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

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

PH and environs (from yesterday). By ra way, do we literally need a unit in every hex between Exmouth and PH to get supply to flow? Pretend I did not read the manual.

Yes. We will pretend you didn't read the manual. No. You do not need a unit in every hex between Exmouth and PH to get supply to flow. You'll get supply through, but it will be slow.

[witpqs]

Definitely send supply ships.

[Itdepends]

Hey Sprior I note in the news tonight (on multiple channels) that an Aussie activist messed up the annual Oxford/Cambridge rowing race protesting against elitism (and the coverage wasn't complimentary).

Like many activists he's got little regard for the rights of others- just his message. Bloody idiot.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

Hey Sprior I note in the news tonight (on multiple channels) that an Aussie activist messed up the annual Oxford/Cambridge rowing race protesting against elitism (and the coverage wasn't complimentary).

Like many activists he's got little regard for the rights of others- just his message. Bloody idiot.

Bloody 1 percenters. Oxford has .0000000001% of the world's population and uses 20% of the rowing resources. You will never see a subsistence fisherman in Bangladesh in an 8 man racing shell.


<gets story idea>

[Cap Mandrake]

***********Bathurst Is., Dec. 17, 1942(c)*********


A dozen ripe-smelling and scabies-infested men and women (I think) are painting posters and playing bongo drums amid a cluster of dirty tents on the beach.

Hirsute man: What the Hell are you crazy SOB's doing? This is a minefield!

Even more hirsute and foul-smelling guy: We are Occupy Tawi!

Hirsute man: But this is MINEFIELD, you crazy SOB!

Even more hirsute and foul-smelling guy: These are symbols of the captialist war machine. We reject this minefield.

Hirsute man: But you can't simply "reject" minefield's. You could be killed or even maimed.

Even more hirsute and foul-smelling guy: Bring us the one you call Milo.

Hirsute man: Milo? Are you crazy. <lowers voice and turns to Father O'brien> Padre, can't you do something? The landing is in less than a week. We are getting paid to supply a map of the minefield. We can't have beatniks lying about.

Father O'brien: Sorry, Yossarian. I thinked I may have erred with that sermon on Liberation Theology.

[Chickenboy]

Father O'Brien-that was supposed to be about liberation theology, not liberal theology. [:@]

[khyberbill]

My personal devotions are to liberal libations.

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

***********Bathurst Is., Dec. 17, 1942(c)*********


A dozen ripe-smelling and scabies-infested men and women (I think) are painting posters and playing bongo drums amid a cluster of dirty tents on the beach.

Hirsute man: What the Hell are you crazy SOB's doing? This is a minefield!

Even more hirsute and foul-smelling guy: We are Occupy Tawi!

Hirsute man: But this is MINEFIELD, you crazy SOB!

Even more hirsute and foul-smelling guy: These are symbols of the captialist war machine. We reject this minefield.

Hirsute man: But you can't simply "reject" minefield's. You could be killed or even maimed.

Even more hirsute and foul-smelling guy: Bring us the one you call Milo.

Hirsute man: Milo? Are you crazy. <lowers voice and turns to Father O'brien> Padre, can't you do something? The landing is in less than a week. We are getting paid to supply a map of the minefield. We can't have beatniks lying about.

Father O'brien: Sorry, Yossarian. I thinked I may have erred with that sermon on Liberation Theology.

I'd sugget Yossarian acquire some "prescription medication substrate" from the M&M Enterprises MMDD (Medical Marijuana Dispensary Division), with offices conveniently located throughout all of California, and dispense the product generously as compensation for Mr. Minderbinder's inablity to meet with them personally on the beach.

Once Yossarian has been generous with the "medicinal substrate," allowing a few hours for letting the bongo-players on the beach indulge, then pretty soon the mine-field map issue should be moot; the mines will be "disabled," one way or the other...

Or, as an old 3rd Marine Division Gunny once explained to me, "Hey, Doc, cool it! Mine detectors are where you find them..." [:-]

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Much worse is I missed the 7 couple dinner party with a 7 deadly sin theme that Pocahantas Girl (the one that went commando in the police-mini-skirt thing on Halloween) threw tonight while I am working [:@]

Lobster macaroni, cioppino, oysters, 7 rib prime rib roast, yorkshire pudding. [:@]

Yes, exactly, it was the 7 courses of the meal that were supposed to represent the 7 dealy sins. They were still going when I got off work at 9:30 so I caught some of the courses. Of course, they were 2 hrs. ahead of me on drinking. The women were having a contest to see who could use the F-word the most by the time I got there. I was easily the least cognitively impaired but sadly, there was no disrobing.

Gluttony was the lobster and Andouille macaroni which was, without a doubt, the best ******* macaroni I ever had.

Sloth was the slow-cooked prime rib. It was a beautiful thing..7 ribs, beautifully seared, fantastic rub on the outside. The one chic who used the F-word the most was a "vegetarian". She declined the prime rib but she found the carrots which had sat at the bottom of the roast pan for 5 hrs and had bathed in liquid beef fat and were half-encrusted with beef drippings...you know what I mean..that crispy, salty, glutamate rush that nothing that ever came out of the ground will ever achieve on it's own. She was literally squirming in her chair with her eyes half rolled back in her head making animal sounds. I thought she was going to leave a wet spot.

Somebody made a fig pudding with vanilla ice cream and a hot butter cream sauce. It was insanely good. Not sure what sin that was but holy ******* **** that was ******* good.

Lust was oyster shooters, raw oysters in vodka and that hot red stuff from that island in Louisiana. That was ******* good too. I had to use a fork to eat the oyster because I wasn't going to slurp an oyster that big. All the women made fun of me claimimg they had to do things like that all the time. [X(] Wow, there was some serious ******* drinking going on before I got there. [:-]

Best description of the party's atmosphere I ever read. No wonder you put up with the HOA to stay in the neighbourhood!

Darn, Cap, you should have called in sick to get out of your call shift that evening!

It must be nice to live with the "Real Housewives of Orange County" --- oops, sorry, now I'm guilty of Envy [X(].

By the ray, what dinner course was "envy?"

One final question: Did Pocahontas go commando once again? As Nimitz inquired of Halsey, "The world wonders?" [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

I, of course, do not know if Pocahontas went commando because there were no skimpy costumes. She has formed a company to market her "idea". The way she was talking I thought it might be the next Facebook. As far as I can tell, it involves sex and the marketing strategy will be "customers get it for free but businesses have to pay". [X(]

Evidently, I am viewed as some titan of industry and some kind of competitive threat as I am not an insider. In fact, all the insiders have already signed "NDA's" and were giggling about it at the party. Perhaps the reason I knew what an "NDA" was is the reason I am not permitted to know the source code. I did hear about one "product" obliquely from across the table and frankly, I don't know how it is going to "stay on".

[Cap Mandrake]

*********Dec 18, 1942(c), 3rd Planet from the Sun**********


Admiral Lord SPrior has been abducted by gypsies so I had to do his turn. You would think the Gypsies would leave a 6ft 4 guy with a thick cranium alone ..but..

In one turn I lost Hill 441 near some burg called Kweiyang or Poontang or something like that. He will already be in a bad mood after the gypsies get done with him and this isn't going to help. Nobody mention it, OK?

Ground combat at 76,50 (near Kweiyang)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 12700 troops, 114 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 446

Defending force 1032 troops, 34 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 48

Japanese adjusted assault: 698

Allied adjusted defense: 22

Japanese assault odds: 31 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
541 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 37 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled


Allied ground losses:
206 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 26 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 17 (3 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

[Cap Mandrake]

Port Headrand: LYB bombers got through, damaging one AK and sinking George Livanos. The name struck me. I think the vessel had been hit before or maybe there was some kind of scandal involving salted sea urchin roe. Anyway, I looked it up. There were no less than 3 Greek shipping nagnates named George Livanos all descended from a family on the island of Chios. Imagine that, a family of magnates who all go into shipping. You would think they would get tired of getting stuck to the steel hulls and railings and shit. Perhaps they got into the business when the ships were made of wood and just never learned another profession.

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/07/busin ... iness.html

Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Hedland at 57,129

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 51 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 20 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
G3M2 Nell x 7



Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 2
P-38G Lightning x 3
F4F-4 Wildcat x 4


Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
xAK Barossa, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK George Livanos, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

In any event, the LYB will have lost some planes and we lose one AK. The people of Chios may be pissed off but the Allied war effort is undamaged.

[Cap Mandrake]

Port Hedrand: Good frying weather. The LYB's just get pounded by the mediums while the B-17's pulverize the airfield again. There is almost no frack. I know I said this once and was wrong but I think their chrysanthemum scented goose is cooked at PH. I think we can begin to move the 17's to help over Darwin.

[Cap Mandrake]

Chios. Quite beautiful. I can see why they all turned into magnates. Everything is rock. Good ruck growing orives.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*********Dec 18, 1942(c), 3rd Planet from the Sun**********


Admiral Lord SPrior has been abducted by gypsies so I had to do his turn. You would think the Gypsies would leave a 6ft 4 guy with a thick cranium alone ..but..

Maybe they had to move some furniture or something?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*********Dec 18, 1942(c), 3rd Planet from the Sun**********


Admiral Lord SPrior has been abducted by gypsies so I had to do his turn. You would think the Gypsies would leave a 6ft 4 guy with a thick cranium alone ..but..

Maybe they had to move some furniture or something?

[:D][:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Last turn, our death star drove over a LYB sub at the "Rockhampton Bulge" which is a favortie JJ fishing spot (because the AI plots the same route whether you are departing from Bombay or Papaete). This angered me so I sent an ASW group.

ASW attack near Rockhampton at 99,151

Japanese Ships
SS I-159, hits 1

Allied Ships
APD Kilty, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCalla

[:@] Now I am even MORE angry.

[Cap Mandrake]

Darwin: The Air Boss at Alice is a glass-eater and he gets "maximum effort" from the B-24's again. The Oscars are not giving up. Uggh, 16 "damaged". we may lose a few on the trip back.



Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14



Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 57


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 16 damaged



Airbase hits 9
Runway hits 9

[Cap Mandrake]

Katherine: Effective raids by B-17's and LB-30's from Merauke and Horn Is. Then the ground boys make their presence known. This is quite satisfying but I don't know how long we can bring up ammo by donkey. In addition to 20th Div, there is a regiment of 38th Div at Katherine.

Ground combat at Katherine (76,128)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 19788 troops, 468 guns, 568 vehicles, Assault Value = 1195

Defending force 18028 troops, 189 guns, 64 vehicles, Assault Value = 600

Japanese ground losses:
146 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
9th Australian Brigade
6th Australian Brigade
3rd Motor Brigade
2/4th Armoured Regiment
4th Aus Cav Brigade
3rd Army Tank Brigade
18th British Division
108th Tank Attack Regiment
205th Field Artillery Battalion
NW Australia Base Force

Defending units:
20th Division
38th/C Division

[Cap Mandrake]

There is also a financial advisor named George Livanos in Durham, NC. I don't know if he is a magnate or not. It would be comical if 50 people sent him an email expressing their condolences over the loss of the ship named after him. [:)]

http://fa.smithbarney.com/georgelivanos/