The Big One

Post by **Beowulf** » 2004-09-11 12:01am

“Mister President, we find that incinerating entire countries gives meaning to our lives and enhances our manliness.”

Ah such a wonderful quote, so wonderfully twisted...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-11 01:36am

Man, Naamah really did a number on Clarke.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-09-11 03:48pm

No one deserves to be locked in Hell before they die...

Caught up, BTW!

My plot prediction is that Palestine/Gaza is gonna get nuked, but not the whole of the Caliph

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-09-13 04:42pm

Can we please, please switch our universe with the TBOverse?

J · Post by J » 2004-09-13 04:55pm

MKSheppard wrote:Can we please, please switch our universe with the TBOverse?

that'll happen around the time you embrace Brady's gun control measures.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-13 05:29pm

Hrm, poor farmer in Thailand (abliet with the lethal wife) vs. university student in CONUS ... decisions, decisions ....

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-09-13 08:18pm

phongn wrote:Hrm, poor farmer in Thailand (abliet with the lethal wife) vs. university student in CONUS ... decisions, decisions ....

You can't argue with a good Chicken Pad Thai.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-13 08:26pm

I also get a fully-automatic AK-47, my own town militia and training in the arts of insurrection ...

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-09-16 12:21am

Bob Dedmon wrote: ...until you've seen a BUFF/KC-135 MITO. The most nerve racking sight was to watch the black smoke rise from the "Christmas Tree" and watch those 8 mothers taxi for an "elephant walk"...you pray to God they don't take off, especially the first time you see it happen. I got the privilige of watching the 68th BW do that several times before inactivation at "Shady J" in the "bad ol' days" of the early 80's.

My dad had the pleasant(?) experience of watching firsthand as XB-52 and YB-52 were put through initial trials at Boeing's Seattle plant. By firsthand, I mean watching from the electrical shop near the main hangars.

He described it as this: Tex Johnston (aka the man who barrel-rolled a 707) was tasked with testing the performance of the BUFF. One of those tests was a full power takeoff -- everything pushed to the firewall and then some.

According to him, the noise was unbearable even standing over at the electrical shop wearing hearing protection. The ground was literally shaking. And he said that it was an awesome sight to see the prototype rocket ahead as Tex poured on the coals, then take off at a very steep angle. That thing was climbing, and climbing hard. I don't remember what angle he said it was at, but it was damned steep.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-21 03:07pm

Crusade 26

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-09-21 03:18pm

Yay! Nuking Palestine!

A pity more of it wasn't hit, it'll have to happen later.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-09-21 05:01pm

HA! Take that Arafat you fucking turd!

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-09-21 10:57pm

“One of their planners was told that bombers could not kill a religion. He answered ‘No, but we can kill everybody who believes in it and burn all their books’."

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-09-22 03:24pm

I suppose Crusade is just about over?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-22 04:35pm

Yeah, Crusade should be wrapping up soon. He's thinking of doing a non-bomber story next, though.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2004-09-22 05:37pm

phongn wrote:Yeah, Crusade should be wrapping up soon. He's thinking of doing a non-bomber story next, though.

It's already longer than TBO and TGG in terms of number of sections.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-09-22 06:09pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:HA! Take that Arafat you fucking turd!

Holy shit that was awesome!

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-09-22 08:14pm

phongn wrote:Yeah, Crusade should be wrapping up soon. He's thinking of doing a non-bomber story next, though.

What about Ride of the Valkyries?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-22 08:36pm

It is in the works but probably is shuffled further down the queue.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-09-23 08:05pm

The Ladies of TBO

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-09-23 08:40pm

They really are humans, just not the same .... well, you'll find out in due course.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-09-23 08:48pm

Always hinting, teasing, taunting...

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-09-24 04:38pm

TBOverse Fighters

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-09-27 06:35pm

Chapter 27

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-27 09:35pm

And so ends Crusade.