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Caption This for 04/20/12

Posted April 19, 2012 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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04/19/2012 4:54 PM

UUHHHhhh,,,we already did this one....

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04/19/2012 5:03 PM

Yup, I remember it too...

This thread, I think. The image doesn't show for me, but I think that is it.

Somebody did say it would make a funny 'Caption This'. Guess they were right.

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04/19/2012 5:38 PM

Turn up the Juice...

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04/19/2012 7:02 PM

If you worked around the unions you would understand.

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04/19/2012 7:55 PM

I hate summer reruns.

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04/19/2012 8:36 PM

Now on short attention span theater we present a new repeat in our generator series of safety videos.

Maybe we should break this up before getting it out of the bathroom.

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04/19/2012 8:42 PM

"The safety inspector has determined that the only thing wrong is that there is NOT a yellow safety cone on the bucket side of this contraption."

i copied the good answer do i get it now too?

i think it is a down to earth solution

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04/19/2012 9:19 PM

Sorry, now that we're traveling backwards in time, that becomes the worst answer...The polarity of rational thought has reversed...Cats are now better than dogs, and baseball is an exciting sport...The solution pictured is considered an act of creative genius...We worship wrinkly old men in dresses and the ability to type with your thumbs...Soccer is the greatest sport ever....All hail the reversal...

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04/19/2012 9:51 PM

We worship wrinkly old men in dresses. Does that mean the J. Edgar Hoover became President of the United States or just Pope?

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04/19/2012 8:48 PM

We're going back in tiiime!

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04/20/2012 10:31 AM

Is this subtitled or dubbed into French?

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04/20/2012 11:13 AM

I think there needs to be a review of the practice of moderators marking Off-Topic on Caption This threads.

Whazzup?

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04/20/2012 11:16 AM

Not this time, I self marked this as Off-Topic.

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04/20/2012 11:21 AM

Oh... you mean I wasted a mini rant?

I was looking forward to pitching a full blown wobbler. I'll save it for later. Thanks.

Let's see if a mod marks me OT for this one!

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04/20/2012 5:25 PM

Je n'ai aucune idée.

/I used google translate. I have no idea.

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04/19/2012 11:58 PM

Obviously the quality of suggested captions was not sufficiently high last time.

What about "Earthing for plumbers: a 3 part course"

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04/20/2012 12:52 AM

How to grow an earth rail

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04/20/2012 3:52 AM

It worked last time.
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We've always done it like this.
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04/20/2012 4:11 AM

Something about "earth connection is a growing concen at this plant"; not quite there....still working on it....

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04/20/2012 6:10 AM

How not to ground your generator!
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04/20/2012 7:25 AM

how not to feed your "glow"worm farm......

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04/20/2012 7:30 AM

Good Day CR4 guru's,

I just found a way to capture stray voltage and reuse it, and I was wondering what you guys think of it...................

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04/20/2012 5:27 PM

Is that a bucket full of magnets? I hear that's a great way to get free power.

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04/20/2012 7:46 AM

The cat is gonna get a BIG surprise! Har!

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04/20/2012 8:16 AM

That will hold it...
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04/20/2012 12:31 PM

When you have a hard time finding earth, introducing the new portable ground.
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04/20/2012 5:56 PM

Is this what you call a neutral ground?

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04/21/2012 1:19 AM

I now understand the meaning behind "dumb as a box of rocks"...

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Deja Vu all over again.

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04/21/2012 10:54 AM

I can't wait to see the surprise the dry wall guy is going to get. When he finally finds his bucket of mud and tries to reclaim it.

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04/25/2012 3:34 PM

Since we're going back in time; this was a perfectly acceptable technique for grounding back in 1942, before poor Robert got fried, and then what happenned after his timely demise- we got OSHA, and the NEC - whoulda' thunk - Thank's Robert. We all owe you so much and a deep sense of gratitude.

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