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On the contrary, I think it deserves the title "battle" as much as any other fight outside the main theaters of action. To take your points in the order I remember them..... Australia is a fourth level theater so why are the Soviets putting the effort in? (nice use of quaternary, by the wa...

Nik - I await every chapter with great anticipation. I've not had time to do nearly as much online participation the last couple years due to my (no longer) new job, so I have been letting author compliments slide to a much greater extent than I was hoping to. I also love seeing your off the wall st...

October 1976 Sneaky Sneak Preview: October 1: TSR patents a new arcane animation process that converts high quality paintings and pictures to enchanted animated cartoons of exceptionally high quality. The follow-up to the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons animated series now under production, itself ...

I know there was an international treaty to get rid of privateering.

Is the US a signatory?

I understand that what they're talking about is the adjudication of seizures under a different set of laws, but I thought prize courts were included under the banning of privateering.

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I gotta admit, I agree with renaming the CNV from doris miller. We should stick with the traditional CV names, 100%. I also agree that Miller deserves a Burke. I think renaming the Doris Miller is perhaps one of the more asinine ideas out there. While I would prefer to see them go back to tradition...

I gotta admit, I agree with renaming the CNV from doris miller. We should stick with the traditional CV names, 100%. I also agree that Miller deserves a Burke. I am not in favor of renaming the Stennis. Its been commissioned for how many years now? 30? Do NOT remove the history. Point to it and ackn...

No, its not cinder blocks, trust! Its a textural overlay affixed to the steel to make people think they're ashore, eating in the mess deck, and therefore close to home!

Along with the drop ceiling.


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Anyone familiar with air dropping have an idea what went wrong with this one?

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Use a laptop to get in.

No issues here.

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Ah, thank you

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Space Karen?

I get the Karen reference, but don't get the space part....


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Was, perhaps, alcohol involved?

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In the main, I agree with you, unless its someone else's scotch, and I'm the one watching the bottle!

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I am unconcerned............... I have a truckload of them out in the back. Tell you what, I'll send you a few..... .......................................................................... *grin* By the way, I see I forgot to compliment this particular installment. I seem to recall this has been p...

The FAA inspector squawked?

I see what you did there......


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I see what you did there......



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Looks like Wednesday through Saturday here is going to be

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Should be a good heat wave. 35 to 38 for the rest of you!

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exponent Meaning 2b, being the traditional non-mathematical one for general English, is the applicable one here. To forfend further inquiry, McMurphy's crimes are all derived from Oregon statute/law, with the juggling bit being an example of a silly law th...

What's a karate exponent?

Does that mean that for each order of magnitude of enemies you face simultaneously, you become that much better?

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Dolph Lundgren played He Man in the 1987 live action film; the late John Erwin was the original voice of He Man. Bugger, you're correct. My bad. I knew that and typed it wrong anyway. That's what I get for trying to post in between trying to push major reports out the door and while fielding multip...