Caption Competition: Return to sender

Anyone got a stamp?

By silicon.com, 18 January 2008 11:20

This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader D Newton, was: "It's so sexy, our customers requested it be delivered in plain brown envelopes."

Photo credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks

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  1. 1. Mary Hullah

    If it were adhesive, you could use it as a Post-it note

  2. 2. Audrey

    Apple unveils its new fly-swatter

  3. 3. P Dragon

    Steve shows his blank script, now that the writers are on strike

  4. 4. Chewbacca Wookie

    you can now post emails first class by Royal Mail.

  5. 5. Nick Fowler

    Not only is it thin, but it folds up to go through letter-boxes

  6. 6. Karen Challinor

    ... and we've already sold these, HMRC in the UK placed an order as soon as they found it would fit in an envelope...

  7. 7. anonymous

    Don't give it to HMRC, they will loose it

  8. 8. anonymous

    Are there any cd's in there

  9. 9. anonymous

    Does anyone know why this one is addressed to HMRC???

  10. 10. D Newton

    It's so sexy, our customers requested it be delivered in plain brown envelopes.

  11. 11. Audrey

    Er no, Steve, that IS an inter-office envelope

  12. 12. anonymous

    simply load up 25 million names, addresses and bank account details and pop it into the internal mail.

  13. 13. David Mutlow

    Hello children, I've been invited here to warn you about the danger of putting your hands under steam rollers.

  14. 14. dave devine

    Once we put it in an evelope, we knew we had it licked.

  15. 15. Paul

    All we need now is the heat sink to keep it cool, or you could wave it about!

  16. 16. Nick Fowler

    Steve was heavily criticised for hanging on too long during the “Pass the Parcel” game

  17. 17. Nick Fowler

    Steve was heavily criticised for hanging on too long during the “Pass the Parcel” game

  18. 18. Charles Wood

    Not available for government employees...

  19. 19. John S

    Steve Jobs does that Larry David walk.
    (Cue tuba... pum pum pum pum, p-pum, p-pum p-pum...)

  20. 20. Richard

    Look, my leaving present to Bill Gates.

  21. 21. Valerie Ganne

    Frozen shoulder can affect anybody anywhere

  22. 22. anonymous

    Steve Jobs in high-five with The Invisible Man shocker.

  23. 23. K Clegg

    Apples new post boy is a living example of the company's dedication to multi-tasking.

  24. 24. Rob Falconer

    But why would anybody want to put a laptop in an inter-office envelope, Steve?

  25. 25. Richard

    Bill's sent me SP1 for my Vista; anyone else need it?

  26. 26. Richard

    Stung by "green" critics, Apple reduces packaging.

  27. 27. Mary

    So, how muxh is in this envelope? Deal or no deal?

  28. 28. nick williams

    'Someone in the UK wants to trade a couple of data CDs for an unlocked iphone - that works.....'

  29. 29. kenneth wilkinson

    "Origami wasn`t one of Steves strong points."

  30. 30. Valerie Ganne

    Er no, actually the size envelope the new MacBook fits in is the one behind me

  31. 31. Mary Hullah

    Steve Jobs is demoted to official Airport greeter for Apple

  32. 32. Audrey

    Er, I think my underarm deodorant may have set solid

  33. 33. anonymous

    OK - so it was me who farted!

  34. 34. Roger Ash

    We designed this one especially for HMRC

  35. 35. anonymous

    Can you see the address? Yes, this one is going to be mailed to my mate Bill - he needs a truely modern laptop to help him and Melinda do their philanthropy job wirelessly.

  36. 36. Dan Looker

    When you go will you send back a letter from America (what, with the favourable exchange rate and everything...)

  37. 37. ian

    Jobs receives order for Mac Air from HMRC and the Royal Navy to make data even easier to lose!

  38. 38. chewbacca wookie

    Unlike Royal Mail it's fast and reliable and never goes to the wrong address

  39. 39. Shirley A. Hodge

    Caption:

    Great staging, crappy lighting.

  40. 40. P Dragon

    Steve hands his ultimatum on world domination to the American President

  41. 41. Chris Goodman

    And it is small enough to get lost in the post!

  42. 42. Dave Mills

    The answer to the growing burden of internal emails....we call it the MacEnvelope

  43. 43. kenneth wilkinson

    "Air Mail"

  44. 44. Alan Tierney

    The laptop fits into an envelope but unfortunately you will need a suitcase for the battery charger.

  45. 45. anonymous

    Come in Mr Gates... stop your floundering around in the middle of the pond... your time is up!

  46. 46. anonymous

    And the lucky winner will be met at the airport by a limo driven by Steve Jobs

  47. 47. Mike Parmley

    We've found a couple of CDs in the post room ......

  48. 48. Andrew Stirling

    Now HMRC can lose a whole computer's worth of info!

  49. 49. Spoke

    Steve had just realised that buying bigger envelopes would have been much cheaper!

  50. 50. Roger H Phebey

    In my left hand the latest and greatest, in my right hand the next version!
    Yes it is invisible, but trust me I have always delivered you technology!

  51. 51. Chris Goodman

    It is a security enhanced design. So small it will hold less data to be lost.

  52. 52. Brian Hann

    After all I've done for them, i get a P45 ... again!

  53. 53. anonymous

    All that info in a 'Brown' envelope - surprise surprise!!

  54. 54. Ian Springham

    Apple innovation heralds new way of losing vast amounts of personal data and the laptop containing it. Widespread MoD and NHS roll-out expected soon.

  55. 55. Pat Mason

    I have in my hand a piece pf paper ...

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