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

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Hong Kong: Some idiotic staff flunkie accidentally reset the range on the dive bomber at Karenko and reset the F6F's to sweep with no target...so.....naturally, the F6F's sweep over beautiful Amoy with no enemy aircraft to be seen and the dive bombers inpale themselves over HK for a couple of worthless AKL's. [:@]

Morning Air attack on TF, near Hong Kong at 77,61

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 4
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 14

Allied aircraft
SBD-5 Dauntless x 17

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-5 Dauntless: 10 destroyed, 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAKL Buyo Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x SBD-5 Dauntless releasing from 4000' *
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

And, of course, sending one squadron to their deaths to attack 30 year old 3000 ton rust buckets isn't enough...let's send another!

Morning Air attack on TF, near Hong Kong at 77,61

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 4
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 12

Allied aircraft
SBD-5 Dauntless x 17

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-5 Dauntless: 4 destroyed, 7 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kamishima Maru
xAKL Shoan Maru
xAKL Columbia Maru

So Tell me Capn .what is the ICD-10​ code for the SBD-5 Casualties? And would it be an initial or subsequint contact?

[Cap Mandrake]

I can't remember if I told this story or just thought about telling it. Oh well, just stop me if I have...oh wait...you can't. [:D]


So I am doing some work in the house and I turn the ATT Uverse to Rock Classics....music with a picture or two and some stuff about the band...you know..."Joe Schmo was born in Birmingham in 1940, ran away from home at 16, joined the band at 17, overdosed on heroin 17 times by the time he was 20, then turned to Christianity and was tragically killed by a double decker bus 2 weeks later"...


So anyway, I am thinking, "damn this is good music, so much better than the shit they have now" and no sooner do I think that than they put up an ad for "CPAP machines" at which point a demographic reality hits me and I am offended by it...and...before I can even rally....the next ad is "Disposable undergarments for incontinence! Medicare will pay for it. Call now!"

[:@] They were really crappy ads too. The looked like a 3rd grader made them. I am pretty sure there was some 20 something at ATT with some monitoring device to sample the audience and he was just having fun.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior
Harrier pilot's eye view of take off:

Is that from the deck of one of those old-fangled things that you lot don't have any more?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

DU came home with good news, she finally has a career; she's been offered a place on a nursery nursing course. And she gets paid for the hours she does at the day care centre.

Very nice. Close to home?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck
So Tell me Capn .what is the ICD-10​ code for the SBD-5 Casualties? And would it be an initial or subsequint contact?

Well, this may be hard to believe but I didn't read the manual yet. [:)]


I'm guessing that is an "E.789.23.134.L.27B"

That is "Unintentional wound, unspecified, 12.7 mm, air to air combat in time of war during a stupid, pointless mission assigned by a RAMF sitting in a comfortable office with a ceiling fan or even air conditioning, laterality unspecified, initial contact"

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I can't remember if I told this story or just thought about telling it. Oh well, just stop me if I have...oh wait...you can't. [:D]


So I am doing some work in the house and I turn the ATT Uverse to Rock Classics....music with a picture or two and some stuff about the band...you know..."Joe Schmo was born in Birmingham in 1940, ran away from home at 16, joined the band at 17, overdosed on heroin 17 times by the time he was 20, then turned to Christianity and was tragically killed by a double decker bus 2 weeks later"...


So anyway, I am thinking, "damn this is good music, so much better than the shit they have now" and no sooner do I think that than they put an ad for "CPAP machines" at which point a demographic reality hits me and I am offended by it...and...before I can even rally....the next ad is "Disposable undergarments for incontinence and how Medicare will pay for it"

[:@] They were really crappy ads too. The looked liek a 3rd grader made them. I am pretty sure there was some 20 something at ATT with some monitoring device to sample the audience and he was just having fun.

In Madison, Wisconsin, they had reruns of the Lawrence Welk show air on Sunday nights. This continued as late as 2002, when we left. The two most noteworthy sponsors were Geritol and the local mortuary. Talk about depressing your prime audience demographic...[:-]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

DU came home with good news, she finally has a career; she's been offered a place on a nursery nursing course. And she gets paid for the hours she does at the day care centre.

Yes, cool thing. You mean like a newborn nursery or neonatal ICU nurse training program?

[poodlebrain]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


So anyway, I am thinking, "damn this is good music, so much better than the shit they have now" and no sooner do I think that than they put up an ad for "CPAP machines" at which point a demographic reality hits me and I am offended by it...and...before I can even rally....the next ad is "Disposable undergarments for incontinence! Medicare will pay for it. Call now!"

Just think about the fun you can have with the mask for your CPAP device. You can pretend you are putting on an oxygen mask as you take your P-51H up to 40,000ft on a sweep over a heavily defended Japanese base. I got nothing for the adult diapers though.

[Cap Mandrake]

Seat armor?

[Grollub]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck
So Tell me Capn .what is the ICD-10​ code for the SBD-5 Casualties? And would it be an initial or subsequint contact?

Well, this may be hard to believe but I didn't read the manual yet. [:)]


I'm guessing that is an "E.789.23.134.L.27B"

That is "Unintentional wound, unspecified, 12.7 mm, air to air combat in time of war during a stupid, pointless mission assigned by a RAMF sitting in a comfortable office with a ceiling fan or even air conditioning, laterality unspecified, initial contact"

Hey, I thought the E-series was on "Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases" [&:]

You're not trying to have one on us, are you?

[poodlebrain]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Seat armor?

And they become more effective with the addition of homemade applique armor I suppose.

[Grollub]

... maybe we could go with V93.5 which is "Injury from explosion of boiler on steamship", assuming that the SBDs got confused about their nationality and Kamikaze:d causing the specified cause of death.

There is a problem however, that this ICD code isn't billable (that's actually specified).

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Grollub
Hey, I thought the E-series was on "Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases" [&:]

You're not trying to have one on us, are you?

Well, you see, MOST of this stuff really happened but sometimes we have to make shit up to make it more exciting. [:)]

Sort of like when the Prezzy made up that composite white girlfriend in his "auto"biograpy.

I can't believe what fractions of the world's potential productivity is being consumed by this idiotic ICD-10 thing. There already were 100 potential codes for constipation. How many more do we really need? I am going to follow Mr. Ghandi and engage in civil disobedience. I propose to purposely put in the wrong codes and bring all insurance companies, the US government and medical research to their knees.

I will probably have half the CDC in Orange County looking for the source of the 500 cases of "Chagas Disease" which will suddenly occur afte October 2014.

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I can't remember if I told this story or just thought about telling it. Oh well, just stop me if I have...oh wait...you can't. [:D]


So I am doing some work in the house and I turn the ATT Uverse to Rock Classics....music with a picture or two and some stuff about the band...you know..."Joe Schmo was born in Birmingham in 1940, ran away from home at 16, joined the band at 17, overdosed on heroin 17 times by the time he was 20, then turned to Christianity and was tragically killed by a double decker bus 2 weeks later"...


So anyway, I am thinking, "damn this is good music, so much better than the shit they have now" and no sooner do I think that than they put an ad for "CPAP machines" at which point a demographic reality hits me and I am offended by it...and...before I can even rally....the next ad is "Disposable undergarments for incontinence and how Medicare will pay for it"

[:@] They were really crappy ads too. The looked liek a 3rd grader made them. I am pretty sure there was some 20 something at ATT with some monitoring device to sample the audience and he was just having fun.

In Madison, Wisconsin, they had reruns of the Lawrence Welk show air on Sunday nights. This continued as late as 2002, when we left. The two most noteworthy sponsors were Geritol and the local mortuary. Talk about depressing your prime audience demographic...[:-]

When I lived in an Apartment my upstairs neighbor was a Granddaughter of Lawrence Welk. Her Father kept bugging her to send CD's of Tejano Music. My Mexican friends get really mad when I tell them their favorite music is nothing but a Polka with a latin American Flavor.[:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I will probably have half the CDC in Orange County looking for the source of the 500 cases of "Chagas Disease" which will suddenly occur afte October 2014.

[:D]

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I will probably have half the CDC in Orange County looking for the source of the 500 cases of "Chagas Disease" which will suddenly occur afte October 2014.

Oh no! [X(] You will be visited by a fat man in a suit and long overcoat, who will tell your receptionist he is from the Chagas Biovigilance Network!

If you don't have an alternative exit already planned, you better make one, as he will first ask you about kissing bugs, and then inject you with a tiny syringe of blood while telling you (in a bad Venezuelan accent) "Don't worry - this won't hurt a bit"

Be Afraid, Be VERY afraid!!! [:D]

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

DU came home with good news, she finally has a career; she's been offered a place on a nursery nursing course. And she gets paid for the hours she does at the day care centre.

Very nice. Close to home?

Yep, 1 mile away.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

DU came home with good news, she finally has a career; she's been offered a place on a nursery nursing course. And she gets paid for the hours she does at the day care centre.

Yes, cool thing. You mean like a newborn nursery or neonatal ICU nurse training program?

No, day care for babies and pre-school kids. She's got a place in a nursery about a mile away then she wants to go on to hospital care for kids. I don't think she could handle the emotional strain of a NICU.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: sprior
Harrier pilot's eye view of take off:

Is that from the deck of one of those old-fangled things that you lot don't have any more?

It is. Having invested the angled flight deck, the mirror landing system and arrester wires we've decided they're all old hat now.

[moore4807]

Congrats on the major step towards independence for DU. [&o] You deserve a drink!

Also after seeing the flight deck - I had to wonder, is ski jumping what pilots do after retiring from the RAF?