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

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix ...........With help from Linda as usual

[Radix]

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday...
Thank the Veterans who served in
The United States Armed Forces.

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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]

 

First Lt. Steven Brothers says goodbye to his children Ryan and Kaitlin after a Tuesday deployment ceremony at Kirksville Rieger Armory, Mo., before leaving for military police training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

 

 

 

Vietnamese immigration officials watch as the frigate Vandergrift sails into port Wednesday for a four-day port call in Ho Chi Minh City as the United States and Vietnam begin to build military ties in a new era of cooperation. The Vandergrift is the first Navy ship to sail up the Saigon River since the Vietnam War ended nearly 30 years ago.

 

 

Ensign Esther “Mary” Alcantara, 23, from Northridge, Calif., and Lt. j.g. Don Shrader, 31, from San Diego, both officers from the frigate Vandegrift, shop for replica sailing ships at a shop in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday.

 

 

 

Ensign Alcantara and Lt. j.g. Shrader shop for souvenirs in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday.

 

 

 

Black Hawk helicopters patrol an area over Tikrit on Wednesday.

 

 

 

A child plays near a destroyed tank Tuesday in Baghdad. The Army continues to destroy targets throughout Iraq in support of Operation Iron Hammer, a new get-tough attitude with insurgent Iraqis who continue to offer stiff resistance.

 

 

 

Airman 1st Class Joseph Gumienny, from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., arms the weapons and inspects munitions Monday to ensure an A-10 Thunderbolt II is ready for takeoff at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Airmen of the 455th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron are providing close-air support to the Army’s 10th Mountain Division as they pursue Taliban and al-Qaida forces.

 

 

 

An A-10 Thunderbolt II takes off from Bagram Air Base on Monday to provide close-air support during Operation Mountain Resolve.

 

 

 

Fire Controlman 3rd Class Scott Wills, left, assists Fire Controlman 3rd Class Nick Debricque and Fire Controlman 2nd Class James Orourke with loading a close-in weapons system with 20mm ammunition aboard the aircraft carrier George Washington, which is conducting composite training unit exercise in the Atlantic Ocean.

 

 

Just another day at the office for our Troops.

 

 

 

[Fawnn]

[Fawnn]

StarCMC!!! #350!!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

From the men in the Military and the Canteen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

[Soaring Feather]

I like these little dogs, too.

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops at the office. Good pics, Radix. Thanks. Please, God, let loved ones see loved ones.

[blackie]

Hot coffee is perfect Kathy ~ we went to a movie this afterneen and when we came out there was 2 inches of snow on my SVT Lightning pickup ~ weird. :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Tap...tap..tap...

[Fawnn]

LOL!!!

[Radix]

Freep mail for you in a moment in a moment.

[HiJinx]

Now that you're here...

H A P P Y   B I R T H D A Y   G O D D E S S ! ! !

[Kathy in Alaska]

I'm late as usual, but I'm trying to get my desk cleaned up so I can get on a plane and wing away on vacation tonight. Good evening to you. Need a drink?

If you are on duty....If you are NOT on duty...

[HiJinx]

Clean quickly, Kathy, and GO HOME!!!

You've got packing to get done!!! LOL!!

[Radix]

[Kathy in Alaska]

You did it, Fawnn. #100!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"when we came out there was 2 inches of snow on my SVT Lightning pickup"

Snow is NOT Welcome on the coast! LOL