Cap Mandrake
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Joined: 11/15/2002 From: Southern California Status: offline
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*********Dili Airfield, Japanese Timor, 09:30, March 11, 1943*********** A thin but well groomed brown skinned man leading a donkey with a fully laden wooden cart approaches a really crappy looking armored vehicle with big rivets holding together steel plates. The vehicle is buttoned up despite the heat. The man inadvisedly raps on the steel with a stick. A kind of Japanese-lookin guy pops his head up through a hatch. Japanese-lookin guy: What want? A thin but well groomed brown skinned man leading a donkey with a fully laden wooden cart: Ah...thank you. Yes. I have the delivery for the big banyan. Japanese-lookin guy: What mean banyan? A thin but well groomed brown skinned man leading a donkey with a fully laden wooden cart: Why, it's kind of a celebration, you see. It is an historical term, something to do with vegans or some such thing. Japanese-lookin guy: What mean vegan? A thin but well groomed brown skinned man leading a donkey with a fully laden wooden cart: Vegan...ah, yes..well..let me see, that is someone who eats no meat or fish or poultry. Japanese-lookin guy: No eat fish? A thin but well groomed brown skinned man leading a donkey with a fully laden wooden cart: No, the strict ones won't even wear leather shoes. Japanese-lookin guy: Vegan idiot. Banyan have sake? A thin but well groomed brown skinned man leading a donkey with a fully laden wooden cart: Sake? Oh, no, afraid not. It hardly seemed thematic, but I did bring along a nice Gewurtztraminer to go along with the almond and honey encrusted died figs and I have wonderful, authentic, local native craft party favors. Japanese-lookin guy: No banyan. Engrish and Americans give up. A thin but well groomed brown skinned man leading a donkey with a fully laden wooden cart: Oh, bloody Hell! <pauses briefly> Say, I don't suppose you chaps want to have a victory party or something?......
< Message edited by Cap Mandrake -- 6/18/2010 7:32:43 PM >
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