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Caption This for 02/11/11

Posted February 10, 2011 4:45 PM by Sharkles

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02/10/2011 4:57 PM

Well looky there! Even cowboyin' has joined the twenty-first century!

I know what this is, but I'll wait for some more comments

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02/11/2011 9:15 AM

Everything with an access Door, is supposed to allow access... isn't it ?

C'mon, tell us what the heck is this.

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02/11/2011 10:10 AM

It sounds like a few posters already know what this is. For those who don't, it is a Silencer™ brand hydraulic squeeze chute, used to hold an animal while it is being doctored, examined, marked, etc.

[edit] Oops... I should have read further. I see now that Randall has already posted the identity in #23. Didn't mean to step on you Randall. Sorry.

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02/11/2011 10:48 AM

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02/11/2011 11:01 AM

Date night on the Hempstead?

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02/11/2011 3:21 PM

"Where's the beef?"

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02/10/2011 4:58 PM

Latest development for airport security, the "Intimater" is designed to noiselessly detonate any explosive device concealed on a person and recycle the residue.

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02/10/2011 5:57 PM

Kris: "Well, if I can demolish a cast iron bath, then surely I can demolish this?!"

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02/10/2011 7:02 PM

they call it the Silencer but yet when Bob got himself stuck inside it he screamed for hours before someone let him out.

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02/10/2011 7:06 PM

The new and improved IQ machine.

If you step inside and pull the lever you will immediately find out just how smart you really are. (And so will everyone else nearby)

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02/10/2011 7:08 PM

The designs for these new portable toilets are getting ridiculous.

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02/11/2011 1:55 PM

I was going to say "Where the hell do you flush this thing?", but you beat me to it! GC (good caption)

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02/10/2011 7:08 PM

Can you hear me now?

How about now - can you hear me now?

Ok - can you hear me now?..... how 'bout now?......can you hear me now?.......

http://www.google.ca/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DOPwPo-IAQ-E&sa=X&ei=sn5UTd_ZNIG78gaEvKioBw&ved=0CDAQuAIwAQ&usg=AFQjCNEIGhtekPV8YiAfxUR46OnTVuFo-w

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02/10/2011 7:41 PM

Even for an Egyptian voting booth, it has a surprising number of crooked parts.

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02/10/2011 9:53 PM

"Wow, it's even got a trap door in the floor. Grandpa didn't have one like that."

I've built a few of these over the years, but there does come a time to upgrade. It will not work as intended until a few things have been adjusted. The colour doesn't have that "smeared" finish, there isn't grass growing through the floor and the missing streaks of leaking bodily fluid.

Send it over here for a few days and i'll fix that up.

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02/10/2011 11:50 PM

That's right, Mr Assange, just step inside.

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02/11/2011 1:01 AM

Heeehhee - GA - seeing as that's the "vet door"

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02/11/2011 12:53 AM

Ok, Ok , Dad - we'll rub the oranges on the fence - alright!

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02/11/2011 1:20 AM

How am I going to get that thing back on the truck?

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02/11/2011 4:35 AM

So, it's this easy. I just flick this little swicth here and the paddles start turning and generate electricity. That charges the batteries in the floor, which keep the paddles turning and generating.

Now round the back are the sockets to plug your appliances in - unlimited electricity forever!

The unit costs on $25,000, so payback time is about 10 years, which is much better than the payback on those unreliable PV Cells.

Shall I put you down for two?

Whatcha mean, you don't think it'll work? Have you no faith? You gainsayers are all the same, just out to penalise free thinkers like me. You're nothin' more than an agent of the establishment, a stodge of big business, keeping the little man down.

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02/11/2011 7:55 AM

A soviet vintage x-ray machine?

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02/11/2011 8:04 AM

Hmmm, the, "Silencer", huh.

Let's see, if I can get a dozen roses and a box of chocolates placed just right, where she can see them, this might just be the best Valentines Day ever!!!!

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02/11/2011 8:37 AM

Wow!! Its bigger on the inside... your name again...Doctor who??

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02/11/2011 8:49 AM

When the company applied for stimulus funding to build a "transmogrifier" they thought it was a joke. When the check arrived they began to take it seriously. When Biden wanted to appear in front of the cameras with the thing they spent $50 to have a nice name tag made.

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02/11/2011 8:56 AM

Here Kitty...Kitty!

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02/11/2011 8:58 AM

I wonder if I can sell this on Ebay

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02/11/2011 9:23 AM

Well, y'all load the ferrets in here, one to a tube. The race way is connected to the front and then when y'all're ready to start the race, y'all pull on that handle on the other end an' that opens the gates.

Yup, that's right, it's based on the racing gates at the the horse track.

Overkill? Whaddy'all mean?!!

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02/11/2011 9:50 AM

Just off the desk from Portable Instruments Inc. their new handy dandy portable pocket calculator/computer/phone/dressing room/ and port-a-john.

All for pennies a day.

Just $9.99 a month plus shipping and taxes for the next 180 months and it could all be yours.

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02/11/2011 10:26 AM

This is the new TSA scanner/pat down device, 8 people can be scanned and groped all at the same time.

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02/11/2011 3:43 PM

"Stupid kids always throwing the ball in hard to reach places..."

[whack]

"Ow, what the..."

[whack]

"Ooo, that stings..."

[whackwhackwhack]

"Ok, this is kinda silly, but somehow I find myself strangely aroused..."

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"Uh oh..."

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"Everything going black........blurble.....zzzzzzzzzzz"

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02/11/2011 4:32 PM

But does it play MP3 files?

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02/11/2011 4:51 PM

DAS finally publicly reveals his concept for an over unity engine.

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02/11/2011 5:53 PM

If that's supposed to be one of kastrupsky's floating energy barges, it really doesn't look as though it will. (Float, that is.)

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02/12/2011 6:58 AM

Holy crap! They finally invented the "Do it yourself" cloning machine for the farm! One steps in and 10 step out. And clean-up is a snap! When you finish work for the day just reverse the process and voila, back to one!

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02/13/2011 5:42 AM

sorry

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02/14/2011 7:55 PM

These UFOs are all alike. There's nothing in them to prove they came from outer space.

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02/14/2011 9:32 PM

The new owner of Difference Engine #7 is still trying to contact KrisDel™ Americana.

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02/15/2011 4:40 AM

"Oh alright then: I'll take the adding machine."

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