#the wackiest ship in the army

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rick nelson fan club, may 1960 letter from rick; facsimile autographed headshot

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The Wackiest Ship in the Army, 1961.

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okay from best to worst top three! klapollo krisnix wrightworth go!! with explanations duh - 💾

oh guess what i just found in the bottom of my drafts. sorry floppy disk you asked me this in march and now its almost june. my bad pestie

anyway i would LOVE to. im gonna cut the post here because it ended up getting pretty damn long and i wanna save the mobile users some pain

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a little preface first: i don't think any of them are the "worst". im a multiship freak and i think all three of these are best and worst in their own way. id love more info on what you MEAN by "best to worst" because that's so very vague. do you mean in terms of relationship dynamic? do you mean in terms of personal perception? do you mean how much i like them?? since i have no idea what exactly youre asking me here, im just gonna shove a whole bunch of headcanons in your face and hope for the best. xoxo follow me

3rd place - Wrightworth / Narumitsu

the iconic, original gangster, blah blah blah. forever cute. theyre just kind of a little bland to me. like i feel as tho we've explored basically everything there is to explore in wrightworth with the exception of the seven year gap? eh maybe thats a terrible take who knows. theyre still lovely tho i love the seemingly constant stream of gayass lawyers on my feed. everybody loves narumitsu!

2nd place - Klapollo

i really don't have much to say about klapollo either. theyre cute as hell and they definitely have a lot more to ponder on (considering that the only game we really get klavier in is AA4 [no DD doesnt count klavs ass got fucking Visited and he was written so poorly thats NOT my klavier gavin]). and generally speaking im an AA4 fiend its my favorite game in the entire series and so im biased. also, another pretty constant stream of gay lawyer content. shout out to hyundere who made like constant beautiful klapollo content until the One Piece happened lol [im a one piece enjoyer too dont come for me this is not criticism]

1st place - Krisnix

my GOD krisnix. theres a lot of things that go into me enjoying krisnix, but the biggest one is the fact that they have the fucking wackiest, least defined relationship in all of AA4. (also, another AA4 exclusive lol). with the 7yg in play, theres so much room to play around. and most of krisnix really exists in their questions and the vagueness of their relationship. theres like a billion things to ask. how does this relationship develop? how did they meet? what were they like for seven years? what led up to phoenix suspecting kristoph in, yknow, the Everything that happened in AA4? what kind of relationship did they even have? were they "friends" that just happened to pull each other into their gravity? were they holding hands and cuddling every night? were they practically strangers until one of them needed to "blow off steam"?

and not to mention these people are both private/secretive as HELL (phoenix is probably the cagiest man ive ever seen ever. and kristoph, aside from being a man with a fucking army of skeletons in his closet, gets an unfortunately small amount of screentime in the game and not a lot of time to get into the meat of his character/backstory [see: black psyche-locks]). that adds another layer. they certainly dont talk about each other. so how did... All Of This happen?

SO. MANY. QUESTIONS. and in general i like my ships a little more "toxic". and i mean. if you know ANYTHING about AA4, krisnix is pretty mutually toxic. i could totally make another post tearing into the inner guts of their dynamic and relationship-- hell, i could probably make FIVE.

moral of the story: krisnix forever. poggies.

anyway yeah i hope this uh. answered all your questions? how the hell do you end a tumblr post

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Fantastic Four Vol 1 Issue 2.

So in the last post I went over the start of the Marvel 616 universe with the debut of Marvels first family. The Fantastic Four. Well this is their second outing in the world of heroism, and my second outing in the world of reviewing these. So here's my flamin hot takes from this issue. Man the Human Torch would have loved that last phrase. Anyway let's start.

So this issue starts with what we the readers are to believe are the Fantastic Four commiting several crimes around the world. Well turns out that it isn't them, it's an alien race known as the Skrulls, you may have heard of the Skrulls from the MCU movie Captain Marvel, and the show Secret Invasion. Though I do find it interesting that they did aliens right in the second issue.

Well our Fantastic team is rightfully blamed for the crimes, though they escape the United States military. They then set about a way of stopping the Skrull invasion of earth. How do they do this you may ask. Well they discover the Skrulls ship, disguised as a Water Tower. They then travel to the Skrull flagship, and then convince them that they shouldn't invade earth because of the awful creatures that live there. If you think they mean humans they definitely don't, they use clippings of monsters from other Marvel Comics. Which the Skrull leader believes and they just leave earth, and the Fantastic Four convince the Skrull leader to leave them behind as like a sacrifice.

Then they return to earth and convince the United States military, and also police that aliens that can shape shift have been doing this, granted at least now they have some evidence with the water tower spaceship. Never thought that would be a sentence I'd write. They then go and defeat the Skrulls and Mister Fantastic uses Hypnosis on them to have the Skrulls turn into cows, and basically live their lives as cows until the end of time. It is the wackiest ending so far, but I feel like wackier is still to come.

Alright on to my favorite part, talking about the main characters of this issue. Again I'll be starting with the heroes. So that means first up is Mister Fantastic.

I don't mind Mister Fantastic in this issue. It's just I still can't comprehend that he is the smartest man in the world. So far his ideas are something I would have thought up as super cool on the playground and would've most likely had the ideas rejected. Anyway he's at the same stage that I had him last issue, no true change yet for the leader of the Fantastic Four.

Next up is the leading lady of the group The Invisible Girl.

Again Sue Storm also doesn't change for me. She still hasn't done a whole lot for the team yet. She's either been a damsel in distress or kind of just there because she has to be. I think the best part about her this issue is when she just turns invisible and slips past to Army guards. Again another character that hasn't changed for me but I would really like to see her get better.

Next up is the Hot Head himself The Human Torch.

Honestly for this issue Johnny is a lot more likeable. I mean he's hot headed and does his own thing, but I like him more so this issue than the last. He's still not my favorite member but I'd prefer him over the last two members.

Next is the final member of the Fantastic Four, The Thing.

Definitely my favorite character this issue once again. I just can't help but to feel bad for this guy. First he transforms back to his original human form only briefly before being reverted back into the Thing. Also Sue is still a bit scared of him, which I'm like come on, you've been around him several times so you should at least be ok with his appearance. Anyway Thing is by far my top favorite of the Fantastic Four.

Now for our Antagonists, the shape shifting Skrulls.

I really don't mind the Skrulls, it's a fun concept having your heroes essentially fight themselves. Though I really find the ending all too funny to take seriously. These four Skrulls turn into cows and live that way basically forever. It's just so, anticlimactic.

Anyway that's my take on the second issue of the Fantastic Four. I can't wait to get into the third one, hopefully by then our team will have some super suits, until next time.

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Also if you wanna catch up and look at the previous issue follow this link:

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Ricky Nelson and Joe Byrne behind the scenes of Rio Bravo (1959) Joe was Ricky's stunt double in the film. Joe played various characters on 110 episodes (1956-66) of Ricky's long running tv series, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and he became script supervisor on the tv show (1962-66). He had one other acting credit, on a 1959 tv episode. Joe was also Ricky's stunt double on The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960).

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Meet the Crew, Pt. 1

I figure that a good reintroduction to the Tides, for my first post in like a year, would be a couple short biographies of the most notable members of the crew of the UIS(formerly) Eureka, the wackiest ship this side of the Sun's Throne.

Art by @nincho1

These guys were the player characters of the longest game I've ever run in the Tides, using modified Mongoose Traveller 2e rules. Love these goobers.

Iskander Atharanastos

The guy on the far left, known as 'Iska' by most. The Inked Mariner, former spy for the nation of Ikaria. He is among the most talented abstractors the island nation's army has ever produced, and for the first half of the story employed his skills to spy on Capt. Fellward.

The goal of Ikaria, and as such Iska's, for there is no Ikarian whose personal aim differs from that the state (yay wizard fascists) is to bring about the resurrection of the Moon's Father, the architect of the Stillborn Moon, whose maintenance has fallen to Ikaria in his absence. They believe that he was unable to complete it due to his assassination by the agents of the sepulchral West Wind, and for this reason the Tides has been plunged into a guttering half-light for countless years.

After the whole business with the flute and Fellward's death, they revealed themself to the group and set them on the path to retrieving the flute from the Ferrymen, resurrecting the Moon's Father, and eventually rescuing the Sun from the North, overthrowing Ikaria, and restoring sunlight to the Tides.

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The Wackiest Ship In The Army (1961)

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The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)

Lt. Rip Crandall: This hulk is commissioned? As what?

Ens. Tommy J. Hanson: It's unclassified, sir.

Lt. Rip Crandall: Uncla-? I can believe that!

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jack lemmon as lt. rip crandall in the wackiest ship in the army (1960)

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He came, he saw, he kicked ass!

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Happy birthday, Maréchal Brune!

And again a marshal about whom I knew nothing before, except for his name and his sad ending. Born in 1763, he was a couple of years older than Napoleon and most other active marshals, and he seems to have kept most of his republican ideals even under the empire, which of course made him look suspicious in Napoleon’s eyes.

Some informations about his early years I found in yet another book on Google, volume 4 of »Histoire de la vendée militaire« by Jacques Crétineau-Joly, Paris 1850.

Guillaume Brune, born in Brives-la-Gaillarde on 13 March 1763, had been destined for the bar by his father, a lawyer himself; but, giving in to his taste for poetry, he neglected the study of jurisprudence. The Revolution arrived: Brune threw himself into it with enthusiasm. In 1790, as a printer, he suffered unforeseen losses which forced him to abandon his business. War was imminent. Brune enlisted in the 2nd battalion of the Seine-et-Oise volunteers. On October 18, 1791, he was elected adjutant-major; and he began his military career under adverse auspices, but fortunate then. He was accused, we should say praised, of having dipped his hands in the blood of the Princess of Lamballe. It was a crime of which Brune was innocent, and he had only the republican weakness to permit this to be attributed to him; and this man, robust and a fine soldier, led the armies to victory.

His description in a military history of the Vendée is due to the fact that Napoleon in 1800/01 sent him there to finally pacify the royalist uprisings. If the rumours the author refers to here, namely that it had been Brune who had carried the Princesse de Lamballe’s head on a pike under Marie-Antoinette’s prison window, really already were attached to his name at this time, they would come back to haunt Brune in the worst possible way: During the »White Terror« under the Second Restauration, when Brune stopped in Avignon on his way to Paris, a royalist mob recognized and brutally killed the alleged murder of the Princesse de Lamballe.

But that’s actually not the story that I wanted to tell. Because at the moment I’m in desperate need of anything even remotely nice or funny. So here’s Brune in 1807, as commander-in-chief during the siege of Stralsund in Sweden, at a meeting with probably the wackiest monarch of the era, who went officially insane a few years later, Sweden's King Gustav IV. (Taken from von der Lühe, »Militair Conversations-Lexikon«, Vol. 7, Adorf 1839)

Since the Swedish warships off Colberg treated the French troops in a hostile manner, contrary to the terms of the armistice, and Stralsund became the rallying point for ranched and newly recruited Prussians, Marshal Brune asked for an explanation of this violation of the treaty, whereupon the King proposed to him a personal meeting at Schlatkow, which took place on June 4. In this meeting he made the strange offer to the French Marshal to unite with him against Napoleon and to recognise the Bourbons.

Brune: So, about those ships and your support for the Prussians, I cannot let that pass.

Gustav: Oh, yes, yes, sorry about that. Listen, how about we become allies and bring the Bourbons back on the French throne?

Brune: … N-no? … Is this a trick question?

And of course, because I do that for all the marshals, a look at the »presents« Brune received while he was in Stralsund, taken once more from Francke »Aus Stralsunds Franzosenzeit«:

Brune himself started on a small scale: for the time being, he was content to seize a silver chess set from the city's art collection. Of course he only borrowed it for the duration of his stay here, but just as naturally he took it with him when he left.

O, come on. Who knows if it was even intentional. These guys were awfully busy! Mistakes happen.

Well, that was for the time being, the rest followed: on September 15, the Marshal's secretary, Berne, informed the Council that His Excellency expected a considerable gift, i.e. at least 100,000 francs, as a proof of gratitude for the care with which he had treated the city. This sum was therefore necessarily raised and sent to the Marshal with an obligatory letter, in which, at the express request of the latter, the 100,000 francs had to be described as a small compensation for the costs of the journeys which he had made in the interest of the city of Stralsund and the province. For Monsieur Berne, who was held in high esteem by the marshal and even called him »tu«, the small sum of 500 louis d'or, which the city honoured him with, also coincided with this occasion.

Incidentally, shortly after Rügen had been completely evacuated by the Swedes, Brune was recalled from here in disgrace. The reason for this, it is said, was that he had allowed General Toll to transfer his army to Skåne, while he could force it to surrender by carrying out the already prepared landing on Rügen.

In a footnote the author adds:

He never received another position until Napoleon's first fall; only in the 100 days when he rejoined the Emperor was he given command of a detachment in southern France, which was disbanded after Napoleon's second abdication. When the Marshal then travelled to Paris, he was attacked and murdered in Avignon by the mob of that city, which had been incited against the Bonapartists, or, as others say, when he realised the impossibility of escaping the angry crowd, he killed himself with a pistol shot.

It seems there’s no escaping Brune’s tragic death. As to the reasons for Brune’s disgrace, I have found several other explanations, the easiest probably being that Napoleon was ridding himself of people he feared might oppose his more and more authoritarian policies. An interesting variant has Napoleon using as a pretext the fact that Brune, during the negotiations in Stralsund, spoke only of the »French army« and not of the »army of the Emperor and King«. A capital crime, of course.

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Character Actor

Lloyd Wolfe Bochner (July 29, 1924 – October 29, 2005) Film and television actor. He appeared in many Canadian and Hollywood productions between the 1950s and 1990s and the television prime time soap opera Dynasty (1981-82).

in 1951 he moved to New York City where he appeared in early television series such as One Man's Family and Kraft Television Theatre. In 1960, ABC called with a starring role in the series Hong Kong with co-star Rod Taylor. Faced against NBC's Wagon Train, then one of the most highly rated programs on the air, Hong Kong ended with the 26th episode. In 1961, he guest-starred in The Americans, an American Civil War drama about how the conflict divided families, starring Darryl Hickman.

A few years later, Bochner appeared in one of his most famous roles, that of a cryptographer attempting to decipher an alien text in the classic 1962 Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man", a part he spoofed years later in the comedy The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.  In 1962 and 1963, he appeared in two episodes of the CBS anthology series, GE True, hosted by Jack Webb; he portrayed the part of Stoughton in "Code Name: Christopher, Part I"  and Captain Ian Stuart in "Commando".

From 1963 to 1964, Bochner was a member of the repertory cast of NBC's The Richard Boone Show. In 1964, he guest-starred in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea season-one episode "The Fear-Makers". Later that year, he appeared as murderer Eric Pollard in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Latent Lover". In 1965, he guest-starred on ABC's Western series The Legend of Jesse James starring Christopher Jones in the title role. Two years later, he appeared on the ABC military-Western Custer starring Wayne Maunder in the title role. He appeared twice on the long-running television Western The Virginian in the 1960s. In 1971, Bochner appeared as Abel Wilks in "The Men From Shiloh" (rebranded name for The Virginian) in the episode titled "The Town Killer."

Over the years, Bochner continued to portray a variety of roles in television and film, from a warlock on Bewitched to a homosexual doctor coming out at middle age in the 1977 television movie Terraces.

Other television appearances were in  Combat!, The Wild Wild West,  Death Valley Days, The Wackiest Ship in the Army, 12 O'Clock High,  Honey West, Hogan's Heroes ,The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible, It Takes a Thief, Hawaii Five-O,The Silent Force, Columbo, The Starlost, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Feather and Father Gang, The San Pedro Beach Bums, Barnaby Jones, Battlestar Galactica and The Golden Girls  (Wikipedia)

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Walter Brennan and Natalie Wood in a scene from Driftwood (1947), written by Mary Loos, niece of writer Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes).  Mary was born in Mount Shasta in Northern California. and had 26 writing credits from 1946 to the 1970 Academy Awards.  Her notable credits include John Ford’s When Willie Comes Marching Home, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Woman’s World, 33 episodes of Yancy Derringer, and episodes of Bewitched and The Wackiest Ship in the Army.

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Hetalia Emblem: Support Conversations

Okay... so I might not be in time for the end of the @aphrarepairweek2020 event, but I’m posting this anyway. Yet another Free Day, though there’s also a mix of prompts like Stars, Magic, and possibly one for Flowers. And it’s still in early access! Yay! Though seriously, thank goodness for Google Docs.

This is based on my Hetalia Emblem/Samuraiverse/Flagverse AU, a sort of theoretical Hetagame Strategy RPG with weapons, outfits, and initial setting idea (Japanese high medieval fantasy with international elements), at least before it became a Magical Boy/FateGO/Touken Ranbu-esque premise, of the World Flags project (I’m pretty sure you’ve seen it around; it’s the one with the bishie samurai in costumes based off of their flags) and Fire Emblem gameplay. Though you don’t have to know much about FE to understand this. Basically the premise is that Feliciano and Kiku, the two main characters of this game, have been separated from the rest of the G8 (currently G7), or Hachi No Dan, a band of warriors chosen by the gods, and now they have to raise an army and get back the other 6 to save the world or something. ...I haven’t fleshed it out much yet. And for now at least, this is my only work where the characters act remotely like their canon selves.

And Fire Emblem has what’s called “support conversations”, where characters bond through conversation to get stat boosts in battle. While in almost all of the games there’s often some kind of romance ending to many of these conversations, in HE I basically scrap shipping and go classic. So yes, it’s more platonic stuff.

I’m thinking HE would theoretically have a support system like Three Houses, where I think supports evolve as you progress through the game, but as I haven’t played it I’m kind of writing with the assumption that this is the Awakening/Fates support system at the moment, with maybe some certain plot-locked A supports that aren’t here.

But in anyway, this gives me license to write duo interactions and create friendships out of some of the wackiest pairs ever. Including some you’ll see here. Though others here like Italy and Greece are my BrOTPs in nationverse too, and I would have liked writing them in Alt-talia. On well.

Damn you, University... Well at least I’m forced to stop so I don’t end up cooped up on my mom and brother’s birthday...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JPTojqKw_RMyFiTq3t_cf5eaXDbxpRNJezT7UnXewB8

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The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)

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some ww2 ‘’’comedy’’’ on film4 called ‘wackiest ship in the army’ and... is this supposed to be funny? like i can picture an 80yr old having a sensible chuckle here and there but i just dont get it. they must be hiding the jokes in the morse code