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Caption This for 09/26/14

Posted September 25, 2014 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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09/25/2014 5:41 PM

Oops, wrong famous landmark.

There were supposed to send the crane to Pisa.

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09/25/2014 6:28 PM

LynDoor™Industries Major Asset Recovery Division.

We bring it home in one piece or you don't pay!
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09/25/2014 8:37 PM

I wouldn't believe the sales brochure for these cranes!

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09/25/2014 9:07 PM

Uh.. Bob, do you wanna recheck those GPS co-ordinates before you let it down any farther???
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09/25/2014 10:11 PM

Las Vegas really does look quite different during the daytime.

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09/26/2014 12:39 AM

Get an eyeful of this!

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09/26/2014 1:41 AM

Now which house did you say ordered this Ariel?
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09/26/2014 5:42 PM

Aerial?
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09/29/2014 12:59 AM

Aerial

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09/29/2014 4:59 AM

Ariel memorys?
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09/26/2014 4:39 AM

F R O G News proudly announced today the long awaited construction of a new McDonalds Restaurant atop the old Eiffel Tower monument. After years of secret bribes, coercion, and blackmail the constuction permit and business licenses were finally granted by the City Council citing the benefits to the economy of Paris as a (w)hole.

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09/26/2014 7:29 AM

I see a reality television series here somewhere.....

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09/26/2014 7:32 AM

Stay tuned next week, where li'l bubba And Jim work against Dirk and Eric to recover Detroit's art.

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09/26/2014 8:11 AM

Installation of the communication tower on a French Embassy.

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09/26/2014 8:36 AM

Well,,,, it was just a temporary structure after all. But no one said it couldn't be portable as well.

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09/26/2014 10:32 AM

Miniature Eiffel Tower hoisted on top of the World Trade Center will show the USA's gratitude to the French for the gift of the Statue of Liberty.

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09/26/2014 10:47 AM

This just in

A Chinese Billionaire believed to be Jack Ma is buying up all the worlds monuments and moving them to China.

A shopping list was leaked on to the internet and contained in this list is believed to be

  • Mount Rushmore
  • Yellowstone National park
  • The Louvre
  • The Empire State Building'
  • The Smithsonian Institute

There also are secret negotiations that include the House of Congress and the Senate

But it reportedly when the Lead U.S. Negotiator Eric Holder offered to throw in the Whitehouse.

A representative for Jack Ma was very interested in this until Holder offered to include the current administration. Where the deal immediately fell through. And the representative for Jack Ma stormed out of the room.

More news at the top of the hour.

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09/26/2014 10:52 AM

Stealing the Eiffel Tower?

Bah, who HASN'T done that already?

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09/26/2014 12:07 PM

Construction has begun for the installation of the 24" riser through the center of the tower to supply the oscillating wine sprinkler nozzle.

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09/26/2014 4:20 PM

Hey! You guys were supposed to take the anchor bolts out. You almost pulled the bone apart!

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09/27/2014 1:22 AM

"Sacre bleu Jacques... those Chinese are buying everything"

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09/27/2014 7:29 AM

"Dad? What's that thing hanging from the Eiffel Crane?"
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09/27/2014 9:39 PM

Look, my repossession papers say that unless somebody can pay us in cash the 8 million francs then we can take possession of this paper weight. Somebody named Gustave signed the loan paperwork. Don't look at me.

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10/01/2014 4:55 PM

Oh its hard to train, someone to run a crane, cause the girls in France don't wear zee underpants.

Don't believe me? walk under the statue of liberty sometime.

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10/01/2014 8:42 PM

I've been inside Miss Liberty. There's less - much less - there than meets the eye. Like some girls I've dated.

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10/02/2014 12:40 PM

This is actually 1/320th scale
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10/03/2014 12:38 PM

David Copperfield setting up his next big illusion...
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10/11/2014 6:34 PM

''So, you thought you could park your contraption here since 1897, and nobody would tow it away because it was so big??? Well, think again, mon ami ...''

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