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

[Cap Mandrake]

***************VMF-441, Darwin Juan 24, 1943(c)******************


<15 beautiful new F4U-1 Corsair are arrayed on the tarmac>

Maj. Torrey, CO, VNF-441: I love 'em. A testy beast but I love 'em. Your boss is a good man. He drives a hard bargain but he can deliver.

Hirsute man in civies: Yes sir, a real SOB

Maj. Torrey, CO, VNF-441: That's good. An SOB but a good man. That about sums it up. <he continues to admre the plane>

Crew Boss: <down one one knee examing the underside of the fuselage> Major, you're gonna wanna see this. I don't see a damn tail hook.

Maj. Torrey, CO, VNF-441: ARE YOU SHITTING ME? <walks quickly to confirm the finding> GODDAMNIT! <he turns qucikly. He and the crew chief are now alone> WHERE THE HELL DID THAT DAMN M&M SALESMAN GO?

[Cap Mandrake]

[:D] It's "Darwin, Jan." The Po-up blocker is one.

[Cap Mandrake]

"one"="on"

[Chickenboy]

"N"="M" too?

[Cap Mandrake]

Does it do any good to bring the oil from Boela to Oz or will we just have to bring in supplies to refine it?

If so, where do we take it? Pretend we didn't read the manual.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

"N"="M" too?

Good catch CB. Were you an auditor in your previous life??

As for the blocker thingy CM mentions, I think it appropriate to call it a "poo-up blocker" since its job is to limit the **** that most sites send you.

[House Stark]

I'd ship it Townsville, I imagine it should flow from there. If you have the spare tankers I'd say ship it directly to any Aussie ports with refineries to ensure that the oil gets there.

[Cap Mandrake]

"N"="M" too?

Yes...sometimes.

Even though I knew from previous reading that the first Corsairs went to the Marines and were not used aboard carriers, I, like Maj Torrey, felt some buyer's remorse to discover they were not carrier capable.

[Cap Mandrake]

I'd ship it Townsville, I imagine it should flow from there. If you have the spare tankers I'd say ship it directly to any Aussie ports with refineries to ensure that the oil gets there.

Short of looking it up I am going to guess that would be Sydney. We can use those leftover, crappy, short-haul Dutch tankers.

[Cap Mandrake]

**********Aboard USS Juneau, flagship of TF 179, 132nd Inf Regt embarked, 220 mi E of Norfolk Is********



Adm Hazard*: <with glasses> Where the hell is Kinkaid with our escort? He was supposed to be here hours ago.




* This is a really funny name for an admiral, if you ask me.

[Cap Mandrake]

************Aboard USS Sangamon, Coral Sea, Jan 24 (or maybe 23), 1943(c)*************


Ship's Captain: Admiral, weren't we supposed rendezvous with TF 179 at 08:00 on the 24th?


Adm. Kinkaid: Why it's the dateline, Captain. I'm surprised at you.


Ship's Captain: But sir, we shouldn't be anywhere near the dateline.


Adm. Kinkaid: Sure, here it is on my chart just east of Townsville.


Ship's Captain: <looks at chart then grows ashen-faced> Sir, this is an M&M Enterprises map.


Adm. Kinkaid: <his face turns white in realization and he is unable to speak for several seconds> Holy crap! I am so ******. Don't tell anyone, OK?

[Cap Mandrake]

Something like this actually did happen to Kinkaid. He showed up a day late with the Enterprise TF to a rendezvous near Fiji because he had a chart with the dateline in the wrong place. [:D][:D][:D]

I bet he had to toss his BVD's out of the porthole in the Admiral's cabin. It was a potential career-ending mistake. Amazingly, nobody told Pye or Nimitz. [:D] Alas, the historical recotrd does not indicate who the cartographer was.

[Cap Mandrake]

This is why the AI never picks Kinkaid to head Air Combat taffys. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

I just got a letter from Mitt Romney. Maybe he wants me to take over Bain Capital. He probably heard about my theory of the operability of my ice-maker to predict stock market trends. By ra way, it's not working now so this is bearish. I would move into Phillipino gold or maybe copra futures.*







* This is not a prospectus. Investors should thoroughly investigate investment options before making any decisions. Management is not responsible for lost or stolen article.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Alas, the historical recotrd does not indicate who the cartographer was.

I think the Admiral would call him "chum" if ever they met. [:@]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Something like this actually did happen to Kinkaid. He showed up a day late with the Enterprise TF to a rendezvous near Fiji because he had a chart with the dateline in the wrong place. [:D][:D][:D]

I bet he had to toss his BVD's out of the porthole in the Admiral's cabin. It was a potential career-ending mistake. Amazingly, nobody told Pye or Nimitz. [:D] Alas, the historical recotrd does not indicate who the cartographer was.

There was traffic.....

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Something like this actually did happen to Kinkaid. He showed up a day late with the Enterprise TF to a rendezvous near Fiji because he had a chart with the dateline in the wrong place. [:D][:D][:D]

I bet he had to toss his BVD's out of the porthole in the Admiral's cabin. It was a potential career-ending mistake. Amazingly, nobody told Pye or Nimitz. [:D] Alas, the historical recotrd does not indicate who the cartographer was.

Oh - nice! Kinkaid covers it up so that other admirals can make the same mistake![:-]
BTW, is that chart still in use in the USN??[X(]
Probably not - with GPS and Google Earth no one looks at a chart anymore ....

[Walloc]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Probably not - with GPS and Google Earth no one looks at a chart anymore ....

Probably not, not the same as they shouldnt look once and in a while tho.....

[khyberbill]

BTW, is that chart still in use in the USN??

Could be, the sub I was on hit the island of St. Croix at greater than 400' and moving about 20 knots. I was practically court marshaled for offering the observation that Christopher Columbus found the island and the navy lost it.

[Walloc]

ORIGINAL: khyberbill
Could be, the sub I was on hit the island of St. Croix at greater than 400' and moving about 20 knots. I was practically court marshaled for offering the observation that Christopher Columbus found the island and the navy lost it.

I knew that there were a reason we sold u it. Hadnt thot of the USN losing it. I was thinking more in the lines of another of our colonies melting. Causing a rise in sea levels out dating any known charts along with making St Croix a reef.

Rasmus