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mikelewis

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I know that this site deals with a very serious and for some very emotive subject but as the men in the trenches indulged in their own form of "black humour" in order to retain a few vestiges of sanity, I thought I might do the same.

Look carefully at the image below and add your own caption, it must above all be witty and to some extent reflect the spirit of the time.

Although this is just a bit of fun I will award a prize to the person or persons whom I adjudge to have provided the funniest caption.

Entries through the forum and the closing date is 23rd december.

The Prize.

A downloadable, signed image of my painting of a Halberstadt CV. !!!!!!!!!!!

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Pilot: 'Wow! Those two shells passed just behind me - what luck that they missed us!'

Bernard

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"British Imperial Airways announces the departure of it's 19:17 flight to Ypres. We apologise for the delay, which was due to technical difficulties".

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Pilot to observer

"Your goggles are so thick when you look at the map you can see people waving"

Garron.

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"...And the Fokker came in out of the sun! Suddenly there are Fokkers to the right, Fokkers to the left – Fokkers everwhere!" The fokkers were flying Albatros D.IIIa's.

Boom boom the old ones are the best!!

Mick

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I promised my mother in law I'd take her up for a flip, but I thought I'd better first camouflage her so that the CO doesn't find out.

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"Doesn't dad look great in those googles?"

"Sure he does, I just hope he has a parachute cause I know YOU don't!"

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"Tubby was not hopeful about Archie's alternative to Vick's Nasal Spray"

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"Dad, did you forget to bring your laptop again?"

"Nope - I just have my Mp3 player with me so I can listen to

'Der Valkhyrie" as we fly over Berlin!"

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Pilot : "Hope you sitting comfortably, General Haig"

Pilot (thinks): Let's see, the Chaps have 3/1 for "chunder in the barrel roll", 5/1 for the "screaming like a girl in the dive", and 20 to 1 on for "seatbelt failure during the loop the loop" ....

Steve.

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"Tubby was not hopeful about Archie's alternative to Vick's Nasal Spray"

Or

"Tubby was hopeful that Archie's alternative to senna pods would work".

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"This is your Captain speaking - welcome to your Club Class seats aboard our new Boeing 777 for our April Mystery Tour - I'll just turn the air conditioning down - you can take the blindfold off now!"

Adrian

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"Well here goes the RAF!"

"As long as you remembered to bring the sandwiches we'll be okay. The last time we landed at the chateau those guys with the red tabs got pretty mad since they thought we were the pizza that they had ordered."

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"Look here Gieves. How many times do I have to tell you that I am supposed to smile and that you are just supposed to sit there and look dumb which in your case isn't hard to do at all!"

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Observer: You mean that nurse standing next to the c/o? You jammy ba...

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Mr Toad's first flying lesson.

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Pilot: No, you're right; it is a starling.

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Observer: Lift your bum a bit and I'll put my boots back on. My toes are warm now.

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(How many goes are we allowed?)

Pilot: But I didn't have the beans this morning.

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Back-seat instructor: That's right, look again for bikes.

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Female voice off (to pilot): ...and you can wipe that silly grin off your face, young man! If your mum were here, she'd be telling you to wrap up warm too!

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