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

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

<looks back & forth>

I am so confused [&:]

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

Jack's last name is Daniels and Seven's last name is Up.
Personally I would have mine with Seven of Nine. [;)]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: 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!

Plain old Asparagus? That can't be good for you! Better add butter and almond slivers!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: 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!

Plain old Asparagus? That can't be good for you! Better add butter and almond slivers!

Is Pope Cathoric? Hai! Butter and Parmesan. [;)]

[Lecivius]

Let's see now...

Prime Rib
Fried red potatoes
Asparagas in wine sauce
Homeade rolls
Homeade apple pie
JD
Seven of Nine
Omperazole (gotta look in the cabinet for that)
Dilaudid (cause I am WAY beyond Tylenol anymore)


I think it's gonna be a wild Christmas [8D][:D]

[bobsteele]

Jack and seven? Figured you for jack and soda--my used to be favorite, 'cept you order it in a loud bar with an inattentive server and you wind up w/ the Seven, and I don't care for the sweet with whiskey, and as you are a partaken in finer gin, figured that cloying was beyond the alcoholic pale.

[desicat]

I always figured Mandrake for a mead drinker.

[Disco Duck]

Well, I am going to try cooking the turkey in a Romertopf clay pot. I am adding "Kraken" dark rum into the pot for flavor. I have never tried turkey in the pot before. We might end up at Luby's for Christmas dinner.

[&:]

My Christmas drink
One ounce Tito's craft vodka.
One ounce Kraken Dark Rum
One ounce Bacardi 151 Rum.
A little ice to cut down the chance of spontaneous combustion.[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: bobsteele

Jack and seven? Figured you for jack and soda--my used to be favorite, 'cept you order it in a loud bar with an inattentive server and you wind up w/ the Seven, and I don't care for the sweet with whiskey, and as you are a partaken in finer gin, figured that cloying was beyond the alcoholic pale.

Well, it was breakfast.

[Cap Mandrake]

I would like to publicly thank the Yorkies for inventing Yorkshire Pudding. That stuff is fantastic. Otherwise you would feel bad about standing over the roasting pan scraping off all the crusty bits.

I forgot to take a picture of the finished roast. I would also like to the thank the ancient residents of the Fertile Crescent for domesticating the boeve.

[Cap Mandrake]

I would like to thank Caesar for inventing the C-section and Caesar's dressing.

*******************Capri, 46 BC***************

Transport Minister: Caesar, we have a large shipment of anchovies from Calabria. What shall we do with them.

Caesar: Jeez, how should I know. Chop 'em up and put them on a salad or something.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I forgot to take a picture of the finished roast.

Here you go:

[zuluhour]

[:D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I forgot to take a picture of the finished roast.

Here you go:

Certainly well marinated!

[Cap Mandrake]

I wonder what it says about Dean Martin in Wikipedia

"Pretty good singer. Had a very successful nightclub act with the fantastically annoying Jerry Lewis. Smoked cigarettes on television. Famously, liked to drink adult beverages."

[Cap Mandrake]

************Mar 14, 42(e)***************

JJ turns SW along the Australian coast like Perry steaming into Tokyo Bay with the Great White Fleet. This turn makes sense if they are going to Port Kembla or Sydney or Newcastle. It makes less sense if they were going to Melbourne. It almost seems like they PURPOSELY let themselves be spotted a day early.
Hmmmm? Well, even so we rise to the bait with a nibble (this is a fishing reference).

[Cap Mandrake]

JJ makes it look credible with heavy air attacks on Sydney.

Morning Air attack on Sydney , at 90,167

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 23,940 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 30

No Japanese losses

Aircraft Attacking:
30 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 20940 feet

We have already moved aircraft out of Sydney.

Morning Air attack on Sydney , at 90,167

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 32 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 33
G4M1 Betty x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 50

More. The lost Bettys and Nells are found again.

Raid detected at 36 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 27
G4M1 Betty x 20

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 1 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 29

If one wished to land in New and Improved South Wales one would desire to shut down the big airfield at Sydney.

Morning Air attack on Sydney , at 90,167

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 20

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 4

This is why Mr. Curtin wanted the kids to stay in Canberra,

Morning Air attack on Sydney , at 90,167

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 33

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 7

[Cap Mandrake]

We moved some dive bombers to Newcastle along with 2nd USMC Air Wing and General Easton. Nice guy and everything but I' not sure he knows much the fancy new aeroplanes. Same air HQ, same altitude...and the first wave has no fighters. Bah!

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Macquarie at 96,166

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12

Allied aircraft
Wirraway x 5
SBD-3 Dauntless x 11

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Wirraway: 2 destroyed
SBD-3 Dauntless: 7 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAP Teikyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
CVE Taiyo
xAP Argentina Maru
xAP Kanzyu Maru

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (2 destroyed, 8 disabled)

[Cap Mandrake]

Second wave is nicely escorted but we still get shot up pretty good. They go after the cruiser escort. Nobody called Fiji for instructions.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Macquarie at 96,166

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk IA x 15
P-40E Warhawk x 20
SBD-3 Dauntless x 14

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk IA: 1 destroyed
Kittyhawk IA: 1 destroyed by flak
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed
SBD-3 Dauntless: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
CA Chokai
CA Takao

[Cap Mandrake]

N&IC & N&I Hebrides: We send another BB force to clear the shipping out of Koumac. They should have been set on bombardment because JJ ran away.

USS Phelps tries the new experimental BMNMP-1942(IIA) (Bow Mounted Naval Mine Plow).

TF 42 encounters mine field at Koumac (113,156)

Allied Ships
DD Phelps, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

[Cap Mandrake]

The B-17's at Noumea are getting better at night attacks.

Night Air attack on Koumac , at 113,156

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground

No Allied losses

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

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 7

Still, after all the effort, we have not shut down a lousy level 2 AF

Night Air attack on Koumac , at 113,156

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 2