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Caption This for 03/09/12

Posted March 08, 2012 4:45 PM by Kaplin


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03/08/2012 6:02 PM

Beta testing of version 3.17.1 of the Visible Fuel Reservoir System, manufactured and distributed by the good folks at LynDoor™ Industries.

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03/08/2012 7:14 PM

That doesn't look safe....where's your rear view mirror?

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Re: Caption This for 03/09/12

03/08/2012 9:30 PM

So far, we've only been able to make the plastic body of the InViSiCar disappear.

The next phase will address the parts of the vehicle that are metal.

The production model will have a metal seat.

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Re: Caption This for 03/09/12

03/08/2012 9:45 PM

The 2013 Chevy Dolt.

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03/08/2012 10:49 PM

Looks like a bottle of Chinese PEE to MEE........

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03/08/2012 11:13 PM

This explains the sub-station and power distribution questions we've gotten recently.

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03/09/2012 1:16 AM

Aerodynamics or weight, you choose how you'll save fuel.

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03/09/2012 1:39 AM

Porsche Eco?

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03/09/2012 2:19 AM

We told him that a wash down with H2SO4 would take off more than the dirt film.

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03/09/2012 6:12 AM

Little Johnnie drives to school, but soon will drive no more,

for what he thinks is H2O is H2SO4.

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03/09/2012 3:47 AM

AP NEWS:

KrisDel™ Automotive have announced a cost-cutting initiative:

Rather than send their running chassis by transporter, they are reviving a method used successfully prior to 1980 by commercial vehicle manufacturers of driving the running chassis to the bodybuilders. This has resulted in a saving of 49.378234602% in transportation costs and an increase in the share price, based on projected increases in profit margins, of 2.49679290p in the last week.

KrisDel™ Automotive is a wholy owned subsidiary of KrisDel™ Industries, who brought the world the Time Machine, among many other uselessful household items. The founders of KrisDel™ were not available for comment when we called. One was too busy dealing with one of the loose ends of string theory; the other was inspecting his forestry estates.

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03/09/2012 4:00 AM

I'm not sure if this vehicle should be on the road..... that left rear wheel looks very worn.

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03/14/2012 2:19 AM

Don't worry the driver is Slick Rick

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03/09/2012 5:46 AM

One more lawn chair and I got me a taxi!!!

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03/09/2012 6:40 AM

Ingenuity: The product of a small "Hands Off" government.

If they cared, they would run themselves $15,000,000,000,000 in debt to keep him safe, and he wouldn't have to ride around on that contraption. If he did, he would go to jail.

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03/09/2012 6:41 AM

Peter Fonda eat your heart out.......I'm THE Easy Rider now..........

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03/09/2012 6:43 AM

...she got the house!

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03/09/2012 6:54 AM

Whoa..easy with the rubbing compound.

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03/09/2012 8:08 AM

Yikes! He's not wearing a seatbelt.

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03/09/2012 8:31 AM

The President of Fata Motors proudly delivering the next generation Cheapest Vehicle in The World to the test facility. Unfortunately, the Mud Flat Boys got to it first.

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03/09/2012 9:05 AM

<thinks>
My passengers have gone quite since that last corner.
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03/14/2012 5:12 AM

Gone quite what???

Oh! You meant quiet.....

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04/13/2012 12:42 AM

No "quite gone"

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03/09/2012 9:18 AM

Hardly Davidson

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03/09/2012 9:20 AM

The next step in American automobile production as increasingly stringent CAFE standards are implemented. "Believe me, the planet will thank you for your sacrifice of comfort."

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03/09/2012 10:02 AM

Wouldn't you know it! The one day I take the roof off, it rains...

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03/09/2012 10:39 AM

Dear all:

I have finally managed to fix all that was wrong with my Cavalier!

Thank you for your help.

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03/09/2012 11:02 AM

Now that the price of Mountain Dew® is less than the price of gasoline, my vehicle is getting much more respect.

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03/09/2012 12:23 PM

My car has developed a gas drinking problem. By stripping it down to the bare essentials, I'm sure to discover the problem.

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03/09/2012 2:36 PM

Your all FOOLS I tell You.......thats the radiator!!! The chipmunks LOVE Mountain Dew.

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03/09/2012 5:15 PM

Yes, it is powered by mountain Dew

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03/10/2012 6:47 PM

"By this time next week, I should have enough money to get more parts for my car".

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03/10/2012 8:31 PM

If you go to enough garage sales just as they are ending and buy all of those big boxes of "stuff for a $1" everyone has left over at the end of the day you too can build your own, um go cart dune buggy lawn mower three wheeler wheel chair mobility scooter machine of your own!

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03/12/2012 5:34 AM

"Handbrake? We don't need no steenking handbrake!"

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03/13/2012 12:36 PM

Why couldn't we have had this one for "What is it?" instead?

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03/13/2012 1:17 PM

My other car is a Convertible

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03/14/2012 12:15 PM

All is right with the world, Bob Marley is my co-pilot, on my glove box.

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