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RE: Potholes - 6/21/2007 7:16:40 PM   
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In this case, the book and the movie were the same.


Tthat guy who was on the Partridge Family" was in the book??

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Bobby Troup - 6/21/2007 8:10:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually, Bobby Troup was never on "The Partridge Family," although I can see the resemblence to whoever it was that played their manager, Reuben Kincaid. He was, however, on "Emergency" at about the same time, playing Dr. Joe Early (although I spent more time focusing on Julie London, who played the nurse, Dixie).

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RE: Bobby Troup - 6/22/2007 12:48:02 AM   
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RE: Potholes - 6/22/2007 7:55:04 AM   
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RE: Potholes - 6/22/2007 11:09:13 AM   
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Alfred

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RE: Potholes - 6/22/2007 11:51:33 AM   
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And a "Kilroy was here" drawing.

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RE: Potholes - 6/22/2007 4:49:11 PM   
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RE: Potholes - 6/22/2007 6:03:50 PM   
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Rivets - 6/26/2007 10:26:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		**********M & M Shipbuilding Works, Pitcarin Is., August 5, 1942***********

V.P. Shibuilding Division, M. Minderbinder is touring the construction site for USS Enterprise. With him is his job welding foreman, F. Christian V. They gaze up toward a bamboo laticework. Sparks fly from a dozen welders on the forward elevator. A dim-witted type runs giggling from spot to spot with a bucket of seawater to extinguish the occaissional smoldering bamboo, ignited by errant sparks.

Mr. Minderbinder: How goes the weld incentive program?

F. Christian: Very well, sir. The welders have taken to making a personalized chalk mark at the end of their shift, in order to get paid appropriately. <they come across a curious chalk drawing which consists of a bare-headed character with an ample nose peeking over a wall. Mr. Minderbinder stops and is much taken with the drawing>

Mr. Minderbinder: Hmmmm. Where is this Kilroy chap?


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RE: Rivets - 6/27/2007 6:12:48 PM   
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RE: Rivets - 6/28/2007 1:11:37 AM   
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Bobby Troup - 6/28/2007 1:26:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Speaking of Bobby Troup....anyone know (without googling) what famous song he wrote?

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RE: Bobby Troup - 6/28/2007 3:07:52 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Speaking of Bobby Troup....anyone know (without googling) what famous song he wrote?


"Get your kicks on Route 66".
Wrote it with his wife while traveling to California.

Now, get back to the WAR, you SLACKER!!

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Sing to the tune of "Man on the Flying Trapeze"
..Oh! We fly o'er the treetops with inches to spare,
There's smoke in the cockpit and gray in my hair.
The tracers look fine as a strafin' we go.
But, brother, we're TOO God damn low...

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RE: Bobby Troup - 6/29/2007 3:00:04 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Speaking of Bobby Troup....anyone know (without googling) what famous song he wrote?


"Get your kicks on Route 66".
Wrote it with his wife while traveling to California.

Now, get back to the WAR, you SLACKER!!


Oh...OK dad <skuffs pavement with sole of shoe>




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Mirthfulness - 6/29/2007 3:01:40 AM   
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RE: Mirthfulness - 6/29/2007 4:42:26 AM   
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"Good times will set you free" - Jimmy Buffett

"They need more rum punch" - Me


Artwork by The Amazing Dixie

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RE: Mirthfulness - 6/30/2007 5:30:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		Not only did Milo copyright Kilroy, but now I've got to rack my brain figuring out who on earth had puffy young cheeks on Broadway in 1942? Brando? Don Rickles? (Mr. Moto would have been interned at Manzanar by then...)

C'mon, Capt. Mandrake, tell us what happened at PM.

BTW, I was up on the top of Mauna Kea last winter at sunset, got a good look at Alpha Centauri after dark, and the concrete bridge wasn't still standing----I think that M&M used low quality materials on that job!

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RE: Mirthfulness - 6/30/2007 7:43:15 AM   
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RE: Mirthfulness - 6/30/2007 7:02:25 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Moondawggie

Not only did Milo copyright Kilroy, but now I've got to rack my brain figuring out who on earth had puffy young cheeks on Broadway in 1942? Brando? Don Rickles? (Mr. Moto would have been interned at Manzanar by then...)


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C'mon, Capt. Mandrake, tell us what happened at PM.


Yes..working on that. I just got back from my annual charity mission to support the economy of Nevada.

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BTW, I was up on the top of Mauna Kea last winter at sunset, got a good look at Alpha Centauri after dark, and the concrete bridge wasn't still standing----I think that M&M used low quality materials on that job!


Seriously, now, wouldn't you have been disappointed if he didn't?

Epic struggle for Yenen makes Stalingrad look like a picnic.




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Oscar de la Renta - 7/1/2007 4:09:12 AM   
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RE: Oscar de la Renta - 7/1/2007 5:13:07 AM   
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Port Moresby - 7/3/2007 5:43:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Been a while since I posted anything. We have been cranking out turns and a former employee dropped by work and confessed she had been dreaming about me for 9 years. Yada, yada, yada...ice pack. Anyway, where was I? Port Moresby, I think.


**********Swiss Cheese Field, Port Moresby, 08:25, August 16, 1942*********

A line of two dozen Vals begin their roll into a dive. "TAKE COVER!", shouts Sgt. Sisyphus to his crew. As there is no slit trench nearby, the Sgt. takes cover near a large, rusted cylindrical tank. The second Val in the line scores a hit nearby and splinters tear through the tank just above his head. He has a momentary feeling of panic as liquid begins to poor onto the back of his neck. Is he to be incinerated on this jungle Hell? Quickly, however, his years of experience assert themselves. He takes in a breath. "******* A!, it's RUM!"









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RE: Port Moresby - 7/3/2007 7:13:05 PM   
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RE: Port Moresby - 7/3/2007 7:26:51 PM   
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Repulse - 7/4/2007 11:12:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		This was a painful episode. HMS Repulse, after her gallant defence of Borneo, Java, Timor and Perth, including a big role in the sinking of Fuso and much other Jap shipping off Koepang and her epic survival stroy after taking 4 torpedo hits off Perth, finally succumbs.

After repair at Perth, she participated in bombardent duty but it was time to have her fully repaired. Sydney and Melbourne were full with damaged ships, transit to Pearl was too dangerous and the repair yards at Colombo were nearly idle. Plus, the annoying Admiralty wanted a battleship back so Ramilles had to get back to India from Perth (you have to suspend disbelief here as in the "real world" it would have made more sense to send her around the Cape of Good Hope). Owing to Repulse's prior damaged, Ramilles could make better speed so they would go separately. This almost certainly saved Ramilles. The timing of the run was determined by the big Jap attack on Port Moresby. It was assumed by me that all 5 fleet carriers would be retained in the Coral Sea to thwart any intervention of the three US carriers which might be in the area. For this reason, and because they might be needed to unite with the US carriers off Eastern Oz, the RN carriers were to stay behind in Australia. Subs and PBY's from Broome and Derby would screen the Eastern approaches to the Indian Ocean for perils. It seemed like a good plan at the time.

It is a heavy burden to command imaginary ships Bah! Oh well, I'll just put in for a replacement. Everyone said she was a maintanence hog anyway.




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RE: Repulse - 7/4/2007 11:27:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		BTW...does the Jap player know when British ships are recalled? In other words, is it a fixed schedule or does it show up on the Jap game info screen?

Pretend I didn't read the rules

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RE: Repulse - 7/4/2007 11:54:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here is a rather amazing list of enemy ships engaged and mortally wounded or crippled to be destroyed later by air attack or sunk outright by Repulse and Prince of Wales. An amazing number actually had the coup de gras adminstered by Repulse herself.

BB Fuso
CL Naka
CL Kitikami
CL Nagara
DD Fuso
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Hayashio
DD Minegumo
DD Natsugumo
DD Samidare
DD Inazuma
MSW Seki Maru
AP Tenryu Maru
AP Aiyo Maru
AP Senaki Maru
AP Meigen Maru
AK Shino Maru
AK Ina Maru
AK Akagame Maru
AK Mutoyi Maru

Her most crucial role was in absorbing a big Jap carrier attack off Perth, sparing the RN carriers for their counterstrike. I suppose I do sound like a Repulse booster, eh?

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RE: Repulse - 7/5/2007 1:53:48 AM   
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BTW...does the Jap player know when British ships are recalled? In other words, is it a fixed schedule or does it show up on the Jap game info screen?

Pretend I didn't read the rules


Not in the rules...

Yes, the Japanese player DOES see what the Admiralty requests - sort of... the game lies some times to keep the Japanese guessing. So they can never quite know is going on...*

However, they DO see if you don't send the ships back - the Political Point Penalty is displayed on the Op Reports.


*EDIT - A withdrawal request (either true of false) shows up in the OP report, however, the Allied player will see the TRUE withdrawal requests in his INTEL screen.

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Stalingrad on the WAAAAY Eastern Front - 7/5/2007 2:28:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		***********Forward position, 73rd Chinese Corps, 15 miles West of Yenen, 09:20, August 16, 1942**********


Private Yuen occupies the extreme Western edge of the most Westerly regiment of the most Westerly division of the most Westerly corps of the Yenen pocket. He is a sniper, not because he was especially trained or, for that matter, because he was especailly skilled, but simply because he stepped forward when the Captain asked for volunteers. When you are surrounded by 100,000 veteran Japanese soldiers and no soldier in your company has had a real meal for 3 days, one can't be too picky. Pvt. Yuen lies prone in a small hide on a small rise allowing him to survey the road to Kungchang for 400 yds., or at least it would be 400 yds if it weren't for the damnable fog. He can now see the figure silhouetted as he stands in a small vehicle. The figue raises his arms to his face until the silhouette grows wider. "An Officer!", Pvt. Yuen thinks. He snugs the stock of the gun against his cheek and makes an adjustment in his head for range. He moves his finger over the trigger.

"WAIT! STOP! HE IS ONE OF OURS!" It is his spotter who peers through an ancient monocular scope.

Yuen lays aside his rifle and grabs the scope. A gust of drier air brushes aside the fog and his heart stops. "HIS FACE IS GREEN! IT IS ONE OF OURS! IT'S THE RELIEF FORCE! THEY HAVE BROKEN THROUGH!" Imprudently, Yuen stands upright and begins running forward, "WE ARE HERE! CHINESE!".....




Gen Ching
Gen Chung
Gen Chong
Gen Chuong
Gen Chin
Gen Chun
Gen Chuen
Gen Cheech
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RE: Stalingrad on the WAAAAY Eastern Front - 7/5/2007 3:37:51 AM   
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"HIS FACE IS GREEN! IT IS ONE OF OURS!


ROFL!!!

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