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

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*****************El Cholo Club, near bomber strip, Suva Aerodrome, Fiji, July 30, 1942**************



A dozen young USAAF officers in flight jackets are gathered around a hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes.


Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: ....look, we all have the same goal. We ALL want for this to be over and to go home to our homes and families, right? God knows, this is my third time.

Young USAAF officer: Third time?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Yes, third time.

Young USAAF officer: Do you mean Captain, this is your third war?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Yes, A, B, and C.

Young USAAF officer: Don't you mean I and II sir?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: No, I mean A, B and C.

Young man in fine linen slacks: Captain, Yossarian. Aren't you straying off topic? The business opportunity?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Oh, yeah, the business opportunity. Right, it's like this. What is the best way to achieve that goal, through a top-down command and control model or by harnessing the restless spirit of innovation and creativity that resides in all of us?

Young man in fine linen slacks: <soto voce> Son of a bitch! That was damn good!................

Santos Mio! Whatever he's selling, I'm buying, Big Guy! [&o]

"The color of scarcity is Golden-Green." A sign I saw displayed over my local Gas Station when I filled up the Expedition today.

I think MIlo's grandson owns the place.

[sprior]

Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say.

I should introduce you to the wonders of franglais.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say.

I should introduce you to the wonders of franglais.

Isn't that the one you need the adhesive moustache for? Or is that more frenchlish?

[Ossian]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Santa Maria!
....The ground bombardment attacks at Nadi have gone negative again...

Negative? Doesn't that mean they're shelling their own troops? Hmm....I wonder if they're using shells supplied by the WJD? It sounds like the sort of opportunity for cost efficiency a certain young man in fine linen slacks might be able to facilitate..

[Ossian]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say.

I should introduce you to the wonders of franglais.

No need for franglais: The comedian Al Murray maintains that the reason we should speak very slowly and very loudly when addressing Johnny Foreigner is that it forces their brains to vibrate on the resonant frequency required to understand English. I haven't tried it yet, myself.

[erstad]

No need for franglais: The comedian Al Murray maintains that the reason we should speak very slowly and very loudly when addressing Johnny Foreigner is that it forces their brains to vibrate on the resonant frequency required to understand English. I haven't tried it yet, myself.

I'm not familiar with Al Murray, but I assume it also helps if you throw in sterotypical phonemes from the language in question at the beginning or ends of the English words.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: erstad

No need for franglais: The comedian Al Murray maintains that the reason we should speak very slowly and very loudly when addressing Johnny Foreigner is that it forces their brains to vibrate on the resonant frequency required to understand English. I haven't tried it yet, myself.

I'm not familiar with Al Murray, but I assume it also helps if you throw in sterotypical phonemes from the language in question at the beginning or ends of the English words.

what-o are you talking about-o?

[rtrapasso]

[>:]&nbsp;[>:]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

[>:] [>:]

Maybe their opponents are on a fast space journey and are experiencing relativistic time dilation?

[Mynok]

Perhaps they made the unfortunate call to do a little barnstorming in a Oscar.

[Cap Mandrake]

Nah....Stalker Girl has been needy...I had to come in to work on Sunday...and I signed for that AE tourney...and the HOA is busting my chops again.

We are actually waiting on a turn now. Admiral Lord Sprior wants more fuel in Oz...he is right.

[sprior]

Fuel fuel fuel fuel fuel fuel fuel fuel fuel fuel fuel

Bloody Vikings!

[Onime No Kyo]

I think Simon might be a Monty Python fan. But I cant be certain....

[Cap Mandrake]

*********SouPac Air HQ, Suva, August 1, 1942*********


Adm Halsey:..I still haven't seen the intel estimate after yesterday's raid at Nadi.

Aide 1: Admiral, that is because there were no raids again yesterday sir.

Adm Halsey: Hmmm..weather?

Aide 1: No sir, good weather over the target, sir.

Adm Halsey: Goddamnit! I am getting pretty goddamned tired of this. I want all the squadron CO's in my office in 15 minutes!

Aide 1: Yes sir! <scurries out>

Aide 2: Sir, there is a Captain Meaney here to see you.

Adm Halsey: Who the Hell is he?

Aide 2: He says he is the new shop foreman and wants to talk about overtime rules. He says he's from the new Pilot's Union.

Adm Halsey: Shop foreman? Overtime rules? Pilot's union?<stands at his desk and begins to get red in the face...but not from a rash this time>

[Cap Mandrake]

I am pretty sure it's the Pilot's Union. The stack level looks OK. Weather is good . Supply is good. The Air Boss is a Pit Bull. The range is 1.

There can't possibly be any Jap LRCAP over Nadi, can there?

[fcharton]

Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say. Is calling something "El Rufo Company" a marketing decision?

If "rufo" is a masculine, and the -o ending suggests so, this is actually legit. Means "company of the roof", "el" goes with rufo.

As for franglais, isn't litterary english, to some extent, a genre-impaired dialect of French?

Francois

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: fcharton

Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say. Is calling something "El Rufo Company" a marketing decision?

If "rufo" is a masculine, and the -o ending suggests so, this is actually legit. Means "company of the roof", "el" goes with rufo.

Aha! I would accept that "rufo" is masculine (even though it is made up) but, as you suggest, the real construction should "the company of the roof" or "la compania del rufo" so the first article should be feminine or perhaps simply the English "The"...or whatever the want...which seems to be the predominant grammatical rule in Spanglish.

By ra way...they just finished putting on a faux would shingle product that comes in sheets. It looks surprisingly good from ground level. Other than the fact that they screwed around a bit on day one waiting for the product, they did a really good job. They worked hard and several times were still working at night WITHOUT LIGHTS about 7:30 when I got home. I would not want to be the liability guarantor of El Rufo Company.

[Cap Mandrake]

So I was out walking the quadripedal house destroyers the other night and this woman pulls up in a white Escalade.

Woman in a white Escalade: Excuse me, have you seen a lost dog?

Me: No, I haven't, what does he look like, I'll keep my eyes open.

Woman in a white Escalade: Oh, he's a Papillon, like this one.

Me: <I now notice a small pair of mammalian eyes and a puff of fur peeking out over the door> OH. <I don't have the heart to tell her that I thought she was talking about an actual dog instead a hamster cross. Jerry the rabbit was 3x the size of this thing and he STILL got killed by the bobcat. The big owl that prowls the neighborhood skies at night could take this thing easily. Then there are the coyotes. I don't even think a mountain lion would bother with the thing. I keep up the charade>

What is his name?

Woman in a white Escalade: Oh, he's "Big Boy".

Big Boy? Holy crap! No wonder the thing is lost. He is probably tired of all the teasing from the neghborhood dogs. I imagine he has rolled in left over meat and is sitting on the golf course, shivering, waiting for the coyotes with his eyes closed.

[Cap Mandrake]

Seeing the same vulnerability that I have seen, JJ has just landed on Tagula Is. Where is that? I will show you. I have been considering putting troops ashore there but have been waiting on the carrier refits which are now done. I am going to put ashore 21st Marine, a Marine Def. Bn., 2 SeeBee Bn's, a Bn of AA and some aviation support ashore at Rossel before they get the field ready on Tagula. A portion of naval support unit will be put ashore by the SST Nautilus before the landing. I have a low value AVP heading for Ndeni to scout Lunga with PBY's. I think I can get in from the SW with a good level of surprise and get the bulk ashore in 2-3 days then outbuild the Japs.

[witpqs]

Perhaps a misunderstanding - El Rufo might be the man's title. You know, CEO, as in "The Roof of the Company".