Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[khyberbill]

Probably the pineapple juice. The stuff is a breeding ground for bacteria.

This is why it should only be taken as part of a libation (Singapore Sling comes to mind).

[Mynok]

Stuarts

Great Scot, man! At least you could try to spell it correctly. It's Stewart. Only those tayum southerners spell it Stuart.

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

One time during my residency at a county hospital in LA (so called "knife and gun club" type of joint) I was working the night ER shift (every 3rd ******* night, by ra way) and they call me for this hand wound. So I drag myself out of bed at 3 o'clock in the morning, go downstairs and check out the hand wound. The hand wound, not surprisingly, has a patient attached to it. He is this huge 15 year old Samoan kid and his hand looks TERRIBLE. Turns out he got into a fight SIX DAYS before and punched another kid in the mouth so it a tooth vs hand wound. It looks REALLY BAD, like it will need surgical debridement (hacking out all the dead or infected tissue) so I wake up the Orthopedic Chief Resident. The poor bastard has every OTHER night call so I was very thankful when he agreed to drag himself out of bed at 3 ******* 30 in the morning.

He takes one look at the wound and asks, "This happened 6 days ago?

"Yes"

Then he very professionally asks, "May I ask why you chose to come in at 3 O'clock?"

"Oh, my mom thought we would get seen faster."

I'm totally backing that kid's logic---when I was an ER doc, we always had patients coming in at 3 AM to get their antihypertensive and oral diabetes meds refilled (usually after a boozy Sunday night celebating an Oakland Raiders victory in the early 80's) .

They always said they did so because "I was just driving by and realized I wouldn't have to wait in line so long." So I wrote the scripts...

Funny thing---that was also a government-run Hospital.

Gawd, I'm looking foward to ObamaCare so that all of my fellow citizens can start having to arrange their lives around that schedule! [:)]

[sprior]

Upon the suggestion of Admiral Lord SPrior, Allied forces will attack the Wee Jap Dobbers today at Suva.

I was right. Again.

[Mynok]

Your new title is Admiral Lord Sprior, WJD Expert Extraordinaire

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Upon the suggestion of Admiral Lord SPrior, Allied forces will attack the Wee Jap Dobbers today at Suva.

I was right. Again.

It is a burden you must bear.*


*Being right all the time, I mean.

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

Upon the suggestion of Admiral Lord SPrior, Allied forces will attack the Wee Jap Dobbers today at Suva.

I was right. Again.

It is a burden you must bear.*


*Being right all the time, I mean.

Don't you mean "beer". (I know, it is the modern way to turn nouns into verbs)

Alfred

[Nemo121]

and I don't mean the psychiatrist either.

Hey, what's with the bad-mouthing? He sounds like he might be traumatised and develop a really serious post-traumatic complication or aversion to gardening.

For only $200 an hour every week for the next 6 years I could make it OK for him to go gardening again.... and let him discover EXACTLY how old he was when he stopped getting breastfed.

See, we ARE useful.


P.s. 00:50am local time. On call to the ER. Tally so far 4 phone calls, 3 reviews including homeless drug and alcohol addict wanting a bed who goes, "I suffer from the symptoms of manic depression doctor. I need to be admitted."

When asked to describe said symptoms he replied, "You know, the symptoms."

Gotta love it when homeless people view you as a way to get a free bed and breakfast for the night and avoid paying for a hostel. Didn't work for him though, he's back out on the streets ( or in a hostel ).

[Cap Mandrake]

Probably an AE dependency problem and his wife or GF* or Sugar Daddy^ threw him out for not taking a shower for 3 d.






* Living in sin is not encouraged by the management, but we do admit it can be fun for a couple of months.


^ The managment does not condone this either.... not that there is anything wrong with it.

[Chickenboy]

Doing my bit for this AAR to save it the ignominy of being on page 2.  Long life for the World's Worst AAR TM! 

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Nemo121

and I don't mean the psychiatrist either.

Hey, what's with the bad-mouthing? He sounds like he might be traumatised and develop a really serious post-traumatic complication or aversion to gardening.

For only $200 an hour every week for the next 6 years I could make it OK for him to go gardening again.... and let him discover EXACTLY how old he was when he stopped getting breastfed.

See, we ARE useful.

If I could get you to convince my wife that I am traumatized about gardening......[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

***************July 3, 1942*************


South Pacific: Everything except for a few AK's and some TK's have finished unloading at Suva without casulaties. The big Allied attack at Suva on the 1st went in at 2:1, inflicting about 4:1 casulaties and causing some 800 WJD KIA's. An attack on the 2nd rose to 11:1. The WJD force at Suva is on the ropes. The will have a few days left, at best, me thinks.

The Japs at Nadi have not attacked again and probably won't. They will be next.

Jap Oscars from Tanna swept over Nadi today. This is probably a prelude to an attack so I moved some planes off the airfield there. Allied fighters are concentrated over Suva to protect the ships. I seriously doubt they are up for a rescue attempt but they might try a surface raid at Suva. If so they will encounter a bombardment force of 2 pre-war BB's and a potent cruiser group.

All of the Jap shipping that was capable of making port at either Efate, Noumea or Koumac appears to have done so. Still no sighting of Jap carriers.

Suva airfield is at the stacking limit (300). Tanna and Noumea airfields have been strengthened even more. Perhaps this is defensive or perhaps they plane an air offensive. The latter would fail for lack of fighter escort over Suva.

Oz: It looks like 18th Div will be able to hoof its way out from the outback East of Katherine. The Jap airfield at Katherine is getting pummeled by B-17's from Alice, which is now a big airfield. The Oscars that were defending Katherine gave up. Recon at Wyndham shows about 7,000 WJD. [;)]

[sprior]

Op Weasel - A Thought.

We 2 have 2 divs of Aussies arriving in Perth soon, plus the US 32ID at Alice. 18th UK Div is meandering SE through the Outback but should make it to Alice, even if a little sun-burned. JJ seems to have sat down at katherine and is sending only 1 unit down the track. Maybe they are tired and shaggedout after all that walking to get there.

Anyway. I had A Thought. It was lonely as only children often are but it had lots of imagination and it imagined this:

1. Conventional wisdom says we take Wyndham and katherine thus cutting off JJs retreat route and supplies. But what if:
2. We were unconventional? How about landing on Timor and building it up as a major airbase and sink JJ's ships as they vainly attempt to supply/reinforce/evacuate JJ's Army of Australia?

I think My Thought needs some siblings, or possibly some friends.

[Chickenboy]

...and a whole lot of recon?

[sprior]

It's the Thought that counts.

[Mynok]

How will you supply Timor in the face of Netties at Darwin? And Kendari? And any other of the myriad islands that can have level 5 airfields in the area?

[sprior]

I'm taking my Thought away from you cruel men and keeping it safe in a box.

[Cap Mandrake]

Now, now. One must learn to take ownership of one's hair-brained ideas and not be so timid. What if Sir Winston had relented and not pushed forward with the Dardenelles operation?

[sprior]

Er, lots of nice ships wouldn't have been sunk?

[Cap Mandrake]

We could land at Babu...we own that...or more accurately the most albino group among our allies owns it.

It's 1(0)/0(4), but the problem is the gauntlet of level 3 and 4 Jap bases, Port Headland, Broome, Wyndham and Dawin