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

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Colonel Mustard

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

CVE="Carrier, Very Explosive"

"Combustible, Vulnerable, Expendable."

I blame the Office of Naval Procurement. 19 Kts with a tail wind. Bah.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: poodlebrain

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So, SG and I decided to go to San Diego Saturday for the night. The weather was fantastic so we started trying to find a room. EVERYTHING under $500 is booked and there is a $100 premium on everything. Comicon convention? No, I think that's over? We finally find a place in Encinitas about 25 miles up the coast. When we get there we discover it's the Gay Pride festival. Even worse, we were too late for the parade.

So we find this place in Encinitas, Vigilucci's...seriously good...wine, carpaccio, cioppino. SG gets so swept up in the atmosphere she has to go kiss the owner on the cheek when we are leaving. $200 and we have to thank HIM? [:D] The guy was just an operator. Any women without escorts he is there with free appetizers and booze. There were three women at the bar together. One looked like she just got out of a POW camp in Khota Baru, one was a bit chunky and the third was just right. Guess which one he is giving a backrub to? [:)]

I hope you didn't pass up the opportunity to ask him if he had an ancestor named Milo while you were thanking him.

You know, the guy was so effortlessly charismatic I wanted to kiss him too. The carpaccio was sublime, by ra way.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

You know, the guy was so effortlessly charismatic I wanted to kiss him too. The carpaccio was sublime, by ra way.

Sounds like he massaged your shoulders too! Or maybe all the way down the back so he could check the firmness of your ... wallet.[:D]

[dcpollay]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: poodlebrain

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So, SG and I decided to go to San Diego Saturday for the night. The weather was fantastic so we started trying to find a room. EVERYTHING under $500 is booked and there is a $100 premium on everything. Comicon convention? No, I think that's over? We finally find a place in Encinitas about 25 miles up the coast. When we get there we discover it's the Gay Pride festival. Even worse, we were too late for the parade.

So we find this place in Encinitas, Vigilucci's...seriously good...wine, carpaccio, cioppino. SG gets so swept up in the atmosphere she has to go kiss the owner on the cheek when we are leaving. $200 and we have to thank HIM? [:D] The guy was just an operator. Any women without escorts he is there with free appetizers and booze. There were three women at the bar together. One looked like she just got out of a POW camp in Khota Baru, one was a bit chunky and the third was just right. Guess which one he is giving a backrub to? [:)]

I hope you didn't pass up the opportunity to ask him if he had an ancestor named Milo while you were thanking him.

You know, the guy was so effortlessly charismatic I wanted to kiss him too. The carpaccio was sublime, by ra way.

The post-parade pride is contagious???[:D]

Not that there's anything wrong with that....

[Cap Mandrake]

*********Beach near Lingayen, 19:50, April 28**********

<A small dinghy approaches the beach with some difficulty as there is only one oar in operation. Surprised Japanese sentries aim their weapons in his direction.>

Brigadier Carton de Wiart: I say there! May I speak to whomever is in command here? I've come to negotiate the surrender of General Yamashita's command.

[Cap Mandrake]

********Gen. Yamashita's HQ, near Clark Field**********


Gen. Yamashita: What-ah happen to eye?

Brigadier Carton de Wiart: Ah, yes, a bit of nasty business at the Somme.

Gen. Yamashita: And arm?

Brigadier Carton de Wiart: Ah, Arras...no Passchendaele..or both perhaps.

Gen. Yamashita: Why come here?

Brigadier Carton de Wiart: Ah, yes. General, I am authorized to accept the orderly surrender of all Imperial Japanese forces on Luzon.

Gen. Yamashita: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHA! Miro send you, right? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Oh, Miro make me raugh! HAHAHAHA.....

[Cap Mandrake]

**********Beach, Gulf of Lingayen, April 29, 1943(c)**********

<A man in His Majesty's uniform climbs into dinghy>


Gen. Yamashita: OK, Adrian. Go terr MacArthur to pound-ah sand, you crazy son of bitch. Terr him I come for him.

Brigadier Carton de Wiart: Ah, splendid! What avenue of attack, then?

Gen. Yamashita: I not terr you, you crazy son of bitch. You find out when Japan men attack.

Brigadier Carton de Wiart: Will you be in command, Tomoyuki-san, you crazy son of a bitch?

Gen. Yamashita: Of course Tomoyuki in command.

Brigadier Carton de Wiart: Then I shall kill you when we next meet.

Gen. Yamashita: No, I kirr you, you crazy son of bitch. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! You make me raugh, Adrian.

Brigadier Carton de Wiart: Yes, it's been great fun, Tomoyuki-san. <begin rowing>

Gen. Yamashita: Don't go in circles, Adrain! HAHAHAHAHAHAH.......

[Cap Mandrake]

"Frankly I had enjoyed the war...and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun".


Brigadier Carton de Wiart. [:D] What a character. he even has a Facebook page.


https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adrian-C ... 8502293854#

[Cap Mandrake]

**********Situation, PI***********


Lingayen: The westward directional pip over the LYB forces at Lingayen has disappeared. Only the northeasterly indicator remains. There are still 26K LYB's at Lingayen. I wonder if they called off their move toward Iba and instead intend to pound San Fernanado and Vigan?

San Fernando: There are now a "shed-load" of Ronsons at San Fernando. The relief column of armor from Vigan arrived. Now the remainder of Aus 7th Div and the armor will move back East together. Of course, JJ may attack first. War is Hell. We learned our lesson and will not be in move mode.

CVE's: The two damaged CVE's have 25-35% flotation damage and will try to make Butuan in northern Mindanao.


Many reinforcements headed for Iba. Br 2nd headed for Vigan/Aparri. Wasp and Yorktown to cover Br. 2nd moving up East coast of Luzon.

[CaptDave]

Somehow de Wiart reminds me of the nutty British flying officer who from time to time showed up in Stalag 13 and outranked Colonel Hogan.

[Cap Mandrake]

********SPOILER ALERT*********



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Actually, I just always wanted to do that. This is more like a warning. If we get our asses kicked (by bad die rolls [:)]) for a third day in a row I am going to pick up my marbles. I am going to get off my saddleless horse, kneel down in the sand with my awesomely toned buttocks showing from under the loincloth and cry out;



You maniacs! You blew it all up! Awww...damn you! God damn you all to Hell!

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake





********Bubbas Do It Yourself Truck Wash And Breastaurant, Fresno*******

Slim: No, NO, don't wash the top of that storage thing in front!

Mabel: Why on Earth not?

Slim: Look......just don't, OK?

I didn't realize they secured my wife for a photo shot. Cool deal. Blue is more of her color, though.

[moore4807]

[:D][:D][:D] JeffK - if thats your wife, you wouldn't have +3400 posts HERE[:D][:D][:D]

I honestly don't think I could marry something that beautiful... you know that 70's song about dirty dogs stopping by while I'm workin? There'd be a pile of dead men, and me in jail...

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: moore4807

[:D][:D][:D] JeffK - if thats your wife, you wouldn't have +3400 posts HERE[:D][:D][:D]

I honestly don't think I could marry something that beautiful... you know that 70's song about dirty dogs stopping by while I'm workin? There'd be a pile of dead men, and me in jail...

You know the saying, man.

Regardless of how hot she is, someone, somewhere is sick and tired of putting up with her sh^&.

[moore4807]

True, very true...

but she's a MUCH better alternative to thinking about Caps buttocks n loincloths, he keeps hintin at sumthin methinks...

[mbk2043]

ORIGINAL: CaptDave

Somehow de Wiart reminds me of the nutty British flying officer who from time to time showed up in Stalag 13 and outranked Colonel Hogan.

Is this Brigadier Carton de Wiart?

[Cap Mandrake]

Here he is before he got half his body parts shot off.

[Cap Mandrake]

Cairo 43(c) (before his trip to Luzon)

[Cap Mandrake]

Here he is behind Chiang's wife? at the Cairo Conference.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Here he is behind Chiang's wife? at the Cairo Conference.

It appears FDR or Winnie has decided he is just another cane hanger.
Looks like they turned down his request for a glass eye too - he still has the patch.
Clever how they posed him and his cap so that the patch is in shadow...