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RE: The THREAD!!! - 12/27/2006 5:37:05 AM   
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   Alan Geoffrey Yates was born in London and educated at schools in Essex. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Royal Navy as a lieutenant. After the war he worked as a sound recordist at Gaumont-British Films for two years and moved to Australia in 1948. In the same year he became an Australian citizen. Before devoting himself entirely to writing from 1953, Yates was a salesman in Sydney and a public relations staff member at Quatas Empire Airways. His early books were intended only for Australian audience, but when Carter Brown series was picked up by the New American Library, he found readers also in the United States. There his book covers were often illustrated by Barye Phillips and Robert McGinnis. In France Gallimard started to publish Carter Brown's works in 1959 in Série Noire (number 477), which also published such writers as James Hadley Chase, Peter Cheyney, Horace McCoy, Jonathan Latimer, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain. In Australia the Brown books were published by Horwitz, one of Sydney's leading paperback houses. Yates was married with Denise Sinclair Mackellar; they had one daughter and three sons. (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cbrown.htm)
   Alan Geoffrey Yates (1923-85) began his writing career as a contributor to Horwitz's 'Scientific Thriller' series in the 1940s. He also wrote westerns, romances, and horror stories - under various pseudonyms, including 'Paul Valdez' and 'Tex Conrad' - but was soon persuaded to concentrate on crime fiction. He initially published under the name 'Peter Carter Brown', or 'Peter Carter-Brown', until 1958 when 'Carter Brown' was judged more appealing to the American market. Between 1951 and 1984 Horwitz published hundreds of 'Carter Brown' titles, many of which were taken up by the American paperback publisher Signet - individual titles achieving sales of up to 200,000. They were also highly popular in Europe. 


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RE: The THREAD!!! - 12/27/2006 5:58:21 AM   
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RE: The THREAD!!! - 12/27/2006 6:03:54 AM   
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RE: The THREAD!!! - 12/27/2006 7:16:55 AM   
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RE: The THREAD!!! - 12/27/2006 8:57:15 AM   
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Nah....I live in Melbourne.............btw my birthdate is 30/4/64


There are 30 months on the Australian calendar?


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RE: Night Log! - 12/27/2006 8:58:38 AM   
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Speaking of "Danishies", I heard on History last night that Daneland leads the world in candy consumption per capita, to the tun e of some 29.5 lbs/year/person.


The Danes are also the happiest people in the world according to a recent study. Could there be a corelation?


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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 8:59:34 AM   
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gluttony?

two words:

Brussel Sprouts




Hey, I happen to like brussel sprouts. Broccolli too.


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The Thread!!! - 12/27/2006 11:41:57 AM   
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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/27/2006 1:50:24 PM   
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Beer LOG! - 12/27/2006 4:05:25 PM   
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Sounds like a worthy cause to me. Who's the yank?


ME of course.....



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The Thread!!! - 12/27/2006 4:06:35 PM   
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Sounds like a worthy cause to me. Who's the yank?


ME of course.....




You're not a Yank, you're a Wank!

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.........8-p...... - 12/27/2006 4:06:35 PM   
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Speaking of "Danishies", I heard on History last night that Daneland leads the world in candy consumption per capita, to the tun e of some 29.5 lbs/year/person.


The Danes are also the happiest people in the world according to a recent study. Could there be a corelation?



Must be all the Prozac........




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RE: The LOG!!! - 12/27/2006 4:07:22 PM   
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You're not a Yank, you're a Wank!


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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 4:08:30 PM   
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Hey, I happen to like brussel sprouts. Broccolli too.



You poor poor boy.......might as well sandpaper your taste buds. (I like Broccolli too though....esp with melted cheddar)




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The Thread!!! - 12/27/2006 5:23:49 PM   
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Hey, I happen to like brussel sprouts. Broccolli too.



You poor poor boy.......might as well sandpaper your taste buds. (I like Broccolli too though....esp with melted cheddar)

We know, Tubbsy...




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LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:09:38 PM   
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[We know, Tubbsy...



Says the CandyMan.



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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:13:21 PM   
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gluttony?

two words:

Brussel Sprouts




Hey, I happen to like brussel sprouts. Broccolli too.


Forget it, if you can't put it on pizza it's a worthless vegetable to Nik.

I think we have had this conversation before. Those who don't like Brussel Sprouts have not had it properly prepared (by me). GF unit hated them too until I cooked them for her.



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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:14:18 PM   
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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:19:24 PM   
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any modern MBT experts out there?

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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:26:13 PM   
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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:27:16 PM   
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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:30:06 PM   
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What is WinSPMBT


The Windows resident version of SPMBT which stands for "Steel Panthers: Modern Battle Tank" , the successor to the original Steel Panthers 2 (Its what Steel Panthers World at War is for the orig Steel Panthers)

covers tactical land combat from 1946 - 2020

I think it should be renamed: Steel Panthers....how many T-72 varients can you find?



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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:31:08 PM   
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Tomatos are the root of all that is evil and unholy. Notice how they are red...a reflection of their satanic nature.


GF unit agrees with you.

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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:35:43 PM   
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What is WinSPMBT


The Windows resident version of SPMBT which stands for "Steel Panthers: Modern Battle Tank" , the successor to the original Steel Panthers 2 (Its what Steel Panthers World at War is for the orig Steel Panthers)

covers tactical land combat from 1946 - 2020

I think it should be renamed: Steel Panthers....how many T-72 varients can you find?



Thanks for the explanation Nik. I thought SP might mean Steel Panthers, but MBT reminded me of Torpedo Boats.

Sounds like one that I will skip. Tank warfare by itself is boring. Give me 1 old fashioned A-10 and we would call it a day.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 12/27/2006 6:52:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		So, anyone get any new exciting games for Xmas.

I got NeverWinter Nights 2. I haven't had time to install it yet though so I don't know if it's any good.

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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:54:21 PM   
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Thanks for the explanation Nik. I thought SP might mean Steel Panthers, but MBT reminded me of Torpedo Boats.

Sounds like one that I will skip. Tank warfare by itself is boring. Give me 1 old fashioned A-10 and we would call it a day.


It can be alot of fun actually, and you can't beat the price.... (free!) After a while though i do end up back in WW2 land for Steel Panthers because the modern (semi-modern) battlefield is just so dang LETHAL......Even when i buy the best shiny MBT's i end up losing most of them to sniper ATGM teams or infantry teams with RPG type weapons......

Worst thing though that ends up frustrating me is the lack hard consistant info for vehicles...tanks esp....afterall noone likes playing with fantasy stats in a wargame. Alot can't be helped given the classified nature of modern vehicles but even the obsolete varients from the 60's and 70's remain inconsistant and disputed.


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Techno LOG! - 12/27/2006 6:55:17 PM   
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So, anyone get any new exciting games for Xmas.

I got NeverWinter Nights 2. I haven't had time to install it yet though so I don't know if it's any good.


GF unit got me F.E.A.R. and Prey for birthday/xmas

Ahh.....good clean chaos and death......



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RE: LOG! - 12/27/2006 7:06:19 PM   
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Thanks for the explanation Nik. I thought SP might mean Steel Panthers, but MBT reminded me of Torpedo Boats.

Sounds like one that I will skip. Tank warfare by itself is boring. Give me 1 old fashioned A-10 and we would call it a day.


It can be alot of fun actually, and you can't beat the price.... (free!) After a while though i do end up back in WW2 land for Steel Panthers because the modern (semi-modern) battlefield is just so dang LETHAL......Even when i buy the best shiny MBT's i end up losing most of them to sniper ATGM teams or infantry teams with RPG type weapons......

Worst thing though that ends up frustrating me is the lack hard consistant info for vehicles...tanks esp....afterall noone likes playing with fantasy stats in a wargame. Alot can't be helped given the classified nature of modern vehicles but even the obsolete varients from the 60's and 70's remain inconsistant and disputed.


I agree the era of the combat tank, as we have known it, has really already come to a close. UAVs and their ground based counterparts are going to be the new wave in weaponry. To a UAV a manned tank is just a big fat juicy sitting duck.

The other component I hear is that the Marines are working on a vehicle that can take off (veritcally) be anywhere in the world in a couple of hours for an op and then back home again. It would hold a squad or platoon. Starship Trooper may not be that far away. Tanks would not fit into that sort of deployable system, plus with UAVs and aircraft, who needs them.

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The Thread!!! - 12/27/2006 7:11:55 PM   
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So, anyone get any new exciting games for Xmas.

I got NeverWinter Nights 2. I haven't had time to install it yet though so I don't know if it's any good.


GF unit got me F.E.A.R. and Prey for birthday/xmas

Ahh.....good clean chaos and death......




Nothing like it...

NWN2 is pretty good, albeit somewhat buggy. There's a very annoying skybug that the developers haven't even acknowledged exists yet. The fix is to play in a window, which is somewhat irritating...

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Never Winter LOGs! - 12/27/2006 7:13:22 PM   
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