As usual, a little something for the weekend – a Sitting Tennant, the first of 2009. As you can see, DT is busily seeing who won 2008's competition.

The scores are reset, everything's back to zero. Captions and pictures, please. On your marks, get set, go!

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.

Well, it's the moment quite a lot of you have been waiting for: who's won the 2008 Sitting Tennant competition? Has Rosby done enough to beat Rullsenberg's lead? Has Toby's captioning skill proven unassailable.

Follow me after the break to find out the results – and to see lots of pictures of David Tennant sitting down.

Continue reading "Sitting Tennants 2008: The results"

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.

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.

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.

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.

As we head towards the end of the year and the unveiling of the winners of the 2008 Sitting Tennant Awards (any ideas what the prizes should be?), there's now everything to play for and some people are playing for it very hard.

Today's Sitting Tennant, for example, comes from a big stack that Ms Rullsenberg has sent me, meaning she's opening up a lead on Ms Rosby that seemed unthinkable just a few weeks ago – we might even have enough for a Sitting Tennant advent calendar this week. It comes from Love in the 21st Century and clearly involves a Land of the Giants crossover, judging by the laptop DT is using.

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

• Rullsenberg: 9.5
• Rosby: 8
• 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 recover a very small portion of his old lead over Marie thanks to some extreme captioning, in a round that also saw a surprising number of back-related captions:

• Toby: 24
• Marie: 22
• Jane Henry: 15
• Rullsenberg: 14
• Persephone: 12
• Rev, Electric Dragon: 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 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.

It seems the new layout for Sitting Tennant was a good move, since suddenly we have a veritable onslaught of Tennants in a sitting position. Today, we have three: one from young Rosby (who clearly likes her Tennnants young and windswept) and thought that that was going to be enough to hold on to her lead; but two from Ms Rullsenberg who is therefore declared the new leader. Told you you'd be caught napping, Rossers.

The Sitting Tennant picture competition table now stands as follows:

• Rullsenberg: 8.5
• Rosby: 8
• 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 now sees Marie within striking distance of Toby thanks to some extreme wittiness (and topicality) on her part from her sick bed, while the middle of the board continues to see neck and neck excitement – like an Algonquin Roundtable version of Super Mario Kart:

• Toby: 21
• Marie: 19.5
• Jane Henry: 13.5
• Persephone: 12
• Rullsenberg: 10.5
• Rev, Electric Dragon: 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.  

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 Tennant comes from Persephone and is from The Graham Norton Show. Apparently, David's acting out some of his favourite porn, doing both roles as part of a one-man show, which sounded increasingly unpleasant even as I wrote it. Persephone says she's been saving up the picture for some reason.

Captions please. Reasons why Persephone's been saving it up do not count as captions.

The Sitting Tennant picture competition table now stands as follows, with Persephone rejoining Rullsenberg in second place. One picture from either of you and you'll be in the lead, if Rosby doesn't wake up soon:

• Rosby: 7
• Rullsenberg, 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 has seen some excitement, with a very concerted effort from Marie. Here how it stands now:

• Toby: 21
• Marie: 16
• Jane Henry: 12.5
• Persephone: 11
• Rullsenberg: 9.5
• Electric Dragon, Rev: 4
• Stu_N: 2
• Poly, Andrea: 1

As always, keep your eyes peeled for any new pictures of David Tennant sitting down that you can find, and keep coming up with those captions – there'll be bonus points for topical captions and pictures if you can find them.

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 Tennant is from Saturday's Einstein and Eddington, which I still haven't watched. Oh well. It's on my iPod – I"ll get round to it at some point. It involved two scientific geniuses, one of whom was probably gay, one of whom wasn't – parallels to Last of the Time Lords, I wonder?

Anyway, captions please. They can involve that haircut.

Notably, this is Mr Electric Dragon's first entry in the picture competition aspect of Sitting Tennant; even more notably is that Ms Rullsenberg, on six and a half points, didn't take the opportunity to submit another entry in the competition and take over the lead from the dormant Rosby, who's still on top seven points, so she remains in second place. Persephone isn't too far away on five and a half points, Toby has five, Poly and Scott both have three and a half points each, Jane has two and a half, Anna and Electric Dragon have one and a half each, while Marie has one.

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table hasn't seen much change but everyone is looking very verved up and witty, with a concerted effort by all the assembled commenters. Toby has now hit the 20 captions mark, so kudos to him. Marie stays in second on 13. But now Jane Henry has overtaken Persephone to take third place on 10 and a half captions to Persephone's 10. Rullsenberg now has eight and a half, Electric Dragon and Rev are still tied but are on four entries each this time, and Poly and Stu_N are stuck on one each. New entry Andrea has chimed in as well, so she joins them on one, too.

As always, keep your eyes peeled for any new pictures of David Tennant sitting down that you can find, and keep coming up with those captions – there'll be bonus points for topical captions and pictures if you can find them.

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.