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

 

[MoJo2001]

Hi

[MoJo2001]

WOOHOO!! YOU GOT 400!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[tomkow6]

......heheheheheheheheh!......

400!

Can't ya just FEEL the LOVE?

Tomkow6!!! #400!!!

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

I use my palm pilot all the time. It is always where I can find it.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Otto didn't get to go????? Did he pout, or maybe he knows he gets to go next time? Did you have good weather? I've been hearing about tornados and lightning and rain.

[Hondo1952]

I've been away. Did I see Miss THE Goddess sashay through here? Is she still here?

[Hondo1952]

Hey Tom. I got a question for you. If you can't answer maybe you could send it on to Radix or Valin.

If aliens are smart enough
to travel through space,
why do they keep abducting
the dumbest people on earth?

Question:
Which is worse, Ignorance or Apathy?

Answer:
I don't know and I don't care.

[Soaring Feather]

Not speaking to you tonight.

You mooned me last night. It was terrible.

[tomkow6]

 

 

GOODNIGHT TROOPS AND CANTEEN

 

 

 

My fat cat is telling me it's time for bed; soooooooo:

Good Night, All!

May God bless all who come to the Canteen.
May God bless & keep safe all our troops & their families!

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Dear Lord,
There's a young man far from home,
called to serve his nation in time of war;
sent to defend our freedom
on some distant foreign shore.

We pray You keep him safe,
we pray You keep him strong,
we pray You send him safely home ...
for he's been away so long.

There's a young woman far from home,
serving her nation with pride.
Her step is strong, her step is sure,
there is courage in every stride.

We pray You keep her safe,
we pray You keep her strong,
we pray You send her safely home ...
for she's been away too long.

Bless those who await their safe return.
Bless those who mourn the lost.
Bless those who serve this country well,
no matter what the cost.

God, Bless America!

 

 

 

[Soaring Feather]

Did you have fun???

[tomkow6]

Are you busy WRITING????

[tomkow6]

Thought you weren't talking to me??????

[Kathy in Alaska]

See ya sometime tomorrow after I reach my destination. Thanks, Flurry, for helping make the Canteen a fun place for our troops. And thanks for your service.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sweet dreams, Tom. Thank you for your steadfast support of our military and their families, and for helping make the Canteen a safe haven for them. And thank you for your service to this great nation.

[Soaring Feather]

No, cleaning up after inept workmen. sheeeeeesh every night this week the same thing. Glad I am not paying them. I would charge them for my work.

[SevenofNine]

Well MOJo what you put on that what Queen Betty has

Those type of Corgis they are protective of their masters

I just wonder why doesn't corgis was in Palace bite UK Mirror reporter that my question
Well Ananova has update on Dubya visit report that he look very nice at State dinner with tux with long tail

Also AFP wire report that Arafat still want peace talks with Israel Israel saying NO WAY

And BBC wire report that leading AIDS group from Africa run smack chat on Colin Powell his comment on how fight HIV report that Colin told a group in Wash when he was director of teen group

He recommend to young people how prevent AIDS and sexutrally transmiited disease it important to stay how you say PURE

That driving AIDS group NUTS

[Hondo1952]

Tom I'm not going to tell you good night. Every time I do you just jump back up when a number comes up. Soooo, I'll see you at 350.

[Soaring Feather]

Well, I really don't want to after that deal last night.

I did not ask for that.

I told ma, too.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I hope you are out the door from your job soon.
Then WOO HOO your vacation starts!
*HUG*