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LuckyJim1005 -> Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 8:46:24 PM)

flicking out of the game to google things in the game.

I am a real Noob and just started playing Rising Sun as the Allies. I swear everytime I check something I find myself flipping out to google a piece of info I just looked at.

For example in my desperate search for LB aircrsft I came across the CW-21 Demon. Now I like to think of myself as a bit of a spotter but had no idea what this was. Quick google later and 20 minutes is gone as I read about the CW-21.

Then there was HMS Thanet up north about to try and run for Singapore. I started off by wanting to check how accurate the database is but 30 minutes later I am reading about the fall of Singapore, Catalina's being shot down, disputes over if any of her crew actually survived the war and I am actually considering making a trip to the archives at Kew to look at some of the original signals. http://www.nesa.org.uk/html/hms_thanet_1.htm

I live nearby to Kew so if anyone needs any help with research I'll be pleased to see what I can do.

I am recapturing a lost youth in wargaming gentleman and I wish to raise a glass in salute to the people who made this game.

A simple Well Done.




cantona2 -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 9:13:01 PM)

You are not alone [:D]



RUPD3658 -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 9:13:47 PM)

Just wait until a woman introduces herself to you and you immediatly think of the aircraft named for her. [8D]



Terminus -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 9:18:18 PM)

Welcome to the looney bin, Jim...[:D] Say goodbye to your social life.



niceguy2005 -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 9:32:28 PM)


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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Just wait until a woman introduces herself to you and you immediatly think of the aircraft named for her. [8D]

Yeah, but I don't meet many Bettys or Nells or Sallys these days. I have known a Lily.



Cap Mandrake -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 9:51:22 PM)

Wait till the first time you throw away perfectly good food in your fridge because the calender date is two weeks after the expiration date..............that is....the calender date in your WITP game [:@]



Sonny II -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 9:56:12 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005


quote:

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Just wait until a woman introduces herself to you and you immediatly think of the aircraft named for her. [8D]

Yeah, but I don't meet many Bettys or Nells or Sallys these days. I have known a Lily.



Yep, Nells and Sallys are rare. A few Elizabeths but none are called Betty anymore.

Nowadays it is Jordan and Megan and Riley and Kala (short for Michaela).




RUPD3658 -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 10:00:29 PM)

Years ago when I was still playing PACWAR I knew a Val and a Kate (Katherine). I dreamed of being their Zero in a 3 way alpha strike. [;)][sm=00001746.gif]



Cap Mandrake -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 10:03:26 PM)

One time I stayed up late finishing an Uncommon Valor turn (second one of the night) until I finally told myself.."look you idiot, you have to work tomorrow". I was asleep before I could say Finshafen (or however you spell that)

The next day, the mom of one of my patients is in the office and I can see she is supressing a giggle the whole time she is looking at me. I start the checklist...shaving cream on my ear lobe?..negative...dried toilet paper controlling hemorrhage on neck?...no...fly open?...negative. Finally she asks with a giggle...."where is Lunga?"

"Did you say Lunga?, I asked incredulously.

"Yeah, I called you last night to see what I should do with the fever and you kept saying, "the Japs attacked Lunga"



VSWG -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 10:13:40 PM)

[:D][:D][:D]



LuckyJim1005 -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 10:44:05 PM)

Superb all. I am not alone



Widell -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/2/2007 10:46:41 PM)

Oldie but goodie - Unfortunately someone (with good intentions) messed up the Wiki, and I can't make myself unmess it [X(]. The mess means it's no longer obvious how things fit together......

EDIT:Actually, once I had a look at it, it was not very hard to revert back to the old layout without loosing the content added by the guy that unfortunately messed up the structure of the thing - Wiki now officially unmessed [:)]



Speedysteve -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 12:00:21 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

One time I stayed up late finishing an Uncommon Valor turn (second one of the night) until I finally told myself.."look you idiot, you have to work tomorrow". I was asleep before I could say Finshafen (or however you spell that)

The next day, the mom of one of my patients is in the office and I can see she is supressing a giggle the whole time she is looking at me. I start the checklist...shaving cream on my ear lobe?..negative...dried toilet paper controlling hemorrhage on neck?...no...fly open?...negative. Finally she asks with a giggle...."where is Lunga?"

"Did you say Lunga?, I asked incredulously.

"Yeah, I called you last night to see what I should do with the fever and you kept saying, "the Japs attacked Lunga"


ROFL[:D]



Yamato hugger -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 1:38:58 AM)

We used to have a regular group of guys that we played various games with. Mostly RPGs (role playing games for those that only played boardgames [:'(]). One time I combined the boardgame "Queen of the Skys" with the RPG "Behind Enemy Lines". They all played 1 member of the B-17 crew until it got shot down, then they had to make their way back to England from where-ever. Was actually quite fun.

A few weeks later one of the guys (highschool student, most of us were in our early 20's at the time) came in with a huge smile on his face.

Whats up?
Teacher asked if anyone knew where Brest France was, and I said yea he said.
How do you know where it is? she asked
Because I bombed it! was his reply (he was the bombadier in that game and Brest was a target they put 98% of the bombload on target).

Used to play all weekend just about every weekend. Come monday morning we were all drooling idiots.



Terminus -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 2:19:14 AM)

Heh, know that feeling. I had an RPG group once (in high school), where the rule was that we never started gaming until midnight and then kept going for 8-10 hours straight. Seen many a sun come up.

Of course, too old for that sort of silliness now...



ilovestrategy -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 3:38:54 AM)

Oh good gravy, you people [:D]
One time I was really heavy into this online RPG called Ultima Online and I was working on getting my fisherman to Grandmaster for months.
At work this guy said he loved to fish and the first words that came out of my mouth were"Did you GM(Grandmaster) fishing yet?"
He was like 'Whaaaaaaaat?"

[:D]



ilovestrategy -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 3:39:34 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

One time I stayed up late finishing an Uncommon Valor turn (second one of the night) until I finally told myself.."look you idiot, you have to work tomorrow". I was asleep before I could say Finshafen (or however you spell that)

The next day, the mom of one of my patients is in the office and I can see she is supressing a giggle the whole time she is looking at me. I start the checklist...shaving cream on my ear lobe?..negative...dried toilet paper controlling hemorrhage on neck?...no...fly open?...negative. Finally she asks with a giggle...."where is Lunga?"

"Did you say Lunga?, I asked incredulously.

"Yeah, I called you last night to see what I should do with the fever and you kept saying, "the Japs attacked Lunga"



Cannot...type....laughing...too.....hard [:D][:D][:D]



Canoerebel -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 3:53:55 AM)

In my AAR I've typed '42 so often (01/15/42, 07/23/42, etc etc etc) so often that I find myself often using '42 in my notes at work.  Last week I dated a work entry 09/28/42.  Time warp. 



bradfordkay -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 7:08:53 AM)

In sixth grade my teacher used to do a weekly geography bee. She'd pull down the huge world map all classrooms had back then, call out a student's name and then a location for him to point out. She soon realized that with me she had to come up with more unusual locations in order for it to be a challenge.

Why? Because I spent way too much of my time either playing wargames or perusing the West Point Atlas of American Wars (and the Napoleonic Atlas as well). My friends now accuse me of having an atlas for a brain...



Canoerebel -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 5:08:07 PM)

I love maps too - I keep them in the bathroom for....well, you know.  I live in Georgia, but this week I've been studying maps of Maine and Nova Scotia.  Why?  I dunno - I can't help myself.  It would be interesting to have a psychologist analyze us - our shared interests in war games and history and apparent universal enjoyment of SEC football and universal dislike of Yankee football must be indicative of something.



bradfordkay -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 6:56:11 PM)

You probably wouldn't like the results...[;)]

BTW: I have a filing cabinet just for maps.



BrucePowers -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 6:59:03 PM)

Luckily for me, there are 2 guys here at work who don't mind hearing about this game.[:)]



BrucePowers -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 7:00:48 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I love maps too - I keep them in the bathroom for....well, you know.  I live in Georgia, but this week I've been studying maps of Maine and Nova Scotia.  Why?  I dunno - I can't help myself.  It would be interesting to have a psychologist analyze us - our shared interests in war games and history and apparent universal enjoyment of SEC football and universal dislike of Yankee football must be indicative of something.


Wait a minute, who said anything about loving SEC football[&:][&:][sm=nono.gif][sm=nono.gif][:D]



bradfordkay -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 7:04:14 PM)

CR and I are both UGA grads (me, class of '81 - the best year ever!). The subject didn't come up on this thread, but it has been cropping up throughout the forum (especially during the fall).



bobogoboom -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 7:34:11 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Heh, know that feeling. I had an RPG group once (in high school), where the rule was that we never started gaming until midnight and then kept going for 8-10 hours straight. Seen many a sun come up.

Of course, too old for that sort of silliness now...

And here i spent all of my highschool chasing girls and beer.[8D]



bobogoboom -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 7:36:08 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I love maps too - I keep them in the bathroom for....well, you know.  I live in Georgia, but this week I've been studying maps of Maine and Nova Scotia.  Why?  I dunno - I can't help myself.  It would be interesting to have a psychologist analyze us - our shared interests in war games and history and apparent universal enjoyment of SEC football and universal dislike of Yankee football must be indicative of something.

I got a picture of one of the nukes going off at bikini atoll in my batchroom[:D]



RUPD3658 -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 7:39:05 PM)


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ORIGINAL: bobogoboom


And here i spent all of my highschool chasing girls and beer.[8D]


If you have to chase the beer there is a serious problem. [8|]



Terminus -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 7:43:58 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom


quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Heh, know that feeling. I had an RPG group once (in high school), where the rule was that we never started gaming until midnight and then kept going for 8-10 hours straight. Seen many a sun come up.

Of course, too old for that sort of silliness now...

And here i spent all of my highschool chasing girls and beer.[8D]


So did I. Never got good at it...[:D]



RUPD3658 -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/3/2007 9:08:03 PM)

I found it was easier to set a trap and wait rather than chasing. A house and a large bank account make excellent bait not to mention my other charms. [;)]



Big B -> RE: Anyone else find themselves... (10/4/2007 1:08:16 AM)

Vals, Kates and Bettys?, yeah I remember encounters with those [:D] Can't think of anything printable though[;)]
quote:

ORIGINAL: Sonny II


quote:

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005


quote:

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Just wait until a woman introduces herself to you and you immediatly think of the aircraft named for her. [8D]

Yeah, but I don't meet many Bettys or Nells or Sallys these days. I have known a Lily.



Yep, Nells and Sallys are rare. A few Elizabeths but none are called Betty anymore.

Nowadays it is Jordan and Megan and Riley and Kala (short for Michaela).






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