“This is your captain speaking…” is a familiar introduction on a passenger airplane.
“hello, this is your captain speaking. HELLO, THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING” was posted on Twitter by @emmazzzing on February 22, 2014. “Good morning ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. AND THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING” was posted on Twitter by The Jathédār on February 23, 2014.
The joke has been printed on a rage comic. Authorship of the joke is uncertain.
Twitter
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@emmazzzing
hello, this is your captain speaking. HELLO, THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING.
4:26 PM · Feb 22, 2014·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
The Jathédār ♞
@shawnpowar
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.
AND THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING.
12:56 AM · Feb 23, 2014·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Dan Fishbach
@danfishbach
This is your Captain speaking. AND THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING!
3:06 PM · Mar 3, 2014·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Kurt Heim
@kurt_heim4
This is your captain speaking, AND THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING.
7:56 PM · Mar 3, 2014·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Jack Humbert
@jackhumbert
“hi folks, this is your captain speaking, aND THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING. WHO’S READY FOR A FLIGHT?”
1:08 PM · Mar 4, 2014·Twitter Web App
Twitter
Short Bloke Josh!
@ShortBlokeJosh
The pilot on my flight yesterday introduced himself in this way -
“This is your captain speaking…AND THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING!”
4:18 PM · Mar 4, 2014·Hootsuite
Twitter
gee²³
@kinokopandas
jim kirk: this is the captain speaking. THIS IS THE CAPTAIN YELLING
6:47 PM · Aug 7, 2016·Twitter for Android
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/porichoygupto January 31, 2018
This is your captain speaking.
THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING.
COMMENTS
koravel
Thisisyourcaptainwhispering
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/invertedparadoxxx April 24, 2020
Hi, this is your captain speaking
AND THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING!
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/Deerkiller14 July 10, 2021
This is your captain speaking…
AND THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN YELLING.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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