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

 

[Hondo1952]

MOJO YOU BROKE MY PUTER PLAYIN THAT STUFF!!! DON'T DO IT AGAIN!!

[Hondo1952]

Here's you some real git down music from Sindicato.

That Shovel Don't Fit My Hand

Forgive the reference to demoncrats in the song. This was written about long ago when they were Dixiecrats.

[tomkow6]

Anybody got any pickled eggs or pork rinds?

[MoJo2001]

WAR EAGLE CLICK!!

 

[MoJo2001]

I really like them!! Wow! Thank you!! I've just added them to my "little" library. Hehehe!!

Thank you so much!!

[MoJo2001]

Hi bro! how are you today?? *HUGS*

[Hondo1952]

I bow to you Madam Star. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

[HiJinx]

Why wait?

[Hondo1952]

Now you've made me hungry Jinx. I'll have to whip something up now.

[tomkow6]

Hi, Sis!



Ummmm! Looks like I taught you TOO well!

[beachn4fun]

There ain't nothin' closet about this here biscuit-n-gravy woman! However, I am a little perturbed that of all of the graphics I went looking to looking for biscuits-n-gravy these are the best I could find.... AND they aren't anything like we have......we break up our biscuit(s) on the plate and cover that with the gravy. Mom usually has two kinds - bacon gravy and chipped beef. She has a bacon and canalope on the side for anyone who wants it. I usually breakup the bacon into pieces on top. Mom cooks it every Sunday! Still brings us kids and the grandkids to visit!

[MoJo2001]

Wow!! You look good in orange and blue! Um, wait a minute. Isn't that Auburn's colors? LOL!

Hope you aren't working too hard!!

[Hondo1952]

That's Illinois orange and blue.

Not Auburn Orange and Blue.

[Kathy in Alaska]

10th Mountain Division soldiers stand by as a CH-47 Chinook helicopter delivers supplies during Operation Mountain Resolve. The operation, which began on Nov. 7, is currently taking place in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar and Nuristan Provinces. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Greg Heath, 4th Public Affairs Detachment

Part One

10th Mtn. Div. Shows its Mettle In Operation Mountain Resolve
By U.S. Army Sgt. Greg Heath / 4th Public Affairs Detachment

NURISTAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division lived up to their namesake, braving treacherous terrain and weather to accomplish their initial ground mission during the launch of the Coalition Joint Task Force 180’s latest strike in the war on terrorism, Operation Mountain Resolve.

Elements of 10th Mountain Division’s Warrior Brigade, led by Company B, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry, air assaulted into farm fields on the outskirts of Namgalam Village in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan shortly after nightfall Nov. 6. Upon landing they immediately began their mountainous trek that would ultimately end six days and more than 20 kilometers later on a mountaintop after reaching their objective, a suspected Anti Coalition Militant stronghold. During the first three nights the large 10th Mountain Division force traveled along the mountainsides of the Darrahe Waygal valley along the Fawerikhwar River.

Coalition forces had received information about ACM activity all throughout the valley, said Co. B Commander Capt. Toby Moore, and it was their job to disrupt any ACM operations and deny them sanctuary in a province that coalition forces hadn’t been in since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom.

As they moved through the valley, the foot soldiers were protected from the sky by AH-64 Apache helicopters and A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft providing 24-hour close air support.

The rest of the story

[Hondo1952]

I'll put some pictures up after I upload them. I've got some biscuits and gravy. I'm saving them for future use.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Salah Al Turk unloads boxes from storage in preparation for the thanksgiving feast. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gabe Nix

U.S. Forces Prepare All American Thanksgiving in Iraq

By U.S. Army Sgt. Gabe Nix
350th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

AR RAMADI, Iraq – A turkey gobbles in the fields of Elletsville, Indiana, an area known for its contribution to the Thanksgiving holiday. A turkey translator interprets the gobble. “I wish to be part of the All-American Thanksgiving this year in Iraq.” Excitement for this year’s Thanksgiving feast is not limited to the turkeys in the field.

“This year’s All-American Thanksgiving will be a festive atmosphere,” says food service supervisor Master Sgt. Mack E. Sumler, “as well as a tribute to the 82nd Airborne and all of the soldiers who are serving here.”

The festive soiree features a Thanksgiving lineup that promises to bring the most disciplined paratrooper All the Way back for seconds. Included in the feast are thanksgiving staples such as turkey, ham, stuffing, glazed sweet potatoes, shrimp cocktail, and an assortment of deserts and drinks.

Kellogg, Brown and Root food service technician, Melvin Young is making the necessary preparations required to feed an army. He is planning on going through 4,000 pounds of turkey, 3,000 pounds of shrimp, and 4,000 hams. Young, retired from the U.S. Army, also said KBR is working hand-in-hand with army food service workers to make the event a success.

The rest of the story

[MoJo2001]

Our President with the Queen and Prince Philip.
Oh yeah! Queen Elizabeth is on his left! Hehehe!

Proof that Europeans breed horribly!

"George, I just wanted to let you know that Prince Charles is not a homosexual, but a METROSEXUAL".


"Why the heck do they allow women to wear such big hats"?
"Oops sorry your Majesty. I didn't notice it was you".


"Yasser Arafat wanted to know if I could 'Bend It Like Beckham"
Jack Straw: No, but your wife showed me she could.


The Yellow Men are coming to get you!
This is what happens when you have too much time and too many pints at the local Pub.
You too can be dragged away by the Yellow Men!


"You've got horses, I've got an SUV that's polluting your city right now"
Oh! DId we mention we have BIG GUNS??


 

[Soaring Feather]

ROTFLOL!!

I love Queenies hat!!

[MoJo2001]

Yeah, but she's the Queen of England. Not the Canteen. Besides, we don't have Prince Charles to contend with in the Canteen. We've just got tomkow!! LOL!

[Soaring Feather]

10th Mountain Division soldiers

WOO HOO my guys!!