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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 9:31:12 PM   
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The most important, and most challenging, of the black arts to be mastered in childhood is that of financial independence. Everything else pales in comparison.


Or get yourself in charge of an HOA and see everyone dance to your whims.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 9:33:05 PM   
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The most important, and most challenging, of the black arts to be mastered in childhood is that of financial independence. Everything else pales in comparison.


Or get yourself in charge of an HOA and see everyone dance to your whims.

Alfred


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Mrs. Mengele: My son is a doctor. He conducts experiments. What does your son do?..............

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 10:43:09 PM   
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So I am driving to work...late...and my daughter calls me on the cell. Imagining that a meteor has hit the house or some such thing, I take the risk of a $300 fine and answer it.

Me: Yeah, what's up?

Daughter: Daddy, how do you do laundry?




Here is my advice. Don't let those precious laundry moments pass you by when your kids are growing up. Put down the mouse and try to get the AE turn done AFTER you go over sorting colors and the like. It all just goes by so quickly.


Oh, you poor naive man. The critical question is what did she want to wash off before you got home?*

* For those of you whose minds just raced off to left field (or someplace worse), remember it doesn't have to be something truly awful, just something she wants to hide from Dad. Is the dog missing? Do you have his DNA on file in case you find blood? Or is there a bottle of wine missing? Etc.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 10:49:02 PM   
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The critical question is what did she want to wash off before you got home?*


If she's like my daughter, nothing. She probably just ran out of clean undies. Mine has been known to wear her little brothers boxers before doing her own laundry.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 11:05:46 PM   
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So I am driving to work...late...and my daughter calls me on the cell. Imagining that a meteor has hit the house or some such thing, I take the risk of a $300 fine and answer it.

Me: Yeah, what's up?

Daughter: Daddy, how do you do laundry?




Here is my advice. Don't let those precious laundry moments pass you by when your kids are growing up. Put down the mouse and try to get the AE turn done AFTER you go over sorting colors and the like. It all just goes by so quickly.


Oh, you poor naive man. The critical question is what did she want to wash off before you got home?*

* For those of you whose minds just raced off to left field (or someplace worse), remember it doesn't have to be something truly awful, just something she wants to hide from Dad. Is the dog missing? Do you have his DNA on file in case you find blood? Or is there a bottle of wine missing? Etc.


I think she had to go to work and needed pants without dog smell on them (she works at a Petsmart where they have a "Pet Hotel")


As for the missing wine...yes but not recently...more recently it was a bottle of Bombay Sapphire gone missing when Stalker Girl and I went out the desert for the weekend. After Stalker Girl accused both her daughter and my daughter of taking it...she found it hidden away where she had forgotten it.


Your question reminds of the time my daughter said at dinner, "Oh, dad, I forgot to tell you the FBI came to the door the other day"

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 11:11:01 PM   
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It is best to answer this with, "I should be leaving soon?"

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 11:18:23 PM   
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If there are nefarious things afoot, you have just created a new laundry-moment opportunity.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 11:24:13 PM   
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Editor's Note: Point of clarification for the younger readers. The poster by the name of Dixie appears to have included a clever reference to homosexuality in the Royal Navy. This is akin to dropping the first nucelar weapon in a conflict and will almost certainly require some type of caustic response. Please stay tuned.

Oh no, not 'nucelar' war!


Apparently your brief trip to The Cornfield did not leave a sufficient impression on you in regard to mockery of posters in the thread.

How would you feel about a Lanai Room at Club Gitmo? You would be bunking with Richard Reid.




No shirt, no shoes, no problem....

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RE: ORC Power!!!! - 1/17/2011 11:25:04 PM   
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Bah, Orcs make EXCELLENT improvisers. See below.





i think the orcs are getting a bum rap...at least they aren't goblins...(note the ammunition...)






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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 11:25:22 PM   
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So I am driving to work...late...and my daughter calls me on the cell. Imagining that a meteor has hit the house or some such thing, I take the risk of a $300 fine and answer it.

Me: Yeah, what's up?

Daughter: Daddy, how do you do laundry?




Here is my advice. Don't let those precious laundry moments pass you by when your kids are growing up. Put down the mouse and try to get the AE turn done AFTER you go over sorting colors and the like. It all just goes by so quickly.


She's what? 22? 23?

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 11:26:44 PM   
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I'll never have the "joy" of trying to teach a teenager the concept of bleach for whites. Thank God for small blessings.




My mom told me to do my own laundry at 15 (after an incident where I got pissy with her). I learned the hard way.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 11:27:51 PM   
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My daughter has only just mastered the black art of laundry but stubbornly refuses to stick it in the tumble drier. Instead it's spread over the family bathroom radiator and hallway bannister because it's "green".

However preparing a meal beyond buttered toast is still something to be mastered.


Hast thou no microwave?

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 11:30:47 PM   
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The critical question is what did she want to wash off before you got home?*


If she's like my daughter, nothing. She probably just ran out of clean undies. Mine has been known to wear her little brothers boxers before doing her own laundry.


Lazy and ecologically conscious? You do realize that youre raising a full-blown hippie, dont you?

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 11:41:49 PM   
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The most important, and most challenging, of the black arts to be mastered in childhood is that of financial independence. Everything else pales in comparison.


Oh hell yes. I second, third and fourth that statement.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/17/2011 11:45:46 PM   
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Here is another question that should incite caution, "Um, hi daddy, just wondering when you were coming home?"

It is best to answer this with, "I should be leaving soon?"



I do the same thing.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 2:11:30 AM   
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Just for the record: the first president to use the term Nucular was H.S. Truman


But LBJ really perfected the "mispronunciation," although Jimmy Carter and W both tried hard to on improve on LBJ's effort.

Those were the days: A President who could combine "Nuke-lure" and Veet-Nam" in the same speech.

Carter's "Nuke-a-lar" and W's "Nuke-leer" pale in comparison; proof positive the world is run by "C" students...

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 5:19:02 AM   
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As fascinating as the topic of your female filial generation one laundry capabilities is, wasn't there that odd bit about...something about...I vaguely remember....

Oh yes. I recall now. THE WAR?

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 7:11:40 AM   
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The bombardment of July 7th at Nadi goes badly. It seems there was a freindly fire accident.

Ground combat at Nadi (131,160)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 10531 troops, 441 guns, 237 vehicles, Assault Value = 810

Defending force 20686 troops, 410 guns, 420 vehicles, Assault Value = 655


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Friendly fire incidents are the worst.


************1st Platoon, Hvy Wpn Coy, II/132nd Rgt., Nadi, July 7, 1942***********

Pvt. Van Skyke: Hey Skeets. What say we play a joke on the guys and point the mortar thingy straight up?

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 7:14:04 AM   
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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 7:15:56 AM   
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I imagine his great uncle in the 132nd was a hazard as well.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 12:41:33 PM   
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Oh yeah...that.

The bombardment of July 7th at Nadi goes badly. It seems there was a freindly fire accident.

Ground combat at Nadi (131,160)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 10531 troops, 441 guns, 237 vehicles, Assault Value = 810

Defending force 20686 troops, 410 guns, 420 vehicles, Assault Value = 655


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Friendly fire incidents are the worst.


************1st Platoon, Hvy Wpn Coy, II/132nd Rgt., Nadi, July 7, 1942***********

Pvt. Van Skyke: Hey Skeets. What say we play a joke on the guys and point the mortar thingy straight up?



This is obviously one of those things that started with the phrase "hey, y'all, watch this.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 12:54:32 PM   
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Oh yeah...that.

The bombardment of July 7th at Nadi goes badly. It seems there was a freindly fire accident.

Ground combat at Nadi (131,160)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 10531 troops, 441 guns, 237 vehicles, Assault Value = 810

Defending force 20686 troops, 410 guns, 420 vehicles, Assault Value = 655


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Friendly fire incidents are the worst.



Please please say it isn't true - was that the mobile laundry van that got hit !!!!

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 2:05:01 PM   
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Please please say it isn't true - was that the mobile laundry van that got hit !!!!


Of course not, that would be a non-combat device.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 2:34:04 PM   
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My daughter has only just mastered the black art of laundry but stubbornly refuses to stick it in the tumble drier. Instead it's spread over the family bathroom radiator and hallway bannister because it's "green".

If you had "proper" weather you could hang it outside. About half an hour will do it around here at the moment.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 4:08:04 PM   
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Cargo Boy! - 1/18/2011 4:30:01 PM   
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Siwe, a Tannanese guy (or maybe it's Tannese..oh screw it...none of you guys know either) has shed his traditional penis gourd and hemp butt floss outfit for western style slacks but wears no shirt. He is carrying a carved branch over his shoulder that looks vaguely like an M1(the branch not his shoulder). He scans the horizon for Cargo ships that Ensign McGoo has promised will come again. Two wee Jap dobbers wearing these preposterous and, frankly, sissy-looking silk outfits with shoulder pad thingys and totally gay pointed black quilted hats pass by.


Wee Jap dobber in sissy outfit: Hey! Cargo Boy! See any ship today? <they both laugh>


Second wee Jap dobber in sissy outfit: Cargey? Know what really in Spam? <they laugh uproariously>

Siwe walks on, pretending not to notice, but the words hurt. They hurt bad.



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RE: Cargo Boy! - 1/18/2011 4:36:57 PM   
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Tannabal? (run away)

Tannamannamanna? (married to Rosanne Rosannadanna)

Tannamator? (came back from the future to erase ensign McCoy)

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 4:38:14 PM   
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A, which map set are you using and
B, which image program are you using?

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 4:44:37 PM   
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Cap;

A, which map set are you using and
B, which image program are you using?


I think these are just the stock AE maps with the hexes turned off for aesthetic purposes.

As for image program I have been trying to brush my teeth better and make sure my nose hairs are trimmed.

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RE: Bernard Law - 1/18/2011 4:48:41 PM   
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I am just using Windows Paint (c) 1986. The jpg conversion is really bad.

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