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Caption This for 09/18/15

Posted September 17, 2015 4:45 PM by LakeGrl
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09/17/2015 5:20 PM

Ah, so that was how Giuseppe Bentivoglio, engineer and technical director of the Opera del Duomo, really fixed it!

Just a matter of perspective and clever engineering.
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09/17/2015 5:25 PM

Our first recorded instance of "Lean Manufacturing"

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09/17/2015 6:12 PM

According to the relativity theory, the tower is straight and the universe is leaning!

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09/17/2015 6:19 PM

Signs you are in the home of a compulsive individual....proceed accordingly....

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09/17/2015 6:33 PM

A fine example of a picture that doesn't require a caption.

It says everything itself.
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09/17/2015 8:44 PM

Decisions, decisions which is the right way?
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09/17/2015 9:28 PM

You would have thought it'd be paid for by now, but there's still a "lien lean" on the property.
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09/17/2015 10:28 PM

My wife, an accountant (not a bean counter - there is a difference), sent me this 3 months ago with the caption: "How to drive an Engineer crazy".

So far, I have stuck my finger in my ear up to the elbow - and still can't scratch the itch this picture causes in my brain.

That Mrs. Megawatt is a mean woman!

Hope you all enjoy the paradox of "Building straight" or "Picture straight". Sorry about the brain itch!

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09/17/2015 11:27 PM

A sample of the home decoration work done by Ms. Eileen Dover for Mr. Gomez Addams.
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Re: Caption This for 09/18/15

09/18/2015 1:42 AM

Here's my Friday Poetic attempt:

  • If a hundred CR4's had that frame,
  • ninety five would have done the same.

(I won't try next Friday...... :)

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09/18/2015 7:23 AM

Bless you. ;-)
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09/18/2015 7:47 AM

PLUMB!
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09/18/2015 7:51 AM

"Fix It" !

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09/18/2015 8:48 AM

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09/18/2015 8:59 AM

What our friends down under are grappling with right now:
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Re: Caption This for 09/18/15

09/18/2015 9:03 AM

Sorry, but I still see it as Leaning Tower. And if you run all the stairs, you will be a lot leaner!

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09/18/2015 9:16 AM

err.. hmmmmmm.

erectile dysfunction rectified!

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09/18/2015 9:21 AM

Really, there is *NO* 'perfect caption' for this, because the picture says it all.

Download the picture and sent it to thereIfixedit.com

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09/18/2015 9:28 AM

Now I understand why the Instructor said aligning the paper to the Drafting Machine was important.

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09/18/2015 9:30 AM

This is a crooked photograph of a straight hanging picture located in the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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09/18/2015 11:45 AM

My Apologies.

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09/18/2015 9:30 AM

New robotic picture frame. It's tilt compensation is working perfectly.

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09/18/2015 9:52 AM

Classic Italian engineering solution.

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09/18/2015 11:27 AM

Picture of the leaning tower, hanging in the leaning tower.

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09/18/2015 11:35 AM

This is an OCD nightmare!!

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09/18/2015 3:24 PM

Obviously a politicians solution! "Looks fine to me!"

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09/18/2015 3:24 PM

Oxymoron
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09/18/2015 3:42 PM

Is that like a moron who is not eating enough foods that have anti-oxidants?

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09/18/2015 7:43 PM

I thought it was a moron that would not eat dead oxen.

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09/18/2015 3:45 PM

Two wrong does make it correct

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09/20/2015 4:36 PM

Tower factor correction ?
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09/20/2015 9:46 PM

This picture is on the cover of the new book "Engineering disasters that became tourist destinations instead of being demolished"....or how to make a wrong a right, and pay the bills at the same time.....

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09/21/2015 11:15 AM

A Liberal's attempt to get the Conservative tower to lean left.
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09/21/2015 11:24 AM

"Off Topic"? Excuse me?? Why exactly can I not add my interpretation of a caption, without getting an OT?
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10/06/2015 12:25 PM

Eh, someone must have gotten a cramp in their Right Wing after reading your post, and responded negatively to something they didn't like.

(Now the question for the peanut gallery: Am I making a political comment here, or yet another bird pun?)

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09/22/2015 12:06 PM

You troll! Ha Ha Ha! Now get back in the box before trump card is played.

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09/21/2015 11:20 AM

Out of the Box thinking of a tower that is sinking.
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09/21/2015 11:30 AM

WTF?? Could we have a moderator in here? I don't appreciate being marked OT on anything I write. What kind of a-holes are in here now?
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09/21/2015 11:37 AM

Ummmm relax Box, it was me. I accidentally marked it OT rather than GA. Sorry about that.

Time to unwind your panties...

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09/21/2015 11:54 AM

Oh. Well, I couldn't know that. Two OTs in a row kind of spoiled my mood. Especially when I thought I was hilarious! Apology accepted.
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09/21/2015 11:58 AM

That's understandable. No need to apologize, as it happens to everyone from time-to-time!

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09/22/2015 12:08 PM

Is that what you call "sinking thinking"? Have fun, it's all good.

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09/21/2015 11:51 AM

Image of first ICBM built by the Romans.

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09/21/2015 9:27 PM

Said the freshman student to his Photography professor, ''No, my camera tripod legs didn't stop slipping down until this was the only shot I could take, honest!''...

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09/22/2015 7:17 AM

Oh No! Someone shored her up without consulting CR4 ?! Clearly, no due diligence was done! However, if you look carefully, it's quite an innovative solution, and indeed, well worthy of CR4'S collectuve savvy.....
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