USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Roman Gladiators ~ October 21, 2003

You too, MoJo(HUGS). We're forecast to hit the lower 90's today here in SW Ok.

Hey You!

Yeah! You!

I realize that you must be thinking that you'd love to write to the troops, but you don't really know how to do it.
(Amazing that links such as the above are provided with easy clicking on features. It's modern technology made lazy for you!)

If you are bored or looking for something to do, write the Troops. Mr.Tonkin doesn't post the link for our military to write to themselves, but for people like you reading this message and the thread.

Just think about it. It only takes a few minutes. (If that!) And it could bring a smile to the face of one of our brave heroes. Just like you sometimes have a bad day. They may as well. Wouldn't it be nice to just open a friendly email from home saying "Thank You" or "I'm Thinking About You" or something. It definitely makes you feel better and it will have the intended effect on our troops.

Of course someone else does it. Yet, not enough people do it. As a matter of fact, I'm wasting time writing this to you. I could be writing one of them now, but I couldn't allow you to be a keyboard slacker without mentioning it.

Anyone can be a "zero", but very few can be a "hero". Why not be one today for our own brave heroes!!

That's not Mr.Goat! What did you do with Mr.Goat??? Huh?? This is a national crisis. You better find him now!! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now!

(Thus begins the saga to search for Mr.Goat. Tune in later today to find out whether or not Mr. Goat is alive or whether it's a deep conspiracy to hide the truth. Next time on Mr.Goat's Files!)

Oh please!! Send me some heat! I think it's going to be in the 50s today. Which is totally cold for me at the moment. Maybe I'm catching my little one's cold. Yucky!

Oh Thanks for the pancakes, but where's the bacon and the rest of the stuff I asked for. Also, where's Mr.Goat?

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on October 21:
1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge England, poet (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
1790 Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine Macon France, writer (Ren‚)
1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes
1908 Alexander Schneider Vilna (Lithuania) Russia, violinist (Budapest String Quartet)
1912 Sir Georg Solti Budapest Hungary, conductor (Fidelio)
1914 Martin Gardner Scientific American math & puzzles columnist
1917 Dizzy Gillespie trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
1921 Malcolm Arnold Northampton Engld, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
1925 Joyce Randolph Detroit Mich, actress (Trixie-Honeymooners)
1926 Leonard Rossiter Liverpool England, actor (Britannia Hospital)
1928 Edward "Whitey" Ford hall of fame pitcher (NY Yankees)
1929 Ursula LeGuin American writer (Lathe of Heaven)
1933 Georgia Brown actress (Study in Terror, The Fixer)
1940 Frances FitzGerald NYC, journalist/author (Fire in the Lake)
1940 Manfred Mann rocker (The Mighty Quinn)
1940 Osamu Watanabe Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1942 Elvin Bishop Okla, rocker (Fooled Around & Fell in Love)
1943 Paula Kelly Jacksonville Fla, dancer/actress (Liz-Night Court)
1945 Kathy Young rocker (Thousand Stars in the Sky)
1950 Ronald E McNair Lake City SC, astr (STS 41B, 51L-Challenger disaster)
1953 Charlotte Caffey singer (GoGos-Our Lips are Sealed)
1956 Carrie Fisher Beverly Hills, actress (Star Wars-Princess Lelia)
1959 George Bell Dom Rep, outfielder (Blue Jays, 1987 AL MVP)
1971 Jade Jagger daughter of Mick Jagger
1976 Jeremy Miller West Covina Calif, actor (Ben-Growing Pains)

Deaths which occurred on October 21:
1422 Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54
1805 Adm Horatio Nelson dies in the Battle of Trafalgar
1831 Nat Turner 19 associates, hung
1966 Gertrude Hoffman actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95
1967 Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94
1984 Francois Truffaut director, dies at 52 of brain cancer
1987 Ying-Chin Ho Taiwan govt official, dies at 88
1992 Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes
1992 Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate JFK assassination), dies at 70
1992 Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies at 94
1995 Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 EARLL DAVID J.---DALLAS TX.
[NO PARA OBS NO BEEP]
1967 HEMMEL CLARENCE J.---JEFFERSON CITY MO.
1968 FINLEY DICKIE W.---SWEET SPRINGS MO.
1968 KNABB KENNETH K.---WHEATON IL.
1969 COOK GLENN R.---CHARLOTTE NC.
1969 ESPENSHIELD JOHN L.---DELAWARE OH.
[REMAINS RETURNED 05/89]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
2137 -BC- 1st recorded total eclipse of the sun China
0310 St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0335 Constantinople emperor Constantine the Great Rules --laws against Jews
686 Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1096 Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders
1520 Magellan entered the strait which bears his name
1529 The Pope names Henry VIII of England Defender of the Faith after defending the seven sacraments against Luther
1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats his enemies in battle and affirms his position as Japan's most powerful warlord.
1797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet & dies
1861 Battle of Balls Bluff, Va
1867 Many leaders of the Kiowa, Comanche and Kiowa-Apache sign a peace treaty at Medicine Lodge, Kan. Comanche Chief Quanah Parker refused to accept the treaty terms.
1868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif
1869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
1871 1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)
1879 Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated
1905 England Pilgrim Assn beats All NY 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds
1915 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
1917 1st Americans to see action on the front lines of WW I
1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
1923 Deutsches Museum, Mnchen, 1st Walther Bauersfeld Zeiss Planetarium
1935 Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously
1944 During WWII, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
1945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC)
1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet
1950 Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns
1959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
1960 JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
1966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfs a school in S Wales
1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon
1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
1970 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
1971 Nixon nominates Lewis F Powell & William H Rehnquist to US Supreme Court, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
1973 A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in 70th World Series
1974 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
1975 Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
1975 Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS
1975 Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1976 Cin Reds sweep NY Yankees, in 73rd World Series
1976 NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
1977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
1979 Greta Waitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33)
1980 1st (& only) time Phillies win the World Series (in 98 years) (World Series #77)
1984 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05
1987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination
1988 Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid
1988 Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
1989 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake
1989 Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
1989 1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
1991 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif
1991 US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
1993 Military coup by Burundi Pres Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee
1997 Elton John's tribute to Diana breaks world record, 318 million dist(Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.)

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

England : Trafalgar Day (1805)
Hondurous : Army Day (1956)
Hong Kong : Kite Flying Festival
Laos : Full Moon Holiday
Somali/Sudan : Revolution Day (1964)
Alaska : Alaska Day (1867) (Monday)
US : National Day of Prayer (Wednesday)
National Business Women's Week (Day 2)
National Shampoo Week (Day 3)
Gourmet Coffee Week Ends :-(
National Clock Month
Spinal Health Month
National Sarcastics' Awareness Month

Religious Observances
RC : Commemoration of St Hilarion, abbot, ascetic, lover of solitude
RC : Commemoration of St Ursula, virgin, patron of brides

Religious History
1532 German reformer Martin Luther declared: 'For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.'
1692 William Penn was deposed as Governor of Pennsylvania. His overtures of gratefulness to James II for permitting religious freedom for dissenters of the Church of England led William and Mary to charge Penn with being a papist.
1751 The first Baptist association in the American South was organized at Charleston, SC. It was formed under the initiative of Oliver Hart, who had left the Philadelphia area to become pastor of the Charleston Baptist Church in 1749.
1808 Birth of American Baptist clergyman Samuel Francis Smith. Credited with writing over 100 hymns, Smith is best remembered as the author of "America" ("My Country, 'Tis of Thee"), written at age 23, while a student at Andover Seminary.
1892 Birth of James L Kelso, American Presbyterian archaeologist. He participated in digs at the biblical sites of Debir, Bethel and Jericho, and authored the text "Ceramic Vocabulary of the O.T."

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

You might be out of touch with reality if...
you talk for ten minutes to the answering machine and wonder why no one is talking back.

Murphys Law of the day...
If anything simply cannot go wrong...It will anyway!

Amazing fact #s 78,025/78,026...
Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age 31 by sticking her head in an oven.
Sylvia Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, was married three times, and two of the women he married committed suicide.

1995 Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79

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Your guess is as good as mine as to which one Maxene is. Hmmm.....

Hey!
Didn't you post this same post last year on Oct 21st ?

Nice try!! Where's Mr.Goat?????????????????

Did you feel the love?? Well, of course you didn't.

FIND MR.GOAT!!

what?

"Where's Mr.Goat?????????????????"

On covert operations somewhere on the Oregon Coast

On covert operations somewhere on the Oregon Coast

In other words, YOU TRADED HIM AGAIN!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

1971 Jade Jagger daughter of Mick Jagger

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Mick Jagger with daughter, Jade.
Photo is from here.

"In other words, YOU TRADED HIM AGAIN!!"

Nope! He's checking on wacko eco terrorists

1997 Elton John's tribute to Diana breaks world record, 318 million distributed.

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Princess Diana
Photo is from here.

Well, why didn't you say so.

Please post the correct picture of Mr.Goat when he comes home. Hehehe!

Thank you for posting the history!! Have a fabulous day!! *HUGS*

And everyone says you're dumber than a post! Well don't you believe them, IMO you are the intellectual equal of any post I've ever seen...and smarter than a good 30% of them.

Don't worry I'll stick up for you.