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

[Cap Mandrake]

Meanwhile, off Medan, smaller and smaller naval forces do battle almost every night as Br 172 Brigade and US 40th Div begins to arrive at Sibolga on the West coast.

[RangerJoe]

[jdsrae]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

****SWPAC HQ, Darwin******

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: Jocko, I'd like you to meet the Spruance twins.

RADM "Jocko" Clark: <extends hand and shakes both right hands of the twins> Well, well, identical then?

Twins: <quizzically look at each other and then "A" speaks> No, he has a substitution of Leucine for Valine at position 512 of the FOXP2 gene and the lucky bastard is murder at crossword puzzles...they both laugh>

<after a pause Clark looks at the patrician-looking guy> I don't get it.

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: It's the language gene, Jocko. They are geniuses. They are clones Jocko...genetic copies...you see, the original Raymond Spruance developed the most God-awful neurological tic. The man was a naval genius but he would stand in the middle of a presentation and start yelling about excrement and other bodily fluids. Very distracting. I could hardly get through the meeting agenda. So I had BuOrd make copies of him and they took out that atrocious potty mouth gene.

RADM "Jocko" Clark: Copies? Of a human being?

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: Oh yes. There is one of my too. Up in Mindanao. I played golf with him. The SOB can drive it down the middle of the fairway every time. 260 yds. Uphill downhill doesn't matter. I had the staff tell me on the 8th hole that the damned Japs were landing at Pago Pago. I couldn't take it anymore.

RADM "Jocko" Clark: Ummm..are there two copies of me too?

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: Oh, coe on Jocko, don't be silly.

The IJN are working on their own cloning machine, reverse engineered from a captured set of schematics.
It still needs some tuning.

Is this where the ranks of RADM upper and lower halves came from?

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: jdsrae

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

****SWPAC HQ, Darwin******

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: Jocko, I'd like you to meet the Spruance twins.

RADM "Jocko" Clark: <extends hand and shakes both right hands of the twins> Well, well, identical then?

Twins: <quizzically look at each other and then "A" speaks> No, he has a substitution of Leucine for Valine at position 512 of the FOXP2 gene and the lucky bastard is murder at crossword puzzles...they both laugh>

<after a pause Clark looks at the patrician-looking guy> I don't get it.

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: It's the language gene, Jocko. They are geniuses. They are clones Jocko...genetic copies...you see, the original Raymond Spruance developed the most God-awful neurological tic. The man was a naval genius but he would stand in the middle of a presentation and start yelling about excrement and other bodily fluids. Very distracting. I could hardly get through the meeting agenda. So I had BuOrd make copies of him and they took out that atrocious potty mouth gene.

RADM "Jocko" Clark: Copies? Of a human being?

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: Oh yes. There is one of my too. Up in Mindanao. I played golf with him. The SOB can drive it down the middle of the fairway every time. 260 yds. Uphill downhill doesn't matter. I had the staff tell me on the 8th hole that the damned Japs were landing at Pago Pago. I couldn't take it anymore.

RADM "Jocko" Clark: Ummm..are there two copies of me too?

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: Oh, coe on Jocko, don't be silly.

The IJN are working on their own cloning machine, reverse engineered from a captured set of schematics.
It still needs some tuning.

Is this where the ranks of RADM upper and lower halves came from?

No. Lower half is an O7 while the upper half is an O8 or in other terms, a lower half is the same rank as a brigadier while an upper half is the same rank as a major general.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: jdsrae

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

****SWPAC HQ, Darwin******

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: Jocko, I'd like you to meet the Spruance twins.

RADM "Jocko" Clark: <extends hand and shakes both right hands of the twins> Well, well, identical then?

Twins: <quizzically look at each other and then "A" speaks> No, he has a substitution of Leucine for Valine at position 512 of the FOXP2 gene and the lucky bastard is murder at crossword puzzles...they both laugh>

<after a pause Clark looks at the patrician-looking guy> I don't get it.

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: It's the language gene, Jocko. They are geniuses. They are clones Jocko...genetic copies...you see, the original Raymond Spruance developed the most God-awful neurological tic. The man was a naval genius but he would stand in the middle of a presentation and start yelling about excrement and other bodily fluids. Very distracting. I could hardly get through the meeting agenda. So I had BuOrd make copies of him and they took out that atrocious potty mouth gene.

RADM "Jocko" Clark: Copies? Of a human being?

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: Oh yes. There is one of my too. Up in Mindanao. I played golf with him. The SOB can drive it down the middle of the fairway every time. 260 yds. Uphill downhill doesn't matter. I had the staff tell me on the 8th hole that the damned Japs were landing at Pago Pago. I couldn't take it anymore.

RADM "Jocko" Clark: Ummm..are there two copies of me too?

Tall patrician-looking fellow with 5 stars: Oh, coe on Jocko, don't be silly.

The IJN are working on their own cloning machine, reverse engineered from a captured set of schematics.
It still needs some tuning.

Is this where the ranks of RADM upper and lower halves came from?

No. Lower half is an O7 while the upper half is an O8 or in other terms, a lower half is the same rank as a brigadier while an upper half is the same rank as a major general.

Your explanation makes sense: the difference between rear area and air.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: jdsrae



The IJN are working on their own cloning machine, reverse engineered from a captured set of schematics.
It still needs some tuning.

Is this where the ranks of RADM upper and lower halves came from?

No. Lower half is an O7 while the upper half is an O8 or in other terms, a lower half is the same rank as a brigadier while an upper half is the same rank as a major general.

Your explanation makes sense: the difference between rear area and air.

[;)]

[bobsteele]

Anyone have any word on Cap Mandrake? It's been a while, and I can't find anything about what's up with him anywhere. TIA.

[RangerJoe]

He did write something about having a lot of babies but he has not logged in for over a month.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

He did write something about having a lot of babies but he has not logged in for over a month.

I think Pocahontas Girl (PG) finally kidnapped him and is having her way with him in her basement ...
She probably bought some good single-malt Scotch to keep him anaesthetized.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

He did write something about having a lot of babies but he has not logged in for over a month.

I think Pocahontas Girl (PG) finally kidnapped him and is having her way with him in her basement ...
She probably bought some good single-malt Scotch to keep him anaesthetized.

I thought that she was "Stalker Girl?"

He can also get the even stronger stuff from medical supply. I think they also call it "rocket fuel!"

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

He did write something about having a lot of babies but he has not logged in for over a month.

I think Pocahontas Girl (PG) finally kidnapped him and is having her way with him in her basement ...
She probably bought some good single-malt Scotch to keep him anaesthetized.

I thought that she was "Stalker Girl?"

He can also get the even stronger stuff from medical supply. I think they also call it "rocket fuel!"

PG is the former neighbour who divorced her cheating husband and moved but still parties with Cap and SG from time to time. She has a habit of hitting on males when she has had a little libation.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy



I think Pocahontas Girl (PG) finally kidnapped him and is having her way with him in her basement ...
She probably bought some good single-malt Scotch to keep him anaesthetized.

I thought that she was "Stalker Girl?"

He can also get the even stronger stuff from medical supply. I think they also call it "rocket fuel!"

PG is the former neighbour who divorced her cheating husband and moved but still parties with Cap and SG from time to time. She has a habit of hitting on males when she has had a little libation.

Okay, I sit corrected . . .

[capmandrake2]

A clerk/typist spilled coffee on the Mk VIII Disgronifier and now I have become a free-floating plasma of silicon and germanium and stuff like that trying to recover all my passwords. It's very difficult because I don't have any fingers. I have found that I can sort of hover over the keyboard and kind of roll around a bit and the induced magnetic field will close the circuit on the key but I already melted some of the plastic. I did manage to send an email to Slitherine but it is a Sunday. Maybe some of the Shinto Boys are working today.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: capmandrake2

A clerk/typist spilled coffee on the Mk VIII Disgronifier and now I have become a free-floating plasma of silicon and germanium and stuff like that trying to recover all my passwords. It's very difficult because I don't have any fingers. I have found that I can sort of hover over the keyboard and kind of roll around a bit and the induced magnetic field will close the circuit on the key but I already melted some of the plastic. I did manage to send an email to Slitherine but it is a Sunday. Maybe some of the Shinto Boys are working today.

Sounds like "We are Legion. We are Bob." Good read. Suggest the audiobook.

Best of ruck.

[RangerJoe]

You will hear back tomorrow.

[capmandrake2]

New install running but have problems with text overflow and pop-up boxes for base info screens

Is this some graphics card switch thingy?

New Dell Inspiron 7706 2n1

[RangerJoe]

Did you install using Seabee?

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4415089

It looks like you need the switch -AltFont. It does appear to be a graphics problem.

[capmandrake2]

That worked. Nice little utility

Now I need DBB and the map extension.

[RangerJoe]

Check here:

https://sites.google.com/site/dababeswitpae/

[RangerJoe]

He should paint his house like this one.