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• Funny Friday

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  I'm sore, shaky and relieved to be home from hospital. More about all that on Sunday's post.
  
  Congratulations go to Joe who submitted the wining caption for this week's wordless Wednesday: "Although Santa tried hard to impress, it wasn’t really the Wii that little Jimmy had been hoping'" [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 7:19am EST
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:25am EST
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• A Dappled Life and other news that made me happy this week.

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  My very talented friend (yes I'm biased but I never tell a lie), Carol painted this very beautiful work of art for me. It has a lot of gold leaf on it and this has made it very difficult to take a photo which does it justice. Here is' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 3:17am EST
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• The voice of the Tweeple

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  Thank you to everyone who entered a caption in this week's wordless Wednesday. You all made me laugh (thank you) and I struggled to choose just one winner. So I put a request on on Twitter asking my followers (Tweeple) to decide which was their favourite caption. [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:30am EST
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:59am EST
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• Answers, additional detail and congratulations.

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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:10pm EST
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• Can Einstein make you afraid of heights?

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  Can Einstein make you afraid of heights? The answer is yes. Maybe. Well actually it's ageing that may make you suddenly develop a fear of heights and with good reason. Marcus Chown explains it much better than I can in this video clip:
  
  So yeah, anyway, as I' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:41am EST
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• Swine flu pity party (and you're all invited)

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  As you read this post please keep in mind that until now I've never had to suffer the indignities of influenza and so it all came as a bit of a shock to me. What follows will undoubtedly be classed as a pity party but hey, I reckon I'm entitled.... [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:31am EST
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• Swine Flu

  Number of comments: 31
  Swine flu is busy making us ill Chez Aspie.
  
  I'm understating the experience by saying that it's been most unpleasant.
  
  I'll post all the gory details as soon as I can maintain an upright position long enough.
  
  Please feel free to leave amusing anecdotes in the' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:42am EST
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• Five things that are good in November

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  I'm sorry that I haven't been visiting your blogs lately. I'm really struggling to cope at the moment, work is incredibly stressful, exhausting me long before home time and my 'nypical facade is tenuous at best lately.
  
  By the time I've got N3S in bed, all I want to' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:44am EST
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• Hello Friday, I've missed you so!

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  'Morning all and good morning Friday! I've been ready for some weekend since Tuesday evening. I've been very Aspie this week and struggling to cope.
  
  Both jobs continue to be ridiculously stressful with even the most mainstream of mainstream people struggling to cope. So imagine what the inside' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:39am EST
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

  Number of comments: 22
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:57am EST
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• Random comments from N3S

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  I had a great start to my NaNoWriMo today. I was up at 5am and have written 2,719 words already today. I do hope that A Dappled Life continues to flow out of me so easily. It is a novel I have wanted to write for several months now and [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:20am EST
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• Happy (?) Halloween

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  This video is of someones front window onto which they've projected a series of images. Call me a wimp but I think it is very scary!
  
  
  
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 5:06am EDT
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• What a buncha winners!

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  Meet my new little notebook. Chopper bought it for me as a surprise this week.
  I've been coveting a portable computer for some time now. I can use it in class to take notes a lot faster (and more legibly) which will reduce my stress levels' [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:51am EDT
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• Clever hands

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  If I listen to this with my eyes closed it sounds like a rain storm (or my brain on sensory overload). I haven't decided what to do about my course yet. I been doing a lot of not thinking about it. I have a student managed study day this week' [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 3:34am EDT
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• Shittyrundowness

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  It has been a bad week (please read a stern tone of disapproval into this sentence). I've been struggling with laryngitis and an overall feeling of shittyrundowness (proper medical term don'tcha know?).
  
  As I said in a previous post things are so manic and [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• And now for something a little different

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  Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!Copyright (c) DJ Kirkby 2008 - All Rights Reserved [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 2:43am EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 12:58am EDT
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• Random comments from N3S

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  We've had quite a lazy weekend for a change and today promises to carry on in that regard though we'll only have N3S with us in the afternoon. N1S will be at work and as for N2S, well, let me tell you a little history first.
  [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 2:04am EDT
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• Lurgy, lurgy

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  A sore throat woke me at 4.30 this morning which doesn't seem the best way to approach the weekend but I've been feeling a bit ick for a few days now so it isn't entirely unexpected. If I have to get the lurgy then I suppose it couldn't happen at [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 12:24am EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 12:57am EDT
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• I'm going to write as much as possible this weekend

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  I plan on writing loads in Without Alice this weekend and for the rest of October so that I can be finished with my third and final edit before November. The reason for this is because I have joined NaNoWriMo.
  
  I am so excited! I've wanted to join for' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 12:47am EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

  Number of comments: 15
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 12:10am EDT
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• Random comments from N3S

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  'Is it dead?' (said whilst indicating half a pig carcass in a butcher's van)
  
  'You've made my (toy) dog look like a porcupine watching a horror movie.'
  
  'Ketchup spices my tongue.' '
  
  I like the look of girls much better because girls are much more' [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 2:42am EDT
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• Sunny side up

  Number of comments: 14
  This week's wordless Wednesday winner is a tie between Dad Stuff with - 'Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar' and one of my favourite authors, Joe Stein, with - 'You usually put a bill in the kitty, not a kitty [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 12:38am EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

  Number of comments: 11
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 1:32am EDT
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• Obessions. I have them.

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  I got this award from Nadine
  
  The "Your Blog is Fabulous!" Award stands for: Integrity. Commitment to Excellence. Stubbornly Optimistic.
  
  The Rules:
  
  List five current obsessions: (What, only five?)
  
  - Raising Autism Awareness. I think it is important that people understand [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 4:01am EDT
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• Friday (almost the weekend, yay)

  Number of comments: 16
  There are two winners for this week's wordless Wednesday: Helen for the most brilliant, random but very topical connection on a WW photo ever with - 'Those two are never going to fit in the tortoise house with the hedgehog'. (see my blog post for' [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 2:05pm EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

  Number of comments: 24
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 12:49am EDT
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• My blog is magic

  Number of comments: 19
  Chopper says my blog is magic because I posted photos of a hedgehog on one of my wordless Wednesday posts and now we have a hedgehog happily bimbling around our garden. Chopper and I sat in the garden Friday evening and watched it wandering round. That evening was the [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2009, 1:48am EDT
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• What a bunch of winners!

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  I am, as usual, very grateful that it is Friday. It has been a hectic week at both jobs and also very windy out. So windy in fact that yesterday I cycled to and from a meeting into a head wind and on the way home. [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 1:14am EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

  Number of comments: 14
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 12:10am EDT
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• The winners of the double book draw are...

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  Claire P and Ivy please send me your postal details on djkirkby@gmail.com.
  Thanks to everyone who entered and I hope you all join in again next time.Copyright (c) DJ Kirkby 2008 - All Rights Reserved [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 1:21pm EDT
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• Random comments from N3S - part 27

  Number of comments: 21
  'Does the tortoise stop the creditors getting in?'
  
  'Everyday there is a fire y'ano.'
  
  'Why do you need water to make a bomb?'
  
  'It's not healthy to eat salad everyday for lunch y'ano. You should eat stuff like me.'
  
  'These marshmallow sweets are probably made by' [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 2:30am EDT
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• Guest Judge Friday

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  I am finding this week a struggle and the lovely Tim Atkinson has stepped in to give me a hand by being my guest judge (thank you, thank you, thank you!). Tim is the author of Writing Therapy which I reviewed here and his author blog is [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 1:21am EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

  Number of comments: 16
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 1:00am EDT
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• Call yourself a writer?

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  I got tagged for this very timely meme by The Dotterel.
  
  1. Which words do you use too much in your writing?I don't think word repetition is as much of a problem as my overuse of exclamation marks!
  
  2. Which words do you consider overused in' [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 12:34am EDT
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• Fretful Friday

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  Yep it is fretful Friday. The first day back to school for N3S and he is as fretful about it as we expected him to be. My heart breaks for him. I wish he didn't have to go to school either but instead I try to convince him each day' [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 1:30am EDT
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• Off the rails!

  Number of comments: 3
  I know you'll be shocked to see that I am posting on a Thursday but I wanted to share with you the exciting news that am being hosted on the 'Woodstock' of blog parties today! Click here to head on over there and play along to have a chance' [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 3:40am EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

  Number of comments: 21
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 4:38am EDT
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• Lazy Sunday? I don't think so...

  Number of comments: 15
  Well here it is 8:45 in the morning and I am just getting around to writing this post because I have only just got out of bed. The BBQ was very tiring but also a lot of fun. Loads of people showed up, I mean loads! All I really wanted [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2009, 3:45am EDT
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• Oooops!

  Number of comments: 14
  I have been busy working on the edit for Without Alice both last night and this morning (I set my alarm to get up extra early so I could work on it while N3S slept, yes that is how much I am enjoying it), trying to find space to cram [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 9:31am EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

  Number of comments: 14
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 1:08am EDT
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• Without Alice

  Number of comments: 56
  Well this was a post I've hoped I wouldn't have to write. About 18 months ago Without Alice was accepted by a publisher and was due to be published this month. They blogged about me here saying I was cool and groovy and I blogged [...]
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  Posted: August 23, 2009, 2:31am EDT
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• You're all winners...

  Number of comments: 11
  Hello everybody! Thanks so much to the 19 of you who entered a caption. All of them made me giggle this week and I couldn't chose an overall winner so I asked Chopper to do it. He couldn't, didn't or maybe just plain wouldn't....
  
  So, for the second time [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 1:31am EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

  Number of comments: 25
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 1:00am EDT
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• Random comments from N3S - part 26

  Number of comments: 12
  'Next time you have a cup of tea I am going to have one of those mint leaves.'
  'I am imagining myself scratching your eyeballs with bits flinging off my fingers.' (breakfast comment)
  
  'That can't be a police dog! It doesn't have its uniform and sunglasses on!'
  
  'Are' [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 1:54am EDT
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• Fermenting Friday

  Number of comments: 13
  Remember the strawberry wine I made? Well it got a bit too volatile for comfort during the second ferment so I decanted it (rather messily) into a demi john and it is now bubbling away nicely. Isn't it pretty?
  
  This weekend I need to start' [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 12:43am EDT
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• Wordless Wednesday (for me). Please leave your captions in the comment box and I will post the winning caption on Friday

  Number of comments: 11
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 1:11am EDT
  by DJ Kirkby