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Posted by RRKen on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:34 PM

Mason City Rules

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Offiziell auf der ignoriertest Weise.

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Posted by selector on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:34 PM

Well, it has been a slice. Cool

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Posted by richg1998 on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:32 PM

Ok, way off topic.

Sehr gut, ein Deutscher, der gutes Talent versteht. Mindestens sie stellten nicht Frank Zappa vor.

well, a German, who knows good talent. at least they did not put before frank zappa.

Ich kann nicht auf englisch sagen, was ich sagen möchte, weil meine Milz explodiert.

I can not say in English what I want to say, because my spleen explodes

Ich wette, dass ihre Milzen auch explodieren.

I bet that their spleens explode

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Posted by RRKen on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:31 PM

Murray

 Ahhhhh, the theme song of Allen Load Jr.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:30 PM
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Posted by Mason City Rules on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:29 PM

RRKen

Mason City Rules

Here, I'll make it easy for you: RRKeN+Salt lick= love forever

 

Zuerst nicht zu erwähnen, dass ich auf einem Salz freie Nahrung bin. Zweitens wer sorgt sich?

You want me to do what with my what?
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Posted by RRKen on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:27 PM

Mason City Rules

Here, I'll make it easy for you: RRKeN+Salt lick= love forever

 

Zuerst nicht zu erwähnen, dass ich auf einem Salz freie Nahrung bin. Zweitens wer sorgt sich?

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Posted by Mason City Rules on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:25 PM

Here, I'll make it easy for you: RRKeN+Salt lick= love forever

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Posted by RRKen on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:23 PM

Murray

 

Ich wette, dass ihre Milzen auch explodieren.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:21 PM
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Posted by RRKen on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:18 PM

Mason City Rules

English PLZ!!!!

 

Ich kann nicht auf englisch sagen, was ich sagen möchte, weil meine Milz explodiert.
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Posted by Mason City Rules on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:16 PM

English PLZ!!!!

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Posted by RRKen on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:13 PM

Murray

Sehr gut, ein Deutscher, der gutes Talent versteht. Mindestens sie stellten nicht Frank Zappa vor.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:08 PM
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Posted by RRKen on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:07 PM

desertdog
enr2099

richg1998

 Getting back to the subject by Wabash1, I wonder if he ever got "There"? Probably no Internet connection "There" as we have not heard anything from him. Maybe someone should send out a search party.

Rich

 

 

Lets not and say we did.

That would be telling a fib, which is against forum rules. John Timm

 

I fib all the time here, no one ever complains.   Good to go.

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Posted by RRKen on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:05 PM
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Posted by desertdog on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:04 PM
enr2099

richg1998

 Getting back to the subject by Wabash1, I wonder if he ever got "There"? Probably no Internet connection "There" as we have not heard anything from him. Maybe someone should send out a search party.

Rich

 

 

Lets not and say we did.

That would be telling a fib, which is against forum rules. John Timm
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Posted by enr2099 on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:01 PM

richg1998

 Getting back to the subject by Wabash1, I wonder if he ever got "There"? Probably no Internet connection "There" as we have not heard anything from him. Maybe someone should send out a search party.

Rich

 

 

Lets not and say we did.

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Posted by richg1998 on Monday, October 5, 2009 8:46 PM

 Getting back to the subject by Wabash1, I wonder if he ever got "There"? Probably no Internet connection "There" as we have not heard anything from him. Maybe someone should send out a search party.

Rich

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Posted by Deggesty on Monday, October 5, 2009 4:59 PM

Murray

I will say this: she's not in the running with Florence Foster Jenkins. She seems to be trying, though.

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Posted by bubbajustin on Monday, October 5, 2009 4:44 PM

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Monday, October 5, 2009 4:33 PM

Paul,

I think the only thing on topic in this thread is being off topic.  Executive Orders, Red Storm Rising, and Red Storm Rising are 3 of my top 4 books  The Hunt for Red October is in it's own class to me.  The Op-Center books are "meh" at best.  I was getting at the prevalence of rail transport in RSR and more notably The Bear & The Dragon.  I recall a quote about the length of rail tranport needed to get where they needed to go.  "At least most of it's electrified" was the quote.  Wouldn't that be both a boon and a bain?  Sure you can use some mongo-hp locos and get to speed quickly.  If wires got cut/power is interrupted you're still SOL, unless you have some kind of backup, right?

The missle thing from Debt of Honor where they were transported along that particular mainline was interesting.  I always wondered how much US railways actually transported that kind of equipment. 

See?  Some (sort-of) interesting tidbits in an otherwise..."different" thread.  Smile,Wink, & Grin

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 5, 2009 3:17 PM

 Well personally I don't care if Mars is the red planet.  If I want to patch tires I'll just stop eating.

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Monday, October 5, 2009 8:04 AM

CNW 6000
 

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''. . . and again, and AGAIN, and AGAIN ! ! ! ''

- Jerry 'The Hammer' O'Malley, a submarine-hunting / ASW helicopter pilot in Tom Clancy's 1986 military novel, Red Storm Rising, about the progress of one of his 'dipping' sonar searches, and the possible title for a book he was contemplating writing about same. 

That's a dang good book.  One I wish would be made into a movie!  You read all the rest of his books Paul? 

Sign - Off Topic!! - if that even needs to be said - and if I can say that - about a thread that doesn't seem to have any topic Confused

Agree.  If done literally = without any updating, it might be dated in the sense of the countries and their political posture, but not much else - ''People remain people, no matter what we try to do with them'' [Maj. Gen. Pavel 'Pasha' Alekseyev], right ?  Muslim terrorists blowing up things - where have we seen that already ?  Then again, Vladimir Putin may be taking them back to the old days.

Yes, I think I've read all of - and own most of - Clancy's Jack Ryan and John Clark volumes; I haven't read more than one of the Op-Force [?] series.  The only one that comes close to RSR in my opinion is 1996's Executive Orders.  - there's a lot of good stuff in there, and from what I know Clancy either really did his research or had really good advisors on all kinds of technical and legal matters.  The books before XO then varied in quality and interest to me, but they each had their own merits.  After that, they've been very uneven - I liked The Bear and the Dragon, didn't like Red Rabbit at all, tolerated Rainbow 6 and Teeth of the Tiger.   Did you notice how much rail transport of the armored units was a central part of the plot to both RSR and Bear & Dragon , and also of the missiles in Debt of Honor ?   I forget which one it was, though, that mentioned how tough it was to keep rail lines out-of-service after being bombed - that may have been buried in Without Remorse someplace. 

Others that I've liked are World War III by British General Sir John Hackett, and most of the books by or with Larry Bond - Clancy's co-writer in RSR, Harold Coyle, and Frederick Forsythe.

- Paul North.

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Posted by WM7471 on Monday, October 5, 2009 6:38 AM

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