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[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

OK slacker what have you been doing all day i only see one page since lunch.[:@]

I dont have free internet access at work. The Gecko forbids it. [:-]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

They have only done it once

Really? It has to be at least a couple of times, I think. [&:]

[Onime No Kyo]

I think Faber is branching out into pop culture.....

[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

ORIGINAL: Dixie




Baseball is not like cricket [:-]. For a start, the cricket world cup actually had teams from more than one nation [:'(]

So is baseball. There is still one Canadian team (made up of South American players[;)]). The World series is "Our" world. [:D]

They have that international thing where countries like Cuba, Japan and Korea play. Oddly enough, I dont remember the US ever winning it. [:D]

Same thing happens with World Cup Soccar (every 4 years). A bunch of foriengers beat us at their boring game. This is why we don't invite them to the World Series (our boring game). [;)]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658
Same thing happens with World Cup Soccar (every 4 years). A bunch of foriengers beat us at their boring game. This is why we don't invite them to the World Series (our boring game). [;)]

Shhh...dont tell anyone....but....US cant put together a soccer team to save their lives. [:'(]

[RUPD3658]

More to the point....why would we want to?

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

The rain seems to have finally stopped where I am. [:)]

It must have moved over here. I'm going to go for a run in it in a couple of hours. I love to run in the warm rain. [:D]

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: goodboyladdie

Hi Dixie

Something similar to Yava's if possible. I have a soft spot for Exeter, the County Class and KGVs. Camouflage would be nice too... This was why I wanted to pay, because then I would not feel too guilty about being an awkward git. It's your fault, you know - what you did for Yava has set the bar very high. [&o][&o]

I have a few pics of the Counties on the HD at home. I can't remember where I got Yava's sig pic from, I seem to recall that I found it already colourised in some obscure corner of the 'net. If there is a particular image you wanted then I can colourise it completely for you, but it will take a wee while.

This is another one I was toying with a while back, I quite like the County Class, for a ship [:)]

That's obviously not a pic from my PBEM. The Australia (along with 7-8 other cruisers and the Repulse) are rusting along the coast of Guadalcanal where they were ambushed. [:D]

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

It's not the same as Robert's, but here goes

1937:
The USAAC receives it's first B-17 bomber
The Hidenburg blows up at Lakehurst, New Jersey.  36 are killed.
The Sino-Japanese war resumes.  Japanese troops clashed in maneuvers with Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge, ten miles west of Peking. Three weeks later, the Japanese invaded in large numbers. In order to circumvent the pledge made in the Kellogg Pact, Japan did not officially declare war, but called the event the "China Incident."
Amelia Earhart was lost over the Pacific in her attempt to make an around-the-world flight along the equator. The flight, which began in Miami, had made it around the world to Lae, in the Pacific. She was flying a Lockheed "Electra." Her last flight words by radio were "we are flying northeast."
The purges in the Soviet Union spread to the Soviet military. Marshal Michael Tukhachevski and seven other top generals were arrested and executed for treason.
On December 12th, Japanese planes bombed a US river gunboat, the Panay, in China. The Panay sank, two were killed and thirty wounded. The State Department demanded an apology, which the Japanese provided. The attack followed Japanese attacks against Chinese civilians.
The maiden flight of the first production Hawker Hurricane took place on the 12th October 1937

Uhh, sorry Dixie but you're only 1900 years off. [:D]

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Nah - not just RUPD... [:D]

And Mike is just frustrated that he cant keep up. [:D]

That's a fact. Between the sucky wireless and you guys with light fingers [X(] I keep losing ground.

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658
Just remember...American cops have guns

True. But most cant hit the broad side of a barn. [:)]

I shoot expert.

I have yet to have to shoot a barn but if one gets out of line I will not hesitate to do so. [;)]

[:D]

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Listening to a book on Agincourt... the English longbow (with steel arrowhead) could penetrate a wooden door 4" thick!!! [X(] [X(] [X(]

Very interesting battle.

[Mike Solli]

Man, no one around.  If I had it in me...... naw, can't do it.....

[rtrapasso]

You're right about that!! [:-] [:'(]

[Mike Solli]

Hi Bob.  My school is just about done.  One last briefing tomorrow morning and I don't even have to brief. [:D]  Just waiting for a turn to arrive.

[rtrapasso]

And you've apparently survived (always a plus...)[:'(]

So, should we start calling you Colonel now??

[Mike Solli]

Naw.  Just another step.  I'm not even promotable until 23 Dec of this year.  If I get promoted any time soon, it'll be around the time I deploy.  Maybe not then.  Who knows.

[Mike Solli]

I don't look to get promoted.  I just try to do my best and surround myself with good people (who, in turn, make me look good).  I leave the rest to fate.

[rtrapasso]

Year 44:

Consuls are Titus Statilius Taurus and Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus

The emperor Claudius returns from his British campaign in triumph, the southeast part of Briton now held by the Roman Empire, but the war will rage for another decade and a half.

Mauretania becomes a Roman province.

The Isle of Rhodes returns to the Roman Empire.

With the death of Herod Agrippa, who may have been poisoned by the Romans, Judaea is controlled by Roman governors.

Cuspius Fadus, governor of Judea (44-46), suppresses the revolt of Theudas who is decapitated.

Pomponius Mela writes De situ orbis, a geography of the Earth.

[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

I don't look to get promoted.  I just try to do my best and surround myself with good people (who, in turn, make me look good).  I leave the rest to fate.

I prefer stupid people who make me look smart. I can also blame them for my failures[:D]