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

[Cap Mandrake]

I was going to say the plane looked like a Lancaster with two engines missing...but the tail is wrong as well. It kinda looks like a B-36 (First mock-up completed July 42...I looked it up) minus 4 engines. [:)]

I found this exceedingly cool pic of a Lancaster over Hamburg at night.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I'm just curious why Peter Max was grounded whilest his mates flew overhead, him gazing up in comaradarie and fondness. If Peter Max was any good, why was he grounded? If he wasn't good enough to fly for the Indian Air Force, what hope would I, as a commoner, ever hope to fly some of his majesty's unidentifiable / poorly rendered aircraft in defense of the realm? The whole thing is rather a downer if you ask me.

I was thinking more along the lines of Peter Max having done the poster. See below*



*WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT! READER CAUTION ADVISED..ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD LUNCH.

[Cap Mandrake]

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[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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Recruiting

Wow..I had no idea Peter Max worked for the His Majesty's Indian Air Force recruiting department.

Not sure what that plane is...maybe a B-17 missing 2 engines but it is most certainly NOT a Wapiti..so it is false advertising.

It's a Blenheim. Obviously.

[sprior]

Troops preparing for Hedland

[sprior]

Troops prepping for Broome

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

Recruiting

Wow..I had no idea Peter Max worked for the His Majesty's Indian Air Force recruiting department.

Not sure what that plane is...maybe a B-17 missing 2 engines but it is most certainly NOT a Wapiti..so it is false advertising.

It's a Blenheim. Obviously.

Nose is too long..and rounded

Horizontal stabilizers are too big

Wings are mounted in the wrong place...like a PBY or something

Other than that.....it's a PERFECT Blenheim![;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Troops prepping for Broome

Go team! Are you sure you have enough AP's?

How about 32nd ID?

[Cap Mandrake]

The Broome force will require about 86,000 load points at a minimum. If we want them to get ashore quickly they will require 2x that much. The assault infantry and armor and artillery offload fast at about 1/3 load. Of course, I imagine you might not send them all in one wave.

Also, can we scrounge up some combat engineers for Port Headland? I think we will find some forts there.

[sprior]

32ID and some engineers are on their way by train.

[Cap Mandrake]

That picture of smoke over Burma reminds of a story I heard about Lord Mountbottom. He had just arrived in the CBI to take command and he was flying over Burma in a command inspection when he spied a winding silver feature.


Lord Mountbottom: What river is that?

Aide: That's the Ledo Road, sir.

[Cap Mandrake]

*********Sept. 3, 1942***********

The 4 US fleet carriers have arrived at Adelaide. Most likely, JJ does not know where our carriers are at this point. They are still patrolling heavily off western Oz with subs..or maybe it just seems that way because the ASW search assets are more robust there. The heavies are organizing at Alice (VII US Fighter Command..B-24's and a squadron of P-38's and some F-5's coming from Fiji) and Geraldton (VII US Bomber Commmand..B17E/F's and some P-38's operating from Geraldton)

The plan on Aldertag will be to sweep with the P-38's (from Marakesh over Port Headland and from Tennant over Wyndham) with concurrent attacks by the heavies from Geraldton and Alice. We will need decent weather at all 4 airfields and both targets and good recon and it will have to coordinate with the push off from Perth which is likely to be spotted by subs. There are no reserve P-38 squadrons so when they start to break down we might have to use the RAAF Beaufighters on sweep missions. I think we can beat up Port Headland airfield pretty badly before the ships arrive but JJ will probably move some aircraft to Broome. Wyndham has to be taken down a notch because of the potential Netty threat. We can't really do anything about the Timor airfields from Oz. And then there are the Jap carriers.

It should be quite a contest.

[Cap Mandrake]

I'm stuck at work on Father's day so I am going to waste company bandwith telling a story my brother in law told me on Easter.

Turns out he has a notoriously skinflint brother who asked to borrow the ski boat. That is a big thing to ask to borrow but out of fraternal obligation, T agreed to loan it for the day, but he warned his brother the battery was dead and he would have to replace it. They agreed.

Next time T takes out the boat, it is on the ramp with the boat on the trailer. He let's go the tie-down and the boat rolls off the trailer and back about 30 ft from shore. He puts in the key, turns it.....nothing...not even a click. "WTF...%$^#&#*#*@@" He opens the battery compartment and there are just two cables poking into empty air. [:D]


Turns out his brother had taken the old battery in, got the core rebate, bought a new battery...then...at the end of the day, he took the new battery out and took it back to the store to get his money back, claiming it was defective. [:D][:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

This reminds me of another brother-in-law story (different brother in law). I believe the event was a spur of the moment bachelor party of sorts for my future brother in law "thrown" by his brothers at some divey place in Anaheim with beer at $12 a pitcher. I get there like 30 minutes late and it is already like a 3 year old birthday party where somebody spiked the punch with a veterinary anesthetic. One of his brothers is somewhere in the Van Allen belt but, amazingly, is still able to form complete sentences. He is dancing around and singing like a 3 year old on veterinary anesthetic...then he suddenly stops. "I'm not feeling so good", he says. I take a few steps back. He grabs a mostly empty pitcher of beer and, while standing, barfs until it is about half full, then he sets it down and immediately says, "Damn! That dinner was just as good the second time. I don't care what anyone says" [:D][:D] Then he grabs his beer glass and starts drinking again. [X(]



At the time I thought the joke was contemporaneous...but I now suspect he has canned lines ready for throwing up social occaisions.[:)]

[anarchyintheuk]

Canned lines sound like a practical idea. Reminds me of a college roomate who got to the point to where he would apologize to people prior to him starting drinking for what he was about to do whilst under the influence. He apologized in advance at a bachelor's party several years later, so it seems that canned lines are still on the cutting edge of linguistic skills.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Canned lines sound like a practical idea. Reminds me of a college roomate who got to the point to where he would apologize to people prior to him starting drinking for what he was about to do whilst under the influence. He apologized in advance at a bachelor's party several years later, so it seems that canned lines are still on the cutting edge of linguistic skills.

I have known people like that. "Instant ***hole, just add alcohol!"

Seems to me the trick to drinking alcohol and not waking up next to the boss's wife is to stay in the "light buzz window". This is that state of mild cerebral dysfunction associated with sociability and mirthmaking and harmless flirtation where one might still catch or even make a reference to some mythological figure (NB, loudly proclaiming, "To Bacchus!" while tossing back another round does NOT qualify). Any consumption which involves a timing device, the fulminating mixture of different alcoholic beverages, electromechanical devices to speed ingestion or the involvement of attractive young women with nice brestesses in the employ of the establishment in order to induce impulsive purchases is likely to end badly.

Now, if it is not a work party, there are no nuns in attendance and one can wait a bit to drive (or take a cab), then, with practice, one can safely move to the the "medium buzz" or even the "wawa zone" but then one must take a respite. These measures will safely avoid the beer goggle effect, amnesia, worshiping the porcelain throne and DUI's.

Of course, as with most athletic activities, conditioning and stretching are most important.

[Cap Mandrake]

*************Officer's Club, Suva, Sept. 3, 1942************


Man in fine linen slacks: Hey, Yossarian, let me pick your brain about a new product line idea.

Hirsute man now beginning to grow a beard: Will it hurt?

Man in fine linen slacks: Yossarian, you crazy SOB. It's just an expression.

Hirsute man now beginning to grow a beard: For most people, yes.

Man in fine linen slacks: Look, do you want to hear my idea or not?

Hirsute man now beginning to grow a beard: Do I have a choice?

Man in fine linen slacks: No. So, here is the deal. What mode of demise does life insurance NOT cover?

Hirsute man now beginning to grow a beard: MIA. My dad still has not got his check.

Man in fine linen slacks: No, no, no. I mean SUICIDE.

Hirsute man now beginning to grow a beard: Yeah, so?

Man in fine linen slacks: Well, that's my idea, suicide insurance.

Hirsute man now beginning to grow a beard: Why, you crazy SOB, there is a REASON suicide is excluded.

Man in fine linen slacks: Sure, sure, but I'm not talking about regular suicide insurance, I am talking about Hara-kiri insurance.

Hirsute man now beginning to grow a beard: Milo, that is the craziest ass thing I have ever heard you say. Who is going to buy something like that?

Man in fine linen slacks: Jap officers.

Hirsute man now beginning to grow a beard: The Allies are going on the offensive and you are going to sell Hara-kiri insurance to Jap officers? Maybe I am not quite grasping the business model.

To be continued

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Canned lines sound like a practical idea. Reminds me of a college roomate who got to the point to where he would apologize to people prior to him starting drinking for what he was about to do whilst under the influence. He apologized in advance at a bachelor's party several years later, so it seems that canned lines are still on the cutting edge of linguistic skills.

I have known people like that. "Instant ***hole, just add alcohol!"

Seems to me the trick to drinking alcohol and not waking up next to the boss's wife is to stay in the "light buzz window". This is that state of mild cerebral dysfunction associated with sociability and mirthmaking and harmless flirtation where one might still catch or even make a reference to some mythological figure (NB, loudly proclaiming, "To Bacchus!" while tossing back another round does NOT qualify). Any consumption which involves a timing device, the fulminating mixture of different alcoholic beverages, electromechanical devices to speed ingestion or the involvement of attractive young women with nice brestesses in the employ of the establishment in order to induce impulsive purchases is likely to end badly.

Now, if it is not a work party, there are no nuns in attendance and one can wait a bit to drive (or take a cab), then, with practice, one can safely move to the the "medium buzz" or even the "wawa zone" but then one must take a respite. These measures will safely avoid the beer goggle effect, amnesia, worshiping the porcelain throne and DUI's.

Of course, as with most athletic activities, conditioning and stretching are most important.

Don't forget pre-hydration.

I see a career for you in freshman orientation lectures. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

New neighbors up the street are putting in a pool and 900,000 BTU bar-b-q. I wave to them when they drive by in hopes of getting invited. Honestly, if the entire neighborhood got together and lit their unused 900,000 BTU bar-b-q's at once the Chicoms would probably have a false alarm for an ICBM launch.

Here is the deal. A couple moves in and the guy naturally wants a big backyard bar-b-q with rotiserie and a fridge and an outdoor fireplace with imported limestone...so they hire a contractor and he puts one in. The neighbor's get invited over once or twice..then...yada, yada, yada...he cheats on her or she cheats on him....yada, yada, yada...divorce...she gets the house and the bar-b-q is built in so it stays with the house. She gets mad and throws out all his bar-b-q tools and the thing sits idle for 20 or 30 years until she either gets dementia or dies. Then the kids sell the house and the new owner tears out the old bar-b-q because avocado colored tiles have come back in and the whole thing starts all over again.

It is quite sad, really. Never, EVER install a built-in bar-b-q.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Of course, as with most athletic activities, conditioning and stretching are most important.

I'm sorry, but what exactly are we stretching here and what does my boss' wife have to do with this? [&:]