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

 

[Radix]

Woo Hoo.

You go girl!

[Conspiracy Guy]

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.

[Radix]

Remember, a royal flush beats and full house.

And a Smith & Wesson beats 4 Aces. ;)

 

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A Ford can beat a pair of aces and eights!

[Fawnn]

Update:

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

;)

[Hondo1952]

Ya'll are gettin kind of confuzin. Lemme consult my palm pilot.

[Fawnn]

A Ford can beat a pair of aces and eights!

Harrison? ;)

[stand watie]

LOL!

[stand watie]

LOL!

[Aeronaut]

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.

[stand watie]

cream gravy & chickenfried steak is the NATIONAL FOOD of TEXAS!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!<P.free the southland,sw

[stand watie]

!!!!!!

[Hondo1952]

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.

[Kathy in Alaska]

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....

[Kathy in Alaska]

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

[Radix]

A Ford can beat a pair of aces and eights!

Harrison? ;)

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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.

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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.

[radu]

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!

[StarCMC]

Roll TIDE!!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Tide, Roll.

[Fawnn]

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. ;)