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Caption This for 05/04/12

Posted May 03, 2012 4:45 PM by Kaplin


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05/03/2012 5:14 PM

Funny hoax, I like the way the girl's frontal spine makes the duct tape shiny at the middle, and the way her clothes are not being pulled upwards while her weight slips her down, very cute little girls though.

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05/03/2012 7:30 PM

I'm more impressed with the older girl, that can stand perpendicular to the wall, and not fall down.

I fail at it every time.

Looks like a couple of female engineers in the making..........................wait until they discover bubble gum and baling wire.

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05/04/2012 5:54 AM

You're looking wrongly, they are doing what you (and I) do sometimes! They are both lying on the floor!!!! I am sure you can achieve that!!

Post #1 got it right!!!!

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05/04/2012 8:52 AM

Did you notice the shadow of the dress of girl#2?

how would that be if she were lying on the floor...

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05/04/2012 8:58 AM

And why wouldn't her dress be "molded" around her?

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05/04/2012 9:05 AM

Uh, I guess they call it starch.

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05/04/2012 9:26 AM

Ok, I get it. Pick on Steve Day. See ya.

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05/04/2012 9:21 AM

If only there was some kind of software to alter or "shop" a photos lighting...

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05/04/2012 10:03 AM

Lol!

Cudnt give you a GA so gave you an Off Topic instead!

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05/08/2012 3:49 PM

The Great and Powerful Mizuti (I liked your old sig btw, M) don't take no mess! He's a Mod. Rhymes with God?

Mods, as you know, get bigger OT buttons than yourn (but not as big as Admins' and not nearly as big as Charlie Sheen's FArsebook 'Like' button which had to be lowered onto his profile page with a crane).

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05/07/2012 4:13 PM

Why, Gimp it, of course! Can't say how well Gimp renders gluons, however (I *like* that post, me bein' a physics nerd an' all).

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05/04/2012 1:34 PM

My comment was made "tongue in cheek!".......

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05/05/2012 12:01 AM

My comment was made "tongue in cheek!".......

Oh sure

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.l

Why is it that you can't take any then?

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05/05/2012 2:56 PM

My tongue in cheek comment was also made "tongue in cheek"!!!!

Why is it you don't understand humour?

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05/06/2012 11:59 AM

Careful, you're going to bite your tongue!

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05/07/2012 7:47 AM

Don't be a scaredy troll/wimp with no idea or understanding of humour all your life, come out and show us who you really are AH#2!!!

I believe that I have a good idea already, it will be fun to see if I am right or not!!!!

I will not answer any more posts as AH#2, so you might get bored a bit ......

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05/03/2012 11:08 PM

A David Letterman wannabe.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=david%20letterman%20and%20velcro%20suit&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CA0QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DN9uxxqKGmYg&ei=YEijT_zQJ87PgAf_x6VN&usg=AFQjCNEplLQ1QdcTrJOzGgsmFqzu5LCl3A

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05/04/2012 12:56 AM

Anyone with children has pondered similar ideas and worse.

If they were related to me there would be tape over their mouths as well.

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05/04/2012 10:51 PM

I always get soooo much grief when I suggest duct tape for unruly children.

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05/07/2012 4:36 PM

Ooooo, you just gave me a wonderful idea: 'Hello Kitty' duct tape! The little munchkins will be pleading to be affixed to the nearest wall. Make it smell like bubblegum and we got ourselves an inexpensive, self adhesive silencer to boot, non? See ya on Easy Street! :-)b

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05/08/2012 10:05 PM

and makes kidnappers "job" easier?

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05/09/2012 4:51 AM

I'm not worried particularly. I suppose if someone was determined to kidnap my children, I should have every confidence they'd be unable to until the really fashionable, tastefully-scented tapes hit the market. Now, where's that 'Unsubscribe' button...

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05/04/2012 12:58 AM

Duct tape use 587.

As long as they think its being done in fun its ok.

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05/04/2012 1:09 AM

Early religious studies for unknown culture.

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05/04/2012 3:21 AM

How about that? Social re-engineering for stuck-up kids!

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05/04/2012 3:24 AM

Early performance trials of the new KrisDel™® "Wonderplaster"© self-adhesive wound protection tape got a little bit out of hand....

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05/04/2012 4:39 AM

Modern art is getting more ridiculous by the day!!

Could be the predecessor of reality TV... reality ART .. stick them to a wall in a gallery and watch them..

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05/04/2012 8:33 AM

You're wrong, Picasso didn't leave much to do about that! Have you heard the tale of a crude winter when Picasso, in great need, all broken or bankrupted (or whatever you call that in english), had no choice but burning up his "masterpieces"? well, I think it wasn't cold enough that day...

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05/04/2012 5:23 AM

This Ad for DuctTape certainly looks impressive... however the little girl was in fact SuperGlued to the wall first.

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Wow, they better remove her carefully or will have an unexpected kidney extraction there !

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The real reason behind the 'Jon and Kate Plus 8' divorce.

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05/04/2012 8:21 AM

Joe Piscopo, in Johnny Dangerously, upon entering the room...

"My mudder duct taped me to the wall once...once."

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A place for everything, and everything in its place

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Child being prepared for interrogation by gangster chinese officials.

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05/04/2012 10:23 AM

Pure BS.

Who would use the expensive black tape when the cheaper silver works just as well.

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05/04/2012 10:30 AM

Internationally acclaimed physics professor and her older sister half-way through their lecture on gluons.

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05/07/2012 4:53 PM

I *like* this one. GA! :-))

Who knows? They could BE gluons!

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05/04/2012 10:35 AM

Kum Hia, mai wan du Lao Zi Lin Ching Tai Ne Bae Be Tu wong wall,

Kum Hia (Approach me), mai wun du (I make) Lao Zi (Not very good) Lin Ching (An illegal execution) Tai Ne Bae Be (A infant Tai) Tu wong wall (modern chinese art)

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... except that she tied her to the wrong wall. Very funny.

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It seems to me that no one of you watched mithbusters on discovery channel, 2 days ago!...

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05/04/2012 2:15 PM

The image looks rigged, so I Googled. Jason Lee has done a bunch of images like this with his daughters. This link is worth a look.

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05/06/2012 10:00 PM

yeah it was an item on the yahoo site, there are some fun pics on there and the kids seem to enjoy it

look on youtube for the kids covering Rammstein's sonne that one is also uhm "interesting"

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Mum look! The wall's stuck to Jennie again!

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Way too much cuteness - God bless Mr Lee's girls for participating in his artistic endeavours. Yes, before Mr. Lee probably will realize it, as to how fast his little girls grew up SO fast, and that they are in some college somewheres, and dating and trying to get some kind of life for themselves, I bet you that Mr. Lee, and his wife and little girls, had a wonderful and glorious and adventural time documementing his daughter's youth time and sharing it with us and the rest of the world.

All the best, Mr. Lee, for you and your family!

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Stick it to the kid!

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05/08/2012 7:43 AM

Grampa: you kids are so spoiled now-a-days.

In my day, we didn't have duct tape. We had to use knifes and arrows to pin your opponent to the wall, And we like it.

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Well, in my day we didn't have duct tape either. It was Duck tape, a brand name like Hoover or Sellotape.

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05/09/2012 8:00 AM

must have ran out of closet space

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Now, where did I put that posted note?

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05/09/2012 1:48 PM

"Nobody move, this is a stick up!"

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05/09/2012 3:09 PM

Like an adhesive bandage over a sore spot on your body, it's better to remove it in one swift pull, rather to agonise the procedure by pulling it off slowly (especially when body hair is involved).

Must be something like a hot wax bikini trimming - OUCH!

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05/11/2012 12:46 AM

Not new but a few from the web.

Link1. Pic below

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Link3.

This is just wrong...

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