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

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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.

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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.

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..."

Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the future.

Happy Birthday

Indira Gandhi 1917

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.

Happy Birthday

Larry King 1933

Happy Birthday

Dick Cavett 1936

"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either."

Happy Birthday

Ted Turner 1938

Happy Birthday

Garrick Utley 1939

Happy Birthday

Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) 1939

Happy Birthday

Dan Haggerty 1941

Happy Birthday

Calvin Klein 1942

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!"

Happy Birthday

Jodie Foster 1962

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.

1959 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel.

I am an excellent driver.

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.

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

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.

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

Hey, hey radu!!

Happy Anniversary to you and hubby!!
You two rock!!

341 posted on 11/19/2003 3:11:05 PM PST by Soaring Feather (I have a sword in my hand. I am a poet bentfeather)

Good Night. God Bless you All. God Bless our Troops.

I heading home. See yall tomorrow.

342 posted on 11/19/2003 3:18:18 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I don't think you hread me right. E-talk for Heard and Read.)

To: Fawnn; Hondo1952; Flurry; All

Man, buscuits and gravy -- you are making my mouth water!! Finally caught up again and now i gotta go. You all have fun tonight -- I'll try to get back later if I can! HUGS!

343 posted on 11/19/2003 3:22:12 PM PST by StarCMC (God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)

To: Fawnn; Hondo1952; Flurry; All

Man, biscuits and gravy -- you are making my mouth water!! Finally caught up again and now i gotta go. You all have fun tonight -- I'll try to get back later if I can! HUGS!

344 posted on 11/19/2003 3:22:29 PM PST by StarCMC (God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)

To: Fawnn; Hondo1952; Flurry; All

Man, biscuits and gravy -- you are making my mouth water!! Finally caught up again and now i gotta go. You all have fun tonight -- I'll try to get back later if I can! HUGS!

345 posted on 11/19/2003 3:22:29 PM PST by StarCMC (God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)

Sorry - that was unintentional triple posting. Maybe I'm REALLY hungry! LOL!!

346 posted on 11/19/2003 3:23:40 PM PST by StarCMC (God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)