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Caption contest: The pinball machine

I may regret this, but here's something new: A caption contest. One of my colleagues saw this picture on a company's Web site.

Pinball machine with flipper about to strike ball.

The original caption for this picture was something like Join our affiliate program or Score big with our affiliate program. Your mission is to come up with something funnier. Here are some ideas to get you started:

  • Do you have balls of steel? Maybe you can become an affiliate.
  • We love to flip off our affiliates.
  • When you become an affiliate, you're going to get whacked around a lot.
  • Sooner or later you'll end up in the hole.
  • We like to play games with you. Become an affiliate today!

Now it's your turn. Keep it friendly.

Published Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:00 AM by oldnewthing
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# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:25 AM by Falcon

The kick in the balls you've been waiting for

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:31 AM by RobO

Tommy says become an affiliate today!

(ok, well he didn't so much *say* it)

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:08 AM by Mark

Got time and money to lose?  We'll give you a turn.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:18 AM by Marky Marketer

Tilt the web in your favor.  Get the ball rolling and score big by joining our affiliate program.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:22 AM by Mark

Take the plunger!

or

Join our affiliate program.  You can't win!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:24 AM by Marky Marketer

Hey, that was funny, it's just funny in a different way.  The kind of way the original was.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:25 AM by hans

We flip your balls.

Hit our bumpers with your balls.

Flipper is a dolphin.

There is no silver bullet.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:27 AM by keith

Our affiliate program: Pay us $2000, and collect 25 cents per user.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:39 AM by Mark

Join your customers in paying for flashing lights with our affiliate program.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:09 PM by Mark

Tired of hurting your wrists on competitors' products?  Get common tasks done quicker with our new pinball wizard. *

* requires affiliate program, available separately

I think I'm done now.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:13 PM by I'm Old

"Do you want to be an important part of hiests?" - Join our affiliate program.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:15 PM by James Schend

Join our affiliate program- $.50 for every game of 3D Space Cadet Pinball played!

(BTW, the worst change in Vista? No pinball game! Although the one with the robots is pretty cool.)

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:08 PM by John

DO A BARREL ROLL!

.................................................

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:26 PM by Anonymous

John: glad to see the *chans are screwing up our favourite websites.

"I'll pull your plunger if you affiliate my bumper."

Or as they say on the *chans:

"bump!"

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:33 PM by porter

Were you expecting a level playing field?

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:42 PM by Evan

Join our affiliate program and receive a pinball machine!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:45 PM by keithmo

There is no success, there is only prolonging the inevitable failure.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:06 PM by Kevin

If you can spot the relevance of this image to our services, you belong in our affiliate program!

Confused? Look at the pinball! Ok, now be an affiliate!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:24 PM by Ben

Deaf? Dumb? Blind? You're our perfect affiliate!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:37 PM by John Truong

No matter what you do, it's going to fall in the gap eventually.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:06 PM by alex.r.

Our affiliates get free access to a large collection of irrelevant stock photography.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:16 PM by Adam Ruth

Affiliates get a free play.

Become an affiliate, or the ball gets it.

We don't whack affiliates in the balls.

Bounce around our bumpers for a while.

Plan It Now, Become Affiliate, Limited Licenses.

Still more fun than Pong.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:20 PM by steveg

JOIN OUR AFFILIATE PROGRAM

We plug the gap you can't reach -- but your balls can.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:31 PM by Dustman

Our affiliate program will use your balls to bang our customers until they light up! At least until all your balls are drained.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:49 PM by J

Pictured above:  The most boring looking pinball game ever created.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:56 PM by Lorenzo Stoakes

Affiliates: Keep on feeding us the coins and we'll keep on feeding you the balls.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:24 PM by Hedgeek

Join Our Affiliate Program Today!

It is a useless waste of time and it will cost you a fortune.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:49 PM by Miral

Don't drop the ball -- become an affiliate!

But yeah, that's a pretty boring table.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:02 PM by tyler

OurCompany: Because it's all just a game.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:39 PM by tw

Become an affiliate and we'll be forever in your pocket.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:40 PM by GBC

Only 5,000 more referrals until MULTIBALL

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:25 PM by Puckdropper

Join our affiliate program today!  We'll give you quarters so you can play pinball and wash your clothes!!!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:03 AM by Michael

Join our affiliate program and be as bored as someone playing this pinball game.

Bored of playing pinball all day? Join our affiliate program!

We guarantee that our affiliate program will be more fun than this loser pinball game so join now!

After you pay the fee to join our affiliate program we should be able to get a better graphic! Join now!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:47 AM by Worf

Affiliates play. SDTM[*] for everyone else.

Affiliates win. SDTM for losers.

Why risk it? Affiliates get ball(s) savers!'

Everyone plays. Affiliates can't TILT.

[*] Straight down the middle

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:07 AM by Aaron

Our paddles would like to become affiliated with your balls.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:17 AM by Chris

Robo Smile!

Bust teeth!

(Slighlty obscure reference)

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:45 AM by jimmy

Wasted effort? Join our affiliate program, we'll give you a good whack, and keep your balls in the game!

Feel like everyone else is playing games with you? Join our affiliate program today!

Feel like your balls are getting smacked around? Its time to join our affiliate program!

Join our affiliate program, and spend the rest of your life playing pinball!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:23 AM by DysgraphicProgrammer

Join our affiliate program, we'll bounce you around chaoticly, then drop you down a hole.

Join our affiliate program, we'll treat your business like a game.

MULTIBALL!!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:49 AM by Rob

Learn to design pinball machines in your spare time!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:01 AM by Timothy the Tool

Are you tired of playing whack-a-mole with affiliate spammers? Then why try to beat them when you can join them?  All that's required are balls of steel, some good game, and the ability to paddle anti-spammers hard without tilting. Join us today and score high.  Don't let your future go down the drain.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:36 AM by -dan

Join our low budget affiliate program - We couldn't even come up with an image of a pinball machine that has a ball feed.

Which could be shortened to:

Join our affiliate program - Where nothing really works.

or simply:

Join us and Tilt! Game over.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:52 PM by skarnis

Join our affiliate program and you won't get bounced around.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:27 PM by robertowa

How about: "Microsoft affiliate program" ? ;)

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:47 PM by Andrew

Join our affiliate program, it's like that Back to the Future, but instead you go to 1975 and you don't get to invent Rock and Roll.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:50 PM by CmraLvr2

Our affiliate program is tiltillating!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:32 PM by MarcT

Sound like fun! Will you post a/some "winners" for each of these? Enable my laziness, please!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:50 PM by alexx

Wanna join our affiliate program? INSERT COIN!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Friday, March 27, 2009 12:22 AM by xorl

What the? Is this the first post here on TONT that actually has a /picture/ in it??? Just... Wow!

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Friday, March 27, 2009 7:39 AM by Gavin Greig

Join our affiliate program!

We'll be deaf, dumb and blind to all your needs.

(Sorry, WHO are you?)

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Friday, March 27, 2009 8:42 AM by Brian Tkatch

Want to game the system? Become an affiliate today.

Become an affiliate today, because winning is not a game.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Friday, March 27, 2009 8:49 AM by Sarkie

Do you want to be a big paddle in a small game? Join our affiliate program.

If your balls haven't dropped yet, join our affiliate program

Our affiliate program is not a game.

Be our third paddle, join our affiliate program

Join our affiliate program. (Picture is unrelated)

Get more points with our affiliate program then on a 2 foot pinball machine

Are you up sh** creek without a paddle? Join our affiliate program

/me goes back to coding

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Friday, March 27, 2009 11:47 AM by Ens

Our affiliate program is a strange game:

The only winning move is not to play.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Friday, March 27, 2009 4:43 PM by Cletus

I am a geek.  I am not affiliated with humor.  This is my home-made pinball machine.  Join me in my basement.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Friday, March 27, 2009 4:44 PM by Cletus

Oops, sorry.  I thought we were making fun of each other now.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Saturday, March 28, 2009 7:56 AM by Roger

Join our affiliate program: 25cents per round.

I kind of like Raymond's original suggestions best.

# re: Caption contest: The pinball machine

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:11 PM by Hedgeek

Join the Microsoft Affiliate Program (Codename Pinball)

Disclaimer:

You don't earn any money but you can brag to your friends you were on the Pinball Beta Test team.

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