USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 19 November 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix ...........With help from Linda as usual

[Radix]

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Thank the Veterans who served in
The United States Armed Forces.

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

Pancakes, the cornerstone, of a nutricious breakfast....

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday, November 19, 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.

MACHICOLATION

An opening between supports on a castle parapet for dropping missiles on an enemy.

When the world was younger, the principal defence against attackers was the castle, so effective before the age of gunnery that the only way to subdue it was to undermine its walls. To stop the enemy doing this, defenders evolved several techniques, one of which was to build out structures from the tops of the walls so that stones, boiling oil or other deterrents could be dropped on those below. At first these structures were of wood (called hoardings) but they were later reconstructed in stone, most commonly over the particularly vulnerable gatehouses but in some cases all along the walls. The word came from the Old French machicolor, a compound of Provençal macar, “crush”, and col, “neck”, a graphic description of the result of being bombarded with stones from on high while you were trying to dig.

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Happy Birthday

James Garfield 1831

"Four months after taking office he was wounded fatally by an assassin's bullet. His administration is remembered for a struggle over patronage, exposure of the Star Route frauds, and the beginnings of a friendlier policy toward Latin America..."

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the future.

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Happy Birthday

Indira Gandhi 1917

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In the February 4, 2002 issue of The Paducah Sun, Hack made headlines with his sweet new project: making maple syrup from the tree sap at Camp Bear Creek. In January, he and Hank Rogalinski, Site Manager for the camp, noticed sap dripping from a tree at the camp and decided that the syrup-making could be a learning tool for Girl Scouts. Local girls helped collect the sap, which was then boiled down over a fire for two days to make the syrup. And it takes A LOT of sap to make just a little syrup!  Out of 135 to 140 gallons of sap, they extracted 2½ gallons of syrup. Although it takes a lot of work and very little returns, these guys know how much the experience benefits girls, and that's what really counts! Good work, guys!

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We are counting cards.

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Alan Young 1919

Horse Sense.

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Happy Birthday

Larry King 1933

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Happy Birthday

Dick Cavett 1936

"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either."

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Happy Birthday

Ted Turner 1938

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Happy Birthday

Garrick Utley 1939

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Happy Birthday

Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) 1939

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Happy Birthday

Dan Haggerty 1941

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Happy Birthday

Calvin Klein 1942

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Happy Birthday

Meg Ryan 1961

Dear Bo, I love you but, Meg, is just a friend, after all

"I will have what she is having!"

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Happy Birthday

Jodie Foster 1962

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On this day:

1794 - The U.S. and Britain signed the Jay Treaty, which resolved the issues left over from the Revolutionary War.

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1863 - U.S. President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

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1959 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel.

I am an excellent driver.

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1966 - Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles Dodgers) announced his retirement from major League baseball.

We are counting strikeouts

Koufax earned a place among baseball's greatest pitchers with a dominating performance between 1962 and 1966.

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1979 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) signed a four-year contract for $4.5 million. At the time, Ryan was the highest paid player in major League baseball.

  We are counting no-hitters

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1990 - Milli Vanilli was stripped of their Grammy Award because other singers had lent their voices to the "Girl You Know It's True" album.

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1998 - The impeachment inquiry of U.S. President Clinton began.

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1998 - Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sold at auction for more than $71 million.

About a hundred dollars.

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2001 - U.S.  President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history.

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[MoJo2001]

Hi!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Duty ~ Honor ~ Country

Click above to visit "A Day in the Life of President Bush"

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are,God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

Bless This House

Bless this house O Lord we pray;
Make it safe by night and day;
Bless these walls so firm and stout,
Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall,
Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove
ever open to joy and love.


Bless these windows shining bright,
Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there,
with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within,
keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be
Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we
May dwell O Lord with thee.

(Click on praying hands above, or on banner at the top to hear the music)

[MoJo2001]

You need to find a wheelchair real soon Auntie Fawnn cause MoJo ain't happy with you sneaking in. LOL!

Maybe we can borrow Ma's walking cane for ya. LOL!

[MoJo2001]

The blessing is posted Kids!!

You can now officially have the most boring day known to man, but never fret kids! (Ma is leaving later tonight! Woohoo! We can have an early Camp Run A Muk in Ma's honor. LOL!)

[Fawnn]

Close enough! LOL


MoJo2001!!! #100 -1!!!

[MoJo2001]

Oh sure! That's like saying: Congratulations! You are STILL A LOSER! LOL!

I ain't got no love or feeling none. LOL!

[MoJo2001]

Woohoo! Auntie Fawnn got 100 by totally sneaking in and taking it.

Auntie Fawnn STRIKES AGAIN!

LOL!
 

[MoJo2001]

Hey Auntie Fawnn!

Did you get the Fonts?? I hope so!!

*HUGS*

[Fawnn]

Geez! Try to be nice! ;)

You said the "loser" part, I didn't! LOL!!! ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning Troops, families, veterans, Israeli, British, Australian, Polish, and Italian allies (and everybody else, and all the ships at sea). Thank you for taking such good care of the USA.

Today in Anchorage, Alaska:

Sunrise 9:14am
Sunset 4:13pm

Hi 30°F
Lo 23°F

Some sun

Actual yesterday in Anchorage:

Hi 10°F
Lo -1°F

State Hi 50°F Adak
State Lo -51°F Arctic Village

[Hondo1952]

Only the best could share our Goddesses Special Day.

1961 Meg Ryan Bethel CT, actress

1962 Jodie Foster Bronx NYC

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning/afternoon, Aeronaut and Otto, and thank you both for your dedication to the flyover of protection for our troops' Canteen, a place where we offer a "touch of home" for our troops, our veterans, their families, and our allies. Have a good day at work. Supposed to be warming up.

[MoJo2001]

What'cha doing today??

I hope you are having a fabulous day!!

*HUGS*

Are we chatting later??

:-)
LOL!
 

[Soaring Feather]

I heard it just fine Diva.

[MoJo2001]

Queenie,

I'm so sorry that they are tearing up The Palace.

What nerve! Don't they realize you are a QUEEN?

Did you not have Charles explain that to them??

I hope Mon Cherie meows at them to get it going!!

*HUGS*

[Fawnn]

They're all installed already! Went to bed sometime after 3 and woke up before 7, so I got to "work." ;)

Just finished fryin' up a mess o' smelt (sure ain't as good as catfish though!) and 'bout to commence checkin' the rest of 'em out. (Dang! I thinks I's pickin' up Hondo's accent.) I made this with one of 'em last night:



I guess it'd be appropriate for anybody ready for a nap already! LOL!!! ... I'm trying to figure out how to use the MoJo font; couldn't get it to show up okay for that one and I was too tired to tweak. ;)

[Soaring Feather]

Well I guess the idea is to make the palace more "Queenly."

hehehehe

[blackie]

Pancakes on Wednesday ~ Bump!

[blackie]

Coffee Time ~ Bump!