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MrSpkr, I have had the same problem occasionally. I think it stems from the fact that on your game list, the game is listed as "Unknown", not as Play/Send. I have had this problem with one or two specific games, one using numbering and the other not. Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rommel22: Hi Commisar, I am not here to answer your questions, but what I want to know is this. How is it that if Germany lost 4milion+ casulties through the whole war (read it somewhere maybe not accurate) and their populations was something like 80milion, how come they were always so short on men? I know it's a percentage but 4 milion out of 80milion isn't that much, it's like 2% or something. Why didn't the germans draft soldiers like the russians, after conquering each town.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Because I am bored at work, I thought I would point out a couple of facts. Be aware that I am making some broad assumptions but think about these numbers: Initial population: 80,000,000 Men in population: 40,000,000 Men aged 17-40 ~31% of total men: 12,266,667 Men in Industry - 50% of above: 6,133,333 Men aged 17-40 avail. for service: 6,133,333 Now granted, many of the 4 million figure you quoted are civilian casualties, and granted, men above the age of 40 and under 17 served both in the military and industry. But you can see how quickly the available numbers drop and why 4,000,000 is a very significant number and why "shortages" were probably very common. Speedbump [ 08-09-2001: Message edited by: Speedbump ]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mace: Lorak?! Lorak, get your face out of your dinner and pay attention! Mace: Draw (50 points) Speedbump: Draw (50 points) It has shown that I am as capable as the Brits in getting most of my Armour shot away from underneath me, but still pressing on regardless in the face of adversity (and two Tigers placed to best advantage on top of a hill commanding almost the entire battlefield). However, my "Sh*t, the game's almost over and I haven't done a thing" last 5 minute attack on the 3 VLs resulted in me wresting 2 under my total control, and a combined team of 1 bren gun carrier and M3 h/t were in the prossess of storming the last one when time ran out (oh for 1 minute more). Anyhow, anyone interested in purchasing scrap metal? Mace<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Macey, macey, let me point out that the bren carrier was actually destroyed by your own arty! With that being said, every single splode maker on my side was smoking by the end. Yet I still controlled the last VL with several scared drivers and loaders. Mace lost 27 armored vehicles, while I lost all my Kitties (4 Tigers & 3 Panthers). Had I not sent my Prime Movers off the map, I am sure I would have lost those also. Well, Shag-Sheeper, I realize that you posted earlier in the MBT that you had too many games going, but you cannot let our animosity lie with a 50-50 draw. I will await you setup forthwith!! Speedbump PS DekeFentle and I are 4 turns into a new game and he still doesn't know whether I am Speedy or Speedbump...

Spnkr, in the past I have always read your posts with a sense of awe. After all, how could a product of the American school system produce such inane, moronic commentary? It was only later that I learned that you were a ... {drumroll}... a Texan! This clearly explained everything. After all, the following story highlights the lack of sense in Texans" <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>President Bush was representing the United States of America on a highly formal, impeccably planned state visit to England. At Heathrow, a 300-foot long red carpet was stretched out to Air Force One and Mr. Bush received a warm but dignified handshake from Queen Elizabeth II. They rode in a silver 1934 Bentley limousine to the edge of central London where they boarded an open 17th century coach hitched to six magnificent white matching horses. As they rode toward Buckingham Palace, each looking sideways and waving to the thousands of cheering Britons lining the streets, all was going well. But suddenly the right rear horse let fly with the most horrendous, earth-rending, eye-smarting blast of gastronomic flatulence ever heard in the British Empire, including Bermuda, Tortola and the Falkland Islands. It shook the coach. Uncomfortable, but under control, the two dignitaries of state did their best to ignore the whole incident but then the Queen decided that was ridiculous. She turned to Mr. Bush and explained, "Mr. President, please accept my regrets....I'm sure you understand that there are some things that even a Queen cannot control". George W. Bush, ever the gentleman, replied, "Your Majesty, please don't give the matter another thought......you know, if you hadn't said something, I would have thought it was one of the horses." <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Enough said. Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DekeFentle: festering fold of fools...hedonistic halfwits...polluted poltroon of poolers ...bellicose buffoon ...etc <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary: Alliteration n. The occurence in a phrase or line of speech or writing of 2 or more words having the same initial sound Ah...thought so. Alliteration does not equal wit (or an obscure literary reference). Please refrain from this activity in the future, or better yet erase your post all together! Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Joe Shaw: I have a secret list of at least 4 Knights and 6 Squires who are in league with and supporting SSNs and Outerboarders. Would you like me to up that total to 5 Knights? Just keep it up pal. Sir Joe Shaw, Prosecutor and Protector of The One The True CessPool<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> That's it Sir Joe, git 'em. Sounds like we didn't get all those reds back in the 50's! Let's have hearings! Let's have trials! Let's have Stenographers! Speedbump edit to ask the question: Should one embolden one's own name? Sounds kinda dirty... [ 07-25-2001: Message edited by: Speedbump ] [ 07-25-2001: Message edited by: Speedbump ]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DekeFentle: Speedbump I seem to recall some time ago you invited me to the field of dishonor. If this invitation is still good I have a setup I will send when you say the word.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You Sir, and I use the term extremely loosely, search trash cans for tidbits and snacks, you feeble-minded, mud sucking, hamster abusing, chemically-based cub of Lassie. I await your feeble attempt at honorable battle. Derisively, Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by YK2: Surely this guy's not for real??? He actually thinks he is MR WONDERFUL. He describes himself as having an attractive body and HAIRCUT???????? BOLD, HANDSOME, CONFIDENT, AND GOOD LOOKING GORGEOUS, SEXY AND BRAVE this has got to be a wind up..... More like, very weird looking guy in need of a haircut and a personality transplant. Notice how none of the pictures are close up or even clear...... I thank him for small mercies. It will take some time to rid those pics form my fragile mind Still, thanks for the laugh Lindan Now please excuse me while I throw up.....<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Are we sure that's not Mouse? Speedbump

**Scene: An empty courtroom A rattle is heard from somewhere near the side of the court. A hand spasmodically grips the bannister of the Jury box, slowly pulling a bleary eyed face to a level where it can look about the room. "Bleck! What a mess back here. Hey, where is everyone; the Judge, the lawyers, the accused, but most importantly - the Stenographers! Man, take a quick nap and see what happens...hey what did happen? Did we finally get around to finding the bastiche guilty? If so, I hope I didn't miss the punishment! Oh no, I'm feeling a little ill, maybe I will just lay my head down and take another nap. Maybe there will be another trial along soon!" The figure slowly slumps back down into his corner of the Jury box, a beatific look on his face, dreaming of scantily clad stenographers bouncing around the courtroom holding bottles of nirvana... Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dalem: You know, watching this many law-whores grease themselves up and wiggle around in a small room is exactly as nauseating as I always suspected it might be.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You sicko, none of us are watching the "lawyers" (note unbolded). We are watching the court reporters! Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Iskander: falls back down onto his rent- a- stenographer; looking up at her Wooster tank-top, he mumbles, "why didnt you bring the rest of the cross-country team along for my mates in the jury?"... then, as always before anything interesting happens, passes out<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Speedbump slips over to the passed out Iskander and says, "young lady, I can assure you that you will not have the same problem with me. Why don't you join Cindy and me!" With a coquettish giggle, Iskander's rent-a-babe follows Speedbump over to the corner of the jury box for "consultations." Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Berlichtingen: Having problems with your defense? Let me know when you are done so i can make fun of your incompetence [ 07-18-2001: Message edited by: Berlichtingen ]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well you can start now, because as fast as those squads are running, it ain't gonna get any better! Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Berlichtingen: Speedbump, Speedbump... Ah, here it is... your name is on the list. Carry on<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Threaten me all you want, oh evil one. But I am already in your playground; defending as conscript Germans in A Long, Bloody Mile or somesuch. After this, I no longer fear you... Speedbump edited for Berli inspired UBB issues... [ 07-18-2001: Message edited by: Speedbump ]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Berlichtingen: Btw, why are we bothering to question his guilt? Why haven't we gotten to the judgement yet? In case it has slipped your attentions, HE IS GUILTY! THERE IS NO APPEAL!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Primarily for the booze and women! Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MrSpkr: Glug, glug, glug...ahhhhh! [ 07-18-2001: Message edited by: MrSpkr ]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, I am starting to see a shadow of doubt regarding the unbolded one's guilt. Not sure though, still kinda thirsty. Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jdmorse: snooozzzzzzzeeeeeeeee<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Um, Leeo, isn't there supposed to be bloodshed...violence...foul language...taunting...something!?!? Speedbump, the recently enriched, completely unbiased, member of the jury ps Off wit his head!!

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Leeo: "We are the spluttering, blathering masses, and we want to be entertained! We DEMAND a court (kangaroo or otherwise)! We need bread and circuses! Bread and circuses! Oh, and lots of Blood, Blame, and Banality, while you're at it."<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well since we don't have many Squires to bleed themselves on the sands of the Pool coliseum, we need to see the blood of the Old Ones shed in the courtroom! Have at it! Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Joe Shaw: Hah! Well done lad, well done indeed. While it's not my policy to encourage Serfs I must make an exception and offer to take Lards to squire. I like the cut of his gibe. Lorak, make it so. Joe <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Lars, let me be the first to congratulate you! Sir Joe is the most noble of Kaniggets. He was able to take the lowest of the low, my humble self, and sheparded me (down Mace, nothing like that here) to the exalted rank of junior Kanigget. Just remember the following: I) Sir Joe likes his dinner at exactly 6:00. A Kanigget of his advanced age cannot stay up past 8:00 and be any good the next day. 5.4- His milk should be heated to exactly 108 degrees. The strawberry flavor should be added after heating, not before. 149%, His bridgework should be cleaned each morning before his morning constitutional. Pay special attention to the removal of Okra from the molars. z.7 Learn to appreciate Jabo! Welcome to the family, dysfunctional as it is! Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Joe Shaw: I ain't asceered o' you. Joe<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> No reason to be my former leader. I was just chatting with the others in the Jury room and we pretty much already know he is guilty as Berli's home. Truth is we just want to stretch out the time away from work! Mace was just talking about setting up a local network for TCP/IP play in the Jury room. So take your time, lay out all of the evidence, argue about it all you want. No rush... Speedbump

**Rubbing his eyes clear of sleep, Speedbump enters the room** If presupposition of guilt is not a problem, I am reporting for Jury duty. After all, the jury gets front row seats at the drawing-and-quartering, right? Speedbump {edited to make sure that the defendants lawyers also get the axe, particularly that smelly wannabe Spnkr!} [ 07-17-2001: Message edited by: Speedbump ]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MrSpkr: Tsk, tsk, tsk, Mr. Bump - a true Pooler will go to great lengths to obtain FREE booze -- even stooping to enter a tournament. Now, if you ahve time to let this worry your miniscule brain, you have time to send back a turn (or at least, imagine the multiple ways I am going to kill you -- all slow and painful, of course).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, Spnkr, some of us just buy the damn stuff! Amazing how far $5 can go... I will send the turn when my poor pensioners regain their breath after running 100 feet. And after my pre-adolescent H-youth stop tripping over their feet. Speedbump

Okay, which one of you evil bastiges entered me into the tournament over at theBlitz?!? I wake up this morning to setups in my email and instructions for the tournament! Now I know that a proper Pooler (please note dorf and Spnker) would never voluntarily enter a tournament {shudder}. Now I am faced with a dilemma...all I wanted to be was a low profile Kanigget. Tournaments for cryin' out loud.... Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>From the mad Scotsman on the Outerboards: Manx, a top site - well laid out and tons of content. Thanks for making the effort!! Whilst we would like all content everywhere to be spot on all the time, it isn't going to happen. We all do the best we can do. If a "newbie" to WWII history should pick up some incorrect info from one of the contributors to your site, oh well. Learned and published historians and (possibly) even grogs get it wrong some times. For example, many WWII historians will argue that Operation Barbarossa failed because it was delayed while Hitler bailed Mussolini out of Greece. According to Keegan that just isn't so, Hitler had to wait for the spring thaw to finish before Barbarossa got underway, Greece was a done deal before then. So do what you want to do, and know that I am one of presumably many who frequent your site and appreciate it's existence. Cheers, OGSF <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> What is this absurd accent? I can hardly make out what you are saying! It almost sounds...grogish! Away evil spirits... Speedbump

Game Updates: For the most part, my pixilated warriors are dying. I seem to have been struck with Conscript-itis. It is a nasty rash that causes perfectly healthy men to run blindly away when the echo of far-off gunfire is heard. Somehow, MrSpnkr believes it is due to his tactical prowess, when in fact it is due to Berli's evil designs... The highlight of the week, however, is our local sheepherder's taunt in his most recent turn. He claimed that his Jabo finally killed something! His tactically skilled aviator did in fact kill a Wirblewind...for the 2nd time! To do this he ignored several Panthers and Tigers, even a Jagdpanzer! Well sheeplicker, this type of performance should be noted and repeated! Pawbroon has fallen of the face of the earth, or at least the wagon. armornut has resurfaced in the pool after an extended leave. However, his taunt was indecipherable (been talking to PB again? If so, tell him to send me a turn!). dalem is laughing at me slog through the dusk in the rain. Well at least I got to use all my points this game...gamey bastiche. The rest of you are beneath my notice! Speedbump

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Joe Shaw: Ah Speedbump, it is time to leave the things of a child behind and to deal with the world as man would. While I've no doubt that your squireship with me was and likely will remain the high point of your life, you are a Knight now and must stand on your own two feet. So lad, while I regret the loss of an adequate squire (there was no hope, of course, of your attaining the heights scaled by Agua Perdido) it it time and past time for you to remove or at least alter your sig. Perhaps you might accomplish the painful task in steps, by changing your sig to Former Squire to Mr. Shaw? Good luck lad, and don't forget "straight back, bend at the knees and keep the backswing low" ... oh wait, that's golf isn't it? Joe<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Good Sir, always the voice of reason! My greatest fear has been that with only one active Squire (if we can call Mouse a true Squire), the junior Knights might be forced to play SSN's as they wander in for a look around. True, given the crop of hopefuls lately, that may be an unfounded fear, but the subconcious dread prevented me from changing my sig prior to your noteworthy heads-up! Even then, I have Jabo! primed and ready to go! Speedbump