Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Just got back from the salt mines. Like a fricken' MASH unit.

16 year old
beer
lawnmower
his Chihuahua
neighbor's Pit Bull

What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Captain,
You get the easy ones.
Yes that is a shark hook six inches into the neck.

[Cap Mandrake]

Hory crap! Is that you?[X(]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Just got back from the salt mines. Like a fricken' MASH unit.

16 year old
beer
lawnmower
his Chihuahua
neighbor's Pit Bull

What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Captain,
You get the easy ones.
Yes that is a shark hook six inches into the neck.

I don't know. It seems as though you could find some economical chum, rather than trolling with yourself for shark. But what the heck do I know?

Kind of like Kevin Kostner in Water World. [:D]

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Hory crap! Is that you?[X(]

No Thank God. The story from the bulletin board is the Coast Guard chopper showed up and he declined a lift to the hospital. He drove himself back to the house where this picture was taken. The last i read he was recovering well after a three hour operation and was mad they wouldn't give him the hook as a souvenir.[&:]

[erstad]

ORIGINAL: Argos

Although now that I look at that post I am wondering if its even possible to identify early stage brain damage in a teen male.

While I don't have Cap's credentials, I believe the short answer is yes, and the diagnostic test is quite simple:

Question: Are you a teen male?
Any positive answer reveals the presence of early stage brain damage.

[Itdepends]

Gotta love the English language sometime

Chum; A close friend, or fish/shark attractant- you decide..........

[alaviner]

ORIGINAL: erstad

ORIGINAL: Argos

Although now that I look at that post I am wondering if its even possible to identify early stage brain damage in a teen male.

While I don't have Cap's credentials, I believe the short answer is yes, and the diagnostic test is quite simple:

Question: Are you a teen male?
Any positive answer reveals the presence of early stage brain damage.

Or at least brain dysfunction due to hormonal overload.

[Cap Mandrake]

Testosterone poisoned teen brains are not just some developmental misstep. The whole thing has a socio-biological purpose.


***************25,000 BC, somewhere is present-day Canada a small troop of human hunters encounter their first Mammoth after crossing the Bering land bridge***********


Okk-glub-glub (35 year old senior hunter, missing 3 fingers and his L eye, smells worse than a camel herder but tough as nails): HORY CRAP! Rook at size of beast. Must be careful. Very powerful. Kirr hunters.

Ok-glub-glub Jr: HEY GUYS! WATCH THIS! <grabs spear and runs toward nearest Mammoth>

[zuluhour]

Okk-glub-glub: While turning to young warm scented offspring, "Watch me.." Sudden combination of sounds, something between squish and a belly flop, as beast lowers head for hairy shishkabob.

[sprior]

So, last night me, mem-sahib and DU were all laying on our bed reading books.

Memsahib: This is nice, we should do this more often.
Me: We should all read a chapter from our books out loud for the others to hear.
Memsahib: Yours would be "This was the most important ship of its time and had 12 guns.
Me: Yours would be "My momma made me live in a tin can and eat frogs"
Memsahib: Hers would be "His skin was sparkling, their eyes met..."
Me: "... and then nothing happened"

At this point the 14 yo SU walked in..

Me: And his would be "See Spot. See Spot run. Run Spot Run."

The DU was still giggling 5 minutes later.

[Grollub]

"See Spot run ..." etc.

I thought we had emptied the humorous content of that expression already, in post #98 and further on? (http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=2354835)

I'm so confused [&:]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

So, last night me, mem-sahib and DU were all laying on our bed reading books.

Memsahib: This is nice, we should do this more often.
Me: We should all read a chapter from our books out loud for the others to hear.
Memsahib: Yours would be "This was the most important ship of its time and had 12 guns.
Me: Yours would be "My momma made me live in a tin can and eat frogs"
Memsahib: Hers would be "His skin was sparkling, their eyes met..."
Me: "... and then nothing happened"

At this point the 14 yo SU walked in..

Me: And his would be "See Spot. See Spot run. Run Spot Run."

The DU was still giggling 5 minutes later.

Hehe. Making fun of one's family is good for endless hours of entertainment. Of course, don't let anyone else try it. [:)]

Even at 14, the SU would have no trouble passing the high school exit exams in the LA Unified School District.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Grollub

"See Spot run ..." etc.

I thought we had emptied the humorous content of that expression already, in post #98 and further on? (http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=2354835)

I'm so confused [&:]

See Milo. See Milo scam. Scam Milo scam.

[Cap Mandrake]

Formosa starts to crumble. The airfields at Taichu and Kagi are undamaged but likely don't have aviation support as they have been unused. 75 dive bombers at Karenko along with F6F's and F4F's all flagged under Thirteenth Fighter Command will mean a bad day for WJD ships that come within range. Range is now maxed out because the CAP is gone at Takao.

[Cap Mandrake]

Cost accounting for Sakhalin/Kurile attack.

Released and prepped within next 2 weeks.

Sakhalin: 3 1/3rd infantry regts, 1 Bn armor, arty, combat engineer bn., support

Onnekotan-jima: (9K WJD)3 Canadian infantry Bn., arty,

Shimushiri-jima: (Likely just construction or aviation support engineers defending) 2 Infantry Bn, support, Air HQ, combat engineers

[Cap Mandrake]

Rough outline....

[Cap Mandrake]

**************May 31, 1943(c)***********

Japan sorties her carriers. Soryu and a CVL appear out of the mist, 100 mi S out Horycrappo-jima. Meanwhile, 2 CA's are spotted passing through the channel between Formosa and Iriomote.

[Cap Mandrake]

We have a cruiser force at Horycrappo-jima, San Francisco, Wichita (with Radioman 1st Class Campbell aboard), Juneau and 4 DD's at Crappo. We have 3 CL's and 5 DD's at Karenko. Somehow, the inscrutaburh Japanese get this far without being spotted.

First up. Unescorted Helens from Okinawa attack Horycrappo-jima without escort. They get murderized. Next up a Marine aviation attack from Batan Is. USMC SBD's and some snazzy Corsairs attack the carriers at 280 miles range. There was a USN TBF squadron assigned to the same HQ but they did not bother to get out of bed. It isn't enough of an escort. Too bad. There were 70 P-40K's and 13 P-38's with the same HQ that might have gone along if the staff had thought to give them drop tanks. Dumb asses. Most of the SBD's that get through attack a DD. At least they got our of their bunks.


Morning Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,68

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 75 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 35 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
A6M3a Zero x 10
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2

Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 10
SBD-3 Dauntless x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1 Corsair: 1 destroyed
SBD-3 Dauntless: 4 destroyed, 2 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
DD Katsutade
CV Soryu

[Cap Mandrake]

Next up USN SBD-5's at 200 mi range from Karenko. You never get the kind of coordination form a land base (even with a good Air HQ) you get from carrier attacks. 2/3rd's of the dive bombers are getting their oil checked or something. Nice escort, though. No, NO. NO! The BIG ONE! ATTACK THE BIG ONE! Secondary exprosion seen on Ryuho. Still, not very impressive. This was our chance to take out Soryu.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,68

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 57 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 21 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
A6M3a Zero x 5
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2

Allied aircraft
F6F-3 Hellcat x 18
SBD-5 Dauntless x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-5 Dauntless: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged
SBD-5 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
CVL Ryuho, Bomb hits 1
CV Soryu

[Cap Mandrake]

A second wave. JJ are disorganized, no CAP. Go get 'em! ..............Uggh, 0 for 13.


Morning Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,68

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 17
SBD-5 Dauntless x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-5 Dauntless: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
CVL Ryuho
CV Soryu