CAPTION CONTEST #18

  THE WINNERS


Thanks to all that entered!


   "So we are all agreed then there are actually no negatives to being locked in the cellar ".

 "One of the major events of World War 2 was the Bottle of Britain. 
The RAF wasn't quite a bottle tested unit but they were bottle ready.
  The attacks by the German Luftwaffe left Britain in a barrelous situation bringing the UK to the drink of disaster. 
But the RAF was up to the cask and defeated the Luftwaffe and soon became known as a cellar squadron. 
Winston Churchill praised them stating that it was "their finest happy hour".  "

 "The POWs devised an ingenious plan to escape by hiding inside empty beer barrels.
Everything was going according to plan until one of them found a cup. "

 "Niagara Falls or bust! "

 "With hammer " the Jerry’s may cross this week"
Opening bung hole " we can’t let this lot fall into their hands"
Standing with cup " England Expects lads, England expects "  "

 "Ah thought BigX was putting the Danish contingent in charge of
the Kriegy brewery his best decision of the war so far? Probably! "

 "I think I've had enough..it looks like we are standing on
a base of grass and dirt when we are in a basement with a stone floor "

 "Don't just stand there and gives us a hand!"
"Sorry pals! I ain'tno good at doing barrel rolls without my plane. "

 "They can certainly put it away at 617 Squadron, that’s the third order this month.
Never bottles, always barrels.........and we never get the empties back ".

 "By the twentieth rendition of
'Roll Out The Barrel' the novelty had worn off somewhat. "



THE ENTRIES


 " One of the major events of World War 2 was the Bottle of Britain.
  The RAF wasn't quite a bottle tested unit but they were bottle ready.
  The attacks by the German Luftwaffe left Britain in a barrelous situation bringing the UK to the drink of disaster. 
But the RAF was up to the cask and defeated the Luftwaffe and soon became known as a cellar squadron.
  Winston Churchill praised them stating that it was  "their finest happy hour ".  "

"I'm not sure if it's petrol or not. Give us a match Fred and I'll take a peek."

" I picked the lock, I found the stock, you sort the barrel."

"Well Lads, This is the Way to Fight a War, Cheers!"

"Well Bert, I'm not sure if it's aircraft fuel or Egyptian brandy but it tastes OK, 'ere have a swig?"

"I'm warning you Cyril, if you sing another verse of 'Roll out the Barrel',
I'm going to pop you inside one of these and get the lads to drop you somewhere over Berlin."

"Salute to this new form of 'Keg'sspiel !"

"Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." - 1 Corinthians 15:32b"

"Aw, bloody hell, mates! This swill ain't beer, it's...!"

"Well Boys, Here's Looking Up Your Address!"

"Come on guys...
keep opening them...
I overheard some intel from the CO talking about "fun and a barrel full of monkeys"...
I know they're in here somewhere...
lets find those monkeys!"

"The general told me to sample the wine...
make sure it was okay to serve...
"hiccup"...
I take my orders seriously...
I don't care if it takes all night...
"hiccup"...
I'm gonna make sure I sample every single barrel...
in an orderly and proficient military manner...
"hiccup"..."

"Tastes like piss to me, but the lads will think it's peachy!"

 "'After hours of searching,
Bob merrily confirmed the lads had finally uncovered the Wing Commanders secret stash of Bertie's Best Bitter.' "
"The first batch of Newkirk's Stalag 13 Lager leaves the brewery."

"Unknown even to most historians there were actually 4 tunnels
at Stalag Luft III  "Tom", "Dick","Harry"and "Ruby Tuesday"."

"The POWs devised an ingenious plan to escape by hiding inside empty beer barrels.
Everything was going according to plan until one of them found a cup."

"You take one down, *hic* and pass it around, 25 barrels of beer on the wall!"

"Have Some Stout, Give A Shout & Fly High with the RAF"

"Sod this! Here we are in downtown bloody Normandy waiting for a decent drink to fly in,
and some bloody twerp thinking he was smart hiding the grog down here,
has mixed the fuel kegs with the beer kegs.  Keep testing lads…"

"I'm pretty sure the commander said to take a look at the barrels of our cellars.
Or it was the barrels of his fighter?"

"Hey fellas I think the old saying goes "99 bottles of beer on the wall" not 99 barrels of beer on the wall."

"Above and beyond the call of duty"
Volunteers sample for suitability the barrels of wine to be used to celebrate
 Victory Day. This might require several teams to complete the arduous task,
 and there won't be a shortage of recruits."

"C'mon guys, hurry up and get those firkin tapped, I'm thirsty and we have to drink it ale."

"Niagara Falls or bust!"

" 'ere Sid, what does XO on the side of the barrel mean? "
"Dunno Bert, I fink it means 'Orribly Bad. Chuck it anyway, there must be some Bitter 'ere somewhere. "

"Oh no just got another order for MacCallans!
Don't these whisky guys ever stop!Thats the tenth order this week"

"With hammer "the Jerry's may cross this week"
Opening bung hole " we can’t let this lot fall into their hands"
Standing with cup " England Expects lads, England expects "

"OK lads seal her up it's right to go,what a job checking all these barrels are up to standard but heck someone has to do it."

"I hope there is enough gunpowder here to blow up 'brexiteers' and 'remainers'"

  "I bet guy Fawkes never stopped for tea breaks when he was planning to blow up Parliament."

  "One aircraftman to another "I joined the Airforce and now I am a troglodyte;
those 'reach for the sky' recruiting advertisements for the RAF were all froth and no beer" "

    "...not much 'reaching for the sky' down here"

  " if we drop enough of these on the Eider damn we could drown them in beer"

  "if we drink this lot we'll be as legless as Douglas Bader"

  "Achtung! Beer barrel!"

 "During the battle of Britain; Goering to his pilots "what do you need?"
  Adolf Galland, "a tanker of British bitter british Herr Riechmarschall!"

"It's not Napoleon brandy I think we have found Nelson!"

"Ah thought BigX was putting the Danish contingent
in charge of the Kriegy brewery his best decision of the war so far? Probably!"

"Captain Faulks couldn't help thinking his plan to end the Brexit debate had been tried before! "

"Well cheerio boys thought big X. It certainly was a game attempt;
it worked out ok for those dwarf fellows in the Hobbit after all! And the best bit was having to empty the barrels first !"

"Desperately needing something to wash down their meal of steak and kidney pudding with mushy peas,
Lionel Haversham looked on anxiously while his mess mates Nigel and Addison tried to open a couple of casks of Strong Bitters."

"100 barrels of beer in the wall, 100 barrels of beer...."

"Gentleman! here's to a long war"

"Hurry up and hide all this stuff before Steve McQueen gets here"

"We will drink no wine before its time.  Hah! Like hell we won't"

 "A rare photo of the early line up of Thin Lizzy ,
it is believed this is the actual moment they got the inspiration
for several of their classic songs starting with whiskey in the jar and after A few more barrels the inspiration
for the song the boys are back in town followed by the classic song there's going to be a jail break"

 "Wow it's strong! You can spit fire with this double malt whiskey!
Hurry Cain, we must bottle this and take it to Lancaster before the typhoon comes "

 "When they said BYOB. That's not what they meant guys! "

 "YOU KNOW MATES THIS WILDFIRE DOESEN'T TASTE SO BAD GOING DOWN SLOWLY,
SHALL I TELL THE QUEEN ? HONESTLY I AM AFRAID TO BURP THOUGH. "

 "Beerbombs! The same procedure, Constable Henegger! "

 " I think I've had enough..it looks like we are standing on a base of grass and dirt when we are in a basement with a stone floor "

 "It's a short, short way to Tipsy-rary! Hic! "

 "Which one did we put the MP in again? "

 "The Royal Air Force: Creators of the Original Barrel Roll "

"Wow it's strong! You can spit fire with this double malt whiskey!
Hurry Cain, we must bottle this and take it to Lancaster before the typhoon comes"

"When they said BYOB. That's not what they meant guys!"

"YOU KNOW MATES THIS WILDFIRE DOESEN'T TASTE SO BAD GOING DOWN SLOWLY,SHALL I TELL THE QUEEN ?
HONESTLY I AM AFRAID TO BURP THOUGH."

"Beerbombs!The same procedure, Constable Henegger!"

" I think I've had enough.
It looks like we are standing on a base of grass and dirt when we are in a basement with a stone floor"

" It's a short, short way to Tipsy-rary! Hic!"

"Which one did we put the MP in again?"
"The Royal Air Force: Creators of the Original Barrel Roll"

"A Motivated Cellar"

"Which one did we put the MP in again?"

"Willy Wonka before his untimely passing,
had assured Lord Gort that he had hid the legendary golden ticket
in a special barrel of 1868 Chateau Lafite in an undisclosed Bordeaux cellar on the eve of Dunkirk in May 1941.
T he valiant men of the BEF are rumoured to this day to still be searching for that elusive barrel at huge personal cost."

"Don't just stand there and gives us a hand!"
"Sorry pals! I ain't no good at doing barrel rolls without my plane."

"They can certainly put it away at 617 Squadron, that’s the third order this month.
Never bottles, always barrels.........and we never get the empties back."

"By the twentieth rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel' the novelty had worn off somewhat."

"Working in the cellar wasn't exactly a 'barrel of laughs'."

"Put your backs into it lads and stop 'wining'."

"Let's call it 'The Tap 'n' Barrel'."

"Tap dancing didn't exactly live up to the hype."

"Sgt Johnson's famous last words: "Hold on lads, this isn't beer it's........."

" So we are all agreed then there are actually no negatives to being locked in the cellar."

"Tommy" POWs make an unexpected discovery while tunneling out of Stalag 17......."Here's to a long war."

"How's the fire wood coming"