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RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:04 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: sprior
This isn't your place is it Cap?
Nope. Stupid waste of manpower to have one guy holding the ladder. [:)]
I suppose using two lengths of rope, one to tie off the ladder to each of the two balconies, would make too much sense because it would allow the second guy to do something productive
and be safer for the guy on the ladder.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:17 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: witpqs
We moved less than 48 hours before that fire started in November 2008. Basically a car broke down and caught fire a few miles to the east on the 91 Freeway. The Santa Ana winds had started coming up the day we left and were very strong plus gusting above 70 mph by then - it's the Santa Ana Canyon and winds from that direction are funneled down, which speeds them up and heats them up. Some grass or brush near the burning car caught fire, and the whole thing sort of ran down the canyon like a blowtorch. Several hundred homes and a couple of apartment complexes were lost, including a home a few doors down from where we had lived. I was later told that the fire burned right up to the back deck of our old house and they stopped it there.
Did you get your car repaired in a timely fashion, my Argletonian colleague?
Scorched Earth policy indeed! Why couldn't you just shake the dust from your sandals or something like that next time? [X(]
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:21 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
OK, I just bought a pound of what I think is coffee from some cheerleader types on a fund raiser. Reciept is from M & M Enterprises. I think Cap here is starting to go all commercial on us [:-]
1. Was it a pound, or a reduced size package (ala Starbucks)-in reality 10-12 oz.?
2. Was it, in fact, coffee?
3. Did the per unit cost work out to $70/pound?
4. Were the cheerleader types sporting distractingly large breatesses so that you wouldn't hector them with these questions?
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:49 pm
by Argos
Its quite an experience to be in the drop zone, with the added thrill of ending up with the world's worst fake tan color that doesn't wash out easily, it kind of wears off once it drys. Going rate on those retardant drops is something like $5k a load depending on plane/volume. Used correctly, with good pilots, air assets are exceedingly effective in the correct fuels.
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
We actually have to pay a "Wildfire Management Fee" (or something of the sort..about $150 2 x/year). It's actually a tax but the lads in Sacramento imagine we won't figure it out if they call it a "fee".
This is in addition to an ungodly real estate tax and a spectacular amount of money the HOA pays the county every year to staff a station right in the development.
Generally, these kind of things make me angry but one time about 10 years ago a fire burned right up to the ridgeline aboout 400 yds away. I was out loading stuff into my truck and an absolutely massive 4 engine seaplane flew 200 ft over my house and scored a direct hit on the ridgeline with retardant. You could feel the engines and props in your chest. I was seriously impressed.
I thought to myself, "Well there went my property taxes for last year" [:)]
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:54 pm
by Cap Mandrake
***************Malaysian Air Force Station, Johore Bahru, May 7, 2014(a)*************
Radar guy named "Sparks" in Malay: Sir, the unidentified aircraft over the Gulf of Thailand has just turned around and is headed SW.
OOD: <he sports a quizical look for a number of seconds and then his eyes grow wide> Oh my God! It's the Mersing Gambit!
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:18 pm
by poodlebrain
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
***************Malaysian Air Force Station, Johore Bahru, May 7, 2014(a)*************
Radar guy named "Sparks" in Malay: Sir, the unidentified aircraft over the Gulf of Thailand has just turned around and is headed SW.
OOD: <he sports a quizical look for a number of seconds and then his eyes grow wide> Oh my God! It's the Mersing Gambit!
You should be able to get defenders there in time to resist the invasion. Almost two months, but that may not be enough time to build very effective fortifications.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:29 am
by moore4807
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
***************Malaysian Air Force Station, Johore Bahru, May 7, 2014(a)*************
Radar guy named "Sparks" in Malay: Sir, the unidentified aircraft over the Gulf of Thailand has just turned around and is headed SW.
OOD: <he sports a quizical look for a number of seconds and then his eyes grow wide> Oh my God! It's the Mersing Gambit!
Noting the May 7th 2014 date;
I could only think of the movie scene in "Search for Red October" at the end of the movie where the Sec. of State is sitting behind his desk, takes off his glasses and looks at the Russkie and says "You mean to tell me you lost another submarine?"
Since we know that M & M Enterprises is alive and well in this day and age, what is a slightly used 777-200 going for? $50 million?
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:03 pm
by sprior
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:17 pm
by Cap Mandrake
[:D][:D]
Crack Kills!
Good news is in the case of a plumbing emergency at the tournament they had it covered.
I think Admirar Rord Nerson is attending the Havasupai Spring Fertility and Prickly Pear Festival....or maybe South by Southwest.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:18 pm
by witpqs
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:50 pm
by sprior
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:23 pm
by Cap Mandrake
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RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:59 pm
by sprior
Just in case you make it to Bugis St:
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:17 pm
by sprior
"Sarcasm will get you nowhere in life." my boss told me.
"Well it got me to the 'International Sarcasm' finals in Santiago, Chile in 2009." I informed him.
"Really?" he asked.
"No." I said.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 9:03 pm
by zuluhour
[:D] speechless.........again
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 1:10 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Engrish jokes make me raugh but Japan-mens nevah tahk to boss rike that.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 1:12 pm
by Cap Mandrake
I am saddened nobody tried to break the code. [:(]
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 1:14 pm
by Cap Mandrake
I think Baffins Bridge arrives in Panama today. I can hardly wait to see her. I'll post a pic as soon as I get home.
Wait...that doesn't sound right. I'll post a pic of the Baffins Bridge in Panama when I get home.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 3:01 pm
by Argos
Dear Lord, please don't let the Ex-Men be involved in any way with the Panama photos...
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 3:39 pm
by sprior
See, that's the problem with the youth of today, no sense of adventure.