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Old 14th Oct 2013, 10:30
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All going a bit quiet, so last call and judging tonight !
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Old 14th Oct 2013, 10:40
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we have descended to an even worse level of schoolyard 'humour'.
It's not "descended to". That's where we started......

Anyone coming here always run a certain risk of a leg pull. As does anyone else, there's no bias or prejudice. In fact that elephant was in need of a leg pull, to get him out of a bit of a fix.

But then - you already know that, don't you?
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Old 14th Oct 2013, 12:58
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'Fly the Ball?'

I'll give them 'Fly the Ball', that's three dropped in one landing!

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Old 14th Oct 2013, 13:23
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Arm,

I thought it was Barnyard humor with the Pachyderm thing.

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Old 14th Oct 2013, 16:35
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OK, time to call it:

Runner up is...

Tashengurt with:
Ikea took chair testing VERY seriously.

...but this weeks worthy winner is...

Buster Hyman with:
Fwom now on, we no deriver to space station!

Well done Buster, over to you!
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Old 14th Oct 2013, 18:21
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Well played Buster and Tash
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Old 14th Oct 2013, 18:59
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"and furthermore"

We are not responsible for the distress of poor little Dumbo (although for one horrid moment I thought it might have been deliberately staged), and are very pleased that he was extracted unharmed, without a broken limb which, I suppose, would (as in the case of a horse) have meant 'curtains'.

But you've "got to see the funny side of it" - perhaps it's a generational thing again, After all, many of the "Caption photos" show aircraft accidents, in which (especially in the wood-and-string days) must have involved death or injury. But they don't show it - so that's all right, then.

All, I can say, as a War survivor, is that the photo didn't offend me. It was an accident, after all. Any revulsion I might feel might make me virtuous, but it didn't help Dumbo.

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we have descended to an even worse level of schoolyard 'humour'.
My dear God, when did we raise our standards upto the level of Schoolyard humour, one will have to attempt to bring it down again to a level befitting of this competition... There by giving Buster a chance again.... Damn he won, we. must already be descending back to the gutter standard of old



Well done c
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Old 14th Oct 2013, 20:43
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I say Nutty old chap this is the RAF ... Gutter indeed ... Culvert if you please
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Old 14th Oct 2013, 21:06
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Culvert if you please
Culvert? Poor Nutty never got to eat any of those fancy desserts served in the Officers Mess.
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I thought Nutty and Buster frequented the Officers Mess when wait staff were needed.
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mumbling in the ranks awaiting the next one . .. . . whether or not exercising the anthropomorphic and xenophobic tendencies of caption writers


Arm .. . your last post .. . (a rousing blast from the bugle?) . .
reads faintly like a piece of tongue-in-cheekiness. . . . . . in any case you
are right to the point when you say let the humour of the flying forces
be the determinant.

(if you haven't looked at that priceless vid of Bill the Beefeater in The Tower of London in JB just now . . . he is the very exemplar of British (Irish?) military humour .. if ever there was. )


can anyone find that photo of a bull terrier sitting on the tailplane of a shot up Hurricane ? It was one that ' Roger Bacon' had on his page back in the 70s.
Think the caption read something like . . "Next time I'm put in one of these photos I shall eat my master's Hurricane in protest."

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Old 15th Oct 2013, 00:59
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Why, thank you very much. I humbly accept the nod with just a quiet...IN YOUR FACE NUTTY...nod to my fellow competitors.

Hopefully, this image is ok. Whilst I am unaware of Sunscreen usage in the Baltic states, I unreservedly apologise in advance if anyone below has contracted any form of melanoma in the following years.

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Savoir faire . . . I think it's called Buster . . .. or panache . . .
. .. . . . whichever . . . the MC will not fail to place on record
the aplomb with which every flourish of the rapier is deftly . . .
swished? administered?



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Old 15th Oct 2013, 01:39
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Captain Boris Amslinkingof regretted beach watching through the Periscope when he caught sight of Buster wearing a Thong.
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Old 15th Oct 2013, 04:15
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"Ooh Sharon, look! I bet that massive thing is full of seamen".
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Daphne couldn't see why everyone kept going on about a typhoon. The weather was lovely!
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Arm .. . your last post .. . (a rousing blast from the bugle?) . .
reads faintly like a piece of tongue-in-cheekiness.
'Faintly' ... I'll have to try harder next time, must have been too upset thinking about that poor little elephant!


Right, to the photo in question:

'Putin goes waterskiing.'
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Damm, everyone would think we were just the Loch Ness Monster if it were not for that Tom Clancy
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Disappeared on Radar at two miles- standing by for MAD mark !!
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