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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 5:28:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm surprised that you didn't write a synopsis from memory. I started to, but couldn't remember the name of the town or river (canal?) that was the target. It was the site of the first airborne troops to land on the night of June 6, and so the first location "liberated" (I use quotation marks because it's liberation was in doubt until the ground troops arrived later in the day). 

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 5:29:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was thinking of writing a summary from memory, but I had writer's block. All I could think of was "Ham and Jam, Ham and Jam".

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 6:21:16 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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Several years ago it was around midnight, I came around the corner walking back to my office. A fox and I were about 6 feet from each other. I turned around and went the other way. I didn't want the rabies shots.

Oh man. I've got some tales of rabid foxes that would make your hair curl. Course, I'VE had the shots...


Do tell.

Right then.

My wife was on call a few years back, when she received a phone call from a good Samaritan motorist that stopped to pick up an injured animal and brought it to the clinic where my wife (also a veterinarian) worked.

The motorist was driving home and noticed a red fox struggling to get to its feet by the side of the road. Figuring that the animal had been hit by a car, she scooped it up (and had her kids help her do so) and put it into her trunk, transporting it to the hospital.

After a brief examination, my wife determined that the fox had, in fact, not been struck by an automobile, but was having neurologic disease from another cause. As the area where we lived was heavily endemic with rabies in the fox population, this was a distinct possibility. As the animal was somewhat fractious (growling / attempting to nip), the fox was humanely euthanized and tested for rabies. It was positive.

As veterinary students, both my wife and I went through the regimen of vaccine prophylaxis for rabies. We periodically have our titers rechecked to see if we're still protected-we are. Of course, the same cannot be said for families that, in spite of good intentions, expose themselves to rabid animals by close contact. IIRC, the family (at least the ones handling the fox) had to undergo prophylactic vaccination.

Foxes that act odd or confrontational are to be avoided. Same with skunks, racoons, possums, dogs and the like. Neurologic disease in these species should be considered rabies suspects until proven otherwise. I have a healthy respect for those diseases that are almost invariably fatal to human beings that are in our midst.

Now don't even get me started on rabid cows...





Chicken, I don't know why I didn't realize it from your sig banner, but I didn't know you were a vet. My wife is a vet, too. Me, I kill bugs in computer software.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 6:22:26 PM   
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I am now 92% done with Christmas shopping


100% as of 2 hours ago!

2 presents left to wrap.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 6:24:02 PM   
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Travel safe, my interstellar adversary!  


Interplanetary, methinks... But all the same...

We are given types of gun,
Little use against the Hun,
And rounds of ammunition bloody few.
Then we're sent out with destroyers,
Who's job is to annoy us,
As we help escort a QP or PQ.


Definitely interplanetary.


I'm not so sure. I'm beginning to suspect he may be from farther out that he admits to.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 6:27:43 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 6:27:45 PM   
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And now I want a *really* good Normandy game.


The Longest Day. Still have my copy.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 6:29:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm enjoying my vacation with my son.  He's upstairs right now, cooking grilled cheese sandwiches for our lunch. 

Then, we're going to start watching the Star Wars series. 


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 6:33:48 PM   
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Cool pictures of the game:

Longest Day Images

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 6:38:59 PM   
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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

I'm surprised that you didn't write a synopsis from memory. I started to, but couldn't remember the name of the town or river (canal?) that was the target. It was the site of the first airborne troops to land on the night of June 6, and so the first location "liberated" (I use quotation marks because it's liberation was in doubt until the ground troops arrived later in the day). 


I believe Ranville was the village in the area.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 7:04:51 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mynok


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And now I want a *really* good Normandy game.


The Longest Day. Still have my copy.


Me too. That's one (board) game that manages to be very playable in spite of its immensity. Just like AE.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 7:17:07 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 7:31:13 PM   
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And now I want a *really* good Normandy game.

Sprior,

As a beer and pretzels game, I used to enjoy "Axis and Allies", but that's the entire globe.

I understand there was an Axis and Allies D-Day stand alone board game that came out maybe 8-10 years ago. I'd be very interested in hearing any threadmates' comments on that version of A&A....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 7:54:35 PM   
bradfordkay

 

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ORIGINAL: Mynok


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And now I want a *really* good Normandy game.


The Longest Day. Still have my copy.



Me too... of course it hasn't been setup in nearly two decades...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 9:44:21 PM   
USSAmerica


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Status: offline 		Finished watching Star Wars with my son.  He loved it.  Empire Strikes Back tomorrow.  

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 9:53:14 PM   
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Finished watching Star Wars with my son.  He loved it.  Empire Strikes Back tomorrow.  


Good choice, as soon as Joshua is old enough he'll be introduced to Star Wars (the good ones). And Ghostbusters. And the Dambusters. And Battle of Britain, The Great Escape, M*A*S*H*, Monty Python, A Bridge Too Far and James Bond.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 9:55:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		If I was going to make a comedy sound effect for someone soiling themself, the noise that Joshua makes would be it 

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 9:58:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh Thread, you're not going to be one of those parents that's automatically proud of everything their baby does, no matter how disgusting, are you? If so, I'll have to take out a contract to have you killed. Awfully sorry.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:05:52 PM   
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6yUCbqAGrg&feature=player_embedded

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:15:18 PM   
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I am now 92% done with Christmas shopping


100% as of 2 hours ago!

2 presents left to wrap.

All done as of today, now my sister gets to wrap them all.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:16:32 PM   
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Oh Thread, you're not going to be one of those parents that's automatically proud of everything their baby does, no matter how disgusting, are you? If so, I'll have to take out a contract to have you killed. Awfully sorry.


Nah, it's just that my juvenile sense of humour is amused by the comedy sound effects that wee un produces. I'm busy laughing at him trying to cry whilst he has the hiccoughs with the dog trying to work out what on earth is going on

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:17:52 PM   
Terminus


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Oh Thread, you're not going to be one of those parents that's automatically proud of everything their baby does, no matter how disgusting, are you? If so, I'll have to take out a contract to have you killed. Awfully sorry.


Nah, it's just that my juvenile sense of humour is amused by the comedy sound effects that wee un produces. I'm busy laughing at him trying to cry whilst he has the hiccoughs with the dog trying to work out what on earth is going on


Heh. I bet having a confused Border Collie around a small child gives endless scope for comedy...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:28:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		She tried to play with him last night.  Unfortunately she likes to play by hitting people with her paw, which is big and heavy when you're a week old  I'm looking forward to many years of dog/child based hilarity.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:36:54 PM   
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Look who is back on main WitP-AE forum...


Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:37:45 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:44:33 PM   
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Here Kristian:

RE: Allied fighters suck


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:45:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Morning Guys...

I live in a holiday resort (yes sunny and hot), and it is the start of the 'silly season'. The holiday-makers have started to arrive today in large numbers, and the roads have turned treacherous. The accident and emergency siren normally only goes-off once or twice a-week, now it seems to be sounding hourly. I have just been for a drive to the other side of town, and had three close calls. The weird thing is because they are on holiday and happy, they give you a big smile and wave after trying to kill you.

It's like having Punks on the front lawn that are nice and polite to you!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:46:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		You mean Diehl? He's been around sporadically, doing his old routine of criticizing a game he doesn't play.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:48:31 PM   
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Zssssssss time...


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2009 10:48:50 PM   
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