chance to catch up. Naughty, naughty, Sister Chastity, but I like your style.
Meanwhile, Jaradel seems intent on proving that DT isn’t as adverse to brunettes as previously thought (as if his [allegedly] shagging Nicola Bryant wasn’t enough), with this candid shot from one of his everyday, common or garden variety parties. I’m sure there’s a cat missing his cream somewhere, judging from that smile.
That means the scoreboard for the picture competition now stands as follows, with Jaradel getting an extra Obama-esque point for giving brunettes hope:
Meanwhile, back at the witty caption competition – which got only slightly sidetracked into discussions of classical and pre-classical Greek representations of women, hair colour as character-defining in classics of English literature, Northern Irish prison history, coups d’êtat, my Great Blonde Elevator and the exact angle of incidence David Tennant’s back needs to make to the vertical for him to be considered sitting – we had surprisingly few actual captions, despite it once again being one of the most commented items on the blog.
Ms Rullsenberg, however, got three points for having the wittiest and a topical caption for picture 1, while Toby’s alternate caption for picture 2 gets him the double points this time. But Jane Henry’s frenzied captioning means she’s now just one point away from Toby (watch out Tobes!) and Jaradel’s musical interlude means she’s managed to pull away from Rev/Views while he’s moving house to take her to within striking distance of, ironically enough, the striking Persephone as well as Ms Rullsenberg.
BTW, the fame of Sitting Tennant has now spread and we have new fans over at Flickfilosopher (which meant Sitting Tennant actually made it onto Google News this week) and the not at all scarily titled David Tennant’s Gutter Gang forums. It’s even warranted an article over on Kasterborus. Hello everyone and welcome to the marvellous world of David Tennant not standing up. Feel free to come and join the fun.
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.
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