FReeper Canteen - Scuttlebutt - 5 Oct 2012

Our Troops Rock! | The Canteen Crew

[AZamericonnie]

 

 

At the FReeper Canteen!

C'mon and take a break ! Walk on over to the water cooler and lets chat. Post your thoughts, opinions, news of the day, rantings, ravings, pontificates, hypothesis, hyperboles, your soap box cause, your mantra, your baggage, your garbage, your blogging, your secrets, whatever you feel would make talk around the water cooler real interesting!

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.  

 

 

*Yogi Berra Quotes*

"All pitchers are liars or crybabies."

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." Source: Baseball Digest (June 1987)

"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."

"Bill Dickey is learning me his experience."

"He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."

"How can a you hit and think at the same time?"

"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."

"I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five."

"I don't know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads."

"If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?"

"I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

"In baseball, you don't know nothing."

"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?"

"I never said most of the things I said."

"It ain't the heat, it's the humility."

"It gets late early out there."

"I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."

"It's like deja vu all over again."

"I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field."

"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."

"Ninety percent of this game is half mental."

"Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."

"So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face."

"Take it with a grin of salt."

"The game's isn't over until it's over."

"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."

"You can observe a lot just by watching."

"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there."

"We made too many wrong mistakes."

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

 

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~When The Heat is On, New Face Paint Keeps Soldiers Safe ~

Face paint isn’t just for looks anymore. Recently, U.S. researchers have developed a camouflage face paint that can withstand the heat from a bomb blast and protect soldiers from severe burns during combat.

The face paint that soldiers have used makes the radiative heat from bomb blasts worse because it contains oil and wax, according to a Gizmodo article.

Researchers at the University of Southern Mississippi were given funding by the U.S. Department of Defense to create a heat-resistant product that would keep soldiers safe. Robert Lochhead, a professor of polymer science at the university, presented the material to the American Chemical Society about three weeks ago. “The detonation of a roadside bomb or any other powerful explosive produces two dangerous blasts,” Lochhead said in a news release from the American Chemical Society. “First comes a blast wave of high pressure that spreads out at supersonic speeds and can cause devastating internal injuries. A thermal blast follows almost instantaneously. It is a wave of heat that exceeds 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s as hot as a burning cigarette. The thermal blast lasts only two seconds, but it can literally cook the face, hands and other exposed skin.”

To shield skin from this heat, the team of researchers formulated a camouflage makeup that acts as a protective barrier to the face and hands for 15 seconds before a first-degree burn would appear, according to the release. This time would give soldiers a chance to move away from the heat.

The face paint consists of silicones, which absorb radiation and are not as flammable. It is also waterproof and insect proof, as DEET, surrounded by a hydrogel substance, was added to the formula. The release states that Lochhead and his team have plans to transfer the usefulness of this material to tents, clothes and other military items.

*More info here*

 

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

God Bless you good, Mac. Good night and rest well. Thanks for helping honor our troops, past and present.
Thank you for your service to our country.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, MrZ...((HUGS))...congratulations on your SCCA competition license!

Have fun at the vintage race.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Mac, for the National Anthem....I really enjoy these Irish Tenors.

[SandRat]

Out of 200 units in the Western Region including HI and Japan we are #9 and the only District in Council that is Gold.

[SandRat]

There is one in the offering.

The BP Agent that was Killed two weeks ago in the news was an Eagle Scout.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Glad you are home safe and sound. ((HUGS))

Congratulations on being #9!! That’s a big deal.

How’s Maddie? Still working on the rolling bit?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Mac...*HUGS*...happy Friday.

Hurrah for you....leg is healing well and back to work! Still using your walker? Surely not crutches.....I hate them.

[Kathy in Alaska]

My, my, my....Yogi was quite the character.

[Kathy in Alaska]

G’Day, Janey...((HUGS))...love the flight from Oz.

Great pictures...thanks to you and Dad and friends.

Are you having a nice spring? Was your “trip” good?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the gang.

AZ.....#50!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.

Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.

Thanks, unique, for the pastries.

Coffee is always on........

How about a donut?

Cookies?

Veggies?

Sandwich?

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.

Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art

[E.G.C.]

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

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

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone.

Good morning to our

Military, our Allies, and their families.

(thanks unique1 for graphics)

Thank you, Connie, for preparing the Canteen for today’s activities.

The DC Metroland weather report

~ Today...Sunny. Warm. High 83F.
Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.

~ Tonight...Mostly clear. Low 59F.
Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

I am off work today for the holiday weekend.
Will be leaving shortly to do a few chores
before heading to Richmond to pick up
granddaughter from college so that she can
go with us to NJ on Saturday.
But, hey, Monday is a holiday and I will be able
to stick around a little longer.

Right now I need to make my rounds.
Get in a few hellos before I have to sign off.
But, you stay right where you are.
Don't leave the room...I'll be bock!

Remember, the Canteen is

Come in and sit for a while.
There's always plenty of coffee, tea
pancakes, conversation, silliness,
and plain old BS

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Showing support and boosting the morale
of our military and our allied military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

[tomkow6]

 

 

 

 

 Good morning,

EVERYBODY!

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!

 

 

SAVE BIG BIRD!

 

 

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.  
 

 

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Tomkow6.

((HUGS))Good morning, Beach.

How's it going?

[tomkow6]

HAPPY FRIDAY, Edward!

[beachn4fun]

Good morning EG ((HUGS))

Doing some cleaning.

whatz up out your way?