Introducing Curiosity - The Latest Caption Contest Winner (Offer Ends 9/12/09)

Introducing Curiosity - The Latest Caption Contest Winner (Offer Ends 9/12/09): "

Introducing Curiosity… the winner of the 3rd Caption Contest!

Our latest Caption Contest voting is complete- and the winner, by a landslide, is here!

This time around, the 1st Prize winner of the contest is one Mr. Rich Bradley! He’ll soon be receiving a check for $500, along with an exciting collection of entirely pristine void-fill (perhaps with some Despair swag thrown in). All for contributing the winning submission, CURIOSITY!

But Rich isn’t the only one who just earned himself a handful of voidfill. As always, we’re celebrating the completion of another exciting Caption Contest by letting each of YOU have a chance to win something, too! From now until Monday night, you can pick up a FREE desktopper of CURIOSITY, simply by adding it to your cart and placing an order for $19.95 worth of other stuff at our website. What kinda stuff? Well, why not pick up a 16-Month 2010 Calendar? Remember- our 2010 Calendars not only include the 12 to 16 Demotivators of your choice, but they’re now jam-packed with bizarre, depressing and occasionally hilarious historical trivia! Like what? How about:

MAY 21, 1985

Protestors outraged about New Coke

gather in downtown Atlanta carrying

signs that read, ‘Our children will

never know refreshment.’

 

NOVEMBER 5, 2007(approx.)

Disgraced former NY Times plagiarist

& serial story fabricator Jayson Blair

announces he is now a ‘life coach’ and

‘motivational speaker’ for hire.

 

AUGUST 1, 2003

Reuters reports that supermarket

cashiers in Buenos Aires are being

forced to wear diapers during work

to keep them from taking toilet breaks.

 

JANUARY 30, 1969

Stephen King, the Chief Accountant

for the Royal Bank of Scotland,

calls police to complain about a

noisy concert on the roof of the

Apple Records building.

 

DECEMBER 15, 2006

An S&P analyst in Collateralized Debt

Obligations group emails a superior,

‘Let’s hope we’re all wealthy and retired

by the time this house of cards falters. ;o)’

 

AUGUST 12, 1958

Disney releases wildlife documentary

‘White Wilderness’. During the filming,

lemmings were pushed off of cliffs in order

to document their suicidal tendencies.

 

JULY 7, 1995

Alanis Morissette releases the venomous

single ‘You Oughta Know’- which was

inspired by her relationship with that

goofy Joey guy on ‘Full House’.

 

FEBRUARY 4, 1912

Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt performs the

first and only test of his ‘overcoat parachute’

by leaping from the Eiffel Tower.

 

AUGUST 14, 2009

Madden NFL 10 released. It features

radical innovations over Madden NFL 9,

including crowds booing their own mascot and

the ‘authentic third-quarter beer cutoff’.

Admit it- you KNOW that’s awesome! So you BETTER be grabbing yourself one of those bad-boy calendars while you can automatically throw in a free CURIOSITY desktopper! Remember, you’ve got a week to help yourself to a free CURIOSITY desktopper. Don’t wait until the last minute or you’ll miss out! (Offer ends September 12, 2009)

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(Via The Despair Inc. Blog.)