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

[CaptBeefheart]

Great use of the AI for the artwork.

You wrote a check that big to Uncle Sam? Uncle Kim gets upset if he doesn't withhold every wooden won in advance.

My accountant also seems to work for Uncle Kim, not me. Accountant: "Mr. CaptB, your company doesn't pay enough VAT, you have too many foreign customers."

Me: "Whaddya mean? Do I pay exactly the VAT I owe?"

Him: "Yes, but the level is too low, the Tax Service may audit you because you book too much of your sales from overseas."

Me: "Bring it on. I'm not paying a dime more than I'm legally required to pay."

Cheers,
CB

[BBfanboy]

Hey Cap... this post has naught to do with your game but I saw this article online tonight and immediately thought of you.

ttps://futurism.com/scientist-hobbits-hiding-island?utm_campaign=trueanthem_AI&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=futurism&fbclid=IwAR2CTr6d9xYjSUstqlKO3fWselZUHuLC4V2KAgEesmFRj3iFYQ5ZlIp_tCo

Scientist Says There May Be a Species of Hobbit-Like Humanoids Hiding on an Island
"These include reports of sightings by more than 30 eyewitnesses..."

Funny that you mention that. In one of the earlier WWII's there was a long story line about Yossarian on Flores...or maybe it was Milo...or maybe Cpt Ito...and living 20th Century Hobbits. Not sure there is any way to find it now. IF I had to guess it may have been WWII(c)

Oh..Jeez, I just realized that is why you brought that up. Flores Man was real. There are examples with other species that seem to get smaller when isolated on an island. Pigmy elephants for example. Not sure why the Komodo lizards are so giant.

Critters grow as big as their food supply will let them. Saw that on a Galapagos marine iguana study. The lizards are getting smaller because more intense sunshine was killing the algae they eat. Evolution selects out the big lizards that need more food and the species becomes smaller in short order. Your Komodo dragons are eating well- perhaps Pigmy people ...

[capmandrake2]

"Captain Ito's men from I-125 unroad bok choy and sarted sea urchin roe for Mistah Miro's warehouse on Bouganville, June 1942(a)"

WWII(a).jpg (432.24 KiB) Viewed 1389 times

[capmandrake2]

Lt. Uppington-Smythe, His Majesty's 12th Punjabi Engineers, films a mating pair of Burmese Banded Tree Grouse in the jungle, 120 NW of Mandalay, May, 1942(b), 2 months behind schedule on his mission to rescue General Waverly's starving men......"HOLD UP, LADS! Turn off the dozers until this pair have finished their amorous activity. We shan't antagonize the HOA again!"

smythe.jpg (420.15 KiB) Viewed 1387 times

[capmandrake2]

"Sgt, Idi Amn Dada (ret.) serves up Darwin Anti-Personnel Bombs at a popular M&M Enteprises Food and Beverage Div. bar in Darin, 1942(b)"

1 part Creme de Menthe
1 part Irish Whisky
1 part Fosters

carbombs.jpg (189.98 KiB) Viewed 1385 times

[capmandrake2]

"Komodo Dragon devores Flores Man with feet sticking out of mouth, pencil"

Well, that didn't work.

flores.jpg (209.4 KiB) Viewed 1332 times

[RangerJoe]

If you are still around:

Sly homeowner shares genius loophole to avoid fines from strict HOAs: ‘The HOA literally can’t do [anything] about it’

https://news.yahoo.com/sly-homeowner-sh ... 00813.html

https://www.nwf.org/CertifiedWildlifeHa ... nformation

Also:

Homeowner uses genius move to fight back against their HOA’s lawn requirements: ‘I definitely pushed my bounds with them’

https://news.yahoo.com/homeowner-uses-g ... 00505.html

Edited for the correct headline on the third link.

[BBfanboy]

I've been hoping climate change hasn't washed away or burned away Cap's neighbourhood! But I think he may just be extra busy with work. Maybe PG (TM) or SG (TM) could take over his AAR for a while, at least for the exchange of crazy thoughts ...

[dcpollay]

I've been hoping climate change hasn't washed away or burned away Cap's neighbourhood! But I think he may just be extra busy with work. Maybe PG (TM) or SG (TM) could take over his AAR for a while, at least for the exchange of crazy thoughts ...

Alas, PG is gone, right? Isn't that the neighbor he was missing a couple pages ago?

[capmandrake2]

I've been hoping climate change hasn't washed away or burned away Cap's neighbourhood! But I think he may just be extra busy with work. Maybe PG (TM) or SG (TM) could take over his AAR for a while, at least for the exchange of crazy thoughts ...

Alas, PG is gone, right? Isn't that the neighbor he was missing a couple pages ago?

Yes, PG moved out after a divorce because they built an expensive outdoor cooktop area. I tried to warn them but people laugh off my theory of expensive landscape construction followed by divorce. I think there is a very high correlation with the number of BTU's in the outdoor grill. What I need is a mathematical co-author to do the chi square test (I think that is the right one) and then publish my observations in the American Journal of Matrimony and Hardscape. A while back PG came over for...wait for it...drinks and it was during the big remodel and there was a sewage backup on the bottom floor so I threw everyone out of the house and turned off the water....but SG and PG were not able to drive so I told them they we would have to go outside to pee.

PG says..."oh we won't have to pee" on their second bottle of wine.

Anyway, I get up in the morning and go out front to sit on my fake French bistro chair and drink my coffee and I look over right in front of my office window FACING the street...there is a steaming 10 inch Dairy Queen style cow pie right next to my azaleas!

[capmandrake2]

PG's ex shacked up with a 25 year old and then, do to some inexplicable miracle of nature, she became pregnant. The guy hid his love child from his own kids for 6 years. She would go over to grandmas when they came over and there was a locked room. Baaaaad. Worse even than Joe Biden's granddaughter. His RV business BK'ed. The guy augured into the ground at full throttle.

[capmandrake2]

Like an SU-25 vs a Patriot at Mach 5

[capmandrake2]

85% done with interior remodel...still need the stairs painted and some walls. Putting in exterior windows and slider doors. Expensive as Hell. I had to pay $6K extra for tempered glass because of the fire zone rules. For what they cost they should stop the gamma rays from a PRK nuke. Putting in low water xeriscape BY MYSELF. Giant job Lantana and sage and succulents. Looks fantastic. Front yard is done. Putting a bocci court in back and about 200 plants.

[RangerJoe]

I've been hoping climate change hasn't washed away or burned away Cap's neighbourhood! But I think he may just be extra busy with work. Maybe PG (TM) or SG (TM) could take over his AAR for a while, at least for the exchange of crazy thoughts ...

Alas, PG is gone, right? Isn't that the neighbor he was missing a couple pages ago?

Yes, PG moved out after a divorce because they built an expensive outdoor cooktop area. I tried to warn them but people laugh off my theory of expensive landscape construction followed by divorce. I think there is a very high correlation with the number of BTU's in the outdoor grill. What I need is a mathematical co-author to do the chi square test (I think that is the right one) and then publish my observations in the American Journal of Matrimony and Hardscape. A while back PG came over for...wait for it...drinks and it was during the big remodel and there was a sewage backup on the bottom floor so I threw everyone out of the house and turned off the water....but SG and PG were not able to drive so I told them they we would have to go outside to pee.

PG says..."oh we won't have to pee" on their second bottle of wine.

Anyway, I get up in the morning and go out front to sit on my fake French bistro chair and drink my coffee and I look over right in front of my office window FACING the street...there is a steaming 10 inch Dairy Queen style cow pie right next to my azaleas!

Welcome back!

[capmandrake2]

Milo with some B-25 wing de-icers for the secondary market.

"Young man with blonde hair in a linen suit carrying a briefcase in Polynesia, colored pencil" I am impressed.

[capmandrake2]

Beefcake version of Milo. 6 fingers but I think he could still get modeling work.

[capmandrake2]

yossarian.jpg (204 KiB) Viewed 1025 times

Yossarian

"Hirsute man in a US Air Force Captain's uniform in front of a B-25, pencil" Well, he certainly is hirsute. The fez must be South Pacific issue. Plane looks like a cross between a C-47 and a Horsa glider.

[RangerJoe]

Beefcake version of Milo. 6 fingers but I think he could still get modeling work.

The gene for six fingers is actually the dominant gene!

[T Rav]

We're glad to have you back...

You make me smile.

T Rav

[BBfanboy]

yossarian.jpgYossarian

"Hirsute man in a US Air Force Captain's uniform in front of a B-25, pencil" Well, he certainly is hirsute. The fez must be South Pacific issue. Plane looks like a cross between a C-47 and a Horsa glider.

ChatAI must have interpreted the name Yossarian too - check the Arabic script on the name tag on his pocket!.