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

 

[Conspiracy Guy]

They are a peaceful people. They are here to help. You can learn more about them in Kurt Vonnegut's book "Breakfast of Champions".

[beachn4fun]

Now for your birthday Linda.....Here's a little money to go shopping with..... and then we can take you over to my island for the day......Then we can take you out on the yacht..... for a while and sail you on home before midnight! How's that?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I had scrabbled eggs, bacon, and homemade biscuits.

[beachn4fun]

in Kurt Vonnegut's book "Breakfast of Champions"

Wait a minute....."Pancakes on Wednesdays" is the Breakfast of Champions

[tomkow6]

For our Canteen WAFFLE Specialist, MR. RADIX,
Catch 

Pancakes on Wednesdays

WAFFLES ON WEDNESDAY!

WAFFLES ON WEDNESDAY!

WAFFLES ON WEDNESDAY!

[Soaring Feather]

[Conspiracy Guy]

Of course it is. Why do you think I went where I went. I always have a plan. I set aside 2 hours a day for spontaneity. Every day.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning Captain!

Post #13 is an absolute howl!

[Soaring Feather]

Lovely flowers this morning.

Thank you men.

[Soaring Feather]

The Pen IS Mightier than the Sword!

Mr. Tonkin!!!

I am a poet, of course the Pen is mightier than the Sword!!

sheeeesh

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning Tom.

Let's see if one day can pass when you don't moon me.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning beachn.

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS North Dakota (BB-29)

Delaware class battleship
displacement. 20,000 t.
length. 518'9"
beam. 85'3"
draft. 26'11"
speed. 21 k.
complement. 933
armament. 10 12", 14 5", 4 3-pdrs., 2 21" tt.

North Dakota (BB-29) was laid down 16 December 1907 by Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.; launched 10 November 1908; sponsored by Miss Mary Benton; and commissioned at Boston 11 April 1910, Comdr. Charles P. Plunkett in command.

In her first years North Dakota operated with the Atlantic Fleet in maneuvers along the East Coast and in the Caribbean. She sailed 2 November 1910 for her first Atlantic crossing, visiting England and France prior to winter-spring maneuvers in the Caribbean. In the summers of 1912 and 1913 she carried Naval Academy midshipmen for training in New England waters, and on 1 January 1913 she joined the honor escort for Natal as the Brazilian ship entered New York harbor with the body of the late Whitelaw Reid, United States Ambassador to Brazil.

As Mexican political disturbances strained relations with the United States, North Dakota sailed for Vera Cruz, where she arrived 26 April 1914, five days after American sailors had occupied the city. She cruised the coast of Mexico to protest Americans and their interests until a more stable government took office, and returned to Norfolk 16 October. An even more intensive program of training was taken up by the Atlantic Fleet as war threatened, and North Dakota was in Chesapeake Bay for gunnery drills when the United States entered World War I.

Throughout the war, North Dakota operated in the York River, Va., and out of New York training gunners and engineers for the expanding fleet. Then, on 13 November 1919, she stood out of Norfolk to carry home the remains of the late Italian Ambassador to the United States. While in the Mediterranean she sailed at Athens, Constantinople, Valencia, and Gibraltar before returning to the Caribbean for the annual spring maneuvers. In the summer of 1921, she took part in the Army-Navy bombing tests off the Virginia Capes in which the German warships Frankfurt and Ostfriesland were sunk to demonstrate the potentialities of airpower. She interrupted fleet operations during the next two summers to again cruise with midshipmen, contributing to the future strength of the Navy by educating its officers-to-be. The cruise of 1923 took her to Scandinavia, Scotland, and Spain.

North Dakota decommissioned at Norfolk 22 November 1923. Her name was struck from the Navy List 7 January 1931, and she was sold for scrapping 16 March 1931.

Big Guns in Action!

[Soaring Feather]

Happy Birthday Goddess!!

[MoJo2001]

 

GOOD MORNING

TROOPS AND CANTEEN!

I HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING A GREAT DAY!

INDEED IT IS PANCAKES ON WEDNESDAY!

THANK YOU FOR SPENDING YOUR TIME WITH US!

WE ARE HUMBLED!

 

 

Guess what??

Our Goddess is 21 today!! Woohooo!!!  

(Click on Betty for a special song!)

Thank you for all you do for the Canteen, our Troops, and their families! Have a wonderful birthday! Here's to many many more!



   

[beachn4fun]

Good morning Ms. Feather.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning Mojo. Ah, I noticed your bellybutton this morning and I need to tell you ..... you are much too skinny! Please eat plenty of turkey and pie next week. OK?

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning Little Diva!!

[Old Sarge]

Many star-spangled hand-springing three-cheering Happy Returns Of The Day! to our lovely, talented, generous Canteen co-sponsor, LindaSOG!!

How did I rate on the humble meter?

[beachn4fun]

HELLO! SevenofNine.....are you still sleeping? It is time to get up and give us an update on what is happening in the world! WAKE UP!!!!HELLO!