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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/27/2010 3:42:06 PM

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You guys have just been the inspiration to my new liquid cooling system for my computer. I spilled mint tea all over it because I could not hold the mug effectively with both my hands holding my sides while I was laughing!

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RE: Inbreeding - 6/27/2010 4:05:17 PM

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Mandrake has never run

Well, there was that incident with the German Shepherd and the tricycle. It didn't turn out very well, either.

I have no wish for my three cruisers to get whacked. They probably could escape to the SW and be fine unless the Jap carriers steamed at full speed on the same course. I had hoped that someone other than my coastwatchers would spot the oncoming armada...but I was undone by the USAAF policy of keeping geographic groups of volunteers together as one unit. How was I supposed to know every pilot in VP-72 was the product of a consinguineous union? The problem is the AP's unloading at Noumea. They can't port with troops aboard and to run with troops aboard would be dangerous. There are ca. 2,300 troops debarking (the last of 132nd Inf and 37 NZ Inf Bn., as well as heavy equipment of two Arty Bn. and some engineers).

The cruisers have to stay on station until the troopships are unloaded. If the Jap battlewagons come then they will just have to fight them to a draw as they have done three times already. When the troopships are unloaded, I think I can get them away to the SW while the carriers are covering the landing at Efate.

Meanwhile, the slightly dented cruisers at Auckland and HMAS Australia on her way from Sydney can organize a night bombardment of New Ullapool from the SW and return to Oz.

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RE: Inbreeding - 6/27/2010 4:26:53 PM

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Pinata - 6/27/2010 4:35:10 PM

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*******HQ, Australian 1st Avian Brigade, Ambon, March 17, 1942******

There is an extraordinary air of merriment upon the retreat of the Jap carriers and the retreat or destruction of the Jap toopships. Colorful streamers reach from branch to branch under a beautiful old fig tree.

Soldier: Where do you want the pinata, Colonel.

Col. Veale, Acting CO, 1st Aus. Avian Brigade: Over there, please. Oh, look at the colors! This will be a WONDERFUL banyan! Oh...you there! Be careful with those centerpieces......

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RE: Pinata - 6/27/2010 4:54:56 PM

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Lord Admiral Sprior;

I sent the last P-40 squadron due for withdrawal back to Pitcarin. I also sent the last two understrength A-24 squadrons back for tailhooks. They were down to 10 aircraft between them. I think they performed admirably, damaging or sinking many Jap vessels, including perhaps Yamashiro. You also had a flight of Hudson III's in India that were past due. I transferred the pilots to a Blenheim squadron and sent them back too.

We are into zero territory on political points. Maybe if you know somebody related to the PM you can have them put in a good word for us.

Warmly;

Admiral on a High Mandrake

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RE: Pinata - 6/27/2010 7:12:40 PM

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Warmly, you guys are going all soft

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RE: Pinata - 6/27/2010 8:03:34 PM

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Ode to 'Wash Out' of "Hot Shots" fame / infamy:

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: Looks like enemy aircraft at 12 o'clock.
Admiral Benson: Really? 12 o'clock? Well, that gives us about...
[checks his watch]
Admiral Benson: 25 minutes. Think I'll step out for a burger.

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: I just got kicked out of the unit. My flight status has been withdrawn. I'm through, Dead Meat!
Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson: What happened?
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: It's my eyes. I've got walleye-vision.
Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson: Isn't there something that can be done?
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: Well, there's a delicate corneal inversion procedure... a multi-opti-pupil-optomy. But, in order to keep from damaging the eye sockets, they've got to go in through the rectum. Ain't no man going to take that route with me!

Lt. Commander Block: Yankee Doodle Floppy Disk, this is Foxtrot Zulu Milkshake, checking in at 700 feet, request permission to land.
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: Roger that, Foxtrot Zulu Milkshake, you are cleared to land. Welcome to the Mediterranean!
Kent Gregory: Wash Out, is that you?
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: You bet, they put me in charge of radar! From now on, I'll be your eyes on the ground!

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: Alpha Velveeta Knuckle Underwear, you are cleared for take-off. When you hit that nuclear weapons plant... drop a bomb for me!
Lt. Commander Block: Uh, Sphincter Mucus Niner Ringworm, roger!

[Wash Out can't read the number on the runway he's landing on]
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: I need clearance to land on runway thirty... thirty... something!
Air Controller: Thirtysomething's been cancelled.

Jim "Wash Out" Pfaffenbach: You've got six bogies heading toward you!
[sneezes on the radar screen]
Jim "Wash Out" Pfaffenbach: Oh my God, a dozen more of them! And a blimp, a big, shiny blimp and it's slowly moving south!

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Frickin' - 6/27/2010 10:00:58 PM

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So my 6 year old neighbor comes over....the daughter of the guy who thinks the LA Times is too conservative and put his $10,000 mailbox on my property, but now is separated or divorced, and I might add, is largely responsible for getting me shoved into the back seat of the sheriff car when the sheriff responded to the wrong adress...that neighbor....the one I suspect narced on me to the HOA....anyway, she comes over and is running around having a great time in the back yard and she runs up to me and says..."Doctor Mandrake did you know "fricken'" is not a bad word for kids?"

I didn't know what to say, so I just lamely replied, "Ah, that's nice". Then she went inside and threw up in the bathroom.

I called the Diocese of Orange to see if they had an exorcists working on Sunday.

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RE: Frickin' - 6/27/2010 10:10:08 PM

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No go on the exorcist. So I sent her up the hill to the short guy who takes the Rolls to the mailbox.

Maybe they can recite a hymn from the Rig Veda or something.

BTW...the neighbor with the mailbox on my property. His ex wife ISN'T so hot and she has a temper...

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RE: Frickin' - 6/27/2010 10:17:36 PM

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and put his $10,000 mailbox on my property,

Hire a tow truck with a chain.

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RE: Frickin' - 6/27/2010 11:33:48 PM

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and put his $10,000 mailbox on my property,

Hire a tow truck with a chain.

Even better, Nail a "NO TRESSPASSING" sign to the mailbox. Take a picture when he comes to collect the mail, and call the cops to have him arrested.

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RE: Frickin' - 6/28/2010 12:10:18 AM

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I sense a lot of Frickin' aggression around here.

I have 2 questions:

1) Is there not a port size lower limit at which it is impossible to rearm BB's?

2) Do the Japs even have ammo replenishment ships?

Both would make it impossible for the IJN to rearm the big boys at New Ullapool and would bias me toward keeping cruisers at New Edinburgh

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RE: Frickin' - 6/28/2010 1:30:59 AM

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I sense a lot of Frickin' aggression around here.

I have 2 questions:

1) Is there not a port size lower limit at which it is impossible to rearm BB's?

2) Do the Japs even have ammo replenishment ships?

Both would make it impossible for the IJN to rearm the big boys at New Ullapool and would bias me toward keeping cruisers at New Edinburgh

1) Yes, but its a fluid scale depending on the gun size. Look in the manual, that thing u never have opened ;-) IIRC New Ullapool is a fairly low level port so in effect its impossible to rearm the main guns, yeah.

2) They have lots of ships that can convert into AKEs. Still need a certain port size.

Hope it helps,

Rasmus

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RE: Frickin' - 6/28/2010 2:53:46 AM

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Ports that are normally too small to rearm certain weapons may do so if an appropriate tender
is at anchor in the Port. The weapon Rearm Cost must be �less than or equal to� the tender
�cargo capacity�.

Since the 14" guns of most Japanese BBs only require a rearm level of around 3000, I'm certain the Japanese have AKEs that can provide that level of rearming at a small port.

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RE: Frickin' - 6/28/2010 5:12:34 AM

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After opening the manual my self, as far as i can see Mynok is totally correct. Apparently all u need is the tender of the right size and a level 1 port.

Sorry for the confusion,

Rasmus

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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/28/2010 8:17:32 AM

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The Japs came in with both guns blazing. The USN crusier force performed well, sinking one DD and hitting Furutaka 5 times but the BB's go through to the transports. They nearly shut down the airfield with the BB's and a 5 cruiser force that had been loitering N of Koumac.

A Jap carrier raid in dayltight was massacred. A few transports are headed West. The BB's and CA's are retiring to the N and NW. The carriers moved SSE of Noumea to pick off any vessels fleeing that way.

I moved the operational bombers out and sent some new fighters in from Suva. Th P-40's at Norfolk Is. I moved to Auckland in case the carriers go South.

If the Japs attack the arifield with carrier planes they will probably succeed in shutting it down. They may also pursue th transports to the West or loiter near New Scotland to inhibit further breakouts.

All the disembarking troops got ashore in good order except for 60 Marines that were left on the APD.

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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/28/2010 12:59:56 PM

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We're training. Thank you.

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RE: Frickin' - 6/28/2010 4:56:41 PM

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So my 6 year old neighbor comes over....the daughter of the guy who thinks the LA Times is too conservative and put his $10,000 mailbox on my property, but now is separated or divorced, and I might add, is largely responsible for getting me shoved into the back seat of the sheriff car when the sheriff responded to the wrong adress...that neighbor....the one I suspect narced on me to the HOA.......

With neighbors like these who needs enemies

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RE: Frickin' - 6/28/2010 6:45:54 PM

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i don't know why, but i found this incredibly humorous this morning...

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RE: Frickin' - 6/28/2010 6:49:03 PM

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cap, are you taking requests? please, oh please work this guy into the story....kind regards....(after the appropriate amount of McGoo time, of course)

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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/28/2010 6:59:18 PM

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A ship with the name "Oh No Maru" is seriously funny.

Of course, somebody is goign to tell us it is not pronounced that way.

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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/28/2010 7:00:05 PM

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We're training. Thank you.

How was the big banyan at Ambon?

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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/28/2010 7:05:27 PM

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A ship with the name "Oh No Maru" is seriously funny.

Of course, somebody is goign to tell us it is not pronounced that way.

my eyes are as bad as the venerable LtCmd Magoo's! I was reading it "Once Maru"!

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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/28/2010 7:25:00 PM

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A ship with the name "Oh No Maru" is seriously funny.

Of course, somebody is goign to tell us it is not pronounced that way.

my eyes are as bad as the venerable LtCmd Magoo's! I was reading it "Once Maru"!

Onoe, I think it's "Onoe Maru"...Jap ammunition ship torpedoed by USS Raton:

26 Nov 1943
While operating north of the Bismarck Archipelago USS Raton (Lt.Cdr. J.W. Davis) torpedoes and sinks the Japanese ammunition ship Onoe Maru (6667 GRT) in position 00�40'N, 148�20'E and torpedoes and sinks the Japanese troop transport Kamoi Maru (2811 GRT) in position 00�46'N, 148�20'E. (see map)

http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3016.html

If I were on a Jap ammunition ship and I saw 4 late war USN torpedoes heading for me, I would say "OH NO!" as well.

BTW....her name was later changed to "No Mo Maru"

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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/28/2010 7:28:23 PM

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striking resemblence all these guys have with each other....

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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/28/2010 8:15:09 PM

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If I were on a Jap ammunition ship and I saw 4 late war USN torpedoes heading for me, I would say "OH NO!" as well.

Is "noe" Japanese for ****?

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BTW....her name was later changed to "No Mo Maru"

<groan>

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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/28/2010 8:40:41 PM

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We're training. Thank you.

How was the big banyan at Ambon?

The fireworks were spectacular.

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RE: Penalty for late withdrawal? - 6/28/2010 9:39:35 PM

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striking resemblence all these guys have with each other....

Every time I see one of these I think what a great platform for bass fishing some of these positions would be. Nose window-stand up. There's side doors too that would be fine for bait fishing. Infinite access to 'fly in' lakes, etc.

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RE: Frickin' - 6/29/2010 3:32:08 AM

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BTW...the neighbor with the mailbox on my property. His ex wife ISN'T so hot and she has a temper...

Sounds promising: you can chat her up about her darling playing in your yard, commiserate with her about what an SOB her ex is, and tell her how he cherishes that mailbox more than anything else in the world...

Betcha it's gone by the next morning!

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RE: Frickin' - 6/29/2010 4:05:48 AM

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BTW...the neighbor with the mailbox on my property. His ex wife ISN'T so hot and she has a temper...

Sounds promising: you can chat her up about her darling playing in your yard, commiserate with her about what an SOB her ex is, and tell her how he cherishes that mailbox more than anything else in the world...

Betcha it's gone by the next morning!

And he said he put the mailbox up because of the hot lady at the place where he bought it...

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