Ok folks, here it is: Due to the overwhelming response, we have decided to announce the first batch of 20 winners to receive two free tickets to the East London Airshow on Saturday worth R100! We asked you to give us a caption for the following picture and boy did our readers not disappoint! Our winners are…(drumroll…):
1. DAL: Pilot: Air traffic we have a problem.
Air traffic: We see you’ve crossed the wires.
2. GR8: Pilot: This was the shortest runway I’ve ever landed on.
Co Pilot: But it sure was the widest.
3. TJ: ATC: Will the idiot in the little plane in front of the gate please just taxi down Runway 1 ready for takeoff?
Pilot: Haai, man, how can I taxi down the runway with only one passenger and no hooter?
4. Gandalf: I had no idea this was they idea when they said I was part of the De-Fence Forces!
5. Ray: Pilot: That was very close.
Air Controller: I told u so. That part of the runway is now a game farm for ex-combatants. Welcome to Zim!!
6.William: Pilot – Hey Sannie, get your head out of there and pull that……..
Air Traffic Controller – Hey Papa Oscar, take your hand off the mike, we can hear everything here on the speakers. And, no you have to take off first and be airborne to be a member of the ‘mile-high club’.
7. Joe Citizen: 01: Are we there yet?
02: Did everyone go to the bathroom before we leave? I am not pulling over for anything!
8. Rose: Pilot to Co-Pilot : Why the hell are you sitting like that?
Co-Pilot: Well, you always told me if the plane’s going down I should put my head between my legs and kiss my ass goodbye!
9. billjoe: pilot:What you do that for?
Co Pilot: told you i’m getting cold so i turned the big fan off
10. Ex-com: Paranoid pilot: The fence just came out of nowhere.
Drunk Air traffic controller: Ay shried to(hic) warn you.
Pilot 2: who’s fence is that?? not mine!!
11. Ian Plant: “So who do I send the bill to?”
“”Mr. Bin Laden, Afganistan”
12. Garron Lewis: pilot: who installed new gps software.
Pilot: why is it saying trial period expired.
13. Steven: Pilot 1: “Ja boet?”
Pilot 2: “…Ja swaer”
14. Gillroy: Jannie: “Bliksem, that was close!”
Sannie: “I told you we need to lose weight if we’re going to get this thing off the ground”.
15. Angel: ATC: Delta 212 you should turn right at 10 o’clock onto runway A.
Pilot: Give us another hint we have digital watches? Oh @#$% too late!!!!!!
16. Dan: Pilot: its the global recession. fuel cut backs are severe. Co Pilot: we need more power captain…
17. Theresa Grobbelaar: Pilot 1: Sooo…What do you want to do?
Pilot 2: I don’t know, what do you want to do?
18. Marc: Pilot1: What a stupid place to put a fence. Pilot2: What a stupid place to put a co-pilot
19. Chase: HEY! what did you do man!? I-didn’t-do-it-nobody-saw-me-do-it-you can’t-prove-anything
20. Brendon: ATC – “Plane 123, do you have problems?” Pilot – “I think, I have lost my compass. ATC – “Looking at how you landed ,i would say you lost the whole instrument panel!”
OK, so this is how you collect your tickets: Tickets will be available for collection this Thursday morning between 9am and 10am and again in the afternoon between 2pm and 4pm.
Please bring your ID book with when collecting the tickets at the revolving door entrance closest to Station Street.
Our next caption competition is to be posted within the next few minutes.
ALSO,
Our grand prize competition will go up at 2pm, where one lucky couple will win:
1. VIP tickets for the day
2. A flip in a light aircraft up the coast to Dweza and back (about 45 minutes)
Thanks DD – you guys are great
Thanks a million DD. Much appreciated.
Hey Vee, one for you and one for me. The men can buy their own. How’s that?
Thanks DD. These captions are great fun and really get the grey matter working overtime.
Thank you, Kind Sir.
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And thank you, Mr On-Line Editor, also.
4. Gandalf: I had no idea this was they idea when they said I was part of the De-Fence Forces!
LOLEST…Tops the cherry
I think I also deserved a prize here. I think the selectors have something against me. Boooooooo. I am going to buy myself a vuvuzela and blow it all night long in your neighbourhood.
Yeay!! Thanks DD. Looking forward to it
Congrats TJ. I guess you will not be joing us on the other side of the fence after all.