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

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ARGH! Enough with the geek jokes![:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Not to worry. I think that is the world's supply of Physics jokes. Besides, I wouldn't want to Bohr anyone.

Ba-Dum-Pum!

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So, a couple of Sodium atoms are sitting at a bar. The first one orders a round.

Na-23: Bartender! Two shots of Cazadores please, with limes, hold the salt.

Bartender: Rocks?

Na-23: No thanks. Straight up. It's the water, you know. <turns to the other Sodium atom> So, how long you in town?

Na-24: I don't know for sure. You never do really know. I'll probably be gone tomorrow. It sucks.

Na-23: Hey pal..been there..done that. I am down with that.

Na-24: How you been?

Na-23: Bit out of sorts. I lost an electron.

Na-24: NO S***, man! Are you sure?

Na-23: I'm positive.

ARGH! Enough with the geek jokes![:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Dude! Thats 3 geek jokes in one. [X(][:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ARGH! Enough with the geek jokes![:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Not to worry. I think that is the world's supply of Physics jokes. Besides, I wouldn't want to Bohr anyone.

Ba-Dum-Pum!

Huh? Watt was that? [&:]

[Cap Mandrake]

Wow! What a bloodbath on both sides.

Hot shot Tonys from Lashio and Mandalay swarm over Myitkinia chewing up the RAF and USAFF medium bombers, which, apparently due to poor weather, are shorn of their escort. It is ugly and the Jap ground units are mostly untouched.

At the same time, the massacre of Bettys and Zeroes is prodigious and the Japanese raids are completely ineffectual.

Curiously, the Tonys never meet the RAF CAP over Myitkinia. A planned sweep of P-40's from Imphal does not go off due to weather and a planned B-17 raid over Lashio is also scrubbed. Although no Tonys are lost in A2A, they suffer perhaps 10 operational losses because of the damaged and distance to target.

Approximate losses over Myitkinia for Sept 12 are:

RAF and USAAF: 58 x medium bomber, 39 fighters

Japanese: 41 bombers (inclduding 36 Bettys [:)]) and 43 fighters (mostly Zeroes)

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Dude! Thats 3 geek jokes in one. [X(][:D]

4 [;)]

5, if you count the radioactive decay jokes separately.

BTW anyone know if Na-24 undergoes Beta decay? If so, he could come back to the same bar and enjoy shots of Cazadores whith his friend until their money runs out. Or maybe he cold just go the head and lose a neutron. Then he wouldn't have to leave at all.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Dude! Thats 3 geek jokes in one. [X(][:D]

4 [;)]

Ah, yes....I'll be gone tomorrow. Four it is. [:D]

[DuckofTindalos]

I wonder where the silliness of calling salt "sodium" comes from? I mean, the abbreviation IS Na...

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

I wonder where the silliness of calling salt "sodium" comes from? I mean, the abbreviation IS Na...

Caustic Soda. [:'(]

[DuckofTindalos]

Nah, it's just you people being obstinate...

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Another thing occurred to me. I wouldn't worry about being stigmatized by a physics/astronomy joke (as long as you don't have a pocket protector that has the planetary masses and orbits on it).

Whew! Dodged that one.

[DuckofTindalos]

So, does your pocket protector have planet masses or orbits, since it doesn't come with the stigma of having both?[:'(]

[Cap Mandrake]

After the hemorrhage of aircraft over Myitkinia on the 12th, the pool of volunteers is shrinking.

The Japs put in a big attack, achieving a 1:1. This could go either way.

[Cap Mandrake]

Hope you have cable [:)]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So, a couple of Sodium atoms are sitting at a bar. The first one orders a round.

Na-23: Bartender! Two shots of Cazadores please, with limes, hold the salt.

Bartender: Rocks?

Na-23: No thanks. Straight up. It's the water, you know. <turns to the other Sodium atom> So, how long you in town?

Na-24: I don't know for sure. You never do really know. I'll probably be gone tomorrow. It sucks.

Na-23: Hey pal..been there..done that. I am down with that.

Na-24: How you been?

Na-23: Bit out of sorts. I lost an electron.

Na-24: NO S***, man! Are you sure?

Na-23: I'm positive.

So, a Neutron goes into a bar and asks for a beer. After the bartender gives it to him, the Neutron asks "How much?"

The bartender replies: "For you - no charge!!"

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

..[:'(]

Dr. Heisenberg was forced to carry out most of his business over the phone as he hated to drive: every time he looked at the speedometer, he got lost!

[Naskra]

Is it true Heisenberg ran over and killed Schrodinger's cat?

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

God, Mandrake, thats such a geek joke. I'm almost offended that I laughed at it. [:D]

Another thing occurred to me. I wouldn't worry about being stigmatized by a physics/astronomy joke (as long as you don't have a pocket protector that has the planetray masses and orbits on it).

There is something else that puts that to shame on the geekdom scale. You do realize we are congregating in an on-line forum dealing with a computer wargame where we can reassign the commander of a barge flotilla, where complicated turns can easily take an hour of work and where the game itself could easily last 1000 turns [X(] That is some serious geek power. In my last multiplayer WITP game I accidentally sent a planning email to my sister. Ouch! You may not realize how "straights" are bound to view jargon about obscure WWII aircraft and it is fair to say most people don't know what a "Flush Deck Destroyer" is. She gleefully told my other brothers and sisters. Oh man, I was the victim of some serious prison rape at Thanksgiving dinner. I was the live entertainment. The only one who "got it" was my braniac nephew who is a bioengineerinng major at USC and his dad quickly shooed him away lest some geekdom wear off on him.

Of course, I had a blast making fun of my daughter's old boyfriend and his seriously geeky World of Warcraft buds. [8D]

I have an audio file called "The Knack" about engineers if anyone wants it.[:D] It's hillarious (if you are an engineer type). [:D][:D][8D][8D]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

I wonder where the silliness of calling salt "sodium" comes from? I mean, the abbreviation IS Na...

Latin, I do believe

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Another thing occurred to me. I wouldn't worry about being stigmatized by a physics/astronomy joke (as long as you don't have a pocket protector that has the planetary masses and orbits on it).

Whew! Dodged that one.

I don't wear pocket protectors, never have[:)]

I did offer to bring my sliderule to work to show the newbies (some of them have never seen one)[X(][X(][:D][:D]

I mean what are you going to do if your calculator batteries die out in the desert?[:D]

Mine is an all metal beautifully made K&E that belonged to my grandfather. He was a professor of electrical engineering from about 1901 to 1955[X(][8D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Dr. Heisenberg was forced to carry out most of his business over the phone as he hated to drive: every time he looked at the speedometer, he got lost!

What a retard! Why didn't he just go down to Kragen and get a bolt-on tachometer? He could use that to estimate his velocity. Honestly, the more I hear the more I think the Nobel committee made a serious error.