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RE: MEI - 8/2/2010 5:50:08 PM   
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MEI=Mayan Economic Indicator

My Mayan Housekeeper waved off the landing (her shift) this week. This could mean several things:

1) She is angry because Stalker Girl won't let her do her laundry (with good reason)
never, ever put a dry clean only shirt in the laundry with normal laundry...domestic help can't seem to tell the difference...i know from painful experience...but looks like you already know this

2) She needs to go back and visit her mom in the Yucatan. Normally, one would just ask for time off in this situation, but this is not how it works with domestic workers in Mexico. They might ask the "patron" for an extra $200 for mom's surgery but they won't ask for time off. Very odd custom if you ask me.

3) She was grossed out by the sid marks on my undwerwear (j/k)
ditto

4) She got a better offer. This is the likely explanation. 2 months ago she was asking for extra shifts. If the Fed finds out there is wage inflation for Mayan housekeepers I guarantee this "quantitative easing" business (ie, printing money) is over. This means interest rates will start rising soon. Now...should you chose to act on this in some fashion and make a ****load of money I DO NOT want any crap from the SEC? Are we clear on that?





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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 5:56:22 PM   
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Game mechanics questions:

1) Does turning off fortification construction aid repair of airfields?

2) Where do ships go for withdrawal in AE. Queen Elizabeth has to go really, really bad. And there is one American AP too. Where does that go? (Pretend I didn't read the rules)

I had another question but I can't remember after the Martini
there's really only one question after a martini...where's the next one?


Addendum: Is "Martini" capitalized? If it isn't, it should be.



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RE: -0.257 % - 8/2/2010 6:27:13 PM   
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Another assault on Tsuyung is repulsed. I'm kind of hoping their supply line back to Mandalay is stretched too tight by now


Oh....THAT'S what Tsuyung is! I thought it was some kind of noodle dish.

If you hold out till it starts snowing, the Yeti should trim their numbers a bit.

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RE: Fear, panic and all that sort of thing... - 8/2/2010 6:28:57 PM   
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we have trained the LYB's well to expect us to do something rash or foolhardy or both


Speak for yourself, everything we do is carefully planned. Mostly.



Well...I meant "rash or foolhardy" in the sense of being spontaneous and creative....like a tie-dye shirt or something.

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RE: MEI - 8/2/2010 6:30:03 PM   
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never, ever put a dry clean only shirt in the laundry with normal laundry...domestic help can't seem to tell the difference...i know from painful experience...but looks like you already know this



Dude, you should see what happened to my favorite Members Only jacket.

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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 6:37:22 PM   
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Ship withdrawal:

A) Any off-map port.

B) Any of the so-called national capital ports (Karachi, Sydney, Auckland, San Francisco, Vancouver {not sure about Vancouver and never had Manila or Soerabaja long enough to know}.

C) Any level 9 or better port. This one might have been added in a patch.


I take it option B still needs to be of the same "nationality". I tried to withdraw QE from Auckland and it was a no-go.

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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 7:42:38 PM   
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I take it option B still needs to be of the same "nationality".

Yes.

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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 8:12:55 PM   
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I take it option B still needs to be of the same "nationality".

Yes.


Doesn't the Queen kind of own Auckland and Sydney?

Oh well, guess I will send back to some part of England proper...like Karachi

PS...who is that in your avatar....Bokonon?

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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 8:38:13 PM   
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We got to Akyab just ahead of the screaming hordes of ALBs




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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 8:39:14 PM   
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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 8:49:49 PM   
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PS...who is that in your avatar....Bokonon?

No, avatar is de Sy'mon. But I do like de 21st Calypso.

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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 9:23:06 PM   
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With hindsight we could have picked a better unit. Still firstest with, er, some.





Madre de Dios! 22 expereince? Whatever you do, don't let them play with any sharp objects and you might want a CO well versed in latrine-training because you will need several squadrons of transports to ship adult diapers down there.

The Japs have to hack their way through the jungle and THEN shock attack acorss the river. You can lower their morale by blackening the sky with Wapiti.

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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 9:28:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hmm - Wapiti: giant deer. Herds of aerial 'deer' blackening the sky... I am trying, really, but my imagination is struggling... I think the LYBs might just laugh.

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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 9:34:51 PM   
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I take it option B still needs to be of the same "nationality".

Yes.


No - I withdraw USN ships from Sydney, for example.

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RE: Questions: - 8/2/2010 11:06:43 PM   
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Hmm - Wapiti: giant deer. Herds of aerial 'deer' blackening the sky... I am trying, really, but my imagination is struggling... I think the LYBs might just laugh.


I would say a few of the 8 kg bad boys pickling off the racks would wipe the smile off their LYB faces.








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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 12:31:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'll have you know we have some monoplane bombers which have "LR" at the end of their names. And the 50th tank Brigade (which doesn't actually have any tanks per se) is on its way to Akyab.

So there.

Edit: Its is possessive so it's its not it's.

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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 12:32:49 AM   
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Hmm - Wapiti: giant deer. Herds of aerial 'deer' blackening the sky... I am trying, really, but my imagination is struggling... I think the LYBs might just laugh.


Not when they're smeared in wapiti poop.

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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 12:35:01 AM   
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Hmm - Wapiti: giant deer. Herds of aerial 'deer' blackening the sky... I am trying, really, but my imagination is struggling... I think the LYBs might just laugh.


I would say a few of the 8 kg bad boys pickling off the racks would wipe the smile off their LYB faces.









I hope they've got their goolie chits with them.


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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 12:45:43 AM   
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I hope they've got their goolie chits with them.





I had to look it up. Silly name for huevos if you ask me


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_chit

In World War I, British Royal Flying Corps pilots in India and Mesopotamia carried a "goolie chit" printed in four local languages that promised a reward to anyone who would bring an unharmed British aviator back to British lines. The term "goolie" is British slang for "testicles" and was so called (and still is called by the Royal Air Force) because, in the areas where the chits were used, local tribesmen were said to turn over aviators to their womenfolk, who castrated the pilots for use as servants

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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 12:58:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		The Martini from yesterday finally wore off and I remembered the other questions:

1) Were not B-26's armed with torps at times (eg. B-26's at Midway)?

2) How come we don't get any Beauforts? I loved those things in WITP. I suppose somebody is going to tell me it is a realism thing.

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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 1:24:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'll let someone else answer Q1. but you do get Torp totting Beauforts but they arrive later than in WitP and are useable by less squadrons. Which mark gets them escapes me but it's in the plane manifesto.

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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 2:35:02 AM   
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The Martini from yesterday finally wore off and I remembered the other questions:

1) Were not B-26's armed with torps at times (eg. B-26's at Midway)?



iirc, this was the one and only time B-26's were armed with torpedoes... and the crews had no training at all with them... nonetheless, they did press home the attack... iirc (again) there were 4 of them, and 2 were shot down.

EDIT: but they made no hits.

REEDIT: i checked, and it turns out there were 2 squadrons of B-26s based in the Aleutians that used torpedoes, but there is no record of a successful torpedo attack ever having been made by a USAAF B-26.

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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 2:50:25 PM   
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I'll let someone else answer Q1. but you do get Torp totting Beauforts but they arrive later than in WitP and are useable by less squadrons. Which mark gets them escapes me but it's in the plane manifesto.


You are right. Two of the Wirraway-equipped squadrons in Oz can go to Beaufort V's and we have 11 in inventory. Still, it would be a shame to lose the striking power of the Wirraway. Awesome machine.

Next question:

1) How do I best get Tenth Air Force aircraft to SE Asia? I just noticed Tenth Air Force is assigned to SEAC.

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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 3:48:27 PM   
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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 5:04:23 PM   
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The transports are already there.


Oooh, more targets!!!!

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Stan the Man - 8/3/2010 5:47:36 PM   
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Hirsute USAAF Cpt.:...look, Milo, you crazy SOB, I am NOT going to live in one of those stupid winterized Quonset huts again.

Young man in fine silk shirt: What do you mean, again? I haven't even rolled them out yet. They are still in development. Oh...wait...I see. It's the time travel thing again. Yossarian, have I ever told you that you are the craziest SOB in the squadron?

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: Many times. I can't count the number of times you have told me I am the craziest SOB in the squadron. I tell you what, Milo, you crazy SOB, I am NOT crazy enough to live in one of your winterized Quonset huts again. I know you made the whole Global Cooling thing up.

Young man in fine silk shirt: I did not! We have data.

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: Look, Milo, you crazy SOB. I am not going to say anything, just promise me you don't bring the damn things to the 90th.

Young man in fine silk shirt: Done! But, Yossarian, I am curious how you found out.

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: That's not all I know about. I know about Pitcarin.

Young man in fine silk shirt: Pitcarin?

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: Yes, Pitcarin.

Young man in fine silk shirt: I don't know what you are talking about?

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: Oh, come off it, Milo. I am a "majority" owner <makes air quotes. He withdraws a tattered document from his pocket. It reads "Issued July 1, 1942, 1,000 shares M&M Enterprise, Shipbuilding Division". It is signed by "Milo Minderbinder, President". He hands it to the other man>

Young man in fine silk shirt: <examines the document, which appears genuine. A look of growing surprise appears on his face> Sweet Mother of God!

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: Exactly, Madre de Dios!

Young man in fine silk shirt: Madre de Dios!

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: That's what I said.

Young man in fine silk shirt: <Pauses> Yossarian, you crazy SOB, do you realize what we could do in the stock market?

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: Nah, I didn't pay attention to that kind of stuff.

Young man in fine silk shirt: What about sports betting? Who is going to win the World Series this year?

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: Cardinals in 5 in 42-a.

Young man in fine silk shirt: I'll make some calls.

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: I wouldn't do that, Milo, you crazy SOB.

Young man in fine silk shirt: Why not? <sits back down>

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: Because, it was the Yanks in 6 in 42(b).

Young man in fine silk shirt: No?

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: Yes.

Young man in fine silk shirt: What is going to happen in the Fall?

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: How should I know? I can't see the future, not really. I just know how the future turned out in the past. You see, Musial got drafted in 42(b). The Cards just couldn't do it without Musial.

Young man in fine silk shirt: Well, is Musial going to get drafted this time?

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: How should I know? Ask the Dept. of the Army.

Young man in fine silk shirt: Do you mean we can change the future?

Hirsute USAAF Cpt.: I can't believe you just asked me that you crazy fatalistc SOB.

Young man in fine silk shirt: YOSSARIAN, YOU CRAZY SOB! THAT'S BRILLIANT! <jumps upright> We need to make sure Musial doesn't get drafted, then we put everything on the Cards! <runs out of the club>

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RE: Stan the Man - 8/3/2010 6:44:53 PM   
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RE: Stan the Man - 8/3/2010 9:23:07 PM   
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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 9:29:50 PM   
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Next question:

1) How do I best get Tenth Air Force aircraft to SE Asia? I just noticed Tenth Air Force is assigned to SEAC.


Aside from loading them on ships and sending then on or off-map, you can:

Get them to Eastern USA, Transfer to Cape Town (it will take one or two months), then ship them in from there. In May '43 the Med opens up and you can ship things that was from E USA to Aden.

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RE: Questions: - 8/3/2010 10:36:20 PM   
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Next question:

1) How do I best get Tenth Air Force aircraft to SE Asia? I just noticed Tenth Air Force is assigned to SEAC.


Aside from loading them on ships and sending then on or off-map, you can:

Get them to Eastern USA, Transfer to Cape Town (it will take one or two months), then ship them in from there. In May '43 the Med opens up and you can ship things that was from E USA to Aden.


Oh, bloody hell. I sent them to Pearl already. I think I'll just send them via the Antarctic route, round Oz, then skirt up the edge of the world to Ceylon.

Does the trans-Siberian ferry hop still work?

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