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

[witpqs]

The good news is I have reached a state of equilibrium with the raccoon/rabbit/rat/opossum/skunk/squirrel/neighbor kid that has been eating my tomatoes. There are so many right now we both have enough.

You and the tomatoes both have enough?

[witpqs]

Build up that base at 'the other' Batan. Your objective there is to kill ships bound for Japan.

[witpqs]

It could be deer eating your tomatoes. They need to put on fat to withstand global cooling.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

These 'surprise' arrivals of WJDs on Luzon? Any chance they were the SWPac reserves previously tasked to Truk?

Seems to me that was 48th Div???? In any event, it is fair to say that WJD strength on Luzon has been "misunderstimated". [:)]

We didn't really "need" Lingayen but the loss of all those troops really hurts.

Here is what we have at Iba. Not really "fungible" either.

[Cap Mandrake]

Help! My house intercom that has been broken for 15 years just started working again and it is playing an all John Cougar Mellenkamp station.

It won't turn off either. Creepy. Probably a rat bit into a previously damaged wire, completing the circuit with the saline in his vermin mouth. It will probably stop when the tetanic muscle contractions wear off or he turns into a lump of carbon.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

It could be deer eating your tomatoes. They need to put on fat to withstand global cooling.

Used to get deer in the back yard but too many dogs around now in the neighborhood. The HOA insists you hire a "certified arborist" to trim any native oaks. Probably you would have to hire Marlin Perkins to get rid of a deer.

[Cap Mandrake]

Oh, Sweet Baby Jesus! Please send the turn! <sobbing>

[BBfanboy]

Doorbells and Intercoms usually run on a mere 12 volts and miniscule amps. You rat should be roasted by about Anno Dominé 2031.
Do you know all the words to "Jack and Diane" yet?

[Itdepends]

And if the rat turns into a lump of carbon you're out of luck as carbons a conductor.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Doorbells and Intercoms usually run on a mere 12 volts and miniscule amps. You rat should be roasted by about Anno Dominé 2031.
Do you know all the words to "Jack and Diane" yet?

2031? We should be done with the game by then.

[Cap Mandrake]

The turn arrived last night but I was too much of a sissy boy to stay up and do it. Here is what I noticed.


1) Takao is the new 600 lb gorilla with 110 fighters and 60+ bombers.

2) There is a level 4 airfield on the northern Formosa coast that is ungarrisoned.

3) 26K angry and highly motivated LYB's at Lingayen. They brought in a few fighters. We lost an understrength VMF squadron there yesterday with 7 Corsairs. [:@]

4) Very well escorted transport group passing SW of Okinawa headed West. 5 or 6 DD's, an AMC and AP's. My guess is this is a counterinvasion of Batan Is. which they could perhaps reach in 2 days. There must be a SCTF somewhere about too. Speaking of Batan Is., 158th Reg is only partly disembarked after the convoy was scared off by Murasame the previous night. Back they go along with some more SeaBees.


Wasp (now west of Panay) will rendezvous in the Philippine Sea with Yorktown (coming up from the Moluccas) and try to kill those transports headed west near Okinawa in about 2 d.

Br. 2nd and Aus 8th Div will move west of Mindanao/Luzon unders the escort of the CVE's. One or both Div may be needed at Iba and/or Vigan. The plan to refuel the carriers is deferred.

25th Div will start emarking at Manado (even though substantial disablement exists). 32nd ID will embark at Port Hedrand. One army gect will embark at Cagayan.

[sprior]

So my son joins Air Cadets. Embarrassing but he likes planes so okay. Comes home today with a letter about Air Cadet Summer Camp at RAF Odium* (sic). I mean, I knew the Crabs were an odd bunch but that's rather too self-deprecating.

*If you Google that it corrects to RAF Odiham. What an odd bunch. It's not like we had a ship called Beaver. Oh, wait...

[Cap Mandrake]

Oh, oh, oh. If he goes can he try to get The Count's autograph?

Did anyone else have to look up "odium"?

[perkinh]

Its good for the soul of us JFB to see you folks take it in the shorts every now and then. It gives hope for all of us getting our *^%$ handed to us in other games. Not a show stopper, but a nice "clown in the closet" moment.

My tomato battle has been with a turtle family. They are coming up from the pond every other night. I noticed always the lowest on the vine, and several vines every time. No tracks, no dropping, and the local gestapo agent ( my mutt) seems to always be gone rabbit or deer hunting. I fool them though! I woke up at 4 am to do some spotlighting, and whammo i catch em. Four monsters from the deep , neck craned and picking away. Sgt Skip lying in the grass watching the action take place, now the notched ear makes sense, the coward.

Moved them back to the pond, and put a few blocks around there path, and no problems since. For deer and rabbits and damn near anything with a nose( including neighbors) you can bye this stuff that smells like dinosaur crap. Spray it around the perimeter and nothing comes near, and its even safe to spray on the plants. [:)]

[sanch]

In our neck of the woods (New England) bobcat urine seems to be the spray of choice.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: sanch

In our neck of the woods (New England) bobcat urine seems to be the spray of choice.

[X(]
OK - so now I need to know how Gabede found out what dinosaur crap smells like? Was he part of the "Philadelphia Experiment"?

And sanch, who holds the bobcat while you get him to pee in a bottle?

[sanch]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: sanch

In our neck of the woods (New England) bobcat urine seems to be the spray of choice.

[X(]
...

And sanch, who holds the bobcat while you get him to pee in a bottle?

Dunno - all I can tell you for certain is that it's not me!

Actually, I think that commercially it is synthesized.

[Cap Mandrake]

I like salt or oil and vinegar or maybe basil and mozzarella with my tomatoes but bobcat urine? [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

What will happen in a bout 6 months if we don't keep pushing.

[dcpollay]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: sanch

In our neck of the woods (New England) bobcat urine seems to be the spray of choice.

[X(]
OK - so now I need to know how Gabede found out what dinosaur crap smells like? Was he part of the "Philadelphia Experiment"?

And sanch, who holds the bobcat while you get him to pee in a bottle?

It's a specialized trade....That's why perfumes are so expensive!