At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[Cap Mandrake]

****************Offices of M&M Enterprises, Fiji*************


Young man in crisply pressed uniform <on phone (sic)>: HAHAHAHAHHAHA..no that USED to be the market value. Look, I'm not interested unless they change the restrictive covenant...........No, no, no, no to let Orientals in. And I want a termite inspection, too..............

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

****************December 23, 2015*************

Fleet Admiral Mandrake (ret): I thought the general advice was diversification?

Distinguished senior advisor of M&M Financial Management: Sure that's what they WANT you to think..because the management fees are higher. It's not what you earn..it's what you KEEP.

Fleet Admiral Mandrake (ret): So what stock would you suggest?

Distinguished senior advisor of M&M Financial Management: Lead pipe cinch..Chipotle.

Fleet Admiral Mandrake (ret): Chipotle, the burrito guys? What about golf course building sites or something?

Distinguished senior advisor of M&M Financial Management: That's so 1942...

[Cap Mandrake]

..<redacted upon advice OSS agent Steele>

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

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[sprior]

Happy Christmas boys & girls!

[zuluhour]

same to you sir. I really enjoyed the pictures you posted this year. Cheers!

[Cap Mandrake]

Merry Christmas! Is that before or after Bugis Street?

[zuluhour]

What ever street you want sailor..

[Cap Mandrake]

Cashmere, made with the finest goat hair......ahhhh.....sublime. It think gravity may have been less then.

[Cap Mandrake]

....<redacted upon advice OSS agent Steele>

[bobsteele]

Hey Cap; you combining your AARS as an economy measure or as FOW?

Possible other reasons, which you are at liberty, obviously, to debunk collectively or individually:

A) Some drinking has been going on
B) someone hijacked your computer and is just funnin us
C) dementia--not necessarily yours, could be the reader
D) space monkeys

In any case, [X(][:'(][&:][&:][&:][&:][;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

Only 2 Jack and Seven. Normally that wouldn't do that. [:)]

[Lecivius]

<looks back & forth>

I am so confused [&:]

But then, I usually am in here [:'(]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

<looks back & forth>

I am so confused [&:]

But then, I usually am in here [:'(]

You should have been here about an hour ago. [:)]

[Itdepends]

Good to know you took out any comments on our game before i checked the daily funnies. No harm done. I was driving the family around looking at Christmas lights.(actually most of it was spent waiting in line to go down a couple of streets that have fairly spectacular displays).

Merry Christmas.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Merry Christmas! Is that before or after Bugis Street?

Way after!

[Cap Mandrake]

Close call! Here is the 17 lb ribeye roast for dinner. It will look better after it has been rubbed and roasted.

Rest of menu:

Homemade Caesar dressing using Martha Stewart's recipe from the Fingerlake Federal Corrrectional Facility for Rich White Women.
Twice baked potatos..bacon, cheddar, sour cream, salt..they good for you!
Yorkshire pudding with beef drippings and crispy bits turned into dericious gravy--it good for you!
Asparagus
Ribroast rubbed with garlic, salt, soy sauce, pepper but take off prastic first..it good for you!
Cheesecake with hot blueberry sauce with about 70% of blueberries popped from the heat

Wine, Jack Daniels, coffee

Omperazole, lipid-lowering agent, tylenol 1000 mg as headache prevention. Merry Christmas!