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Caption This for 5/13/16

Posted May 12, 2016 8:09 PM by LakeGrl
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05/12/2016 8:21 PM

The wife said let the cat in. How am I supposed to know which one is ours?
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05/13/2016 7:09 PM

And so begins the gathering of the radioactively enlarged june bugs. Take cover, while you still can!!!

Roger Corman, ''the Pope of Pop Cinema'', and Stanford engineering graduate, tried to warn us!!!

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05/17/2016 3:45 PM

[Furtively, in hushed voice]:

Heeeeey...wanna buy some catnip.

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05/12/2016 8:22 PM

Every March 22nd, the cats in Kensington, London, gather together to annoy the hell out of Andrew LLoyd Webber's neighbors.

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05/12/2016 9:18 PM

Saturday night at the cat house.
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05/12/2016 9:53 PM

Local road users complain as numerous accidents result from poorly placed cat's eyes on their road.

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05/12/2016 10:16 PM

Del, is that you?
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That's him, third from the left.

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Del's private army ready to strike.

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05/13/2016 4:19 PM

Yes... it is him, he is gathering his forces to storm the CR4 offices to get that pesky pop up killed once and for all. As a group, they have a vast amount of intestinal cattitude.

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05/13/2016 4:53 PM

So, what you're saying is, they have a lot of cat guts.

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05/13/2016 6:00 PM

LOL... pretty much.

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05/17/2016 5:32 AM

... I'm busted

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05/18/2016 12:50 AM

I hope they get that pesky pop up killed once and for all.

I thought it was supposed to stop after you checked OK.

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05/18/2016 1:52 PM

I've just conditioned myself to no longer see it . . . .
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05/18/2016 1:55 PM

What popup?

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05/12/2016 10:24 PM

Looks like a normal evening in my yard. It's not a big deal until they all learn how to use the kitty door.

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05/12/2016 11:04 PM

Another episode of King Cat....

....as you know tonight's winner will be crowned King Of Cats and will reign over the "Dumpster of Riches" for another year....

Let the games begin!!! Release the rat!!

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05/12/2016 11:35 PM

Go Speedy!!!!.....Wait, this is just catch and release right?

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05/13/2016 7:39 AM

This is the cat,

That ate the cheese,

And waited for the mouse,

With baited breath.
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05/13/2016 4:09 AM

Right gang, as soon as the lights go out, follow my lead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXUAyRRkI6k
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Love it! I may make it my ring tone.

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05/13/2016 7:18 AM

the literal definition of 'kitty litter'
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05/13/2016 7:29 AM

It's so hard waiting when there's only one litter tray!

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05/13/2016 8:14 AM

Don't you wish you had a laser pointer right about now?

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05/13/2016 8:25 AM

Cat owners/residents of the apartment in the middle in that picture:

Wife to husband - "See I told you we should get Miss Kitty neutered."

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05/13/2016 9:25 AM

Hollywood is making a re-remake of Village of the Damned movie, originally made in 1960 and remade in 1995.

Its called 'Village of the Damned Cats'.

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05/13/2016 9:25 AM

Add a little rain... and you would have a real CATastrophe on your hands...

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05/13/2016 10:18 AM

After giving all the neighborhood cats flashlight glasses road kill has dropped dramatically!

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05/13/2016 2:33 PM

Hey Wisnu they think we are cats.

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05/13/2016 4:54 PM

This cat just tracked his way back from Chernobyl, I can't believe it still glows.

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05/13/2016 6:47 PM

'Cause the night has a thousand eyes
And a thousand eyes can't help but see if you are true to me
So remember when you tell those little white lies
That the night has a thousand eyes

Thank you, Bobby Vee!

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05/13/2016 11:21 PM

C'mon guys, I found out how to get onto that balcony in last week's picture!

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05/14/2016 4:02 AM

Cat's name is Mew and it talks

"Hullo, there, Help to save my Wife ( or husband) "

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05/14/2016 6:53 AM

If not Del, then maybe.....Pussy Galore...!

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05/14/2016 10:15 AM

After Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds, serious measures had to be taken.

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05/15/2016 2:55 PM

The morning after the night before.........

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05/16/2016 9:11 AM

Hitchcock's early draft of 'The Birds,' at the time titled 'Hairballs from Hell.'

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05/17/2016 8:46 AM

First night after legalizing prostitution in Nevada.

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05/18/2016 3:33 PM

Twinkle twinkle little cat,

how I wonder what you're at?

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05/18/2016 5:41 PM

"Martha, let's set the basket of catnip down, back away slowly, and maybe... just maybe, we can get out of this alive."

"Martha, why are you stuffing the catnip in my pockets? That's not what I said to - WHY ARE YOU RUNNING!"

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