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Caption competition - Tuesday September 2, 2008



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Published Date: 02 September 2008
What is Alex Salmond laughing about?
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Enter the Evening News caption competition and tell us. Just log on to edinburghnews.com and post your caption. You'll need to register if you've not posted a comment before but it only takes a few seconds.

We'll feature our favourite suggestions for today's picture in tomorrow's paper. At the end of the week, we'll choose our favourite of the daily winners to receive a case of 24 bottles of Corona lager. So think of something funny.

Yesterday's winner:
Sir Sean Connery denied that he used fake tan for the photoshoot. However, several days of Edinburgh rain proved otherwise.
Local Whiner

And the runners-up are..
Being a Scot, I live in the Bahamas.
BLACK1E

What, you'd like a shined copy? Sorry I've no polish!
Euan Gregor

What do you mean, have I got any means of identification?
Rob Pendragon

Aye, diamonds are forever ... but this books a keeper!!!
Boy Wonder



• Competition open to readers aged 18 and over. Weekly winner chosen by our judging panel. Editor's decision is final. Usual Evening News rules apply.





The full article contains 188 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
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1

JulesF,

02/09/2008 09:45:01
Can anyone remember Trump's address ?
2

Rob Pendragon,

02/09/2008 10:08:17
Mr. Salmond laughs off suggestions he should now give up his day job as a postman
3

Rob Pendragon,

02/09/2008 10:09:44
Mr. Salmond sends a postcard of “Sunny Scotland” to the Mayor of New Orleans
4

Rob Pendragon,

02/09/2008 10:11:39
Under new rules, anybody not voting for Mr. Salmond will have to use a large card and hand-deliver it
5

Rob Pendragon,

02/09/2008 10:13:49
It’s a postcard ridiculing Scotland because of its weather! Who do we know who lives in the Bahamas?
6

Rob Pendragon,

02/09/2008 10:15:08
Only Mr. Salmond’s mouth was big enough to fit the giant postcard.
7

alex paterson,

edinburgh 02/09/2008 10:29:39
How am i going to get this in the mailbox.
8

alex paterson,

edinburgh 02/09/2008 10:30:10
I wonder if i can get a stamp big enough.
9

ken wilkinson,

Hull 02/09/2008 10:34:12
Piper thinking-"How come I always end up with the Junk Male."
10

JulesF,

02/09/2008 11:13:00
The Greens want what ??
11

Grover D. Pomegranate,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 11:34:05

No. I'm no gonnae sing "500 miles" - I'll leave that to the Proclaimers.
12

Grover D. Pomegranate,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 11:35:15

Yes, I'll be looking into getting much bigger post boxes as soon as we become independent.
13

blackley,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 11:39:57
No I'm being serious. This wee red dalek goes everywhere with me!
14

Grover D. Pomegranate,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 11:41:07


Yes, it is a silly place to put a pillar box but no as silly as these daft postcards!
15

Grover D. Pomegranate,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 11:42:21

Okay, who's the wise guy who painted this pillar box with red glue?
16

nadacolada,

dundee 02/09/2008 12:12:40
Alex laughs off the Piper's suggestion of an alternative place to stick his postcard.
17

Douglas,

Bathgate 02/09/2008 12:40:19
Ex marine is it?
18

Sarcasm,

02/09/2008 12:49:44
There is polite laughter at Alex's joke about stamp duty exemption.
19

Euan Gregor,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 12:51:40
Its a novel postcard from Nicola. She's written a novel on the back!
20

Boy Wonder,

02/09/2008 13:00:46
"Ha-ha-ha! Good suggestion ... tartan postboxes after Independence Day!"
21

Fredster.,

02/09/2008 13:06:29
After being told his knowledge of Politics could be written on the back of a postage stamp, Mr Salmond decided to enlarge all Scottish stamps!
22

A Friend of Fernando Poo,

02/09/2008 13:19:28
I thought Stamp Duty was a tax on housing until I discovered Smirnoff.
23

Grover D. Pomegranate,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 14:37:07

Right everyone... Who's going to start me off with
£10,000 for this latest Vettriano ?
24

Grover D. Pomegranate,

- Edinburgh 02/09/2008 14:43:42

Okay, now who's got the envelope!
25

blackley,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 14:46:00
Beware Falling What?
26

Grover D. Pomegranate,

--- Edinburgh 02/09/2008 14:52:59

Okay, about the pillar box stolen from George Street - wouldn't happen to be this one now, would it?
27

DaveMack,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 15:01:51
Edinburgh unhappy? Never!
28

Grover D. Pomegranate,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 15:05:20

Right, that's it. Whoever's putting that tickling stick up my kilt, would you kindly stop NOW!
29

Grover D. Pomegranate,

-- Edinburgh 02/09/2008 15:07:54

Roll up. Roll up. Get your flat birthday cakes here !
30

Douglas,

Bathgate 02/09/2008 15:29:56
It's from Alister Darling, he says he'll be home soon.
31

Rob Pendragon,

02/09/2008 15:44:54
What am I laughing aboot? I havena got ma pants on!
32

Boy Wonder,

02/09/2008 15:54:18
"Aye, but ah kin read whit's oan the back ae this postcaird!!!"
33

Boy Wonder,

02/09/2008 15:55:52
Heh, Wendy ... Ah'm STILL here! Ho-ho-ho!!!
34

Euan Gregor,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 15:58:34
I always said I would keep us all in the picture!
35

DaveMack,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 15:59:57
Sesame Street’s Bert does passable Alex Salmond impersonation.
36

JulesF,

02/09/2008 16:03:17
I'm sending this postcard of Glenrothes to Gordon !
37

DaveMack,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 16:07:38
Unknown piper outranks Salmond in recent genuine smile survey.
38

Grover D. Pomegranate,

-- Edinburgh 02/09/2008 16:22:53

For my next trick I'll make Debbie McGee appear from behind this postcard!
39

DaveMack,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 16:44:00
Salmond poses for life-size stamp
40

tomias,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 17:20:35
Just what I wanted- six moths in Afghanistan
41

tomias,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 17:20:51
MONTHS !!!!!
42

igloo,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 18:20:19
Give him an ASBO, you must be joking.
43

Grover D. Pomegranate,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 18:41:27


And, for my next trick, I'll produce 400 Afghani
moths from behind the postcard.
44

Grover D. Pomegranate,

Edinburgh 02/09/2008 19:08:17






































Like to see the postman get
this through Gordon Brown's
letterbox...












































45

chris k,

trinity 02/09/2008 19:32:24
Ne'eer.
"A"
Wonder i'm,laughing.
You'se lot voted me in.
46

walter,

02/09/2008 19:53:57
World leaders will know who I am when they receive one of these.
47

Dr Blockbuster aka Vince,

Calton Hill 03/09/2008 10:53:55
Reporter: "Mr Salmond ... Alex ... Do you think that postcard to Alistair Darling will be big enough to cover up his ####-up?"

 

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