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Message no. 1
From: mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject: Lynch?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:07:24 -0700 (PDT)
Is Lynch going to get back in touch with Sapphire? When he does so, I can
start bringing my resources to bear on the BTL problem. =)
--
/!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, CS Major, VLSI. http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mneideng
"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Operator/Jack-of-all-Trades, CACR
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
-Pirotess, _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ Shadowrunner and Anime Addict
Message no. 2
From: shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk (Paul J. Adam)
Subject: Re: Lynch?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:37:37 GMT
In message <199604112107.OAA02393@****.ugcs.caltech.edu> "Mark L.
Neidengard" writes:
> Is Lynch going to get back in touch with Sapphire? When he does so, I can
> start bringing my resources to bear on the BTL problem. =)

Thought he had :0 Must have mislaid the message, I'll resend.

--
Paul J. Adam
Message no. 3
From: mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject: Lynch (fwd)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:09:38 -0700 (PDT)
According to Paul J. Adam:
>now we're shading towards an air-sea operation, since our target's on an
>island: little speck called Clipperton, about six hundred miles southwest of
>Acapulco.

"Unexpected tropical storm ravages small island! Thousands perish in unearthly
Maelstrom! Film at 11." =)

>Bad news is, it's six hundred miles from anywhere. Good news is, it's
>six hundred miles from anywhere <g> Means we need long legs, sea-based ops
>or some serious tanker drag to get there by air: but it means that any
>backup our Aztlan buddies want to whistle for has to come all that distance.
>What we see is what they get.

Well, let's see. What are _you_ thinking Aztlan has done to fortify this
place? And what sort of sensors perimeter? =)

>The usual games: no direct intervention, just "we want you to know that
>you know we know you know we know what you were doing there".

Uh...uhhh....uuuuhhhhhh....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
*sound of brain exploding* *thud* Anyhow... *crunch*

>Right now we're looking at air support and CAS during the hit, plus
>pickup. What size of team can you lift out from a hot LZ? We'd be a
>minimum four, maybe more. Also, you got any NGFS capability? We're going
>in short on numbers, so we want all the support we can get.

NGFS?
--
/!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, CS Major, VLSI. http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mneideng
"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Operator/Jack-of-all-Trades, CACR
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
-Pirotess, _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ Shadowrunner and Anime Addict
Message no. 4
From: shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk (Paul J. Adam)
Subject: Re: Lynch (fwd)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 23:46:30 GMT
> According to Paul J. Adam:
> >now we're shading towards an air-sea operation, since our target's on an
> >island: little speck called Clipperton, about six hundred miles southwest of
> >Acapulco.
>
>"Unexpected tropical storm ravages small island! Thousands perish in unearthly
> Maelstrom! Film at 11." =)

Nah, see my posting. I grabbed Clipperton as the smallest speck my atlas
showed. The good ones at work (Times and National Geographic) don't show it
either, except as a dot in the Pacific. Even Bora Bora gets an inset map in
the National Geographic world atlas, but not Clipperton :) It's a rock.
Population about fifty, all of them Manchu staff.

> >Bad news is, it's six hundred miles from anywhere. Good news is, it's
> >six hundred miles from anywhere <g> Means we need long legs, sea-based ops
> >or some serious tanker drag to get there by air: but it means that any
> >backup our Aztlan buddies want to whistle for has to come all that distance.
> >What we see is what they get.
>
> Well, let's see. What are _you_ thinking Aztlan has done to fortify this
> place? And what sort of sensors perimeter? =)

Very little, because fortification equals traffic equals attention. Also,
the contingency plan for catastrophe really is "They were *what*? On Aztlan
territory? This is shocking! I am outraged! We apologise profusely for this
dreadful lapse in our internal security. Doubtless the work of Yucatan
seperatists."

OTOH distance lends problems of its own. This is one that will probably go
very well and look easy. If it goes wrong, being so far from any help of
any sort makes minor reverses into disasters very quickly...

> >The usual games: no direct intervention, just "we want you to know that
> >you know we know you know we know what you were doing there".
>
> Uh...uhhh....uuuuhhhhhh....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
> *sound of brain exploding* *thud* Anyhow... *crunch*

Yeah, fun, isn't it? :)

> >Right now we're looking at air support and CAS during the hit, plus
> >pickup. What size of team can you lift out from a hot LZ? We'd be a
> >minimum four, maybe more. Also, you got any NGFS capability? We're going
> >in short on numbers, so we want all the support we can get.
>
> NGFS?

Naval GunFire Support. What the Iowas did during Desert Storm. Lynch being
his usual knives-out self... he'd really like a destroyer or two off the
island, pounding out HE at max rate, but he isn't going to get it :)

Given the storm that's blowing up in the area already, any surface ship
support smaller than an aircraft carrier is going to be steering into the
wind, taking on ballast, and praying...

Yes, Virginia, we *are* talking Force 11...

--
There is no personal problem that cannot be solved by the judicious
application of high explosives.

Paul J. Adam shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 5
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Lynch
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:55:05 +0000
All right. So I hit "send" instead of "delete" and left my sig. and
part
of the message I was replying to.

Thwap away. I can take it.

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 6
From: Mike Loll <e5rs010@*****.MINC.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Lynch
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 21:52:17 EST
...to thwap or not to thwap...

thwap.

there's my contribution. No monster thwaps though, we all make mistakes. :-)

Mike Loll.
Message no. 7
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Lynch
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 02:09:56 +0000
|
|...to thwap or not to thwap...
|
|thwap.
|
|there's my contribution. No monster thwaps though, we all make mistakes. :-)

Awwww. It's no fun without monster thwaps.....
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Message no. 8
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Lynch
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 02:09:10 +0000
In message <009ADD48.D9BD80E0.5617@*****.minc.umd.edu>, Mike Loll
<e5rs010@*****.MINC.UMD.EDU> writes
>...to thwap or not to thwap...
That is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The .sigs and quotes of outrageous fortune,
Or to raise carp against a sea of errors
And by opposing end them?

>thwap.

Ouch :)

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 9
From: Matthew T Boutilier <rasterburn@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Lynch
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:27:21 EST
Are you tripping or are you just like this? =)

*thwap*

*thwap*

*thwap*

Interesting little twist on Shakespeare. Cool. Haven't heard anything
like that since a friends improvisation of the first stanza of Poe's "The
Raven" that involved a shotgun.
Message no. 10
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Lynch
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:30:12 +1200
>>>>>>[Lynch is dead, huh? His old cybertoys on the market at all? Who
wants
>to start the bidding?]<<<<<
> -- Sanguis Fluit <15:40:53/04-26-59>

Strange... I got this back from the list after I got AJ's reply to it.

PLAYTHING OF A CRUEL GOD
JAIMIE NICHOLSON
Message no. 11
From: Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Lynch
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 03:10:08 +0100
In article <v01540b08b1698fd3833f@[139.80.126.34]>, Jaimie Nicholson
<jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ> waffled & burbled about Lynch
>>>>>>>[Lynch is dead, huh? His old cybertoys on the market at all?
Who wants
>>to start the bidding?]<<<<<
>> -- Sanguis Fluit <15:40:53/04-26-59>
>
>Strange... I got this back from the list after I got AJ's reply to it.

Yeah it happens sometimes. I regularly get replies to my posts before I
see the post. That's the internet for you. :)


--
Avenger

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