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1 posted on
08/27/2003 2:13:27 AM PDT by
Radix
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To: Radix
Good morning Radix and all.
2 posted on
08/27/2003 2:14:15 AM PDT by
Aeronaut
(In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
To: Radix; Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; bentfeather; Bethbg79; Iowa Granny; ...
To: All
To every service man or woman reading this thread.
Thank You for your service to our country.
No matter where you are stationed,
No matter what your job description
Know that we are are proud of each and everyone of you.
FReepers:
If YOU are interested in participating in doing threads, either your own,
or helping on existing ones, please contact LindaSOG by FReep mail.
If you are interested in being a Sports Columnist please FReep mail MoJo2001
From the USO Website
"The USO mission is to provide morale, welfare and recreation-type services
to uniformed military Personnel."
USO CANTEEN FREEPER STYLE MISSION STATEMENT
Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.
CLICK HERE TO FIND LATEST THREAD.
The USO Canteen FReeper Style does not show any bias
towards any particular faith or political party.
This is the same as the real USO AND Free Republic itself.
From the front page of Free Republic.
"Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent,
grass-roots conservatism on the web."
To our military readers, we remain steadfast in keeping the Canteen doors open.
The Canteen is Free Republics longest running daily thread specifically designed
to provide entertainment and morale support for the military.
The doors have been open since Oct 7 2001,
the day of the start of the war in Afghanistan.
We are indebted to you for your sacrifices for our Freedom.
In Honor of those who gave their lives and those who were wounded.Thank You Brothers and Sisters for your sacrifices.
And Thank You to ALL who have and still support our Armed Forces.
To: Ragtime Cowgirl; All
To: MNLDS; All
To: Radix; All
Good morning to everyone here at the Canteen and to all of our military at home and abroad. Thnak you very much for your continued service to our country.
Folks, be sure to update your anti-virus software and get the latest critical updates for your computer:-D
8 posted on
08/27/2003 3:06:23 AM PDT by
E.G.C.
To: Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; bentfeather; beachn4fun; Ragtime Cowgirl; ...
From the men in the Military and the Canteen
To: bentfeather
Will there be dogs at the Canteen Circus this Saturday?
To: Radix
I got up early to see Mars and all I got was this stupid t-shirt!
To: Radix
Good Morning Radix! Great thread! Good morning to our military and good morning to the whole Canteen crew.
Warm up exercise for today . . . . .
It’s for you. . .
Having just moved into his new office, a pompous, new colonel was sitting at his desk when an airman knocked on the door.
Conscious of his new position, the colonel quickly picked up the phone, told the airman to enter, then said into the phone, "Yes, General, I will be seeing him this afternoon and I will pass along your message. In the meantime, thank you for your good wishes, sir."
Feeling as though he had sufficiently impressed the young enlisted man, he asked, "What do you want?"
"Nothing important, sir," the airman replied. "Just here to hook up your telephone."
To: Radix
Thank You for everything you do for the moral support of the military and their families.
Your weekly thread in the Canteen AND your daily posts are very much appreciated.
Thank You Brother
To: Radix
25 posted on
08/27/2003 4:05:20 AM PDT by
The Mayor
(God uses ordinary people to carry out his extraordinary plan. I am willing Lord, use me!)
To: Radix; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; Severa; Bethbg79; southerngrit; bkwells; Wild Thing; rwgal; ...
30 posted on
08/27/2003 4:23:44 AM PDT by
tomkow6
(........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........)
To: Radix; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; Severa; Bethbg79; southerngrit; bkwells; Wild Thing; rwgal; ...
Good morning, MR. RADIX! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!
GOOD
MORNING
TROOPS!!
31 posted on
08/27/2003 4:24:35 AM PDT by
tomkow6
(........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........)
To: Radix; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; Severa; Bethbg79; southerngrit; bkwells; Wild Thing; rwgal; ...
Chicagoland Weather
33 posted on
08/27/2003 4:25:52 AM PDT by
tomkow6
(........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........)
To: Radix; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; Severa; Bethbg79; southerngrit; bkwells; Wild Thing; rwgal; ...
Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:
The young boy asked his father what IQ was.
"It is a measure of intelligence" said the father. "A person with an IQ of over 120 is very
very smart". "With an IQ of 100, well that is about average, and with an IQ of say 50, well you would be too dumb to even tie your shoelaces".
"I see", said the boy, "Is that why Iraqui's wear thongs?"
36 posted on
08/27/2003 4:26:55 AM PDT by
tomkow6
(........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........)
To: Radix
Morning Radix. Thanks for getting up early and fixing pancakes once again.
mmmmmmm......I love pancakes on Wednesday......even without the syrup...... 
Here's a little something for our military that are stationed in the desert. Hope this helps keep the sand out of your pancakes...... 
54 posted on
08/27/2003 5:19:24 AM PDT by
beachn4fun
(................................................PANCAKES! Not just a word, A way of life!!!!........)
To: All; TexasCowboy; The Mayor
Good Morning everybody! Good Morning troops! First of all, thanks to those who sent me the freep-mails:Beachn4fun and SouthernHawk, and thank you to those that I didn't get a chance to reply to last night, I was sleeping.
I am going to do an unusual humor attempt this morning. If any of you guys remember from yesterday, Tex was being a pain, and he was putting out brush fires using cats, BBQing cats, he made a cat cookbook, cat goulash, and there was probably more, I just don't remember. And The Mayor was his accomplice, though he denies it. So I threatened to call PETA and told Tex I'd call 'em today. So for my humor attempt, I am going to post a copy of my PETA phone call:
Me:Helllo? Is this the PETA people
PETA: Yes, who is this?
Me: Minor49er. I'd like to report two people who are being mean to animals.
PETA: Oh really! This will be an accomplishment for both of us. What are there names?
Me: Well, one goes by the name of Texas Cowboy, and the other goes by the name The Mayor.
PETA: And where can we find these people?
Me: At the USO Canteen.
PETA: And where is that?
Me: I don't lnow. Somewhere, I guess.
PETA: Very well, we will be there shortly.
Me: Alright, see you there.
end of phone call.
Not the worlds greatest phone conversation, but it achieved it's purpose.
79 posted on
08/27/2003 6:36:04 AM PDT by
minor49er
(Any dream with a cat in it, is a sweet dream.)
To: Radix
Reference MLKJr's speech:
"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."
The SCOTUS has blocked that part of the "dream". Color counts particularly if you're trying for admission to college!
Oh, well! Hope everyone has had their fill of pancakes today. (I have this yen for .....(dare I say it) Waffles!
81 posted on
08/27/2003 6:39:10 AM PDT by
texson66
("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
To: Radix
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 27:
1770 Georg Wilhelm F Hegel German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
1809 Hannibal Hamlin (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
1865 Charles Gates Dawes (R) 30th VP (1925-29, Nobel 1925)
1871 Theodore Dreiser US, novelist (Sister Carrie, American Tragedy)
1882 Samuel Goldwyn pioneer film maker/producer (MGM)
1886 Eric Coates Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, composer
1894 Charles Meredith Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort)
1899 C.S. Forester Engl, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower
1905 Frederick O'Neal Brooksville Miss, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
1908 Frank Leahy O'Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)
1908 Lyndon B Johnson (D) 36th Pres (1963-1969)
1908 Martha Raye [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)
1910 Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia (Nobel 1979)
1915 Walter W Heller economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
1927 Liselott Linsenhoff German FR, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1972)
1929 Elizabeta Bagrintseve USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
1929 Ira Levin author (Rosemary's Baby, Sleuth, This Perfect Day)
1932 Antonia Fraser biographer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1937 Tommy Sands singer/actor (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me)
1941 Yuri V Malyshev cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
1942 Daryl Dragon Pasadena Calif, keyboardist (Capt & Tennille)
1943 Susan "Tuesday" Weld NYC, actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country)
1949 Barbara Bach [Goldbach], Queens NY, actress (Spy Who Loved Me)
1950 Charles Fleischer Wash DC, comedian (Roger Rabbit)
1950 Cynthia Potter US, springboard diver (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1952 Pee-wee Herman aka Paul Reubens, actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
1954 John Lloyd tennis player (former husband of Chris Everet)
1955 Diana Scarwid actress (Extremities, Psycho 3, Strange Invaders, Heat)
1959 Gerhard Berger formula-1 racer (Italian Grand Prix-1988)
1961 "Downtown" Julie Brown TV host (Club MTV, Inside Edition)
1963 Patty Duffek Woodland Hills Calif, playmate (May, 1984)
Deaths which occurred on August 27:
1576 Titan Italian artist, dies
1635 Lope Felix de Vega dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
1840 William Kneass 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
1879 Sir Rowland Hill introduced postage stamps, dies at 84
1958 Dr Ernest O Lawrence inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57
1963 W E B Du Bois scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
1964 Gracie Allen (Burns and Allen)
1967 Brian Epstein Beatles' manager, dies
1971 Bennett Cerf (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
1975 Haile Selassie depossed Ethiopian emperor, dies at 83
1977 Steve Dunne actor (Professional Father), dies at 59
1978 Robert Shaw actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies at 51
1979 Earl Mountbatten British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
1979 Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson, murdered at 14
1980 Sam Levenson humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
1981 Joan Edwards singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62
1984 Billy Sands actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 COKER GEORGE T. LINDEN NJ.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1966 FELLOWES JOHN H. VIRGINIA BEACH VA.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 BACIK VLADIMIR HENRY HOUSTON TX.
1967 BOGGS PASCHAL GLENN EAST POINT GA.
1968 PICK DONALD WILLIAM RICHLAND WA.
1970 ROGERS LYLE D.
1972 EVERETT DAVID A. BRUNSWICK GA.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1972 TRIEBEL THEODORE VIENNA VA.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
26 -BC- Origin of Egyptian Era
413 B.C. Eclipse of the moon causes panic on Athens fleet.
1665 "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play performed in N America (Acomac, Va)
1172, Marguerite, wife of Henry Plantagenet, "the Young King," crowned Queen of England
1626 The Danes are crushed by the Catholic League in Germany, marking the end of Danish intervention in European wars.
1667 Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
1776 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1789 French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of the Rights of Man & the Citizen"
1793 Maximilien Robespierre is elected to the Committee of Public Safety in Paris, France.
1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
1862 Stonewall Jackson captures and plunders Union supply depot at Manassas Junction, Virginia
1883 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
1894 Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which contained a provision for a graduated income tax that was later struck down by the Supreme Court.
1900 U.S. Army physician James Carroll, Havana, Cuba, allowed an infected mosquito to feed on him in an attempt to isolate the means of transmission of yellow fever. Days later, Carroll developed a severe case of yellow fever, helping his colleague, Army Walter Reed, prove that mosquitoes can transmit the sometimes deadly disease.
1896 Zanzibar loses to England in a 38 minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1911 Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan
1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1918 Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
1927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1928 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1937 Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
1937 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
1938 Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
1939 Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1939 Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor
1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1945 B-29 Superfortress bombers begin to drop supplies into Allied prisoner of war camps in China.
1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1961 Francis the Talking Mule is the mystery guest on "What's My Line"
1962 Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1966 Francis Chichester begins the 1st solo sail around the world
1966 Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
1972 - US bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
1974 NY Met Benny Ayala hits a home run in his 1st at bat
1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1977 Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
1978 Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
1978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard the Andrea Doria
1982 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
1982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1984 President Reagan announces the Teacher in Space project
1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1990 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990 WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
1996, California Gov. Pete Wilson signed an executive order aimed at halting state benefits to illegal immigrants.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
England, Channel Is, Northern Ireland, Wales : Bank Holiday ( Monday )
Gibralter : Late Summer Bank Holiday
Hong Kong : Liberation Day (1945) ( Monday )
Be Kind to Humankind Week (Day 4)/Willing to Lend a Hand Wednesday
Religious Observances
RC : Memorial of St Monica, mother of St Augustine of Hippo
Old RC : Feast of St Joseph Calasanctius, confessor
Religious History
1660 Following England's Restoration, books by poet John Milton were ordered burned because of his attacks on the monarchy. Milton had advocated an elder-ruled (presbyterian) church government over that of bishop-ruled (episcopal).
1830 English churchman John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote in a letter: 'It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that He looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.'
1865 Rhenish missionary Ludwig I. Nommensen, 31, baptized four families of the Batak tribe in North Sumatra (Indonesia) the first to be converted to the Christian faith. Nommensen later established a theological training school and in 1878 completed a translation of the New Testament into the Batak language.
1876 At age 13, future English clergyman G. Campbell Morgan preached his first sermon. He later grew to become one of the most famous expository preachers and writers of late 19th century England and America.
1877 Birth of Lloyd C. Douglas, American Lutheran clergyman and religious novelist. Douglas published his first best-seller, "Magnificent Obsession," in 1929, followed later by "The Robe" (1942) and "The Big Fisherman" (1948).
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Youth isn't a time of life but a state of mind."
'You Might Be A Redneck If'...
"You've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom."
Murphys Law of the day...
Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
Cliff Clavin says, It's a little known fact that...
In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.
105 posted on
08/27/2003 7:38:52 AM PDT by
Valin
(America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.)
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