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FReeper Canteen ~ Holiday Music Festival For Our Troops ~ 10 DEC 2005
Serving The Best Troops In The World
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Posted on 12/09/2005 5:39:17 PM PST by MoJo2001
 
Music For Our Troops
-All music is removed on Mondays.
Support the artists below by going to the following links: ArtistDirect.com l Amazon.com l Walmart.com l Ticketmaster.com l Google.com l
Songfacts.com l Billboard.com l Audiophile.com l Wherehouse.com l Sonique l
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Shout Cast l Launch Music l Live-Radio Net l Christmas By Song O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) This section takes an individual Christmas song and then provides you with as many different artists performing it for you to enjoy. We will not be playing all the artists and versions that we have. We don't have the space, but we feel you'll get enough variations to enjoy yourself. Background Information: The Englishman, John Francis Wade, wrote both the words and the music, Adeste Fideles. The Musical score was first published in 1782 in Samuel Webbe's An Essay on the Church Plain Chant in 1782. John Francis Wade first included it in his own 1751 publication of Cantus Diversi. The lyrics were first published in 1760.
If you hear someone using tissues, it's MoJo. This song has watery effects. To our British and Aussie allies, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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Music For Our Troops
-All music is removed on Mondays.
Support the artists below by going to the following links: ArtistDirect.com l Amazon.com l Walmart.com l Ticketmaster.com l Google.com l
Songfacts.com l Billboard.com l Audiophile.com l Wherehouse.com l Sonique l
MTV.com l VH1.com l CMT.com l MuchMusic.com l Audio Realm l MSN Radio l
Shout Cast l Launch Music l Live-Radio Net l Christmas By Song Joy To The World
Background Info: Joy to the World
The words and lyrics of the old Christmas carol 'Joy to the World' were written in 1719 by Isaac Watts (1674-1748). The father of John Watts was a Non-conformist and so extreme were his views that he was imprisoned twice. His father's influence over Isaac was demonstrated when he choose to attend Nonconformist Academy at Stoke Newington in preference to a University. Watts was ordained as a Pastor of an Independent congregation. He wrote many hymns and Carols and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree by the the University of Edinburgh in 1728. The music to the carol is by George Frederick Handel (1685-1759). MoJo Thought:
Have you ever noticed while reading articles that when referring to GOD that many folks decide to write it *G-D*? What is that? Is it supposed to mean that it is less potent and offensive by keeping the *o* from appearing? My suggestion to these folks isn't to use God at all. If you can't add the *o*, don't write it. This is true for those of you that believe or don't.
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To: tomkow6
Good afternoon Tomkow6 on this sun-is-shining-on -the-snow day.
1,181
posted on
12/10/2005 12:21:47 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: EsmeraldaA
Music bumps for posts 1165 and 1179.
To: Kathy in Alaska
900...woo hoo!
(Those are sugar-free gingerbread guys, huh?)
A good weekend to you Kathy.
1,183
posted on
12/10/2005 12:23:26 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: WakeUpAndVote
BRO!!!
Phones got cut off partway thru the conversation...
Gotta keep this sattelite dish up and pumping. It's helped so many folks here.
And, just FYI: no repeat of Blazing Saddles... yet...
1,184
posted on
12/10/2005 12:24:25 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
To: EsmeraldaA
MMMMMMMmmm, could be...
1,185
posted on
12/10/2005 12:26:09 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
To: 2LT Radix jr; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; 80 Square Miles; acad1228; AirForceMom; Alas Babylon!; ...
If you would like to be added/removed from the Canteen Ping List,
please FReepmail MoJo2001 or Kathy In Alaska.
Aerosmith ~~ Rag Doll
Genre: Rock
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This a favorite from them............what? so sue me.
Please ping laurenmarlowe to any requests that you may have. Thank you!
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To: Old Sarge
You have to give it time to brew.
Any request on box 13 or send more of the same?
1,187
posted on
12/10/2005 12:26:45 PM PST
by
WakeUpAndVote
(Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy since 1992!)
To: WakeUpAndVote
More of same is good, but looking at the pics, you know what I'm short on...
1,188
posted on
12/10/2005 12:27:33 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
To: Old Sarge
1,189
posted on
12/10/2005 12:28:04 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Season's Greeting~)
To: Cindy
Of course they are sugar-free. Nothing less will do. LOL!
1,190
posted on
12/10/2005 12:28:45 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Season's Greeting~)
To: MS.BEHAVIN; Old Sarge; All
Have you seen the new Nordicware (www.nordicware.com) castle bundt pan? I love it! It makes a cake that looks like this:
1,191
posted on
12/10/2005 12:28:48 PM PST
by
Fawnn
(Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
To: Fawnn
Howdy Fawn.
Enjoying your cartoons.
1,192
posted on
12/10/2005 12:29:38 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
("You cannot kill hope with bombs and bullets." Sgt Clay.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Good enough for me...
1,193
posted on
12/10/2005 12:30:17 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
To: TASMANIANRED
1,194
posted on
12/10/2005 12:30:43 PM PST
by
Fawnn
(Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
To: MS.BEHAVIN
1,195
posted on
12/10/2005 12:31:56 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
("You cannot kill hope with bombs and bullets." Sgt Clay.)
To: All
Wow! Duke just stomped all over TX in basketball.
97 - 66.
1,196
posted on
12/10/2005 12:32:16 PM PST
by
El Gran Salseron
(The FR Canteen's Resident E. O. M. C. P......)
To: Kathy in Alaska; Valin; alfa6; bentfeather
Door stops and anchors are good uses of fruit cakes. LOL! From the tales of Uncle Frank
~A Christmas Story~
Francis Drake's Discovery of Fruitcake
a bit of humor ~ for Julie
Has Aunt Matilda sent you a fruitcake for the holidays, a brick-like affair that looks and feels exactly like the one you found five years ago, forgotten in the back of a cupboard, and shipped to your cousin Rolf in secret retaliation for his previous year's gift of the stale gourmet peanut brittle that cost you fourteen hundred dollars in new bridgework? Did Rolf, suspecting skullduggery, press the thing into service as a bookend for a couple of years and then send it off, perhaps to his sister Gert (they never liked each other) who next launched it, freshly wrapped of course but otherwise cost-free (if not priceless) to her miserly Uncle Albert - Matilda's cousin? Has Aunt Matilda, though nobody's fool, now miscalculated the track of this fruitcake and landed it back with you, where it started? Not quite, because it didn't just fall out of the blue into that cupboard of yours in the first place; but you can't really remember where it did come from, can you? Consider this:
It was nearly Christmas 1579 as Francis Drake and his crew sailed the Golden Hind into the waters of what is now called the Indonesian Archipelago. They were two-thirds through their three-year "famous voyage" around the world, flush with victory and plunder. Drake was hoping to cap off the journey by gaining a potential commercial toehold for England in the region - and in the process he hoped to perhaps acquire a few tons of precious spices. Not least of all, he also needed to reprovision the Golden Hind for the long westward sail across the Indian Ocean. The wheeling and dealing to meet the first two goals, in which Drake succeeded as usual, had the side effect of meeting the last. But the consequences were felt far beyond the Golden Hind's larder, as we shall see.
In negotiating for trading contracts and spices, Drake came to meet the king of the island of Ternate, Babu. King Babu, whose impressive court and trappings are vividly described in the 1628 chronicle of the circumnavigation The World Encompassed, was interested in a potential military alliance with the English. In the course of various meetings, provisions were delivered to the Golden Hind:
"Accordingly ... we received what was there to be had ...an imperfect liquid sugar, a fruit ... cocoes ... and a kind of meal ...; whereof they make a kinde of cake which will keepe good at least 10 years; of this last we made the greatest quantity of our provision ..." The World Encompassed, p.89
However, shortly after leaving Teranate Drake found an uninhabited and bountiful little island where the Golden Hind stayed for 26 days while repairs were made and an abundance of food was gathered. Thus King Babu's fruitcakes were not needed after all and, as was to become the norm, were promptly forgotten - tucked away in the nooks and crannies of the Golden Hind. When she arrived home in England and after all the silver and gold and other treasure had been unloaded, a few were found here and there - some no doubt having been used as wheel-chocks for cannon carriages, others as doorstops and perhaps as caulking-mallets - but most were discovered lying innocently in the bottom of the ship, looking like ballast stones (and nearly as heavy).
On mention of the confections (to stretch the term) to Drake by those charged with placing the Golden Hind on display at Deptford, he shrugged and, it again almost being Christmas, casually ordered that they be distributed among the townsfolk. Drake never realized that with this mild remark he had fired a broadside equal to any he ever touched off against an invading armada, a rippling cascade of indestructible oblong cannon balls that ricochet without end through time and space, carooming worldwide through cuboards and closets - including yours and Aunt Matilda's - and that occasionally become briefly visible beneath a Christmas tree, towards the back of the pile of presents, where once noticed they invariably elicit a comment like "Who's that from? You know, it sure does look just like that fruitcake we sent Uncle Charlie in '86."
~Happy Holidays~
Author's note: Drake's visit to Teranate, King Babu, the quotation from the W.E. and the visit to the uninhabited island are all real; the rest is of course, ah, creative speculation. - Oliver Seeler
To: Diva Betsy Ross; Azbushgal
Good job with the vitamin c, DBR. Added to some soup and meds, maybe we can get her into tiptop shape before her Marine comes home.
1,198
posted on
12/10/2005 12:34:30 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Season's Greeting~)
To: Kathy in Alaska
MINE?
1,199
posted on
12/10/2005 12:35:00 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
To: Kathy in Alaska
MINE?
1,200
posted on
12/10/2005 12:35:03 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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