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

[zuluhour]

can't imagine the look on the teachers face.

Stereo typical obese American boy with bowl haircut and gangsta shorts: "... and then the Marines landed at Horycrappojima and were met by a man in fine linen pants named Milo....."

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

can't imagine the look on the teachers face.

Stereo typical obese American boy with bowl haircut and gangsta shorts: "... and then the Marines landed at Horycrappojima and were met by a man in fine linen pants named Milo....."

Hory crap! That-ah rearry funny! [:D][:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

This is all filler because it seems Admirar Rord Nerson has been abducted by the Anasazi.


The mom of the little girls who came over to our house (only to have the older one break her arm in about 10 minutes) passed away.

I went to the non-religious "celebration of life" yesterday. There was a bounce house and a mariachi band and zero alcohol....which was probably a good idea. I met the dad of one of the girls who is going to raise them both now. Nice guy but he reminded me of the school bus driver from the Simpsons. He had on his Sunday best gauger earrings.

He asked Stalker Girl for $1000 dollars after she already paid for the taco lady to make tacos and for the mariachis. [:-] Wisely, she said she was tapped out.

The two girls were happy at the party. They have only known their mother when she was already ill. They might have been relieved.

I was relieved we didn't have to do CPR on the mariachis. Two of them were at least 75 and they had those hot mariachi get-ups on....and it was 95 with 60% humidity. They did Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad in July in 95 degree weather because they ran out of material, I guess. It was hilariously inappropriate. They were really good at the Spanish lyrics and really, really bad at the Engrish part.

"We want to weesh ju a merree Chreestmaaas..."

[zuluhour]

Wow, you can tell I live on the east coast, I had to look up mariachis. While that proved informative, through a Bing provided link, I also learned about peanut smuggling. I confess I found peanut smuggling worthy of further research.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

I also learned about peanut smuggling.

Don't look up budgie smugglers

[zuluhour]

Ouch! I have to learn to heed good advice.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

I also learned about peanut smuggling.

Don't look up budgie smugglers

You Commonwealth lot just love making up funny names for everything. "Budgie smuggler" is funny even before you find out what a "budgie" is...which I also had to look up.

[Cap Mandrake]

"peanut smuggler" is pretty damn funny as well.[:D]

[sprior]

The boys at Mandalay need a bit of a rest.

Except the srmoured units who are off to Mykitla and Toungoo.

[sprior]

5th Indian Div arrive at Aden. Should they go to Moulmein?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

The boys at Mandalay need a bit of a rest.

Except the srmoured units who are off to Mykitla and Toungoo.

Many may not understand the jargon.

A "srmoured unit" is a unit of Girl Scouts covered in melted marshmallows and graham crackers.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

5th Indian Div arrive at Aden. Should they go to Moulmein?

That would depend on the status of WJD LBA in Southern Burma/Siam

[Cap Mandrake]

Interesting AAR Historical Fact:


The Burmese civilization, despite having all the mangoes and figs they could eat, access to war elephants and even the first ever armored loincloth, never managed to achieve a large empire. Why is this? Quite simply, even the locals could not pronounce the names of the towns and villages. This severely constrained military communication.

Burmese 7th century general if fine silken loincloth: Go that way to town with big palm trees that cross in sky.

Lt.: European palms or African palms?

[sprior]

Why would there be European palms in 7th Century Burma?

How even?

[witpqs]

Perhaps the seeds were carried there by swallows.

[sprior]

Date palms or coconut palms?

[sprior]

May 9th 1943

On the island of the Monkey Gods*

Ground combat at Port Blair (46,58)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 10286 troops, 125 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 110

Defending force 5019 troops, 58 guns, 82 vehicles, Assault Value = 83

Japanese adjusted assault: 36

Allied adjusted defense: 17

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
540 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 34 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 10 (2 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
113 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


*The one with the strong maxillaries

[sprior]

Magwe falls easily:

Ground combat at Magwe (57,47)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 6329 troops, 309 guns, 66 vehicles, Assault Value = 377

Defending force 1566 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 78

Allied adjusted assault: 568

Japanese adjusted defense: 3

Allied assault odds: 189 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Magwe !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
1020 casualties reported
Squads: 37 destroyed, 71 disabled
Non Combat: 18 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 13 (3 destroyed, 10 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Assaulting units:
18th British Division

Defending units:
4th RTA/A Division

[sprior]

Reconnaissance by jumping out of a plane:

Ground combat at Taung Gyi (59,48)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 144 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 13

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 13

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Taung Gyi !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

Assaulting units:
50th Indian Para Bde /3

[sprior]

Northwest Burma fell in 3 days.

All the armoured units are racing to Mekitla, the cavalry will branch off to taun Gyi and the remainder race to Toungo. JJ may get their first but it's worth a run at it.