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

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

[Radix]

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday...
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]

Please click on the music!
The left album is Michael W. Smith.
He's a Christian singer. So? Just wanted to give you a heads up.


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THE FRIEND WHO STANDS BY

When troubles come your soul to try
You love the friend who just stands by.
Perhaps there's nothing he or she can do
The thing is strictly up to you.

For there are troubles all your own
And paths the soul must tread alone.
Times when love can't smooth the road
Nor friendship lift the heavey load.

But just to feel you have a friend
Who will stand by until the end.
Whose sympathy through all endures
Whose warm handclasp is always yours.

It helps somehow to pull you through
Although there's nothing he or she can do.
And so with fervent heart we cry.....
God Bless the friend who just stands by.

~ Author Unknown
(Posted by our Canteen Poet, Bentfeather!)

[beachn4fun]

I am on my way....

I thought it was better to take the yacht since it would be relaxing for Ms. Queen on the way to the island. Just relax Diva Queen I am on my way. p.s. catz are welcome on my ship.

[Hondo1952]

How Much Whatever it takes.

Us Waters boys are like that. If you feed us, scratch behind our ears and rub our bellies we ain't goin nowhere.

[Argh]

I'm just fine, Miss Feather! We must be in sync, I just pinged you to a sloppy memory of mine of Kingston.

[Hondo1952]

Thank you for your consideration. Never can get too many pills. Better living through chemistry.

The fabulously tanned MoJo looks spectacular no matter what you put her in.

[beachn4fun]

Ah.....my husband is 8 years younger than me! I am probaby close to your husband's age (old - actually as Linda say, mature!) as Fleetwood Mac was big in my day......

[Fawnn]

Add 20 for age difference between my late spouse and myself. (I may be the only one here whose spouse spoke with PATTON HIMSELF on Remagen Bridge! <-- Wonderful Patton moment, that one!) ... One of the best people to ever enter my life. Great sense of humor! Threatened to throw out the signed Christmas card we got from President Reagan because "he probably didn't sign it himself; I bet he made Nancy do it!" ;)

[Fawnn]

bentfeather!!! #200!!!

[Soaring Feather]

Oh darlin' my Ruby necklace. Thank you so much.

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, MoJo2001(HUGS)How's it going?

[MoJo2001]

I love 80s music! Woohoo!

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[MoJo2001]

It's going!! Doing grand!!

*HUGS*

[Hondo1952]

Soldiers of Life

No album cover. It's a local band. Enjoy.

[stand watie]

i like pancakes-may i suggest biscuits/gravy for another day???

the GOOD WORK to free dixie never ends.

free dixie,sw

[MoJo2001]

Thank you for sharing both of your loves with me.

The Sailor goes around telling people that he "rescued" me from a Marine whose name escapes me. (I still have his picture somewhere. Hehe!) Anyways, it wasn't like that at all. The guy was merely asking me a question about where I was from in Guam. Obviously, not all brown people are from Guam. (Yep! Some brown people are Polynesians from the mainland!! Woohoo!) So? I was looking for an out and The Sailor happened to walk by to tell me that my cousin wanted to speak to me. (None of my cousins were in Guam at the time. So? I was surprised and thankful to get away from the guy! So? If that's a rescue, he can have his story. LOL!)

[MoJo2001]

sindacato

Wow!! Not bad at all. Thank you very much!!!

*HUGS*

A beautiful song!

[stand watie]

WAR EAGLE!

free dixie,sw

[MoJo2001]

CLICK!

Dedicated to Michael Jackson who has a warrant out on his sorry butt!!

Who's bad? You are!

Let's see how long it will take Reverend Al "Pork Chop" Sharpton to come to your rescue!!

Picture is from Matt Drudge (DrudgeReport.com)

[Hondo1952]

We will be having biscuit and gravy day as soon as I become computer literate. The response to my appeal for justice for biscuits and gravy has been overwhelming. There are a lot of closet biscuit and gravy eaters out there. COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.

That's just the first step to a total conversion. Miss Fawnn is learning how to talk properly already. Radix is the key to the whole deal. If we can convert him WE WILL BE FREE.

FREE DIXIE
hl

[Hondo1952]

What we say down in The Heart of Dixie is:

WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!

Take that Miss Star and Mr Flurry.

FREE DIXIE
hl