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

 

[Hondo1952]

ME???

[Hondo1952]

ME???

[Conspiracy Guy]

Da boat : ) Sold my lake house. Planning on moving to the gulf in a few years and was tired of keeping the place up.

[Hondo1952]

Here's my home alarm system.

[Fawnn]

Hondo1952!!! #300!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Just like mine. I'm gonna get one of these here BW's when I move south.

[Fawnn]

I just found this in my closet!



Now I just need to find a brainy guy to model it. I was going to ask Neil Cavuto, but he's busy doing his show. ... It'd go nice with his tie and big head though. ;)

[mdittmar]

Voices of Baghdad Etched on Its Walls ping

Burgeoning freedoms courtesy of the U.S. Military.

[Radix]

Radix Report

 

Steaks Rights

 

 

Radix Wires, BOSTON, 19 November 2003.

 

Breaking news from the Public Relations Office of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. A man has won his case against the Commonwealth which had  cited antiquitus Common Law,. that a man cannot be married to a steak. The plaintiff, Cutter Venison, from Cambridge was elated when the news was released.  Cutter said to reporters that he has been waitng for this for more than 2 years. " I love my steak, and it is simply not right that here in America, that I cannot marry my steak. At first they laughed at us because they thought that I wanted the right to marinade my steak. In many other places, people do not even have steak, nor ever even known a steak such as I have. I love my steak deeply, and finally, the truth of what America is all about is coming to the attention of everyone. "

 

In a related case before this joke of a judiciary, a woman is filing for the right to marry a blow torch. Arguements presented are that blow torches are hot, and they never argue, unlike the blow hards in the media, and the political machine is this fruity State."

 

Developing.... 

[Conspiracy Guy]

Yeeeeeee Haw yall I'm on the dang moon.

[Kathy in Alaska]

WOW! The USS North Dakota's broadside is impressive! Thanks, aomagrat, for today's history.

[Hondo1952]

How'd you get there?

[Radix]

I missed this fact today Valin, thanks for sharing.

 

1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding the city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment

 

This guy was a piker compared to some of the sleeze that are in politics these days.

 

"It isn't who votes, It is who counts the votes."

                                                       Boss Tweed

 

[Radix]

I was so traumatized by the oddness of "Slaughter House Five," that I never read "Breakfast of Champions." Naturally I turned to Pancakes on Wednesday. Were those critters from Talfmadora also in that work?

[Soaring Feather]

It'd go nice with his tie and big head though. ;)


LOL

[Conspiracy Guy]

One of these got me in lunar orbit and you can see my CLM (Camper Landing Module) in the background of the landing shot.

[Radix]

I am not clicking that, something bad might happen to my cursor.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Boston Whaler....unsinkable.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The Trafalmadorians are in many of his books. Even in Slaughterhouse Five I believe. Slaughterhouse five was the first time I heard about the fire bombing of Dresden during WWII. That was covered up for years and years. Kurt is a Lib Wacko but his books are amusing.

[Radix]

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

I knew that something bad was under there. Free The Dixie Chicks from the burden of performing music. RX