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RE: Wacht am Palembang - 3/9/2011 7:40:48 PM   
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RE: Wacht am Palembang - 3/9/2011 8:13:58 PM   
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Wait til we get Spitfires, then we'll be really unsporting.



Being sporting is so over rated. Wait till you get Mustangs,Hellcats and Coursairs! Now that's unsporting!

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RE: Wacht am Palembang - 3/9/2011 8:19:44 PM   
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RE: Wacht am Palembang - 3/10/2011 5:25:05 AM   
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Nope. They're oblivious to it.

Speaking of ned idiots, I was at Edinburgh zoo with the GF years ago and we were at the Tiger enclosure, a beautiful big cat with eyes full of true intelligence was within, regarding the humans on the other side of the glass wall with something like utter disdain and it wasn't hard to see why. There was a full ned family: dad, mum, two kids all wrapped up in kappa tracksuits and nikes. Dad ned was banging away on the glass, regardless of the huge signs all over the place asking him to refrain from doing just that as it upsets the animals. After a minute or two he turns to me and says "This Lion's pure crap, by ra way. it wilnae bark or anything."

I hate zoos. The wrong creatures are always locked up in them.


<recalls in horror at the thought that >50% of Americans have Scotch/Irish backgrounds>


Actually, immigration explains that seeming conundrum, Cap:

Most of the smart ones got the hell out of Scotland and Ireland ASAP and came to America.

The dumb ones stayed behind.

A few hundred years later, after several more generations of inbreeding among what's left, you get these whitebread Hip-Hop moron wannabees pictured in the video.

"Devolution" at work!

It's a classic example of natural selection and population genetics in action.





Hey! Some of us are still here! I can almost count to five and have never hardly stabbed anyone.

Neds are a bit of local colour, like the Amish or something. With less barn building. And more Buckfast.

Any more of this viscous slander and King Sean the first will authorize a new Susan Boyle album. You all heard what she did to 'Wild Horses,' Just think what she could do to ZZ Top.




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RE: Wacht am Palembang - 3/11/2011 8:32:00 PM   
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Spanglish - 3/11/2011 11:32:45 PM   
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Carefully lettered on the side of the truck is "El Rufo Company"

I had to look twice. To begin with, "rufo" isn't even the Spanish word for "roof". To make matters worse the article is Spanish and "company" is in English, of course. Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say. Is calling something "El Rufo Company" a marketing decision? Are they trying to have a broad appeal? I suppose it is meant to be some kind of cross-cultural bridge.

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**************************July 30, 1942***********************


South Pacific: An S boat put a torp into a tanker near Kirakira, wherever that is. The bombers at Suva didn't fly again. I wonder if there is some kidn of creeping morale problem. The ground bombardment attacks at Nadi have gone negative again and the assault value of the WJD's seems to be increasing. I am thinking of asking General Patton to come by.

Oz: In perhaps the biggest single raid of heavy bombers to date in the Pacific, 40 x B-17E and 7 x B-24 roughed up elements of the IJA 20th and 5th Div at Katherine. That makes at least 5th, 20th and 38th Div still at Katherine.

China: The WJD's have launched soem kind of summer offensive and are killing or wounding large numbers of WCD's. I would give you more information but I dont know where any of the cities are.

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RE: Spanglish - 3/11/2011 11:42:43 PM   
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RE: Spanglish - 3/11/2011 11:55:57 PM   
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A dozen young USAAF officers in flight jackets are gathered around a hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes.


Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: ....look, we all have the same goal. We ALL want for this to be over and to go home to our homes and families, right? God knows, this is my third time.

Young USAAF officer: Third time?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Yes, third time.

Young USAAF officer: Do you mean Captain, this is your third war?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Yes, A, B, and C.

Young USAAF officer: Don't you mean I and II sir?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: No, I mean A, B and C.

Young man in fine linen slacks: Captain, Yossarian. Aren't you straying off topic? The business opportunity?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Oh, yeah, the business opportunity. Right, it's like this. What is the best way to achieve that goal, through a top-down command and control model or by harnessing the restless spirit of innovation and creativity that resides in all of us?

Young man in fine linen slacks: <soto voce> Son of a bitch! That was damn good!................

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RE: Spanglish - 3/12/2011 12:32:57 AM   
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RE: Spanglish - 3/12/2011 12:36:12 AM   
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Buzzword bingo!


Dood;

This is 1942. Where do you think Reagn's speechwriters will get their inspiration?

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RE: Spanglish - 3/12/2011 3:35:25 AM   
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*****************El Cholo Club, near bomber strip, Suva Aerodrome, Fiji, July 30, 1942**************



A dozen young USAAF officers in flight jackets are gathered around a hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes.


Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: ....look, we all have the same goal. We ALL want for this to be over and to go home to our homes and families, right? God knows, this is my third time.

Young USAAF officer: Third time?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Yes, third time.

Young USAAF officer: Do you mean Captain, this is your third war?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Yes, A, B, and C.

Young USAAF officer: Don't you mean I and II sir?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: No, I mean A, B and C.

Young man in fine linen slacks: Captain, Yossarian. Aren't you straying off topic? The business opportunity?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Oh, yeah, the business opportunity. Right, it's like this. What is the best way to achieve that goal, through a top-down command and control model or by harnessing the restless spirit of innovation and creativity that resides in all of us?

Young man in fine linen slacks: <soto voce> Son of a bitch! That was damn good!................


Santos Mio! Whatever he's selling, I'm buying, Big Guy!

"The color of scarcity is Golden-Green." A sign I saw displayed over my local Gas Station when I filled up the Expedition today.

I think MIlo's grandson owns the place.

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RE: Spanglish - 3/12/2011 8:25:47 AM   
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Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say.


I should introduce you to the wonders of franglais.

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RE: Spanglish - 3/12/2011 1:48:59 PM   
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Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say.


I should introduce you to the wonders of franglais.

Isn't that the one you need the adhesive moustache for? Or is that more frenchlish?

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RE: Spanglish - 3/12/2011 6:02:14 PM   
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....The ground bombardment attacks at Nadi have gone negative again...


Negative? Doesn't that mean they're shelling their own troops? Hmm....I wonder if they're using shells supplied by the WJD? It sounds like the sort of opportunity for cost efficiency a certain young man in fine linen slacks might be able to facilitate..

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RE: Spanglish - 3/12/2011 6:04:48 PM   
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Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say.


I should introduce you to the wonders of franglais.


No need for franglais: The comedian Al Murray maintains that the reason we should speak very slowly and very loudly when addressing Johnny Foreigner is that it forces their brains to vibrate on the resonant frequency required to understand English. I haven't tried it yet, myself.


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RE: Spanglish - 3/12/2011 8:15:44 PM   
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No need for franglais: The comedian Al Murray maintains that the reason we should speak very slowly and very loudly when addressing Johnny Foreigner is that it forces their brains to vibrate on the resonant frequency required to understand English. I haven't tried it yet, myself.


I'm not familiar with Al Murray, but I assume it also helps if you throw in sterotypical phonemes from the language in question at the beginning or ends of the English words.

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RE: Spanglish - 3/12/2011 10:59:16 PM   
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No need for franglais: The comedian Al Murray maintains that the reason we should speak very slowly and very loudly when addressing Johnny Foreigner is that it forces their brains to vibrate on the resonant frequency required to understand English. I haven't tried it yet, myself.


I'm not familiar with Al Murray, but I assume it also helps if you throw in sterotypical phonemes from the language in question at the beginning or ends of the English words.


what-o are you talking about-o?

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RE: Spanglish - 3/14/2011 10:23:20 PM   
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RE: Spanglish - 3/14/2011 10:34:58 PM   
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Maybe their opponents are on a fast space journey and are experiencing relativistic time dilation?

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RE: Spanglish - 3/14/2011 10:45:49 PM   
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Perhaps they made the unfortunate call to do a little barnstorming in a Oscar.

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RE: Wacht am Palembang - 3/14/2011 10:50:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nah....Stalker Girl has been needy...I had to come in to work on Sunday...and I signed for that AE tourney...and the HOA is busting my chops again.

We are actually waiting on a turn now. Admiral Lord Sprior wants more fuel in Oz...he is right.

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RE: Wacht am Palembang - 3/14/2011 10:53:31 PM   
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RE: Wacht am Palembang - 3/15/2011 2:02:25 AM   
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RE: Wacht am Palembang - 3/16/2011 2:24:50 PM   
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Adm Halsey:..I still haven't seen the intel estimate after yesterday's raid at Nadi.

Aide 1: Admiral, that is because there were no raids again yesterday sir.

Adm Halsey: Hmmm..weather?

Aide 1: No sir, good weather over the target, sir.

Adm Halsey: Goddamnit! I am getting pretty goddamned tired of this. I want all the squadron CO's in my office in 15 minutes!

Aide 1: Yes sir! <scurries out>

Aide 2: Sir, there is a Captain Meaney here to see you.

Adm Halsey: Who the Hell is he?

Aide 2: He says he is the new shop foreman and wants to talk about overtime rules. He says he's from the new Pilot's Union.

Adm Halsey: Shop foreman? Overtime rules? Pilot's union?<stands at his desk and begins to get red in the face...but not from a rash this time>

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RE: Wacht am Palembang - 3/16/2011 2:39:58 PM   
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There can't possibly be any Jap LRCAP over Nadi, can there?




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RE: Spanglish - 3/16/2011 2:48:54 PM   
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Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say. Is calling something "El Rufo Company" a marketing decision?


If "rufo" is a masculine, and the -o ending suggests so, this is actually legit. Means "company of the roof", "el" goes with rufo.

As for franglais, isn't litterary english, to some extent, a genre-impaired dialect of French?

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RE: Spanglish - 3/16/2011 3:16:49 PM   
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Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say. Is calling something "El Rufo Company" a marketing decision?


If "rufo" is a masculine, and the -o ending suggests so, this is actually legit. Means "company of the roof", "el" goes with rufo.



Aha! I would accept that "rufo" is masculine (even though it is made up) but, as you suggest, the real construction should "the company of the roof" or "la compania del rufo" so the first article should be feminine or perhaps simply the English "The"...or whatever the want...which seems to be the predominant grammatical rule in Spanglish.

By ra way...they just finished putting on a faux would shingle product that comes in sheets. It looks surprisingly good from ground level. Other than the fact that they screwed around a bit on day one waiting for the product, they did a really good job. They worked hard and several times were still working at night WITHOUT LIGHTS about 7:30 when I got home. I would not want to be the liability guarantor of El Rufo Company.

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Big Boy - 3/16/2011 3:31:24 PM   
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Woman in a white Escalade: Excuse me, have you seen a lost dog?

Me: No, I haven't, what does he look like, I'll keep my eyes open.

Woman in a white Escalade: Oh, he's a Papillon, like this one.

Me: <I now notice a small pair of mammalian eyes and a puff of fur peeking out over the door> OH. <I don't have the heart to tell her that I thought she was talking about an actual dog instead a hamster cross. Jerry the rabbit was 3x the size of this thing and he STILL got killed by the bobcat. The big owl that prowls the neighborhood skies at night could take this thing easily. Then there are the coyotes. I don't even think a mountain lion would bother with the thing. I keep up the charade>

What is his name?

Woman in a white Escalade: Oh, he's "Big Boy".

Big Boy? Holy crap! No wonder the thing is lost. He is probably tired of all the teasing from the neghborhood dogs. I imagine he has rolled in left over meat and is sitting on the golf course, shivering, waiting for the coyotes with his eyes closed.

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RE: Big Boy - 3/16/2011 3:44:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Seeing the same vulnerability that I have seen, JJ has just landed on Tagula Is. Where is that? I will show you. I have been considering putting troops ashore there but have been waiting on the carrier refits which are now done. I am going to put ashore 21st Marine, a Marine Def. Bn., 2 SeeBee Bn's, a Bn of AA and some aviation support ashore at Rossel before they get the field ready on Tagula. A portion of naval support unit will be put ashore by the SST Nautilus before the landing. I have a low value AVP heading for Ndeni to scout Lunga with PBY's. I think I can get in from the SW with a good level of surprise and get the bulk ashore in 2-3 days then outbuild the Japs.




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RE: Big Boy - 3/16/2011 4:29:46 PM   
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