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Caption This for 11/02/12

Posted November 01, 2012 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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11/01/2012 5:03 PM

Finally figured out a way to get rid of the rats in the subway....

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11/01/2012 5:04 PM

Excuse me Mr. Green, your lawyers are waiting downstairs.
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11/01/2012 5:45 PM

"You're gonna need a bigger escalator!"

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11/01/2012 5:59 PM

Well Dear,

It seems nice enough.

And look, there's a slide for the kids right here in the room. Why don't you glide out and get the kids while I freshen up a bit.
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11/01/2012 8:39 PM

NYC's new Rat patrol?

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11/01/2012 8:44 PM

".......needs more 'cowbell' ".

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11/01/2012 8:48 PM

The NY/NJ floods?

So sorry, maybe too soon.

My apo's.

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11/01/2012 10:19 PM

"I said I wanted sharks with lasers!! I don't see any lasers!!"

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11/02/2012 2:36 PM

Oh, I didn't catch your post....

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11/01/2012 11:41 PM

The latest and greatest in fish ladders!

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11/02/2012 2:37 AM

NYPD's latest recruits on the Anti-mugging squad!

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11/02/2012 4:11 AM

Welcome, Mister Bond.......

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11/02/2012 5:03 AM

</humour>

Wow! That one might be considered poor taste after this week's events.

<humour>

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11/02/2012 6:17 AM

Come visit the Aquarium Petting Zoo!
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11/02/2012 7:12 AM

Trump reveals his version of Atlantis.......

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11/02/2012 7:14 AM

How times change.....from "swimming with the fishes" to "shopping with the fishes" on Mob wives television.

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11/02/2012 7:36 AM

OK <Throws caution to the wind....>

"Subway? We don't need no steenkin' Subway!"

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11/02/2012 1:16 PM

Or better yet...

...has New York City found a viable use for flooded subways?

Come one, come all, to the new New York City Aquarium!
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11/02/2012 7:55 AM

Hello folks! We're just about to start the final Presidential debate before the election on Monday. Here on my right hand side we have the incumbent....
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11/02/2012 7:57 AM

Police have put out an appeal for help with sharking in the subway.

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11/02/2012 7:57 AM

I said "Sharks with LASERS mounted on their heads". Can't you people do anything right?

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11/02/2012 8:04 AM

Stairway to hell.

Also available on iTunes...
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11/02/2012 8:04 AM

"Are you being served?"
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11/02/2012 11:18 AM

"Are you being served severed?"

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11/02/2012 9:06 AM

PETA will want another monument (at our cost) after this place is pumped out.

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11/02/2012 9:13 AM

Pumped out?

You can't do that, they're an endangered species. You can't destroy their habitat.

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11/02/2012 9:26 AM

Fine. We'll feed them PETA members to ensure their well being!

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11/02/2012 1:00 PM

Sounds like you have everything satisfactory mitigated.

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11/02/2012 1:01 PM

Did you see the look on the crunchy ones face. Priceless.

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11/02/2012 10:12 AM

A new twist on the "Mall Food Court"......

....you ARE the food!

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11/02/2012 10:18 AM

"TO SERVE MAN"
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11/02/2012 1:51 PM

So you saw that Twilight Zone episode too. dodo dodo dodo dodo (theme to the twilight zone)
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11/02/2012 11:44 AM

"Please mind the gap between the train and the platform."

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11/02/2012 1:31 PM

A Government's solution to their overcrowding population.

Well they thought it was better than the other option that was to enter the carrousel or having a sandman chase you.

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11/02/2012 1:55 PM

"come on..... there must be an "'Old Navy' store around here somewhere."

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11/02/2012 2:31 PM

"You're right. Mall shoppers do go down well."
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11/02/2012 3:43 PM

The Loan office is on the first floor
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11/02/2012 3:56 PM

them capitalist love them shopping malls...

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11/04/2012 8:13 PM

Romney's solution for the 47%?

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11/04/2012 8:29 PM

ABA convention.

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11/05/2012 2:57 AM

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The escalation of loan sharks has caused interest rates to float

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12/07/2012 4:32 PM

"You never want to look at the map Herman. You always think you which way to go. I told you we were going the wrong way, but noooo... and now look, we're lost in this pickle..."

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