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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 19 November 2003
Canteen FRiends ~ Radix ...........With help from Linda as usual
Posted on 11/19/2003 2:05:56 AM PST by Radix
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For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. |
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Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! |
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Pancakes on Wednesdays ![I hope that you like my pancakes today.](http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ourfood/img/pancakes.jpg)
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. ![Look it up!](http://bellsouthpwp.net/l/i/lindasog/Radix/radixionary.gif)
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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..." ![I was president for 4 months longer than Al Gore.](http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/images/20pgarf.jpg)
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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the future. |
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Happy Birthday Indira Gandhi 1917 ![You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.](http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/0/08/Indirag.jpg)
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![It is so simple](http://www.kyanags.org/info/images/syrup.gif)
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. ![Pancakes on Wednesdays makes sense.](http://lores.lair.moondance.org/edandalaninbarn.jpg)
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![A pancake formula is a complex thing!](http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT668/EMAT6680.Folders/Kastberg/essays/logarithms/image110.gif) |
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Happy Birthday Larry King 1933 ![Larry King, mental giant....ha ha ha ha .](http://www.perlinstudio.com/larry-king.gif)
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Happy Birthday Dick Cavett 1936 "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either." ![As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.](http://www.hiandlomodern.com/IMAGES/BOOKS/photography/cavett.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Ted Turner 1938 ![I never shut up, so it is easy to see how stupid I am.](http://dopefishjustin.is-a-geek.com:8000/sscelebs/tedgeta.jpg)
![I invented CNN. Nuff said.](http://www.forbes.com/images/2001/01/11/Ted%20Turner_168x264.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Garrick Utley 1939 ![That is my boss up there above me.](http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/utley/story.utley.2.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) 1939 ![All I need is a miracle, and some pancakes.](http://www.history-of-rock.com/miracleslate.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Dan Haggerty 1941 ![Do bears eat Pancakes in the woods?](http://www.nightowlbooks.com/life_times_grizzly_adams1-sheet.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Calvin Klein 1942 ![Nothing gets between me, and some good pancakes.](http://www.cnnsi.com/features/1996/swimsuit/photos/arniston/arniston90.jpg)
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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!" ![Of course I am having pancakes today.](http://www.uwe.peterson.claranet.de/private/moviefaces/actress/r/megryan.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Jodie Foster 1962 ![Hey Bo Derek, will you please write to Radix, he misses you.](http://www.dreamstarlets.com/features/!bios/jodie_foster22.jpg)
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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. ![What do you call a Gorilla who walks two miles to return some banana pancakes? Honest Ape.](http://www.jeannepasero.com/lincolnga.gif)
![I was born on February 12th, 1809](http://www.damchicago.com/gettysburg-address.gif)
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1959 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel. I am an excellent driver. ![I am an excellent subtle posterer.](http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/edsel-red.jpg)
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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. ![Guess who is on first base? Nobody, I struck him out.](http://www.gendex.com/~guest/martin/1962topps/koufax.jpg)
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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 ![See mouse over text in the above image.](http://www.scottsdalecards.com/psabb3672.jpg)
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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. ![Artist without a pancake is a much lesser known work.](http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/images/impr0299.jpg)
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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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![Always first, and on the right. Happy Birthday lindaSOG!](http://nolechekmeats.com/images/syrup.jpg) |
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Pancakes Wednesdays |
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
ME???
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:16:08 PM PST
by
Hondo1952
(This Space For Rent.)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
ME???
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:16:16 PM PST
by
Hondo1952
(This Space For Rent.)
To: Fawnn
Da boat : ) Sold my lake house. Planning on moving to the gulf in a few years and was tired of keeping the place up.
303
posted on
11/19/2003 1:16:39 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I don't think you hread me right. E-talk for Heard and Read.)
To: Flurry
Here's my home alarm system.![](http://images4.fotki.com/v47/photos/1/126689/501099/redneckhousealarm-vi.jpg)
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:17:51 PM PST
by
Hondo1952
(This Space For Rent.)
To: Hondo1952
![](http://www.fawnn.com/canteen/woohoopancakes1.jpg)
Hondo1952!!! #300!!!
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:21:32 PM PST
by
Fawnn
(Official Canteen wOOhOO Consultant ... and www.CookingWithPam.com person)
To: Hondo1952
Just like mine. I'm gonna get one of these here BW's when I move south.
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:21:56 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I don't think you hread me right. E-talk for Heard and Read.)
To: MoJo2001; bentfeather; StarCMC; beachn4fun; Kathy in Alaska; All
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. ;)
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:26:10 PM PST
by
Fawnn
(Official Canteen wOOhOO Consultant ... and www.CookingWithPam.com person)
To: Radix; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; southerngrit; TEXOKIE; tomkow6; ...
To: LindaSOG
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....
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:28:36 PM PST
by
Radix
(My boyfriend promised me a hummer for my birthday, but all I got was this lousy car.)
To: Hondo1952
Yeeeeeee Haw yall I'm on the dang moon.
![](http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/redneck_moonlanding.jpg)
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:29:04 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I don't think you hread me right. E-talk for Heard and Read.)
To: aomagrat
WOW! The USS North Dakota's broadside is impressive! Thanks, aomagrat, for today's history.
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:29:35 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her)
To: Flurry
How'd you get there?![](http://images4.fotki.com/v44/photos/1/126689/501099/redneckrides-vi.jpg)
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:33:04 PM PST
by
Hondo1952
(This Space For Rent.)
To: Valin
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
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:38:15 PM PST
by
Radix
(At least the politicians of Tammany Hall were able to admit that they were crooks..)
To: Flurry
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?
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:44:10 PM PST
by
Radix
(I have seen the death of my own Tag Lines many times.)
To: Fawnn
It'd go nice with his tie and big head though. ;)
LOL
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:55:43 PM PST
by
Soaring Feather
(I have a sword in my hand. I am a poet bentfeather)
To: Hondo1952
One of these got me in lunar orbit and you can see my CLM (Camper Landing Module) in the background of the landing shot.
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posted on
11/19/2003 1:57:38 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I don't think you hread me right. E-talk for Heard and Read.)
To: MoJo2001
I am not clicking that, something bad might happen to my cursor.
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posted on
11/19/2003 2:00:00 PM PST
by
Radix
(I once had cursor, who got ill, and died, I never gave it another cursory glance.)
To: Flurry; Hondo1952; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Boston Whaler....unsinkable.
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posted on
11/19/2003 2:01:29 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her)
To: Radix
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.
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posted on
11/19/2003 2:01:52 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I don't think you hread me right. E-talk for Heard and Read.)
To: Hondo1952
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
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posted on
11/19/2003 2:03:03 PM PST
by
Radix
(I never even heard the Dixie Chicks make music, my radio is stuck on talk.)
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