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Caption This for 11/16/12

Posted November 15, 2012 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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11/15/2012 4:47 PM

Ah, finally! Time for a little nap!

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11/15/2012 6:18 PM

Drivers take the side road route too literally.

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11/15/2012 6:25 PM

Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy.
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11/26/2012 10:36 AM

A convoy sawing logs

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11/15/2012 6:51 PM

Next time, Don't let Jim lead when we play follow the leader.

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11/15/2012 7:33 PM

18 wheels and still too tired to move.

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11/15/2012 7:40 PM

Bob, Jack, and Ed decided to go with texting between trucks instead of using the old fashioned CB's.

Well it seemed like a good idea untill they got to the first curve in the road any way!

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11/16/2012 7:04 PM

If they did try to utilise their CB's, they'd have to use their 'side bands'

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11/15/2012 8:09 PM

The new speed bumps work! a little too well!

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11/15/2012 8:10 PM

What giant?

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11/15/2012 8:11 PM

It's the new "green" America.

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11/15/2012 8:11 PM

Gesundheit!

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11/16/2012 5:54 AM

Made me laugh!
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11/15/2012 8:25 PM

It takes a lot of treats and a lot of patience, but eventually you can get a group of semis to roll over, play dead, honk on command, and even stand up on their rear wheels! (Well okay, that last trick really takes a lot of patience.)

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11/16/2012 8:07 AM

Usbport, Last trick is really not that hard.....

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11/15/2012 9:21 PM

And the bumper sticker read: "Dog is my Copilot"

And cop said, "You should have let your dog drive."
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11/15/2012 9:40 PM

So that's what those signs mean....

At first I thought it might have been one of those giant sand worms.....or one of these....

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11/19/2012 7:07 AM

Observing your right arm when the acid kicks in. - Cool.

It IS your right arm, right....and not another appendage, right?......

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11/15/2012 11:23 PM

And on tonights news..

Global warming is being blamed for unseasonally strong winds ...

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11/16/2012 12:18 AM

Dang these new Class A parallel parking tests!!
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11/16/2012 3:36 AM

C&W radio station sued for playing "Roll Over Beethoven"

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11/16/2012 4:48 AM

"Don't drive tired."

Pull over and get some sleep instead.

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11/16/2012 4:53 AM

Now I lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my truck to keep.

If my trailer comes off before I wake, I pray the Lord my load to take.

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11/16/2012 6:46 AM

I finally get what it means to roll down the Highway!!!!!!!!!!!

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11/16/2012 8:02 AM

Thats NOT how you turn the image sideways on an IPhone!
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11/16/2012 8:05 AM

finally found the fabled truck graveyard where all teh big rigs go to die....
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11/16/2012 8:05 AM

Mack: "Oh those sleeping trucks!"

"I just want a nap...."

LIghtnin McQueen: "NO! We've got to get to California before those other guys start Schmoozing DINOCO"
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11/16/2012 8:06 AM

Caption this? How about explain this?

If the wind blew them over while traqveling down the road, shouldn't they be laying on their left side and on the left of the roadway? This looks as though they were hugging the guard rail when the wind blew them over. Parked and blown over???? How strong a wind to do that?

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11/16/2012 8:15 AM

The are lying in the median.

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11/16/2012 8:42 AM

Sorry - that's what happens when you don't "blow up" a picture - I thought that was the right set of lanes they were beside and the grey thing behind them was the guard rail. It is also what happens when you don't live in the flat lands and are used to guard rails everywhere. I guess when you're in Kansas, guard rails disappear, along with other things, right Dorothy?

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11/16/2012 8:45 AM

Not a problem, an easy enough mistake to make.

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11/16/2012 8:25 AM

Ring a ring of roses..

A pocket full of posies...

A tissue, A tissue...

We all fallie down!!

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11/16/2012 8:44 AM

Just because the D@mn DOT Inspector has a bad back we have to do ???WHAT??? so he can inspect our brakes without lying down?

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11/16/2012 8:56 AM

When them Okie troopers tell you to pull over, they really mean it...

(No, I don't know if that's Oklahoma)
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11/16/2012 9:00 AM

They shoot horses don't they?
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11/16/2012 9:48 AM

"In other news this morning, Police, Safety Officials, scientists and climatologists are all at a loss to explain this mishap. This reporter, however, has recently learned that the long-standing feud between the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf has been dissolved. The Wolf was quoted at a recent press conference as saying that "I'm tired of trying to blow that stupid brick house down. I mean, how many times do I bash my head against a wall? I'm going to miss The Pigs but, dagnabit, I have feelings too". Things quickly got ugly when Mader the Tow Truck shouted from the back of the room "You bastard! It was me that done tipped them tractors! Yer nothin' but a mangy flea-bitten carcass! I's a gonna come up thar and whup yer hide, Mildred!" It seems Mader believes The Wolf is the claiming credit for something he didn't do. More on this developing story after the break."

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11/16/2012 10:17 AM

Welcome to Wyoming!
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11/17/2012 2:37 AM

As a kid in Western nebraska - we always called it "Windy Wyoming"

Working this week in Utah, I drove into Wyoming and saw row after row of wind turbines at a total standstill!! I was shocked!!

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11/16/2012 10:39 AM

Cow tipping has become boring, the new craze in the midwest, late night truck tipping.
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11/16/2012 11:24 AM

The Interstate Truckers Skateboarding Team found out the hard way the "Rail Slide" does not scale well.
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11/16/2012 11:52 AM

Harry, when I said to pave the road, you pave both lanes, not just one twice!
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11/16/2012 11:57 AM

"OKLAHOMA" where the wind comes whippin' 'cross the plain.

Gee it really does.

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11/16/2012 12:06 PM

The sign said "All trucks must layover 1 hour before crossing the border."

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11/16/2012 4:42 PM

I huffed and I puffed and I blew them all over.

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11/16/2012 5:57 PM

Is it just me, or most truck drivers getting fatter and heavier - too many 'Big Boss' all you can eat meals at the interstate truck stops?

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11/16/2012 6:11 PM

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Art for Art's sake - I wonder what Art has to say about this copycat wannabe! He's probably P.O.'d

P.S. - (Google ©™® "Cadillac Ranch' to see more.)

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11/17/2012 2:40 AM

Got nuthin' on Carhenge!!

http://www.carhenge.com/

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11/16/2012 6:31 PM

The pretty sounding ladie's voice on the GPS said to make a sharp left turn at 150 yards directly ahead. So I did. I realise now that I should have recalibrated.......

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11/17/2012 8:12 AM

Simon says...

My take is that they were in the far carriageway, this makes sense in that the would be there, if traveling from right to left of the picture, and they veered off into the ditch in the median. I don't know why, wind, snow that has since melted, who knows.

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11/17/2012 11:54 AM

'Median' is an American term for what I know as 'Central Reservation' ? I can see why the Brit phrase may not be acceptable in America.

Take pity on us lot outside USA and occasionally explain these terms. Does 'hard shoulder' make sense to Americans ?

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11/17/2012 1:09 PM

It's obvious to me that these are trucks and not lorries. A quick observation of the orientation of the single side breakdown lane (aka hard shoulder) shows that this is not in any region of Great Britain. Therefore this drainage ditch is part of the median.

Over here on the left side of the pond I relish discovering new to me slang terms from other cultures. I always thought that was part of the fun of an international forum.

One question for your Kris, do you really have an uncle named Robert?

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11/17/2012 4:33 PM

(1) "Over here on the left side of the pond" is a very 'Axist' statement. Whenever I travel to, or from, the US, or Canada, the USA is NEVER on the left side of the pond. The USA can only ever be considered on the left when you take account of the Latin root - Sinister (Sinistra/Left).
(2). It doesn't matter if you call it a lorry or a truck (Or a Camion or an LKW, or whatever), "that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet". And don't they look sweet, all tucked in together by the side of the road, gently snoring, the smell of diesel fuel gracefully wafting overhead..............
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11/17/2012 4:42 PM

I've got more uncles than Cartman. I know this because I sneak under the bed.

That's a hooting funny way of defining median, but luckily I'm distracted by facing South and wondering where on earth America is !

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11/17/2012 11:31 PM

While facing south; it's still to the left but after much more traffic, a much bigger pond, more traffic and Bob's your uncle, you're at my humble abode.

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11/18/2012 4:54 AM

Excellent ! That's Cartmanworthy. Had I been thinking quick enough, I have said 'whilst looking out of my tent at the North/South pole...'. Could have used any place on a different latitude, but polar spin is funnier.

"Slippery Excuses" would make for a hilarious thread sometime, not that I'm trying to lure anybody into initiating such a thread. It's the kind of thread that needs to be snuck in on a Friday. I'm not sure 'snuck' is a legit word, but given the recent thread on redundant '-al' being added to words it may not be too out of order.

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Alright I'll bite. I cannot find any other Cartman using Google, Yahoo & Bing than Eric Cartman of South Park. Is this the Cartman of this slang?

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11/18/2012 12:48 PM

Gotcah !

Ye, rreelx, you be cool. I only bitch people I don't like,

My head is hurng. Stop laughihg. A good dose of bubble N qweak and I'll be backl Before anyboddy laughs, adnit you you haven't done the same/ O application, you can have 3 the story of ' Kris and th4 cows".

Gibberrish ? yah, buy I seen that elsewhere. Th4 clus is right thrre.

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Ghostwritten by Stinky Pete?

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11/18/2012 5:02 PM

Beware the sleeping semi, they are extremely dangerous if woken abruptly.....akin to the ball bearing bird.....<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRKV8wz_PU8>
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11/19/2012 4:47 AM

So that's why they are called "lay-bys".

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11/19/2012 3:53 PM

Ruff! Ruff! Bark! Whine! Ruff!

Translation: See Dorothy, I told you we were still in Kansas. - Toto

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11/19/2012 5:17 PM

News just to hand:- "Reports of an outbreak of the 18-Wheeler Virus have yet to be confirmed by Trucking Industry authorities"...
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11/19/2012 6:10 PM

Red, White and Blue (Black, perhaps - the cab at the rear of the pack blown over onto the median looks very much the worst for wear).

I hope that all the drivers were fortunate survivors of this UNfortunate happening event with all of thier sensibilities and body parts intact!

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11/19/2012 6:24 PM

Hit the ditch! Thars a tarnader comin!

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Do I detect a Care lina accent?

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11/22/2012 2:30 PM

The Transformers decide to catch a few ZZZs.

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11/24/2012 7:51 PM

Halfway pole-reversal. S.M.

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11/24/2012 9:31 PM

The 'RCMP Musical Ride' has recentlly suffered some budget restraints.

My fellow Canuck friends might get it.

Arrrgos.

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trucks having a siesta or mexican drivers having it
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