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Caption This for 08/26/11

Posted August 25, 2011 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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08/25/2011 4:49 PM

Everything looks good here, Move along!

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08/26/2011 12:35 AM

It must be that elliptical duty-free sticker that covers the whole lot!

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08/25/2011 4:50 PM

It's what you cant see that will amaze you!

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08/25/2011 7:40 PM

After several successful runs of smugging parrots over the boarder in his hub caps Bob got cocky and thought he could get an elephant over the boarder by making it look too obvious to be true!

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08/25/2011 7:47 PM

The quickest way to get out of being searched at the boarder is to look like you will be clearly far too much effort to be worth it.

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08/25/2011 9:08 PM

Roger, Don't go ! - All is forgiven !

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08/26/2011 9:13 AM

He's on his way to the Smithsonian with everything he's written on the Antiscience.

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08/25/2011 10:22 PM

I didn't know they made Hefty bags that big!

It's okay; the tires are flat only on the bottom.

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08/25/2011 10:24 PM

Moving into the dorm day at college.

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08/25/2011 11:19 PM

Moammar Gaddafi taking his stuff and getting the Hell out of town!

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08/26/2011 12:25 AM

My sister packing for a weekend away.

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08/26/2011 12:48 AM

"We need to fill the radiator - where's the water bottle?"

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08/26/2011 12:52 AM

Expat returning to Libya gets ticket for speeding!

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08/26/2011 3:21 AM

Hendrik explained to the nice officer that the load was in fact tied down.

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08/26/2011 3:23 AM

I don't care if you let the air out of the tires.. you will NOT get under that bridge!

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08/26/2011 3:34 AM

Load? What load?
Oh, that? That's just my lunch.
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08/26/2011 3:58 AM

Ok Officer, let me park under that bridge and you can put that box of chickens on top..... I will give it to your mother in Zimbabwe.

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08/26/2011 4:06 AM

According to the new KrisDel™ SatNav I bought last week, that bridge isn't even there!

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08/26/2011 4:07 AM

Of course I used the rail gauge when loading...Geesh!

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08/26/2011 4:08 AM

No danger officer. The new LynDoor Inc suspension I fitted is rating to 2 tons.

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08/26/2011 4:57 AM

Memo

From: Engineering

To: Sales & Marketing

We have made some minor adjustments to beef up the rear suspension on our pick up trucks. Now it will handle anything the customer can throw at it.

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08/26/2011 4:59 AM

I say old chap, can you sit on the bonnet. I'm getting terrible under steer!

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08/26/2011 5:36 AM

NO!!

You can not vacuum pack an elephant!!!

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08/26/2011 6:46 AM

It was not a good idea to convert his Rand into Zim dollars before heading home.

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08/26/2011 6:57 AM

"It's OK, it's just a puncture. Where's the spare wheel?"

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08/26/2011 7:08 AM

With the $19 they saved on the local U-Haul, Jim Bob and Billy were able to have a delicious lunch at the Waffle House, and had enough money left for a 12 pack of Pabst.

Who's laughing now?

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08/26/2011 7:21 AM

Singing...

And so they loaded up the truck and Moved to Beverly..........

Hills that is.....

Swimmin Pools and Movie Stars....

The BEVERLY HILLBILLIES!

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08/26/2011 8:28 AM

Kris: "Del - this isn't a good idea. I told you we needed a larger vehicle to get the bath to the tip!"

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08/26/2011 8:41 AM

In it's effort to regain lost market shares TOYota is now using end-user testing on it's new models.........

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08/26/2011 8:56 AM

Maybe this might have been the more appropriate way to transport all that $h*t!

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08/26/2011 9:24 AM

WOW, the mother of all airbags !!!

Safety first

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08/26/2011 10:00 AM

"Weed Man??? - We ain't got no stinkin' weed, man!!! Honest, man!!! We ain't got no stinkin' weed at all, man!!! Can we just go now, man, and be on our way now, man, and like just get out your hair now, man, and like thank you so much, man."

"Like you dudes have a groovy good day, man, and you too, you beautiful lady officer, you've got all the goodies in all the right places, nice pretty lady officer - We'll be sure to party with all you hombres in Paradise someday, like really soon, man."

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08/26/2011 10:46 AM

Those Space Bags are fine until they spring a leak!

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08/26/2011 10:56 AM

How can you say that I can't stack this much stuff in my truck? How do you think I got here?

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08/26/2011 3:37 PM

Not again!

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08/26/2011 5:15 PM

Look Pal,

I've got to deliver all 18 of these inflatable bouncy toys before the big party starts in two hours. I can't go around.

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08/26/2011 5:48 PM

The trash business is pick(ing)up

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08/26/2011 6:50 PM

"Maybe if you'll give your ex wife back all her clothes, she will take you back."

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08/26/2011 11:25 PM

After Abdul carried off the store......Hassan decided that all you can carry special wasn't such a great idea after all.

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08/27/2011 3:42 AM

HA, I told you, I could get all your stuff loaded in the truck. AND do it in one trip. So pay up sucker! And ya better be around when I need help moving.

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08/27/2011 3:45 AM

DON'T EVER TELL ME I CAN'T!

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08/27/2011 8:30 AM

New Z.M.M.A motor-homes. (Zimbabwean made, Mugabe approved)

Cost: 4 blood diamonds (Zim currency not accepted as legal tender)

RWC certificate: 1 blood diamond (fully guaranteed by corrupt official)

2 blood diamonds and we will throw in 1 Peace officer to ensure proper

bribery @ all road blocks. Terms of sale are in accordance with Mugabe's

law of African averages.(Uncle Robert has a chicken, his people have no chicken, so together they have half a chicken.)

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08/28/2011 8:13 PM

The American Financial Crisis hit the trucking industry with widespread cutbacks.

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08/29/2011 8:33 AM

Police soon discovered that the truck was the SECOND vehicle in the convoy. A quick search of the area led police to the local IHOP, where they found the FIRST vehicle, similarly loaded with construction materials.

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08/29/2011 9:43 AM

Needs More Cowbell. (Can't have too much of a good thing.)

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OT...Balls of Fury & Pulp Fiction made great by his contributions.

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Weapon of Choice.

I agree, these are all great contributions from Walken.

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08/29/2011 2:34 PM

Many people found out from this video that Christopher Walken started out as a great dancer. He was a dancer of the original(?) touring company of West Side Story and performed with Liza Minnelli in her first hit show.

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Looks as if we have a small Walken Fan Club here!

For anyone wondering about the 'Cowbell' reference, here is the entire 5:33 skit:

"Guess what: I've got a fever. And the only prescription is... MORE COWBELL!"

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Thanks - never heard f that before....

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Thanx Doorman #45 & 47, & SotN #46.

SNL - Great SNL episode - I'll always remember Walken mentioning the 'cowbell' reference whenever he was asking for a laugh - and it worked out great for him that night, as well as on repeats of that show! - and on subsequent appearances.

Thanx for the memories, after all, that's all I have left anymore!

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