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

[Cap Mandrake]

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[BrucePowers]

A health class[:D]

[BrucePowers]

Of course, you as an MD type person, should be all for this......[:D][:'(][:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

[;)]..

[BrucePowers]

It seems like this new leadership on the other side is putting up quite a fight.......

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

It seems like this new leadership on the other side is putting up quite a fight.......

Indeed. Fortunately, having heard from half a world away of the Mexican fire drill on the Mandalay/Myitkyina railway, Admiral Chet Tabpub sent an amor hotshot on loan to the PTO.

************Burma Corps HQ, Myitkyina, March 4, 1943***********

Col. Abrams, US Army: I understand your boys are having trouble getting through to Mandalay. That seems odd, the Grants really ought to be tearing up the opposition.

Lt. Gen, Alexander: Oh, indeed they do, but we never seem to be able to exploit our superiority. I half think it is the new American communication equipment. Very high qualtiy, you understand but the instructions seem written by a Neanderthal.

Col. Abrams, US Army: May I see the set?

Lt. Gen, Alexander: Indeed. <they walk to the com tent and the Col. walks promptly to the set>

Col. Abrams, US Army: Ah, here is your problem. You need to set the "pursue" code to FGD 135 <makes the adjustment> A grain of wheat bulb suddenly glows behind a green filter next to a stencil that reads "PURSUE".

Lt. Gen, Alexander: Bloody Hell!

[BrucePowers]

[:D][:D]

[Moondawggie]

Now that is one useful code!

I gotta try that out! [&o]

[Cap Mandrake]

Editor's Note (wearing paper sack with eye holes cut out..and mouth hole too..and I don't mind telling you it is hard to type with this thing on):

In a shameless effort to boost readership, the Board has elected to offer a prize of a 1 for 2 coupon to Yossarian's Home (original or West) to the reader who correctly identifies the origin of the code "FGD 135". Entries may be submitted on-line (please no self-aggrandizing posts or attachments) or by mail if you already know our address. As a security measure we will no longer release our address due to several unfortunate incidents. The contest closes in 3 days or when the first correct answer is posted. Teams may enter but they will only get one coupon so they will have to split the drink among the team members.*



* If you enter as a team, please make sure none of your team members backwash when they drink. Also, don't ask for extra olives. Also, the offer is invalid during happy hour or after major Allied victories because the bar is always full then and we don't want a bunch of freeloaders clogging the place up. The Board expressly limits any liabilities associated with "brain freeze" injuries, whether real or fraudulent. Also, the winner must be in the "b" time continuum because we can't remember if the bar even existed in the "a" continuum. Also, absolutely no multi-level marketing will be permitted on the premises..none!

[Cap Mandrake]

Also...I cant post any damn picture attachments with either Firefox or IE after I installed some work software[:@] I think it is some kind of security issue. Naturally, I did not set a "System Restore" point before the installation. Any ideas?

[Moondawggie]

I've always thought that beating on Bill Gates with a rubber hose could have eliminated many (if not all) of these "software incompatibility upgrade" issues caused by the WINtel demons.

Try it out, and let me know if it works...

I'll have to think deeper on the "FGD 135 pursue" code source.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Editor's Note (wearing paper sack with eye holes cut out..and mouth hole too..and I don't mind telling you it is hard to type with this thing on):

In a shameless effort to boost readership, the Board has elected to offer a prize of a 1 for 2 coupon to Yossarian's Home (original or West) to the reader who correctly identifies the origin of the code "FGD 135". Entries may be submitted on-line (please no self-aggrandizing posts or attachments) or by mail if you already know our address. As a security measure we will no longer release our address due to several unfortunate incidents. The contest closes in 3 days or when the first correct answer is posted. Teams may enter but they will only get one coupon so they will have to split the drink among the team members.*



* If you enter as a team, please make sure none of your team members backwash when they drink. Also, don't ask for extra olives. Also, the offer is invalid during happy hour or after major Allied victories because the bar is always full then and we don't want a bunch of freeloaders clogging the place up. The Board expressly limits any liabilities associated with "brain freeze" injuries, whether real or fraudulent. Also, the winner must be in the "b" time continuum because we can't remember if the bar even existed in the "a" continuum. Also, absolutely no multi-level marketing will be permitted on the premises..none!

How about: Dr. Strangelove - a radio transmission received by the B-52 "Leper Colony" as FGD135 - decoded into "Wing Attack Plan R"!

[saj42]

I'll go with RT on this one.

You are famous Cap - when i googled "fgd 135" your post was top of the search results [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Editor's Note (wearing a paper sack with eye holes and a mouth hole cut but the mouth hole is kind of soggy because I tried to drink a G & T through it): The Board wishes to recognize a winner of the recent mystery code contest, a Mr. or Ms. rtrapasso (address unknown). As we had not really expected anyone to win, we had not really thought out the mechanics of awarding the prize. Consequently, we ask that Mr. or Ms rtrapasso, if he or she is in the "b" time continuum, present his or herself at either Yossarian's Home or Yossarian's Home West prior to April, 1945(b) and simply announce, "I am here for my 1 for 2 coupon". That should work. Again, splendid work by Mr. or Ms. rtrapasso.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Tallyho!

I'll go with RT on this one.

You are famous Cap - when i googled "fgd 135" your post was top of the search results [:D]

Wow..you are right. [:)]That is very interesting in a slightly creepy, recursive sort of way <looks outside at movement in bushes>.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
As a security measure we will no longer release our address due to several unfortunate incidents.

Please, Mandrake, do tell. Was it the Mayan CCTV camera crew?

[Cap Mandrake]

*******Rangoon Harbour, 10:20, March 6, 1943*******


Amid damaged docks and the odd half-sunken Japanese transport, HMS Empire Bombay and a number of other smaller freighters are loading all manner of products from the disorderly mess. Crates of mangoes, sacks of rice and coffee beans, bales of fiber rope..almost everything produced in excess during the Japanese occupation. Adding to the confusion, are hundreds of Chinese soldiers being landed by US Navy LCT's and LCI's. As the main Jap force has changed direction and appears headed by secondary road to Rahaeng, 12th Army HQ has changed the plan. The Chinese are ordered into Rangoon to prevent an easy capture by a small Jap force some 90 miles away. Meanwhile, everything of value is to be got out.


Admiral Draemel: <calls up to crane operator> YOU THERE! TAKE THESE WICKER LOVE SEATS...THESE ARE QUITE NICE! <over his head, in a cargo net, a 60 gallon drum of pomegranate juice shifts abruptly, straining the cork and wax seal.....>

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
As a security measure we will no longer release our address due to several unfortunate incidents.

Please, Mandrake, do tell. Was it the Mayan CCTV camera crew?

The SOB's trampled two azalea bushes and left Pollo Loco wrappers all over the side yard. Even worse, they were using my power outlets to recharge their batteries and I am pretty sure somebody got into my brandy. I showed them. Stalker Girl was out of town for few days so I was sanding and scraping some wood windows prior to repainting. I don't think they bargained on a home improvement show. I am pretty sure their ratings are in the cenote.

[Cap Mandrake]

The lab supervisor (English, female [:-]) is sending me E. E. Cummings poetry on office email. Oh dear.

Meanwhile the Mandalay Mauler is trying to break out his Burma Area Army from the trap. I still can't post attachments on my new comp. I had to pass it with a thumb drive to the old gal.

Situation, March 5.

[Cap Mandrake]

Jap armor has cut across country to the SE to close on Rahaeng and the remainder of Burma Area Army seems to be either following suit or resting 120 ENE of Rangoon. I have evacuated Bandou and the Japs are preparign to retake it. More Japs are moving into Bangkok and soem Jap armor infiltrated West of Bangkok. 23rd Indian Div and 254th Armoured are ordered to Rahaeng where 17th Indian and oen brigade of 20th are fortifying. 23rd Chindit brigade is to be airlifted from Moulmein to Krung Thep as a rear guard. 255th Armoured will try to clear toward Bangkok and a division of Chinese infantry is to be brought into Rangoon to provide some security there or at least require a fuslome force to take it. Meanwhile Adm Draemel, heavily saturated with pomegranate juice, is trying to get out the rattan furniture and Pier 1 knick knacks.

Mandalay should finally fall to 7th Armoured.