Ye Olde Galactic Bar & Grill & Phong's Head Cantina - Page 135

Growltigga · #**1341** July 3rd, 2002, 05:52 PM

"glassing" was used by both the British and American bomber command in WWII to describe the effect of the mass bombing attacks against German cities, not to be confused with the god-awful firebombing techniques used

my personal sci-fi favourite 'battle jargon' term is "vaping", as in "that ship got vaped" as in short for "vapourised" - I believe this came out of an excellent English comic I used to read called 2000AD (of Judge Dredd fame) and in particular, a story called "The Vacuumn Cleaners" about a bunch of spaceship fighter pilots - damn fine read...

mac5732 · #**1342** July 3rd, 2002, 06:14 PM

Glazing is another term I've seen and heard used, mostly in Board Games over the years, somewhat in computer wargames..

a term thread would be neat

just some ideas mac

Rollo · #**1343** July 3rd, 2002, 06:20 PM

I uploaded my empire for the Bash. Ready to start any time. Only waiting for the trash-talking-cat and the line-dancing-bird.

[ July 03, 2002, 17:23: Message edited by: Rollo ]

Growltigga · #**1344** July 3rd, 2002, 06:56 PM

thrash talking cat?

listen pussy-foot, at least my boys managed to pull a goal back against Brazil when they played them you Teutonic weird

Rollo · #**1345** July 3rd, 2002, 07:52 PM

yeah, and that nil-nil against Nigeria was pretty impressive, too...

darn, that would suck coming in behind Turkey and South Korea.

[ July 03, 2002, 19:10: Message edited by: Rollo ]

Growltigga · #**1346** July 3rd, 2002, 10:40 PM

Sorry Rollo

Have your team play against SOME GOOD SIDES like Nigeria and Argentina and see how you do

Face it, the first real competition you faced in that tournament was not Ireland but was Brazil and you lost 2-0.

We at least got one back AFTER beating ARGENTINA and DENMARK

and what happended Last time we played you boys - something about 5 1 wasn't it mein herr

Mephisto · #**1347** July 3rd, 2002, 11:11 PM

Yea, there were so many good teams out there: France, Portugal, Argentina, Italy, England. We could have learned a lot from them. Pity is, they never come as far as we did.

"Glassing" refers to a nuke. After the test firing they found that the sand at the target range was molten into glas by the heat.

Chardo Mon · #**1348** July 4th, 2002, 12:20 AM

Tut tut tut.

All this talk about "how 'my' team does = how good I am." Useless jabbering, oh but it is interesting enough for sure. It does absolutely nothing for saying how YOU play SE IV

It only says, with all due honors, how a crew of happenstance coincident national fellows play for our common country. (Hat off to all the athletes.)

If the old obsteperous kat had no fear and some honor

, he would have uploaded his empire before I was forced to leave for more active grounds (ahh... am I making a permanent enemy here, or just saying what is so????

)

I am for sure NOT saying I'm the best player,

only that I'm willing to go at it with human opponents, personally, in battle, rather than vociferiously.

<grin> Could not resist needling GT about how long it takes him to load an empire.

[ July 03, 2002, 23:21: Message edited by: Chardo Mon ]

TerranC · #**1349** July 4th, 2002, 12:43 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rollo:
darn, that would suck coming in behind Turkey and South Korea.

Is that supposed to mean anything?

I'll go on head to head with ya, you little...

*falls down on ground*

Growltigga · #**1350** July 4th, 2002, 01:25 AM

Alright alright everybody - I will try and download my empire tonight to the PBW game - I was just waiting for Chardo Mon to get out of the wasy so that another good looking european (hi rollo) could join in and as we know, Germans always get to the final

I am back at work (how is that for tight - apparently, I am only allowed 4 days off sick for operations and I still have the stitches in and a lump the size of Gryphin's sex drive sticking out of my side_

I will try and upload my game by the weekend