Latest mini received

[Lowtardog]

it's the one i made that  pete posted on the TAG forum, i should have one painted by tomorrow  =)
I'll look up that book, have to finish my afghan warfare book first tho

I picked that book up, much better than the other side of the mountain too, a good find Col :mrgreen:

[Col.Stone]

yup i liked it too, i only disliked one thing and that was the fact that there is no expplanation for the symbols on the maps except in the back of the book,

[Lowtardog]

This is the book

http://www.amazon.com/Tunnels-Cu-Chi-Tom-Mangold/dp/0425089517

a good read with first hand accounts of the battles form both perspectives it is amazing to see what was doen with the tunnels

[PeteMurray]

My lips are sealed (I risk ritual disembowling for showing this)on this but couldnt resist showing the picutres of greens/greys. Hopfully available by Salute  

Hey Poly, it's the Mummified Remains of Steve Prefontaine!  ::

[Lowtardog]

yup i liked it too, i only disliked one thing and that was the fact that there is no expplanation for the symbols on the maps except in the back of the book,

If you want to be sad like me, photocpoy the legend with the symbols and then yo can cross reference them

[Lowtardog]

My lips are sealed (I risk ritual disembowling for showing this)on this but couldnt resist showing the picutres of greens/greys. Hopfully available by Salute  





Hey Poly, it's the Mummified Remains of Steve Prefontaine!  ::

wouldnt he have looked more like this



but in a running vest

[PeteMurray]

Kind of an inside joke based on TMP, where in the members-only area there is a thread with over 20,000 replies, and still going. And so begins my sordid tale of woe and blame and finger pointing.

Some fellow calling himself "Polynikes" started a thread called "Contains WHAT?" where he started ranting about something on TV. Since TMP doesn't have an erase/edit function on posts (or didn't at the time), he immediately decided that instead of whining about television, he wanted to play Never-Get-Started-Monopoly. You play this game by picking a piece for the game (such as the dog or the car.) The next player picks the piece you just picked, so you pick another one. The next player picks that piece.* Two turns of the game therefore go like this:

Player 1: I want to be the dog.
Player 2: No, I want to be the dog.
Player 1: Fine, I'll be the car.
Player 2: No, I want to be the car.

In the course of the game, the pieces involved became more and more esoteric, eventually segueing into pieces from an unseen Tintin edition. At that point, the mummified remains of Rascar Capac were claimed. Shortly thereafter, Steve Prefontaine was claimed by the same individual, and not long after that, a new piece, the Mummified Remains of Steve Prefontaine were claimed.

At that point, the Polynikes individual switched his icon to Steve Prefontaine.

Unfamiliar with Mr. Prefontaine, I remarked that it looked like Sean Connery in Zardoz.

And someone asked: "What's Zardoz?"

And the world was never the same after that.

I will return this thread to its proper function in exchange for Kinmont Willie and a dozen fine border cattle.

*: Keep in mind that "Mornington Crescent" was also invented in Greater Britain

[Lowtardog]

My head hurts now      :mrgreen:

[Plynkes]

It does rather look like Rascar Capac/Steve Prefontaine.

But a 1970s British bawdy-comedy effeminate/homosexual version, judging by the way he's clutching his handbag while pulling his jib.  


(Being sensible for a minute, Rascar Capac is the Inca Mummy from the Tintin adventure "The Seven Crystal Balls.")

[Hammers]

Brrr. I had to skip the pages featuring Rascar Capac when I was a kid. These days I have a RC fridge magnet which helps me wake up in the mornings.

[Lowtardog]

It does rather look like Rascar Capac/Steve Prefontaine.

But a 1970s British bawdy-comedy effeminate/homosexual version, judging by the way he's clutching his handbag while pulling his jib.  


(Being sensible for a minute, Rascar Capac is the Inca Mummy from the Tintin adventure "The Seven Crystal Balls.")

A Handbag!!!!




No it is a pukka Huaca Mummy and as every one knows your mummy always carries her handbag :wink:

[Rhoderic]

Perhaps I should be thankful I don't have a sponsoring membership at TMP anymore. I refused to get a new one after my old account simply vanished into thin air with a month of sponsorship left. That's also how I got my somewhat odd moniker at that forum, "Rhoderic III and counting". When "Rhoderic" vanished I created "Rhoderic II" which also vanished. I'm sure Bill has it in for me

Which reminds me, I should really get around to becoming a sponsoring member here, instead.

[Col.Stone]

If you want to be sad like me, photocpoy the legend with the symbols and then yo can cross reference them

nothing sad about that, i justr haven't gotten arounf to hooking up my scanner

I have the same childhood memories of that mummy as hammershield ::

[matakishi]

Col Stone made his own tunnel rat  :wink:
I'd like to know how to get one (or more)

[Col.Stone]

I have very few of my own, i hardly had time to open the package before they were called for by my brothers and friends..
There's a thread with it on TAGs forum, i don't know if pete was going to add it to the freebie range or something like that