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RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:12 pm
by Cap Mandrake
By ra way, what does "Priddy's Hard" mean?
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:27 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Sign in today:
F4UB58 [:)]
There is NO way that is pure luck.
You weren't, by chance, born in 1955, were you? [;)]
I think you are confusing me with my Uncle Cletus. Besides the B-58 first flew in '56
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:39 pm
by sprior
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
cool stuff.
Russian guy firing a 40 mm. Watch when he fires on auto. The 2nd through the last shot do NOT land on the other side of the lake. I don't know WHERE they landed. [:D] Probably Omsk.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=vid ... 2A011D449E
Here's a proper hand-wanked one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_fWmKMSSA
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:44 pm
by sprior
A Hard was a place ships could be dragged up onto the foreshore and leaned over to have their bottoms cleaned. It's called Priddy's Hard because Jane Priddy had a boatyard there before it was bought by the government in the 18th century.
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 4:23 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: sprior
A Hard was a place ships could be dragged up onto the foreshore and leaned over to have their bottoms cleaned. It's called Priddy's Hard because Jane Priddy had a boatyard there before it was bought by the government in the 18th century.
I'll be damned. That actually makes sense. [:D] I thought it more likely it was same Gaelic left-over.
By ra way, I started
Hermes back to Colombo with a DD and some TBF's aboard for ASW duty.
Pennslyvania will not go to "ready" status. I think it's all the system damage...or maybe union work rules.
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 5:38 pm
by sprior
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 8:37 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Quite amazing that is virtually all declassified. The only thing I saw blacked out was the distance from the target after the attack when he was clearing datum (presumably because you could deduce her top quiet speed).
It seems completely one sided. Sprinting right under the Argie group at 21 kts to get ahead. Following at 4-14K yds for a whole day. Innumerable periscope looks.
The "fun" starts at about page 135.
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 10:25 am
by FOW
OMG I've been shocked by content in this AAR (?) for the first time.
ALSP posts a picture of a sign saying "Priddy's Hard" and next post is a picture of a giant phallic symbol [X(]
And then says it belonged to Jane

RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:16 am
by sprior
Down boy, down!
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:12 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Why must everything be about sex?
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:15 pm
by Cap Mandrake
[:D]
I think Admirar Rord Nerson had too many peyote buttons again. Still waiting on the turn.
Need some more filler.
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:17 pm
by Cap Mandrake
There is this. As I recall, the first Viking raid in England was pretty close to ALSP's new digs. Maybe we should chip in and get him a broadsword.
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:20 pm
by Cap Mandrake
There is this too. What is the earliest anyone achieved a skip-bombing success (let's define that as multiple hits in one attack*)?
* Must be enemy vessel
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:26 pm
by Cap Mandrake
New neighbors put up this big wooden thing by the driveway. It actually went past the $10K mailbox onto my property.
I went over to complain but stopped when I realized it was a Christmas manger display. [:o]
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:59 pm
by poodlebrain
At least your neighbors went with natural materials. My neighbors are apparently having a contest to see who can display the largest and most obnoxious inflatable Christmas decorations. I'm tempted to go Grinch on them with my KA-BAR.
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:32 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Why must everything be about sex?
He was talking about Jane Goodall and her apes. Oh wait...
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 2:02 pm
by FOW
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
There is this too. What is the earliest anyone achieved a skip-bombing success (let's define that as multiple hits in one attack*)?
* Must be enemy vessel
Why the clarification? - have you managed in game to skip bomb attack one of your own taskforces?
go on, spin us a good dit on this one...
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 4:32 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: FOW
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
There is this too. What is the earliest anyone achieved a skip-bombing success (let's define that as multiple hits in one attack*)?
* Must be enemy vessel
Why the clarification? - have you managed in game to skip bomb attack one of your own taskforces?
go on, spin us a good dit on this one...
Hmm....one time Yossarian skip-bombed the offices of a Homeowners Association somewhere in the Lesser Sundas. I think it was Aru Island. That would be the closest to a "friendly fire" skip-bombing attack. I am pretty sure that was WWII(b). Can't find that but one time his squadron did try to skip bomb a WJD cruiser force.
tm.asp?m=1180532&mpage=106&key=HOA
Starts at #3175
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:31 pm
by Disco Duck
ORIGINAL: witpqs
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Why must everything be about sex?
He was talking about Jane Goodall and her apes. Oh wait...
According to Sigmund, everything is about sex.
And speaking of Jane Goodall and Apes. ( or should that be apes, I can never remember)
http://bonvito.wordpress.com/2010/06/07 ... ood-sport/ [:D]
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 12:26 am
by poodlebrain
I don't want to think about the sexual deviances that people with large Christmas decorations are compensating for. Inflatable snowmen and Santas are frightening enough, but I would be checking the list of registered sex offenders if my neighbor erected an unusually large creche, especially if it had lifelike animals.