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

[sprior]

August 7th (?)

East African Brigade unloads safely at Perth, the support elements of 6th and 7th Aus Divs arrived a fw days ago.

Port Headland now has 23k troops, nearly as many as Katherine. The current thought is that we can bomb it to bits and by pass it on our way to Broome/Derby.

[Cap Mandrake]

I had 20 minutes for lunch today so I went to grab something at Carls Jr (don't say anything).

The guy in front of me in line was this 50ish Hispanic guy who spoke little English (really liitle, he was about 5ft 3). He had on this "mint condition" Battlefield Earth T-shirt with a picture of Travolta with green eyes and goofy facial hair and some space fighters with the immortal words of L. Ron Hubbard, "Take back the planet".

I started to imagine how this neo-Mayan came to own a brand new T-shirt emblazoned with the graphics of one of the worst movies ever made. Where was the T-shirt for 11 years? You don't suppose someone is still printing the thing? Was he a neo-Mayan Scientologist? April 1st...you don't suppose this is a gag? I looked around, just a couple of blue-hairs. Maybe he didn't know how bad it was because it had no subtitles? Most likely he just bought it at a flea market for 15 cents because it looked new.

You see that around here...hilariously inappropriate T-shirts on non English speakers. I once hired a day laborer for yard cleanup with a t-shirt that read "National Orgnanization for Women/San Francisco Convention/ September 12-15, 1996" or something like that.

[Cap Mandrake]

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[witpqs]

An inexpensive leftover! Take a perfectly good t-shirt that they will try to soak you for, then put a Battlefield Earth scene on it. Voila! Flea market merchandise, good quality and cheap, perfect for work.

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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What the....[X(]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

What the....[X(]

That was a "major motion picture". Maybe it wasn't as bad as Plan 9 From Outer Space... but then again maybe it was.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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What the....[X(]

Nothing says 'cool movie' like interstellar codpieces. [:D] [8|]

[BrucePowers]

I have never even seen a clip of that movie.[:D]

[USSAmerica]

You know, the book was actually very good.  I read it the first time as a teenager and have re-read it several times.  Never made an attempt to watch the movie.  [:D]

[BrucePowers]

I read the book before I knew who L Ron Hubbard was.......

[Cap Mandrake]

OK...i'm on a laptop and I am getting a version incompatibility error....I think this laptop has all the versions through about November 2010.

What do I need and where do I get it?

[HMS Resolution]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Mynok

What the....[X(]

That was a "major motion picture". Maybe it wasn't as bad as Plan 9 From Outer Space... but then again maybe it was.

I saw both (in the same 24 hour period!) at a b-movie film festival at Northwestern a few years back. Plan 9 is more charming in its ineptness, Battlefield: Earth is just plain dreadful.

[Onime No Kyo]

It could be worse, fellas. I saw the last incarnation of Resident Evil last night. [8|]

[Itdepends]

Last post on page one- what's going on!
More carnage required- failing that- an update on the hot HOA president will do [8|]

[Cap Mandrake]

Yes, I was in Lost Wages for a few days. Naturally , I lost everything I won last time. I would double on 11 against a 5, draw a 9 and then the dealer would make a 6 card 21. It was one of those deals. Didn't see any hot HOA Presidents but the waitresses out by the pool were cute.

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

WitP-AE -- US LCU & AI Stuff

Oddball: Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
Moriarty: Crap!

Ah, I love a fan of classic movies!


Here's some more:

Big Joe: Look, Mac, you and us? We're just soldiers, right? We don't even know what this war's all about. All we do is we fight and we die and for what? We don't get anything out of it. In about a half an hour the whole American army's gonna be comin' down that road. Why don't you do yourself a great, big fat favor, huh? And get the hell outta here?

German tank commander: I have orders. This bank isn't to fall into the hands of the American army.

Kelly: Sergeant, this bank's not gonna fall into the hands of the American army. It's gonna fall in our hands. You see, we're just a private enterprise operation.

German tank commander: You... the American army!

Oddball: No, baby, we ain't.

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I think with men like Kelly in Europe, and Milo in the Pacific, Adam Smith's concept of the wealth of nations deriving from the unfettered efforts of individual citizens will be translated into reality for at least the next 60 years!

[moore4807]

I am now FULLY convinced that Cap Mandrake has special powers on this AAR... I just logged on and my password is.... HOAHOS, he MUST have access to the mainframe at Matrix! [:D][:D][:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

HOAHOS....priceless. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

HOAHOS

That is either a cylindrical, frosted, cream-filled cake that comes in a sealed plastic wrapper and is dripping with enough preservatives to make it suitable as an emergency food ration for you zombie apocolypse shelter....or.....it is the title of a new Hip Hop "song".

[Cap Mandrake]

I had a dream last night with Willie Nelson in it.

He came up to me excitedly and proclaimed, "You have to listen to this!". Then he pressed some button and the dream was filled with the lyrics of "On the Road Again" sung by a Sinatra clone with some wild jazz horn arrangement. It was really bad.

I think I said something polite but I'm not sure.

Anybody know what this means?