{"id":17453,"date":"2009-07-16T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/07\/16\/caption-contest-the-pinball-machine-results\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T10:00:01","slug":"caption-contest-the-pinball-machine-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090716-01\/?p=17453","title":{"rendered":"Caption contest: The pinball machine: Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been quite a while, but a winner in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/03\/25\/9505722.aspx\"> the caption contest<\/a> has been selected and the prize finally reached its destination. (Mostly due to procrastination on my part. Don&#8217;t blame the postal service.)\n The winner is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidedbycharts.com\/\"> Scott<\/a> from Australia with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/03\/25\/9505722.aspx#9509354\"> his entry<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> Only 5,000 more referrals until MULTIBALL <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Even though it&#8217;s kind of low-brow, it made me laugh spontaneously.<\/p>\n<p> For his efforts, Scott wins a deluxe prize package consisting of <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/exchange\/2010\/\">     Exchange 2010<\/a> laptop skin <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a PC sticker and yoyo <\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 stress ball <\/li>\n<li>Assorted logo pens (Microsoft, Xbox 360, Microsoft Office) <\/li>\n<li>TSA-approved Microsoft travel lock (so he can travel to our country     should he be so inspired) <\/li>\n<li>Miscellaneous historical items from the wayback drawer \n<ul>\n<li>Windows Me pen     <\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Bob lapel pin     <\/li>\n<li>Microsoft 20th anniversary kazoo     <\/li>\n<li>Temporary tattoos: Windows 2000, Windows 95,     OLE (who knew they even had a logo!),     Microsoft Visual Tools,     MSN,     Microsoft BackOffice. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Here&#8217;s Scott&#8217;s acceptance speech: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> I&#8217;d like to thank all the letters that made the caption possible &#8211; the&nbsp;O, the&nbsp;N, the&nbsp;R, and especially the&nbsp;L &#8211; that little guy really pulled his weight. And thank you to the 1990&#8217;s, for coming up with blogs, so that I could one day win a caption contest. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been quite a while, but a winner in the caption contest has been selected and the prize finally reached its destination. (Mostly due to procrastination on my part. Don&#8217;t blame the postal service.) The winner is Scott from Australia with his entry Only 5,000 more referrals until MULTIBALL Even though it&#8217;s kind of low-brow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-17453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;s been quite a while, but a winner in the caption contest has been selected and the prize finally reached its destination. (Mostly due to procrastination on my part. Don&#8217;t blame the postal service.) The winner is Scott from Australia with his entry Only 5,000 more referrals until MULTIBALL Even though it&#8217;s kind of low-brow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}