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

[Cap Mandrake]

So, after working yesterday, so I could earn more money and voluntarily check the box on my 2012 return to help pay down the national debt, I stop at Rubios for some really good (not kidding here) blackened salmon tacos and there is a little shop next door called, cleverly, "The Smoke Shop". It consists of several glass shelves and stark white walls with about 300 bongs on display. No Jimi Hendrix or Greatful Dead posters, no wrapping papers. Just bongs.

The proprietor, whom you might expect to have a pony tail and a tie-dye shirt, instead is tall and athletic whith short hair. He looks like he could be on the Iranian national soccer team or something.....and he is out front smoking a cigarette. 2011 and the owner of The Smoke Shop has to go outside to smoke. [:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So, after working yesterday, so I could earn more money and voluntarily check the box on my 2012 return to help pay down the national debt, I stop at Rubios for some really good (not kidding here) blackened salmon tacos and there is a little shop next door called, cleverly, "The Smoke Shop". It consists of several glass shelves and stark white walls with about 300 bongs on display. No Jimi Hendrix or Greatful Dead posters, no wrapping papers. Just bongs.

The proprietor, whom you might expect to have a pony tail and a tie-dye shirt, instead is tall and athletic whith short hair. He looks like he could be on the Iranian national soccer team or something.....and he is out front smoking a cigarette. 2011 and the owner of The Smoke Shop has to go outside to smoke. [:D]

Dude, those are water pipes. Not bongs-water pipes. For tobacco. [;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So, after working yesterday, so I could earn more money and voluntarily check the box on my 2012 return to help pay down the national debt, I stop at Rubios for some really good (not kidding here) blackened salmon tacos and there is a little shop next door called, cleverly, "The Smoke Shop". It consists of several glass shelves and stark white walls with about 300 bongs on display. No Jimi Hendrix or Greatful Dead posters, no wrapping papers. Just bongs.

The proprietor, whom you might expect to have a pony tail and a tie-dye shirt, instead is tall and athletic whith short hair. He looks like he could be on the Iranian national soccer team or something.....and he is out front smoking a cigarette. 2011 and the owner of The Smoke Shop has to go outside to smoke. [:D]

Dude, those are water pipes. Not bongs-water pipes. For tobacco. [;)]

Ah..well. That would explain his insouciance and lack of furtiveness. They still looked like bongs to me. [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

*********August 29, 1942*********


South Pacific: The combined efforts of a P-38 squadron flying sweeps and 3 squadrons of B-17's finally convinced Johnny Jap to give up Tanna airfield. There may have also been a mysterious loss of aviation support boys gone AWOL with all their Shinto shit left behind. A big Allied attack at Nadi today came in at 1:2 (just short of 1:1). Even so we destroyed quite a few Ronsons. The Allies suffered more disabled units so there will be no more ground attacks for a while. I have another Marine Regt headed to Fiji. The B-26's and P-39's and F4F's on ground attack are just not wearing down the Shinto Boys. Attention Washington....."SEND THE B-25's".

Oz: Malathion or Marekech or whatever that burg is on the road East of Geraldton is about 3.5 airfield level now. It will be at least level 4 for the offensive. The Jap shipping at PM is trying to make it back singly to Rabaul and is getting hammered by teh sub gauntlet. PM airfield is 100% destoyed. Terpao about 30% but there are no planes there. The Oscars that were covering PM (by LRCAP I imagine) have given up after they were hammered by Beaufighter sweeps from Horn. The Mediums at Horn are going after Lae today (which is only level one). When Horn is up to level 4 I can shut down Madang. All of this is to make New Guinea look like the next site fo attack and to allow safer shipping through the Torres Strait. I plan to send a regiment to take Merauke when Operation Weasel starts.

[Cap Mandrake]

**************SoPac Air HQ, Suva, August 29, 1942************


Adm. Halsey:.....What's wrong with "KILL JAPS!"?

M&M Enterprises Managment Consultant in fine linen slacks: It is very concise, sir, but I think Sec. Stimson is looking for something more suitable for public release.

Adm. Halsey: Stimson? Hasn't he anything better to do?

M&M Enterprises Managment Consultant in fine linen slacks: It is a political position, sir. Can you imagine how awkward it will be for the future governance of Japan?

Adm. Halsey: Governance of Japan? Hell, if I have my way there won't be anything left to govern.

M&M Enterprises Managment Consultant in fine linen slacks: Splendid enthusiasm, sir! Now let's see if we can wordsmith that a bit. With your permission I'd like to come up to the front and we can brainstorm ideas. <walks assertively to the front and grabs chalk> Anyone..just shout it out.

Intel Officer: How about, "South Pac Air HQ, we endeavor to eradicate the Japanese race!"

39th Fighter Squadron, CO: "Everyday"

Intel Officer: Yeah, "Everyday". That's good!

M&M Enterprises Managment Consultant in fine linen slacks: I like it. I like it. Do you think we can soften "eradicate"?......

[Cap Mandrake]

************C-Ring Pentagon, Aug. 29, 1942**************


Sec. Stimson: <on phone> Director Hoover? This is Henry Stimson........Yes, yes, I'm fine....Yes, the wife is fine too. And yours?......oh, I see. Sorry, silly of me. Say, the reason I called is I want your guys to get rid of someone......No, not KILL him, just induce him to retire, he's nominally on our side but I am tired of the complaints......Right, got a pen? OK, William Halsey, H-A-L-S-E-Y, Halsey, Admiral USN. He's in Fiji......yes the one in the South Pacific....Yes, of course we still own it. Any ideas?....ummhmmm....ummmhmmmm.....Itch powder? You don't say?....Does it really work?

[erstad]

And who is this "LI" guy?

A LI is a Chinese unit of distance. You can trust me, I have a well-used Scrabble dictionary.

How one would bomb a LI, I'm not totally sure. My guess would be it refers to interdiction of ground movement.

[witpqs]

You guys are all wrong...

[Cap Mandrake]

I swear. You never know what the fish are going to bite on. Sometimes you creep up on a good riffle, spot a hatch so thick you need to keep your mouth closed, identify Pale Morning Dun 2 weeks early, hand tie a few at creekside, throw down your loops and start to tie the first one on and some gomer in flip flops, shorts and a 3rd degree sunburn
tosses in some PowerBait, hooks a 20 inch Brown on the first cast and spooks the entire hole.

It could be Cindy Li Who too

[Cap Mandrake]

Sweet Jesus...does no one...OK...I'll wait a little bit.

[Cap Mandrake]

By ra way. Cindy Li Who as an adult...Santa Maria!

[Zacktar]

You guys are all wrong...

But trying to bomb Jet Li is a classic schoolboy error. He'll just run upwards, jumping from each falling bomb to the next one above it, until he can hop on top of the plane and punch out the pilot through the windscreen.

[Zacktar]

Cindy Li Who as an adult...Santa Maria!

Just be very, very careful that you don't wind up with Cindy Lou Who in her later years . . .

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Zacktar

Cindy Li Who as an adult...Santa Maria!

Just be very, very careful that you don't wind up with Cindy Lou Who in her later years . . .

If you live long enough, odds are SOMETHING like this is going to happen... [:)]

[Zacktar]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
If you live long enough, odds are SOMETHING like this is going to happen... [:)]

That's the beauty of the classic "Wooderson theory of dating", from the movie Dazed and Confused: "I get older, they stay the same age" [;)]

[sprior]

"I get older, they stay the same age"

The very definition of a dirty old man.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

"I get older, they stay the same age"

The very definition of a dirty old man.

Only if you don't have money. [:)]

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

"I get older, they stay the same age"

The very definition of a dirty old man.

Only if you don't have money. [:)]

It's true. At a certain income level stalking becomes affection . . . just ask Mike Douglas.

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior



The very definition of a dirty old man.

Only if you don't have money. [:)]

It's true. At a certain income level stalking becomes affection . . . just ask Mike Douglas.

"stalking" [:D][:D][:D]


BTW, whatever Mike Douglas is using, I want some. CZJ is just about as fine as a woman can get! [&o][&o][&o][&o][&o][&o][&o][&o][&o][&o][&o]

[Cap Mandrake]

Editor's Note: The level of miscogyny on display here is beneath contempt. I am going to recommend that our members girlcot this thread.

Mz. Gloria Allread, former guest Editrix, immediate past President, National Association of Gals, acting Ombudsperson Same Sex Preference and Transgender (Living as Female) Division.