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.

Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom?
Support The United States Armed Forces Today!

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

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sleep well, Tonkin. Tomorrow is Coast Guard Day. Work hard and have fun. LOL! God bless you good for your service to our country, both then and now in the Coast Guard Auxiliary and the Canteen. *HUG* Good night kitties.

[Defender2]

#487. I love you're picture that you created for us, Thanks, Kathy!!!!:-)

[radu]

Thanks ms. feather, from me and hubby dearest.
I don't know about the "rock" part.....it's more like "creak" these days. ROTFLOL!!!!

*HUGZ*

[radu]

Thank you, MoJo!! And hubby adds his thanks, too.
Big *HUGZ* to you and your family.

One of these days I'm gonna get to spend some time at the Canteen while you're here. It's been waaaaaay too long.

[radu]

Thank you Fawnn. :-)
*HUGZ*

One of these days I'm gonna figure out where you find all the awesome fonts you come up with.

[radu]

Thank you, Tonk. :-)
What a beautiful graphic.

*HUGZ*

[radu]

*giggle* Mr. and Mrs. Huggy Bear. Adorable!
Thanks Kathy.
*HUGZ*

[radu]

Oooops! I forgot to tell y'all that I put your sweet anniversary wishes into a draft and I've printed it off. Hubby and I want to keep them.

Thanks for making the day extra special.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Wait. That was a response.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Well he didn't get Johnny Cochrane so the "must acquit" line I wrote is wasted. What a shame.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Howdy.

[Conspiracy Guy]

mernin.

[Old Sarge]

Exactly...

Stimulating stuff...

[blackie]

We very seldom get snow in Eugene, especially this time of year ~ the last we had some this early was in 1935 ~ I wasn't livng here then ~ I was living in Elsinore, CA. :):)

[blackie]

Hi Tomkow6 ~ how're you doing? :)

[Fawnn]

Thanks for making the day extra special.

You're very welcome!

In the early days of the Internet (you know, back when MoJo was teething, circa 1996ish), I seemed to be able to stumble across neat fonts available for download online -- through the occasional searches for them or while looking at clipart, or, more often than not, because they were mentioned in Lockergnome. I kept around 300 of the ones near and dearest to my heart installed on the 'puter. Then, recently I learned just how "last week" I was because I didn't literally have thousands and thousands of fonts on the computer.

Now I have this really nice friend (MoJo) who sometimes shares the fonts she finds. When I'm not marveling that at even 1 gig RAM, my computer still keeps running out of resources, I'm plotting ways to font-fortify my meager system. <-- Doesn't that sound like one of those dorky lines from a HS yearbook? "When not marveling that her computer runs out of resources despite its 1 gig of RAM, Fawnn plots ways to add more fonts to her system." ;)

[stand watie]

i wouldn't argue w/you about AL chickenfried steak.

when i lived in the FT BENNING area, there was a joint just across the state line that made GREAT CFS!

free dixie,sw

[Radix]

Guess what I just noticed.

A possible woohoo for someone, LoL!

[Fawnn]

Guess what I just noticed.
A possible woohoo for someone, LoL!

Well, then: Why didn't you claim it? ;)