Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[sprior]

Are you lot being mean to poor old Manders? Fie, I say.

Anyway, Sept 7th 1942.

The troops for Otter will being embarkation for Otter on 21 Sept. The first 2 targets will be Port Hedland and Broome/Derby. The carriers are assmebling at Adelaide and will begin their move to Perth as the troops start to embark. On the same day will begin to bombe the airfeilds at Port Hedland and Broome with the aerial armada assembled in SW Australia.

[Cap Mandrake]

Ah, splendid! Sept. 21. Was that chosen because of low tides and a bomber's moon or was the SWPAC haruspex insovlved?

It will give time to get that auxillary officer's head on promenade deck repaired on Nevada and get her over to Perth and also to fill out that P-38 squadron at Geraldton a bit more.

[sprior]

Sept. 21. Was that chosen because of low tides and a bomber's moon

No, because it's 2 weeks away.

[Cap Mandrake]

Fie, I say.

Oooh, Chaucer-speak. I love Chaucer-speak.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Sept. 21. Was that chosen because of low tides and a bomber's moon

No, because it's 2 weeks away.

So, if I understand correctly, you are suggesting we use the calender for planning purposes? I think you have the germ of an idea there....crude, yes...but...

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

Sept. 21. Was that chosen because of low tides and a bomber's moon

No, because it's 2 weeks away.

So, if I understand correctly, you are suggesting we use the calender for planning purposes? I think you have the germ of an idea there....crude, yes...but...

Sorry to rain on your parade, Lord Admiral, but it'll never work with this lot-the planning purposes thing, that is.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Fie, I say.

Oooh, Chaucer-speak. I love Chaucer-speak.

auxillary officer's head on promenade deck

You haven't seen A Knight's Tale have you?

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior




No, because it's 2 weeks away.

So, if I understand correctly, you are suggesting we use the calender for planning purposes? I think you have the germ of an idea there....crude, yes...but...

Sorry to rain on your parade, Lord Admiral, but it'll never work with this lot-the planning purposes thing, that is.

Planning? I was talking about prevarication and putting things off.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Fie, I say.

Oooh, Chaucer-speak. I love Chaucer-speak.

auxillary officer's head on promenade deck

You haven't seen A Knight's Tale have you?

Wait, do you mean "read" or "seen"? Personally, I am hoping for a "remake" of The Miller's Tale, upon which I based much of my life philosophy. Maybe they are having trouble getting Ledger to answer their phone calls.

[Mynok]

The troops for Otter will being embarkation for Otter on 21 Sept.

Soon all their base are belong to green jobs.

[khyberbill]

Soon all their base are belong to green jobs.

I just don't understand Martian syntax or grammar.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: khyberbill

Soon all their base are belong to green jobs.

I just don't understand Martian syntax or grammar.

It's based on the new math.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

The troops for Otter will being embarkation for Otter on 21 Sept.

Soon all their base are belong to green jobs.

The greater peril is "all their womans are belong to green jobs"

[khyberbill]

It's based on the new math.

I never understood that either, just give me a binomial equation or let me do a nice integral and I am happy.

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Mynok

The troops for Otter will being embarkation for Otter on 21 Sept.

Soon all their base are belong to green jobs.

The greater peril is "all their womans are belong to green jobs"

Pongo bait

[sprior]

The only pongo bait are the ones the matelots won't touch. And matelots in a foreign port aren't too picky...

[Cap Mandrake]

**************Officer's Club, Suva, Espt. 8, 1942*******************


<Man in fine linen slacks walks quickly tp to a table>


Man in fine linen slacks: Yossarian, you slothful son of a bitch, GET UP! We are going to Perth!

Hiruste man: Perth? Why are we in such a Goddamned hurry to go to Perth?

Man in fine linen slacks: Because the place is crawling with GI's and there aren't enough women.

Hiruste man: Milo, you crazy, anatomically naive, SOB. I am afraid I am particularly unsuited to be of help.

Man in fine linen slacks: No, no, no. It's not that. What do GI's do when there aren't enough women?

Hiruste man: I suppose that depends on what branch they are in.

Man in fine linen slacks: They drink, you indolent SOB! They drink! We are going to start a Tahitian themed dance club.

Hiruste man: Dance club? Don't we need girls?

Man in fine linen slacks: Got em! Since all the Tannanese men are away on garrison duty, I got me a baker's dozen of Tannanese women.

Hiruste man: Tananese? I thought you said it was Tahitian-themed?

Man in fine linen slacks: You put an umbrella in his drink and some kid from Kansas doesn't know any better.

Hiruste man: Milo, you crazy SOB, I'm not sure how to say this but I have never seen an attractive Tannanese girl.

Man in fine linen slacks: Subdued lighting, man. Sudued lighting and alcohol. Works every time.................

[Mynok]

I take it Desperation Otter is a joint brown and green job op?

[witpqs]

D-Day - Antony Beevor, page 517

"The problem was that many American Soldiers, loaded with dollar's of back pay, believed that hardship at the front gave them the right to behave as they liked in the rear. And American deserters in Paris, combined with a few Milo Minderbenders in the supply services, fuelled a rampant black market. The capital of France became known as 'Chicago-sur-Seine'."

People who don't know these AARs might think that Beevor is citing the character from Catch-22, but we know better.

[Cap Mandrake]

************COM 14, Pearl Harbor, Sept. 9, 1942*******


Cmdr. Rochefort: ..right, here it is boys, a message from Rord Admirar Fabertong to Rord Admirar Nerson..<looks at note>.."The whatsit is at the dohdah because of the thingy we discussed." What do you think?

Aide: Right, I make those as idiosynchratic code words, probably operationally speciific. "Dodah" appears to be a geographic location. "The whatsit" could be a military unit.

Cmdr. Rochefort: Agreed. Let's get cracking on this. I want a cross reference of major unit movements in the last two weeks on JN-25.

Aide 2: Sir, I wonder if the inscrutable little yellow bastards suspect we have solved JN-25 and are deliberately feeding us this knowing it will lead to a Chinese fire drill, in which case they are at this very moment slapping each other on the back as their squinty little yellow bastard eyes grow even more squinty in Oriental mirthmaking.

Aide: Hey, yeah. What if "whatsit" is just a big shipment of salted sea urchin roe?

Cmdr. Rochefort: Why the ******* bastards! What is required then is an equally puerile demonstration on our part.

Aide 2: Cmdr, may I suggest we all go up on the water tower and drop trou toward Tokyo?

Cmdr. Rochefort: hehehehheheHEHEHEHHEEH! YEEEHAW! Let's go boys! <meeting ends>