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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/26/2012 6:23:09 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/26/2012 6:25:48 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/26/2012 6:31:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		They are still there too. It looks like something the Soviets would have built. By ra way. I think the game OOB is off a bit. This was completed in April, '42(a). The blimps showed up early in '43 or very late "42? Perhaps it took that long to build the blimps in a union shop? Maybe Yossarian caused some type of screw up in time again?



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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/26/2012 6:36:06 PM   
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Hey..I've been there! La Jolla. I had no idea they had such a problem. Usually the nurses are busy reading romance novels or trying to get the male doctors to cheat on their wives...that is, except for the nurse supervisors which are inevitably from Lesbos.

It might actually be a good thing if they talk to the patients.


Maybe the other ones are reading Sapphic poetry.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/26/2012 6:52:08 PM   
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They are still there too. It looks like something the Soviets would have built. By ra way. I think the game OOB is off a bit. This was completed in April, '42(a). The blimps showed up early in '43 or very late "42? Perhaps it took that long to build the blimps in a union shop? Maybe Yossarian caused some type of screw up in time again?





They needed enough hot air to fill 'em and Chickenboy wasnt around yet.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/26/2012 7:37:39 PM   
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Hey..I've been there! La Jolla. I had no idea they had such a problem. Usually the nurses are busy reading romance novels or trying to get the male doctors to cheat on their wives...that is, except for the nurse supervisors which are inevitably from Lesbos.

It might actually be a good thing if they talk to the patients.


Maybe the other ones are reading Sapphic poetry.




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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/26/2012 7:40:12 PM   
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They are still there too. It looks like something the Soviets would have built. By ra way. I think the game OOB is off a bit. This was completed in April, '42(a). The blimps showed up early in '43 or very late "42? Perhaps it took that long to build the blimps in a union shop? Maybe Yossarian caused some type of screw up in time again?

They needed enough hot air to fill 'em and Chickenboy wasnt around yet.


See, this is the advantage of brainstorming. The introduction of new perspectives. I feel like we are the Apollo 13 engineering team trying to make a CO2 scrubber out of odor-eaters, duct tape and latrine baggies.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/26/2012 11:58:20 PM   
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You know, it is really tiring listening to Europeans brag about their free medical care.


I never said a word. Would you like me to?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 12:11:26 AM   
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You know, it is really tiring listening to Europeans brag about their free medical care.


I never said a word. Would you like me to?


Are you, Brits I mean, coming out as European then? I had thought there was some dispute.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 12:14:16 AM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 12:18:34 AM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 12:21:45 AM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 12:38:06 AM   
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It depends


On whether the English Channel has water in it.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 4:31:56 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 4:40:59 PM   
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I want one of these:






Are you referring to the can of "Envirokind Plant Garden" in the background? What kind of beer is that - for ladies only??

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 4:47:20 PM   
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I want one of these:





Who wouldnt!

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=82193&catid=807



If u mean that pile of assorted plastics in the middle, here u go

http://shop.lego.com/en-DK/

http://store.apple.com/dk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone

Hope it helps, if its fund that is lacking i'd consider putting a tax on americans posting here, making it free

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 4:59:11 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 5:01:00 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 5:33:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		I used to be mightily annoyed when patients on government support came in with an I-Phone or Android, but I have learned to "chill". It may be like the delicious breakfast drink Tang and the Apollo program. Sometimes there are tangible outgrowths from government programs, even if they are not anticipated.

For example, patients used to bring in an old diaper to show me something odd they found in the infants stool.

Now they pull out their I-phone and snap a "stoolograph". This is an immense improvment.



Did I tell this story before? Oh, what the Hell.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 6:31:38 PM   
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Boxers


Brits wear "knickers".

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 6:36:02 PM   
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I used to be mightily annoyed when patients on government support came in with an I-Phone or Android, but I have learned to "chill". It may be like the delicious breakfast drink Tang and the Apollo program. Sometimes there are tangible outgrowths from government programs, even if they are not anticipated.

For example, patients used to bring in an old diaper to show me something odd they found in the infants stool.

Now they pull out their I-phone and snap a "stoolograph". This is an immense improvment.



Did I tell this story before? Oh, what the Hell.


With Instagram effects. Awesome!

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 10:16:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		I hope you guys are enjoying the opening ceremony. Welcome to London! We're going to France.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 10:20:47 PM   
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I hope you guys are enjoying the opening ceremony. Welcome to London! We're going to France.


Cool, have fun in Europe. Loved the fake clouds

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 10:24:23 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 10:31:38 PM   
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Coolest location for a hospital in San Diego. Naval Hospital near Balboa Park.

I agree. I recall giving blood there while in boot camp.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 10:47:39 PM   
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Hilarious gag...."Smart Phone"


You know you've done somethi9ng right when yiou hear your 12 yo son say to his friend, "Open the pod bay door please HAL".

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 10:58:53 PM   
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Hilarious gag...."Smart Phone"


You know you've done somethi9ng right when yiou hear your 12 yo son say to his friend, "Open the pod bay door please HAL".


My two year old likes to sing the Danger Mouse theme

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 10:59:44 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/27/2012 11:00:31 PM   
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RE: Hearts and Minds - 7/28/2012 6:59:14 AM   
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Coolest location for a hospital in San Diego. Naval Hospital near Balboa Park. They used to have a big stucco building painted flamingo pink with terracotta roof tiles. Nothing else like it. I guess they tore it down for earthquake safety.

Here are some of the older buidlings.

Also, close to home, the USMC Air Station, El Toro is open in the game as I am getting FM-1 squadrons training there. I think the blimp hangars in Tustin are open too.





Damn, Mandrake, that's where I did my internship back in 1979-80! We called that Big Old Pink Hospital the "Pink Elephant;" the original hospital had been built in WWI, and not upgraded much for 60+ years (for example, the fire supression plan was lots of buckets full of sand spaced every 20 feet). The view was great, but it was located on the final approach into Lindberg Field, so you had Boeing 727s and 737s roaring in at 250 knots and 50 feet above the hospital every 4 minutes diving towards that short runway serving San Diego---not a quiet place to recover from your heart attack or toxic shock in the medical ICU/CCU, let alone sleep if you were on call.

The building you're showing is the old Command Office where the Admiral hung out. I think I saw someone who looked a lot like Fiona drinking Champagne with him once on his balcony at sunset...

My favorite memory is when my Medicine Resident Mike Crowley brought his Beagle, Duke, into the ICU to visit one Sunday morning on call. Just then the Admiral walks in with a congresswoman who was on a "fact-finding tour" investigating Naval Expenditures in San Diego and La Jolla. They freaked out about a dog running around the ICU until I told them that Duke was part of an important experiment testing the interaction of Dobutamine and Nitroprusside in the ICU setting. The Admiral, being a psychiatrist, and the congresswoman, being an idiot, bought it hook, line, and sinker...so we (and Duke) escaped unscathed by punishment.

They finally did tear down the old pink hospital in the 80's and put in the new one, but the grey bulk of ole' Building 26 is still there in mothballs, waiting for the next group of mass casualities.

4 months after our little escapade with Duke, we were sitting on Okinawa during the Iranian Hostage Crisis as new batallion medical officers with the 3rd MARDIV, learning how to work M-16s instead of Swan-Ganz catheters or endoscopes.

Ah, memories...

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