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Caption This for 05/17/2019

Posted May 17, 2019 4:45 PM by lmno24
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05/17/2019 4:59 PM

Wooden walls, wood floor, wood tank, wood tub,

That porcelain sink must not be swelling up to hold the water properly..

Looks like it's time to get a wooden sink.

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05/17/2019 5:13 PM

What you have to do when you can't get Grandpa to quit pissin' in the sink!

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05/17/2019 5:15 PM

Honey, I'm starting to think that plumber may not really be licensed...

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05/17/2019 5:18 PM

"Junior! Quit playing around in there and finish! and if I find out you set up a "log flume" again you'll be grounded!"

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05/17/2019 5:35 PM

Grey water system for dummies.

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05/17/2019 5:48 PM

Before growing up to design water parks, Billy tested his ideas out with his pet gerbil.

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05/17/2019 7:04 PM

How does my former landlords work keep showing up here?

True story..

My old bathroom had sprouted mushrooms.. with caps.

After I ripped out and re-did the 100yo supply pipes (on my time) I told him the tub drain had a 10" slot in the bottom from years of water rusting through..

Considering the route and the concrete tile floor it was not going to be a quick fix.

Was I ever wrong. A plastic paint tray with a few towels shoved into the right place before drywall would slow things down enough to keep the fungi inside the walls.

Problem solved

He was shocked when I moved out a few months later.

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05/17/2019 8:24 PM

OK, if you have some pictures, you can do next week's Caption This!

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05/17/2019 8:51 PM

When you have too much rubbish to handle, it calls for some innovation to flush it out.

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05/17/2019 9:18 PM

Hey Mildred! I got a Low Tek Red Nek solution to our leaky bathroom sink supply line! Come and check it out

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05/17/2019 10:45 PM

Great a Urinal

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05/18/2019 5:30 AM

Rube Goldbergs bathroom. Cool.

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05/18/2019 6:18 AM

"Don't worry honey,I can fix it.Don't need no stinkin' plummer!"

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05/18/2019 7:50 AM

If it is to supply water to the tap I can't see how the water gets out of the pan to go up to the tap.......

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05/18/2019 9:51 AM

When one flush isn't enough.

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05/18/2019 11:23 AM

And he went on to design Interstate Highway interchanges.

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05/18/2019 12:13 PM

Hydro expulsion regulator.

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05/18/2019 2:37 PM

HaHa - You guys just don't recognize a redneck bidet add-on when you see one!!

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05/18/2019 4:18 PM

Wet concrete backer board..

That'll get rid of the giblets paw.

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05/18/2019 8:10 PM

A redneck treatment of Escher's "Waterfall".

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05/19/2019 3:46 PM

"Ex" is an unknown quantity.

"Spurt" is a drip under pressure.

Hence "expert".

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05/19/2019 10:37 PM

No no.. if it weren't leaking it would be an ex spurt fixed by an expert.

It's still a drip maintained by a drip.

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05/20/2019 8:37 AM

The yellow rubber gloves were only used in construction ? Please tell me it's so.

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05/20/2019 11:49 AM

Looks to me like the half-pipe is only for the leaking left faucet. The yellow tub under the sink is for catching everything else. They just need to connect the sink drain to the half pipe to fully utilize the work they've done and get rid of that ugly yellow tub!

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05/20/2019 12:11 PM

Agreed! It's the yellow tub that makes this look unprofessional! Ditching that tacky yellow tub will really "class up" the joint! Never know when Better Homes and Gardens will arrive unannounced!

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05/20/2019 3:10 PM

I can hear the late Mrs. Wolowitz now:

"Howard! Did you fix that leaky faucet?"

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05/21/2019 11:02 AM

I did the experiment with my sink and observed the water did not spin thereby disproving the Coriolis force. Angular velocity is proportional to the number of random homemade gutters and not dependent on Earth's angular velocity.

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05/21/2019 11:46 AM

Technically, I grudgingly have to give it an ''S'' for being nominally SUFF-icient...

But, I still have to withhold all ''E's'' for being so in-E-fficient...

The (Plumbing Engineer ?) must have gone to an Ivy League school for only getting the design theory right without giving the configuration enough actual practicality to make it a ''keeper''...

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03/21/2020 4:46 PM

And that ladies and gentlemen, is how Jim got the idea of the great idea of Mouse Trap

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03/21/2020 6:01 PM

Whadda ya think, Zeb? It's like that one cool paint'n, right?

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