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

[BrucePowers]

Hmmm, will the 7th Armoured see a change of command?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Hmmm, will the 7th Armoured see a change of command?

That is a seriously good idea.


***************Steering Committee Mtg, Operation You Know What, SEAC HQ, Ledo, January 24, 1943***************


Staffer 2: Right, let's resume after that fine lunch. As a first order of business, I would like to entertain a motion to draft a formal letter of acknowledgement for the untouchables that have been providing exemplary janitorial service...<Gen. Pownall enteres the room through now unguarded doors..the staffers begin to rise to attention>

Gen. Pownall: No, no, no. Please sit. How are you chaps doing..making some progress on the more energetic remedy?

Staffer 1: Yes sir, splendid sir!...Oh bloody...

Staffer 2: Will the Secretary please strike that?

Gen. Pownall: Not to worry. I shan't distract you from your important mission, but I do have a quick query. I am considering a replacement of the commander of 7th Armoured, they are making such desultory progress and are severely depleting the plaster of Paris reserves of SEAC. Who have we as options in theatre?

Staffer 3: Well, perhaps Brigadier Stoner, I believe he did some work in the annual farce while at Sandhurst.

Gen. Pownall: <furrows his brow to digest the information then, after a few seconds assumes a patronizing countenance> Ah, yes I see, Colonel, but what I had in mind was someone in the China-Burma theatre.

Staffer 3: Ah, yes, THAT theatre. Well then, I would suggest the 60-60 pool.

Gen. Pownall: 60-60 pool?

Staffer 2: Yes. It's a temp agency, M&M Enterprises, I think.

Gen. Pownall: Temp agency? I'm afraid....

Staffer 3: Sir, it's the pension system sir. There is no COLA.

Gen. Pownall: COLA?

Staffer 3: Oh, sorry sir, Cost of Living Adjustment. Many retired brigadiers have signed up as they were having trouble making ends meet with wartime rationing and the like. It's quite a nice system, sir. M&M guarantees that each birgadier will score EXACTLY a 60 on both leadership and managment skill on the MMPI.

Gen. Pownall: MMPI?

Staffer 3: Ah yes, sorry sir, Manchester Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

Gen. Pownall: Ah, I see, it's a type of qualtiy gurarantee then?

Staffer 3: Yes sir. We get good feedback. It seems they even have the same type of moustache. The surgeons have had a spot of trouble handling attacks of gout, but otherwise quite a clever idea..human resources loves it and it cuts out all the political maneuvering..........


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Note: You don't believe me..I will show example sof the 60-60 pool when I get home. [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

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[gladiatt]

[BrucePowers]

Manchester Multiphasic Personality Inventory[X(][:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Manchester Multiphasic Personality Inventory[X(][:D]

I think I missed another joke. [:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

...exotic places, do you?

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Manchester Multiphasic Personality Inventory[X(][:D]

I think I missed another joke. [:(]

It is just an inane name for a made up personality test[:)]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Manchester Multiphasic Personality Inventory[X(][:D]

I think I missed another joke. [:(]

It is just an inane name for a made up personality test[:)]

There is an actual test called the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory... evidently the "Manchester MPI" was a precursor invented by the minons at M&M... [;)]

[Historiker]

The maps and pictures are amazing. Do you google them?

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo




I think I missed another joke. [:(]

It is just an inane name for a made up personality test[:)]

There is an actual test called the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory... evidently the "Manchester MPI" was a precursor invented by the minons at M&M... [;)]

You learn something new every day around here. I did not know that.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

The maps and pictures are amazing. Do you google them?

i am pretty sure Mandrake has his own spy satellite, courtesy of M&M Enterprises... [8D] [;)]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Manchester Multiphasic Personality Inventory[X(][:D]

I think I missed another joke. [:(]

It is just an inane name for a made up personality test[:)]

You mean MMPI isnt an actual test of some sort? I may not be as clueless as I thought. [:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo




I think I missed another joke. [:(]

It is just an inane name for a made up personality test[:)]

There is an actual test called the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory... evidently the "Manchester MPI" was a precursor invented by the minons at M&M... [;)]

Ah, there you go. I am that clueless. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Anyone remember the days when there were no house rules and nobody knew what an AAR was? You just took the darn out of the box and just played it! If you got a little peanut butter on the map..ah...Miss Zuniga would fix it. She was hot too. Sometimes I would purposely send a convoy south of New Zealand just to see her bend down in her tight skirt.....ahhh...memories.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

The maps and pictures are amazing. Do you google them?

Thank you sir. Mostly Google Earth or NASA World Wind and a smattering of MSN Encarta maps and period maps. When I am sitting around waiting for a damn turn (like now), I will sometimes sepia-tone them or desaturate them. The ones that look like pictures from a recon aircraft are actually overhead satellite pics (as RT indicated, from M&M Enterprises Satellite Division, with express permission from D, C & H of course). They are then mathematically "obliqued" and desaturated..and sometimes I stick some ships in.

Lord Admiral Tabpub sent me the "oblique" shot of Canton Is. I am pretty sure that was a Google Earth shot.

[BrucePowers]

So, since you are waiting for a turn, how is stalker girl?[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

So, since you are waiting for a turn, how is stalker girl?[:D]

Her ex-husband is visiting from Idaho and won't leave (staying at his friend's house). I think he realizes he made a mistake.

Bummer.

She is sporting a neo-classical North/South medium width runway design now.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

You mean MMPI isnt an actual test of some sort? I may not be as clueless as I thought. [:D]

No, you are pretty much clueless. [:D]


The full text was 1024 questions and required at least 3 hrs to complete. This had 2 benefits. Candidates with BADD (Brigadier Attention Deficit Disorder) would fail as they could never sit still that long and those more elderly candidates with prostate problems could not finish without visiting the lavatory, which was a cause for exclusion.

The military questions were challenging in order to identify high-achievers so they could be rejected (they were prone to dissatisfaction). A later version also included questions on gout.

Here is a sample.

[Onime No Kyo]

What is the usual response to question 334?