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Caption This for 09/11/09

Posted September 10, 2009 4:45 PM

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09/10/2009 7:29 PM

The mast and rigging on the submarine turned out to be as useless as the screen door.

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09/10/2009 8:40 PM

Hey, Chief! What does this knob do?

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09/10/2009 11:26 PM
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09/10/2009 11:27 PM
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09/11/2009 1:46 AM

Who raised the water level of the lake without telling me?

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09/11/2009 1:54 AM

Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, USA: "Barney, give me your gun."

Deputy Barney Fife: "Ah Andy, I'm sorry; I forgot I put my bullet in my gun after Thelma Lou and I got back from the diner."

Andy: "Barney, give me your gun."

Barney: "Andy, I'm really sorry about this. I'm just so excited about Thelma Lou and me getting invited to ride in you new boat."

Andy: "Barney, give me your gun."

Barney: "Andy, you won't tell the guys at Floyd's Barber Shop about this will you? They still pick on me about that sidecar motorsickle I got at the war surplus store."

Andy: "Barney, give me your gun."

Barney: "At least it only grazed Aunt Bea when it went off."

Andy: "For the LAST time Barney, give me your gun!"

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09/11/2009 2:06 AM

Going...Going...Will be gone

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09/11/2009 6:10 AM

Does this mean I don't get my masters ticket then?

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09/11/2009 6:11 AM

College students take the open bar on the booze cruise a little too far...

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09/11/2009 6:47 AM

George: Hey Ralph, What happened to your boat?

Ralph: Well i got the payment notice today......

George: Whats that got to do with your boat sinking?

Ralph: ......and i remembered a couple of years ago when you ran you car off the bridge into the river and claimed it was stolen...

George: SHHH no so loud, it worked and i got enough to pay for that car and have a llittle left over.....but whats that got to do with your boat?

Ralph: ....Well....i thought if i could sink my boat like you did your car, i could collect enough money from the insurance company to pay off my boat and have a little left over!!

George: Well, did it work?

Ralph: I forgot one small thing.....

George: Whats that?

Ralph: Insurance!!

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09/11/2009 7:53 AM

Honey, you know that power-drill you were looking for after the last time we went boating? Well I think Junior has just found it .....

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09/11/2009 7:59 AM

Kris just had to check out the answer to the Challenge question by throwing all the ballast and fittings overboard.

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09/11/2009 8:01 AM

The defence cutbacks had really affected the prototype for the new Trident platform.

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09/11/2009 8:05 AM

Boggy Marsh suddenly saw the flaw in his rodent removal method.

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09/11/2009 8:09 AM

Hmmmm....either the chain for the anchor is to short.....or the anchor is to big

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11/06/2009 8:46 AM

Aaaaargh! That's not the anchor chain! It's the plug chain! Don't........oh, too late.

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09/11/2009 8:27 AM

"Down periscope!!"

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09/11/2009 8:30 AM

"Raise the centerboard? I thought you said "remove the centerboard!""

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09/11/2009 9:22 AM

Though 80% of the parts to make this boat are out-sourced, it is still carries the made in the USA label.

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09/11/2009 9:51 AM

Hey Captain! Did you spring a leak? No I was delivering the lake and my sails blew off.

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09/11/2009 11:56 AM

The coyote was sorry he had ever heard of Acme Instant Hole. The Acme bilge pump wasn't much better.

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09/11/2009 1:00 PM

zoom in - you can see 'made in China'

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09/11/2009 1:45 PM

.....and in this week's episode of Gilligan's Island, Gilligan ruins the chances of leaving the island by somehow scuttling their plans once again by sinking a craft in the lagoon.

Just like all the other previous episodes.

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09/11/2009 2:40 PM

Special report, this just in: It appears that the rumor of Captain Nemo's death may have been premature.

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09/11/2009 5:15 PM

Heh Heh, so we stick a fake mast and rigging in the water and people will think a boat sank there. In the words of Flounder from Animal House:"Oh Boy this is gonna be Great!"

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09/11/2009 6:52 PM

So, "Damm the torpedoes, full speed ahead", didn't work too good, did it?

What next, Captain?

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09/11/2009 6:53 PM

"What do you mean the rum's gone?!" - Captain Jack Sparrow

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09/12/2009 2:05 PM

Bob, I told you this boat was a bottomless pit.

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10/04/2009 11:28 PM

What!

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09/12/2009 2:09 PM

New boat, check.

lake, check.

boat in lake, check?

that's not right, it should be boat on lake. Where that check list again?

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09/12/2009 2:13 PM

Darren from Boat&RV said I got a good deal on there have-off boat clearance sell.

But I think I got wrong half.

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09/12/2009 2:22 PM

Boat for sell. Just needs minor, work holds water really good. The picture shows it holding the whole lake.

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09/12/2009 5:58 PM

When Harry Potter saw the boat start to rise, he knew there was magic involved, and went for help.

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09/13/2009 11:37 AM

In a statement today, regarding the sudden sinking of their latest project, the president of the Society for the Restoration of Antique Sailing Ships (SoRASS) said:

"We sent a letter to the restoration contractor yesterday stating that '...due to our current lack of funds, we must pull-the-plug on this project'......It seems we should have re-phrased that......"

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09/13/2009 8:32 PM

But Captain! When I say I gotta go, I MEAN it!

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09/14/2009 9:05 AM

Captain, can I quit bailing now?

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09/14/2009 11:44 AM

John... I think you were right.

The water goes on the outside of the boat... not the inside.

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09/14/2009 3:39 PM

DAMN, THE TORPEDOS, SHE USED TO BE A BEUATY.

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09/15/2009 5:13 PM

SS USA Govt. Health Care - full speed ahead!

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09/21/2009 2:43 PM

When Smith, the new second mate, was told by the Captain to scrape the bottom for barnacles, he took him literally ...

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09/24/2009 9:02 AM

US "Ship of State" after Ibama speech to UN.

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09/25/2009 3:51 PM

And that was the last time anyone tried to scuttle their boat in sacowanago lake, which it turns out is mohawk for "shallow lake".

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10/23/2009 9:47 AM

Laa..nd....Ho....!

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11/07/2009 5:43 PM

It's a massive dunker!

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