Aleth Squadron
Report
4.27.2003 - CM Talon Drear
27/4/2003
Hello everyone and welcome to another Aleth Weekly Squadron report. It's been a fairly quiet week for me in the EH, since I haven't had time to be online that much. The hight of activity was actually just now at the Wing III meeting, which turned out to be jolly good fun. Come share the fun (sue me Fanta, I don't care =P) with us next week! Meetings are every sunday in #wing_iii on IRC at 8 PM GMT.
- Miscellaneous News -
Unfortunately Keller couldn't be bribed into performing our little morale boosts for the ladies on the wing, so his place in the Chip 'n Dale squadron has been taken by our very own ex-Wing III'er Var Zoraan. Expect a new banner and complete reports filed in the next WSR's ;-)
- Important Fleet News -
As usual, read the news at www.tiecorps.org if you want the full lowdown. Here's my newshighlight for the week:
Save the Zone XvT and XWA Rooms!
The XvT and XWA Rooms are marked for deletion from the MSN Zone! That would mean no more XvT or XWA WoWs and other Zone based competitions. Please sign this petition to keep it alive:
http://www.petitiononline.com/xwa/petition.html
(Thank you AD Darksaber for bringing this to attention.)
- Squadron News -
Pokemaster flew a mission, bless his heart. I'm ashamed to say I haven't had to do a single BSF since I took command of this squadron. I haven't even had the pleasure of talking to most of you, since you refuse or are unable to reply to my emails. Finally being able to write something other that my own activity under the Squad Activity section is a refreshing breeze. Let's make that breeze hold shall we people? Atleast e-mail me and let me know you're still alive and kicking. I've put this report off until after the meeting in the hopes of catching some of you online, but apart from Pokemaster none of you showed up. This has got to stop guys :(
I'm still having my new nickname/motto comp with you guys. Come up with a good name/motto for the flight you're in and win fabulous prizes such as a car stereo, a Nintendo Gamecube. an all expenses paid trip to Hawaii and a pat on the back!*
In the meantime I've already changed the motto of the squad. Henceforth it shall be : 'Aim to please, Shoot to kill'
*All prizes shall be withheld from the competition with the exception of the pat on the back
- Squadron Activity -
FLIGHT I
1) CM Talon Drear
- Won Wing III meeting trivia in the name of Chip 'n Dale
- Trying to come up with something to put in the MSE ... :(
2) LT Dark Iceman (jcm417@cox.net)
- No activity contact
3) LT Thunder (cruse_jesse@hotmail.com)
- No activity contact
4) LT Sharke Taldor (goteagle@hotmail.com)
- No activity contact
FLIGHT II
1) LCM Pokemaster (shadowx@twcny.rr.com)
- Flew Free XWA 33 (Go Poke!!!!)
- IRC activity
2) COL Osan'gar (dclutterbuck2@yahoo.co.uk)
- No contact
- Presumably still having problems with internet connectivity
FLIGHT III - MISSILE BOAT
2) CM Nic Rety (plumberbutt@go.com)
- No activity contact
Respectfully submitted,
-Tally
CMDR/CM Talon Drear/Aleth Squadron/Wing III/SSSD Sovereign
BSx3/PC/ISMx5/MoT-1gh/IS-3BW/MoC-14BoC-1SoC/CoS/LoA/OV-3E [DRAG] {IWATS}
Ahhh.. so you've read all the way down to this report have you? Then I have a very special (and hilarious) easteregg surprise for you.. enjoy =P
THE COLLEGE THEME PAPER: HE VS. SHE
Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from
Venus"?
Well, here's a prime example offered by an English
professor at an American University.
"Today we will experiment with a new form of
composition called the tandem story. The process is
simple. Each person will pair off with the person
sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will
then write the first paragraph of a short story. The
partner will read the first paragraph and then add
another paragraph to the story. The first person will
then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth.
Remember to reread what has been written each time in
order to keep the story coherent. There is to be
absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say
must be written on the paper. The story is over when
both agree a conclusion has been reached."
The following was actually turned in by two of my
English students:
Rebecca -last name deleted, and Gary - last name
deleted.
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STORY:
(first paragraph by Rebecca)
At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she
wanted. The camomile, which used to be her favorite
for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much
of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he
liked camomile. But she felt she must now, at all
costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was
suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her
asthma started acting up again. So camomile was out of
the question.
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(second paragraph by Gary)
Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the
attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more
important things to think about than the neuroses of
an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom
he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S.
Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his
transgalactic communicator "Polar orbit established.
No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could
sign off, a bluish particle beam flashed out of
nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo
bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out
of his seat and across the cockpit.
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(Rebecca)
He bumped his head and died almost immediately but not
before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically
brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings
for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless
hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4.
"Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and
Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one
morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored
her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth,
when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree,
with no newspapers to read, no television to distract
her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the
beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's
innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.
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(Gary)
Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds
to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the
Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its
lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy
peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace
Disarmament Treaty through the congress had left Earth
a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who
were determined to destroy the human race. Within two
hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian
ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough
firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one
to stop them, they swiftly initiated their diabolical
plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the
atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret
Mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off
the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive
explosion, which vaporized poor, stupid, Laurie and 85
million other Americans. The President slammed his
fist on the conferencetable. "We can't allow this! I'm
going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the
sky!"
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(Rebecca)
This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of
literature. My writing partner is a violent,
chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
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(Gary)
Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic
whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent
of Valium. "Oh shall I have camomile tea? Or shall I
have some other sort of F***ING TEA??? Oh no, I'm an
air headed bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele
novels."
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(Rebecca)
Asshole.
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(Gary)
Bitch.
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(Rebecca)
Wanker.
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(Gary)
Slut.
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(Rebecca)
Get f****d.
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(Gary)
Eat s**t.
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(Rebecca)
F*** YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!!
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(Gary)
Go drink some tea - whore.
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(Teacher)
A+ - I really liked this one.