From here to...well...it SEEMS like an eternity

[DuckofTindalos]

Good Lord, Mandrake...[X(][X(][X(]

[1275psi]

Sorry guys, this once was a really amusing take on WITP AAR. Come on , get back to the game and the story, have not heard a thing about milo for ages ect, ect, ect.
[8|][8|][8|][>:]

[Cap Mandrake]

Young PSI is RIGHT! IS everyone done coming out of the closet? [:D]

[bobogoboom]

Mandrake the ladies man[X(][X(][X(][X(][X(][X(].... now how is that offensive against perth doing.

[rtrapasso]

"Wise men started this war to make these kind of opportunities possible. It is our duty as Americans to not squander them."

i think i've just found one for Bartlett's!! [X(] [:D] [&o]

[DuckofTindalos]

Wonder if Mandrake's area is on fire... Seems like most of SoCal is.[X(]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Wonder if Mandrake's area is on fire... Seems like most of SoCal is.[X(]

Fire is 0% contained as of this morning's newscast...[X(] [:(]

[BrucePowers]

Not good[:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

Nearest fire to me is about 4-5 miles air travel, but the wind is predominantly Westward, not towards me. To my South I can see a 50 mile-long continuous wall of smoke blowing out to sea. San Diego county is just getting creamed, over 1000 homes lost. One of my colleague's home in a rural canyon is in big trouble..the fire department bugged out..too dangerous with only one exit.

[Cap Mandrake]

Who knows who this is and what is the relevance?

Hint: I'm not talking about the hirsute guy in the speedos, either.

[Canoerebel]

This is a randy woman from Idaho?  Or is a starlett name Carr who passed away three or four days ago?  From Here to Eternity!

[DuckofTindalos]

Deborah Kerr...

[BrucePowers]

Oh you mean her, I thought you meant Burt Lancaster[:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

Whats the relevance? I dunno. Youve got sand in your shorts too? [&:][:)]

[rtrapasso]

Maybe it's smoke in the lungs! [X(]

i hope the fires haven't come any closer... [:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Whats the relevance? I dunno. Youve got sand in your shorts too? [&:][:)]

The relevance is it's a shot from "From Here to Eternity" [:)]

Much less wind today but now it's smokey here. Fire is about 2.5 air miles away but everything should be OK here. Many people are evacuating their horses because that takes the longest and there aren't enough horse trailers. New fire to my East though. I could see a huge orange glow to the North last night and another one to the South.


Two cavemen are talking as they drag their women behind them, one by the legs and the other by the hair. The caveman dragging by the hair says "try it like this..they don't fill up with sand".

[DuckofTindalos]

[:D][:D][:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

*****October 5, 1942, the rugged Burmese jungle, 25 miles from the Mandalay/Myitkyina rail line****


The progress of the column, with 7th Armoured in the van, has slowed to a crawl, often as little as a mile a day. The "road", if one can call it that, was never intended for Stuarts or 2 1/2 ton lorries. That is where 251 Coy., Royal Engineers comes in. They are attached to 7th Armoured. It is there job to make the Burmese jungle more hospitable to 20th century vehicles. All know the urgency of the situation. They have orders to cut the rail line before the Japs can organize a strong defence. It is not an easy job. The last fully operable bulldozer of 251 Coy. moves carefully down the trail, which at this point crosses a small canyon incised sharply by a jungle stream. The bulldozer cuts easily through layers of soft sandstone, now at least 80 feet below the canyon rim. Sgt. Bonebreak, RE, stands 20 ft. in front of the bulldozer directing the driver. Suddenly, there is a loud scraping sound as the dozer blade hits what sounds like metal. All around crouch reflexively for an explosion. There is none. The driver carefully lifts the blade and kills the engine. Sgt. Bonebreak approahes the front of the bulldozer.

Sgt. Bonebreak: <East End accent> 'ere's another one sir!

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: <scurries down the slope and carefully brushes away jungle detritus from the find. All can now see a large , egg shell-colored object with organic curves>

Sgt. Bonebreak: Is it another Wooly Mammoth sir?

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: <annoying Eaton/Cambridge accent> No Sgt., it seems we are in another epoch, Late Triassic would be my guess. My interest was paleobotony but I would say we have a very large Sauropod here, an adult. This larger one is the Ilium. These are sacral vertebrae. Oh, look! Look at this prominence! This must be the glycogen body.

Sgt. Bonebreak: Don't you mean the 'indbrain, sir?

Bullozer Driver: Well, it's really more of a spinal ganglion, isn't it? After all, 'indbrain seems a bit grandiose to me.

Sgt. Bonebreak: LOOK at the bloody thing! It's two 'ands wide. I'll wager your forebrain isn't that big.

Bullozer Driver: 2 quid you're wrong on that sargeant. And it's still no 'indbrain. It's just for involuntary control of the 'indlegs.

Sgt. Bonebreak: Is not! It's a bloody 'indbrain because I am the bloody Sgt. That's why it's a bloody 'indbrain.

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: Look, you cretins! We've a major find.
Fetch some shovels and tell the surgeon we shall need all the plaster of Paris he can spare!

[DuckofTindalos]

Reminds me of the old Monty Python sketch where a group of Welsh coal miners come to blows over the subtleties of ancient Greek architecture and 17th century European history...[:D]