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Caption This for 12/23/16

Posted December 22, 2016 4:45 PM by LakeGrl
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12/22/2016 5:51 PM

First Martian fruit...circa 2201

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12/22/2016 6:36 PM

Rounding off the argument against GM fruit?

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12/22/2016 7:47 PM

Mythbusters test Viagra vs Bromine.

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12/22/2016 8:21 PM

Better keep an eye on that....

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12/27/2016 4:06 PM

How did my buddy's artificial vision project end up here on this plant? I knew it had something to do with GM sunflowers, but this is going too far!

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12/22/2016 8:38 PM

Asparagus on steroids?

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12/22/2016 9:35 PM

I thought I recognized that....

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12/23/2016 12:20 AM

"Oh, just 'stopped in fo' a bevvie,' did wuh? Wot, did yee drink it or drop yor dobbor in it? Bloody neera that's the worst case iv brewer's droop ah ivvor seen!"
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12/23/2016 12:49 AM

As reported on this news show;- http://www.craveonline.com.au/site/723071-carrie-bickmore-flashes-penis-drawing-on-tv

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12/27/2016 4:10 PM

I see my wife has been making up stories about me yet again!

Spears the length of three men, indeed!

By the way, mate, if yours appears as that, you have my sympathy indeed.

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12/23/2016 7:51 AM

GMO meets Abstract Art.
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12/23/2016 8:04 AM

In his autobiography The Jolly Green Giant admitted to some 'experimenting' when he was in college.

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12/23/2016 9:18 AM

Ohhh, pictures of the 'jolly green giants' children, and here is his youngest 'Sprout'

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12/23/2016 9:13 AM

Fukushima strawberries.
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12/23/2016 9:28 AM

The Alien pods are about to erupt. Run for your lives!

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12/23/2016 7:40 PM

Triffids
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12/23/2016 12:09 PM

''Hmmmm, maybe genetically modifying bananas has taken a wrong turn...''

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12/23/2016 7:14 PM

A new portrait of Mr. & Mrs. Monsanto. They are not of this World.

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12/24/2016 12:36 PM

Two hundred and fifty years after the inauguration of Donal Truump, citizens of North Truumpastan, gather to celebrate the anniversary of that event.

(Let's all pray that is not a picture of the future)

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12/27/2016 4:04 PM

I dunno Marty, what are you doin' tonight?

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12/28/2016 3:25 AM

Oh, look. Martian cabbage! Delicious with mustard pickle.

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