At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[Cap Mandrake]

THE NEW SPITFIRES ARE HERE! THE NEW SPITFIRES ARE HERE!............Just kidding. 32 brand new Spitfire
Vc sitting around in Cape Town and we can't use them for 6 1/2 months.[:@]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Are you short on pilots or deliberately keeping the number of pilots in a squadron below maximum?

How did a Hurricane squadron with 1 operational aircraft and 14 pilots get a fatigue factor of 16? Too many female admirers?

Sadly, no. The survivors of No. 242 Sqdrn spent the night packing up the lockers of their missing squadron mates.[:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: John B.

Because Goofy walks on two legs and Pluto on four.

Hey, that's pretty good. I once had a 5 year old tell me when asked that Disney riddle, "Dude, Pluto has an owner" [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

FAM: <asking about symptoms of a 4 year old with fever yesterday> Does anything hurt?

4 year old: Yeah, my torso. [:D][:D][:D]

Tuned out he had pneumonia.

[witpqs]

Pluto does talk. He's just too far away to hear. [8D]

[desicat]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: desicat

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

************Disney mind teasers...one in an occasional series************


Everyone knows about Sleeping Beauty and her famously long hair but did the curtain match the drapes? In other words, was her pubic hair fantastically long as well? I watched the movie 3 times. They don't tell you.

Rapunzel may bring tears to your eyes?

This is true but I don't think she was a Disney property.

Tangled.

[anarchyintheuk]

Selective mutism. Either that or his hero is Bartleby the Scrivener.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Pluto does talk. He's just too far away to hear. [8D]

I heard that since his namesake was downgraded to a planetoid he isn't speaking to anyone ...

[Cap Mandrake]

[:D][:D] I have to admit these are MUCH better answers than I usually get from a 4 or 5 year old! They never use literary references either.

[Cap Mandrake]

I have always thought Pluto got screwed.

1) He has to take orders from a mouse who would need a backpack to "curb his dog"

2) Then he gets downgraded to a planetoid even though he has 5 moons

3) Then someone postulates there is another, larger planet outside the orbit of Pluto


CAUTION: SEVERE NERD WARNING

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/ ... lar-system

[witpqs]

Hey, we ain't your average simple-minded folk! [:D]

[John B.]

Or even ice volcanoes (which sounds like something from a bad LSD trip).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/plu ... eb759ee7be

[Lecivius]

"Or even ice volcanoes (which sounds like something from a bad LSD trip)"

man, I've had worse trips on poor Tequila [:D]

[John B.]

I'm afraid to even ask. [:D]

[zuluhour]

What's going on in the rear area?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

What's going on in the rear area?

Do you mean like Seattle, Hawaii, the Phillipines?

[Cap Mandrake]

****************************March 24, 1942(e)************************

Jap BB's show up to take out Port Kembla airfield. They crush three poor AKL's trying to resupply NSW on the way in and out


Night Naval bombardment of Port Kembla at 90,168

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 1 destroyed on ground
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed on ground

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
BB Hiei
DD Yayoi
DD Kisaragi
DD Amagiri
DD Ayanami

Allied ground losses:
227 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Heavy Industry hits 1
Resources hits 1
Manpower hits 1
Fires 106
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 13
Port hits 11
Port fuel hits 2.

Ouch

[Cap Mandrake]

Bang, Ding, Ow!

Morning Air attack on 2nd A/Car Regiment, at 91,163 (Tamworth)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 58

No Japanese losses

Allied ground losses:
158 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 36 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 30 (1 destroyed, 29 disabled)

[Cap Mandrake]

Bang, Ding, Ow, again. US tank Bn gets punished.

Morning Air attack on 754th Tank Battalion, at 88,166 (Katoomba)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 50

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 10 damaged

Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 35 (5 destroyed, 30 disabled))

[Cap Mandrake]

At Melbourne, our SBD jockeys sleep in again. Terribly disappointing after special ordering new 2nd Marine Air Wing patches and coffee mugs and everything. Once the General gets back to Adelaide, we will fly in the entire 2nd Marine Air Wing Hq boys and I don't think the general is going to be too happy.
JJ brings in more fighters. [:(]

Afternoon Air attack on Geelong , at 81,170

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 38
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 21

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 1
Kittyhawk IA x 14
B-17E Fortress x 22
P-40E Warhawk x 36

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed
Kittyhawk IA: 3 destroyed
B-17E Fortress: 10 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 6 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Runway hits 13