The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!

They passed the gold phone around.....now the rebels are blowing up the cop....Human's party. Mmmmmm.....cake.....

901 posted on 07/14/2004 6:27:05 PM PDT by Overtaxed (That'll teach Fredo not to go against The Family.)

Okay it's night and there's a bunch of guys with guns running around the compound--am I ahead or behind?

902 posted on 07/14/2004 6:27:30 PM PDT by Fedora (Kerryman, Kerryman, does whatever a ketchup can/Spins a lie, any size, catches wives just like flies)

Behind. Their passing out the cake now and talking about their future in Cuba....hehehe.

903 posted on 07/14/2004 6:29:21 PM PDT by Overtaxed (That'll teach Fredo not to go against The Family.)

LOL...As an Army Sergeant, I had the monthly task of training headquarters platoon soldiers on some military arcana or other (three fellow NCO's took the weekly training in rotation). I got tired of the map reading/call for fire/treat a wound carp* that was the staple of these events, and got on a military history kick for a while. I would describe, with maps and illustrations, some ancient battle, and attempt to draw lessons in tactics, reconnaissance etc. from it.

When I did Waterloo, my major source material was Les Miserables. Those of you who have read the whole thing know whereof I speak.

*Yes, carp. And don't you forget it :)

904 posted on 07/14/2004 6:29:59 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Open-box display model. Some accessories supplied. No manual. As is, no warranty. All sales final.)

I don't think Michael's quite with the program. :)

905 posted on 07/14/2004 6:30:06 PM PDT by Overtaxed (That'll teach Fredo not to go against The Family.)

I just got past this dubbed part--riding on a train. . .

906 posted on 07/14/2004 6:30:38 PM PDT by Fedora (Kerryman, Kerryman, does whatever a ketchup can/Spins a lie, any size, catches wives just like flies)

Fredo's just showed up in Cuba with the money

907 posted on 07/14/2004 6:32:01 PM PDT by Overtaxed (That'll teach Fredo not to go against The Family.)

To: Bear_in_RoseBear

So you're the other person who saw that :)

I think there's a third, in Idaho somewhere.

908 posted on 07/14/2004 6:33:12 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Open-box display model. Some accessories supplied. No manual. As is, no warranty. All sales final.)

To: Corin Stormhands

Oh, Master Dwarf! Asking me for a Heinlein reading list is dangerous!

I recommend three Heinlein books to start: Starship Troopers, The Past Through Tomorrow: Future History, and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

Starship Troopers isn't very long, but I think it's the clearest and most straightforward introduction to Heinlein's philosophy and writing style; it's a clean, undecorated blade, bright and shiny and durable, and, oh, yeah, very sharp. This book is on the USMC's reading list because of the questions it makes you ask.

The Future History is a collection of shorter fiction (some short stories and a longish novella), perfect for the beach. It's an expansion of the Heinlein you meet in Starship Troopers, spread from his very first published science fiction short story, "Life-Line," to "Requiem," to my personal favorite, "If This Goes On ..."

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress demonstates how to manage a modern revolution, and is a precursor in style and substance to much of Heinlein's later works --- eyes-wide-open realistic cynicism about the ways of the world, and competent, idiosyncratic, grown-up people hell-bent on changing said world into something better.

Rah, rah, RAH!

909 posted on 07/14/2004 6:33:33 PM PDT by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... yeah, I'm a Heinlein fangirl! ...])

To: Bear_in_RoseBear

910 posted on 07/14/2004 6:33:45 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Open-box display model. Some accessories supplied. No manual. As is, no warranty. All sales final.)

911 posted on 07/14/2004 6:34:17 PM PDT by Overtaxed (That'll teach Fredo not to go against The Family.)

*Yes, carp. And don't you forget it :)

Carp is one of them fishes that I throw back. :-)

912 posted on 07/14/2004 6:34:18 PM PDT by Wneighbor (OH! It's almost time to leave!)

913 posted on 07/14/2004 6:34:31 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Open-box display model. Some accessories supplied. No manual. As is, no warranty. All sales final.)

spam?

D*mn that dial-up! ;)

914 posted on 07/14/2004 6:36:43 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (I wondered, where did it lead? Stars?)

Victor Hugo got a wee bit wordy when it came to Waterloo...yikes!

Yeah, that's the part I'm ashamed to say I didn't read very carefully...*blush*

As for training...we had a lot of periodic training, but usually (being AF), they had handy-dandy videos. Most were laughably bad, though. I remember the first-aid one in particular. Fake blood EVERYWHERE, and very badly acted out accidents. It was a hoot...

915 posted on 07/14/2004 6:38:07 PM PDT by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)

To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Oh please don't taunt my pore ol' modem. Long story short, it's the only part in my computer that came with my first one, and I've never bought a second...I just keep upgrading bits and pieces.My computer is like the car Johnny Cash sang about :)

916 posted on 07/14/2004 6:40:45 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Open-box display model. Some accessories supplied. No manual. As is, no warranty. All sales final.)

Interesting. I think I may have read some of that but didn't pick up the details as well as you describe. I also read something about Japan shipping a pair of ships with radioactive piles (a type of dirty bomb I guess) to the California coast in 1945, but the US Navy intercepted them, fortunately; Hitler also had developed a similar weapon for use against Britain via V2s but it was never used. Also, on the UFO thing, one thing that was kept from public knowledge during the war was Japanese use of balloon bombs as bioweapons. On this here are some interesting links:

Al-Qaida targeted Western forests, memo says (Post #35)

Japanese Balloon Bombs

Pre-1942 'Battle Of LA' WWII Blackout; The Battle Of Los Angeles

The Battle Of Los Angeles

917 posted on 07/14/2004 6:41:28 PM PDT by Fedora (Kerryman, Kerryman, does whatever a ketchup can/Spins a lie, any size, catches wives just like flies)

Okay, there's a bloody body in the bed now--ahead or behind?

918 posted on 07/14/2004 6:43:06 PM PDT by Fedora (Kerryman, Kerryman, does whatever a ketchup can/Spins a lie, any size, catches wives just like flies)

Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs

Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.

One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.

CHORUS
I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.

So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.

The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.

Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.

The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.

The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."

So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.

CHORUS
I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.

(Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on

Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?

Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56
'57, '58' 59' automobile
It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67
'68, '69, '70 automobile.

919 posted on 07/14/2004 6:44:42 PM PDT by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)

920 posted on 07/14/2004 6:46:02 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Open-box display model. Some accessories supplied. No manual. As is, no warranty. All sales final.)

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