28mm VSF Ottoman Paddleboat

[sunjester]

The latest addition to my VSF Ottoman Navy, I've converted TTCombat's Doctor's Paddleboat to a steam-power gunboat.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Looks good !

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb

[Steve J]

That's a bright little boat there .

[Orcs]

Its a nice boat, but please don't encourage him. He keeps persuading me to buy stuff.

[Last Hussar]

He doesn't, you just see what he has and get carried away.

[Orcs]

He doesn't, you just see what he has and get carried away.

No I have been very reserved in what I have bought.  Just Two vehicles (one was a present) a squad of 19 figures (5 plastic) and a gun.

[sunjester]

This week! 

[Last Hussar]

This week! 

   

[Orcs]

This week! 

CHEEK!, they have been carefully researched and thoughtfully purchased over the last two months.

[Last Hussar]

What have you bought without thought or research?

[fsn]

"Mad Jack's Brain Killer".

It was a nice pale green colour and gave off an aroma of new mown hay.

That was how I lost March 1988.

[sunjester]

"Mad Jack's Brain Killer".

It was a nice pale green colour and gave off an aroma of new mown hay.

That was how I lost March 1988.

That's not one I'm familier with, who makes/made it?

[fsn]

Mad Jack!

[Last Hussar]

Accurate yet unhelpful.

Fits in well here.

[Ithoriel]

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:

"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend. I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man below says, "Yes, you are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees West longitude."

"You must be a programmer," says the balloonist.

"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost."

The man below says, "You must be a project manager"

"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault."

[Raider4]

I've heard that exact same joke before, but the balloon pilot is a Republican and the guy on the ground is a Democrat.

Also, a similar and (very) old one which I heard years ago:

A pilot is flying a small, single-engine, charter plane with a couple of really important executives on board into Seattle airport. There is fog so thick that visibility is 40 feet, and his instruments are out. He circles looking for a landmark and after an hour, he is low on fuel and his passengers are very nervous.

At last, through a small opening in the fog he sees a tall building with one guy working alone on the fifth floor. Circling, the pilot banks and shouts through his open window: "Hey, where am I?".

The solitary office worker replies: "You're in an airplane."

The pilot immediately executes a swift 275 degree turn and executes a perfect blind landing on the airport's runway five miles away. Just as the plane stops, the engines cough and die from lack of fuel.

The stunned passengers ask the pilot how he did it.

"Elementary," replies the pilot, "I asked the guy in that building a simple question. The answer he gave me was 100% correct but absolutely useless; therefore, I knew that must be at Microsoft's support office and from there the airport is three minutes away on a course of 87 degrees."