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Caption This for 12/14/12

Posted December 13, 2012 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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12/13/2012 5:05 PM

Antenna envy?

Nah... ... I got him beat.

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12/13/2012 7:13 PM

My antenna is definitely attenuated!

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12/14/2012 1:33 AM

Accentuated, you mean? Surely she isn't cause for Brewer's Droop? :)
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12/14/2012 12:43 AM

link to online shop please, thy fit nice with my fuzzy dice

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12/13/2012 5:40 PM

The new LynDoor "overhead bridge detector".

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12/13/2012 7:11 PM

"Can you hear me now?............... How about now, can you hear me now?............. OK hold on a minute............... Can you hear me now?................................................... How about now, can you hear me now?.............."

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12/13/2012 8:27 PM

He knows that once he flips the main switch, people will see that his car really is a 'chick magnet'.

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12/13/2012 9:18 PM

Latest CIA spy truck with specifications from a committee and built by the lowest bidder.

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12/13/2012 11:11 PM

I thought your "gaydar" was just an expression bro?

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12/13/2012 11:17 PM

He can detect a yetifart from 12 miles away!

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12/14/2012 12:28 AM

Iran's answer to the International Space Station.
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12/14/2012 12:42 AM

Do it your self car gps navigation system?

or

An EMP driven car!

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12/14/2012 1:29 AM

the NEW 4G cell phone 'in car' kit!!

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12/14/2012 3:08 AM

I thought it was only in Britain.

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12/14/2012 5:08 AM

Worst case of Van Aerial disease I've seen!

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12/14/2012 8:00 AM

Ouch! Puns that bad ought to be felonies. (GA)

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12/14/2012 5:23 AM

Big brother's SUV...

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12/14/2012 5:28 AM

Think this is something?... You ought'a see her husband's car !!!

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12/14/2012 6:05 AM

He really does try, but nobody listens.

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12/14/2012 6:54 AM

Faraday cage as designed/built with all the input from CR4 regulars......(you know who you are"

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12/14/2012 8:36 AM

I have seen cars approaching this look at Ham Fests (Amateur Radio swap shops).

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12/14/2012 8:46 AM

Ok, Scotty, if you can't beam me up now the galaxy is doomed...
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12/14/2012 9:41 AM

I thought that Google's Mind Control program was just a rumor!

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12/14/2012 9:57 AM

Last years model.....

This years "New improved model"....

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12/14/2012 10:51 AM

"I work for the NSA...."

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12/14/2012 11:31 AM

That's "Spook"-y.

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12/14/2012 10:52 AM

The owner of the van couldn't afford Cable TV!

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12/14/2012 10:54 AM

Heard over a discrete radio frequency:

"Earth to Jonesy.....over".

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12/14/2012 10:55 AM

Phone Hooooommmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeee

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12/14/2012 11:04 AM

The first EMF powered vehicle.

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12/14/2012 11:10 AM

Uncle Charley's back in town! (the FCC)
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12/14/2012 11:10 AM

we highly recommend our "Sirius" Radio systems with each new vehicle
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12/14/2012 3:59 PM

And you thought you were paranoid. That's a government van!
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12/14/2012 4:11 PM

I'm pretty sure he has a tin foil hat.

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12/14/2012 4:21 PM

In my mind and....

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12/14/2012 6:46 PM

Hello, your link to the 'Buggles' video has apparently been banned in Canada, when I left clicked onto your link, as stating that that particular link was not able to be accessed from where I live in the Greater Toronto Area in Southern Ontario.

But, please rest assured, that if I do chose to search 'Youtube' The 'Buggles's 'Video killed the radio star', then perhaps I can live the rest of my remaining years of my life in comfort and peace.

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12/14/2012 8:01 PM

I thought I would never see him I only heard of him … thank you for making him visible on this site … he is an amateur astronomer looking for extraterrestrial objects walking among us … I heard that he was an optimist … cannot be otherwise driving with this monstrous structure on busy streets tapping into our subconscious minds … kudos to him that he made it an open and transparent process … as to my recollection there have not been any objections though he identified few zombies hiding in the government appointed chairs … j.

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WTF???

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I really, really, really mean - WTF???

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Please accept my humble apologies. I misread the post - Sorry, again, Loupy.

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12/15/2012 5:22 AM

Unfortunately, we are only allowed to see what is available in our zone - what is blocked elsewhere can only be determined by the local users.....

.......unless.....

...maybe.....

.....with a flux capacitor here....

.....an ion drive there....

....and a few more aerials on top.....

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12/17/2012 12:22 PM

Or USA

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12/15/2012 12:24 AM

Budjet cuts have been severe for SETI.

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12/15/2012 7:24 AM

No matter how hard you try, there is no such thing as "Free TV" anymore....

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12/15/2012 7:28 AM

Do to recent controversy over unsightly cell phone towers, Verison is testing it's new mobile cell phone tower. They drive around looking for someone needing to make a call.

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12/15/2012 7:34 AM

Rods on her fingers, bars on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes.

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Antenna hands.

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Homeless HAM.
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12/15/2012 3:51 PM

What are you guys talking about?

Duh!

It looks like antennas, but it's actually the internal structure for the wings.

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12/17/2012 4:55 AM

This is ground control to Major Tom
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I-van

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12/17/2012 10:51 PM

"Now watch how I can change it to a green light!"

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