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

 

[Soaring Feather]

The Canteen

As a light house beacon warns
a ship away from dangerous shores...
We in the USO Canteen FReeper Style
offer a safe haven for our troops and their families.
May God Bless our ship The USO Canteen FReeper Style.

bentfeather
9/05/03

[Fawnn]

What'd I do!?????

You're royalty! Those commoners always like to moon the upper crust, you know. ;)

[Soaring Feather]

 

~The MidNight Hour~ Good Night Troops~

 

~ Dream a Little~ Love Someone a Lot~
Roberta Flak First Ever I saw Your Face
Touch ms feather's hair for the song.

Until tomorrow, save the last dance for me!

~Touch the large Doves and dolls for the music~

Touch the Doves.

 

 

Bentfeather

 

 

[MoJo2001]

 

Woohoo!! I figured out how to do it Auntie Fawnn!!

I used a Christmas Ornament Tube that I had and I merely floated the text and filled it!

Woohoo!!

I think I need to add some snow or something. What'cha think??

*HUGS*

[Fawnn]

Beautiful!!! 'cept, now I'm jealous 'cause....

I knew how to use another image or a tube as a fill pattern before -- in PSP 6; now I can't figure out how to do it! LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

Dueling, as in......

[MoJo2001]

I'll call you!

[MoJo2001]

 

I scaled this down for ya!!

*HUGS*

This is also an Christmas Ornament fill!!

I'll call ya in a second!!

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

I'm home. Going thru drawers to decide what I need. Looking for a knife to open the box my new rolling duffel is in....

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

WOO HOO!
You are officially on vacation!
*HUG*

[Hondo1952]

Have a safe trip Kathy.

A marine biologist developed a species of genetically engineered dolphins that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of seagulls. One day his supply of the birds ran out, so he had to go out and trap some more. On the way back, he spied two lions asleep on the road. Afraid to wake them, he gingerly stepped over them. Immediately, he was arrested and charged with transporting gulls across sedate lions for immortal porpoises.

With that a good night to you all.

Good night troops. Stay Safe. We love you all.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Hondo! I'll see ya all tomorrow afternoon probably.

Good night and sleep well, Hondo. Thanks for helping make the Canteen a home away from home for our military, past and present. Thank you for your service to our country.

[JustPiper]

From One "Golden" Girl to Another...Happy Birthday my Friend -smiles-

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

NEW THREAD

[MoJo2001]

Ma's thing!!
 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hi CPT kj!! Hi Star!! Thank you for serving this great nation of ours. Prayers for your success and safety, kj.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, 1Sgt Mike, for your service to our country with the Army National Guard.

Prayers for your safety and success.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Cool! Thanks, Kiddo!!Now I'm off til tomorrow. Duffel is closed and locked. Off to shower and on to the airport.

[Fawnn]

Neat!!!