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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 1:13:27 AM

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Pa? Pa? Pa no love faw?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 5:03:10 AM

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Actually $50 damage for my dogs is pretty trivial.

I know a guy who lives up in an exclusive area in Orange County. His lab got out and the neighbor called him to tell him the dog had "killed some of the fish" in his pond.

This was well within character for the dog so he says, "OK, send me the bill"

Next day there is a bill in his mailbox for $4800. It seems the neighbor had elite koi who were able to do dolphin tricks and solve differential equations.

I know a family with 3 young children who had a bull mastiff - powerful dog with a huge head, hard as rock and just as smart.
Kids and dog were out in the yard, kids went in and left the dog outside. Dog heard kids playing inside and went through the glass of the outer door cutting itself badly, but not seeming to notice. Said badly bleeding dog is rushed to the vet clinic where, in the reception area it proceeds to shake its head and shoulders as a wet dog would, spraying blood all over walls, chairs and waiting patrons. Not sure if the $800 vet bill

included cleanup fees, but it was a big hit for a young teacher and his family!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 5:04:41 AM

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CB,

Now that is quote! Let's see if Bea makes it to the party.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 5:45:38 AM

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Matrix came through with another download authorization for AE. After all, I just bought may second copy on 5-28. Now I just need to get the memsaab to let me use her laptop.

$50 for Hewlett-Packard to send a guy out to replace the motherboard...or I could wait for them to send me a box...send the whole thing back to them and then wait for them to send it back to me. Screw that. I'm jsut happy it's covered under the warranty.

Now...as for the 9 year old lab that broke the damn thing......

I'm thinking that poor old Pinhead suffered a serious head injury when that HP computer (deliberately designed to be unstable when sitting upright on a desktop) fell and injured his previously genius-level intracranial organs.

You deserve compensation from the evil 1% corporate exploiters of men and canines; imagine, adopting a shoddy design simply to increase corporate profits by a few cents per unit! Totally despicable.

I suggest that you retain the services of I. Dunn Cheatham, Esq., of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe (DW&C) to protect both the interests of yourself and your poor injured dog in the matter of HP's negligent and callous attitude towards injuring its customers.

If nothing else, think of the other dogs you will save from head injury by forcing HP to give you millions of dollars and agreeing to install an absolutely fail-safe anti-gravity accelerator in all of their future desktop products to prevent this sad episode from ever taking place again.

Mandrake, remember: You're not doing this for the money; you're doing it for the puppies yet unborn! What a saintly act!

Cap, Justice Must Be served!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 5:51:41 AM

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Caption contest, anyone?

Some imperiarist send us brack rab......runch time!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 12:57:37 PM

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 3:26:57 PM

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Matrix came through with another download authorization for AE. After all, I just bought may second copy on 5-28. Now I just need to get the memsaab to let me use her laptop.

$50 for Hewlett-Packard to send a guy out to replace the motherboard...or I could wait for them to send me a box...send the whole thing back to them and then wait for them to send it back to me. Screw that. I'm jsut happy it's covered under the warranty.

Now...as for the 9 year old lab that broke the damn thing......

I'm thinking that poor old Pinhead suffered a serious head injury when that HP computer (deliberately designed to be unstable when sitting upright on a desktop) fell and injured his previously genius-level intracranial organs.

You deserve compensation from the evil 1% corporate exploiters of men and canines; imagine, adopting a shoddy design simply to increase corporate profits by a few cents per unit! Totally despicable.

I suggest that you retain the services of I. Dunn Cheatham, Esq., of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe (DW&C) to protect both the interests of yourself and your poor injured dog in the matter of HP's negligent and callous attitude towards injuring its customers.

If nothing else, think of the other dogs you will save from head injury by forcing HP to give you millions of dollars and agreeing to install an absolutely fail-safe anti-gravity accelerator in all of their future desktop products to prevent this sad episode from ever taking place again.

Mandrake, remember: You're not doing this for the money; you're doing it for the puppies yet unborn! What a saintly act!

Cap, Justice Must Be served!

Oooo, oooo, that's good!

I wonder if, when younger (i.e. "under age") did Pinhead work in a factory (guarding it in the scary night and suffering irreparable psychological harm) to make said infernal machines?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 3:43:56 PM

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I think the Matrix sign in bot has been hijacked AQAP.

Sign in today is 7N2HO8. That may look like hullabaloo but it is really the first half of the formula for assembly of an IED.

7 moles of Bis-nitro-hydrogen octaoxide. I am not going to disclose the second half lest the men with the E-plates pay me a visit.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 3:48:21 PM

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Some imperiarist send us brack rab......runch time!

Took me a bit to deconstruct that.

Just to clarify, Pinhead is the Chihuahua, terrier, pit bull, llaso apso mix.

Cali is the 9 year brack rab.

As for Pinhead having been employed in a factory...maybe...but she would have been promptlyfired for ****ting in the foreman's office.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 4:00:33 PM

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B-24's going after Koepang today.

Marine Para Bn dropping on Namlea as there appears to be no garrison. We shall see.

Lautem landing group has arrived in the Banda Sea. As Lautem also appears to be ungarrisoned, it may be better to drop the rest of 503rd PIR on Lautem tomorrow.

Admiral Lord SPrior;

I have a USMC Regt and a US ArmyRegt aboard an amphibious group approaching Darwin. They are not prepped but we could send them to Derby? We could be landing in 3 d.

Did you have someone else you wanted to use?

What about the Aussie para units? Do you need them or coudl they be used in the Sundas?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 6:36:35 PM

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Admiral Lord SPrior;

I have a USMC Regt and a US ArmyRegt aboard an amphibious group approaching Darwin. They are not prepped but we could send them to Derby? We could be landing in 3 d.

Did you have someone else you wanted to use?

What about the Aussie para units? Do you need them or coudl they be used in the Sundas?

You can probably sail there quicker than I can drive tanks down the track.

I'm not sure the Aussie para units are actually parachute capable.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 9:34:51 PM

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Admiral Lord SPrior;

I have a USMC Regt and a US ArmyRegt aboard an amphibious group approaching Darwin. They are not prepped but we could send them to Derby? We could be landing in 3 d.

Did you have someone else you wanted to use?

What about the Aussie para units? Do you need them or coudl they be used in the Sundas?

You can probably sail there quicker than I can drive tanks down the track.

Ah, yes...well send the tanks anyway. If I put a regiment ashore and they dont have the firepower then we will need the help.

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I'm not sure the Aussie para units are actually parachute capable.

That's rather an oversight, don't you think?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 9:39:31 PM

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*********************Jan. 20, 1943(c)***************

Namlea: 310 men of 3rd Marine Para Bn are feet dry on Namlea. Oddly, the CO is lower rated than the local shaman.

Ground combat at Namlea (76,108)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 310 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 24

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 21

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 21 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Namlea !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

Assaulting units:
3rd USMC Parachute Bn /1

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/12/2012 9:44:52 PM

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Koepang: The P-38 flying circus squadron from Katherine goes up against three times their number of zeroes over Kopeang, losing 3 to 4 claimed, but also reducing the number of Zeroes aloft for the following B-24's

Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 36

Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 42

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 17 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 5 destroyed on ground
D3A2 Val: 5 destroyed on ground
L3Y2 Tina: 2 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

We could hardly expect to do much better than that.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 2:49:13 PM

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*******************Rectory* of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Catholic Church, Gilroy, Calif. Jan 21, 1943)c)************

Father Kerkorian: <sits at a large desk reading a 2 foot high stack of correspondence. His attention is drawn to one letter delivered by "AIR MAIL". He opens it and begins reading. After short while he sits upright and proclaims> SEANCE?

* If anyone makes a "rectory" joke I am going to send you to the cornfield. Don't make me stop ths car. I mean it.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 2:54:16 PM

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*******************Rectory* of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Catholic Church, Gilroy, Calif. Jan 21, 1943)c)************

Father Kerkorian: <sits at a large desk reading a 2 foot high stack of correspondence. His attention is drawn to one letter delivered by "AIR MAIL". He opens it and begins reading. After short while he sits upright and proclaims> SEANCE?

* If anyone makes a "rectory" joke I am going to send you to the cornfield. Don't make me stop ths car. I mean it.

When Father Kerkorian read that letter, it must have wrecked 'im.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 2:59:23 PM

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*************Hanger in use by Kanga Force, Alice Springs, Jan 20, 1943(c)************

Jumpmaster: Right then! Let's start with A company. Chutes on the tables, for safety inspection and repacking. Come on lads. Let's get this done before Johnny Jap runs out of Kool-Aide, shall we.

Nearby soldier: Sargeant, you are going to want to see this. <he motions to his chute pack. The Sargeant comes to his station and begins to read a note from the pack. The note reads>

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WAR EFFORT. FOR IMFORMATION ABOUT REPLACEMENT EQUIPMENT, PLEASE CONTACT M&M ENTERPRISES, RARE FABRIC RESELLERS. BALI HAI CLUB, FREEMNATLE ST., PERTH

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 3:01:47 PM

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As it's online does that make it an eRectory?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 3:03:26 PM

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You'd think Kanga force would be able to make jumps. The Roo force meanwhile are regretting what they did.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 3:12:35 PM

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When Father Kerkorian read that letter, it must have wrecked 'im.

I warned you. I really did.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 3:19:04 PM

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You'd think Kanga force would be able to make jumps. The Roo force meanwhile are regretting what they did.

You might say Roo Force began to rue what they did. Of course, it was over soon enough.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 3:27:42 PM

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You might say Roo Force began to rue what they did

I did.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 3:42:10 PM

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As it's online does that make it an eRectory?

Haha! That make Freet Admirar Mandrake raugh.

I not cahnge you to Jack in box with ugry head.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 4:13:37 PM

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Your munificence knows no bounds

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 4:15:39 PM

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When Father Kerkorian read that letter, it must have wrecked 'im.

I warned you. I really did.

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/elkhair/Untitled-4.jpg[/IMG]

Oh no! Not a broken link! The horror! The horror!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 4:24:03 PM

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Oh no! Not a broken link! The horror! The horror!

Sure..mock me now...but when I figure out how to turn off the po-up blocker you won't think it so funny.

You may even rue the day.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 4:26:09 PM

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when I figure out how to turn off the po-up blocker you won't think it so funny

Please don't - I don't want po to go up!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 4:29:04 PM

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When Father Kerkorian read that letter, it must have wrecked 'im.

I warned you. I really did.

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/elkhair/Untitled-4.jpg[/IMG]

Oh no! Not a broken link! The horror! The horror!

Just cut & paste it to a new tab.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/13/2012 5:15:12 PM

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when I figure out how to turn off the po-up blocker you won't think it so funny

Please don't - I don't want po to go up!

Looks like this one got past the po-up blocker...