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Caption contest!

To celebrate our new caption contest module, I'm posting 3 examples of it below. (Along with a chance for you to take a few fun potshots at me. Good-natured, I hope :).

If you want to use the caption contest module on your own lens, it's really simple to use. Just upload a photo. Then let people write in funny captions for the photo, or vote for their favorites.

And it doesn't need to be just a joke-around module, either. Imagine uploading your company's logo, and inviting people to submit taglines. Or your new tattoo design, and let people vote up reviews about it. Or a photo of your brand new pet rat, who clearly needs a name!

However you use it, one thing is for sure: It's a fun new way for your readers to connect with your content.

Add it as a treat on existing lenses or... what if you created a suite of straight-up caption contest lenses, with the photo front and center?

Anyway, I'm sure you'll come up with tons of different uses. Have fun!

This photo really needs a caption

There's fertile ground for total weirdness here.

The back story is pretty funny, too. My friend and her daughter:

Mom: "Lyra, careful of that mushroom. Don't step on it."
Lyra: "OK. It looks like a table!"
Mom: "It does."
Lyra: "Let's have a dinner party!"
Mom: "Let's. You're in charge of who's invited. I'll bring the food."
Lyra: "Alien wants to come. I don't know who else."
Mom: "As long as he doesn't eat the other guests, that's fine with me."
Lyra: "He won't. He'll eat cupcakes."

Squidoo

The Caption Contest module

Caption contest!

Contents at a Glance

This photo really needs a caption

There's fertile ground for total weirdness here.

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As the party wound down, they began to wonder where Strawberry Shortcake went. Everyone suspected the alien, but neglected to notice the faint smell of strawberry on the duck's breath.

2

Who says we can't all just get along.

3

Alien isn't mean; he's a pretty "fungi" after all.

4

The new "Survivor" crew.

5

Fungi Fun

6

The new Land of the Lost.

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I'm a celebrity, get me out of here!

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If you mush my room I'll turn you into one of these little people!

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Alien: "Pig, will you PLEASE stop leering at my wife." Redhead: (sigh) "Darling, how many times have I told you, he looks that way at everyone."

10

I have to choose between you and the food on this table. You look meatier!

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Aliens eat cupcakes too!

12

...and when you bite from this side of the mushroom, Alice,...Alice?

Dream up a tagline

what's Squidoo, to you?

1

Squidoo: Sharing life one lens at a time

2

SQUIDOO: Getting grabbed by the tentacles never felt so good.

3

Squidoo is my imagination at work!

4

Squidoo: Where it ink is online

5

Creative means of self expression, Squidoo provides the platform.

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Snoophead Who Swims the World Wide Web With Eye On More To Doo

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SQUIDOO: Isn't it time you surprised yourself with what you can do?

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SQUIDOO: Like the hair club for men. Only better.

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SQUIDOO: Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

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SQUIDOO: Informative, Imaginative, Innovative Information on the Internet

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It's not SKIDOO, but simply SQUIDOO!

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Squidoo: Where life is shared 1 lens at a time

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Squidoo is Where Squids DO

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Squidoo: There's no such thing as SquidCant

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squidoo is like OMG like awesome kinda like hello-oh!!!

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SQUIDOO: Where you can leave your ink splot on the world.

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Squidoo; Free to share and be shared

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U Put the DO in Squidoo!

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Squidoo who? Squidoo YOU!!

Put words in my mouth

Why? Why not.

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"You lensmasters drive me to drink!"

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I eat people like you for lunch every day!

3

I don't care if it's only 8:00am!

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"Say that again and I'll throw this in your face. Say it again."