Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

RE: THE THREAD!!!

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> The War Room >> RE: THE THREAD!!! Page: <<   < prev  419 420 [421] 422 423   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:11:32 AM   
scott64


Posts: 4019
Joined: 9/12/2004
From: Colorado
Status: offline 		Today a balmy 43 in Denver

_____________________________

Lucky for you, tonight it's just me


Any ship can be a minesweeper..once !! :)

http://suspenseandmystery.blogspot.com/

(in reply to Terminus)
Post #: 12601
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:12:00 AM   
scott64


Posts: 4019
Joined: 9/12/2004
From: Colorado
Status: offline 		Shiny new page

_____________________________

Lucky for you, tonight it's just me


Any ship can be a minesweeper..once !! :)

http://suspenseandmystery.blogspot.com/

(in reply to scott64)
Post #: 12602
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:13:24 AM   
AW1Steve


Posts: 14507
Joined: 3/10/2007
From: Mordor Illlinois
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: scott1964

Today a balmy 43 in Denver



Lucky you! I could do with that. It's about 15 degrees colder in the DC area.

(in reply to scott64)
Post #: 12603
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:14:19 AM   
AW1Steve


Posts: 14507
Joined: 3/10/2007
From: Mordor Illlinois
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

I don't have to ask if you've put BOTH the files in the .zip into your AE folder, right?


Boy , you are up late Krisitan! Having trouble sleeping?

(in reply to Terminus)
Post #: 12604
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:16:31 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Or that's what he WANTS you to think...


I agree. It could be two hobbits standing on one another's shoulders while wearing a trench coat.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to Terminus)
Post #: 12605
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:16:35 AM   
AW1Steve


Posts: 14507
Joined: 3/10/2007
From: Mordor Illlinois
Status: offline 		Safety lesson for tonight.....when eating fondue (steak cooked in heated oil, not cheese or Bagna cauda) never let the metal fork come in contact with your mouth!!!! The blister will go away in a week or so I guess!

(in reply to AW1Steve)
Post #: 12606
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:17:35 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers


quote:

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay


quote:

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo


quote:

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

And it is supposed to go to - 2 Deg C tonight.

That could kill our 3 citrus trees


Arnt you supposed to be packing them in blankets or somesuch?


I believe that the big orchards spray them with water. Apparently coating them in ice is preferable to leaving them open to the cold air.


Yeah they do. It keeps them from going below 32 overnight.


You'd think that rain you mentioned before would help.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to BrucePowers)
Post #: 12607
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:20:52 AM   
AW1Steve


Posts: 14507
Joined: 3/10/2007
From: Mordor Illlinois
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: sprior

I crewed a 55ft yacht across the channel and back, it was agreat week and there was lots of Drinking in St Peter Port and Ouistreham.

On the way back we nearly got run down by a tanker. There was much cursing of said tankers crew until the skipper saw the radar reflector bouncing along in the ocean behind us instead of at the top of the mast.


I had that problem in San Francisco Harbor in the early 80's. A 25 foot O'day playing the meat in a sandwich between a Japanese car transport and the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). And the guy sailing with me yelling "We're a sailboat! We have the right of way!" . Apparently he'd never heard of the "law of gross tonnage"!

(in reply to sprior)
Post #: 12608
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:25:12 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve


quote:

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo


quote:

ORIGINAL: stuman

I have read everyone of Patrick O'Brians novels. Got me interested in the age of sail. I actually bought a few reference works just to try to understand the terminology better.


So did I........didnt help.


You've got to learn to sail.....that's the only way. Sometime in the next year (when I finaly figure out where I'm to live) I intend to buy a daysailer. You can both visit me and I'll teach you. Mystery de-mystified! Then you can arrange your own field trips to visit an "age of fighting sail" ship. (Constitution,Constellation,Victory or "HMS Surprise/Rose"). You will then have your educations completed grasshoppers!


That sounds great Steve! I hope the fact that I get seasick drinking a glass of water wont get in the way of that.

Honestly, its not the theory of sailing that I have trouble with. I imagine that keeping the wind on your quarter is fairly straightforward. Its the accouterments of a warship's rigging that confuse me. For example, in a modern sailboat you sit at the stern and have a lanyard (or whatever the term is) that you can use to control the sail, raise, lower, move from side to side (wear?). How this is accomplished on a significantly larger ship with 3 masts and a bewildering number of sails, however, is what is really the mystery to me.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to AW1Steve)
Post #: 12609
RE: The THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:25:59 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve


quote:

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

The guy I buy my cars from is from ND



That would be a mistake. Cars last longer in FL and SoCal because they don't salt the roads!


Are you saying Bruce's car salesman is corroded by salt?

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to AW1Steve)
Post #: 12610
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:35:19 AM   
Mynok


Posts: 12108
Joined: 11/30/2002
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Honestly, its not the theory of sailing that I have trouble with. I imagine that keeping the wind on your quarter is fairly straightforward. Its the accouterments of a warship's rigging that confuse me. For example, in a modern sailboat you sit at the stern and have a lanyard (or whatever the term is) that you can use to control the sail, raise, lower, move from side to side (wear?). How this is accomplished on a significantly larger ship with 3 masts and a bewildering number of sails, however, is what is really the mystery to me.


Um...well....the short version is lots of sailors climbing to unspeakable heights on flimsy ratlines.

_____________________________

"Measure civilization by the ability of citizens to mock government with impunity" -- Unknown

(in reply to Onime No Kyo)
Post #: 12611
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:38:35 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Is it just me, or is this picture of Miley Cyrus really creepy? Look at how dilated her pupils are...





[Channeling Tevye]

On the one hand, everyone looks goofy on pictures once in a while.

But on the other hand, she generally has this "I'm not all here" look on her face.

[/Tevye]

Personally, I dont find her all that attractive. The strongest feeling I get when looking at her is pity. The poor kid will never know what a normal childhood/life feels like...and thats a shame.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to Terminus)
Post #: 12612
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:39:20 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers


quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Is it just me, or is this picture of Miley Cyrus really creepy? Look at how dilated her pupils are...




I don't generally look at pictures of Miley Cyrus


Afraid the wife unit would object?

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to BrucePowers)
Post #: 12613
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:42:08 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: stuman


quote:

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve


quote:

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo


quote:

ORIGINAL: stuman

I have read everyone of Patrick O'Brians novels. Got me interested in the age of sail. I actually bought a few reference works just to try to understand the terminology better.


So did I........didnt help.


You've got to learn to sail.....that's the only way. Sometime in the next year (when I finaly figure out where I'm to live) I intend to buy a daysailer. You can both visit me and I'll teach you. Mystery de-mystified! Then you can arrange your own field trips to visit an "age of fighting sail" ship. (Constitution,Constellation,Victory or "HMS Surprise/Rose"). You will then have your educations completed grasshoppers!


My sole sailing experience consists of attempting to manage a small catamaran one day in Destin Fla during a college trip. We zipped out from shore, ran in a straight line for what seemed liked miles ( ok, probably a couple of hundred yards ). When I told my friend ( who had loudly proclaimed to the dude we rented from that he knew how to sail ) that we should at least try to parallel the shore for a while, he attempted to turn us and we promptly turned over. And stayed turned over for hours, until a group of boaters came by and helped out. My friend spent most of the time throwing up, and just about every time I see him I still kid him about it

I have not been sailing since, so maybe I should take you up on that.


The last time I was on a boat was my father's friend's 55' yacht out of Marina del Rey. Didnt do so well in the keeping my lunch down department.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to stuman)
Post #: 12614
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:43:01 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: sprior

I crewed a 55ft yacht across the channel and back, it was agreat week and there was lots of Drinking in St Peter Port and Ouistreham.

On the way back we nearly got run down by a tanker. There was much cursing of said tankers crew until the skipper saw the radar reflector bouncing along in the ocean behind us instead of at the top of the mast.


I'll guess it wasnt your job to make sure the thing was secured to the mast.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to sprior)
Post #: 12615
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:44:45 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Dixie


quote:

ORIGINAL: sprior

I crewed a 55ft yacht across the channel and back, it was agreat week and there was lots of Drinking in St Peter Port and Ouistreham.

On the way back we nearly got run down by a tanker. There was much cursing of said tankers crew until the skipper saw the radar reflector bouncing along in the ocean behind us instead of at the top of the mast.


And I'll bet that the tanker's bridge crew were cursing the yacht crew...


I think its times like that that one wishes they had a full chamberpot nearby.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to Dixie)
Post #: 12616
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:47:15 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve


quote:

ORIGINAL: scott1964

Today a balmy 43 in Denver



Lucky you! I could do with that. It's about 15 degrees colder in the DC area.


At least its not snowing.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to AW1Steve)
Post #: 12617
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:49:13 AM   
BrucePowers


Posts: 12094
Joined: 7/3/2004
Status: offline 		Tithe

(in reply to Onime No Kyo)
Post #: 12618
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:51:09 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Safety lesson for tonight.....when eating fondue (steak cooked in heated oil, not cheese or Bagna cauda) never let the metal fork come in contact with your mouth!!!! The blister will go away in a week or so I guess!


Ouch! That sounds slightly unpleasant. Did it at least get a chuckle out of your wife?

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to AW1Steve)
Post #: 12619
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:52:40 AM   
Mynok


Posts: 12108
Joined: 11/30/2002
Status: offline
I wonder why he thinks we don't know what fondue is....


_____________________________

"Measure civilization by the ability of citizens to mock government with impunity" -- Unknown

(in reply to Onime No Kyo)
Post #: 12620
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:53:38 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve


quote:

ORIGINAL: sprior

I crewed a 55ft yacht across the channel and back, it was agreat week and there was lots of Drinking in St Peter Port and Ouistreham.

On the way back we nearly got run down by a tanker. There was much cursing of said tankers crew until the skipper saw the radar reflector bouncing along in the ocean behind us instead of at the top of the mast.


I had that problem in San Francisco Harbor in the early 80's. A 25 foot O'day playing the meat in a sandwich between a Japanese car transport and the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). And the guy sailing with me yelling "We're a sailboat! We have the right of way!" . Apparently he'd never heard of the "law of gross tonnage"!


Makes you wonder if anyone in either of the two ships had the least idea that he was so adamant about his right of way.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to AW1Steve)
Post #: 12621
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:55:13 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Mynok


quote:

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Honestly, its not the theory of sailing that I have trouble with. I imagine that keeping the wind on your quarter is fairly straightforward. Its the accouterments of a warship's rigging that confuse me. For example, in a modern sailboat you sit at the stern and have a lanyard (or whatever the term is) that you can use to control the sail, raise, lower, move from side to side (wear?). How this is accomplished on a significantly larger ship with 3 masts and a bewildering number of sails, however, is what is really the mystery to me.


Um...well....the short version is lots of sailors climbing to unspeakable heights on flimsy ratlines.


I saw that. But I havent a clue why or what they do when they get there.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to Mynok)
Post #: 12622
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:55:56 AM   
BrucePowers


Posts: 12094
Joined: 7/3/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Mynok


I wonder why he thinks we don't know what fondue is....



Generally I took the meat off of the fondue fork so that the fondue fork would not go in my mouth. I thought this was the polite thing to do as the fondue pot is a communal cooking pot

(in reply to Mynok)
Post #: 12623
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:57:47 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Mynok


I wonder why he thinks we don't know what fondue is....



Its the French background. I dont care how many generations its been or what he says about Canada......

(Sorry Steve, I just couldnt pass it up )

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to Mynok)
Post #: 12624
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:59:11 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers


quote:

ORIGINAL: Mynok


I wonder why he thinks we don't know what fondue is....



Generally I took the meat off of the fondue fork so that the fondue fork would not go in my mouth. I thought this was the polite thing to do as the fondue pot is a communal cooking pot


I'm guessing it was just him and his wife. Hence, we get the idea that fondue is only dangerous when eaten in private.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to BrucePowers)
Post #: 12625
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:59:13 AM   
BrucePowers


Posts: 12094
Joined: 7/3/2004
Status: offline 		The temperature is down to 33Deg F. It is not raining.

(in reply to BrucePowers)
Post #: 12626
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:59:23 AM   
Mynok


Posts: 12108
Joined: 11/30/2002
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo


quote:

ORIGINAL: Mynok


quote:

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Honestly, its not the theory of sailing that I have trouble with. I imagine that keeping the wind on your quarter is fairly straightforward. Its the accouterments of a warship's rigging that confuse me. For example, in a modern sailboat you sit at the stern and have a lanyard (or whatever the term is) that you can use to control the sail, raise, lower, move from side to side (wear?). How this is accomplished on a significantly larger ship with 3 masts and a bewildering number of sails, however, is what is really the mystery to me.


Um...well....the short version is lots of sailors climbing to unspeakable heights on flimsy ratlines.


I saw that. But I havent a clue why or what they do when they get there.


They do just what we would do: cuss, pray and wet their pants.

_____________________________

"Measure civilization by the ability of citizens to mock government with impunity" -- Unknown

(in reply to Onime No Kyo)
Post #: 12627
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 1:59:34 AM   
AW1Steve


Posts: 14507
Joined: 3/10/2007
From: Mordor Illlinois
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo


quote:

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve


quote:

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo


quote:

ORIGINAL: stuman

I have read everyone of Patrick O'Brians novels. Got me interested in the age of sail. I actually bought a few reference works just to try to understand the terminology better.


So did I........didnt help.


You've got to learn to sail.....that's the only way. Sometime in the next year (when I finaly figure out where I'm to live) I intend to buy a daysailer. You can both visit me and I'll teach you. Mystery de-mystified! Then you can arrange your own field trips to visit an "age of fighting sail" ship. (Constitution,Constellation,Victory or "HMS Surprise/Rose"). You will then have your educations completed grasshoppers!


That sounds great Steve! I hope the fact that I get seasick drinking a glass of water wont get in the way of that.

Honestly, its not the theory of sailing that I have trouble with. I imagine that keeping the wind on your quarter is fairly straightforward. Its the accouterments of a warship's rigging that confuse me. For example, in a modern sailboat you sit at the stern and have a lanyard (or whatever the term is) that you can use to control the sail, raise, lower, move from side to side (wear?). How this is accomplished on a significantly larger ship with 3 masts and a bewildering number of sails, however, is what is really the mystery to me.


Same theory , just multiple applications. Although the rig is different on a "modern " boat (actually it's more ancient , and primitive . A lanteen rig on a modern sailboat (say a Sunfish) pre-dates bibilical times. The triangular sail in not that much newer) it employs the same sort of manevers. And exactly the same as a windsailer. Turning for example, requires a technique called "boxhauling". The only difference is scale.

(in reply to Onime No Kyo)
Post #: 12628
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 2:00:20 AM   
BrucePowers


Posts: 12094
Joined: 7/3/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo


quote:

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers


quote:

ORIGINAL: Mynok


I wonder why he thinks we don't know what fondue is....



Generally I took the meat off of the fondue fork so that the fondue fork would not go in my mouth. I thought this was the polite thing to do as the fondue pot is a communal cooking pot


I'm guessing it was just him and his wife. Hence, we get the idea that fondue is only dangerous when eaten in private.


One can only hope

(in reply to Onime No Kyo)
Post #: 12629
RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/10/2010 2:00:54 AM   
Onime No Kyo


Posts: 16842
Joined: 4/28/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

The temperature is down to 33Deg F. It is not raining.


I would have expected you to be outside, running around the trees with a hairdryer on a very long extension cord.

_____________________________

"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok

(in reply to BrucePowers)
Post #: 12630
Page:   <<   < prev  419 420 [421] 422 423   next >   >>
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> The War Room >> RE: THE THREAD!!! Page: <<   < prev  419 420 [421] 422 423   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

0.766