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Caption This for 06/24/11

Posted June 23, 2011 4:45 PM by Sharkles
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06/23/2011 4:48 PM

Honey, that must have been a tornado last night. Come and look at what dropped into the back yard.
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06/23/2011 5:23 PM

Prefabricated houses, built right here in the good old U S of A, and shipped to anywhere in the world.

(Model shown ready for shipment to Australia.)

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06/23/2011 5:37 PM

This is what happens when a ship builder tries to build a house.

An upside down house... Or the beginnings of a big wood boat?
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06/23/2011 5:55 PM

I told you that you had the plans upside down!

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06/23/2011 7:52 PM

Son, I thought you were going horse tipping, not house tipping!

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06/23/2011 9:28 PM

Poster for GPS training seminar. Installation crews must know how to correctly use the "N" and "S" keys when entering the address to deliver and install at.

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06/23/2011 10:31 PM

Overheard at a local coffee shop:

General contractor 1 telling another general contractor 2: Reading blue prints upside-down. Thats a pretty common mistake in this industry. I did that that once when I built a build a 10 story high rise.

general contractor 2 telling general contractor 1: Oh yeah, well I did that once when I was building a swimming pool.

Side note. General contractors are pretty competitive.

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06/23/2011 10:51 PM

I am NOT autistic!!

Just different!!
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06/23/2011 10:51 PM

Yes dear I know it look wrong but if you hold the plans THIS WAY, I built it exactly right.

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06/23/2011 11:18 PM

IKEA is now promoting their new line of DIY housing concepts - all you need is are the simple easy to follow pictorial assembly drawings & a metric Allen wrench (included).

.... and hppe that the local buiding inspectors are having a good week along with a good sense of humour.

Loupy.

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06/23/2011 11:48 PM

The local eccentric had this to say... 'I'll be ready when the sky falls'

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06/24/2011 12:00 AM

Mrs. Newton to son Issac: " Issac, stop messing with Mother Nature now. For all we know you may be breaking a law that God intended to keep this world together and we will find ourselves drifting to the moon."

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06/24/2011 1:25 AM

Future Concept to eliminate those pesky roof leaks.

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Re: Caption This for 06/24/11

06/24/2011 4:12 AM

Now for $ 100 00, Question # 3:

Whose house is this?

A) Noah's

B) an Irishman's

C) an Australian's

D) Mine

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06/24/2011 4:22 AM

The perfect house for the small lot. U can have THAT BIG HOUSE FEEL on that postage stamp lot. Be the envy of your neighbors, That have that postage stamp size house!

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Land restrictions, yes

Air Rights over neighbors, Yes

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Neighbor asks : Summer house?

Owner : Somersault house.

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The inventor of Wonder Works Amusement.

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06/24/2011 4:56 AM

The development team at KrisDelTM had to have another think after the trial assembly of the new SpeedyHouse© didn't go exactly to plan....

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06/24/2011 5:21 AM

Del: "OK, Kris. Where do you want your new bath, then?"

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06/24/2011 5:41 AM

I told you last time , I am not crawling on my belly in that crawl space ever again!

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06/24/2011 5:47 AM

Now that was an easier way to insulation the floor joists wasn't it?

Now we hold it up off the ground just a bit and wait for the earth to rotate a little closer to the sun. What do you think, around noon?

Maybe someone on that CR4 website might know.

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06/24/2011 6:45 AM

Mortgages are not the only thing upside down in the current housing market.
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06/24/2011 7:18 AM

Seriously afraid of spiders in the basement the missus refused to live in a house without a complete inspection.

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06/24/2011 9:39 AM

There's no place like home, there's no place like home, Dorthy wake up!

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06/24/2011 9:56 AM

Bubba found out the hard way that "flipping" real estate for profit isn't as easy as the infomercials say..........

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06/24/2011 10:19 AM

I said I wanted a pitched roof, not the roof pitched!
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06/24/2011 10:28 AM

those reality shows such as "Flip This House" is going too far.

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06/24/2011 11:11 AM

I ma not lysdectic!

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06/24/2011 12:01 PM

Professor discussing electronically controlled house "leveling" circuit with student:

Professor: Hm-m-m... AH! There it is. You see. You wired up to wrong flip-flop output right here.
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06/24/2011 12:59 PM

Apparently this Russian house is not alone.

http://housecret.com/arhitecture/2010/11/top-10-upside-down-houses/
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06/24/2011 1:04 PM

Kinda takes the challenge out of the expression "Anyone can pee on the floor. Be a hero and crap on the ceiling!"
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06/24/2011 2:30 PM

Yes Honey, I know it looks funny. But, think about how easy it will be to hang Christmas lights and clean the gutters.

Stop looking at me like that, I think I'm onto something.

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06/24/2011 3:29 PM

This is how the Munchkins found Dorothy's house after the twister dropped it out of the sky.......

Funny, I don't see the "Wicked Witch of the East" in this pic.

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06/24/2011 3:35 PM

Found the following ad in newspaper classifieds:

"For Sale, house built by "Clarence the Cross-eyed Carpenter". Result was NOT what we had contracted out for. Price marked down drastically to move. Help, we're desperate to make a fast sale!"

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06/24/2011 3:38 PM

Looks like Noah read the Ark blueprints upside down...

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06/25/2011 3:08 AM

I told you that we should have kept to an outdoor loo! Now look what's happened!

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06/25/2011 6:23 AM

Don't ask why.. Ask why not?

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06/25/2011 8:41 AM

Obviously this construction was designed for a more antipodal location.

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06/25/2011 9:11 AM

Those Australian's contractors have the crappest sense of humor sometimes.

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Canadian Contractor wins contract for McMurdo village

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That's clever!

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Don't encourage her that poster

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06/27/2011 5:13 AM

You're just mad because a house fell on your sister!

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06/27/2011 1:21 PM

Sturdy Homes Limited

Every house drop tested on completion.

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06/27/2011 1:54 PM

Is that a division of Winnebago?
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06/28/2011 5:05 AM

Look I have no problem with the house as such, it's just the stairs are a tad tricky to use...
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07/09/2011 11:00 AM

you wanted a place for your mother to stay in so whats the problem

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07/14/2011 10:54 AM

The prices of houses are going "through the roof".

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07/14/2011 11:01 AM

But boss, Bubba said we had to build it this way cause it's shipping to the other side of the world!

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07/17/2011 9:45 AM

NO! I meant the the switch - - The Switch - - Flip THE SWITCH!
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