By silicon.com, 5 January 2007 11:25
This competition is now closed, read the winning entry and the runners up below.
WINNER: "Yes! We only delivered the Christmas presents two weeks late this year..."
Nicky Rich
2nd: Bezos gets confirmation that the final Harry Potter book is coming out soon...
Chris Smith
3rd: Jeff wins silicon.com's caption competition
Christian Sharp badly overestimates the scale of the bottles of bubbly we award the winner of this weekly competition.
4th: "It had better not be BOLly..."
Rob Falconer , who clearly remembers the days of the dot-com boom and one of Amazon's early rivals BOL.com (who are apparently still going and big in the Netherlands).
5th: Bezos over the moon, even if his spacecraft isn't.
Simon Coley rightly picks up on the fact the photo was from the party to celebrate the lift off of the Amazon boss's personal space craft.
Photo credit: Blue Origin
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1. Chris Smith
Bezos gets confirmation that the final Harry Potter book is coming out soon...
2. Steve Clarke
Come on then! I'll take you all... I'm not pished!
3. Rob Falconer
It had better not be BOLly ...
4. the captain
"The label said 'Drink Me', but now I appear to be to be shrinking!" said Jeff
5. Valérie Ganne
Just wait until he drinks some. It's full of Amazon water.
6. Richard Williams
Jeff shows off new propulsion system for public space flight
7. anonymous
Finally Amazon gets something to me on time !!! Break out the bubbly !
8. Craig Mitchell
Bezos gets the wrong end of the stick when he had news of the TV show "I'm a Celebrity get me out of here" was relocating to the Amazon.
9. anonymous
Yes, we only delivered the christmas presents 2 weeks late this year....!
10. Jill Powell
We sold a book ... and made a profit!
11. Andy Goodair
Jeff Bezos arrives for the trials with Amazon's new "Wonkavision" delivery system.
12. Steve Booth
Jeff Bezos shows proof that he has not dropped a Bollinger so far this year
13. Anthony Harrison
People who bought this champagne also bought a yacht from a guy called Larry...
14. Giles Turner
I think I've Just stood on the corkscrew!
15. Valérie Ganne
Another corking good read
16. anonymous
Doh! The cork broke. Keep the celebrations on hold until the Firebox.com corkscrew arrives!
17. Richard Harris
ha, told ya, not a screw cap!!
18. Jon Peate
Bezos chas a good laugh at the latest suggestion as to where he should stick the cork.
19. Rob Falconer
Finally the cork arrived, after they had tried to deliver it eighteen times
20. Valérie Ganne
Would you want to buy girlie books from a company named after a race of single-breasted women?
21. Valérie Ganne
Yuch! How come the best Champagne gets sprayed by Michael Schumacher?
22. Adam Finch
Cork tried desperately to escape the clutches of the maniacal giant...
23. anonymous
Jeff wins Silicon's caption competition
24. Piers Dale
Look what I got, I think those guys at Threshers might be on to something
25. Ralph Pruitt
Absolutely no froth, just like our earnings expectations!
26. Richard Ball
More Bez than Bezos
27. anonymous
When I heard Amazon women were big up top I thought my job was at risk so I got pissed.
28. Matt Wheeler
Jeff: Now, as you can see this is 1 on 1 physics. The pressure of a much larger bottle of champagne will definately get the missile into space and cost next to nothing....
29. Rob Wight
Bezos wins inaugural world pole dancing championship !
30. anonymous
Look, I've drawn the cork from the bottle so crown me King.
31. Craig Mitchell
Bezos trying to deliver his new "Drink more, Forget about later deliveries" Business Plan.
32. Karl Deacon
At last, this should slow those cocky fire fighters down a bit, and if the barbed wire on their pole doesn't work, this bottle, carefully positioned should raise a few eyebrows as they plumet to the bottom!
33. Ray Street
Well what d'ya know.. this cork just broke right off!
34. Radical Meldrew
Amazon wine and cheese party gets off to a very boozy start.
35. anonymous
Alright, so the cork did go further than my rocket.
36. anonymous
As the lightning flowed down the little wires, Frankenstein's monster woke up and started celebrating
37. Ian Sargent
When he asked for a Magnum he was expecting an ice cream, however he wasn't going to point out the error.
38. Mike
"And it gives me great pleasure, to present the bottle of champagne for this week's winning caption, to... Mike!"
39. Adam Finch
Jeff Bezos was thrilled to announce that he had won the first Silicon.com caption competition of 2007!
40. simon coley
Bezos over the moon, even if his spacecraft isnt!
41. Malcolm Dawson
"Howz that?? Now will they select me for the english cricket team? They might as well!"
42. anonymous
Press report the worlds 1st Amazon midget!
43. anonymous
"Down in one, down in one.."
44. anonymous
Jokes on me - I got it cheap on the web!