USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 15 October 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday October 15, 2003

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Here is an amalgamation of trivial facts and seemingly useless data.

Do not forget to hit the hyperlinks.

We have links, lots of them.

SISYPHEAN

Of or relating to an endless and ineffective task.

This one comes straight out of Greek myth. Sisyphus was a king of Corinth, a son of Aeolus (the ruler of the winds, hence our word aeolian for something produced by or borne on the wind). In later legend he was the father of Odysseus or Ulysses. His name actually meant “crafty” in Greek: he was noted for his deception and he’s the equivalent in Greek folklore of the master trickster who turns up in many folk beliefs, such as Coyote in American Indian mythology. He even managed to cheat Death the first time around, surviving the experience to live to a ripe old age. In Greek legend Sisyphus was punished in Hades for his misdeeds in life by being condemned eternally to roll a heavy stone up a hill. As he neared the top, the stone rolled down again, so that his labour was everlasting and futile. The word first appeared in English in the middle of the seventeenth century. It isn’t used much these days because so few people understand the reference to classical literature.

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Happy Birthday

Virgil 70 B.C.

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate,
  And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
  Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.
  Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore,

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Happy Birthday

Friedrich Nietzsche 1844

Thus Spake Zarathustra.

2001 a Space Odyssey.

more.

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Happy Birthday

Mario Puzo 1920

Godfather.

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the
on-line pumpkin carving site

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Happy Birthday

Lee Iacocca 1924.

I am an excellent driver.

Lee Iacocca's next venture into electric vehicles, the Lido NEV, offers both style and function in a proven platform.

 

 

 

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Proglottids

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Happy Birthday

Jim Palmer 1945

We are counting cards.

3-time Cy Young Award winner (1973,75-76); won 20 or more games 8 times with Baltimore; 1991 comeback attempt at age 45 scrubbed in spring training.

Ball Four.

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Would you like a Halloween Screensaver with your pancakes?

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On this day:

1968 - Led Zeppelin made its performance debut in England.

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1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.

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1917 - Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad. Hari was a Dutch dancer that had spied for the Germans.

The very name of Mata Hari has become synonymous with spying, espionage, intrigue, and sensuality.

 

Excuse me, but her top reminds me of pancakes!

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Sin, cosin, every where a sin.

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1998 - James Woods received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

One of Hollywood's most intense supporting and leading actors, James Woods has built a distinguished career on stage, screen, and television. Early in his career, Woods, with his lean body, close-set eyes, and narrow, acne-scarred face, specialized in playing sociopaths, psychopaths, and other crazed villains.

I honestly admire you James Woods.

"It's just a bunch of old shit - all these guys pretending to be a radish."

Just in case you missed it, the James Woods quote site is here below linked.

http://www.hillebrander.de/woods/quotes.htm

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"How's business?"

[Hondo1952]

Thank You Thank You Thank You.

Having been that young soldier sitting there long ago and far away thank you from the bottom of my heart for caring about him. Hopefully he will be able to join us here and let everyone else know that we are thinking about them and praying for them and their families.

I'm trying to learn this html stuff is it working??

[beachn4fun]

Hey tom, you can always get your blue-thong guy to come out occassionally and entertain Long Cut's guyz/girlz. You know, help boost morale! I'm sure some of them will really enjoy it. Yeah! Right!

[Hondo1952]

Sorry I didn't answer you earlier.
I had to go look at a house. I loved going down to LL Bean. They opened an outlet store while I was there and it was great. Good stuff, real cheap. When you get back home to Brunswick make a trip down to Kittery and go to the Kittery Trading Post. It's an outdoor store much like the Bean store without the fish.

[beachn4fun]

Well I am happy to know you are keeping busy!

[Kathy in Alaska]

A ten-man working party loads crates with care packages, Girl Scout cookies and other donations aboard USS Wasp, Oct. 5, 2003.U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Teresa Ellison

Volunteers Say Thank You With Care Packages

By U.S. Navy Journalist 2nd Class Mark Schultz / USS Wasp

NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 14, 2003 (NNS) — The crew of the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Wasp and Marines aboard with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit now have something to look forward to while away from home.

A Reston, Va., YMCA volunteer group donated more than 300 care packages to Wasp crew members Oct. 5, in appreciation of their service to America.

Constance Killion, a retired Navy commander, heads up the volunteer organization that collects supplies included in care packages that are distributed throughout the world to deployed sailors, Marines, soldiers and airmen.

“You can put away the uniform and frame your retirement letter, but your heart never leaves,” said Killion. “I do this because people want to let military members know they appreciate their service. They don’t know who you [service members] are or how to say thank you. This is one way.”

"This volunteer group started after Sept. 11, and Wasp was the first ship to get a delivery of these care packages,” said Cmdr. George Adams, command chaplain, of Ft. Walton Beach, Fla. “Constance was able to get donations here and there, but as news of the effort spread, contributions started coming from many different organizations.”

The rest of the story

[tomkow6]

[beachn4fun]

That was wonderful! You be sure to let me know if and when he shows up. Gorgeous George would like to give him an official welcome! And, I might just have a nice, wet kiss waiting for him too!

[Soaring Feather]

I'm trying to learn this html stuff is it working??

You're doing just fine!!
Thank you for your service to our nation.

[Soaring Feather]

Hi Tomkow!!!


How be ya today???? Love the little hamsters!! LOL

[tomkow6]

Just for you,  Beachy!

[Soaring Feather]

Will do beachn!!

I was so honored to meet him. :-)

[Soaring Feather]

You cut that out Tom!!!

Sheeeeeeesh, man that is ugly!!

[tomkow6]

[tomkow6]

 Little Blonde FReeper !!

Q: If a blonde and a brunette are tossed off a building, who hits the ground first?
A: The brunette. The blonde has to stop to ask for directions.

[LifeIzGood]

Wazzamadder?

I feel like I'm a-headin' for trouble here... ummmmm, maybe I should just take in on the chinnie chin chin... huh? Oth, I could just brush it off... but then you might not cut me 'nuf slack so I'll just have to whisk away...

I know, I know... < groan >

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

BTW,folks I just finished installing four new critical updates for my WIndows XP computer. Be sure to get these updates if you have XP on your computer

[tomkow6]

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