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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 5:22:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Are there any choreographers or palette consultants in the readership?

Here is the problem. Frau Braun already approved the exterior paint colors which were selected from a palette recommended by Dunn Edwards after consultation, no doubt, with choreographers and palette consultant types.

So far, so good, but here is the problem. After 19 years with no rain gutters, the architect, my brother, told me I was an idiot and advised rain gutters. So we get in the "gutter guy" and he says "you don't want any crappy latex paint on my powder painted, heat cured gutters". His color palette is close to the Dunn Edwards but even I can see the difference. Some of the walls are over 30 feet high so you can't easily repaint the gutters once they are up unless you paint them in place at the same time as the walls.


Now what?


Here is what I predict. I put up the gutters and never rains in Southern California again for 50 years.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 5:25:24 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 5:47:49 PM   
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Are there any choreographers or palette consultants in the readership?


Oh no. Not falling for that one. If you ask if there are any hairdressers or Liza Minelli fans in the readership, do you think anyone will admit as such?

Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.

ETA: What about gilded gutters? Surely that can't be too out of place in your neighborhood?

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 5:49:57 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 5:51:04 PM   
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Gold leaf?

Gah! Stop that!

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 5:52:28 PM   
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Are there any choreographers or palette consultants in the readership?

Here is the problem. Frau Braun already approved the exterior paint colors which were selected from a palette recommended by Dunn Edwards after consultation, no doubt, with choreographers and palette consultant types.

So far, so good, but here is the problem. After 19 years with no rain gutters, the architect, my brother, told me I was an idiot and advised rain gutters. So we get in the "gutter guy" and he says "you don't want any crappy latex paint on my powder painted, heat cured gutters". His color palette is close to the Dunn Edwards but even I can see the difference. Some of the walls are over 30 feet high so you can't easily repaint the gutters once they are up unless you paint them in place at the same time as the walls.


Now what?


Here is what I predict. I put up the gutters and never rains in Southern California again for 50 years.
Before selecting gutters you should consider what sort of cleaning they might require. Leaves and pine needles can accumulate and form obstructions in your gutters.


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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 7:09:51 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 8:01:12 PM   
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self-cleaning option.


We call it "rain"

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 8:38:02 PM   
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self-cleaning option.


We call it "rain"


Doesn't work very well here if you go 10 months with no rain. On a flat part of my roof the drain got clogged with about 10 billion oak leaves....THEN it rained like Hell...the water built up above the flashing and water flooded 2 stories through the "drywall".

If there is any kind of preventive maint. I will almost certainly not do it. That is essentially why I have to tear down half my deck.


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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 8:48:30 PM   
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OK...i'm going with pre-aged copper with gold plated joints and the self-cleaning option.
This may be just the outfit you need to contact, M & M Sheet Metal & Rain Gutters


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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 10:36:48 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 10:43:53 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 1:38:02 PM   

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The wall needs to be in a dry place for you to use it?


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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 11:25:30 PM   
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Anyone who wants to borrow my soundtrack to Yentil is welcome, but I will need it back.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 11:57:29 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 2:28:14 PM   
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Either she has amnesia or thinks I didn't notice. Wierd what the human brain is capable of.

Admiral Lord Sprior, have you any more pictures of Londontown? It appears Admirar Rord Nerson is on day 3 of the Navajo sweat lodge ceremony again.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 2:36:06 PM   
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Either she has amnesia or thinks I didn't notice. Wierd what the human brain is capable of.



The editorial board wishes to remnind readers that one does not properly end a sentence with a prepostiion.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 3:00:58 PM   
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Chairman: <gazes at statue of Baby Jesus holding an orb displaying all the holdings of the company> Mr. Cheatham, you haven't explained why my company should simply hand over 30% of future proftis from our operations in Sarawak. Johny Jap is on the run there.

I. Dunn Cheatham, Esq: Because my client is prepared to insure no further destruction of refineries. And it's 30% of gross revenues, sir.

Chairman: Seems to me that is something the bloody Japs have to ensure.

I. Dunn Cheatham, Esq: Precisely sir! That's what the other 5% is for.

Chairman: That seems more like blackmail than a business proposition.

I. Dunn Cheatham, Esq: "Blackmail" is such a harsh word. We like to think of it as aligment of incentives....

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 3:48:25 PM   
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The unnamed neighbor who baptized my couch is completely unashamed.

Either she has amnesia or thinks I didn't notice. Wierd what the human brain is capable of.

Admiral Lord Sprior, have you any more pictures of Londontown? It appears Admirar Rord Nerson is on day 3 of the Navajo sweat lodge ceremony again.

Perhaps in her amnesia she assumed that she, ah, did penance that same night.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 4:18:55 PM   
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Because my client is prepared to insure no further destruction of refineries.



The author may be attempting to suggest that Mr. Cheatham is the product of a consanguineous marriage among mountain folk in Eastern Kentucky or the author himself may be the product of a consanguineous marriage among mountain folk in Eastern Kentucky. In either case, the Editorial Board wishes to clarify that "ensure" is word required in this context.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 4:20:43 PM   
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The unnamed neighbor who baptized my couch is completely unashamed.

Either she has amnesia or thinks I didn't notice. Wierd what the human brain is capable of.

Admiral Lord Sprior, have you any more pictures of Londontown? It appears Admirar Rord Nerson is on day 3 of the Navajo sweat lodge ceremony again.

Perhaps in her amnesia she assumed that she, ah, did penance that same night.


If I didn't know better I would say you are trying to get me in trouble.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 4:55:24 PM   
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Audiovisual Mate 1st Class Abe: <finishing with preparations on projector..snaps to attention> IMPERIAR JAPAN NAVY MORALE AND RECRUITMENT FIM FROM M&M ENTERPRISES READY TO PRAY, SIR!

Admiral Yamamoto: Prease to pray.


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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 5:34:52 PM   
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Admiral Yamamoto: <stands abruptly, face crimson> Stop, stop ,stop, STOP! This Imperiar Japan Navy, not *#&@*@!(! boy band!

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 5:37:37 PM   
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a prepostiion.


Yeah. I wouldn't end sentences with one of those either. Because no one knows what they are.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 10:48:38 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/5/2014 11:13:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		The importance of Iran to the CBI and, after the Suez was open, to North Africa and points west.

It looks like essentially all the Iranian oil refining was at Abadan.

By 1945 they were refining a million tons of 100 octane aviation fuel per year.




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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/6/2014 6:46:03 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Seems like a couple of IJN DD's (with oiler support) could have sailed up and shredded the place (Abadan)

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/6/2014 7:22:33 PM   
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Not sure you could turn around without a tug. Maybe you could back out.

Even more, what if the Indian Ocean raid went further?




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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/6/2014 8:10:36 PM   
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Look at this.


[drools...]

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/6/2014 8:23:59 PM   
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Burma: Tough sledding near Tuongo. JJ stirr have prenty Emperor brand Kool-aide. We did nearly reach 2:1 but it took an Army-equivalent, 4 divisions and 2 armoured brigades.


Ground combat at 56,51 (near Toungoo)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 39468 troops, 756 guns, 1116 vehicles, Assault Value = 1619

Defending force 16815 troops, 180 guns, 68 vehicles, Assault Value = 590

Allied adjusted assault: 1682

Japanese adjusted defense: 941

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
958 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 169 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled
Guns lost 23 (1 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (2 destroyed, 10 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2721 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 269 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 61 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 58 disabled
Vehicles lost 52 (3 destroyed, 49 disabled)

Assaulting units:
18th British Division
50th Tank Brigade
254th Armoured Brigade
23rd Indian Division
19th Indian Division
26th Indian Division
8th Medium Regiment
15th Indian Engineer Battalion
85th British AT Gun Regiment
12th Indian Engineer Battalion
6th Medium Regiment
24th Indian Engineer Battalion

Defending units:
2nd Guards Division
114th Infantry Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Field Artillery Regiment


Loks like 18th Div took all the casualties:






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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/6/2014 8:31:09 PM   
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Loks like 18th Div took all the casualties:







Merely a flesh wound! We still have 4 Humbers left.

I wonder if the aggression of the CO has something to do with which unit takes most of the casualties?

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