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

[sanch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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I'm not bashful - my standard line when I'm ordering: "Hey, do you people give discounts to old guys?"

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sanch
I'm not bashful - my standard line when I'm ordering: "Hey, do you people give discounts to old guys?"

Absolutely no problem in owning it but, technically, I don' think I'm eligible.[:D]

I think Itdepends is right. They changed their menu sign and it threw me for a loop. I think, the confusion led her to believe I had eloped from the neighborhood "memory care" facility. [:)]

[Chickenboy]

Frankly, I'm surprised that you didn't add the 'fishing out reading glasses from front pocket' to the geezerhood experience you've related. Cuz watching some old guy whipping out reading glasses makes hot chiquitas really excited. [:D]

[sprior]

This is my schedule for the next 3 days

Day 1

1000-1115 Registration

1115-1130 Opening remarks & welcome
1130-1230 The arms race and popular culture
‘The sea League of All the Britons’: The Anglo-German J. Mitcham
naval arms race and the idea of empire
Organised navalism, public hysteria, and the N. Fleming
Anglo-German naval race

1230-1330 Lunch

1330-1500 The Britannia Panel
Fisher’s Fighting Force: A Revolution in naval education J. Harrold/R. Porter
Really not a sailor: undoing the myth, misconceptions and P. Grove
miasmas of the RNAS in the First World War
The Royal Navy in the Persian Gulf during the First World War M. Grove
[Sponsored by Britannia Royal Naval College]

1500-1520 Tea/coffee
1520-1620 The Anglo-German naval arms race and imperial defence
The Admiralty, Dominion Navies, and Imperial C. Bell
Defence 1911-1914
‘May God and the Royal Navy defend New Zealand’: New M. Wynd
Zealand’s part in the Naval Arms Race and the War at
Sea 1914-1916

1620-1650 Tea/coffee

1650-1750 Keynote address
‘When was the Anglo-German Naval Arms Race?’
Professor Nicholas Rodger, All Souls College Oxford

1800-2100 Cocktail party and buffet dinner on board HMS Victory
[Sponsored by the Society for Nautical Research]

Day 2

0900-0930 Registration and tea/coffee

0930-1100 Cruisers and battlecruisers
An imagined revolution: British cruiser design 1890-1910 D. Morgan-Owen
Fisher's Battlecruisers: a tool for global power projection? A. Ross
The evolution of a warship type: the role and function of the M. Seligmann
Battlecruiser in Admiralty plans on the eve of the First
World War

1100-1120 Tea/coffee

1120-1220 The pre-dreadnought in peace and war
The British and French pre-dreadnoughts in World War One J. Billard ?/
F. Grinnaert ?
The last of the line: the Braunschweig and Deutschland class A. Dodson
battleships of the Imperial German Navy

1150-1210 Tea/coffee

1210-1310 New technology – the submarine
Anti-Submarine warfare in the pre WW1 Royal Navy R. Dunley
Constructing Heroism: submarines, submariners and L. Rowe
the Dardanelles campaign 1915

1310-1410 Lunch

1410-1540 Germany and the naval arms race
The German grasp for seapower: naval ideology, planning M. Epkenhans
and naval (war) aims 1900-1916
The German Navy’s officer corps before the war C. Jentzsch
The Novelle and British foreign policy towards E. Beiriger
France and Germany

1540-1600 Tea/coffee

1600-1700 Navies, trade and economic warfare in war and peace
Economic warfare and international law, 1905-1915: J. Lemnitzer
what were they thinking?
The Silent Pressure of Sea Power. Tracking contraband S. Cobb
cargoes at the British Legation in Panama, 1915-1916

1700-1730 Tea/coffee

1730-1830 Keynote address
‘Deterrence vs. War-Fighting: The Royal Navy and its Government Before the War’
Professor Norman Friedman

1830-2100 Drinks and canapés in the NMRN’s new ‘Racing to War’ special exhibition and the new 20th century Royal Navy gallery.


Day 3

0900-0920 Registration and tea/coffee

0920-1050 The neutrals and the naval arms race
The South American Naval Arms Race in the Early 20th Century G. Montenegro
The Chilean Navy and the start of the First World War F. Wilson
The role of the Regia Marina and its strategic evaluations
for the Italian entry into the war 1913-1915 G. La Nave

1050-1110 Tea/coffee

1110-1210 Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence
1914-1916 French Naval intelligence born again A. Sheldon-Duplaix
Grand Fleet Tactical Communication: good enough for purpose? M. Farquharson-
- Roberts

1210-1300 Lunch



1300-1400 Keynote address
‘Learning the use “The Remote”: The Problems of Navigation, Communications and Operational Management for Command at Sea in 1914’
Rear Admiral James Goldrick, RAN (ret), Seapower Centre (Australia)

1400-1420 Tea/coffee

1420-1550 The Pacific in peace and war
Pre-Great War in the Far East: the navies of Great Britain, J. Parkinson
Germany and Japan
Invidious Choices - The German East Asia Squadron and the RAN D. Woods
in the Pacific, August to December 1914
Anatomy of a disaster: the Coronel campaign 1914 N. Hewitt


1550 Closing remarks

1600 Depart

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

This is my schedule for the next 3 days

Day 1

1000-1115 Registration

1115-1130 Opening remarks & welcome
1130-1230 The arms race and popular culture
‘The sea League of All the Britons’: The Anglo-German J. Mitcham
naval arms race and the idea of empire
Organised navalism, public hysteria, and the N. Fleming
Anglo-German naval race

1230-1330 Lunch

1330-1500 The Britannia Panel
Fisher’s Fighting Force: A Revolution in naval education J. Harrold/R. Porter
Really not a sailor: undoing the myth, misconceptions and P. Grove
miasmas of the RNAS in the First World War
The Royal Navy in the Persian Gulf during the First World War M. Grove
[Sponsored by Britannia Royal Naval College]

1500-1520 Tea/coffee
1520-1620 The Anglo-German naval arms race and imperial defence
The Admiralty, Dominion Navies, and Imperial C. Bell
Defence 1911-1914
‘May God and the Royal Navy defend New Zealand’: New M. Wynd
Zealand’s part in the Naval Arms Race and the War at
Sea 1914-1916

1620-1650 Tea/coffee

1650-1750 Keynote address
‘When was the Anglo-German Naval Arms Race?’
Professor Nicholas Rodger, All Souls College Oxford

1800-2100 Cocktail party and buffet dinner on board HMS Victory
[Sponsored by the Society for Nautical Research]

Day 2

0900-0930 Registration and tea/coffee

0930-1100 Cruisers and battlecruisers
An imagined revolution: British cruiser design 1890-1910 D. Morgan-Owen
Fisher's Battlecruisers: a tool for global power projection? A. Ross
The evolution of a warship type: the role and function of the M. Seligmann
Battlecruiser in Admiralty plans on the eve of the First
World War

1100-1120 Tea/coffee

1120-1220 The pre-dreadnought in peace and war
The British and French pre-dreadnoughts in World War One J. Billard ?/
F. Grinnaert ?
The last of the line: the Braunschweig and Deutschland class A. Dodson
battleships of the Imperial German Navy

1150-1210 Tea/coffee

1210-1310 New technology – the submarine
Anti-Submarine warfare in the pre WW1 Royal Navy R. Dunley
Constructing Heroism: submarines, submariners and L. Rowe
the Dardanelles campaign 1915

1310-1410 Lunch

1410-1540 Germany and the naval arms race
The German grasp for seapower: naval ideology, planning M. Epkenhans
and naval (war) aims 1900-1916
The German Navy’s officer corps before the war C. Jentzsch
The Novelle and British foreign policy towards E. Beiriger
France and Germany

1540-1600 Tea/coffee

1600-1700 Navies, trade and economic warfare in war and peace
Economic warfare and international law, 1905-1915: J. Lemnitzer
what were they thinking?
The Silent Pressure of Sea Power. Tracking contraband S. Cobb
cargoes at the British Legation in Panama, 1915-1916

1700-1730 Tea/coffee

1730-1830 Keynote address
‘Deterrence vs. War-Fighting: The Royal Navy and its Government Before the War’
Professor Norman Friedman

1830-2100 Drinks and canapés in the NMRN’s new ‘Racing to War’ special exhibition and the new 20th century Royal Navy gallery.


Day 3

0900-0920 Registration and tea/coffee

0920-1050 The neutrals and the naval arms race
The South American Naval Arms Race in the Early 20th Century G. Montenegro
The Chilean Navy and the start of the First World War F. Wilson
The role of the Regia Marina and its strategic evaluations
for the Italian entry into the war 1913-1915 G. La Nave

1050-1110 Tea/coffee

1110-1210 Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence
1914-1916 French Naval intelligence born again A. Sheldon-Duplaix
Grand Fleet Tactical Communication: good enough for purpose? M. Farquharson-
- Roberts

1210-1300 Lunch



1300-1400 Keynote address
‘Learning the use “The Remote”: The Problems of Navigation, Communications and Operational Management for Command at Sea in 1914’
Rear Admiral James Goldrick, RAN (ret), Seapower Centre (Australia)

1400-1420 Tea/coffee

1420-1550 The Pacific in peace and war
Pre-Great War in the Far East: the navies of Great Britain, J. Parkinson
Germany and Japan
Invidious Choices - The German East Asia Squadron and the RAN D. Woods
in the Pacific, August to December 1914
Anatomy of a disaster: the Coronel campaign 1914 N. Hewitt


1550 Closing remarks

1600 Depart

WOW! Talk about "immersion". It's all pre-WWI/Great War stuff.

Well, anyway, see if you can find out why Yubari keeps getting reported sunk but comes back to life.
Should be a good place to meet girls too.

[Cap Mandrake]

Also, don't really drink tea or coffee at all thsoe breaks. You wont be able to sit still by noon and you might stain your teeth.

[sprior]

I'll probably have difficulty getting off the Victory too.

[Cap Mandrake]

Sign seen on small tanker truck (the kind with the big vacuum hose to empty portable toilets and septic tanks) on the way to work.



OCPump

Driver carries no cash


[:D][:D] Duh! [:D]

[sprior]

Then how does he buy donuts?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

I'll probably have difficulty getting off the Victory too.

OK, that makes it pretty cool. Do the guests actually sleep aboard?

On second thought, there probably aren't enough showers. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Then how does he buy donuts?

I think with that job you just wait till you are off work to eat. [:)]

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

I'll probably have difficulty getting off the Victory too.

OK, that makes it pretty cool. Do the guests actually sleep aboard?

On second thought, there probably aren't enough showers. [:D]

After a 3 hour cocktail party who will care?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

I'll probably have difficulty getting off the Victory too.

OK, that makes it pretty cool. Do the guests actually sleep aboard?

On second thought, there probably aren't enough showers. [:D]

After a 3 hour cocktail party who will care?

After a 3 hour cocktail party there had better be some kind of "lavatory" or perhaps something more historically authentic.

[Cap Mandrake]

A beautiful 6 foot long model of HMS Victory at the Sardine Factory in Monterey, Calif.

Got in a big fight with a guy who said it wasn't Victory because it wasn't "painted black and white". Idiot had the wrong date for Battle of Trafalgar and pronounced it TRA-fal-ger too. The sommelier who worked at the place for 38 years finally had to step in and confirm it was Victory.

I think Stalker Girl was impressed but she had at least 2 martinis by then.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Frankly, I'm surprised that you didn't add the 'fishing out reading glasses from front pocket' to the geezerhood experience you've related. Cuz watching some old guy whipping out reading glasses makes hot chiquitas really excited. [:D]

Oh, you moderns!

For the good doctor it's a monocle in the vest's watch pocket.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Frankly, I'm surprised that you didn't add the 'fishing out reading glasses from front pocket' to the geezerhood experience you've related. Cuz watching some old guy whipping out reading glasses makes hot chiquitas really excited. [:D]

Oh, you moderns!

For the good doctor it's a monocle in the vest's watch pocket.

[:D] Sort of like this:

[Cap Mandrake]

Some kids are just so sophisticated and verbal that you have to check their birthdate to make sure they aren't "midgets".


Charming 3 year old girl who just had her 3rd birthday, in new dress just given to her by her mom, who despite being on Medicaid has surprisngly nice jewelry and clothes and dresses waaay too suggestively for a pediatric office: <3 year old tugging at her dress then makes a discovery> LOOK MOMMY MY BOOBS ARE POPPING OUT LIKE YOURS!

[:D]

The mom is mortified and turns about 8 shades of red. I need to say something to let her off the hook.


FAM: Well, at least she is learning her body parts.

[Cap Mandrake]

*******Situation*********

Kyushu: Kanoya is crushed. The runway is 98% destroyed but at least we own it. We are sending help.
LRCAP from Fuk-u-jima.

Hokkaido: 2 AP's were sunk by the Vals which we discover are operating from Bihoro. There are 1700 WJD's at Bihoro. Quite weak..so we land tonight/tomorrow.

[Cap Mandrake]

I told SG the story about the genius 3 year old.

She didn't think it was sweet or funny. In fact, she was jealous of the mother. <face palm>


Logically, one might ask why I would bring up such a story if there were anything to be jealous about? I am pretty sure women can't help themselves on this kind of thing. Some part of the rhinencephalon just commands them to patrol their territory.

The funny thing is it is probably the same brain structures that command men to try to encroach on neighboring territory.

[Cap Mandrake]

**********Kanoya, Kyushu, July 24, 1943(c)*********


Hirsute man: Milo, you crazy SOB, Americans aren't going to buy anything made in Japan after this is over.

Man in fine linen slacks: Oh yes they will, my doubting friend. What if you could buy a radio you didn't have to plug in for $8?

Hirsute man: You crazy SOB, half the town is burnt down!

Man in fine linen slacks: Opportunity, you crazy, naysaying SOB! Opportunity! You see a destroyed town. I see scrap metal. You see starving civilians. I see highly motivated employees.

Hirsute man: Milo, you crazy SOB, forget about the manufacturing, how are you going to sell the stuff? I'm telling you, Americans will not buy anything that says "Made in Japan"

Man in fine linen slacks: Yeah, I thought of that. That's why I picked this name. <He points to a large sign on the new assembly plant. As he does so he neon sign flickers to life>



Saul's Of New York