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

[Cap Mandrake]

So I task SG with orders to get some new flooring in the dining room and living room.


SG: I hired an interior decorator for the dining room

FAM: Interior decorator? <rising voice showing alarm>

SG: Yes, she's a friend.

FAM: Where did you meet her?

SG: <no answer>

FAM: Oh, Tapas, right? <it's one of those places you go to get beer and food>

SG: Yes, but she's nice. She said she wouldn't charge us.

FAM: <electrical shock runs through body>



Later on the surprisingly attractive "interior decorator" shows up in a high maintenance get-up with knee-high leather boots and a $90,000 Mercedes coupe. That alone makes me nervous.

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: 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.

There is also the possibility of demonstrating revolt against progressives [8D]

[Crackaces]

Later on the surprisingly attractive "interior decorator" shows up in a high maintenance get-up with knee-high leather boots and a $90,000 Mercedes coupe. That alone makes me nervous.

My practice makes it much easier to compensate for these events .. I just pull a couple of more shifts ... I assume this requires a few more office visits .. [8D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Crackaces

Later on the surprisingly attractive "interior decorator" shows up in a high maintenance get-up with knee-high leather boots and a $90,000 Mercedes coupe. That alone makes me nervous.

My practice makes it much easier to compensate for these events .. I just pull a couple of more shifts ... I assume this requires a few more office visits .. [8D]

Sure, but I'm not really sure I enjoy working on weekends. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

*****05:20, June 7, 1943(c), Northwest Veranda, Palace of the Sultan, Brunei****



Sultan: <a large explosion lights up the harbor> OHHHHHHH! SPLENDID! <begins clapping as does the court, many of who are in their PJ's>

Minister, where is my oil minister?

Swarthy, unctious fellow with gay-looking beard, well, you know, trimmed too carefully: Yes, your Majesty?

Sultan: Oh, I just wanted to make sure we got paid first, right?

[Cap Mandrake]

Turns out Phoenix just stopped to fish for squid or something on the 6th. Evidentry, they did not see us coming.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Brunei at 65,87, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
TK Nitiei Maru, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
TK Rikko Maru, Shell hits 21, and is sunk
PB Tatsumi Maru, Shell hits 21, and is sunk
TK Chiyoda Maru, Shell hits 28, and is sunk
TK Ayazono Maru, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
TK Manei Maru, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Yamahagi Maru #3, Shell hits 21, and is sunk
PB Okiyu Maru, Shell hits 18, and is sunk
SC Ch 32, Shell hits 6, and is sunk
SC Ch 37, Shell hits 6, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CL Phoenix
DD Lansdowne
DD Gridley

[Cap Mandrake]

South China Sea: USS Hobby out looking for transports.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Samah at 73,69, Range 18,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
PB Seikai Maru, Shell hits 15, and is sunk
SC CHa-1, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
SC CHa-25, Shell hits 3, and is sunk

Allied Ships
DD Hobby

[Cap Mandrake]

Okinawa: JJ raids their own base to try to catch one of our BB's with a Rong Rance or something rike that.
We fool them, we no show up..except for some cucarachas del mar. Mildly disappointing air raids over Nago. Fighter sweep with P-47's over Naha does not go off.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Naha at 95,66, Range 2,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Tamanami
DD Onami
DD Harusame
DD Satsuki, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
PT-26
PT-114
PT-147
PT-224, Shell hits 2, and is sunk

[Cap Mandrake]

Later the same DD's are attacked by the SBD's at Horycrappo-jima. We don't hit anything but Satsuki sinks anyway. Maybe she just tipped over from all the tight turns.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Naha at 95,66

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 5

Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 7
F4F-4 Wildcat x 14
F4U-1 Corsair x 4
SBD-3 Dauntless x 21

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
DD Tamanami
DD Onami
DD Harusame
DD Satsuki, and is sunk

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Crackaces

Later on the surprisingly attractive "interior decorator" shows up in a high maintenance get-up with knee-high leather boots and a $90,000 Mercedes coupe. That alone makes me nervous.

My practice makes it much easier to compensate for these events .. I just pull a couple of more shifts ... I assume this requires a few more office visits .. [8D]

Sure, but I'm not really sure I enjoy working on weekends. [:D]

Your type of practice also allows you to update your AAR at 7:30 am [;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

Sum Ting Wong.....I can't do "bold" or "color" or "italics" and the wrap-around function is borked.

I knew I shouldn't have logged onto Healthcare.gov yesterday.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Crackaces

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Crackaces



My practice makes it much easier to compensate for these events .. I just pull a couple of more shifts ... I assume this requires a few more office visits .. [8D]

Sure, but I'm not really sure I enjoy working on weekends. [:D]

Your type of practice also allows you to update your AAR at 7:30 am [;)]

[:D] I am da boss, amigo. [:'(]

[poodlebrain]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*****05:20, June 7, 1943(c), Northwest Veranda, Palace of the Sultan, Brunei****



Sultan: <a large explosion lights up the harbor> OHHHHHHH! SPLENDID! <begins clapping as does the court, many of who are in their PJ's>

Minister, where is my oil minister?

Swarthy, unctious fellow with gay-looking beard, well, you know, trimmed too carefully: Yes, your Majesty?

Sultan: Oh, I just wanted to make sure we got paid first, right?

Where was Brunei going to spend the Southern Development Bank Notes they got from the Japanese? The residents of the Philippines referred to them as Mickey Mouse Money.

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Sum Ting Wong.....I can't do "bold" or "color" or "italics" and the wrap-around function is borked.

I knew I shouldn't have logged onto Healthcare.gov yesterday.

Quite.

Actually, the boards are having problems. There is a wandering Moose around here also having issues. It might be time to Chrome up your PC.

Or go back to blaming the nefarious liberal left. Whichever is easier [:D]

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Sum Ting Wong.....I can't do "bold" or "color" or "italics" and the wrap-around function is borked.

I knew I shouldn't have logged onto Healthcare.gov yesterday.

Quite.

Actually, the boards are having problems. There is a wandering Moose around here also having issues. It might be time to Chrome up your PC.

Or go back to blaming the nefarious liberal left. Whichever is easier [:D]

I am testing a post from Chrome right now and yes Chrome works as expected. I am thinking that the latest version of IE 11 -- that was forced upgraded by the way ...[8|] it what is responsible for the Cap's observed posting behavior .... It might be time for the Cap to Chrome up as you say ...[8D]

[moore4807]

Wasn't today the maintenance upgrade? like 8am?

The first line techs are obviously working for the Govt now - so the third stringers are having trouble here....[:D]

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: moore4807

Wasn't today the maintenance upgrade? like 8am?

The first line techs are obviously working for the Govt now - so the third stringers are having trouble here....[:D]

I just tested the two browsers again.. it's a IE 11 problem for sure ...at least for me ...

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: moore4807

Wasn't today the maintenance upgrade? like 8am?

The first line techs are obviously working for the Govt now - so the third stringers are having trouble here....[:D]

[:D][:D]

We should ask a non-Hindi speaking IT guy...like ALSP. [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: poodlebrain

Where was Brunei going to spend the Southern Development Bank Notes they got from the Japanese? The residents of the Philippines referred to them as Mickey Mouse Money.

We might have to conclude that the Sultan might not be the sharpest tool in the shed.

Here is what they looked like for Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei (they were called "banana notes" [:D]). Even worse for the Sultan, they aren't of value even as toilet paper. [:D]

[poodlebrain]

Good thing he had his pay as an Honorary Colonel of the Brunei Volunteer Force so he could afford some decent toilet paper. Sitting on a throne with a chafed rear end is probably not very pleasant.