Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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ORIGINAL: sprior

We need a turn.

Precisely. With this lot it is like taking a bunch of 13 yr olds on a guided tour of Gettysburg with Shelby Foote and all they want to know is when they can go to Starbucks to log on to jennajameson.*


*Not sure about the spelling of jennajameson.

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

There will be no pictures so that I may maintain plausible deniability but the "Azteca" sort of looks like Trini Lopez*..except shorter. You might be able to find a picture of him in a mugshot somewhere.

The "Mayan" looks like a Mayan.

Stalker Girl is full-bred Polish.

I look like Tom Hanks (except better).

Stalker Girl Jr. looks like Stalker Girl Sr.

Mandrake Jr. looks like Winona Ryder

Saul the Mexican gardener with the Jewish name looks like Oscar de la Hoya 10 years after he stops training.

Can't really tell you what Scharfuhrer Braun looks like, have just seen her through the smoked glass of her recon vehicle. She is 20'ish, dark hair and does not have a grossly misshapen head.

The neighber with the $10,000 mailbox looks like Ichabod Crane was really supposed to look like (not Johnny Depp)

The hot neighbor with the bolt-ons looks like Disney's Pocahontas after a visit to the Dow Corning Miracles of Silicone Pavilion.

*Very few will know what Trini Lopez looks like. I wouldn't either but I just saw a PBS special on folk singers. I also now know what the Kingston Trio looked like. Nobody around here looks like them.

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Trini Lopez is too old in that picture but he really does look like "el Azteca" (minus the gluteal cleft on the chin and the sideburns). He really isn't a bad kid if you disregard his stolen social security number and the fact that he likes to drink and fight AND he is short.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

INSERT LEWD WOLFCALLS HERE! YOWZA!

ETA: Cap'n: Anyone ever tell you you look a lot like Kasey Casem?

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Kasey Kasem always struck me as a fagela...but I am flattered, I'm sure.


I went on a horse pack trip once with the kids and sister's family. It was an expensive trip into the Sierra backcountry, the guide, a cowhand and a cook, 10 horses and maybe 6 mules.

So the first night the guide (who works partly on tips) says around the campfire, "you remind me of the guy in Godfather..oh what the Hell is his name", and he goes over in to the woods presumably to think about it. In fact, he had snuck some beers on the trip and had them hidden in the creek to keep cold. The SOB was holding out on us while we were supposed to drink powdered lemonade made with creek water treated with chlorine tablets. Anyway, I am left to think who he is talking about, Al Pacino??? Nah. Robert Duvall??? Nah Jimmy Cann?? Nah Could he possibly mean Brando...holy crap I hope not the guy was as old as the pyramids. Abe Vigoda?? Santa Maria! He better not mean Abe Vigoda or his tip is toast. I gave up.

The next night he suddenly exclaims, "I GOT IT! It's that Fredo guy!"

Holy Crap! Fredo??? The guy plays a total greaser and he has the lowest moral standing of a Mafia family for Christ's sake. He gets offed while fishing for trout with cheeseballs on the orders of his own brother.

Mandrake on the Left

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ORIGINAL: He gets offed while fishing for trout with cheeseballs on the orders of his own brother.

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Kasey Kasem always struck me as a fagela...but I am flattered, I'm sure.


I went on a horse pack trip once with the kids and sister's family. It was an expensive trip into the Sierra backcountry, the guide, a cowhand and a cook, 10 horses and maybe 6 mules.

So the first night the guide (who works partly on tips) says around the campfire, "you remind me of the guy in Godfather..oh what the Hell is his name", and he goes over in to the woods presumably to think about it. In fact, he had snuck some beers on the trip and had them hidden in the creek to keep cold. The SOB was holding out on us while we were supposed to drink powdered lemonade made with creek water treated with chlorine tablets. Anyway, I am left to think who he is talking about, Al Pacino??? Nah. Robert Duvall??? Nah Jimmy Cann?? Nah Could he possibly mean Brando...holy crap I hope not the guy was as old as the pyramids. Abe Vigoda?? Santa Maria! He better not mean Abe Vigoda or his tip is toast. I gave up.

The next night he suddenly exclaims, "I GOT IT! It's that Fredo guy!"

Holy Crap! Fredo??? The guy plays a total greaser and he has the lowest moral standing of a Mafia family for Christ's sake. He gets offed while fishing for trout with cheeseballs on the orders of his own brother.

Fredo on the Left

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ORIGINAL: Moondawggie

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Kasey Kasem always struck me as a fagela...but I am flattered, I'm sure.


I went on a horse pack trip once with the kids and sister's family. It was an expensive trip into the Sierra backcountry, the guide, a cowhand and a cook, 10 horses and maybe 6 mules.

So the first night the guide (who works partly on tips) says around the campfire, "you remind me of the guy in Godfather..oh what the Hell is his name", and he goes over in to the woods presumably to think about it. In fact, he had snuck some beers on the trip and had them hidden in the creek to keep cold. The SOB was holding out on us while we were supposed to drink powdered lemonade made with creek water treated with chlorine tablets. Anyway, I am left to think who he is talking about, Al Pacino??? Nah. Robert Duvall??? Nah Jimmy Cann?? Nah Could he possibly mean Brando...holy crap I hope not the guy was as old as the pyramids. Abe Vigoda?? Santa Maria! He better not mean Abe Vigoda or his tip is toast. I gave up.

The next night he suddenly exclaims, "I GOT IT! It's that Fredo guy!"

Holy Crap! Fredo??? The guy plays a total greaser and he has the lowest moral standing of a Mafia family for Christ's sake. He gets offed while fishing for trout with cheeseballs on the orders of his own brother.

Fredo on the Left

Lemme get this straight: You are in the Sierra backcountry where the major recreational activiy is fishing for trout.

Then, a "backcountry wrangler" tells you, miles from the nearest police station or even road, that you remind him of that complete loser Fredo, who just happened to get whacked while fishing for trout...

Geeze, it's a miracle you survived that horse-packing trip, amigo!

I would have run off that mountain as fast as my legs could move! You ever see Deliverance?

Just a thought...

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ORIGINAL: Mynok


Deliverance? Come on...Mandrake's a Cafilornia boy. He wouldn't understand Deliverance if it bit his ass while he was laying PVC.

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ORIGINAL: sprior

16th July 1942

Fifth Div packing at Aden ready to embark for Perth. Addu and DG now fully fledged bases with AS patrols, lots of fuel and even a few patrol planes.

China is quiet as JJ recuperates after the scrap outside Sian. The weedier units have been despatched to Chengtu to take in replacements.

The troop from Buggritt are back in friendly territory are on on their way to Kohima from whence they can hie to Calcutta.

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

There will be no pictures so that I may maintain plausible deniability but the "Azteca" sort of looks like Trini Lopez*..except shorter. You might be able to find a picture of him in a mugshot somewhere.

The "Mayan" looks like a Mayan.

Stalker Girl is full-bred Polish.

I look like Tom Hanks (except better).

Stalker Girl Jr. looks like Stalker Girl Sr.

Mandrake Jr. looks like Winona Ryder

Saul the Mexican gardener with the Jewish name looks like Oscar de la Hoya 10 years after he stops training.

Can't really tell you what Scharfuhrer Braun looks like, have just seen her through the smoked glass of her recon vehicle. She is 20'ish, dark hair and does not have a grossly misshapen head.

The neighber with the $10,000 mailbox looks like Ichabod Crane was really supposed to look like (not Johnny Depp)

The hot neighbor with the bolt-ons looks like Disney's Pocahontas after a visit to the Dow Corning Miracles of Silicone Pavilion.

*Very few will know what Trini Lopez looks like. I wouldn't either but I just saw a PBS special on folk singers. I also now know what the Kingston Trio looked like. Nobody around here looks like them.

Plausible deniability - hah!

Apparently you've forgotten you've already posted one of you and your daughter... this one from just after you had the streetlight removed from your head*

(*via Photoshop or equivalent.)

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: sprior

16th July 1942

Fifth Div packing at Aden ready to embark for Perth. Addu and DG now fully fledged bases with AS patrols, lots of fuel and even a few patrol planes.

China is quiet as JJ recuperates after the scrap outside Sian. The weedier units have been despatched to Chengtu to take in replacements.

The troop from Buggritt are back in friendly territory are on on their way to Kohima from whence they can hie to Calcutta.

Thank THREAD! An update!

Sprior-what's the status on the situation around Sian? What is the nature of this scrap of which you speak?

"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished."
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Your IJ opponents are doing you a mammoth favor around Sian by fighting in the worst (for them) terrain in the area. If they come to their senses and mount an offensive in the clear hexes (including Sian proper), things will go very differently for your defenders.

ETA: What do you have in Sian proper? I don't understand why he doesn't just fix those Chinese units in place at 85,42 whilest pushing forward with the other two main pincers to the South and East of the city. That would serve two valuable purposes-cutting off the 85,42 Chinese's LOC and investing defensive troops @ Sian in clear terrain.

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ORIGINAL: sprior

Sian has a size 4 fort. These are the combat troops:

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Your IJ opponents are doing you a mammoth favor around Sian by fighting in the worst (for them) terrain in the area. If they come to their senses and mount an offensive in the clear hexes (including Sian proper), things will go very differently for your defenders.

ETA: What do you have in Sian proper? I don't understand why he doesn't just fix those Chinese units in place at 85,42 whilest pushing forward with the other two main pincers to the South and East of the city. That would serve two valuable purposes-cutting off the 85,42 Chinese's LOC and investing defensive troops @ Sian in clear terrain.

Need to count the supply path for those Chinese troops in the good terrain - are they cut off from supply? Maybe JJ believes so and is out for the kill.

EDIT: Need to see the hex side ownership of the hex they are in to calculate the path.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Your IJ opponents are doing you a mammoth favor around Sian by fighting in the worst (for them) terrain in the area. If they come to their senses and mount an offensive in the clear hexes (including Sian proper), things will go very differently for your defenders.

ETA: What do you have in Sian proper? I don't understand why he doesn't just fix those Chinese units in place at 85,42 whilest pushing forward with the other two main pincers to the South and East of the city. That would serve two valuable purposes-cutting off the 85,42 Chinese's LOC and investing defensive troops @ Sian in clear terrain.

Need to count the supply path for those Chinese troops in the good terrain - are they cut off from supply? Maybe JJ believes so and is out for the kill.

EDIT: Need to see the hex side ownership of the hex they are in to calculate the path.

My esteemed Argletonian colleague-I understand your point re: hex ownership and it's well taken, but look again at the map. Can you draw any reasoned LOS from the Chinese units at 85,42 to Sian or any other population center?