Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki

[BrucePowers]

Well, we have but 5 game days to await the news.....[:)]

[Capt. Harlock]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

And no self-respecting American would drink bourbon either.

Tell that to Andy Rooney -- and then get back to work on your AAR![:D]

[histgamer]

You guys the Brits don't drink Whiskey... They drink Scotch.. which is the same thing just way better. Those Scotch can sure make some good whiskey.


Them and the Canadian's I would put Crown Royal up there with any scotch... excluding like the vintage stuff.

[bradfordkay]

flanyboy, it's the Scots who make such fine scotch. I thought that you might want to fix your statement before any of our own scots blow a fuse at being referred to as a libation instead of a human... [;)]

[histgamer]

Yes yes you are of course correct, but they don't make scotch... they make whiskey that is so good it is called scotch rather than whiskey.
 
Then again I have had some very bad scotch and some whiskey that is about as good as any scotch. 

I love Crown Royal Whiskey… GO CANADA!!!

Maybe I can get the fine Canadian I am playing in my PBEM to send me some stuff as a War indemnity if I beat him.[8D]

[Feinder]

And in five days...

 
Dang it.  I feel 5 days of constipation coming on.
 
Fiber and Hibiki, both should be taken in regular doses.
 
-F-

[histgamer]

To much info.

[Terminus]

And too little on the Hibiki... Come on, Cuttlefish...[&o][&o][&o]

[Nemo121]

I think actually that Jackson is a great example of Asperger's Syndrome. The hidebound religiosity, the manner of his lectures, the issues when he fought on the opposite flank than he was used to, the pedantic speech etc. All are really indicative of Asperger's. He was, undoubtedly, high-functioning but the deficits are all there to be seen when one reads the works on him with a critical eye.

[Terminus]

CF's tardiness aside, however, it's not really nice to spam his AAR with talk of Civil War generals and types of whiskey...

[histgamer]

Longstreet in my opinion was the finest General for the South, he wasn’t as cautious as people made him out to be he just valued waiting to strike till you had everything ready. That said he didn’t wait to long he was a truly great general. Gettysburg was really outta his hands and as far as mistakes there the biggest one he made was not arguing more strongly against pickets charge. I suppose his biggest failure was in the eastern Tennessee campaign, but everyone makes mistakes and no general has gone his whole career without a bad campaign here or there.

Most people agree he was prolly the best general in the war on the defensive but look at 2nd Manassas where he struck the union in the flank at the exact moment it would do them the most damage, Also look at the Wilderness where he smashed into Burnsides and Hancock’s exposed flanks, saved the army and inflicted Chancellorsville like losses on the Union for ½ as many men as Jackson lost on essentially the same ground.

[Feinder]

Agreed.

Gentelmen, please refrain from posts about the Civil War in the Hibiki thread. While they are an interesting discussion, they don't really belong here.

Please to refrain, or I shall have to reposte with more comments on fiber! [;)]

-F-

[Cuttlefish]

November 15, 1943

Location: 50 miles east of Reef Island
Course: Holding position
Attached to: TF 4
Mission: Air Combat
System Damage: 1
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 443

Orders: Engage enemy forces attacking the New Hebrides

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Excerpt from a letter from Taiki Takahashi to his mother:

Everyone says that the battle will be soon. I think that this is true. There is an electricity in the air, like what you feel before a storm sometimes. The men are tense but eager, if only to get the waiting out of the way.

I am not so worried for us, though. There are many targets in this fleet more important than our little Hibiki. But we all know what this battle means for Japan. Could the war be over a month from now? Could I be returning home, getting married, starting a family and beginning the rest of my life? I do not know. It is nice to think about, but who can know what the future holds? If things go badly I fear not only for myself but for you and father and all of Japan.

Do you remember when I was small and you took Noboru and I to the Ueno Zoo? There was a black bear there, and it roared and scared me. I cried, and Noboru called me a baby. But you picked me up and comforted me, and before too long I was laughing again. I even waved to the bear and told it good-bye when we left.

The bear is roaring again, mother, but you are not here. But you and father (and even Noboru) have taught me how to be a man, and to not dwell on my fears or give in to them. And so I am fine, here so very far from home, and I know that I will do my duty as I must and with good fortune and the help of my ancestors I will come home again one day…

[Cuttlefish]

November 16, 1943

Location: 50 miles east of Reef Island
Course: Holding position
Attached to: TF 4
Mission: Air Combat
System Damage: 1
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 411

Orders: Engage enemy forces attacking the New Hebrides

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“It’s a catchy tune,” comment Captain Ishii. He and Lieutenant Miharu are in the radio room listening to an American broadcast coming out of Noumea. The broadcast is fairly low-power, but by some trick of the nighttime atmospherics Hibiki is picking it up clearly. Lieutenant Miharu frowns and cocks his head, trying to make out the lyrics through the static.

“Can you tell what they are saying?” the captain asks him.

“I think so,” says Lieutenant Miharu. “I have a lot more trouble with English when it is sung than when it is spoken, though.” He listens a moment longer. “Sir,” he says after a moment, “these lyrics are very strange, even for Americans.”

“What are they?” Ishii asks.

“Well, sir, I’m pretty sure they are saying ‘goats sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me’”, the lieutenant replies.

“Goats?” says Ishii in puzzlement.

“Yes sir,” says Lieutenant Miharu. “And then something about marching home.”

“Hm,” says Ishii. The music fades out a little and the radio man makes some adjustments to try and hang on to the signal. It strengthens slightly. “I wonder if it could be some sort of code?”

His executive officer shrugs, still listening as the song ends. “Anything is possible, sir. But most likely I am just translating it poorly.”

It is perhaps regrettable for the sake of Lieutenant Miharu’s confidence in his English skills that the next song played is “Mairzy Dotes”.

[histgamer]

Only 3 more days!!![X(]

[Local Yokel]

ORIGINAL: Cuttlefish

It is perhaps regrettable for the sake of Lieutenant Miharu’s confidence in his English skills that the next song played is “Mairzy Dotes”.

[:D][:D][:D] Remember my mother singing this when I was a child. One of the silliest songs of its time; I much preferred her to be singing 'Skylark'.

Great yarn, CF - don't let them rush you to tell it, take as long as you need to spin it well.

[bradfordkay]

"It is perhaps regrettable for the sake of Lieutenant Miharu’s confidence in his English skills that the next song played is “Mairzy Dotes”."

You had tears streaming down my face on this one!

Thanks again for a wonderful story!

[Terminus]

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

[bradfordkay]

For those unfamiliar with that last song, I thought that I'd post the lyrics:

"Mairzy dotes and dozy dotes and little lamsy divey,
A kiddly divey, too - wouldn't you?
Mairzy dotes and dozy dotes and little lamsy divey,
A kiddly divey, too - wouldn't you?

(Bridge:)
Now if the words sound queer, and funny to your ear,
A little bit jumbled and jivey,
Just say, "Mares eat oats, and does eat oats,
And little lambs eat ivy."

Mairzy dotes and dozy dotes and little lamsy divey,
A kiddly divey, too - wouldn't you?
A kiddly divey, too - a kiddly divey,too,
A kiddly divey, too - wouldn't you?"

[Feinder]

(* sigh *)
 
3 more days...
 
"Honey, where's the Glycolax?"
 
-F-