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

[Cap Mandrake]

Last night I had a dream I was slow dancing with Raisa Gorbachev and then she smiled and grab my well-toned, masculine buttocks (well, one buttock really).

That really came out of the blue. Only thing I can think of are the peppers I sprinkled on my pizza last night or the red IPA from Escondido I had with the pizza.

I promise I never had a thing for Raisa Gorbachev. Anyone got any ideas what it means?

[Lecivius]

It's your fascination with Bebe.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

It's your fascination with Bebe.

[:D][:D]

Well, you have to admit the young Bebe was quite a handsome fellow. [:)] Even, so I don't see even the slightest resemblance between Bebe Rebozo and Raisa Gorbachev so I think you are not very good at dream analysis. [:)]


It was the damndest thing. I go to a hole in the wall steakhouse where they cut off your tie and nail it to the wall and there is a big picture of Rebozo and Nixon sitting on the same side of the table (not that there is anything wrong with that) having drinks. Then, 5 days later, I'm at El Adobe in San Juan Capistrano and there is Nixon again, but this time with Pat and, of course, she is drinking. Odd, very odd. Clearly there was some force at work to cause me to question my previous assumptions. Things like that just don't happen. That is the same place where that 3 year old clobbered me in the cajones.

[zuluhour]

Hmmmmm dancing with Mrs. Stainhead........

[poodlebrain]

Did your pizza have any unusual mushrooms on it?

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Last night I had a dream I was slow dancing with Raisa Gorbachev and then she smiled and grab my well-toned, masculine buttocks (well, one buttock really).

You have only one buttock?

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: poodlebrain

Did your pizza have any unusual mushrooms on it?

No, that's the usual level of discourse around here. Sometimes we post about a game we made up.

[sprior]

Got offered a job in Pompey on Tuesday. How can I resist moving so close to all that naval history?

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Last night I had a dream I was slow dancing with Raisa Gorbachev and then she smiled and grab my well-toned, masculine buttocks (well, one buttock really).

You have only one buttock?

I think the routine is .. and now a man with three buttocks

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Got offered a job in Pompey on Tuesday. How can I resist moving so close to all that naval history?

You should take it! You could look at all the tile mosaics on your lunch break.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Last night I had a dream I was slow dancing with Raisa Gorbachev and then she smiled and grab my well-toned, masculine buttocks (well, one buttock really).

You have only one buttock?

Well, it does save on toilet paper.

I have been trying to cut down on parentheses, I really have.

[Cap Mandrake]

No turn yet. Perhaps Rord Admirar Nerson is out collecting Raisa Gorbachev mushrooms with the Havasupai elders?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Last night I had a dream I was slow dancing with Raisa Gorbachev and then she smiled and grab my well-toned, masculine buttocks (well, one buttock really).

You have only one buttock?

Even in his dream, he was just praying that she wasn't a 'girl' with big hands...

[Cap Mandrake]

Just to clarify, that dream with Raisa was not remotely erotic. [:D]

P-47 squadron partially outfitted at Batan Is. We try a sweep over Takao today with its 145 fighters. We order some annoying night raids by B-17's over Takao just to be....well...annoying, I guess.

[Cap Mandrake]

The pace quickens in Burma. One gets the feeling of a house of cards.

[Chickenboy]

"Cantonankles"? God, that's terrible, even by your standards, Cap'n. [:-]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

"Cantonankles"? God, that's terrible, even by your standards, Cap'n. [:-]

That was Mr. Berle's biggest laugh line at Haha-jima. You are just culturally insular.

[Cap Mandrake]

***********May 17, 1943(c)***********


Karenko (the town in Formosa, not the guard at the re-education camp in Omsk): Bad, baaaaaaad die roll. It's like we rolled 3 "1's" with dodecahedral dice. It's part of Scenario 2, I think. A guy named Stewart from down under is in charge. He has a naval rating of 83. I'm thinking he had someone take the test for him. He skipped the "Radar is your firend" lecture as well. We just get our Arried asses kicked! Even so, the landing craft are unperturbed.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Karenko at 87,64, Range 5,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Murasame, Shell hits 2
DD Yayoi
TB Kari

Allied Ships
CL Perth, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CL Concord
DD Gansevoort, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Conyngham, Shell hits 1
DD Smith, Shell hits 1
DD Bulmer, Shell hits 1

[Cap Mandrake]

Takao: We conduct a field experiment with our shiny new Thunderbolts. 3.5:1. Pretty good but there aren't enough yet to shut down Takao. More B-17 raids at night.

Morning Air attack on Takao , at 84,65

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 23
A6M3 Zero x 10
A6M5 Zero x 7
J2M2 Jack x 3
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 8
Ki-61-Ia Tony x 12

Allied aircraft
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 5 destroyed
A6M3 Zero: 3 destroyed
J2M2 Jack: 1 destroyed
Ki-61-Ia Tony: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 3 destroyed

[Cap Mandrake]

Manila: Aparri and Altimonan aren't ready yet for the B-24's so they go after Manila.

Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 1

Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 22
B-24D1 Liberator x 24

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-36 Ida: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
ACM Chiyo Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 20
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 29
Port hits 18