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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Well, one for you, USS Mike. [;)]

Yeah, baby! [:D]

Good Monday morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

Finally managed a bit of relaxation this weekend! Mrs. USSA is safely and happily lounging on the beach in Punta Cana with her best friend and I managed to spend about 5 hours at lounging at the apartment complex pool, drinking rum and reading "The Third World War: The Untold Story". I thought it would impress all of the lovely young ladies at the pool, but they must have already read it. [:D]

Bah! That book is SO last century, grandpa...

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Nice "smallie" for ya, NoDak. Had a nice outing with my father in law this morning. A largemouth bass, this smallie, half a dozen sunfish, a white crappie and a perch. Beautiful morning too: cool in the morning, warming to the mid-70s. Oughta do that more often. [8D]

Oh the fish.[:D] Very nice. No walleyes?

Well, morning all. Monday, uck! Drizzling, that's for fall.[8|]

Good Morning!

ORIGINAL: USS America

Finally managed a bit of relaxation this weekend! Mrs. USSA is safely and happily lounging on the beach in Punta Cana with her best friend and I managed to spend about 5 hours at lounging at the apartment complex pool, drinking rum and reading "The Third World War: The Untold Story". I thought it would impress all of the lovely young ladies at the pool, but they must have already read it. [:D]

I think that actually, there's no book in the world that can possibly make you any more attractive to the ladies than you already are. [;)]

Thanks, Martin...... um, wait a minute! [:D]

ORIGINAL: USS America

Finally managed a bit of relaxation this weekend! Mrs. USSA is safely and happily lounging on the beach in Punta Cana with her best friend and I managed to spend about 5 hours at lounging at the apartment complex pool, drinking rum and reading "The Third World War: The Untold Story". I thought it would impress all of the lovely young ladies at the pool, but they must have already read it. [:D]

As for the WWIII book-there've been a few of these over the years. Author?

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: USS America

Finally managed a bit of relaxation this weekend! Mrs. USSA is safely and happily lounging on the beach in Punta Cana with her best friend and I managed to spend about 5 hours at lounging at the apartment complex pool, drinking rum and reading "The Third World War: The Untold Story". I thought it would impress all of the lovely young ladies at the pool, but they must have already read it. [:D]

As for the WWIII book-there've been a few of these over the years. Author?

This one is Sir John Hackett. He wrote "The Third World War" around 1980 and this one from about 1982 expands on it.

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: USS America

Finally managed a bit of relaxation this weekend! Mrs. USSA is safely and happily lounging on the beach in Punta Cana with her best friend and I managed to spend about 5 hours at lounging at the apartment complex pool, drinking rum and reading "The Third World War: The Untold Story". I thought it would impress all of the lovely young ladies at the pool, but they must have already read it. [:D]

As for the WWIII book-there've been a few of these over the years. Author?

This one is Sir John Hackett. He wrote "The Third World War" around 1980 and this one from about 1982 expands on it.

Read the original, don't recall the 'update'. Worthwhile?

ETA: The first novel, IIRC, had a happy ending. [:D] The Ruskies nuked Birmingham, didn't they?

ETA II: Oh, I'm kidding for goodness sake. [:'(] Ruskies nuking Birmingham would not be a happy ending.

Hey...a "Nuking Birmingham" UNP. [&o]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Read the original, don't recall the 'update'. Worthwhile?

ETA: The first novel, IIRC, had a happy ending. [:D] The Ruskies nuked Birmingham, didn't they?

ETA II: Oh, I'm kidding for goodness sake. [:'(] Ruskies nuking Birmingham would not be a happy ending.

I've not read the book, but surely the author would have been better off nuking a city someone cares about? Even in the 1980s Birmingham was rubbish. Apart from a tyre factory and a stupid motorway junction there was nothing there.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy




As for the WWIII book-there've been a few of these over the years. Author?

This one is Sir John Hackett. He wrote "The Third World War" around 1980 and this one from about 1982 expands on it.

Read the original, don't recall the 'update'. Worthwhile?

ETA: The first novel, IIRC, had a happy ending. [:D] The Ruskies nuked Birmingham, didn't they?

ETA II: Oh, I'm kidding for goodness sake. [:'(] Ruskies nuking Birmingham would not be a happy ending.

I've not read the first one. Picked this one up in a used bookstore. So far, it's much more technical details and analysis than story telling. I find it interesting, so there are probably a few around here who also will. [:)]

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Nice "smallie" for ya, NoDak. Had a nice outing with my father in law this morning. A largemouth bass, this smallie, half a dozen sunfish, a white crappie and a perch. Beautiful morning too: cool in the morning, warming to the mid-70s. Oughta do that more often. [8D]

Oh the fish.[:D] Very nice. No walleyes?

Remember reading about when they were cleaning up the Great Lakes and wanted to introduce a new breed of sport fish. It had to grow kinda big, taste good, fight like heck, and breed like minks. So U Mich, Ann Arbor comes up with a cross of a Cohoe, a Walleye, and a Skeeter. They called a Kowalski. It had every attribute ... except you had to teach it to swim. [8D]

ORIGINAL: Schanilec
Oh the fish.[:D] Very nice. No walleyes?

The sunnies kept ravaging our Lindy rigs as soon as we got them to depth. Finally had to switch tactics for the bass. The white crappie made me shake my head-we got that dude out of a reedy, shallow, practically impenetrable mess. They always were 'structure' fish, weren't they? Still, I could catch those guys all day-and they're very tasty too.

ORIGINAL: Symon
Remember reading about when they were cleaning up the Great Lakes and wanted to introduce a new breed of sport fish. It had to grow kinda big, taste good, fight like heck, and breed like minks. So U Mich, Ann Arbor comes up with a cross of a Cohoe, a Walleye, and a Skeeter. They called a Kowalski. It had every attribute ... except you had to teach it to swim. [8D]

I'll have to share that with some of the folks 'round these parts with a 'ski' suffix in their name, John. [;)]

It was a Coho, a walleye and Muskie. A Kowalski. But it couldn't swim.

I suppose there was no size to the Bluegills. As usual. Were at a cities lake?

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Nice "smallie" for ya, NoDak. Had a nice outing with my father in law this morning. A largemouth bass, this smallie, half a dozen sunfish, a white crappie and a perch. Beautiful morning too: cool in the morning, warming to the mid-70s. Oughta do that more often. [8D]

No KC Royals hat huh? Did you notice our record? Twins in town tonight..

BTW, I think my $500 bet at work is in order shortly. I bet a buddy we'd see $4.50 corn by October...

We're headed up to the cabin this weekend...Smallies and whitebass.. going to show my oldest what fishing is all about.. enough of this green sunfish bullshit. Looks like you had a great time. If I could fish and golf for a living, I would be a happy man.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
The sunnies kept ravaging our Lindy rigs as soon as we got them to depth. Finally had to switch tactics for the bass. The white crappie made me shake my head-we got that dude out of a reedy, shallow, practically impenetrable mess. They always were 'structure' fish, weren't they? Still, I could catch those guys all day-and they're very tasty too.

Remember my first real day job with TI. Was living in a condo behind Rush Creek YC on Lake Ray Hubbard. Crappie season comes around and we would just put 4 to 6 little yellow hooks on a piece of mono. Go to the end of the dock, dip down the line, have a smoke, and pull up a ton of crappie. We'd have 2 buckets behind us and fill them up. Some of the gals would scale them and then Mark (he was a trauma guy) would use a pair of pliers and an electric knife and slice off perfect crappie fillets. We had a chunky piece of steel we laid over a wood fire. Battered up the crappie, made sure the beer was cold, and had someone make margies. Darn that was good.

J