Sitting Tennant

Pictures of Doctor Who actor David Tennant sitting down, submitted by readers. Yes, that is silly. We know.

Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennants (from Rosby and Rullsenberg): Hamlet and MFI

22 December 2008 Rob Buckley 26 Comments

DT in Hamlet

DT's video diary - with shelves

Rosby’s back! Suddenly, Ms Rullsenberg’s yomp for the finish line doesn’t look quite as clear as once it did. Ms Rosby has provided us with an actual picture from Hamlet of the moment when DT realised he might be having problems and needed a bit of a lie down. Meanwhile, Rullsenberg shows us the moment when DT realised his flat was haunted – at least, I’m assuming that’s a poltergeist he’s just spotted.

Remember, kiddies, these are the last captionable pictures of 2008 and tomorrow, the results will be announced, so there’s everything to play for today.

The Sitting Tennant picture competition table now stands as follows:

  • Kiwi Rullsenberg: 13.5
  • Rosby: 10.5
  • Persephone: 6.5
  • Toby: 5
  • Poly, Scott: 3.5
  • Jane: 2.5
  • Anna, Electric Dragon: 1.5
  • Marie: 1

That just leaves tomorrow to see if Ms Rullsenberg has left enough pictures digital chez moi to cope with Rosby’s three in waiting. Or will someone send me and exciting batch of 20 pictures to take them into the lead from nowhere? Exciting hey?

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table remains as vibrant as always, and with people now heading off on their holidays, there could be some sneaky last minute manoeuvring that changes the leader board. The bonus points go to Persephone, whose agitprop caption, born from the depths of socialist, “Everyone should win a medal”, “Can’t we all be friends?” Canada, is also subtly topical, it turns out. Well done Persephone!

  • Toby: 44
  • Marie: 36.5
  • Jane Henry: 24.5
  • Persephone: 19
  • Rullsenberg: 14
  • Electric Dragon: 11.5
  • Rev: 11
  • Stu_N: 2
  • Poly, Andrea, Scott: 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.

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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A Sitting Tennant for the weekend (from Rullsenberg): DT’s webcam

19 December 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

DT video diary

Today’s Sitting Tennant is a little something for the weekend from Ms Rullsenberg for y’all: a still from the non-stop webcam I have monitoring David Tennant every hour of the day, if my web stats are to believed.

The Sitting Tennant picture competition table now stands as follows:

  • Kiwi Rullsenberg: 12.5
  • Rosby: 9
  • 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 is filled with dynamism. First, the people have spoken and voted Electric Dragon’s caption from last round topical enough to receive a bonus. Well done, Mr Dragon. Toby manages to win wittiest caption with his own Tobiobian folio. Meanwhile, Jane Henry has managed to find someone who can’t see the point in this whole thing. She must have used a microscope or something.

  • Toby: 43
  • Marie: 35.5
  • Jane Henry: 23
  • Persephone: 16
  • Rullsenberg: 14
  • Electric Dragon: 10.5
  • Rev: 8
  • Stu_N: 2
  • Poly, Andrea, Scott: 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.

The final captionable Sitting Tennant of 2008 will be on Monday, and December 23rd will see the results announced. Hasn’t anyone got any ideas for prizes to make it seem like there was a point to all this? Think of the children, I implore you.

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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A Sitting Tennant for the weekend (from Rullsenberg): DT’s webcam

19 December 2008 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

DT video diary

Today’s Sitting Tennant is a little something for the weekend from Ms Rullsenberg for y’all: a still from the non-stop webcam I have monitoring David Tennant every hour of the day, if my web stats are to believed.

The Sitting Tennant picture competition table now stands as follows:

  • Kiwi Rullsenberg: 12.5
  • Rosby: 9
  • 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 is filled with dynamism. First, the people have spoken and voted Electric Dragon’s caption from last round topical enough to receive a bonus. Well done, Mr Dragon. Toby manages to win wittiest caption with his own Tobiobian folio. Meanwhile, Jane Henry has managed to find someone who can’t see the point in this whole thing. She must have used a microscope or something.

  • Toby: 43
  • Marie: 35.5
  • Jane Henry: 23
  • Persephone: 16
  • Rullsenberg: 14
  • Electric Dragon: 10.5
  • Rev: 8
  • Stu_N: 2
  • Poly, Andrea, Scott: 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.

The final captionable Sitting Tennant of 2008 will be on Monday, and December 23rd will see the results announced. Hasn’t anyone got any ideas for prizes to make it seem like there was a point to all this? Think of the children, I implore you.

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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Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Rullsenberg): Measure For Measure

18 December 2008 Rob Buckley 15 Comments

The advent Sitting Tennant competition continues, despite controversy among obvious communists and drug addicts who think that waxing lyrical about a sedentary Tennant every day or so is "too difficult" to manage. Pah. We’re made of sterner stuff than that, I think.

Today’s Sitting Tennant is yet another from now-obvious picture champion-to-be, Ms Rullsenberg, who’s still managing to maintain her lead despite being in New Zealand. If the will is there, any challenge can be overcome – well except for that white suit in the above picture from Measure For Measure.

The Sitting Tennant picture competition table now stands as follows:

  • Rullsenberg: 11.5
  • Rosby: 9
  • 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 much excitement. Prize for wittiest of the last bunch goes to Toby, who gets double points for ripping the piss out me (that’s not an invitation) in a caption for picture 1, and to Marie for a picture 2 caption – all achieved without the benefit of state hand-outs or methadone (I hope). Shameless former Bolshevik Persephone reveals her true colours as a recidivist, fifth columnist and kulak by deciding to take advantage of Rullsenberg being 17 hours ahead of her to jump into fourth place; meanwhile, Electric Dragon and Rev are reunited in sixth place, and new captioner Scott arrives on the scoreboard for the first. Welcome, Scott!

  • Toby: 38
  • Marie: 31.5
  • Jane Henry: 21
  • Persephone: 15
  • Rullsenberg: 14
  • Electric Dragon, Rev: 8
  • Stu_N: 2
  • Poly, Andrea, Scott: 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.

The final Sitting Tennant of 2008 will be on December 23rd when the results will be announced. Any ideas for prizes?

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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Today’s Sitting Tennants (from Rullsenberg and Rosby): DT’s video diary and a taxi ride

17 December 2008 Rob Buckley 24 Comments

DT's video diary

David Tennant in a taxi

Now pay very careful attention because in the run-up to Christmas, the rules of Sitting Tennant are going to change. Read on.

The competition to win the 2008 Sitting Tennant Awards is definitely hotting up, with Toby and Marie doing their best to out-caption each other and Rosby and Rullsenberg indulging in all out Google Image carnage on the picture front.

Today’s Sitting Tennants are the second from that big stack that Ms Rullsenberg sent me, and appears to be from his video diary, no doubt from when he was doing some ceiling painting; and some rare evidence from Ms Rosby that Mr Tennant can be swayed by the occasional brunette.

As a result, the Sitting Tennant picture competition table now stands as follows:

  • Rullsenberg: 10.5
  • Rosby: 9
  • 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 matching and topping Marie’s burst of captioning to maintain his lead (will Marie now wait for Toby to caption to see if she can do one more than he?), Persephone edging closing to Rullsenberg and Electric Dragon finally pulling ahead of Rev:

  • Toby: 29
  • Marie: 26
  • Jane Henry: 16
  • Rullsenberg: 14
  • Persephone: 13
  • Electric Dragon: 7
  • Rev: 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 rule change
BUT, just to add a little bit of excitement, since there’ll be another advent Sitting Tennant tomorrow, only captions added before the next one goes up will count. And I’m not telling you when that’s going to happen, so you’re going to have to time it nicely.

Also, I will allocate double points to what I judge the wittiest caption of the day. So if it’s the wittiest and topical, it’ll get three points.

I can see I’m going to win a lot of friends with this new innovation. Let me know what you think of the rule changes – too much faff or a necessary adjustment?

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.