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

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

[Radix]

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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

 

[Conspiracy Guy]

ummmmmmmmmmm. Eggs bacon and waffles. Send mine to someone having to deal with MRE's.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

WOO HOO
In mere hours your vacation starts!
*HUG*

[Kathy in Alaska]

WTG...you got #50!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

In mere hours your vacation starts!

Now if I can only make it thru the work day, so I can START packing. LOL! I needed the hug. I'm frazzled today.
*HUG*

[tomkow6]

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

I AM HEREEEE I have early doctor appointment I JUST HEAR

Jacko going to JAIL or be arrest

According to SO CAL News arrest warrant be issue they telling Jacko surrender passport

Translatioin we don't want go to Liz Taylor crib in Switzerland

Also report off UK Mirror that they blab oh yeah we broke into Dubya palace crib at Bunckigont palace

I just wonder myself where were Corgis

MAN where were Corgis

Corgis are evil

They are worst than pit bills

I don't know about you guy my neighbor dog start barking since there is see through fence through my backyard he be growing crazy at that time


Also AFP wire report that IDF lay smackdown on some miltant targets on Syria border overnight last night

[beachn4fun]

I'm here Kathy.... I was here early today. Had to do some work, darn! But, have been sneaking (ah, you have probably heard this word use a lot in the last couple of days) in a little, here and there.

Are you in the dark?

We are currently having rain. It was windy earlier but has calmed down for now while it rains! Just in time for our rush-hour! It makes it so much more interesting cause there are major road repairs and upgrades going on around us. Most on the major thorough-fares.

[tomkow6]

I don't think the Corgi's are kept at the Palace....I think they have their OWN Royal Kennel Palace!

[Soaring Feather]

Ma!!
I am getting flooded out on top of everything else!
Down pour here!
Power is out in part of town.

[beachn4fun]

I needed the hug. I'm frazzled today.

here you go......

[beachn4fun]

Ok, I am glad you finally showed up. I thought I was going to have to resort to CNN or some awful news channel to get the latest update on what's happening.

BTW....them liberals are all the same. Whether they live in Britian or America. Someone needs to SMACKDOWN on their butts.

[tomkow6]

[SevenofNine]

OH OH there is report that Jacko might hire Johnnie Cochran according to SO CAL News

Another developing item off Drudge site Wes Clark did 60 minute 2 interview with Gunga Dan Rather and he suppose be crying he is not

Croc tears LOLOL!

OMG That too rich

[Kathy in Alaska]

Carolina Cutters Seize 2 Tons of Cocaine

U. S. Coast Guard
November 17, 2003

Charleston, S.C. -- Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, homeported in Charleston S.C., seized more than 4,000 pounds of cocaine from a go-fast smuggling vessel on Wednesday in the Central Caribbean, racking up their second successful drug interdiction in the last 10 days.

Early Wednesday morning, the Coast Guard recieved notification that a marine patrol aircraft was tracking a northbound go-fast. Coast Guard Cutters Dallas and Dilligence, from Wilmington, N.C., teamed up to assume the chase. Dallas launched an Over-The-Horizon small boat to chase down the suspects, who would not stop. The Dilligence launched their embarked HITRON MH-68A Sting Ray helicopter and crew to chase the vessel.

The rest of the story

[Conspiracy Guy]

I have one like this

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

"If his pants don't fit, you must acquit." Michael is as good as free already.

[tomkow6]

Can you & your boat get over to Ms Feather's real fast?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, Angel Boy. May I count on you to rein in your voices and lead by stellar example of good behavior tomorrow? To show your sisters that you really do know how to be good? LOL!

[Conspiracy Guy]

What body of water is she near?