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Caption This for 06/17/11

Posted June 16, 2011 4:45 PM by Sharkles
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06/16/2011 4:57 PM

Hello CR4 Gurus. I hope you can help with my bedbug problem

You see, while I was asleep the little beggers ate my mattress... well not all of it, just the part of the mattress I wasn't lying on.

Any helpful advice is most welcome.

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06/17/2011 10:49 AM

Sleep tight and don't let them bite!

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06/16/2011 5:12 PM

Come try out our new and improved bed for sufferers of sleep apnea. Instantaneous feedback (not feedforward), when you try to roll over on your back. Order now and you receive free of cost, the twin sleep apnea bed so that you can use both sides.

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06/16/2011 5:16 PM

Mummy model 1.0 rev. a

Reason: Inefficient use of fabric.

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06/16/2011 5:31 PM

The new supercoil bed (Right hand version shown) with it's patented "Z fold" mattress can be shortened by merely bringing the ends closer together and still supporting even the tallest person.

Endorsed by "Johnboy Walton", Mama, Papa, Julianne, Michelle, ......

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06/16/2011 5:37 PM

Harry's bed after the divorce settlement.

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06/16/2011 10:13 PM

I never mention what I do for a living, but my girlfriends somehow always seem to guess I'm a forensics expert in the Homicide Division.

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06/16/2011 11:18 PM

Since developing a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder, that's all the mattress I need.

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06/17/2011 12:05 AM

Honey, I said those Bed and Breakfast joints are weird.Go back and check the internet again to see if it said anything about extra charges for speciality sheets. $275 for a set of replacement sheets is horrendous. And the part about George Washington sleeping there is BS.

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06/17/2011 12:37 AM

For some reason, Jose`s plan of sneaking Manuel across the border in a mattress didn't quite go as smooth as they hoped for.
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06/17/2011 12:38 AM
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06/17/2011 1:10 AM

Procrustes Redux!

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06/17/2011 3:50 AM

It may be space saving, but where's the Cat going to sleep?

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06/17/2011 4:47 AM

The newly-developed KrisDelTM "Unimatress"© didn't encompass the simple concept of the user turning over.....

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06/17/2011 5:34 AM

The Winter Olympics Committee tries to improve its "green" credentials by innovative recycling of its signage.
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06/17/2011 7:09 AM

IKEA's new bedroom line still hasn't caught on with the married crowd.......

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06/17/2011 8:06 AM

The the caption underneath the pic in the B&B pampet noted that "Bigfoot slept here".....

Ahhhh, well it looks like he ate a good portion of the mattress to me!

(you did notice the size of the feet didn't you?)

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06/17/2011 8:10 AM

Homicide Detective Adams was overheard admonishing Police Sgt. Bilinski:

"Damn-it Bilinski, I said draw a white chalkline around the stiff, not cut the mattress around him!"

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06/17/2011 8:12 AM

Herman Munster's mattress.....

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06/17/2011 8:15 AM

Have you ever noticed lately that products have been increasingly shrinking, yet the cost continues to spiral up & up?!

Thanks Sealy!

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06/17/2011 8:32 AM

The "Mer-maid" or a Down-Hill-Skier sleeper.
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06/17/2011 9:20 AM

The inevitable result of doggedly pursuing cost savings through the lean manufacturing approach to eliminating waste.

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06/17/2011 10:15 AM

Estate sale for the Extreme Loner
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06/17/2011 10:19 AM

I told you it's my F**king bed !
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06/17/2011 10:21 AM

It appears we have a "Presidential" solution for the recession impact to the bedding industry.

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06/17/2011 10:54 AM

$aved me a bundle, but I can't sleep on my right side!

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06/17/2011 10:54 AM

For peak performance in downhill events, tuck your skier into this bed at night.
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06/17/2011 10:57 AM

Ummm, isn't this Hugh Hefner's new bed mattress, especially after the "Blonde Bimbo" recently dumped the guy? Haraharhar....

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06/17/2011 11:22 AM

not wanting to cover any more of his custom floor than necessary Lyn began customizing the furniture to it's bare minimum.

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06/17/2011 3:28 PM

Sleep number; -(the old 69)

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06/18/2011 12:40 AM

Nice Floor! What was that what you used - Stain or stains, varnish, pre-colour, laminates, Polyurethanes or what? That is so very one decent looking floor job! Please let us know how it, (the wood floor), came to appear to look so nice in that photo.

Really, I would like to know, as I'm tearing out this god-damned carpeting and replacing the dirty, filthy god-damned flea and dust mite and flea infested short beige Berber piece of $&@T carpeting with some recovered to be reused 3/4" solid oak "Parquet" squares T&G. (P.S. - I absolutely hate carpets as opposed to having a clean floor)

Thank You - Loupy.

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06/18/2011 3:36 AM

someone in the mattress factory got a problem with their boss and is having a bad day!

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06/18/2011 9:07 AM

The mattress for old people who are set in their ways.

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06/18/2011 9:53 AM

Made in Mexico

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06/18/2011 6:38 PM

The X-Files team was brought in to study this latest case of spontaneous combustion.
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06/19/2011 2:49 AM

Ha that explains it...
I just bought a matress with a bit shaped like that missing out of the middle.
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06/19/2011 8:47 AM

Hmm. I wonder if they make a model that's a bit wider in the middle.

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06/20/2011 10:21 AM

Well, we knew it was coming! The US Government has finally gotten around to taxing us on our "Dormant Footprint Usage" ( the amount of mattress space we each use as we sleep ). So here it is from RONCO...THE "LOWER MY TAXES - SLEEP PATTERN BED". Yours for just 60 easy payments of $795.00 --- BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE --- YOU ALSO GET YOUR VERY OWN SET OF GINSU KNIVES AT NO EXTRA COST!!!

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06/20/2011 5:38 PM

Salvador Dali's bed sells at Christie's June auction for $125,000

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07/09/2011 11:20 AM

now on sale for only 799,99 at ikea the classic single bed

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