USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ CANTEEN MUSIC DEDICATION ~ October 25 2003

MoJo2001, Bethbg79, Kathy in Alaska , Fawnn and FRiends of the Canteen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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WELCOME TO THE MUSIC DEDICATION!
We are here to provide music and entertainment for our troops, their families, and friends. If we appear to be having fun as well, then you are half way to understanding the concept of this music dedication. Below you will find a variety of music. Some you may like. Others you may not. DJ Tonkin and Ma return after a long stint in the Looney Bin for Deejays. Their selections are directly below. It is highly unlikely you will find anything offensive in their sections. Please keep in mind that we consider this to be a warning to anyone that clicks anywhere on this music thread and finds something offensive. We will let you know. If you choose to click on it and then become offended, we will simply direct you to this reminder. You can mouse over to any music played by other Deejays to find out whether it is appropriate for you. Thank you!

 

 

 

Contains some highly offensive lyrics! Please mouse over to check if it is appropriate!

 

 

 

 

 

The Canteen Deejays would like to thank our special graphics designer Auntie Fawnn for her hard work and dedication. She makes the threads look fabulous. If you have any requests, please email us at requests4me@hotmail.com , FReepmail us, or contact mojo@mojo2001.com . Drop us a line let us know if you have any suggestions. We'd love to hear from you.

 

 

   

	Just A Thought As much as I'd like to believe that I'm as hip as Beth and MoJo, I'm not. So? If you look over the Current Music (MoJo's section) and Beth's Music Mix and you find that this isn't your style of music, please go to the music below. The kids don't want to offend anyone and begged me to tell all of you. So? For the sake of your eardrums and mine, please don't complain if you listen to music that is not intended for the "distinguished" members of our society. That would be all of you in my generation. (MoJo and Beth would consider us "old", but we all know better.)---DJ Ma                   Please send any requests to texasbg@texasbg.com Thank you for listening! Enjoy your Saturday!!     Check back for more music from Bethy next week.

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

How soon will she need a fur coat? Is winter in sight yet?

[Kathy in Alaska]

How soon will she need a fur coat? Is winter in sight yet?

[Kathy in Alaska]

I did NOT push Post twice. The gremlins did it!

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Kathy(HUGS)

And a very pleasant good morning to everyone here at the Freeper Canteen and to all of our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your continued service to our country.

Be sure to set your clocks back an hour tonight as it is a big sleep night for most of the country. We get an extra hour sleep. WOOHOO!!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[Fawnn]

Verily I say unto thee, checketh thy e-maileth. ;)

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Tonk.

[Fawnn]

I could hang around to see who gets #50 -or- I could just say:


Oh, what a beautiful morning!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Checkethed! Pong!

[Fawnn]

Kathy in Alaska (almost got) #50!!!

(Hindsight: The "wreaths" should be in italics, too. But it's the thought that counts, right?) ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

WTG, Fawnn. #50!!

[Fawnn]

Thanks! (I'm not obsessive or anything, but the blue roses and daisies wreaths are NOW somewhat in italics.) ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Saturday morning, E! ((HUGS)) My laptop is still at the doctors, but the tech has already manually downloaded and updated the AntiVirus definitions, but Norton is still fighting with Windows2000. Rained off and on most of today. Toasty where you are?

[E.G.C.]

Well, we just had a cold front move through. lower 40's forecast here for the big sleep night tonight.

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS New Jersey (BB-16)

Virginia class battleship
displacement. 14,948 t.
length. 441'3"
beam. 76'3"
draft. 23'9"
speed. 19 k.
complement. 812
armament. 4 12",:8 8", 12 6", 4 21" tt.

The USS New Jersey (BB-16) was launched 10 November 1904 by Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Mass.; sponsored by Mrs. William B. Kenney, daughter of Governor Franklin B. Murphy of New Jersey; and commissioned 12 May 1906, Captain William W. Kimball in command.

New Jersey's initial training in Atlantic and Caribbean waters was highlighted by her review by President Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay during September 1906, and by her presence at Havana, Cuba, from 21 September through 13 October to protect American lives and property threatened by the Cuban Insurrection. From 15 April to 14 May 1907, she lay in Hampton Roads representing the Navy at the Jamestown Exposition.

In company with fifteen other battleships and six attendant destroyers, New Jersey cleared Hampton Roads 16 December 1907, her rails manned and her guns crashing a 21-gun salute to President Roosevelt, who watched from Mayflower this beginning of the dramatic cruise of the Great White fleet. The international situation required a compelling exhibition of the strength of the United States; this round-the-world cruise was to provide one of the most remarkable illustrations of the ability of seapower to keep peace without warlike action. Not only was a threatened conflict with Japan averted but notice was served on the world that the United States had come of age, and was an international power which could make its influence felt in any part of the world. Commanded first by Rear Admiral Robley D. (Fighting Bob) Evans, and later by Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry, the fleet laid its course for Trinidad and Rio de Janeiro, then rounded Cape Horn. After calling in Punta Arenas; Valparaiso and Callao the battleships made a triumphant return to the United States at San Francisco. On 7 July 1908 the fleet sailed west, bound for Hawaii, Auckland, and three Australian ports; Sydney, Melbourne, and Albany. Each city seemed to offer a more enthusiastic reception for the American sailors and their powerful ships than had the last, but tension and rumor of possible incident made the arrival in Tokyo Bay 18 October unique among the cruise's calls.

Immediately it was clear that no special precautions had been necessary; nowhere during the cruise did the men of New Jersey and her sisters meet with more expression of friendship, both through elaborately planned entertainment and spontaneous demonstration. The President observed with satisfaction this accomplishment of his greatest hope for the cruise: "The most noteworthy incident of the cruise was the reception given to our fleet in Japan."

The Great White Fleet sailed on to Amoy, returned briefly to Yokohama, then held target practice in the Philippines before beginning the long homeward passage 1 December. The battleships passed through the Suez Canal 4 January 1909, called at Port Said, Naples and Villefranche, and left Gibraltar astern 6 February. In one of the last ceremonial acts of his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt reviewed the Great White Fleet as it went up to anchor in Hampton Roads 22 February.

Following her World cruise, New Jersey was modernized. She was painted grey and outfitted with the new "cage" masts. New Jersey carried out a normal pattern of drills and training in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean, carrying midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy in the summers of 1912 and 1913. With Mexican political turmoil threatening American interests, New Jersey was ordered to the Western Caribbean in the fall of 1913 to provide protection. On 21 April 1914, as part of the force commanded by rear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, following Mexican refusal to apologize for an insult to American naval forces at Tampico, sailors and marines landed at Vera Cruz and took possession of the city and its customs house until changes in the Mexican government made evacuation possible. New Jersey sailed from Vera Cruz 13 August, observed and reported on troubled conditions in Santo Domingo and Haiti, and reached Hampton Roads 9 October. Until the outbreak of World War I, she returned to her regular operation s along the east coast and in the Caribbean.

During World War I, New Jersey made a major contribution to the expansion of the wartime Navy, training gunners and seamen recruits in Chesapeake Bay. After the Armistice, she began the first of four voyages to France from which she had brought home 5,000 members of the AEF by 9 June 1919. New Jersey was decommissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard 6 August 1920, and was sunk off Cape Hatteras 5 September 1923 in Army bomb tests conducted by Brig. Gen. William Mitchell.

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Big Guns in Action!

[Fawnn]

This is unequal representation (so far), but I grabbed what female images I had on hand and created the wOOhOO crew:

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on October 25:
1360 Louis, founder of house of Anjou
1759 Baron Grenville (Whig) British PM (1806-07)
1800 Thomas Babington Macaulay England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby)
1825 Johann Strauss (the younger) composer (Waltz King)
1838 Georges Bizet France, composer (Carmen)
1843 Gleb Uspensky Russia, author (Power of the Soil)
1869 John Heisman pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
1877 Henry Norris Russell astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1881 Pablo Picasso Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica)
1884 Eduardo Barrios Chile, novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
1888 Richard E Byrd Virginia, admiral/polar explorer (1926)
1902 Henry Steele Commager Pitts Pa, historian (Atlas of the Civil War)
1909 Philleo Nash US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67)
1909 Whit Bissel NYC, actor (Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel)
1912 Jack Kent Cooke NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
1912 Minnie Pearl [Sarah Ophelia Colley] Tenn, (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw)
1914 John Berryman American poet (Friends & Associates)
1914 John Reed King Atlantic City NJ, TV host (Why?, Let's See)
1923 Bobby Thomson HR hitter (The Giants win the pennant)
1924 Billy Barty Millsboro Pa, 3'9" actor (Under the Rainbow, Foul Play)
1925 Yakov Rylskly USSR, sabre team (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926 Biff McGuire New Haven Ct, actor (Serpico, Heart is Lonely Hunter)
1926 Galina Vishnevskaya Russia, soprano (Madama Butterfly)
1927 Barbara Cook Atlanta Ga, stage singer/actress (Music Man)
1927 Franklin "Bud" Held javelin world champ (1949, 51, 53-55)
1928 Jeanne Cooper Minneapolis, actress (Kay-Young & Restless)
1928 Marion Ross Albert Lea Mn, actress (Marion-Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge)
1928 Anthony Franciosa NYC, actor (Long Hot Summer, Name of Game, Death Wish 3)
1931 Annie Girardot Paris France, actress (Gypsy, Jacko & Lise)
1935 Russell "Rusty" L Schweickart Neptune NJ, astronaut (Apollo 9)
1940 Bob Knight college basketball coach (Indiana, Olympic-gold-1984)
1941 Anne Tyler American writer (Accidental Tourist)
1941 Helen Reddy Melbourne Australia, singer (I Am Woman)
1944 Kathy "Taffy" Danoff Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
1948 Dave Cowens NBA forward (Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1949 Brian Kerwin Chicago Ill, actor (Chisholms, King Kong Lives, Lobo)
1950 John Matuszak Milwaukee Wisc, NFLer (Raiders)/actor (Hollywood Beat)
1951 Ransom Wilson Tuscaloosa Alabama, flutist (Soliste NY)
1958 Kornelia Ender German DR, 100m/200m freestyle (Olympic-gold-1976)
1960 Scott Anthony Haneline Indianapolis, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1960 Tom Eplin actor (Jake-Another World)
1963 Tracy Nelson Calif, actress (Glitter, Square Pegs, Father Dowling)
1965 Nick Thorpe rocker (Curiosity Killed the Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1967 Julia Roberts Smyma Georgia, actress (Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman)
1968 Lisa Trusel Cal, actress (Lizette-Father Murphy, Days of our Lives)

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Deaths which occurred on October 25:
1047 Magnus I Godhi, king of Norway/Denmark (1035-47), dies
1154 King Steven of England (1135-54), dies
1400 Geofrey Chaucer author, dies in London
1892 Caroline Harrison Pres Benjamin Harrison's wife, dies at 60
1957 Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, US gangster, dies while taking a shave in Manhattan hotel at 55
1959 Bob Murphy TV host (RFD America), dies at 42
1961 Peter(turn that damn thing down) Jensen co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at 75
1964 Belle Montrose actress (Mrs Harrison-The Hathaways), dies at 78
1973 Abebe Bikila Ethiopian marathoner (Oly-gold 1960, 64), dies at 46
1981 Ariel Durant, US author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83
1985 Morton Downey singer (Star of the Family), dies at 83
1986 Forrest Tucker actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail), dies at 67
1987 Cecil Brown news correspondant (CBS), dies at 80
1989 Mary McCarthy author (The Group), dies, at 77
1991 Bill Graham rock concert promoter (Filmore), dies at 60
1993 Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly), dies of lung cancer at 82

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 GREEN ROBERT B.---LAMPASAS TX.
1966 LEVAN ALVIN L.---CATAWISSA PA.
1967 HORINEK RAMON A.---ATWOOD .KS
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 KROMMENHOEK JEFFREY M.---SIOUX CITY IA.
1967 SMITH RICHARD EUGENE---MARKS MS.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 THOMPSON BENJAMIN A.---SARALAND AL.
["LOST IN RIVER, PROB DROWNED"]

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

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On this day...
625 Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1147 Battle at Doryleum: Arabs beat Konrad III's crusaders
1415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
1671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
1760 George III ascends the British throne
1764 John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)
1812 US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1825 The Erie Canal, America's first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
1854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
1870 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
1870 Postcards 1st used in US
1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) ends
1900 England annexes Transvaal
1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin
1915 Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia
1918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1924 1st appearance of Little Orphan Annie comic strip
1926 Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers
1929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe.(Teapot Dome scandal)
1930 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
1930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
1935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti
1944 Japanese navy defeated at battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 First kamikaze attack of the war begins
1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek
1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
1962 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)
1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
1963 Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden
1964 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in the wrong direction for a safety
1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
1968 Longest Oly field hockey game, Hol beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)
1968 Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby
1971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
1971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr
1973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship
1974 Wings release "Junior's Farm"
1975 USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
1976 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight
1976 Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape
1978 Israeli Cabinet approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace
1980 Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks
1983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)
1984 "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premiers (Gotham Theater-NYC)
1984 Rangers beat Devils 11-2
1985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
1986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
1986 Michael Sergio parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
1987 Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series
1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets
1990 Evander Hollyfield KOs James "Buster" Douglas for HW boxing title
1990 NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)

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

Taiwan : Restoration Day (1945)
Virgin Islands : Thanksgiving Day
US : Mother-in-Law's Day (Sunday)
New Zealand : Labour Day-last Monday in October (Monday)
US some states : Veterans Day (Monday)
US : Francis E Willard Day-temperance day (Friday)

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Religious Observances
Ang : Commemoration of St Crispin (Ang)
Christian : Feast of St Gaudentius, bishop of Brescia
Christ : Commemoration of SS Chrysanthus & Daria, martyrs (3rd cen)

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Religious History
1147 The armies of the Second Crusade (1147-49) were destroyed by the Saracens at Dorylaeum (in modern Turkey). The Crusaders went on with fruitless campaigns against Damascus, Syria.
1564 Birth of Hans Leo Hassler, sacred composer. The first notable German musician educated in Italy, Hassler left a rich musical legacy, including the hymn tune PASSION CHORALE, to which the Church now sings, "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."
1800 Birth of Jacque Paul Migne, French theological publisher. Establishing his own press in 1836, Migne published a voluminous collection of writings by the ancient Greek and Latin fathers (161 vols: "Patrologia Graecae"; 221 vols: "Patrologia Latinae") during his remaining 39 years.
1921 Franklin Small, 48, and a group of dissatisfied members of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, obtained a Dominion charter to establish the Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada. In 1953, this group merged with the Evangelical Churches of Pentecost, whose major congregations are located today in the Canadian prairie provinces.
1941 The first Youth For Christ rally was held at Bryant's Alliance Tabernacle in New York City. An international evangelical youth organization, YFC has no single founder, but rather emerged out of weekly rallies held for the youth of New York City during the 1930s.

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

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Thought for the day :
"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late."

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You Might Be A Wrestling Addict if...
you believe that "everything" about Chyna is real and natural.

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Murphys Law of the day...(McKenna's Law)
When you are right, be logical. When you are wrong, be-fuddle.

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Astounding fact #976,297,441...
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Saturday !

Have a cup while you FReep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

[tomkow6]

SALUTE!

 

 

[Soaring Feather]

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