USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 10 December 2003

Canteen FRiends

[Radix]

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday, December 10, 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.

COULROPHOBIA

An irrational fear of clowns.

What, fear those delightful purveyors of slapstick comedy? One may as well go in terror of Santa Claus (but then a few people do that too, sad cases of Santa Claustrophobia). But clown humour has always embraced cruelty in its teasing and insulting of other clowns and members of the audience. Clowns represent anarchy, the personifications of unreason, and a force of nature out of control. Who knows what really lies behind their unchanging painted faces and outlandish costumes? These are all good enough reasons for even the strongest and most adult of us to feel unease in the presence of a clown. Some children are terrified by them and a surprisingly large proportion of adults confess to finding them creepy and disturbing, so much so that this word for their condition has had to be invented. It’s not old—perhaps from the 1980s—and has been taken from Greek kolon, a limb, which seems strange until you find the related kolobathristes was a stilt-walker. This seems to have been the nearest its coiner could get to a suitable classical allusion, since ancient Greek didn’t have a word for a clown in our modern sense.

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Happy Birthday

Arthur Fiedler 1896

Conductor; born in Boston, Mass. Trained as a violinist in Boston and Berlin, he joined the Boston Symphony (1915--30), first playing violin, then viola. Determined to conduct, he founded his own chamber orchestra, the Boston Sinfonietta, in 1924. In 1929 he launched the Esplanade summer series, free concerts by the Boston Symphony, along the Charles River. In 1930 he took over the Boston Pops Orchestra and for almost a half century he was the most beloved conductor of light-classical music in the U.S.A. Active in promoting music through various mediums, he was also made an honorary fire chief because of his practice of chasing every major fire, day or night, and became a familiar figure to Bostonians at the scene of the fires.

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to Riverside California.

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Happy Birthday

William Safire 1929

William Safire's Rules for Writers:

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Two confirmed bachelors sat talking, their conversation drifed from politics to cooking.

"I got a cookbook once," said one, "but I could never do anything with it."

"Too much fancy work in it, eh?" asked the other.

"You said it. Every one of the recipes began the same way -
'Take a clean dish'".  

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Happy Birthday

Bob Guccione 1930

Who let the dogs out?

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On this day:

1969 - TV history was made when Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.

Tiptoe to the window, by the window that is where I'll be
Come tiptoe through the tulips with me!
Tiptoe from your pillow, to the shadow of a willow tree
And tiptoe through the tulips with me!
Knee deep in flowers will stray, we'll keep the showers away.
And if I kiss you in the garden, in the moonlight, will you pardon me?
Come tiptoe through the tulips with me!

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On this day:

1777 - France recognized American independence.

 

 

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On this day:

1791 - A traffic regulation in New York City established the first street to go "One Way."

I am an excellent driver.

We are counting cards!

Home of Laminates.

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On this day:

1843 - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens was published.

 

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New Atomic Discovery...

The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by GM Research physisists. The element, tentatively named Administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of zero. However, it does have 1 neutron, 125 asistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons, and 111 assistant vice neutrons. This gives it an atomic number of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons.

Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction that it comes in contact with. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Adimnistratium caused one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would have normally occuered in less than one second. Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years, at which time it does not actually decay but instead undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons, and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. Some studies have shown that the atomic mass actually increases after each reorganization.

Research at other laboratories indicates that Administratium occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate at certain points such as government agencies, large corporations and universities and can usually be found in the newest, best appointed and best maintained buildings.

Scientists point out that Administratium is known to be toxic at any detectable level of concentration and can easily destroy any productive reaction where it is allowed to accumulate. Attempts are being made to determine how Administratium can be controlled to prevent irreversible damage, but results to date are not promising.

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Would you like some more Lynx with your pancakes?

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On this day:

1903 - The first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, N.C.

 Orville and Wilbur Wright made the flight.

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1969 - The U.S. Air Force closed its Project "Blue Book" by concluding that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings.

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1978 - OPEC decided to raise oil prices by 14.5% by the end of 1979.

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Real Doughboys....

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2000 - Terrell Owens (San Francisco 49ers) caught an NFL-record 20 passes for 283 yards and a touchdown against the Chicago Bears. The previous record was held by Tom Fears (Los Angeles Rams) with 18 catches on December 3, 1950, against the Green Bay Packers. Owens also broke Jerry Rice's franchise record of 16 receptions set in 1994 against the Los Angeles Rams.

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Would you like an abacus with your pancakes?

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We are counting cards.

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Aeronaut and Otto, and thank you both for your dedication to the flyover of protection for our troops' Canteen, a place where we offer a "touch of home" for our troops, our veterans, their families, and our allies. Hope you have prospects of snow.

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are,God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

Bless This House

Bless this house O Lord we pray;
Make it safe by night and day;
Bless these walls so firm and stout,
Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall,
Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove
ever open to joy and love.


Bless these windows shining bright,
Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there,
with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within,
keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be
Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we
May dwell O Lord with thee.

(Click on praying hands above, or on banner at the top to hear the music)

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Girls!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Boys!!

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Pancakes/Waffles Day !

Have a cup while you Freep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

[MeekOneGOP]

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Kathy. How's it going?(HUGS)

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all of our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your contined service to our country.

Today is the day Norton updates their anti-virus software. Be sure to update your anti-virus software.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Tonk. How's it going?

[beachn4fun]

Morning Ma. Are you well rested yet from your vacation? Are you ready to get back into the swing of being Ma at the Canteen? All the children have been well-behaved (well most of them anyway) while you've been on vacation.

[The Mayor]

The Lord has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations. —Psalm 98:2

To find joy at Christmas, look to Jesus.

[beachn4fun]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. AND YES THIS DOES INCLUDE OUR AWESOME MILITARY, THEIR FAMILIES, AND OUR ALLIES.

Radix, the pancakes look so good this morning. Even Santa has decided to join us for Pancakes on Wednesday. He's heard so much about it (so there tomkow!, Santa wants Pancakes on Wednesday, and you'd better not piss Santa off!). Now since Santa has a huge appetite, can you cook up some extra pancakes, Mr. Radix?

Ok, off to work. Will check in with you later on.

[beachn4fun]

OH OH if Dubya get kill You see some serious smackdown by our US troops

Morning Seven. oh yeah. Not only would they piss off the military, but they'd piss off a LOT of American people. NOT so good for supporters of terrorist groups living in the USA. Know what I mean?

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on December 10:
1538 Giovanni Battista Guarini Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd)
1787 Francis Gallaudet, founder of the first free school for the deaf.
1794 James Wolfe Ripley Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1805 John E Feisser theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
1805 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
1813 Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
1824 George MacDonald Scotland, fantasy author (Lilith, Princess & Curdie)
1830 Emily Dickinson (poet: Because I Could Not Stop for Death)
1851 Melville Louis Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
1882 Otto Neurath Australian/British philosopher (Foundation of Social Sciences)
1883 Andrej J Vyshinski, Russian lawyer/foreign min/UN-ambassador
1910 Dennis Morgan (singer; actor: 21 Beacon Street)
1911 TV newscaster Chet Huntley
1913 Morton Gould (composer: Fall River Legend, Billion Dollar Baby)
1914 Dorothy Lamour (Kaumeyer) (actress: Road to Singapore and other 'Road' movies with Bob Hope)
1924 Ken Albers (bass singer: group: The Four Freshmen)
1929 Dan Blocker Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
1941 Tim Considine Louisville KY, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons)
1941 Tommy Kirk (actor: Old Yeller)
1944 Steve Renko (baseball)
1946 Gloria Loring (Goff) (actress: Days of Our Lives; singer: Friends & Lovers [w/ Carl Anderson])
1952 Susan Dey (actress: The Partridge Family, L.A. Law)

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Deaths which occurred on December 10:
0969 Nicephorus II Phocas, Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered
1041 Michael IV Paphlagonicus, emperor of Byzantine, dies
1198 Averroës ibn-Rusjd Moorish philosopher, dies
1830 Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies
1896 Alfred Nobel, , dies at 63 [H]
1909 Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies
1946 Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 66
1967 Singer Otis Redding died in the crash of his private plane in Wisconsin.
1968 Karl Barth Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82
1978 Edward D Wood Jr director (Plan 9), dies of heart failure at 54
1979 Fulton J Sheen archbishop/religious broadcaster (Life is Worth Living), dies from a heart attack in New York NY at 84
1982 Freeman "Amos" Gosden US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83
1990 Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
1996 John Duffey bluegrass musician, dies at 62

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1964 SANSONE DOMINICK---NEW YORK NY.
[REMAINS POSS MIX W/VMS&BURIED,REMAINS RETURNED 07/17/84]
1964 VADEN WOODROW W.---CLARKSVILLE TN.
[REMAINS POSS MIX W/VMS&BURIED]
1967 GRZYB ROBERT H.
[09/04/68 DIC ON PRG LIST]
1971 MC INTIRE SCOTT W.---ALBUQUERQUE NM.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0741 Zacharias becomes Pope
1294 Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
1582 France begins use of Gregorian calendar
1652 Sea battle at Dungeness: Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
1672 New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston
1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester
1799 Metric system established in France
1810 Tom Cribb (Great Britain) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)
1816 Dutch regain Sumatra
1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state
1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1864 General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1887 Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan
1896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam
1899 1st defeat of "Black Week" - Battle at Stormberg South Africa - Boers vs British army; nearly 3000 British troops killed
1901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
1904 King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime
1906 1st American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - President Theodore Roosevelt
1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
1911 Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1914 French government returns to Paris
1915 President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
1919 National League votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
1920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
1922 Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein
1923 Polish government of Grabski, forms
1924 Agreement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
1925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
1926 1st radio broadcast in the Springfield IL area (WCBS)
1926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville TN
1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1931 Manuel Azaña becomes premier/Niceto Zamora President of Spain
1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
1936 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1936 King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
1939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat New York Giants 27-0
1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 Japanese troops land on northern Luzon in the Philippines
1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherlands people"
1942 North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under Colonel-General von Arnim
1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1944 German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
1947 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1950 1st black American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - Ralph J Bunche
1952 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd President of Israel
1952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1956 Establishment of MPLA in Angola
1958 1st domestic (New York-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1958 University of Pittsburgh agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
1961 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad NM (underground)
1961 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
1962 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
1963 6 year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on the Andy Williams Show
1963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1970 North American Soccer League awards New York & Toronto franchises
1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
1974 Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champion
1976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadiens
1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1981 El Salvador army kills 900
1982 Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat New York Jets 34-7
1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
1983 58th Australian Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76)
1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
1985 Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1986 Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
1986 France performs nuclear test
1988 Massive Earthquake in Armenia kills 100,000 in cities of Leninakan & Spitak
1988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Montréal Canadiens
1989 President Gustav Husák of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1990 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
1991 TV commentator Patrick Buchanan announced a bid to challenge President Bush for the Republican presidential nomination.
1993 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
1994 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
1994 Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat
1995 Michael Slater scores 219 vs Sri Lanka at the WACA
1995 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Australia vs Sri Lanka, WACA)
1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
2000 In Washington, lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush filed briefs outlining their cases to be argued the next day before the U.S. Supreme Court.
2000 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak submitted his resignation, starting the countdown toward a special election.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Khmer Republic : Rights of Man Day
Mississippi : Admission Day (1817)
Stockholm, Sweden : Nobel Prize presentation Day (1896)
Thailand : Constitution Day (1932)
UN, Equatorial Guinea : Human Rights Day (1948)
World : World Freedom Day
Wyoming : Wyoming Day (women's suffrage) (1869)
Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini (50-80 per hour) (thru 12-16)

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Religious Observances
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Melchiades, pope (311-14) & martyr

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Religious History
1520 German reformer Martin Luther publicly burned Pope Leo X's bull, "Exsurge Domine," which had demanded that Luther recant his "protestant" heresies, including that of justification by faith alone rather than through purchased indulgences or other papal favors.
1593 Italian archaeologist Antonio Bosio first descended into the subterranean Christian burial chambers, located under the streets of Rome. Bosio was dubbed the "Columbus of the Catacombs," and his books long remained the standard work on the underground tombs of the early Roman Church.
1854 The second construction of the structure known as St Paul's Outside the Walls was consecrated. The church is one of four major basilicas in Rome. The original edifice was erected by Roman emperor Constantine in 324, and rebuilt as a larger basilica in the late fourth century by the Emperor Honorius (395).
1905 "The Gift of the Magi," a short story by William Sydney Porter, 43, was first published. Known by his pen name, O. Henry, Porter's writings were characterized by trick endings, making him a master of short story telling.
1956 English Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'In so far as the things unseen are manifested by the things seen, one might from one point of view call the whole material universe an allegory.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average."

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Question of the day...
If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

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Murphys Law of the day...(Anthony's Law of Force)
Don't force it, get a larger hammer.

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Astounding fact #6,986...
The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.

[beachn4fun]

GOOD MORNING MR. TONK

[beachn4fun]

Good morning Auntie Fawnn. What's cooking? LOL......On the next wOOhOO awarded, can you send the one with the Christmas wreaths? I'd like to copy it to my files.

[beachn4fun]

Murphys Law of the day...(Anthony's Law of Force) Don't force it, get a larger hammer.

Good morning Valin. You know, I do believe Murphy was a woman!

[beachn4fun]

GOOD MORNING.