James Gillen Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Wikipedia's "Today's Featured Article": Dudley Clarke (1899–1974) was an officer in the British Army, known as a pioneer of military deception operations during the Second World War. His ideas for combining fictional orders of battle, visual deception and double agents helped define Allied deception strategy during the war. Clarke trained with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and then led a varied career doing intelligence work in the Middle East. In 1936 he was posted to Palestine, where he helped organise the British response to the 1936 Arab uprising. Early in the Second World War, Clarke proposed, and helped implement, an idea for commando raids into France. In 1940, he was placed in charge of strategic deception in Cairo, and was called to London in 1941 as his deception work had come to the attention of Allied high command. Throughout 1942 Clarke implemented Operation Cascade, an order of battle deception which added many fictional units to the Allied formations; by the end of the war the enemy accepted most of the formations as real. From 1942 to 1945, Clarke continued to organise deception in North Africa and southern Europe. He retired in 1947 and lived the rest of his life in relative obscurity. Well, that would figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Rule 30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Exam-induced microencephalopaty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Maria Sharapova beat Venus Williams quite handily in the Australian Open. I could just imagine Serena Williams watching the match and declaring in her best Ricardo Montalban impression, "I will avenge you!" Does that make me a bad person? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings It's bittersweet, looking back at that path you didn't take and seeing it recede into the past of what-might-have-been. Bittersweet, except for the sweet part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I get jovial sometimes. Its hard to quantify. My wife snapped her fingers and said: "King Julien XIII." Me: "What?" Wife: "Your happy energy - you're channeling King Julien XIII." Me: "Who?" Wife: "The Lemur King from Madagascar." Me: "The conceited, fun-loving one who relies on charisma and delegation rather than ability and talent?!" Wife: "The very one, honey." Me: "My happy energy is conceit?" Wife: "Let's just call it 'bigger than life,' shall we, snuggle-bunny?" Sadly, she nailed me. When I have my jovial outbursts, which is more often these days, I am King Julien XIII. Facepalm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jp42 Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings "Sometime Around Midnight" by The Airborne Toxic Event. If the song doesn't elicit from you a visceral, hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck reaction, I'm not sure if I should feel sorry for you, or congratulate you on your successful love life... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Initially, I had today off for the holiday. Then I was sick last week and they said I could come in today to make up for that if I wanted. Then I get there and after an hour the boss says "I'm closing up. Go home." Woohoo, sick day & holiday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I'm glad I have a daughter. I don't know anything about how to raise a boy. I don't know anything about boys, really, about what they do, what they are like, anything. I never was a boy. I actively avoided most other boys as I was growing up. I was never interested in sports or other "boy" activities. If I had a boy who wanted to do those things, I wouldn't have the first idea how, or what, or why. And I, in all honestly, don't know if I'd be able to encourage him in those things or not. I suspect I'd be a terrible father for a boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost. For want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost... You all know this one. We heard it in school. It even appeared in some of the comic books I read. Kids nowadays, at least the ones I've asked, haven't even heard of it. Not sure what to make of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Martin Luther King Jr is currently the opposite of Hitler for promoting your position. "If he were alive today, Reverend King would support [bLANK]." versus "You know who else had [bLANK]? Hitler!". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Upon due consideration, I have changed my mind and now believe the Electoral College should be abolished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Forgive me Father, for I have mocked Steve Perry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings hehe, saw today in a psychology book, a reference to the "'Four F's': Fighting, Fleeing, Feeding, and Mating." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings The French Foreign Legion is fascinating! And it would be perfect for immortals needing new identities, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted January 29, 2013 Report Share Posted January 29, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Something different at my blog today http://www.skjam.com/ , an interview with a manga translator! Comments welcome on this or any other post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 29, 2013 Report Share Posted January 29, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Decided to have a Michael Caine-athon. Alfie followed by Hanna & Her Sisters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I expect to encounter a lot of unhappy people tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Continuing on with my Caine-athon, Educating Rita & A Bridge Too Far, both seen. Next up is The Cider House Rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Nothing here on the death of mayor Ed Koch ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Is it wrong of me to think that when I saw the latest Flo Rida video and saw him rollerskating/blading the first thing that came to mind was Austin Powers Goldmember ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Nothing here on the death of mayor Ed Koch ? How'm I doing? *thud* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I must be on the verge of utter exhaustion, because I found the following sentence riotously funny: The false potto may be the same species as the potto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Yesterday went out and regained my geek cred. Yes NGD forum, Death Tribble has seen The Hobbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Remember when you could get your eye poked out by mail Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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