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Caption This for 08/15/14

Posted August 14, 2014 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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08/14/2014 5:05 PM

What to wear when the wife wants you to do something.

Jeez, this is a good one! No kidding!

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08/14/2014 5:13 PM

When Harry met Sally, it was love at first second well eventually they found each other.....

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08/15/2014 3:08 AM

GI Jane's comments about the new background adaptive camouflage that is painted directly onto the skin.

"It works well, but I'm not sure that I want to run around naked on a battlefield with all those GIs that I can't see creeping up on me"
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08/15/2014 3:24 AM

GI Joe's comments about the new adaptive background camouflage that is painted directly onto the skin.

" Now that they are letting gay guys into the army, I agree with Jane"
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Re: Caption This for 08/15/14

08/14/2014 5:45 PM

This is part of a sinister conspiracy to clip one day out of each week, so the companies will enslave us continuously.

They started by moving the payday to every Thursday, the nightclubs adjusted accordingly, now they moved Caption This as well; before we realize it, the weekends will be a thing from the past.

Here's the new weekdays names that leaked from the High Global Command:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Post-friday, Pre-monday...

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08/14/2014 5:54 PM

Some sofas only have loose change.
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08/14/2014 6:12 PM

Enough for the bare necessities?

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08/14/2014 6:14 PM

And here you see Jungle Jim as he waits to pounce on his prey. (Said in a Steve Irwin voice)

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08/29/2014 6:41 PM

Crikey,

That bloke is truly in his own habitat!
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08/14/2014 6:37 PM

Red Neck Hide-A-Bed.
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08/14/2014 6:48 PM

The real trick was making the 155 mm howitzer look like a couch.

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08/18/2014 11:41 AM

I can see where breech-loading this one could impact morale somewhat.

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08/18/2014 11:59 AM

Not that there would be anything wrong with that and a vast improvement over the muzzle loading/touch hole method.

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08/18/2014 12:15 PM

Wouldn't that depend on whose 'breech' one was loading?

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08/14/2014 7:58 PM

The new campaign for the US Military called "Stop and smell the roses" taken to a new level.

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08/14/2014 11:57 PM

Goldbricking the easy way.
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08/15/2014 5:03 PM

Even harder for Sarge to find Beetle with that camouflage pattern!
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08/15/2014 2:26 AM

Laura Ashley nails a government contract.

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08/15/2014 3:21 AM

Del's secret cat nest blown wide open...

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08/15/2014 4:27 AM

...and this is the new camouflage for soldiers fighting inside old Victorian hoses....

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08/15/2014 5:47 AM

Some of those old Victorian hose may have contained some shapely limbs.

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08/15/2014 6:33 AM

Sorry, I can't spell "houses!"

Just learnt!!

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08/15/2014 5:24 AM

"Seemed like a good idea, 'til people kept sitting on me"

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08/15/2014 8:38 AM

Hot chicks always complaining the sofa feels a little "stiff" in the middle.
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08/15/2014 10:54 AM

Side discussion between officers observing this test.

Finally - we've found where that weird camoflage was designed to work.

Yes - I never could figure that out. It never did look like any natural terrain to me.

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08/15/2014 11:39 AM

The 1960's just called. They want their couch back!

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08/15/2014 11:45 AM

Is this what they call a Hideaway?
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08/15/2014 12:58 PM

This is sofa king comfortable!

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08/15/2014 1:07 PM

Finally some military training that has a beneficial civilian use. Honey-do list avoidance techniques. (Expert level)

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08/15/2014 1:22 PM

Once again, Gomer misunderstood the Sergeant's instructions:

"Get in camouflage and assume a crouched position!"
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08/15/2014 4:17 PM

After spending millions researching new camo pattern the Army discovered aunt Marge had it "covered" all along.

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08/16/2014 9:47 AM

Mission code name: Silent But Deadly

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08/16/2014 11:28 AM

He was a wallflower as a kid.

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08/16/2014 11:41 AM

I don't get it! A sofa that says "POOH!" each time I have the wind!!

Modern furniture!!!

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08/18/2014 12:02 PM

Here is Hillybilly Jim's Example #27 on "How to pick up women"

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08/21/2014 3:56 PM

Fatigued ?

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08/23/2014 6:43 PM

''Yes, dear, I am too cleaning out the rain gutters, and yes dear, I will too rake the leaves right after I finish, dear...''

((( ''Domicile Camouflage!!!'' Where was that when I needed it?... )))

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