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

[Kathy in Alaska]

U.S. Army Maj Kevin Whitney from 64th Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, evaluates a young Iraqi girl who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, Oct .11, 2003 in the town of Abu Hassan near Balad, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. John Marlow

A U.S. soldier from the 10th Mountain Forward Support Battalion can't help but smile as he uses a stethoscope to listen to a child's breathing., Oct. 7, 2003. U.S. and Romanian troops from Kandahar Army Airfield in Afghanistan conducted a combined medical assistance exercise mission in the province of Ruhabad to provide the medical assistance to the village residents. U. S. Army p hoto by Pfc. Hugo A. Baray-Vasquez

[Kathy in Alaska]

Young girls from the village of Najoy in Afghanistan wait in line to be seen by medics. U.S. and Romanian troops from Kandahar Army Airfield Afghanistan visited the village to provide the villagers with medical care and distribute food supplies, Oct. 6, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gul A. Alisan

U.S. Army Staff Sgt.Timothy McGuffie checks a young girl for an ear infection in the village of Anguran, Afghanistan, Oct. 9, 2003, as part of a combined medical assistance exercise. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Hugo A. Baray-Vasquez

[Kathy in Alaska]

Children from the village of Anguran, Afghanistan, greet U.S. Army Sgt. Christine Smith from the 407th Civil Affairs Battalion, Oct. 6, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gul A. Alisan

U.S. Army Spc. David Gonzales with 321st Civil Affairs Battalion vaccinates a goat during a combined medical assistance visit to Loy Karezak, Afghanistan, Oct. 8, 2003. U.S. Army photo by: Spc. Gul A. Alisan

[Kathy in Alaska]

ARABIAN GULF, Sept. 3 -- Chief Machinery Technician Chuck Bratcher, of Big Fork, Mont., assists with the vibration signature analysis in the engine room of Coast Guard Cutter Wrangell, underway in the Arabian Gulf, Sept. 3, 2003. The analysis is used to check the overall condition of the main diesel engines by mapping the vibrations at various segments. The analysis will be completed aboard all four 110-foot patrol boats assigned to U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Forces Southwest Asia, deployed to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. USCG photo by PA3 Kyle Niemi

[tomkow6]

THEY started it MA!

Holler at THEM!

[Kathy in Alaska]

DID YOU REMEMBER TO EAT??Pushover!?

How are all the kitties getting along, and the goat upon his return?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Soaring Feather]

A U.S. soldier from the 10th Mountain Forward Support Battalion !!!!!!!!

[Soaring Feather]

THEY started it MA!
Holler at THEM!
We did not start this fight, Tom, you did!!!!

Hey Tom, you want war??

[Old Sarge]

Glad to see you're doing your part in the morale support effort!

All too well do I remember that despicable "welfare" thread. PLEASE keep the word going over there.

I also rerad your earlier report about your exploits in the Med. You're all too right about the President's quote: "This war will be secret, even in success."

Check Six, LC...

[SevenofNine]

Well Aussie Age wire report that North Korea DO HO ERR I mean Kim Jong II freakking out that he might end up like Romania bad boy Nicholas Casuuaua

YEAH GEE WONDER WHY KIMMMY HELLO you starving people to death

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

From the men in the Military and the Canteen

[Radix]

 

 

Spc. Jesse Chamberlain, 21, from Washington, Ill., with 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), searches people leaving the Nabi Younis market in Mosul, Iraq, on Monday during a mission to clear the place of weapons.

 

The newest "Halloween dummy" which decorates the display in front of headquarters has facinated a number of the local citizens, who were until recently ignorant of the significance of 31 October to Americans. 

 

 

 

Pfc. Frederick Higgins, 36, from Cleveland, keeps his guard up during a mission to clear the Nabi Younis market of weapons Monday.

 

The recently held car wash for raising funds for Iraqi orphans was a big hit with the locals.

 

 

 

Members of 401 Military Police Battalion, wearing riot gear, teach crowd control techniques Wednesday at their base in Tikrit, Iraq.

 

Senior Officers in the military have determined that the new modified "shower curtain shields"  testing was not likely to result in the Army's  adopting of the radical, new, controversial technology.

 

 

 

 

Members of the 401st MP Battalion train on crowd control techniques Wednesday in Tikrit.

 

 

 

Visitors tour the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Monday. The museum reopened after being closed to the public because of heightened security following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

 

( U-238 is also called uranium I )

 

• Atomic Mass: 238.0507826 +- 0.0000021 amu
• Excess Mass: 47303.664 +- 1.980 keV
• Binding Energy: 1801694.651 +- 2.006 keV
• Beta Decay Energy: B- -147.065 +- 1.145 keV
  

 

 

 

Boatswain’s mates from Deck Department’s 3rd Division heave in mooring lines Monday during aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk’s departure for sea trials.

 

The new Navy "magical troupe" has been very popular on their tour, and the rope tricks seem to be a particular favorite of audiences everywhere.

 

 

 

Pararescuemen and aircrew members from the 101st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron at Baghdad International Airport prepare an HH-60 Pave Hawk for lift off in response to the bombing of the Baghdad Hotel on Sunday. The airmen are deployed from the New York Air National Guard.

 

For failure to say "mother may I," the  crew was ordered to return to home base and start all over.

 

 

 

Nieves Alvarado hugs her son, Jorge Alvarado, as he arrives at his south Minneapolis home Saturday from Iraq, where he was wounded in action.

 

 

 

Members of the Alaska Army National Guard at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage prepare to load one of eight UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters aboard an Air Force C-5B Galaxy transport plane Tuesday for shipment to Fort Stewart, Ga. Approximately 70 troops and officers from 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment are headed for a one year deployment to Kosovo to conduct peacekeeping and humanitarian support.

 

 

 

Alaska Army National Guardsmen load a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter aboard a C-5B Galaxy transport jet Tuesday.

 

 

 

An Iraqi watches soldiers in a tank manning a roadblock Wednesday in Baghdad.

 

 

Bank employees count old Iraqi dinar featuring the face of Saddam Hussein before exchanging it for the newly printed bills with the same value in Mosul today, the first day the new bills were made available.

 

 

 

Sgt. Anthony Wright, 21, from Baltimore, with 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) watches Iraqis examine new bills as they wait in line to exchange old Iraqi dinar for the newly printed bills with the same value. Each bank has roughly 4.9 billion dinars to exchange during the 90-day window.

 

 

 

Staff Sgt. Larry “Shawn” Campbell, 24, from Tuscaloosa, Ala., with 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), watches for threats outside a bank while employees inside count old Iraqi dinar before exchanging it for the newly printed bills.

 

An inside the park Home Run by Nomar, a passed ball moves Manny to third, and an error scores a run.

 

The Red Sox 6 Yankees 6.

 

Folks, we have a ball game here, and it is only the 7th Inning!

 

All of this, and just, and just .....

 

Just another day at the office for our Troops.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Beth! I'm way behind, but finally getting to you. Hope your day has gone well. I'm trying to fall asleep at my desk. LOL!

Hi Connor!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Rob Curtis / Military Times staff

Spc. Jesse Chamberlain, 21, from Washington, Ill., with 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), searches people leaving the Nabi Younis market in Mosul, Iraq, on Monday during a mission to clear the place of weapons.

Rob Curtis / Military Times staff

Pfc. Frederick Higgins, 36, from Cleveland, keeps his guard up during a mission to clear the Nabi Younis market of weapons Monday.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Karel Prinsloo / AP photo

Members of 401 Military Police Battalion, wearing riot gear, teach crowd control techniques Wednesday at their base in Tikrit, Iraq.

Karel Prinsloo / AP photo

Members of the 401st MP Battalion train on crowd control techniques Wednesday in Tikrit.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hi Hondo. If it gets too bad, I just send the Kids here.