THE THREAD!!!

[Grollub]

Evening tithe.

[Grollub]

Fabering ... ? [;)]

[VSWG]

A bit, yes. My fabers rhyme, though - but only barely. [;)]

[VSWG]

Also, they are good advice!

At intersections
Look each way
A harp sounds nice
But it's
Hard to play
Burma-Shave

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: VSWG

So France = Mars. Everything makes sense now...

Glad I could clear that up for you.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

I got an email from the attorney of a deceased long lost relative (a contractor and businessman, apparently), offering me "usd$13.58O, OOO, 00" of inheritance. I wonder how much that is. [&:]

$13.58 - before taxes

Thats what I figured. [:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy


Is that a luger in your pants, or are you just happy to see me? [:D]

Sorry, buddy, its a Luger in her pants. [:'(]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli


That's interesting Yuri. My ancestry is Italian. All of my grandparents got off the boat around WWI. I grew up with my grandfather (a WWI Italian Army vet) in the house. His philosophy was that we were in America, we speak English. He never let me learn Italian. Now I did learn the culture and follow a lot of it to this day. It's interesting how people are in the same circumstances but arrive at different conclusions.

I have some friends and relatives who think similarly. Most, however, forgot their Russian for simple lack of practice and laziness.

My parents were always of the opinion that the benefits of speaking multiple languages far outweigh any nationalistic considerations. I also used to speak passable French, most of which I've forgotten though...well, laziness and lack of practice.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli


What's better, an H81-A3 or a P040E?

Mike, it seems about a wash to me. H81-A3 has slightly better range, but no drop tanks, higher ceiling and climb rate and better maneuverability. P-40E has slightly faster speed, shorter range, but can use drop tanks to surpass the H81, slightly better gun value, but less maneuverability, climb, and ceiling. P40E has a lower service rating of 2, compared to 3 for H81's. If you're not playing with the "Strato-sweep exploit", the P40E is probably a little better overall.

BTW, tracker has a fantastic screen where you can compare different aircraft side by side. [;)]

Thanks Mike. When I upgraded Tracker, it stopped working and I haven't had the time to fix it. I know that screen. Used it plenty of times.

What is this tracker of which you speak? [&:]

[Mike Solli]

WitP Tracker

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: scott1964

Here is one to cheer everyone up this morning. [:'(]

The List (March 1976 in US and 1978 in UK) By James Fritzhand

Flying to Hong Kong to purchase a microfilmed list of US intelligence agents more important than 20 nuclear secrets/ Nick Carter found the seller dead and the film gone, and an international squad of killers after him. A lead will take him from a museum in Hong Kong to an abandoned temple in Burma. His only lead was Tou Wan. But there was one problem, she had been dead for thousands of years. [X(]

Her clearly Nordic countenance seems to be at odds with the asian blade. [:D]

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

too-early-morning guys.

this night i had to bring Claire to "emergencey psychiatric hospital".....

[:(][X(][:o][:(][:(]

Sorry to hear that mate, hope eveything ends up Ok.

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart




brother dixie, i feel your pain...when i got my commission, there were 24 P-3 Orion squadrons in the US Navy...when the soviets decided to throw in the towel, that number got reduced to 12...pretty much a career limiting event, unless you had "golden boy" status...i've been out of the service for 12 years now and things are well...keep the faith...

And KEM actually understates it....There were 24 "active" squadrons. Plus two training squadrons,12 Reserve Squadrons,two "RAG" or over sized training squadrons,and two Master Augment Squadrons, which were special reserve squadrons that could triple the size of active squadrons. Of all that, only 1 smaller "RAG" is left. So in reality there were fourty squadrons. Now there is 13 (counting the one training squadron). And the Naval air Reserve not longer exists. There are no fighter squadrons.no anti-submarine squadrons,no heavy attack squadrons, all gone. We have two less carriers , and the average carrier airgroup has shrunk from 85-90 planes to 35 to 40 on a really good day!

And who needs it? After all, we'll never fight another war (let alone two) now will we? [:(]

all true brother steve...i'm extremely proud to have served in our armed forces and enjoyed the experience overall...i guess i was just trying to relate to brother dixie that there is life after military service...i'm confident things will work out for him, even if the future seems bleak now...

Aye, there's life outside a blue suit. In all honesty there's better paid work as well with the training and experience I've had. Only time will tell, apparently my application for further service isn't a prority because I've got more than two years service left. Maybe admin don't realise it's a priority to me...

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Tolstoy was a Christian (Russian Orthodox) and a capiltalist (he didn't write his books for free). Bad example red mouse. Go back and try again,go directly to gulag, do not collect 200 rubles. [:D]

You obviously understand nothing, by capitalist friend. Tolstoy was a very wealthy man in his own right, having inherited a ducal estate and title. But he chose to spend a great deal of time with the muzhiks on his lands, being of the opinion that their outlook on life was preferable to the convoluted maze of rituals and obligation to which he, as part of the upper class was bound. Which is why all of his writings invariably include peasants who are portrayed as simple, just and positive characters most of the time. Even when theyre not, there is usually no malice assigned to their actions.

What religion has to do with it, I cant even tell. The "soul" in question is a pagan concept dating from well before the advent of Christianity. Its possibly better described as "national character" and may be illustrated as "this is how we do it in Russia, and if you dont like it or understand it you may go soak your head". What I have heard referred to as "Russian Nihilism" or your "everyone dies..." is simply a way of looking at events (usually tragic, cause thats how Russians roll) with the understanding that you cant do anything to change things. If you are meant to suffer than you will suffer. And no amount of Christianity, eastern or Catholic, Buddhism, Shintoism or whatever youve got, is ever likely to knock that out of the above-mentioned Russian soul.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Hey Yuri,

Here's one for you-from my work email. These Russian spammers are getting pretty lazy-they aren't even disguising their spam with translation into (bad) English...

So, let me guess-someone I knew died and left me a stack of money? Some money 'advance' scheme?

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ETA: Eww...that didn't turn out very well with the forum text, did it?

Screenshot perhaps?

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


What's up with ManU? [X(][&:] Always nice to see them struggle being a Gunner fan, but sheesh...they are normally very consistent.

And what is with Man City? Someone pull a Chelsea on them?

What's up with Manu Utd? They're no longer the biggest fish in the pond, they don't have the money to compete with Chelsea and their youth programme isn't what it once was. Fergie seems to be trying to buy young players from abroad like Arsene Wenger, but he's mostly bought crap lately.
I like it, a majority of the Utd fans I've come across have been insufferable, smug ****s. Now they're not doing well they're not quite so annoying.

As for Man City, they're owned by someone with the title Sheik. So they have more money than the UK [:D] They may be attempting to buy the title (although I don't care that much, how else are you meant to get a foot on the ladder?) but they are giving chances to quite a few young English players instead of going abroad to buy players.

[Grollub]

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

too-early-morning guys.

this night i had to bring Claire to "emergencey psychiatric hospital".....

[:(][X(][:o][:(][:(]

Best wishes Eric.

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Dixie
As for Man City, they're owned by someone with the title Sheik. So they have more money than the UK [:D] They may be attempting to buy the title (although I don't care that much, how else are you meant to get a foot on the ladder?) but they are giving chances to quite a few young English players instead of going abroad to buy players.

Ah....so they did get Chelsea'd. [:D]

[DuckofTindalos]

Hey Onime, how would you translate "apperatchik"? Is that even how it's spelled?

My idea is that it translates (roughly) into "technocrat"?

[anarchyintheuk]

When I think 'Chelsea'd' I think whacked. Abramovich (sp?) is my number one on the 'Owners of sports teams that have ordered people killed' list.