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Caption This for 10/28/16

Posted October 27, 2016 4:45 PM by LakeGrl
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10/27/2016 4:49 PM

Technically it did fit (be it rather snuggly).

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10/27/2016 4:51 PM

wefit...actually, we almost fit
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10/27/2016 5:15 PM

We're fools in a truck?
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10/27/2016 5:48 PM

"Recalculating..."

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10/27/2016 9:29 PM

"...still recalculating...

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Nope, you're screwed."

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10/27/2016 6:59 PM

There's word going around, that a young man in the crowd, knows how to solve this problem?

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10/27/2016 7:11 PM

Wefit® Temporary Bridge Support Co. A division of LynDoor™International Industries.

Always a solution that fits your needs.
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10/27/2016 7:52 PM

Just prior to the accident, it was over heard the driver of the truck say....

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10/28/2016 2:10 AM

Johnny said: We fit we just have to go a bit side-wards and diagonally with a twist....

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10/28/2016 5:53 AM

The London Fire Brigade tweeted: "Going the 'extra mile' might have been the better option rather than trying to squeeze under a bridge in Beckenham."

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10/28/2016 6:39 AM

WTF...I've driven under here hundreds of times before.

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10/30/2016 5:18 AM

Maybe I should not have filled up the tires while doing the preventative maintenance
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10/28/2016 7:21 AM

It would have fit if we didn't have to swerve to avoid the red car going the wrong way!

OR

What's 9'6" in metric? Darn those new extra height containers!

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10/28/2016 8:09 AM

Another testing failure of autonomous driving systems. Some reprogramming required.

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10/28/2016 8:30 AM

"The bridge sign said 'Clearance, 12 feet.'

"The trailer sign said 'Height, 15 feet.'

"There weren't any cops around to issue tickets, so I thought I'd try it; It worked with speed signs before...

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10/28/2016 8:37 AM

Common Core Math.

12 Feet = 15 Feet = 12 Feet.

I don't understand, this should've worked.

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10/28/2016 8:47 AM

"See, son, this is a lesson in tolerances. You can never measure anything perfectly accurately, so you get 'close enough' and mark how far you believe you're off by. Let's say that the tolerance in measuring bridge and trailer heights is plus or minus two feet. That means a 12 foot bridge is actually somewhere 10 and 14 feet, and a 15 foot trailer is between 13 and 17 feet. Now a 13 foot trailer can fit under a 14 foot bridge, so we would say the two are within tolerance' of each other. That's why we tried driving under the bridge."

"Okay, Dad, but why are the drivers calling us nasty names?"

"That, son, is a lesson in INtolerance."

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10/28/2016 8:54 AM

hey... wasn't slide rules that also gave approximate answers and that tool put men on the moon.

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10/28/2016 12:16 PM

Yup, slide rules that were accurate to three decimal places.

Student (working out part of a complex equation using a slide rule): "Two times three comes out to five point nine nine nine ... eh, just make it six."

You know that happened at least once in a Calculus II class, so knee-deep in the equations they're not seeing the easy parts anymore.

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10/28/2016 9:19 AM

The specifications calls for a real "Forced Fit"!

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10/31/2016 9:56 AM

Perchance you mean "interference fit"??

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10/31/2016 10:53 AM

Normally it is called as "interference fit", and I agree if done purposedly With useful intentions...like tight fitting a shaft onto roller bearings!

In this scenario, it was a dangerously, stupid mistake!

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10/28/2016 9:52 AM

How not to open an extra large can of sardines.....

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WEdon't

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10/28/2016 10:35 AM

Is that "Otto, the self driving truck" out there in Colorado?

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10/28/2016 10:35 AM

Bridge settling.....a growing problem....

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10/28/2016 11:33 AM

According to the theory of relativity, as bodies approach the speed of light (C), they get longer, shorter and narrower. We only needed .6C, but didn't quite make it.
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10/28/2016 1:05 PM

Well, not if you're going to go all diagonal on me.

(Is this Diagon Alley?)

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10/28/2016 1:05 PM

£320 doesn't seem like a lot to pay to avoid this sort of thing.......

especially when you sell them:-

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10/30/2016 8:10 AM

Hahahahahaha!

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10/28/2016 1:09 PM

I know I can fit if I just wiggle sideways a little bit and squeeze those dang right angles in the back, maybe if I let out the air in my tires on that side . . .

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10/28/2016 1:11 PM

There, see? It fits perfectly. So perfectly that there's no way we're going to get it out of there.

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10/28/2016 5:28 PM

Now turn your wheels left and you got'er...left, LEFT, HARD LEFT... MORE. now give er some gas. GAS, GIVE ER SOME GAS... NOW RIGHT, ... TURN HARD RIGHT.... YAH.. LITTLE MORE....

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10/29/2016 3:55 PM

We fit ...well, technically, if you rotate it sideways...
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10/29/2016 7:02 PM

Lakgrl escapes.

Sorry all, I know the previous 'Caption This' has foxed us, and have no comic points to add. Living not that far from Nigh I can assure that is not that odd.

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10/30/2016 10:17 AM

But officer, doesn't England use the metric system? Our Polish lorry is only 5 meters tall. Isn't 5 < 15?

Caption: Units matter.

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10/31/2016 12:15 PM

Gonna hafta tip it over just a leeeetle bit more...

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10/31/2016 5:29 PM

That damn Darrel. That the fourth time this week he wreck a truck. I swear, if you gave him a steel ball in the morning, he'd break it before the days over.

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11/03/2016 2:34 PM

This happens all the time in downtown Spokane, Washington. We have numerous railroad viaducts that were built 11' to 11' 6". Some of them have been scooped but not all of them. You can see the footings. The truckers are supposed to know which one to avoid but sometimes they forget or don't pay attention to the warning signs.
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11/03/2016 2:51 PM

My ex brother-in-law, who drove dump truck for a construction company, left the job site with the box up.

Later that same week, as he was driving to the worksite with a full load of gravel, as he put it, 'somehow, the dump box started raising" ? as he was driving down the road. he's not working there anymore.

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Vi-a-duck? Vi not a chicken?

[Sorry but a little Marx brothers humor couldn't hurt]

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11/03/2016 6:38 PM

Okay, lean it over a little more to the left, a little more, now lower the bridge onto it, that's it. We fit!

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11/03/2016 6:40 PM

Aw, Lyndoor Industries beat me to it.

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