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RE: Fun over the Mandalay/Myitkyina Rail Line - 12/28/2007 2:59:54 PM

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Yeeeees, and of course this is something that's intimately comparable: Japanese paper aeroplanes over the CBI and Allied aircraft in the Med. Suuuure...

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RE: Fun over the Mandalay/Myitkyina Rail Line - 12/28/2007 5:43:46 PM

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Probably took out the last three aircraft by ramming them!

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On the campaign trail - 12/28/2007 7:05:48 PM

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**********In the courtyard of St Mary and All Saints Church, Great Budworth, October 14, 1948**********

Squadron Leader Frank Carey, ret.: <adresses a small crowd from atop a small platform> ....and THAT is why I want to be your Member of Parliament! <polite applause> Thank you, thank you. You are all too kind. Now, I do have time for some questions. Have you any?

Young Lad: Squadron Leader, Do tell about your eight victories over Burma in one day. Oh, please do!

Squadron Leader Frank Carey, ret.: Oh, very well, if you insist. I was leading a group of 3 Spits out of Myitkyina, you see. We were vectored toward a group of Jap dive bombers, Sophias they were called, nasty beasts, armoured like a Cromwell.....

Young Lad: <interrupting> Don't you mean Sonias, Squadron Leader?

Squadron Leader Frank Carey, ret.: Ah yes, I do. Thank you son. <turns to assistant and speaks under his breath> Look, he musn't correct me like that at the next stop. Is that clear? <now turns again to address the crowd> Anyway, we came upon them from out of the sun and had a nice altitude advantage. I clicked my mic to indicate attack and banked into a dive. <indicates a banking aircraft with his hand up high and his target with the other hand....20 heads turn in unison>. The first three victims were in close echelon, you see and my line was perfect. I fired a short, 3 second burst from the 20 and all 3 burst into flames....

<toward the back of the crowd, a crusty older man with wiry eyebrows leans over to another man his age and whispers>

Crusty Older Man with Wirey Eyebrows:'ave you ever 'eard of a chap shooting down 8 Japs in one day?

Crusty Older Man with Exuberant Grey Nose Hairs: No. I'm not voting for the puffed up bag 'a wind either.

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Egyptian Girl's Note - 12/28/2007 7:21:39 PM

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Egyptian Girl's Note: A number of readers have expressed skepticism over the report of the downing of 8 Japanese aircraft by one Spitfire in one sortie. Our research staff have found an interesting parallel from the pilot carreer of one Frank Carey, RAF, flying the Hurricane in France in 1940 (WWIIa).

"..Carey�s victories continued on the 13th May. He shot down two Ju87�s, two probable Ju87�s, destroyed two He111�s, one Do17 and a probable Bf110. On the 14th he shot down a Do17 near Louvain but his Hurricane was hit by return gunfire and he had to make a crash landing near Brussels suffering from a leg wound.."

http://www.battle-of-britain.com/BoB2/Battle_personnel/Profiles/RAF/carey.htm

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RE: Egyptian Girl's Note - 12/28/2007 7:37:45 PM

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I'm going with Squadron Leader Carey on this one.......

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Bargain Basement prices. - 12/28/2007 8:27:35 PM

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So my son gets me a $50 gift card to Nordstrom's and it is their half-yearly men's sale so I decide to go in and buy a new shirt and some vomit-resistant work shoes. So I pick out some shoes and a couple of shirts and a belt apparently made from the skin of Italian cows and, of course, I have long since blasted through the $50 mark but I see these cool boots which have, apparently, been made by the hands of Italians from the skins of cows from the same heard that the belt came from. So I look at the price...$500

You have to be freakin' kidding me. Oh, wait, 1/3 off. Anyway, I must have some giveaway expression on my face because all of a sudden there are 3 salespeople there looking for the right size boot. They reminded me of a the crew of a marlin boat just before they land a trophy fish. I swear one of them actually had a gaff behind his back. So I try on just one boot and start to walk over to a mirror and this good looking woman walks by and says "WOW! Those are hot!" Then she smiles and does the coy, chin dip thing. And this is with only one boot on! "Dang", I thought, "these things really work." Then it occured to me. "Wait a minute, she was such an obvious shill for the store. I bet they queued her up by radio. I am not falling for that kind of manipulative crap. Do I look stupid? Besides, who am I kidding? Stalker girl bought Christmas gifts for my kids. I am a dead man walking. Her divorce is final and she moved back down to the OC. I wouldn't be surprised to find her late one night urinating along the perimeter of my yard to mark her territory. Get a hold of yourself Mandrake, you dumbass. Are you going to let a bunch of marketing tricks influence the shoes you wear? They are friggin' boots! Stand up straight and act like you have free will you worthless Holothuroid."

They gave me this cool velvet bag so they wouldn't get scuffed up "in my suitcase when you are travelling overseas or something". Speaking of "overseas", someone asked how things are going in the Pacific. I should post something on that.

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RE: Bargain Basement prices. - 12/28/2007 8:37:15 PM

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Attaboy, Mandrake! You managed to get a free velvet bag for the boots you didn't buy!! Good deal!!!

Oh, wait... are you saying you did buy those boots??

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The pacific Pacific - 12/28/2007 8:58:07 PM

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Someone asked how things are going in the Pacific. Keep in mind, I seldom look at the map East of the Coral Sea, but I do know Lord Admiral Tabpub is planning an invasion of Paramashiro Jima no later than February 1946.

HMS Prince of Wales in San Franciso has been fully repaired and is slowly making its way back to the Royal Navy. As a payback, I sorta "borrowed" a couple of USN AO's and DD's for use with the RN carriers. Midway is fully built up as a USN base with long range bombers, SBD's etc., etc, it is virtually invulnerable. We don't really know where the Jap carriers are. The first P-38's in the Pacific Theater went to USAAF squadrons in Australia and have made PM unusable as a Jap airfield. Gili Gili and Lae have 60 and 90 fighters respectively, at least half are Tonys.

There has been a dust-up in the air over Timor (more to come on that).

The spring is coiling.

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Old Cricket Club - 12/28/2007 10:18:20 PM

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**********Old Cricket Club, Singapore, November 7, 1942************

Sajeev can barely conceal his hatred as he serves bowls of steaming rice to Japanese naval officers on the 2nd story veranda of the old colonial Cricket Club. His hatred gives him purpose. As he clears a table he glances briefly toward the harbour. Today, there are may new ships, large ones, 4 crusiers and 4 battleships. He will get the message to his cousin after work. In his small way he hopes to end the war early.

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Newer Cricket Club - 12/28/2007 10:39:09 PM

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*****Trincomalee Cricket Club, Trincomalee, Ceylon, now serving as Eastern Fleet HQ, November 12, 1942****

Admiral Somerville: <looks over intel report> 5 crusiers and 4 battleships? That seems improbable to me. Still, we don't want to get caught with our trousers down. See to it that the new squadron of Cats is opeartional as soon as possible and send the two Dutch destroyers up to join HMS Frobisher in Karachi as soon as she arrives. I want her down here with Eastern Fleet. Lastly instruct La Bisset to be ready to sortie with the carriers from Perth as soon as the 14th.....

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November 15 - 12/30/2007 1:32:35 AM

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As we have reached November 15, 1942 in game time, and as this is exactly 11 months and 8 days after the start of the war and as stalker girl is working and as I am waiting for the Patriots game to start and as I am procrastinating on getting my brakes fixed or doing some annoying plumbing repairs around the house and as no game turn is in my inbox, I have resolved to waste some time doing a game summary.

Dec 7-8:

Hawaii: 6 Jap carriers attack Pearl Harbor. Oklahoma sunk and Tennessee adn Maryland are hulks. 20 P-40B lost.

Malaya: Singapore bombed with light losses. 2 enemy divisions land at Kuantan. Kuantan falls Dec 8. Songkla and Bandou fall.

PI:Manila and Clark airfields pulverized. Manila Harbor hit heavily. B-17's retreat to Mindanao. Aparri, Batan Is, Tatay and Puerto Princessa fall. Yossarian awakens on the 7th to find he is in WWIIb. He learns to paint holding the brush in his teeth as he is restrained in a straightjacket.

Dec. 9:

Hawaii: The KB doubles back, catching Enterprise and Lexington about 200 miles SW of Pearl. Both US carriers are lost. Hiryu is heavily damaged and one Shokaku class carrier is moderatley damaged. The Pacific is wide open to the Jap carriers. Lord Admiral Tabpub declares he has a "tummy ache"

Dec 10-11:

Hawaii: Hiryu is hit twice more from USAAF A-20's hastily deployed to Johnston.

Malaya: Jap landings at Mersing.

DEI: Jap Escort carrier hunts Allied vessels off Mindanao and Sulawese escaping from Manila.

Dec 12-18:

PI: Landings begin Davao. Landings begin Legaspi. US cruiser force opposing landings is hit by Bettys from Palau. USS Marblehead and Houston are lost, Boise damaged.

Malaya: Taiping falls Dec 16. The Commonwealth tries to hold the line in the mountains West of Kuantan. Force Z makes an ineffectual sortie into the South China Sea. HMS Danae lost to bombers from Indochina. Jap forces headed Miri. Brunei falls.

Pacific: Wake falls.

Dec 19-27:

DEI: Force Z circumnavigates Borneo to attack Jap forces in the Surigao Straight on the 20th in a daylight battle. The Japs lose one CL and 2 DD's. Force Z loses one DD and 4 heavily damaged. Both forces retreat. Amboina and Morotai fall.

PI: Legaspi, Jolo, Davao and Cagayan fall. Yossarian is released from his straightjacket on his doctor's orders because he began to smell really bad. He is assigned "light duty" and will fly the last P-40 out of Luzon.

Malaya/Siam: Commonwealth forces retreat to Johore. Mersing holds. 4 full Jap divisions now in Malaya. Jap armored thrust captures Tavoy and Victoria Point. 2nd Burma Brig. captures Rahaeng
and moves on Bangkok.

New Britain and the Solomons: An Australian/Kiwi crusier force interdicts Jap landings at Buin and Rabal. They sink all Jap transports at Buin on the eve of the 23rd but the landing force is already ashore and Buin falls. On Christmas Eve, they encounter four Jap heavy crusiers and 11 DD's off Rabaul. Perth is sunk. Kashima is heavily damaged. The Jap transports are unscathed. Leander and Canberra return alone to Buin on the 27th, driving off enemy transports, but are attacked by Bettys operating from Rabaul on the 28th. Leander is sunk.

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RE: November 15 - 12/30/2007 2:18:54 AM

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Oh, you are going to watch the Patriots also.

That's who I'm routing for

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RE: November 15 - 12/30/2007 3:43:59 PM

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Oh, you are going to watch the Patriots also.

That's who I'm routing for

i don't think that came out quite as intended...

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RE: November 15 - 12/30/2007 8:08:27 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

As we have reached November 15, 1942 in game time, and as this is exactly 11 months and 8 days after the start of the war and as stalker girl is working and as I am waiting for the Patriots game to start and as I am procrastinating on getting my brakes fixed or doing some annoying plumbing repairs around the house and as no game turn is in my inbox, I have resolved to waste some time doing a game summary.

Dec 7-8:

Hawaii: 6 Jap carriers attack Pearl Harbor. Oklahoma sunk and Tennessee adn Maryland are hulks. 20 P-40B lost.

Malaya: Singapore bombed with light losses. 2 enemy divisions land at Kuantan. Kuantan falls Dec 8. Songkla and Bandou fall.

PI:Manila and Clark airfields pulverized. Manila Harbor hit heavily. B-17's retreat to Mindanao. Aparri, Batan Is, Tatay and Puerto Princessa fall. Yossarian awakens on the 7th to find he is in WWIIb. He learns to paint holding the brush in his teeth as he is restrained in a straightjacket.

Dec. 9:

Hawaii: The KB doubles back, catching Enterprise and Lexington about 200 miles SW of Pearl. Both US carriers are lost. Hiryu is heavily damaged and one Shokaku class carrier is moderatley damaged. The Pacific is wide open to the Jap carriers. Lord Admiral Tabpub declares he has a "tummy ache"

Dec 10-11:

Hawaii: Hiryu is hit twice more from USAAF A-20's hastily deployed to Johnston.

Malaya: Jap landings at Mersing.

DEI: Jap Escort carrier hunts Allied vessels off Mindanao and Sulawese escaping from Manila.

Dec 12-18:

PI: Landings begin Davao. Landings begin Legaspi. US cruiser force opposing landings is hit by Bettys from Palau. USS Marblehead and Houston are lost, Boise damaged.

Malaya: Taiping falls Dec 16. The Commonwealth tries to hold the line in the mountains West of Kuantan. Force Z makes an ineffectual sortie into the South China Sea. HMS Danae lost to bombers from Indochina. Jap forces headed Miri. Brunei falls.

Pacific: Wake falls.

Dec 19-28:

DEI: Force Z circumnavigates Borneo to attack Jap forces in the Surigao Straight on the 20th in a daylight battle. The Japs lose one CL and 2 DD's. Force Z loses one DD and 4 heavily damaged. Both forces retreat. Amboina and Morotai fall.

PI: Legaspi, Jolo, Davao and Cagayan fall. Yossarian is released from his straightjacket on his doctor's orders because he began to smell really bad. He is assigned "light duty" and will fly the last P-40 out of Luzon.

Malaya/Siam: Commonwealth forces retreat to Johore. Mersing holds. 4 full Jap divisions now in Malaya. Jap armored thrust captures Tavoy and Victoria Point. 2nd Burma Brig. captures Rahaeng
and moves on Bangkok.

New Britain and the Solomons: An Australian/Kiwi crusier force interdicts Jap landings at Buin and Rabal. They sink all Jap transports at Buin on the eve of the 23rd but the landing force is already ashore and Buin falls. On Christmas Eve, they encounter four Jap heavy crusiers and 11 DD's off Rabaul. Perth is sunk. Kashima is heavily damaged. The Jap transports are unscathed. Leander and Canberra return alone to Buin on the 27th, driving off enemy transports, but are attacked by Bettys operating from Rabaul on the 28th. Leander is sunk.

Pacific: Jap carriers (at least 2) intercept a small group of AK's West of San Francisco, sinking two USN DD's. USN shipping is chiefly leaving from San Diego and making a wide swing to the South in order to reach forward US bases. Even movement to Hawaii is dangerous.

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RE: Bargain Basement prices. - 12/30/2007 8:18:55 PM

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Attaboy, Mandrake! You managed to get a free velvet bag for the boots you didn't buy!! Good deal!!!

Oh, wait... are you saying you did buy those boots??

If I know anything about women the Stalker girl will probably look at those things with a blank expression and say something like "theyre very nice, but...."

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RE: November 15 - 12/30/2007 8:19:34 PM

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quote:

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Oh, you are going to watch the Patriots also.

That's who I'm routing for

i don't think that came out quite as intended...

Oops.. Would you believe rooting...........................?

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RE: Bargain Basement prices. - 1/1/2008 1:15:31 AM

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I wouldn't be surprised to find her late one night urinating along the perimeter of my yard to mark her territory.

You're done for.

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RE: Bargain Basement prices. - 1/1/2008 1:40:40 AM

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Has she moved in yet?

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The satchel - 1/2/2008 9:47:54 PM

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The bar is a busy watering hole for the Allied airmen stationed at the big airfields supporting the defence of Perth. There is the smell of lime in the air. A noisy machine grinds ice from time to time. A strikingly young Dutch pilot of the NEIAF sits at a table in the corner with a woman who is perhaps 10 years his senior. She is strking too. She is beautiful, with a slender neck and evident breasts. They hold hands. She laughs at something he says and covers her mouth when she laughs. He places something on the table. It is a notebook, a maual perhaps, bound with a spiral wire and appears page-worn. She leans forward in what must be an intentional act, and, as she stands to reach the object, her breasts come into the clear view of the young man. She smiles and gives him a quick kiss on the cheek. His face is flushed as she turns to leave. She walks briskly across the crowded room, passing a table at which a USAAF Staff Sargeant works on ledgers bound in grey and orange. As she passes, without even exchanging a glance with the young American, the spiral-bound volume drops unnoticed into his open satchel.

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RE: The satchel - 1/3/2008 4:49:18 AM

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Something is rotten in ummmm.....Australia

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Perth Welcoming Committee - 1/8/2008 9:34:33 PM

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Remember Lt. De Groot?

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Yossarian's Home - 1/8/2008 9:39:03 PM

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With 251 Coy, Royal Engineers - 1/8/2008 10:20:16 PM

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********11:20; November 15, 1942, 5 miles North of the Myitkyina/Mandalay rail line, Burma************

A score of Japanese light tanks lie burning or mired in the jungle stream. The bodies of several dozen Japanese soldiers lie among the tanks. A retreat call can be heard from a Japanese bugler. The automatic weapon fire abates.

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: <stands up to survey the battle scene in the impetuously dangerous fashion expected of a junior officer> Sargeant! Send this to Brigade. Tell them we have repulsed a second Jap attack and have destroyed another three tanks with the loss of one 6-pounder and crew. Tell them I shall counterattack to regain the triceratops site. <takes out field glasses and waits for replay from brigade>

Sgt. Bonebrake: Lt., the Colonel says spledid work on the tanks!

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: Are you sure he said splendid, Sargeant?

Sgt. Bonebrake: Yes, Lt., clear as day. 'e said splendid all right.

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: <smiles broadly> Marvelous! Was there anything else then?

Sgt. Bonebrake: Yes sir. 'e said buggah the triceratops. <begins to smile>

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: Oh dear! Are you sure he said bugger, Sgt.?

Sgt. Bonebrake: Yes sir! Buggah. 'ats wot 'he said, sir, clear as day. <now smiling broadly>

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Warrant for future purchase - 1/12/2008 8:06:53 PM

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*************01:30, November 11, 1942, 400 yds off Rottnest Island, near Freemantle**********

Half a dozen Japanese submarines sit motionless in calm water in a 1000 yd arc near a gap in the reef. Perhaps ten small motor sloops ferry Japanses soldiers, who have been staged to Rottnest Island in a slow motion Dunkerque. This is the third wave of evacuations by submarine for the doomed Japanese forces investing Perth. This must all be accomplished at night as RAAF Beauforts and Dutch and USAAF B-25's rule to seas in the daylight hours. The motor sloops are a new addition to improve efficiency. In a fortuitous accident, Allied ASW patrols are this night concentrating in a scetor 15 miles to the South. One sloop approaches the sub closest to shore. The captain can be seen on the sail. His jaw is set. His expression is stoic despite the pleasant Southern Hemisphere Spring weather and the apparent fact that all goes well. As the sloop draws near, a smile breaks over his weathered face.

"Miro!", he shouts."

"Ito! You crazy son of a bitch!"

"You rook good"

"Isometric exercises, Ito, isometric exericses. I have to look good. I am running for President. Hey, Ito, you crazy son of a bitch, I hear you have a girlfriend." The boat slews sideways bumping deftly against the hull of the sub.

"Yes, Ito ruv her."

"Ruv? You crazy son of a bitch, you didn't tell HER that did you?"

"Y....yes", he answers cautiously.

"Oh dear God. Alright, look, I'll have DC&H draw up some kind of prenup."

"Prenup. Ito rike."

"Great, Ito-san. I'll have my people call your people." He passes up a satchel to Ito, "Ito, please tell Yamashita the warrants for the future purchase of shares in the former Royal Dutch facilities at Palembang are not working for me any more. I will need something more concrete. You guys are losing."

"Yamashita, Army. Ito no rike."

"Ah, you are too hard on the guy. He is a bit gruff and he will take a mile if you give him an inch, but he has his soft side too. By the way, Ito, I have some paintings of bare-breasted Polynesian women. I have been trying to move the things. Are you interested?"

"Gaugin?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact, yes, they are Gaugin, originals, of course."

"No, Ito no rike Gaugin. Girls chubby."

"OK, Ito, you crazy son of a bitch." He smiles as he steps back into the now empty motor sloop, "One more load then you boys need to push off. That Borgnine idiot is supposed to 15 miles South of here but I don't trust his navigational skills." A quick turn of the throttle and the engine pulls the sloop quickly away from the sub.

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RE: Warrant for future purchase - 1/13/2008 12:22:40 AM

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How was Christmas Mandrake?

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Babo, you don't say? - 1/13/2008 9:58:48 PM

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How was Christmas Mandrake?

It was good, but I did blow my gift budget a bit. Stalker girl bought gifts for my kids and her gifts were nicer than mine

I had to remedy that.

I never did get my outdoor Christmas lights up, so I am now afraid to open any mail from the Sturm HA. I don't actually know there is an ordnung about putting up your Christmas lights on time but I do know there is one about taking them down because that is one of the first things that brought me to their attention....well, except for the verboten pampas grass that just grew up from a wind-blown seed and the unauthroized front yard landscaping that was here when I bought the place..and..well...there was that nasty incident of the hammock tied up to a native oak..ah..forget it. The point is I put some mud on my street address numbers in a clever camouflage plan.

*******The most popular watering hole for Allied Officers in Perth (partly because of the exotic tropical, or frozen, or fluminating cocktails and partly because it is now, the authorized, by exclusive contract, "place of operation" of the Perth Welcoming Committee), November 10, 1942***********

A young Australian Lt. sits across from a beautiful young woman with an elegant neck and an ample bosom.

Woman with ample bosom:Oh..I just LOVE your accent! What unit are you with Lt.?

Young Australian Lt.: 40 Bn., 12th Infantry Brigade, 4th Division. We are a militia division but we are damn good. We cut our teeth killing Japs here around Perth.

Woman with ample bosom: Oooh! I wager you have quite an important job, Lt. <the tone is clearly seductive and the question so obviously manipulative that any cretin could see through it, unless, of course, that cretin had testosterone coursing through his veins>

Young Australian Lt.: Yes ma'am. Battalion HQ company!

Woman with ample bosom: <sidles closer and leans forward provocatively> Oh, I do so hope they don't send you anywhere. We don't get many here as handsome as you. <giggles slightly and covers her mouth>

Young Australian Lt.: <looks slightly deflated> Well, I probably shouldn't tell you this but we just recieved maps for Babo and vicinity. I had to look it up. It's on the NW tip of New Guinea.

Woman with ample bosom: Ohhhh. You must tell me when you are going. I have a fantastic recipe for deviled eggs. I would love to have you over when my roomate is away for the weekend. <giggles again>.........

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RE: Babo, you don't say? - 1/13/2008 10:03:11 PM

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Egyptian Girl's Note: Some readers may not know that the expression "ample bosom" is a period nicety. Succintly it means that the party in question has big breasts. It is most commonly used to describe women.

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RE: Babo, you don't say? - 1/13/2008 10:49:37 PM

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Oh dear, oh dear... Wonder what particularly hellish assignment our young Australian leftenant will find himself volunteered for?

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RE: Babo, you don't say? - 1/16/2008 5:47:37 AM

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OMG, Mandrake, it just became clear to me: Looking at all the turns this narrative has taken over the last year, if I were a Freudian analyst (and yes, we still had those kind of guys on faculty at Stanford Med School when I did my psych clerkship there in '78), I would intuit that your written description above of "Woman with ample bosom extracting vital operational information from a young, testicularly-induced dyscognitive male" is actually a manifestation of a deep-seated, repressed fear that Stalker Girl is actually a John 3rd plant hell-bent on stealing operational plans from you and Tabpub in your death struggle playing WITP.

My advice as a trained medical professional: give her info, but slowly and most sparingly, and maximally enjoy the ride. Besides, those Boise girls become really loyal to the guys around them, and switch sides easily.

You can send me $50 for my professional analysis whenever you find it convienient...

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RE: Babo, you don't say? - 1/25/2008 5:33:55 PM

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Apparently the writers' strike is affecting this AAR as well.

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