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Caption This for 09/12/14

Posted September 11, 2014 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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09/11/2014 5:54 PM

Barf!

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09/11/2014 6:17 PM

When you call Comcast to cancel your service, be prepared to wait a long time.

A really long time.

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09/11/2014 7:19 PM

The whole family is phoney!
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09/11/2014 9:10 PM

Scotty, lock onto our communicators and beam us out. They want us in the Kardashian's show.
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09/11/2014 9:44 PM

Agents 87, 88, 89, and 90.

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09/11/2014 10:16 PM

Can you hear me now?
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09/12/2014 3:31 AM

The advantage is they now don't notice us old pervs taking their pictures...

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09/12/2014 4:13 AM

Look at that - a multi-pedestrian/vehicle accident just waiting to happen...

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09/12/2014 4:17 AM

And the daft thing is that they are texting each other instead of speaking.

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09/12/2014 9:20 PM

Exactly.....clandestine communication....

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09/11/2014 11:31 PM

Still no communication

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09/11/2014 11:31 PM

My son has your phone, we all have ours?
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09/12/2014 12:18 AM

This is why Bill Gates stopped taking his phone calls from his little brother.

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09/12/2014 12:51 AM

Yes, children, this is how people communicated in the Brick Age.

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09/12/2014 4:12 AM

Why don't they just throw the equipment away and talk to each other? Sheesh!

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09/12/2014 4:30 AM

1970's version of CR4, and it ilustrates how things happen if you 'hit the report button'/contact Admin .The process is probably left-to right, but then again.....

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09/12/2014 8:51 AM

The cast of "Saved By The Bell - The Early Years" practices with their new cell phones.
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09/12/2014 9:21 AM

Hello,hello,hello......helwo.

We are the Nerdstroms, and your not! Hahhaha!

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09/12/2014 9:31 AM

That kid on the right's got "Playa" written all over.

You can practically hear him saying:

"…and here you go baby. I got one for you cause you're my special lady.

yeahh, that's right…"
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09/12/2014 10:48 AM

1989 winners of "The Most Brickable Family" award!
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09/12/2014 11:59 AM

"Hello dad, can I have my glasses back now? I can't see out of yours."

"Son, you have your watch on sideways, no wonder you can't see it."

"Bob, I want a divorce, the HAM operator down the street recorded you talking to that floosy you work with."

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09/12/2014 2:27 PM

Wow - somebody found the promo pic for a series canned before the pilot episode ever aired. It was an update of Leave it to Beaver set in the 1980's and with certain tweaks. (Wally is now Wilma and younger than the Beave - the Beave is now a geek and not a normal kid) Don't Ward and June look happy?

The plot for the pilot episode had Ward getting the monthly phone bill and ending up in the ICU from his heart attack.

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09/12/2014 2:53 PM

People of Earth, we come in peace, please do not run away!

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09/12/2014 4:40 PM

Hi There!

We have so much happiness in us!

Can we come over to your house? We want to share this happiness!

Oh I just want to squeeze those chubby little happy cheeks!

Hold on just a sec. ........I TOLD YOU TO SHUT THE F.... UP WHEN I"M TALKING!

Now, where were we....oh yeah, have a nice day!

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09/12/2014 4:54 PM

-In unison, "Hello, you've reached the eighties!"

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09/12/2014 9:58 PM

I can identify the Brick, the bag phone and what looks like a star tac....

but what is that strange little black box on the big dudes belt.

Aint grand kids great!

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09/14/2014 6:41 AM

pager.

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09/13/2014 5:30 AM

Prediction...everyone will have one! Naaaaa will never happen!

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09/13/2014 7:21 AM

You guys wanna come over and play Jarts? I just got done sharpening the tips!

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09/13/2014 11:25 AM

That little guy is Bill Gates? Who is Bill Gates?
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09/13/2014 2:50 PM

If that's a Fashion Statement, they're all stuttering.
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09/13/2014 8:48 PM

This is what we would look like if this was North Korea.....

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09/13/2014 8:53 PM

Yeah, but the plaid shirts would match.

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10/11/2014 6:41 PM

''But Auntie, how come no one in your family had screens on their phones, way back then?...''

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