A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

[Cap Mandrake]

HOA send nsty rettah about new Shinto shrine. Ok, that-ah neighborhood update.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

PG's 17 year ord son get in fight with fathah...move back to her house. He not have-ah car so buy him brand new BMW 3 series coupe with brack wheers and tinted windows.


<Face parm>

This end up rearry good! Just ah-rike Japanmen's war effort in WWII(d)! I ah-certain! Hai!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Not-ah take picture.

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Editrix?? Does she double as a dominatrix?

CRACK!!!

"See there!! You are still mixing your verb tenses!! No get on your knees, knave!!"

In 1943 it's OK, even respectful, to say "editrix". You try that in the offices of New Yorker now and your skin would be scratched off followed by an emasculation with a dull blade.


And there wouldn't be any black leather either.

My younger sister, who chose that career line, has never liked my joke either...

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Go ovah to Pocahantas Girr's house Friday for barbecue. She have rot to drink before get there. Somebody say "rets go swimming" but PG not have bathing suit..so just take off crothes.

Rearry funny. Not-ah take picture.

Opportunity lost [:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Go ovah to Pocahantas Girr's house Friday for barbecue. She have rot to drink before get there. Somebody say "rets go swimming" but PG not have bathing suit..so just take off crothes.

Rearry funny. Not-ah take picture.

Opportunity lost [:(]

Yes, well the physical world imposes certain constraints...like I was sitting there with Stalker Girl who didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did. [:)]

Even funnier, SG's 25 year old son was already in the pool. He wisely got out pretty quick. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

I'm driving to work and, on National People's Radio, I hear about this group "Boko Haram" kidnapping and selling girls in Nigeria.....


I was only partly paying attention but I ask myself "What the Hell is a British rock group from the 60's doing in Nigeria and why don't they just release a "best of" album if they need money that bad?"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procol_Harum

[Cap Mandrake]

Douglas Adams introduces Procol Harum [:)]

Ladies and Gentlemen ...

Anybody who knows me will know what a big thrill it is for me to be here to introduce this band tonight.

I've been a very, very great fan of Gary Brooker and Procol Harum ever since nearly thirty years ago when they suddenly surprised the world by leaping absolutely out of nowhere with one of the biggest hit records ever done by anybody at all ever under any circumstances. They then surprised the world even more by suddenly turning out to be from Southend and not from Detroit as everybody thought.

They then surprised the world even more by their complete failure to bring out an album within four months of the single, on the grounds that they hadn't written it yet. And then in a move of unparalleled marketing shrewdness and ingenuity they also actually left A Whiter Shade Of Pale off the Album. They never did anything straightforwardly at all as anyone who's ever tried to follow the chords of A Rum Tale will know.

Now they had one very very particular effect on my life. It was a song they did, which I expect some of you here will know, called Grand Hotel. Whenever I'm writing I tend to have music on in the background, and on this particular occasion I had Grand Hotel on the record player. This song always used to interest me because while Keith Reid's lyrics were all about this sort of beautiful hotel - the silver, the chandeliers, all those kind of things, but then suddenly in the middle of the song there was this huge orchestral climax that came out of nowhere and didn't seem to be about anything. I kept wondering what was this huge thing happening in the background? And I eventually thought ... it sounds as if there ought to be some sort of floorshow going on. Something huge and extraordinary, like, well, like the end of the universe. And so that was where the idea for The Restaurant at the End of the Universe came from - from Grand Hotel.

Anyway, enough from me. We're in for a great night tonight. There's no band quite like them. And tonight I'm glad to say the London Symphony Orchestra is going to sit in with them...[audience laughter & applause]. So I'd like for you to welcome please - the London Symphony Orchestra, the Chameleon Arts Chorus, Procol Harum, the Conductor, Nicholas Dodd, and Gentleman - Scholar-Musician, and I believe also Rear Admiral - Gary Brooker. Thank you very much.

And you thought we were off track. [:)]

[bradfordkay]

Memories.... Grand Hotel was/is a great album. I blame much of my misspent youth on their influence. It is nice to see that I am in such good company...

Edit: However, I somehow managed not to bring home a "Souvenir of London"!

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: poodlebrain

Am I in the right war? How did so much activity occur in the North Pacific in 1941?

Hory crap! Must be secret Arried experiment with time machines again!

It could be [;)]

http://msnvideo.msn.com/?channelindex=4 ... 1721f9f93c

[Cap Mandrake]

OK....is somebody here Rush Limbaugh? Because he stole my Procol Harum/Boko Haram bit. [:-][:@]

I'm not looking for any money...just an apology. Anyone who knows please send me a PM.

[poodlebrain]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Go ovah to Pocahantas Girr's house Friday for barbecue. She have rot to drink before get there. Somebody say "rets go swimming" but PG not have bathing suit..so just take off crothes.

Rearry funny. Not-ah take picture.

Opportunity lost [:(]

Yes, well the physical world imposes certain constraints...like I was sitting there with Stalker Girl who didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did. [:)]

Even funnier, SG's 25 year old son was already in the pool. He wisely got out pretty quick. [:D]

Let me guess PG is 24 years older than SG's son and would have ridden him like a bronco. Don't you just love when threads merge?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Go ovah to Pocahantas Girr's house Friday for barbecue. She have rot to drink before get there. Somebody say "rets go swimming" but PG not have bathing suit..so just take off crothes.

Rearry funny. Not-ah take picture.

[:(]

What do we have to do, chip in and get you a set of Google Glass?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: poodlebrain

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Lecivius





Opportunity lost [:(]

Yes, well the physical world imposes certain constraints...like I was sitting there with Stalker Girl who didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did. [:)]

Even funnier, SG's 25 year old son was already in the pool. He wisely got out pretty quick. [:D]

Let me guess PG is 24 years older than SG's son and would have ridden him like a bronco. Don't you just love when threads merge?

Now if only we could get 'nymphing' into the conversation, it would be a solid wrap.

Oh...wait...

[Cap Mandrake]

*******Beachside virra, Truk, Dec 15, 1941(d)**********


Honorary Admirah Mandrake-san <puts down copy of On Coroniarism> This stuff make-ah Mandrake-san head hurt. Being coroniarist rot of work. Not-ah easy.

Rook...the Engrish-mens have-a India, Singapore and Hong Kong..werr,,for a rittah bit. Those-ah pretty good coronies. American-mens have Phirripines and Hawaii..those-ah pretty good too.
French-mens have Indochina..not-ah sure how much money French-mens make but at reast they have-ah beautifurh womans there. Even crappy rittah countries rike Portugahr have Brazil and Macao.

Then...you have Itary...Somaria?? Rearry? This show me Japan-mens need to be carefurh about coronies. Say, what about sarted sea urchin roe Mandrake-san order.


Very attractive Rukanese woman in tropical attire: I'll check with Captain Ito-san, Honorable Honorary Admiral, Sir.

[Cap Mandrake]

********Beachside virra, Truk, Dec 15, 1941(d)*********

Honorary Admirah Mandrake-san Wait a minute..it-say here on interrigence report Pago Pago have-ah Mariens with coastarh defense guns. Samoa randing force just-ah have coupurh of Marus with pea shooters. That-ah nevah work. They brow up. Find-ah staff frunkie who dream up this-ah pran!

[Cap Mandrake]

*********Observations after one week as Japan-mens*******

1) Japans-mens have crappy engineers. They are company-sized, mainly, have crappy Daihatsu bulldozers (if they are lucky) and must be short on adult diapers or something because they can't build shit.
(Note: This could also be a DBB effect)

2) They aren't even close to enough Mavissesses

3) They have crappy naval rearmament abilities.

4) Zeroes work rearry good.

5) Economy rearry compricated. [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

***********Questions********

1) What do we do with oil produced at centers with no refinery capability? Brunei, for eg., can we just ship it next door to Miri or does Miri not have excess refinery capacity to deal with intrinsic oil production supply?

2) Do Japan-mens have a mobile CD unit in DBB? We need something for Lord Howe Isrand after we take that. It will be very vulnerable to naval sniping.

3) Does Manchuria have garrison rules for AIR UNITS?

4) Are there any mobile Karaoke bars?

[Cap Mandrake]

Also, is there something I can change on the command line so this doesn't happen. It goes away if I minimize all the IE windows but still..

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Also, is there something I can change on the command line so this doesn't happen. It goes away if I minimize all the IE windows but still..

Are you running in full-screen mode or windowed mode?