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Caption This for 02/19/10

Posted February 18, 2010 4:45 PM
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02/18/2010 5:10 PM

Escher's new home is coming along on schedule, despite some queries from the builders.

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02/19/2010 4:26 PM

the building inspector may need a little pursuader on this project... Slip some LSD into his martini lunch...?

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02/27/2010 1:35 PM

sorry, didn't see yours before I posted mine.
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02/18/2010 5:12 PM

M.C.'s younger and less accomplished brother G.W. Escher didn't last long at his new job as a contractor.

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02/18/2010 5:14 PM

Attempt one to build a stairway to heaven.
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02/18/2010 7:34 PM

"Rebar? we don't neeed no stinking rebar!"

<said in cheesy Mexican accent>

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02/18/2010 7:54 PM

After the federal government found out how much fun it is to run General Motors, congress decided to take over a few construction jobs to exercise their new skills.

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02/18/2010 10:24 PM

Escher's Relativity 1958 Lithograph

The contractor and subs had problems trying to follow the drawing. It seems what they were having problems with was which way was up. One said top was here and the other said it upside down.

Mr M.C. Escher said it was all Relativity.

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02/18/2010 11:18 PM

I dont get it. It looks like typical North Dakota frost heaving to me.

Put out an old traffic cone and "Uneven walkway." sign and your good to go.

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02/18/2010 11:22 PM

Engineer to Contractor:

"the spec said to reinforce the 'Adobe', NOT the Doobie"
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02/19/2010 1:33 AM

New block on the kids?

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02/19/2010 4:31 AM

PMSL

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02/19/2010 6:31 AM

"But I followed the instructions from the CR4 Forum exactly!"

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02/19/2010 6:57 AM

His engineering projects was a disaster...........but he is in high demand for his artwork

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02/19/2010 7:29 AM

your looking at it all wrong.....its not a staircase to be used.....it modern art

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02/19/2010 7:32 AM

That will happen if when one always asking for help with homework,

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02/19/2010 8:42 AM

Picasso's long lost masterpiece "FUBAR"......

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02/19/2010 8:47 AM

Frank Lloyd Wright's futile attempt to change his "Prairie" style philosophy of Architechure....the end result came no where near to his breathtaking "Falling Water" home........OPPPSSSSSS!!!!!

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02/19/2010 8:51 AM

Customer exit stairway at Merrill Lynch headquarters.

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02/19/2010 9:14 AM

Strairmaster hell.

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02/19/2010 9:25 AM

A stairway to no where!

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02/19/2010 9:41 AM

Customer; Yes, I like to know where the complaint department is

Toyota; Yes, you take the stairs to the 4th level. and its at the end of the hall

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02/19/2010 10:04 AM

Stardate 178633.8, the last Walmart bites the dust

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[ No Skateboarding ]
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02/19/2010 4:55 PM

Try ACME's new, ultra modern, emergency escape stairs.* These stylish egress aids have a built in 'disaster sensor' and a system of cables and counterweights allowing them to gently deposit their cargo of evacuee's safely on the sidewalk below.

*Not recommended for use by coyotes or the accident prone

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02/19/2010 7:31 PM

The crooked little man walked up the crooked little stairs with his crooked little cane to his crooked little house.

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02/19/2010 7:47 PM

!(stairway_to_heaven)

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02/19/2010 11:28 PM

I'm sorry, Heaven is temporarily closed. Please try again tomorrow.

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02/20/2010 4:41 AM

"In the event of an earthquake, please use the stairs. If the stairs are gone, use the lift. If the lift is gone, wait for the aftershock. *That* will take you to the ground level."

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02/22/2010 7:58 AM

Let's take the elevator this morning. The stairs appear to be out of order.

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02/25/2010 4:51 AM

Plastic construction kit instructions: "do not cement this part".

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02/27/2010 1:33 PM

Yet another attempt to build M.C. Escher's stairs ends in catastrophe.
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