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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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Pancakes on Wednesdays

I hope that you like my pancakes today.

Pancakes, the cornerstone, of a nutricious breakfast....


Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday, November 19, 2003


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!

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.


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.


Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the future.


Happy Birthday

Indira Gandhi 1917

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.


It is so simple

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!


We are counting cards.

Alan Young 1919

Horse Sense.

Pancakes on Wednesdays makes sense.


A pancake formula is a complex thing!

Happy Birthday

Larry King 1933

Larry King, mental giant....ha ha ha ha .


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.


Happy Birthday

Ted Turner 1938

I never shut up, so it is easy to see how stupid I am.

I invented CNN. Nuff said.


Happy Birthday

Garrick Utley 1939

That is my boss up there above me.


Happy Birthday

Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) 1939

All I need is a miracle, and some pancakes.


Happy Birthday

Dan Haggerty 1941

Do bears eat Pancakes in the woods?


Happy Birthday

Calvin Klein 1942

Nothing gets between me, and some good pancakes.


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.


Happy Birthday

Jodie Foster 1962

Hey Bo Derek, will you please write to Radix, he misses you.


On this day:

1794 - The U.S. and Britain signed the Jay Treaty, which resolved the issues left over from the Revolutionary War.


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.

I was born on February 12th, 1809


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.


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.


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.


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.


1998 - The impeachment inquiry of U.S. President Clinton began.

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.


2001 - U.S.  President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history.


Always first, and on the right.   Happy Birthday lindaSOG!

Pancakes Wednesdays
Definitely
 

 


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To: MoJo2001
Woo Hoo.

You go girl!
321 posted on 11/19/2003 2:07:03 PM PST by Radix (The secret of the perfect post is an unanticipated Tag Line change Tag Line change. Tag Line chang,)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
I've had my 13 footer totally full of water. I haven't cut it in half before though. Look at this Alabama Coast Guard Cutter.


322 posted on 11/19/2003 2:09:24 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I don't think you hread me right. E-talk for Heard and Read.)
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To: Fawnn
Remember, a royal flush beats and full house.

And a Smith & Wesson beats 4 Aces. ;)
 

 
A Ford can beat a pair of aces and eights!

323 posted on 11/19/2003 2:12:16 PM PST by Radix (The dirty little coward, who shot Mr Howard, and laid Jesse James in his grave.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001
Update:

1 brougham dna
eastwood
eight track
mendoza roman
1 nitro dna
meridian lt roman
and counting....

;)
324 posted on 11/19/2003 2:21:00 PM PST by Fawnn (Official Canteen wOOhOO Consultant ... and www.CookingWithPam.com person)
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To: Radix
Ya'll are gettin kind of confuzin. Lemme consult my palm pilot.


325 posted on 11/19/2003 2:21:28 PM PST by Hondo1952 (This Space For Rent.)
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To: Radix
A Ford can beat a pair of aces and eights!

Harrison? ;)
326 posted on 11/19/2003 2:22:17 PM PST by Fawnn (Official Canteen wOOhOO Consultant ... and www.CookingWithPam.com person)
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To: Hondo1952
LOL!
327 posted on 11/19/2003 2:22:56 PM PST by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Hondo1952
LOL!
328 posted on 11/19/2003 2:23:44 PM PST by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Hi Kathy. I had a flight to Wichita Kansas today. Otto couldn't make it, but I have to go back in a few weeks, so I'll be able to get his picture there.
329 posted on 11/19/2003 2:24:06 PM PST by Aeronaut (In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
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To: HiJinx
cream gravy & chickenfried steak is the NATIONAL FOOD of TEXAS!

free dixie,sw

330 posted on 11/19/2003 2:24:59 PM PST by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: beachn4fun
YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!<P.free the southland,sw
331 posted on 11/19/2003 2:25:58 PM PST by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
!!!!!!
332 posted on 11/19/2003 2:26:27 PM PST by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: stand watie
I cooked that for supper a couple of days ago and these yankees I live with ate hotdogs. Turned up their old noses and said uuuuuuuuuhh what's that? damnyankees.

I ain't from Texas, but we make pretty good chicken fried steak and gravy in Alabama too. I got to get my self back to that red clay.
333 posted on 11/19/2003 2:37:36 PM PST by Hondo1952 (Happy Birthday Miss THE Goddess!!!!!! Space provided free as a public service announcement.)
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To: MoJo2001
I'm having Internet Explorer issues and playing music issues (somehow Real Player took over from Windows Media Player) and check printing issues and I'm sleepy! Maybe, just maybe, I might be able to get more than 45 minutes sleep on the plane. 3 1/2 hours to Seattle, another 2 1/2 to LAX. Then an hour on a commuter plane to San Luis. Then call Libby and she will come pick me up. The grumpies are starting to set in....


334 posted on 11/19/2003 2:42:17 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her)
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To: bentfeather; Hondo1952; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Radix; tomkow6; SouthernHawk; MoJo2001; ...

Thumb crumbs: Anna Braginskaya treats the waterfowl in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., with kid gloves.

335 posted on 11/19/2003 2:49:03 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her)
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To: Fawnn
A Ford can beat a pair of aces and eights!

Harrison? ;)

 
You caught that I mixed up my names. I'm sorry about my innacuracy, but, hey it happens.
 
 
Jesse James, living in St. Joseph, Missouri under his pseudonym "Thomas Howard" was shot by Robert Ford on April 4, 1882. Robert Ford was a member of Jesse's gang whom Jesse regarded as a friend. Ford shot Jesse in the back while Jesse was hanging a picture.

 
DEAD MAN'S HAND: 

A poker hand consisting of a pair of aces and a pair of eights. Traditionally, Wild Bill Hickok was holding this hand when he was shot dead by Jack McCall. Some sources dispute the hand, saying that it really contained two jacks, not aces and two eights.


336 posted on 11/19/2003 2:49:40 PM PST by Radix (mix I never Tag up my Lines..)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; tomkow6; txradioguy; Long Cut; bentfeather; ...
Good afternoon Canteeners!!
Thank you Military men and Canteen guyz for the gorgeous violas today.

Howdy troops, veterans, and military family members!
THANK YOU for serving the USA!

Have a wonderful evening everyone. We're getting ready to head down to Huntsville for our anniversary dine-out. But no matter where we are, our thoughts and prayers are with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for their safety.
*HUGZ* all 'round!


337 posted on 11/19/2003 2:53:39 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Hondo1952; Flurry
Roll TIDE!!!!
338 posted on 11/19/2003 2:58:21 PM PST by StarCMC (God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)
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To: StarCMC
ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Tide, Roll.
339 posted on 11/19/2003 3:00:57 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I don't think you hread me right. E-talk for Heard and Read.)
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To: Hondo1952
I cooked that for supper a couple of days ago and these yankees I live with ate hotdogs.

No adult Yankee I know would choose hotdogs over sausage gravy and biscuits! In fact, most kids wouldn't either. ;)
340 posted on 11/19/2003 3:07:14 PM PST by Fawnn (Official Canteen wOOhOO Consultant ... and www.CookingWithPam.com person)
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