FReeper Canteen ~ Camp Run-A-Muk! ~ Last Minute Gifts! ~ WooHoo! ~ Friday, December 17, 2004

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December 17, 2004
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Tom, Great Christmas music!

But my fiery redheaded secretary wants to hear "The Twelve Things I Hate About Christmas".

She called in sick yesterday, but I think she was out shopping, 'cause she's in a snitty mood today.

Good morning, Uncleshag!

Good morning, Fawnn!

Good morning, Gummy!

Good morning, Mylife!

Good morning, Beachy!

Good morning, Acad!

I don't have that Christmas claasic!

Thanks for all those Gift Ideas...very, very interesting, especially the crazy cat woman doll with all her cats. Honestly though, I think I have punched John Kerry enough.

no prob. someone does.

This gives new meaning to "do not put you candle under a burqua"

Good morning, Mr. Tom and the rest of the troops!

Tomkow - word on the street is that you have a holiday line of burkas. True? False? "Got any pitchers"?

Good morning Tom.

I can't tell you what I think of every time I see women dressed like this! People might misinterpret my ire for feminism.

Good morning to you too . . . thank you for the tunes, they're top notch also . . . ;-)

Merry Christmas

And a very Good Morning to you, Sir!

-- use the knife to carve your lover's initials on a fence post. Use the nail file to file it away once you dump him. Use the perfume bottle to attract a replacement. Use the flashlight to show him the door when you dump him. About the only thing you can't do with it is use the needle & thread to mend your broken heart.

Just too dang good , I tell ya what!

As an American Woman, it is hard to imagine being confined under the weight of all that "dark" fabric, and I certainly understand your Ire. Isn't it funny , "ire" is a part of "Ire"land? Reminds me of this joke, the definition of an Irish woman, is a Woman who can tell her man to go to hell, and he is glad to go. :-)

Hey..gimee My BALL back!!

Go to sleep!!

Hush..I said!!

I was COLD..thankyou:>))

Nice Doggie..GOOD boy:>))

I'm TIRED!

We'll sleep in today, THANK YOU!

Is it morning, already?

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on December 17:
1706 Gabrielle Châtelet [La belle Emilie] French writer (Voltaire)
1734 William Floyd US soldier/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1778 Sir Humphrey Davy discovered several chemical elements
1797 Joseph Henry US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
1824 John Kerr System physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect)
1824 Manning Ferguson Force Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1835 Alexander E Agassiz US, businessman/biologist/geology
1873 Ford Madox Ford England, novelist/editor (The Inheritors)
1874 William Lyon Mackenzie King (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
1894 Arthur Fiedler Boston MA, conductor (Boston Pops)
1894 Hans [Henry] Kramers Dutch theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics)
1903 Erskine P Caldwell author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
1908 Willard Frank Libby inventor (carbon-14 "atomic clock" (Nobel 1960))
1935 Cal Ripken Sr baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles)
1939 Eddie Kendricks Alabama, rocker (Temptations-My Girl, Boogie Down)
1942 Paul Butterfield Chicago IL, blues musician (Better Days)
1944 Jack L Chalker US, sci-fi author (Charon: A Dragon at the Gate, Saga of Well World)
1970 Benedictine [St Bernard] becomes heaviest known dog (137 kg)

Deaths which occurred on December 17:
0695 Begga ancestress of the Carolingians/saint, dies
1187 Gregory VIII [Alberto de Morra] Italian Pope (1187), dies
1679 Don Juan ruler of Spain, dies
1830 Simon Bolivar President of Colombia, dies at 47 in Colombia
1891 Msiri king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle
1899 Frederick "Freddy" Roberts son of British field marshal, dies in battle
1909 Leopold II king of Belgium dies
1957 Dorothy Leigh Sayers [Atherton Fleming] author (Whose body), dies at 64
1967 Harold Holt Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1969 Arturo da Costa e Silva President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67
1973 Charles G Abbot US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101
1991 John Blatnik (Representative-MN, 1947-75), dies at 80
1992 Dana Andrews actor (Laura, Best Years of Our Lives), dies of pneumonia in Los Alamitos at 83
1993 Janet Margolin US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1967 BOYER TERRY L.---VISALIA CA.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1967 ELLIS JEFFREY T.---CALDWELL NJ.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 FLEENOR KENNETH R.---BOWLING GREEN KY.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]

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

On this day...
Just one thing after another.

AND
1903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
The brothers' own account, transmitted by The Associated Press on Jan. 5, 1904, and retransmitted for the 75th anniversary in December 1978. Punctuation, spelling and style are from the original typewritten document.

DAYTON, Ohio -- It had not been our intention to make any detailed public statement concerning the private trials of our power "Flyer" on the 17th of December last; but since the contents of a private telegram announcing to our folks at home the success of our trials, was dishonestly communicated to the newspapermen at the Norfolk office, and led to the imposition upon the public, by persons who never saw the "Flyer" or its flights, of a fictitious story incorrect in almost every detail; and since this story together with several pretended interviews or statements, which were fakes, pure and simple, have been widely disseminated, we feel impelled to make some correction.
The real facts were as follows:
On the morning of December 17th, between the hours of 10:30 o'clock and noon, four flights were made, two by Orville Wright and two by Wilbur Wright. The starts were all made from a point on the level sand about 200 feet west of our camp, which is located a quarter of a mile north of the Kill Devil sand hill, in Dare County, North Carolina.
The wind at the time of the flights had a velocity of 2 miles an hour at ten o'clock, and 24 miles an hour at noon, as recorded by the anemometer at the Kitty Hawk Weather Bureau Station.

This anemometer is thirty feet from the ground. Ground measurements, made with a hand anemometer at a height of four feet from the ground, showed a velocity of about 22 miles when the first flight was made, and 20 1/2 miles at the time of the last one.
The flights were directly against the wind. Each time the machine started from the level ground by its own power alone with no assistance from gravity, or any other source whatever.
After a run of about 40 feet along a monorail track, which held the machine eight inches from the ground, it rose from the track and under the direction of the operator, climbed upward on an inclined course until eight or ten feet from the ground was reached, after the course was kept as near horizontal as the wind gusts and the limited skill of the operator would permit.
Into the teeth of a December gale the "Flyer" made its way forward with a speed of ten miles an hour over the ground and 30-35 miles an hour air.
It had previously been decided that for reasons of personal safety these first trials would be made as close to the ground as possible. The height chosen was scarcely sufficient for maneuvering in so gusty a wind and with previous acquaintence with the conduct of the machine and its controlling mechanisms. Consequently the first flight was short.
The succeeding flights rapidly increased in length and at the fourth trial a flight of fifty-nine seconds was made, in which time the machine flew a little more than a half a mile through the air, and a distance of 852 feet over the ground.
The landing was due to a slight error of judgement on the part of the aviator. After passing over a little hummock of sand, in attempting to bring the machine down to the desired height, the operator turned the rudder too far; and the machine downward more quickly than had been expected. Reverse movement of the rudder was a fraction of a second too late to prevent the machine from touching the ground and thus ending the flight. The whole occurence occupied little, if any, more than one second of time.
Only those who are acquainted with practical aeronautics can appreciate the difficulties of attempting the first trails of a flying machine in a twenty five mile gale. As winter already was well set in, should have postponed our trails to a more favorable season, but for the fact that we were determined, before returning home, to know whether the machine possessed sufficient power to fly, sufficient strength to sustain the shocks of landings, and sufficient capacity of control to make flight safe in boisterous winds as well as in calm air.
When these points had been definitely established, we at once packed our goods and returned home, knowing that the age of the flying machine had come at last.
From the beginning we have employed entirely new principles of control; and as all the experiments have been conducted at our own expense without assistance from any individual or institution, we do not feel ready at present to giveout any pictures or detailed discription of the machine.

And the rest is history

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

Bhutan : Ascension to the throne of the 1st King/National Day
Colombia : Independence Day (1819)
US : Pan American Aviation Day/Wright Brothers Day (1903)
US : Tell Someone They're Doing A Good Job Week (Day 4)
Venezuela : Bolivar Day (1830)
World : Underdog Day (Friday)
Ancient Rome : Saturnalia
Hi Neighbor Month

Religious Observances
Christian : Fiesta of the Virgin of the Lonely
Anglican, Roman Catholic : Ember Day

Religious History
1843 Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was first published. The "social conversion" of Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve may be seen as a literary symbol (based on the events of the first Christmas night) of the human potential released through spiritual conversion.
1917 Confiscation of the property of the Russian Orthodox Church and abolition of religious instruction in schools was announced by the Bolshevik government.
1920 The first orphanage founded by the Church of God opened in Cleveland, Tennessee. Its establishment was the result of the vision and efforts of Church of God pioneer, A.J. Tomlinson.
1934 Birth of Kurt Kaiser, contemporary American Christian songwriter and composer. His abiding works include: "Oh, How He Loves You and Me," "Pass It On" and "Master Designer."
1943 German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.'

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

Thought for the day :
"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary."

Modern Lies...
You get this one and I'll pay next time.

How to tick off Santa Claus...
Leave him a note, explaining that you've gone away for the holidays. Ask if he would mind watering your plants

The Rules of Chocolate...
If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.

Famous Last Words...
I'll get your toast out.