Caption competition: Duck!

It's how many airmiles?!

By silicon.com, 25 January 2008 11:41

This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Richard Gianella, was: "Giants narrowly avert air crash."

Photo credit: Caroline McCarthy/CNET News.com

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  1. 1. Julian Nicholls

    So when can I have the complimentary pickle sample?

  2. 2. Karen Challinor

    ..and here in the royal enclosure at Ascot we see a new trend in hat design, not only designed for men but designed to be worn by two people at the same time...

  3. 3. Karen Challinor

    Berts new umbrella design still had problems in high winds

  4. 4. Karen Challinor

    on realising he didn't have any weapons, the tiny pilot's last words were "I'm going in, tell my kids I love 'em YEEEHHAAAAA!"

  5. 5. anonymous

    Its behind you!!!

  6. 6. Mary Hullah

    I just glued three Airfix kits together and it looks fine

  7. 7. Audrey

    Virgin find a way of getting rid of their old flying stock

  8. 8. Rob Falconer

    The Borrowers overshoot the runway at Heathrow

  9. 9. Robert Lindsay

    Finally! Proof that Richard Branson is really a Thunderbirds puppet

  10. 10. Mike Parmley

    I'm sure there's an old joke about Glueless Kits that's relevant here ......

  11. 11. Mike Parmley

    Virgin's marketing department were going to target very small rich people.

  12. 12. anonymous

    Don't worry Richard, the real one will be able to stay up all by itself!

  13. 13. Richard

    And when you twist the nose-cone, all the lights come on! Uber cool eh?

  14. 14. anonymous

    Hopefully this will get off the ground more easily than Northern Rock

  15. 15. anonymous

    Some novelty cigar lighter, eh?

  16. 16. anonymous

    Burt, your jacket is so shiny!

  17. 17. anonymous

    ... and the little one is our new chimney-powered aircraft ...

  18. 18. anonymous

    Richard - our futures are hanging by a thread!

  19. 19. Richard

    Branson: Hey Bert, wotcha think of my 4 engines and 6 pilots idea?
    Burt: Ernie, that's to no way mitigate the risk of bird strike!

  20. 20. anonymous

    .. it's a bit like the three legged race ...

  21. 21. anonymous

    ... and there'll be a special miniaturisation chamber to enable the passnegers to board the plane

  22. 22. anonymous

    And the mother duck said 'quack' and the baby duck said 'I can't go any quacker'

  23. 23. anonymous

    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs

  24. 24. anonymous

    Look, I can hold it with one hand!

  25. 25. anonymous

    Don't worry, Richard, the value of your investment can go up as well as down!

  26. 26. anonymous

    We're working towards wireless technology in the next version

  27. 27. anonymous

    Maybe we should have used Orville for the launch instead

  28. 28. anonymous

    Richard, you said that there would be no strings attached to your investment!

  29. 29. anonymous

    We'll inviting people to join our advanced beta programme shortly

  30. 30. anonymous

    Ehaustive tests have shown that this model has three times the capacity of an ordinary spacecraft

  31. 31. anonymous

    With next version, the nose will stay on by itself

  32. 32. John Ray

    Verging on the ridiculous !

  33. 33. anonymous

    We're talking to Airfix about the manufacturing contract

  34. 34. Corlis Byrne

    ...and we each get our own cabin, this side's gonna be mine, you can stay in the other one, and there's a meeting room in the middle too, with the toilet in it I think....

  35. 35. anonymous

    I dodn't realise this is what they meant when they said we'd be spending the afternoon with a model!

  36. 36. anonymous

    Keep that smile on your face or I'll twist your arm even harder!

  37. 37. anonymous

    Richard, I hope you're going to wear a tie the next time!

  38. 38. Richard

    Yes, the final design: Passengers will need a shrink!

  39. 39. kenneth wilkinson

    Burt saying-"Richard,get ready to start running,I forgot to design any landing gear."

  40. 40. J-Dub

    Who wants to join the 62 Mile High Club? ;)

  41. 41. Ian Macaulay

    Now remember Richard, the left hand side with all the Luggage goes to Milan, whilst the Passengers on the right fly to New York. Economy class in the middle has standing room for 400.

  42. 42. Philip Thomas

    So, ze strings holding it up will be attached to skyhooks and no-vun will know....

  43. 43. Anonymous

    Plus we get to be flight attendants!

  44. 44. BruceR

    Siamese twins say they have no idea where the idea for their new aircraft came from,

  45. 45. P Dragon

    And we’re hoping to be the first couple to join the 300 Mile High Club

  46. 46. Valerie Ganne

    Snakes with a plane

  47. 47. Nick Fowler

    And we’ve got some lovely in-flight movies, including ‘The Horror at 37,000 Feet’ and ‘Panic in the Skies’

  48. 48. Mary Hullah

    Richard Branson had been hoping to sign up William Shatner as pilot

  49. 49. Audrey

    Danger? Well, it’s not as if we’re going to hit anything up there, is it?

  50. 50. anonymous

    ...and of course we have assurances from Gordon Brown that Heathrow will have another runway added at taxpayers expense.

  51. 51. anonymous

    ...and we are proud to annouce a new sponsor for our service - Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom via their Northern Rock front. Did we get cash or bonds? Definately CASH!

  52. 52. Richard Gianella

    Giants narrowly avert air crash

  53. 53. Lee Finlay

    Let's take out these big apes before they climb the Empire State Building!

  54. 54. Simon Coley

    Branson saying "Baggsy i get the Captain Kirk suit!"

  55. 55. Ian

    "I based the aerodynamics on the same principles as my bid for Northern Rock. It's guranteed to work!"

  56. 56. Dave Devine

    Branson introduces Virgins scaled down prices

  57. 57. Warren Jacobs

    The old models were held up with string but the planes managed to hover behind them fine.

  58. 58. kenneth wilkinson

    "Richard saying-"The spacecraft is ok,but I`m not sure about the siamese flying jackets."

  59. 59. STEVEN JAMES

    WE GOT ACCUSED OF AIRFIXING, BUT WERE A MODEL COMPANY...

  60. 60. anonymous

    Next time I'll follow Airfix's instructions

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