Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> After Action Reports >> RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks Page: <<   < prev  48 49 [50] 51 52   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 6:48:37 PM   
Canoerebel


Posts: 21100
Joined: 12/14/2002
From: Northwestern Georgia, USA
Status: offline 		I took the SAT once - December 1978. I still remember one vocabulary word on the test: "wax." Antipodeon wasn't on the test nor has there every been a reason for a Georgian to use the word. However, we are big on these words: supple, winsome, scintillating, agrandizement, and paradigm.

(in reply to Lokasenna)
Post #: 1471
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 6:58:35 PM   
Encircled


Posts: 2024
Joined: 12/30/2010
From: Northern England
Status: offline 		"Supple" is a word that I associate with Mills and Boon novels

Despite that, its a word that should be used more often

Swinging back on topic for a moment, he's miles behind his schedule and surely he should be realising by now the Palembang problem

_____________________________


(in reply to Canoerebel)
Post #: 1472
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 7:03:52 PM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna


quote:

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

AAR Aside

I know this isn't the most popular AAR on the forum, but I had thought somebody here had good SAT scores and knew the meaning of "antipodean" vis a vis the Fox.

Nothing? Bueller? Bueller?


Australia (and the surrounding area), because it's on the other side of the world from Britain. IIRC the word's origins (at least in usage) are associated with the British Empire.

Just learned this the other day, actually.


Excellent! Full points!

I don't have time right now to put this in the form of an Aristotelian syllogism (the cat just yukked behind my chair for the third time today and I must be off to google "market for used cats"), but if the Fox is antipodean, and the word means essentially "from Australia", then who was in town this weekend last? Hmm? Hmm?

< Message edited by Bullwinkle58 -- 6/19/2013 7:05:55 PM >

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to Lokasenna)
Post #: 1473
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 7:04:29 PM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I took the SAT once - December 1978. I still remember one vocabulary word on the test: "wax."


That was the special "southern" version.

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to Canoerebel)
Post #: 1474
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 7:05:11 PM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Encircled

"Supple" is a word that I associate with Mills and Boon novels

Despite that, its a word that should be used more often

Swinging back on topic for a moment, he's miles behind his schedule and surely he should be realising by now the Palembang problem


"on topic"? What is this strange creature of which you speak?

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to Encircled)
Post #: 1475
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 7:27:24 PM   
JocMeister

 

Posts: 8262
Joined: 7/29/2009
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		I actually knew supple, scintillating and paradigm. Never heard the other two though...

(in reply to Bullwinkle58)
Post #: 1476
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 7:29:24 PM   
Canoerebel


Posts: 21100
Joined: 12/14/2002
From: Northwestern Georgia, USA
Status: offline 		How about this: myrmadon

(in reply to JocMeister)
Post #: 1477
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 7:37:09 PM   
JocMeister

 

Posts: 8262
Joined: 7/29/2009
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		That makes me think about ancient Greece for some reason?

EDIT: Googled it but remembered where I heard it at the same second I saw the answer. Anyone seen the horrible movie Troy? Brad Pitt plays Achilles. He jumps off a boat and says something about Myrmadons.

Awful, awful movie.

< Message edited by JocMeister -- 6/19/2013 7:40:49 PM >

(in reply to Canoerebel)
Post #: 1478
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 7:53:17 PM   
Encircled


Posts: 2024
Joined: 12/30/2010
From: Northern England
Status: offline 		My wife loves that movie!

Something to do with half-naked muscle men in kilts, which to be fair is not a common sight in our household

_____________________________


(in reply to JocMeister)
Post #: 1479
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 8:16:50 PM   
JocMeister

 

Posts: 8262
Joined: 7/29/2009
From: Sweden
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Encircled
Something to do with half-naked muscle men in kilts, which to be fair is not a common sight in our household


Really?

< Message edited by JocMeister -- 6/19/2013 8:17:22 PM >

(in reply to Encircled)
Post #: 1480
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 8:32:17 PM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

That makes me think about ancient Greece for some reason?

EDIT: Googled it but remembered where I heard it at the same second I saw the answer. Anyone seen the horrible movie Troy? Brad Pitt plays Achilles. He jumps off a boat and says something about Myrmadons.

Awful, awful movie.


It's the xanthous Myrmidons ya gotta watch out for.

The Fox is not really very xanthous.

< Message edited by Bullwinkle58 -- 6/19/2013 8:33:02 PM >

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to JocMeister)
Post #: 1481
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/19/2013 11:12:45 PM   
JohnDillworth


Posts: 3100
Joined: 3/19/2009
Status: offline
quote:

That makes me think about ancient Greece for some reason?

EDIT: Googled it but remembered where I heard it at the same second I saw the answer. Anyone seen the horrible movie Troy? Brad Pitt plays Achilles. He jumps off a boat and says something about Myrmadons.

Awful, awful movie.

Oddly, I liked the movie for the same reason I liked the book. It's unabashedly a "boys book". It is a fun , sword fighting adventure. Maybe I had a good teacher but with a good translation and the frame of mind that The Iliad and is a fun adventure story it goes down a lot easier. Conversely, The Odyssey, is more of a cerebral morality journey. more a "girls book". However, we surly can agree that the movie of the Odyssey is outstanding. I speak of the great "Jason and the Argonauts"

< Message edited by JohnDillworth -- 6/19/2013 11:13:32 PM >

_____________________________

Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat Speech to UN General Assembly

(in reply to JocMeister)
Post #: 1482
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 12:33:20 AM   
desicat

 

Posts: 542
Joined: 5/25/2008
Status: offline
quote:

The Fox is not really very xanthous.


Vulpus non est Luteus?

(in reply to JohnDillworth)
Post #: 1483
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 12:42:35 AM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: desicat

quote:

The Fox is not really very xanthous.


Vulpus non est Luteus?


Nope, not that. Or amarillo either.

But he is quite a fan of cricket.

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to desicat)
Post #: 1484
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 12:45:56 AM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

However, we surly can agree that the movie of the Odyssey is outstanding. I speak of the great "Jason and the Argonauts"


Jason is a whole other story isn't it? The "O" is about Ulysses'/Odysseus' voyage home to rescue his wife Penelope from the suitors. Jason is looking for the Golden Fleece.

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to JohnDillworth)
Post #: 1485
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 12:50:01 AM   
desicat

 

Posts: 542
Joined: 5/25/2008
Status: offline 		Golden Fleece?

(in reply to Bullwinkle58)
Post #: 1486
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 1:03:51 AM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: desicat

Golden Fleece?




Those legs remind me of a lot I saw . . . IN AUSTRALIA!!!!

OT and a sad day--just saw on cable news that James Gandolfini has died. Tony Soprano. A "wow" moment for me. Possibly the greatest TV series in the history of the medium.

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to desicat)
Post #: 1487
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 1:37:16 AM   
Lokasenna


Posts: 9297
Joined: 3/3/2012
From: Iowan in MD/DC
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58


quote:

ORIGINAL: desicat

Golden Fleece?




Those legs remind me of a lot I saw . . . IN AUSTRALIA!!!!

OT and a sad day--just saw on cable news that James Gandolfini has died. Tony Soprano. A "wow" moment for me. Possibly the greatest TV series in the history of the medium.


The writers guild thinks it is THE best TV show. Just saw a list the other day for 101 best written shows as determined by the WGA. Sopranos topped the list, followed by Seinfeld and MASH, I think.

(in reply to Bullwinkle58)
Post #: 1488
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 3:37:23 AM   
CaptBeefheart


Posts: 2301
Joined: 7/4/2003
From: Seoul, Korea
Status: offline 		So, you met an Aussie AE player known as the Fox? I am at a loss. Jrcar?

I've actually got several Antipodean clients, and that includes Kiwiland as well, so I've known the term for some time as it's the easiest way to talk about both countries.

Cheers,
CC

_____________________________

Beer, because barley makes lousy bread.

(in reply to Lokasenna)
Post #: 1489
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 11:29:50 AM   
Eambar


Posts: 240
Joined: 4/2/2010
Status: offline 		It is brave for an Australian to discuss cricket in public right now, although he must of thought he was safe in Minneapolis. We are on the cusp of the biggest series we have on the cricket calendar and the Australian team is in the doldrums. Expectations are that we will lose badly...

Also, a very antipodean flavour in the combat report posted, with Australia and Canberra in the thick of the action. Was that a hint?

Cheers

(in reply to CaptBeefheart)
Post #: 1490
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 5:37:07 PM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

So, you met an Aussie AE player known as the Fox? I am at a loss. Jrcar?



You are correct on the first part. It is not jrcar, however.

A hint: He is The Fox while traveling overseas on assignment. In the forum he has a different nom de plume. In this AAR he has yet another nom de guerre.

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to CaptBeefheart)
Post #: 1491
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 5:38:10 PM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Doggie3

Also, a very antipodean flavour in the combat report posted, with Australia and Canberra in the thick of the action. Was that a hint?

Cheers


I had not noticed that, but it is true. CL Perth is lurking about as well. Good catch!

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to Eambar)
Post #: 1492
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 5:38:23 PM   
Canoerebel


Posts: 21100
Joined: 12/14/2002
From: Northwestern Georgia, USA
Status: offline 		97/22/+5/26

(in reply to Bullwinkle58)
Post #: 1493
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 5:41:45 PM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

The writers guild thinks it is THE best TV show. Just saw a list the other day for 101 best written shows as determined by the WGA. Sopranos topped the list, followed by Seinfeld and MASH, I think.


I remember when HBO was doing early promos for the show in the late 90s. Just the family name with a bird sitting on one of the letters I think. I thought it was going to be a sitcom. Premium cable didn't do series then; it was all movies and had been for decades. After the first ep of "The Sopranos" I remember sitting there with my mouth hanging open. And that feeling never let up for 85 more eps, right up to the final black out in the diner. A monumental artistic achievement on every level--writing, acting, editing, music, casting.

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to Lokasenna)
Post #: 1494
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 5:42:42 PM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

97/22/+5/26


All right, now cut that out!!!!

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to Canoerebel)
Post #: 1495
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 5:45:32 PM   
Canoerebel


Posts: 21100
Joined: 12/14/2002
From: Northwestern Georgia, USA
Status: offline 		It corresponds directly to your Foxy stuff.

(in reply to Bullwinkle58)
Post #: 1496
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 5:48:16 PM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

It corresponds directly to your Foxy stuff.


True. I am 97% sure The Fox is older than 22, taller than 5 foot nothing, and at this moment has more than 26 Euros in his wallet.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzptt!!!!!

(How does one spell a Bronx Cheer?)

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to Canoerebel)
Post #: 1497
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 6:15:34 PM   
BBfanboy


Posts: 18046
Joined: 8/4/2010
From: Winnipeg, MB
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

97/22/+5/26

I believe CR has gone into the bookmaking business, and he is laying out odds on future developments.

A 97% chance you will have had beer with The Fox, 22% that it was whiskey, . A 5% spread is a wash. Beyond that you pay CR 26 x the bet. It's very lucrative, and tax-free!

< Message edited by BBfanboy -- 6/20/2013 6:16:11 PM >

_____________________________

No matter how bad a situation is, you can always make it worse. - Chris Hadfield : An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth

(in reply to Canoerebel)
Post #: 1498
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 6:37:31 PM   
Bullwinkle58


Posts: 11302
Joined: 2/24/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

97/22/+5/26

I believe CR has gone into the bookmaking business, and he is laying out odds on future developments.

A 97% chance you will have had beer with The Fox, 22% that it was whiskey, . A 5% spread is a wash. Beyond that you pay CR 26 x the bet. It's very lucrative, and tax-free!


100% chance I drank beer. The Fox drank all sorts of colorful concoctions. I remember one both yellow and blue, with specific gravities involved in the making. He has interesting "rules" in bars re the bartenders. They seemed to love him for them. And within a day he had a whole roster of mixologist friends all over town.

_____________________________

The Moose

(in reply to BBfanboy)
Post #: 1499
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwin... - 6/20/2013 6:41:26 PM   
Canoerebel


Posts: 21100
Joined: 12/14/2002
From: Northwestern Georgia, USA
Status: offline 		This was Alfred, wasn't it?

(in reply to Bullwinkle58)
Post #: 1500
Page:   <<   < prev  48 49 [50] 51 52   next >   >>
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> After Action Reports >> RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks Page: <<   < prev  48 49 [50] 51 52   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

0.891