[See that tune.]

And so at the drawing of stumps on the first day.

Current standings

Warts 'n' all - 4 Points

LongLeftFlank - 2 Points

Vergeltunswaffe - 2 Points

altipueri - Minus 5 Points

[See that tune.]

@LongLeftFlankAnyone who listens to Lucille Bogan is welcome in this thread. One would like to think that some of the bordellos liberated in Paris had this amongst their record collections. Two points there.

@Vergeltungswaffe My comp has been playing me about for the last two hours and I've been in need of a smile, so I shall bend the rules and pretend that the railway sleepers are Norman trees. Two points to you as well.

[See that tune.]

No. 3 - V-disc Blues by Sidney Bechet

 

[See that tune.]

Hahahahaha. You're really not getting the hang of this one. But, I admire you for trying.

[See that tune.]

Ah no! You poor guy. You fell foul of the rules straight away. And also fell into one of our quality pratfalls.

Tunes can be anytime from the earliest piano rolls up to the end of 1944 to allow for the Operation Clipper campaign which was made for CMBN with the later modules CW, MG VP etc. But cannot include FB or FI.

Pictures must be of US Troops and contain trees, or hedges. And located in the area covered by CMBN and it's various modules.

There are three quality pratfalls which incur a five point penalty and Crosby is one of them. To help you and other players one of the others is a solo artist, the other a group.

There are also three bonus tracks which are used in my own "Yanks across the Ocean" music mod. Intro = 5 points. Splash = 10 Points. End of Battle = 15. It goes pretty much without saying that Warts 'n' all cannot use those tunes.

I won't dock you points for the out of time frame picture, but I'm afraid there is nothing I can do about the pratfall.

Current standings

Warts 'n' all - 2 Points

altipueri - Minus 5 Points

[See that tune.]

Hopefully the rules should be self-explanatory if players take their lead from entry No.1. The Committee of 100 have told me that they will be willing to guide the uncertain player should the need arise. 

[See that tune.]

Time for a new competition. See that tune  It will be played according to Mornington Crescent rules, using the Eisenhowerplatz variant.

No.1 - "Jumpin' at the Woodside" by Count Basie

 

[Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?]

@altipueri I wish I could give you bonus points for that. Although Part 3 contains my favourite bit, "names on the windscreen Jean-Paul and Satre".

Sayle could sometimes be a bit hit and miss, but to this day I still use his "Shorty and the Weird One" from "Northern Songs"  when speaking about a certain folk duo.

[To our friends from the UK and the Commonwealth]

2 hours ago, danfrodo said:

UK seems like a terrible place to me.  It's like The Purge with all the murders!  Even the little college town of Oxford has huge murder rate.  I know this because I've been watching a documentary series on it called "Endeavor".  Oh, not to mention all the killings in Hastings area in another totally true not made up series called "Foyle's War".  Sounds dreadfully dangerous.

I don't wish to quibble, but "Endeavour" cannot be taken seriously, they called Double Diamond a lager in one episode. Pass the sick bag, Elizabeth.

[Sound contact.]

Never mind the emoji. I can't read the writing. Too small for my old eyes.

[Panther Taxi]

I think the reason was CMFI's starting date in 1943 when it was felt that "tank riding" wasn't a common practice. And although I'm no expert I assume to have introduced it in Gustav Line, or Rome to Victory would have created problems.

[Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?]

I feel your pain, but rules are rules. Hopefully you'll have better luck next time. At the moment The Committee of 100 have yet to decide on the format of the next competition, although the word on the hopvine is that it will focus on the USatians, rather than the Limeys, and the Canucks.

[To our friends from the UK and the Commonwealth]

3 hours ago, Erwin said:

Well, this was back in the 60's when (as a child of refugee/immigrants) I won a scholarship to a pretty fine school.  Otherwise I'd be working in a uk factory.  I return frequently to London, but find it quite depressing.  Like most of Europe, it's all a bit 2nd world-like nowadays.  I spent some time in Argentina, and it's hard to tell the difference between Buenos Aires and European cities.  Anyhow - totally OT.

Anyone who actually had to "win" a scholarship deserves respect. About the only thing I ever won in the '60's was "Pass the parcel".

[Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?]

23 minutes ago, Erwin said:

Cool, we three tie for the win!     

Nice try, better luck next time.

[Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?]

@altipueriA great photo. A shame it came too late for you to win.

[To our friends from the UK and the Commonwealth]

1 hour ago, Erwin said:

I think this may be an age thing and shows how things have changed in the uk over the past 60 years.  When I was a school in the UK it was very patriotic and we proudly called it Great Britain.  Probably the change occurs when more and more people do not share the original values of the country that they now live in.

In the "uk". When you were "a school". Ah, that sums up life in Murdoch's Dictatorship of the Semi-Literate.

[Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?]

John Martin's Guinness Gold Cup

So as the competition closes without anyone grabbing automatic victory by posting a picture of a vehicle belong to the Inns of Court Regiment, we shall have to check the table to find a winner.

Warts 'n' all - 15 Points

Wicky - 0 Points

Vacillator - 0 Points

Falaise - Minus 15 Points

John Inman - Minus 5 Points

PiatPunk - Minus 5 Points

DerKommissar - 4 Points

altipeuri - 2 Points

Erwin - Minus 5 Points

Field Oggy - Minus 5 Points 

3j2m7 - Minus 5 Poinst

Of course having won our previous competition Noddle Head is not allowed to win this one, so our winner is @DerKommissar. 

And his prize is a hogshead of Elizabeth's St. James Infirmary Stout. 

 

 

 

[Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?]

Entering the last day of competition.

No, 8.  - A Vickers MMG Carrier in Deurne, Belgium.

[Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?]

Looking at the last two posts the plight of Sweet Fanny Adams comes to mind. And as we all know, she met her end a long time before WW2.

[To our friends from the UK and the Commonwealth]

As for the "Commonwealth" that came to an end in 1660, when that idiot son of mine tumbled down.

[Operation Goodwood?]

26 minutes ago, Ithikial_AU said:

I've never been to Canada and nothing ever came up in my research about where they got the name from. Probably some staff officer who named it after his home town?

I didn't think you'd been there, but I thought you'd be the person to ask given your "Lions" campaign. I did a bit more digging, and there had been an operation called Ottawa postponed earlier. So probably a staff officer from the state of Ontario sticking pins in a map

[Operation Goodwood?]

1 hour ago, altipueri said:

Operation Windsor got under way I think.

I've always assumed that it was named after the city in Ontario, rather than the racecourse. Where's @Ithikial_AUwhen we need him?

[Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?]

Now, that it what I call a two-pointer. It's great seeing pictures I've not seen before.

[Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?]

Nice try. but it doesn't belong to either 2nd British or 1st Canadian Army. It would have scored you two points in our previous competition as mules can get a bit wild from time to time.

[To our friends from the UK and the Commonwealth]

11 hours ago, Vacilllator said:

 Long may the special relationship continue.

I think the "special relationship" ended in September '45. But, I think that that is outside of the remit of a war gaming forum. I'm off for a pint with my old mucker Clem.