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Caption This for 3/16/2018

Posted March 16, 2018 4:45 PM by MaggieMc

Here's this week's image:

Thanks to HUSH for the submission.

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03/16/2018 4:49 PM

...too soon.

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03/16/2018 4:55 PM

I'm telling you... I literally flipped when I saw the fuel prices!

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03/16/2018 4:59 PM

I just imported an Australian ute(pick up) to the U.S.!

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03/16/2018 5:07 PM

OK, I got the jumper cables hooked up, turn her over!

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03/18/2018 3:55 PM

ACK, ACK! ACK! - beat me to it!! Could see it but not log in when I was out of town this weekend! ;-)

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03/16/2018 5:11 PM

First rollover proof truck! Sure it'll still roll over,, but you can drive it either inverted or verted....

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03/16/2018 6:11 PM

Being in the market for a new (used) truck, I can tell you I hate car flippers.

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03/16/2018 8:34 PM

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03/16/2018 10:07 PM

The new Ford F-180

The F stands for flip

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03/16/2018 10:34 PM

Yes please, top it up.

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03/16/2018 10:37 PM

Another import from the land from down under....

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03/16/2018 10:37 PM

Sorry jhowdy....

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03/17/2018 12:10 AM

Whoopsie

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03/17/2018 12:11 AM

Hmmm, where's the dipstick??

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03/17/2018 5:48 PM

Inside, at the cash register.

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03/17/2018 6:09 PM

Touche!!

Now, where's the 710 cap so I can put some oil in??

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03/18/2018 2:08 PM

Just across the street from the 711 mate.

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03/19/2018 3:37 PM

I don't mean to sound like I'm trolling, but your reply there just made me IIL.

(subtle-ish clue there)

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03/17/2018 3:24 AM
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03/17/2018 6:11 AM

I'll take this one, Boss,...................."Ethyl or Regular?"

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03/17/2018 6:24 AM

Certainly not from the Dearborn or Kansas City plant.................must be from Mexico!!

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03/17/2018 6:31 AM

Yeah, no chic magnet.................but, let me tell ya fella, THIS IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT!!!

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03/17/2018 8:09 AM

The Beverly Hillbillies Try to Fit In

Jethro Bodine got his new Hybrid sports car without giving up his truck but Granny was so riled about the view from her rocker now that she threw Jethro into the see-ment pond.

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03/17/2018 9:36 AM

San Francisco ("Quake City") emergency vehicle!!

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03/17/2018 9:46 AM

Trippin' Out Redneck Style!!!

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03/17/2018 9:58 AM

I'll be your huckleberry...............take me to the river!!!

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03/17/2018 10:25 AM

All-American low-rider!!

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03/17/2018 10:40 PM

Well, at least I got the grass off that thing!

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03/18/2018 3:23 PM

OK, I drained the gas tank. Now what?

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03/19/2018 7:10 AM

Hyperloop concept?

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03/19/2018 9:03 AM

It's the truck that finally turned the automotive industry on it's head!

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03/19/2018 9:59 AM

The "World truck" from Ford. built in China.

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03/19/2018 10:01 AM

I SAID TO "ROTATE THE TIRES!!!"

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03/19/2018 10:14 AM

DROF 051F

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03/19/2018 12:14 PM

Swifty's New and Used Pickups won several awards for the high inventory turnover.

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03/19/2018 1:59 PM

Visible proof that, if you know the right people, and pay the right amount of money, then you can get anything ''perrmitted'' ?...

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03/22/2018 5:18 AM

The universal car. This way up, LHD. Other way up, RHD. Take it anywhere in the world, no conversions necessary.

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03/25/2018 9:20 AM

Does your car turn over in the morning?

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