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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 4:39:17 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 4:39:25 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 4:39:57 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 4:41:06 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 4:42:20 PM   
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Our "friend" got himself banned.

Gee, pity that.

He'll be back under separate cover in short order...



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 4:42:45 PM   
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Josh managed his first (unsteady) steps last night   He's tried a few more today, I can forsee our poor little BC living in interesting times quite soon 


Congrats on a major milestone. From my understanding your life is certainly about to get more interesting.

The red mouse is right about this. You got your cabinet, drawer locks and gates set up, mate?


Corner guards on furniture corners, everything breakable moved up out of reach, everything drinkable likewise?


Pfft, life is all about a few bumped heads


The house is pretty much baby-proofed and has been for a while. No sharp corners and all the interesting grabby things are out of reach.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 4:52:16 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 5:02:10 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 5:05:02 PM   
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Heresy!!!



Chez and I managed to crank out four turns yesterday. Hoorah!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 5:10:33 PM   
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•A top US official once described Kim Jong Il as "a bit like Hitler, but without the dog-loving vegetarian hang-ups".

•The same official summarised Nicolas Sarkozy as "shorter than that Italian broad he hangs out with, but probably a bit taller than Kim Jong Il".

•A high-level diplomat dismissed a proposed honeytrap operation against the Tory Party with the words: "We consider it unlikely the charms of Paris Hilton will prove effective on William Hague."

•Senior US military figures warned that Iran had the capability to put a cloned dog into space "within 10 years".

•The Yemeni government agreed to assume full responsibility for Sarah Palin in return for "substantial military aid".
•A CIA memo conceded Google had "probably done some evil, somewhere".

•A White House spokesman once admitted to a group of shocked Afghan government ministers that Linday Lohan "isn't up to much as an actress".

•An internal Pentagon email described the iPad's lack of Flash as "dumbass".

•The US Department of State planned to waterboard the entire population of San Francisco "to gain vital information on an alleged al-Qaeda plan to disastrously inflate seafood prices at Fisherman's Wharf".

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 5:26:10 PM   
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•The US Department of State planned to waterboard the entire population of San Francisco "to gain vital information on an alleged al-Qaeda plan to disastrously inflate seafood prices at Fisherman's Wharf".


That conspiracy goes very deep indeed.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 5:31:40 PM   
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Our "friend" got himself banned.


Too bad. I was really starting to like him and his refreshing view on world politics.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 5:32:30 PM   
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Pfft, life is all about a few bumped heads

The house is pretty much baby-proofed and has been for a while. No sharp corners and all the interesting grabby things are out of reach.

Oh ! You wish, Martin ! Them little nippers are infinitely more inquisitive and exquisitely more innovative about finding ways to immolate themselves, and the whole damn neighborhood to boot, than you can possibly imagine. If it exists, they will find it, and figure out how to either swallow it, feed it to or try to stick it into the dog, use it as wall art, or parade it in front of Aunt Marge at the least opportune moment. They are much more creative than we are.

As an old fart, who's been through all that, I offer this only as an additional precaution; knowing full well that it doesn't matter one whit what you do. Ahh, but how sweet it truly is ! I envy you this time.

Ciao. John

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 5:36:18 PM   
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•The US Department of State planned to waterboard the entire population of San Francisco "to gain vital information on an alleged al-Qaeda plan to disastrously inflate seafood prices at Fisherman's Wharf".


That conspiracy goes very deep indeed.


You can't handle the truth!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 5:39:42 PM   
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Our "friend" got himself banned.


Too bad. I was really starting to like him and his refreshing view on world politics.

See the internal Pentagon email re: the iPad's lack of Flash for my take on his view on world politics.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 5:40:52 PM   
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Pfft, life is all about a few bumped heads

The house is pretty much baby-proofed and has been for a while. No sharp corners and all the interesting grabby things are out of reach.

Oh ! You wish, Martin ! Them little nippers are infinitely more inquisitive and exquisitely more innovative about finding ways to immolate themselves, and the whole damn neighborhood to boot, than you can possibly imagine. If it exists, they will find it, and figure out how to either swallow it, feed it to or try to stick it into the dog, use it as wall art, or parade it in front of Aunt Marge at the least opportune moment. They are much more creative than we are.

As an old fart, who's been through all that, I offer this only as an additional precaution; knowing full well that it doesn't matter one whit what you do. Ahh, but how sweet it truly is ! I envy you this time.

Ciao. John


Isn't that the truth. I was about 2 when I fed all the food in the house to our dog, unfortunately it was on a Sunday morning back when the shops were closed on a Sunday.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 5:42:25 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 6:02:24 PM   
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Our "friend" got himself banned.


Too bad. I was really starting to like him and his refreshing view on world politics.

See the internal Pentagon email re: the iPad's lack of Flash for my take on his view on world politics.


Best thing about the iPad is the lack of that flash crap.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 6:40:04 PM   
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Also, after about 10-15 years of absolute crap, my faith in the ability of post-Soviet nations to make movies about WW2 has finally been restored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj96Ahlcak0&feature=related

I dont know if it is possible to get it with subtitles, but if you have the chance I highly recommend it. No politicizing or moralizing, just the real, terrible, awful reality of war. The story is all absolutely true, down to every single episode. My father was a tour guide there in his younger days and has told me many things that he himself, and other staff, learned in speaking with the survivors. He met the hero of the story as well.

My hat's off to the film makers at Belarusfilm.


The movie seems so good that my thinking about war is (and already was) :

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 6:45:29 PM   
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•The US Department of State planned to waterboard the entire population of San Francisco "to gain vital information on an alleged al-Qaeda plan to disastrously inflate seafood prices at Fisherman's Wharf".


That conspiracy goes very deep indeed.


You can't handle the truth!


Certainly I can!

And when they're done with that, I wish they'd unravel the mystery of why milk costs $5/galon in NY.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 6:57:51 PM   
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Apparently the French were slightly upset that the RN sank their fleet

Yes, one can understand why they were so upset. I mean, the temerity of the English-ensuring that their fleet wasn't handed over to Hitler!


My understanding is that the French fleet was rusting and falling apart at Oran, that the ships were undermanned, and there was not the facilities at Oran to maintain fleet units of that size. If the fleet had remained at Oran for any length of time, it would probably have not been able to leave. Churchill basically admits that he was aware of this in his books, but he was counciled by Pound and Cunningham to strike.

Edit; I think sometimes that the British don't really like the French.




If i can give my own advice ???
The french fleet was NOT undermanned; and Mers-el-Kebir harbor, although not as good as Toulon or Brest, was able to keep these ships there. The almost only big fact about the ships was that it was able to fight ! it was a kind of Joker for Vichy governement.

About the Navy fighting the allies: it would probably never had occured: once more, i repeat it, the Navy was like a kind of Joker for the Vichy Governement. The idea of Petain and all vichistes, was to trick the germans, pretending to be neutral and friendly to their side, but trying to prepare the future by staying independant. Thus the idea to protect hte colonial empire with the fleet.
A widely spread feeling in the fleet was that we had several enemys: the english fleet by pure tradition and history; the germans and their italian allies, because they were the agressors in 1940.
The fleet would not had join any side.
I can understand that Churchill could not take the risk.....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 7:04:04 PM   
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Our "friend" got himself banned.


I won't miss him

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 7:21:06 PM   
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•The US Department of State planned to waterboard the entire population of San Francisco "to gain vital information on an alleged al-Qaeda plan to disastrously inflate seafood prices at Fisherman's Wharf".


That conspiracy goes very deep indeed.


You can't handle the truth!


Certainly I can!

And when they're done with that, I wish they'd unravel the mystery of why milk costs $5/galon in NY.

That one's easy. Check a supply / demand curve, dude. Like Manhattan apartments. Duh.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 7:28:14 PM   
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Apparently the French were slightly upset that the RN sank their fleet

Yes, one can understand why they were so upset. I mean, the temerity of the English-ensuring that their fleet wasn't handed over to Hitler!


My understanding is that the French fleet was rusting and falling apart at Oran, that the ships were undermanned, and there was not the facilities at Oran to maintain fleet units of that size. If the fleet had remained at Oran for any length of time, it would probably have not been able to leave. Churchill basically admits that he was aware of this in his books, but he was counciled by Pound and Cunningham to strike.

Edit; I think sometimes that the British don't really like the French.




If i can give my own advice ???
The french fleet was NOT undermanned; and Mers-el-Kebir harbor, although not as good as Toulon or Brest, was able to keep these ships there. The almost only big fact about the ships was that it was able to fight ! it was a kind of Joker for Vichy governement.

About the Navy fighting the allies: it would probably never had occured: once more, i repeat it, the Navy was like a kind of Joker for the Vichy Governement. The idea of Petain and all vichistes, was to trick the germans, pretending to be neutral and friendly to their side, but trying to prepare the future by staying independant. Thus the idea to protect hte colonial empire with the fleet.
A widely spread feeling in the fleet was that we had several enemys: the english fleet by pure tradition and history; the germans and their italian allies, because they were the agressors in 1940.
The fleet would not had join any side.
I can understand that Churchill could not take the risk.....

Gladiatt,

Thanks for your patient perspective. It's always enlightening to hear your point of view on these matters.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 7:31:09 PM   
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Apparently the French were slightly upset that the RN sank their fleet

Yes, one can understand why they were so upset. I mean, the temerity of the English-ensuring that their fleet wasn't handed over to Hitler!


My understanding is that the French fleet was rusting and falling apart at Oran, that the ships were undermanned, and there was not the facilities at Oran to maintain fleet units of that size. If the fleet had remained at Oran for any length of time, it would probably have not been able to leave. Churchill basically admits that he was aware of this in his books, but he was counciled by Pound and Cunningham to strike.

Edit; I think sometimes that the British don't really like the French.




If i can give my own advice ???
The french fleet was NOT undermanned; and Mers-el-Kebir harbor, although not as good as Toulon or Brest, was able to keep these ships there. The almost only big fact about the ships was that it was able to fight ! it was a kind of Joker for Vichy governement.

About the Navy fighting the allies: it would probably never had occured: once more, i repeat it, the Navy was like a kind of Joker for the Vichy Governement. The idea of Petain and all vichistes, was to trick the germans, pretending to be neutral and friendly to their side, but trying to prepare the future by staying independant. Thus the idea to protect hte colonial empire with the fleet.
A widely spread feeling in the fleet was that we had several enemys: the english fleet by pure tradition and history; the germans and their italian allies, because they were the agressors in 1940.
The fleet would not had join any side.
I can understand that Churchill could not take the risk.....

Gladiatt,

Thanks for your patient perspective. It's always enlightening to hear your point of view on these matters.


I did not made too much: just giving advice of the french history books.
But i indeed thought that it could give you the french point of vue

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 7:32:49 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 7:33:20 PM   
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We had a recator panel operator called Beach Ball. Enuff said.


did he walk the two minute "run" portion of the physical tests while smoking a cigarette like our chiefs did?


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 7:35:00 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 7:35:16 PM   
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Very happy for you Eric.

Now about that car. The trouble is that its probably French. See, your wife should be French (you got that one right), but your car should be German, your watch Swiss, your tea English, etc.



Heaven is where:
The lovers are Italian
The cooks are French
The mechanics are German
The police are English
The government is run by Swiss

Hell is where:
The lovers are Swiss
The cooks are English
The mechanics are French
The police are German
The government is run by Italians



if i might add...

Heaven is where:
The lovers are Italian
The cooks are French
The mechanics are German
The police are English
The government is run by Swiss
The drinking buddy is Irish

Hell is where:
The lovers are Swiss
The cooks are English
The mechanics are French
The police are German
The government is run by Italians
The drinking buddy is Irish




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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 11/29/2010 7:36:58 PM   
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