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Caption This for 06/26/09

Posted June 25, 2009 5:02 PM

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06/25/2009 6:11 PM

The bridge over the river crack!

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06/25/2009 7:31 PM

New luxury houseboats stranded due to water shortages!

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06/25/2009 11:26 PM

The overly ambitious thieves are currently still on the loose.

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06/26/2009 4:54 AM

"Like a bridge over troubled waters, I will lay me down." - with apologies to Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel.

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Re: Caption This for 06/26/09

06/26/2009 5:00 AM

(Something about a game of Bridge at a new address, though it hasn't quite crystallised yet. More work needed...)

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06/29/2009 5:07 AM

Spades slam at Bridge, or something like that? (Keeps working on it...)

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06/26/2009 5:02 AM

(Something about creeking floorboards. More work needed...)

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06/26/2009 5:07 AM

"Honey - have you fixed that creeking floorboard yet?"

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06/26/2009 6:50 AM

'Location, location, location; Beautiful 3bdrm on waterfront w/ garage and boat lift shed, river views, dead end road, great fishing nearby.'

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06/26/2009 11:52 AM

Now we take out the end walls ....

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06/26/2009 11:57 AM

The new "hinged crawl space" option from KrisDel Homes is yet to make a big splash, in sales anyway.

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06/26/2009 1:54 PM

Ya think this ones bad... You shoulda seen the one we left at the top of Lion's Back.

I think were gonna try a ferry next time.

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06/26/2009 1:54 PM

Ted now realized letting "Guest" size his bridge beams was a bad idea.

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06/26/2009 2:50 PM

Hurry and get your hands on this Fisherman's Special!

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06/26/2009 5:14 PM

New luxury "pre manufactured" covered bridge sure to make a splash in a town near you!

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06/26/2009 5:15 PM

"Oops!"

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06/26/2009 10:02 PM

Support for Obama's solution to the homeless living under bridges fell today.

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06/27/2009 12:19 AM

A Bridge Too Far!

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06/27/2009 1:51 AM

River getting contaminated? Cover it.

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Re: Caption This for 06/26/09

06/27/2009 2:08 AM

Ladies and Gentlemen, please allow me to present the new bestseller, "Building Moving: The Complete Unabridged Version"

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06/27/2009 2:53 AM

....this house has a "wonderfull balcony over the river which we hope you will drop in sometime to see!"

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06/27/2009 3:25 AM

will drop in sometime to see!

You mean "drop in river" ?

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06/27/2009 5:16 AM

Well ,if they get divirced now, atleast it will be easy to devide the house in two...

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Re: Caption This for 06/26/09

06/27/2009 7:22 AM

eerrr... I actually got the idea from a James Bond movie.

It works well for travellers salesmen and the mother in law.

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06/27/2009 10:51 AM

Heavily "medicated" and somewhat depressed over his recent break up with an up-and-coming supermodel, Lenny became convinced that he was a hermit crab so he got in his "shell" and headed for the beach...

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06/27/2009 1:01 PM

This driver is another winner of the Not My Job Award (to check bridge capacity)

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06/27/2009 7:41 PM

Anyone? for a game of bridge?

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06/27/2009 11:19 PM

Hey....I'm gonna be late to work this morning.....um........there's a house where the bridge used to be.....what difference does it make?....it's a ranch....I don't know how many sq. ft......

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06/27/2009 11:31 PM

Future home of the Darwin Awards!

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06/28/2009 6:11 AM

"Although the new location suited Fred far better he realised that garaging the cars may present some problems"

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06/28/2009 6:53 PM

"Comes with handicapped access ramps"

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06/28/2009 8:55 PM

Unfortunately the State has rejected our Covered Bridge, 7 11 Combo, Drive Thru, construction techniques as overly innovative.

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06/29/2009 7:24 AM

More creative solutions to aging infrastructure

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06/29/2009 8:28 AM

Obama's solution to the housing problems?

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06/29/2009 9:13 AM

A couple more foot and we wouldn't have had to stoop to get the wheels off. But I like it!

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06/29/2009 9:36 AM

"Shut up, Lucille. I thought you were referring to the beers I drank when you said I was over the limit".

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06/29/2009 11:37 AM

It's like I was saying George, they just don't have the craftsmanship for covered bridges these days. Why when I was just a youngtster....

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06/29/2009 4:02 PM

While the highway commissioner was enraged that Barney had continued making his traditional "Sunday drive", the county judge was held responsible for not being more specific about the terms of the "house arrest".

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06/29/2009 11:59 PM

A River Runs Through It, Pt. 2

Coming soon to a theater near you!

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06/30/2009 2:56 AM

Marriage counselor to man: "No Mr. Smith, that's NOT what I meant when I said you have to bridge your differences with your wife over the home renovations ......"

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06/30/2009 7:41 AM

"Jeez, Jimmy, that was the mother of all potholes!"

"Yep, you'd a thought we were in Michigan".

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06/30/2009 9:05 AM

Hay Bobby...does Mr. Johnson have the home and bridge rider on his policy?

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06/30/2009 4:29 PM

Yeah, my address is 1294 Riversides Drive.

The TARP infrastucture money allocations will be released as soon as the enviornmental studies are completed and signed off on. Then it's GO TIME.

Gee, you're right, honey, we should have gotten the home inspection done. Especially the plumbing.

Well, the boat house is finally near completion. I designed it for a shallow V hull 20 footer.

Man, these ice fishing huts are gettin more elaborate every year.

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07/06/2009 5:07 AM

"Falling Water" for the sub-prime market?

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10/30/2009 10:44 AM

He will need a bridge loan after all.

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