Shortages of bricks but none of brick jokes

Thanks for the entries to last week's Caption Competition. Many were too scurrilous for a family magazine like CJ, but we enjoyed them enormously ourselves!

Of those more suitable replies, we chuckled at the following:

'What do you mean you don't employ one-armed brickes! We work as a team,' from Craig Fraser of Merlin Services, Scaffolding; 'Latham spells it out: No more two-and-one gangs,' from David Fishleigh at Wimpey Construction; 'Turn it over: at our prices you don't get them laid frog up,' from Frank Cooling of qs Edward S Rose and Cooper; 'I told you not to screw the rates down too low,' from Brian Loughrey of JI Case; and Jim Sellick's 'Classist' reply: 'It must be very hard on one's hands, this manual labour,' says Sir Christopher Wates. 'Yes,' replies the Earl of Kinnoull. 'I think I have just chipped a nail.'

But the winner is Peter Heron of Camas Associated Asphalt with his suggestion: 'We got this from Mike Atherton's pocket - it's meant to dry the bricks!'