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Caption This for 7/13/2018

Posted July 13, 2018 4:45 PM by MaggieMc

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As always, send us your funny photos! Be sure to vote for your favorite caption. Thanks to Sid_Sidow for this week's submission.

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07/13/2018 5:00 PM

This is why I never read instructions! But on the plus side, it's probably easier to hammer in a screw than to screw in a nail...
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07/13/2018 5:55 PM

I think it’s a test, to see who really read instructions... you just passed.

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07/13/2018 10:20 PM

The manufacturer got too many complaints with the hammer screws....couldn't get them in without breaking the glass...

...unfortunately they already had 2 million packages with the original instructions...

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07/14/2018 4:52 AM

....why a claw hammer?

Is it to test the strength of the bracket - to see if will pull off?

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07/14/2018 9:44 AM

Why a claw hammer you ask, it’s when a screw driver just wouldn’t do.

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07/13/2018 5:12 PM

Hey we just make the picture hangers, we don't install 'em....

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07/13/2018 5:28 PM

If your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

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07/13/2018 10:28 PM

Sadly, this adage applies to not a small number of military govs.

When your only tool is an AK47 -

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07/13/2018 5:29 PM

I need a Left-Handed screw-hammer?!

Well, it looks like I need to make another trip to the big box hardware store. I'd better pick up a new table saw while I'm there.

You know, just in case.

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07/13/2018 5:35 PM

I need a Left-Handed screw-hammer?!

Better make sure it's not metric!

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07/13/2018 5:36 PM

It just shows that you can get a job even if you flunk out of shop class!

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07/14/2018 10:48 AM

ASIS Caveat Emptor and PPP's yield $$$'s

Yep, he flunked out of shop class. However, he passed the legal ethics exam for the bar by "borrowing" an essay entitled "How to use the ASIS Warranty to avoid product liability !" He then went right to the top of his law school class by plagiarizing the same essay for many of his class assignments. He actually instigated the ASIS warranty under the picture of the hammer as a kind of anti-consumer sick humor early in his career. He now haunts the back rooms of the deep state, pulling down a tax payer funded, seven figure, yearly income word crafting unearned immunities(de facto titles of nobility) like Political Papal Pardons for evil minions of well known political figures.

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07/13/2018 5:54 PM

Ohhh.... I like puzzles... this is like being stranded on a desolate deserted island with a years supply of canned goods and no can opener..

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07/13/2018 6:06 PM

We need to quit screwing around and just drive this home. Stop spinning in circles...

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07/13/2018 6:10 PM

...The chart's legit:
Either work hard or you might as well quit.
That's word, because, you know:
Can't touch this.
Can't touch this.
Break it down!

Stop: Hammer time!

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07/13/2018 8:38 PM

Using a hammer correctly is a round about way of doing the job. Please read the instructs, as other alternatives are available.
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07/13/2018 10:25 PM

Looks like the packaging designer was a little hammered & screwed up!
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07/13/2018 10:35 PM

Or, he had a pounding headache and said: Just Screw it!
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07/13/2018 10:39 PM

Stop making fun of the Irish Screwdriver instructions!

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07/13/2018 11:14 PM

Use the right tool for the right job. Those adjustable Crescent-hammers are more versatile/handy.

But then again, when all else fails, beat your head against the wall; no tools required.

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07/14/2018 4:52 AM

Saws beat hammer, hammer beats screws, screws beat saw
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07/14/2018 5:12 AM

What, a hammer is not a universal screwdriver?

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07/14/2018 9:45 AM

It’s one of those multi-tools,.. you see the screw driver was being used on something else as a pry bar to pry the lid of something.

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07/14/2018 5:23 AM

I don't see what's wrong, the image correctly shows a Birmingham screwdriver.

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07/14/2018 9:47 AM

I didn’t realize they actually have a label for those types of people...

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07/14/2018 10:06 AM

... light tapping required to screw in properly.

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07/14/2018 11:57 AM

Don't hold the screws with your fingers while hammering them - you could screw up your fingers.

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07/15/2018 4:00 PM

I already had my screwdriver in hand, when my wife said - "Read the instructions!"

Now I'm totally confused, I think I need a nap......

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07/15/2018 6:41 PM

American screwdriver!
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07/16/2018 4:57 AM

Using a hammer is a good idea for the first couple of threads. It gets the screw located and held in the right place, and then a screwdriver to drive the screw fully home.

But what are these brackets used for?

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07/16/2018 6:58 PM

Hi Horace,

They are picture hangers, they go on the back of a picture frame to allow it to be centred on a screw in the wall so it will hang straight.
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Thanks. Obvious when you know.

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07/16/2018 12:04 PM

Hardware changes are easy.

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07/17/2018 12:31 PM

Is that a Phillips or Pozidriv hammer?

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07/17/2018 12:42 PM

Pozidriv. If you twist the head off of the screw it becomes a finishing screw but if you are lucky the last thread will still catch the teeth on the bracket. If it doesn't catch, just use the helix nail set to drive the rest into the wall.

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07/17/2018 4:16 PM

The only problem I can see is the instructions should remind people to use a large hammer when driving patent grippy nails.

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07/20/2018 6:47 AM

Proper tool for the proper job!

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