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Caption This for 03/07/14

Posted March 06, 2014 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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03/06/2014 4:53 PM

The Time Tunnel returns

...again...
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03/18/2014 3:09 PM

Look little Johnny, see the pilot and the plane are so in sync that they even pass gas at the same time.

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03/06/2014 4:54 PM

FLASH!

F/A-18 Hornet strikes Pillsbury Dough Boy

No one's laughing...
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03/06/2014 5:59 PM

This just in from the Bermuda triangle...

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03/06/2014 6:05 PM

First use of cloud computing in avionics. Seems the logic is a little fuzzy.
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03/06/2014 6:19 PM

Strange cotton ball like UFO captures fighter jet....Pilot reappears on base, claims probing was intensive....demands compensation...

"I was able to snap a pic with my iphone."

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03/06/2014 6:41 PM

I swear it doesn't smell as bad as it looks!

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03/06/2014 9:08 PM

If he hits two more clouds he gets a Green Gem, an AMI-9 Sidewinder, and he moves to level 17.

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03/06/2014 9:24 PM

A hard looking chicken from a cotton ball egg.

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03/06/2014 10:43 PM

What egg?

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03/06/2014 10:45 PM

Aerial ballet tutu.

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03/06/2014 11:42 PM

Not Prandtl-Glauert singularity agian!

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03/06/2014 11:57 PM

Harry Potter emerges into the 21st Century...
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03/07/2014 1:24 AM

I ain't buying those cheap baked beans again - ever!! That one almost blew the cockpit canopy open at high speed!!

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03/07/2014 1:49 AM

Kick Ass photo, taken with my i-phone while on Iron Man MK-6 suit trials.

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03/07/2014 1:50 AM

stuck between dimensions....nobody likes this one so we are being sucked back in..
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03/07/2014 5:35 AM

"....full 'steam' ahead chaps!...."

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03/07/2014 8:16 AM

Bad Grampa just Aerial Sharted!
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03/07/2014 8:38 AM

Next on Will It Work, "Burrito Powered Fighter Jets"

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03/07/2014 9:12 AM

Refusing to be outmachoed by his more sophisticated cousin, Little BoBo gave it a go.

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03/07/2014 9:13 AM

Report to Pentagon, use of cotton balls as 'less than lethal' flak munition is less than successful.

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03/07/2014 9:48 AM

The new Boeing air transporter just laid an egg.

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03/07/2014 10:18 AM

"Plain Fart" I suppose!

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03/07/2014 11:07 AM

I Can Fly Higher Than an Eagle...

"Cause Beans are the Wind Beneath My Wings"
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03/07/2014 11:19 AM

Top Secret Video Acquired from Area 51:
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03/07/2014 11:32 AM

New turbo baked beans. For those days when you need a little extra PUSH!
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03/07/2014 11:37 AM

beans beans the magical fruit....
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03/07/2014 12:11 PM

Another Gizmodo puff piece?

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03/07/2014 12:12 PM

Going Supersonic in 3, 2, 1, Blastoff !
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03/07/2014 4:38 PM

That is an eggzamine on port.
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03/07/2014 4:56 PM

Crap! Everyone is moving their stuff to the cloud!

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03/07/2014 6:42 PM

Might make a good ad…

"Keep your data safe with Cloud Defender!"

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03/11/2014 9:14 AM

"Houston! Bring me back. This one looks more fc*ked up than ours!"

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03/11/2014 12:34 PM

BOOOOMMMMM BABY!!!!!

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03/11/2014 9:46 PM

Damn eco fuel!

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03/17/2014 11:44 PM

BOOM?
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04/11/2014 8:03 AM

I told you to secure the canopy, not procure the can o' beans!
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