Tribunus

Fresh from her shower, a woman stands in front of the mirror, complaining to her husband that her breasts are too small. Instead of characteristically telling her it's not so, the husband uncharacteristically comes up with a suggestion: "If you want your breasts to grow, then every day take a piece of toilet paper and rub it between your breasts for a few seconds." Willing to try anything, the wife fetches a piece of toilet paper and stands in front of the mirror, rubbing it between her breasts. "How long will this take?" she asks. "They'll grow larger over a period of years," he replies. The wife stops. "Why do you think rubbing a piece of toilet paper between my breasts every day will make my breasts grow over the years?" Without missing a beat the husband says, "Worked for your butt; didn't it?"

Has anyone explained to him about the Sheep behind the Officers Club?

FT's method also works well.

That's right, our very own Sweper help fight off a pirate invasion of Spain earlier this year. Well done Sweper.

Guy Sajer was a teenage private. As anyone who has been in the military knows, privates pretty much do as they are told. They know what is going on in their squad and platoon, but their knowledge of even what their company is doing can be pretty sketchy. A private’s day is controlled by his sergeants and the German Army had excellent sergeants. Even when they were not up on the line, these sergeants would keep the soldiers busy. They would be constantly digging some sort of hole for a defensive position, or maintaining their equipment, eating and sleeping; when they were not up half the night pulling guard duty. Once they went up on the line, then you added the confusion of combat, where time and space becomes distorted. And I mean distorted. I have been in fire fights, and other than it seemed like half the world was shooting at us, I have only vaguest idea of what was happening around me. My focus was totally on MY unit. I sort of knew what my HQ expected and what adjacent units were supposed to be doing, but when I say vaguely knew what the other units were doing, I mean it. There were no lines or arrows on a map showing the course of the fight, that would come later. During the fight, it was like someone had put a stick in an ant hill and then stirred it around to aggravate the ants. Combat is just utter confusion and chaos. So I’m sure that if I wrote a book, there would be hundreds of Experts who would tear it apart for all of the inaccuracies.

I had forgotten about that, it is indeed International Talk like a Pirate Day.

Try these Sweper. "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. A horrific first hand account of combat on the Eastern Front with the Grossdeutschland Panzer Grenadier Division. "Goodbye, Darkness" by William Manchester. The celebrated author's own personal account of his experiences in the Pacific as a U.S. Marine. These two books capture what WWII infantry combat was truly like. "The Campaigns of Napoleon" by David G. Chandler A masterful account of Napoleon's military career and it is very readable. This book needs to be in the library of every military history buff.

I’m anxious to hear that all the Dogz who were at Reno are alright.

Welcome to the pound JoeBob.

What a horrible mental image that conjures up.

Now that the word is out, I'm sure that several of the North American Dogz will find a reason to visit Edmonton during the summer, for a nocturnal rendezvous near the grain elevators. They will have to PM Pete in order to find out if carrots or freshly cut grass is the best inducement.

I'm constantly amazed by the talent of this group.

I've voted. I've also got Rise of Flight - ICE on order, so I will be needing a skin shortly.

Salute Jim

That is absolutely hilarious.

This was over on the 1c forum. http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=25222 To my simple, computer challenged mind, it sounds like they are re-building the entire game. Two weeks be sure.

Those old fashion fission reactors are so passé. I’m sure that Jedi is working on a cold fusion reactor

Jim, I don't believe that it is possible for me to adequately thank you for all of the many acts of kindness and consideration that you have shown me over the years. I had never flown on-line prior to joining the Dogz, nor had I ever used TeamSpeak. But no matter what problem or question I had, you were always there to offer friendly and helpful advice. You also graciously assisted me with keeping up with the Mods, by mailing me dics containing the huge Mods that I could not have possibly downloaded over the internet connection that I have here in Egypt. But more than anything, I want to thank you for creating and sustaining this wonderful group of people who make up the Danger Dogz. Jim, you have created a real community of people here from all over the globe. People who have gone from having a common interest in IL-2, to people who have come together and become real 'Mates'. That Sir, is no small accomplishment. It has been an honor and a pleasure to have known you, and you will always have my greatest respect. Martin

How did they get in there?

Happy Birthday Psycho. Have a good one Mate.

What a wonderful outing for you and your boys.

Ah, you mean a formally declared war. I’ve never personally been in one of those. It’s been my misfortune to always participate in un-declared wars. But I will yield the point to you Sir.

If you mean the war in Europe, I would agree. But the war against the Japanese had a much earlier beginning.

The first U.S. servicemen killed in World War Two, were also killed by the Japanese in China. The Panay Incident was a Japanese attack on the Gunboat USS Panay, while she was anchored in the Yangtze River outside of Nanking, China (now known as Nanjing) on December 12, 1937. The USS Panay was hit by two of the eighteen 132 lb (60 kg) bombs dropped by three Yokosuka B4Y Type-96 bombers and strafed by nine Nakajima A4N Type-95 fighters. The Panay sank, killing three and wounding 43 sailors. http://www.archive.org/details/1937-12-12_Bombing_of_USS_Panay