From here to...well...it SEEMS like an eternity

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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Wot happened to the nice map?? [&:]

I had to trim it down..it was about 6.7 gigs [:)]

I had visions of Bombay Sapphire and a splash of vermouth drizzled over cracked ice..but instead I get a call at 18:15...."Cap Mandrake..where are you...you are supposed to be working in the walk in" [:@][:@] Two weekends in a row?? [:@] And they don't have WITP or AE here, either [:@]

[Moondawggie]

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I had visions of Bombay Sapphire and a splash of vermouth drizzled over cracked ice..but instead I get a call at 18:15...."Cap Mandrake..where are you...you are supposed to be working in the walk in" [:@][:@] Two weekends in a row?? [:@] And they don't have WITP or AE here, either [:@]

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2 Friday nites on call in the clinic in a row? [:@] Not fair, Doc!

[BrucePowers]

What's the difference between regular ice and cracked ice?....................

[1EyedJacks]

Ice used in the bar must be clean, fresh and free of any flavor. If tap water produces cloudy ice, try using bottled or distilled water.

Cracked ice: Wrap ice cubes in a clean tea towel and place it on a firm surface. Hit it with a wooden mallet until the ice has broken into small pieces.

Crushed ice is broken more finely than cracked ice.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

What's the difference between regular ice and cracked ice?....................

Bloody provincials. [:D]

(see excellent explanation above)

[Cap Mandrake]

My daughter's private high school calls and says she failed a random drug test [:@][:@][:@]


Then they call back an hr. later and say..."oh never mind, it's a false positive" [:@][:@][:@][&o]

I will let you deduce who narrowly escaped the guy in the oversized black cape. Still, I not sure I get why they call before the confirmation. As a hedge, I have ordered a 360 degree search of all available recon aircraft (I ordered the ATT Family Spy GPS locator service for $10 a month). It works too. You can spy on your kids with a resolution of 10 meters or so [:D] It links to a map or overhead pictures (not live of course). Of course as soon as they "go dark" and turn off their phone you will have to fall back on lookouts and human intel.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

My daughter's private high school calls and says she failed a random drug test [:@][:@][:@]


Then they call back an hr. later and say..."oh never mind, it's a false positive" [:@][:@][:@][&o]

I will let you deduce who narrowly escaped the guy in the oversized black cape. Still, I not sure I get why they call before the confirmation. As a hedge, I have ordered a 360 degree search of all available recon aircraft (I ordered the ATT Family Spy GPS locator service for $10 a month). It works too. You can spy on your kids with a resolution of 10 meters or so [:D] It links to a map or overhead pictures (not live of course). Of course as soon as they "go dark" and turn off their phone you will have to fall back on lookouts and human intel.

10 meter resolution?? Well, i suppose it might be useful if they are out joy-riding in a semi... [X(]

EDIT: well, not then either, since the photos aren't live...
AT&T needs to get on the ball and start renting Predator drones from M&M Enterprises if they are going to get serious on this family spying business...

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

My daughter's private high school calls and says she failed a random drug test [:@][:@][:@]


Then they call back an hr. later and say..."oh never mind, it's a false positive" [:@][:@][:@][&o]

I will let you deduce who narrowly escaped the guy in the oversized black cape. Still, I not sure I get why they call before the confirmation. As a hedge, I have ordered a 360 degree search of all available recon aircraft (I ordered the ATT Family Spy GPS locator service for $10 a month). It works too. You can spy on your kids with a resolution of 10 meters or so [:D] It links to a map or overhead pictures (not live of course). Of course as soon as they "go dark" and turn off their phone you will have to fall back on lookouts and human intel.

What were they doing giving your daughter a drug test?[X(]

[BrucePowers]

What kind of cheap drug test are they using that they came up with a false positive.......

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: 1EyedJacks

Ice used in the bar must be clean, fresh and free of any flavor. If tap water produces cloudy ice, try using bottled or distilled water.

Cracked ice: Wrap ice cubes in a clean tea towel and place it on a firm surface. Hit it with a wooden mallet until the ice has broken into small pieces.

Crushed ice is broken more finely than cracked ice.

Ooohhh.......

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

What's the difference between regular ice and cracked ice?....................

Bloody provincials. [:D]

(see excellent explanation above)

I was born and raised in a little town of 12,000. I have never even seen a bootle of Vermouth[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

So I go out this AM and find a huge, dead owl on the lawn, beautiful bird really. "Hmmm", I say to myself, then look around to see if the neighbors see me talking to myself. "Is this propitious? Let's see, when Roman soldiers saw an owl fly over them it was a good thing or a bad thing? And this one is not doing any more flying. Oh well. I don't believe in that silly mumbo-jumbo anyway."

So I go inside and open up my WITP turn.


[X(] Guess who showed up?

[BrucePowers]

Maybe you better start believing[X(]

[Cap Mandrake]

The KB emerges from the primordial mist....

BTW...how come nobody got the Looney Toons reference? Maybe this will help.

ERRATA: The Shropshire convoy was heading South toward Darwin.

[Cap Mandrake]

Musashi and Yamato team up on two prewar US BB's. A protest has been lodged under the Naval Treaty of 1925.



Phil has pulled the old Jimmy-leg trick. His cruiser force returned to Paramashiro Jima but he followed it up with a BB force out of the unscouted North Pacific. I felt safe to send the old BB's back for more shore pounding. Too bad Halsey retired for fuel. That could have been a major coup had he been on station.

[BrucePowers]

I must be dense tonight. Other than the Japanese flag I don't get the Looney Tunes reference, other than you are being mauled......[:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

Its a (very thickly) veiled reference to Daffy, in Sherlock Holmes persona, looking for the Shropeshire Slasher. The Slasher who is the burly guy in the shot (who, oddly enough did not have the rising sun on his chest in the original) repeatedly thrashed Daffy until Porky (as Watson, of course) would come in and sort things out in a gentlemanly fashion. In the present case, however, It appears to be ol' Shropeshire that is getting thrashed. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Its a (very thickly) veiled reference to Daffy, in Sherlock Holmes persona, looking for the Shropeshire Slasher. The Slasher who is the burly guy in the shot (who, oddly enough did not have the rising sun on his chest in the original) repeatedly thrashed Daffy until Porky (as Watson, of course) would come in and sort things out in a gentlemanly fashion. In the present case, however, It appears to be ol' Shropeshire that is getting thrashed. [:D]

Well done lad! Those countless hours of purposeful idleness in childhood have not gone to waste!

[Cap Mandrake]

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[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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Somehow, i doubt even the USN would put a six-year-old in charge of a CV group (the current John McCain was born Aug 29, 1936)... however, the Senator is John McCain III, and both his dad and granddad were 4-star admirals on retirement... i am guessing this was his granddad.

EDIT: The juxtaposition of Bush and Dashiell is nice, but i think there are a couple or more of other current politicians (less famous) also in the list of DDs. [:)]

REEDIT: It turns out it was apparently his granddad - Adm. John "Slew" McCain, who led USN CV TFs during WW2... born 1884 and died just after Japan's surrender ceremony at age 61. His son (the Senator's father) a submariner during WW2, also was (eventually) a 4-star admiral, and they they became the first father-son pair ever to achieve four star admiral rank in the U.S. Navy.