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

[bobogoboom]

[:-]this better be one smoking hot stalker

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Was the airline ticket to Idaho refundable?[:)]

Thats not doing enough. Can you exchange the ticket for one to Africa? You can stay with T until this blows over.

Look..if you think using expressions like "blows over" is going to make it easier to make wise choices then you are seriously mistaken[;)]

**********NOTES FROM 2ND PITCARIN STRATEGIC CONFERENCE, OCT. 5, 1942*********


1) US 32nd ID to likely remain in Australia after Perth cleanup complete to participate in possible operation agaisnt Aru Island

2) 3rd FS (USAAF) to transfer to Sydney for re-equip and training on new P-38. P-36 equipped group on Palmyra to ship out to Sydney also for P-38 conversion.

3) 3rd BG (USAAF) (B-24) to ferry-hop to Dacca from Seattle-Alaska-Siberia. All crewchiefs adivised to leave hubcaps in Seattle so Russians don't steal them.

4) Agreement reached for phased upgrade USN subs to new radar kits.

5) Shorter range US boats to operate from Darwin and Townsville.

6) Air resources at Cooktown to be augmented for support of future air offensive, New Guinea

7) Someone is going to talk to RCAF to try to get them in the war in the Pacific

8) Succession planning begun for Grp Cpt Mandrake should his Idaho spetznatz mission end tragically.

9) Admiral Tabpub agrees to forgo further bathysphere expeditions

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Look..if you think using expressions like "blows over" is going to make it easier to make wise choices then you are seriously mistaken[;)]

I hadnt thought of this. I stand corrected. [:D]

3) 3rd BG (USAAF) (B-24) to ferry-hop to Dacca from Seattle-Alaska-Siberia. All crewchiefs adivised to leave hubcaps in Seattle so Russians don't steal them.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.....how low class. And here I thought all your bombers had spinner rims. I guess M&M isnt as adept at marketing as we all thought. [:'(]

[Moondawggie]

Yo, Mandrake, ignore those ignorant posters who question the perfection of Boise Womanhood:  they are callow plebians who have never experienced transcendental bliss... 
 
I wish you luck, my friend.  And by all means, remember that going for a "swim" at Lucky Peak Reservoir can also result in getting a "lucky peek" at some gorgeous curves! 
 
Leave Tabpub to whalloping the honored enemy for a few days, doc!  You deserve a break... 

[bobogoboom]

Me thinks he thinks with brain number 2.[&:]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Moondawggie

Yo, Mandrake, ignore those ignorant posters who question the perfection of Boise Womanhood:  they are callow plebians who have never experienced transcendental bliss... 

I wish you luck, my friend.  And by all means, remember that going for a "swim" at Lucky Peak Reservoir can also result in getting a "lucky peek" at some gorgeous curves! 

Leave Tabpub to whalloping the honored enemy for a few days, doc!  You deserve a break... 

It is not the perfection of Boise womanhood I question, sir, it is the safety of partaking in it. [:'(]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

Me thinks he thinks with brain number 2.[&:]

The Stegasaurus (or was it he Allosaurus) is alleged to have had an accessory brain at its caudal end, as well. It took an asteroid half the size of the Gulf of Mexico to get rid of him. One must not discount irrational sources of wisdom.1 [:)]

Here is the itinerary. Upon arrival, I am to be picked up in a BMW convertible (even though it is 30 F in Boise [&:]). I will be wearing a fake nose and moustache when I exit the plane. I will then be wisked away to a secret location, where, presumably, the two bags of goodies from the Pleasure Boutique will be put to good use. The next day, after recovery is achieved, I will attend the soiree, the entrance to said event will be controlled by "two big guys". I am not quite clear what will happen after that. I hope the planning for the Viking funeral goes well.




1. ^ Pirsig, Robert M. "Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition." Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. New York: Perennial Classic


*"Soiree" has two "e"'s

Also, I meant "caudal" not "rostral", oops

[bobogoboom]

We will build a pyre for you.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

We will build a pyre for you.

Thanks man. That is very Nordic of you.


P.S....I think it was the Apatosaurus

[witpqs]

I think you were right the first time, it was stegosaurus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus

"Second brain"

Soon after describing Stegosaurus, Marsh noted a large canal in the hip region of the spinal cord, which could have accommodated a structure up to 20 times larger than the brain. This has led to the famous idea that dinosaurs like Stegosaurus had a 'second brain' in the tail, which may have been responsible for controlling reflexes in the rear portion of the body. It has also been suggested that this "brain" might have given a Stegosaurus a temporary boost when it was under threat from predators.[5] More recently, it has been argued that this space (also found in sauropods) may have been the location of a glycogen body, a structure in living birds whose function is not definitely known but which is postulated to facilitate the supply of glycogen to the animal's nervous system.[21]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

We will build a pyre for you.

Ummm....Quapla! [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

I think you were right the first time, it was stegosaurus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus

"Second brain"

Soon after describing Stegosaurus, Marsh noted a large canal in the hip region of the spinal cord, which could have accommodated a structure up to 20 times larger than the brain. This has led to the famous idea that dinosaurs like Stegosaurus had a 'second brain' in the tail, which may have been responsible for controlling reflexes in the rear portion of the body. It has also been suggested that this "brain" might have given a Stegosaurus a temporary boost when it was under threat from predators.[5] More recently, it has been argued that this space (also found in sauropods) may have been the location of a glycogen body, a structure in living birds whose function is not definitely known but which is postulated to facilitate the supply of glycogen to the animal's nervous system.[21]

Ahhhh...so that's what made me buy those tickets...the glycogen body. I've always had an odd desire to sit in bird baths and I ate a worm once when I was a kid too. The thing must be huge.

Check this out...a strategic plan with a one month horizon I..err..I mean Pownall hatched in Burma actually worked. Let's hear it for the glycogen body! Huzzah!

[Cap Mandrake]

*********************October 3rd, 1942.**********************


Cmmdr Jacobs of USS Sargo was right. Cyclone Narinder seems to be losing steam. The weather is still pretty lousy but Imphal is clear and a few B-17's manage to get airborne from Dacca The Japs pick on the poor RAF Mohawks but pay a price against the hot-shot USAAF P-40 pilots operating from Imphal. I bet they don't try that again. Because of the proximity of friendly ground forces, the majority of the Allied pilots shot down are recoverd after "hitting the silk".

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

I think you were right the first time, it was stegosaurus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus

"Second brain"

Soon after describing Stegosaurus, Marsh noted a large canal in the hip region of the spinal cord, which could have accommodated a structure up to 20 times larger than the brain. This has led to the famous idea that dinosaurs like Stegosaurus had a 'second brain' in the tail, which may have been responsible for controlling reflexes in the rear portion of the body. It has also been suggested that this "brain" might have given a Stegosaurus a temporary boost when it was under threat from predators.[5] More recently, it has been argued that this space (also found in sauropods) may have been the location of a glycogen body, a structure in living birds whose function is not definitely known but which is postulated to facilitate the supply of glycogen to the animal's nervous system.[21]

Actually, both are correct - many large sauropods including Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, etc. apparently had these structures... calling them a brain is a bit generous, they are thought to perhaps be just large neural plexi (plexuses), sort of like a solar plexus, that might control the legs... the glycogen body is another theory.

[Onime No Kyo]

And what does this say about our friend Mandrake, Bob? [:D]

[BrucePowers]

Educate a poor ignorant physicist/engineer. What is a glycogen body?[&:]

[Yakface]

Basically lots of sugar molecules stuck together in a chain.  Glycogen is somewhere between sugar and fat as far as speed of energy release goes.   We store a lot in the liver and it gives the energy needed by the body for any activity beyond a short sprint.  I assume a glycogen body is just an organ designed to store the stuff.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Yakface

Basically lots of sugar molecules stuck together in a chain. Glycogen is somewhere between sugar and fat as far as speed of energy release goes. We store a lot in the liver and it gives the energy needed by the body for any activity beyond a short sprint. I assume a glycogen body is just an organ designed to store the stuff.

What he said. A glucose polymer. I am pretty sure human beings don't have a "glycogen body" unless it is vestigial. The stuff is in skeletal muscle and the liver. The current thinking holds that your average blob of glucose polymers, no matter how they might be configured, are not capable of sentience. Despite this new insight, the Japs are still delivered a bloody nose in Burma and something still made me buy those tickets.

[bobogoboom]

You should send boisie to burma she sounds like she is good at collecting intelegence[:D]. plus yall could have fun in the mud[8D].............



.......... line here |   bobo here.

[VSWG]

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

You should send boisie to burma she sounds like she is good at collecting intelegence[:D].

You misspelled 'essence'...