USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 21 May 2003

FRiends of the USO Canteen ~ Radix

[Radix]

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday May 21, 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.

One entry found for radix

Main Entry: ra•dix
Pronunciation: 'rA-diks
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural ra•di•ces /'rA-d&-"sEz, 'ra-/;
or ra•dix•es /'rA-dik-s&z/
Etymology: Latin, root -- more at ROOT
Date: 1798
1 : the base of a number system or of logarithms
2 : the primary source

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Wednesday 21 May 1980 - The movie "The Empire Strikes Back" was released

The Deleted Scene  

A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke's hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes there's nowhere to go but straight down.

Darth Vader: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.

Luke: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!

Darth Vader: No, Luke... I am your father!

Luke: No. It can't be. That's not true. That's impossible!

Darth Vader: Search your feelings Luke... you know them to be true.

Luke: NOOoooo!

Darth Vader: Yes, it is true... and you know what else? You know that brass droid of yours?

Luke: Threepio?

Darth Vader: Yes... Threepio... I built him... when I was 7 years old.

Luke: No! ... Wait, huh?

Darth Vader: Seven years old. And what have you done? Look at yourself. No hand. No job. And you couldn't even levitate your own ship out of the swamp...

Luke: But... I destroyed your precious Death Star!

Darth Vader: But that was when you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed an entire Trade Federation Droid Control ship!

Luke: Well, it's not my fault...

Darth Vader: Oh, here we go... "Poor me... my father never gave me what I wanted for my birthday... boo hoo, my daddy's the Dark Lord of the Sith... Nobody loved me... waahhh wahhh!"

Luke: Shut up!

Darth Vader: You're a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had already exterminated the Jedi knights!

Luke: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon.

Darth Vader: Oh, for the love of the Emperor... 10 years old, winner of the Boonta Eve Open... the Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer... right here baby!

Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards it.

Darth Vader: I was wrong... You're not my kid... I don't know whose you are, but you sure ain't mine.

Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft.

Darth Vader looks down after him.

Darth Vader: And get a haircut!

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Wednesday 21 May 1941 - The first U.S. ship, the SS Robin Moor, was sunk by a U-boat

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Bananas on Pancakes

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Fallen Pancakes

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Definitely not a Wednesday - 21 May 1945

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart were married.

We had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall

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We are counting cards.

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Wednesday 21 May 1947

Joe DiMaggio and five of his New York Yankee teammates were fined $100 because they had not fulfilled contract requirements to do promotional duties for the team

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Pancakes

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About a hundred dollars

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Not Wednesday - definitely not Wednesday 21 May 1998

 Microsoft and Sega announced that they are collaborating on a home video game system.

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If there were no such thing as Pi then circles would look like this.

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

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[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the USO Canteen FReeper Style, where we honor, every day, our troops, our veterans, their families, and our allies. Please thank your Bud for his service to our country.

Enjoy!

[Kathy in Alaska]

WORKING WOMAN — Air Force Senior Airman Kathleen Michael, a radar maintenance technician with the 728th Air Control Squadron, deployed from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., takes a break from building a Control Reporting Center at Baghdad Air Base, Iraq. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Cherie A. Thurlby

STANDING WATCH — A U.S. Marine with 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, stands perimeter watch around an explosive ordnance disposal team in Al Hay, Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mauricio Campino

Gotta go to a lunch meeting. Yuck!! Don't they understand it's time to post pictures of our troops? Back in a bit.

[never4get]

Will do and let me say that is the breakfast I was looking ofr...or perhaps a late brunch?

[Radix]

1996 Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win

 

2003 Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens faces the Red Sox tonight for his 153rd loss

 

 

 

[Radix]

 

Daniel Shea, a Naval Academy midshipman, sits atop the 21-foot-tall, greased Herndon Monument at the academy in Annapolis, Md., on Monday as he struggles to free a plebe hat and replace it with an upperclassman’s hat.

 

 

 

 

 

Midshipman Daniel Shea, a 20-year-old from Lake Grove, N.Y., sits atop the Herndon Monument at the academy in Annapolis, Md., on Monday, during a right of passage for freshmen.

 

 

 

 

The Naval Academy’s class of 2006 took one hour and 19 minutes to hoist Midshipman Daniel Shea up a greased granite obelisk and retrieve a hat glued to the top.

 

 

 

 

Capt. Mary Melfi gets a kiss from her dog after she returned from Operation Iraqi Freedom to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base on Tuesday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spc. Jennings, left, and Spc. Fillion, right, of the California Army National Guard stand watch at Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Tuesday.

 

 

 

 

Amanda Crockett, left, smiles as her husband, Staff Sgt. Richard Crockett, holds their son up in the air. Crockett’s unit returned from overseas early Tuesday evening to Twenty Nine Palms, Calif.

 

 

 

 

 

Soldiers cruise past the Al Najah movie theater as they patrol the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday.

 

 

 

 

 

Kurdish women greet soldiers from the 4th Infantry as the troops search for wanted former Saddam Hussein loyalists in Hawija, Iraq, on Tuesday.

[MoJo2001]

Thanks Mom! This is what higher education is all about! Woohoo!! LOL!

Okay, Radix! I'm such a sucker for the photos of our troops with their kids!! I wonder why the monitor always gets sooo blurry after looking at these photos. Hmmm...! Thanks for posting the pictures!!Excellent!

[Bethbg79]

WooHoooo! Hey Sis!

(((HUGS)))

[MoJo2001]

Hey Sis! How are you?? Hope all is well! I'm getting ready to make dinner! Are you gonna be on a bit later?? I hope so! I'll be back with some syrup and pancake mix. Hehehe!

[Bethbg79]

LOL! I'm great!

Whatcha cookin for us tonight?

I'll be here!

We gonna make another mess? hehehehehe

[SevenofNine]

OHHH Kathy did you hear maybe you didn't there is report off local LA news that Tim Robbin was ban from Oakland Raider fund raiser for kids

You know Raiders being bad boy team even Godfather Al Davis don't want hang out with Tim Robbin because it knownnnn fact that Al serve IN US NAVY IN WW2

YEAH Godfather serve in WW2


Breaking news off Fox news report of explosion just hit Yale Law school

[Kathy in Alaska]

THE FUTURE OF IRAQ — Excited Iraqi school children stare curiously at soldiers of the 1st Platoon of Company B, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), as they bring school supplies to recently reopened local schools in Mosul. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael Bracken

JAVELIN — Marines of 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, fire a Javelin anti-tank missile at Blair Air Field, Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mauricio Campino

[HiJinx]

We moved from Ohio to Arizona in '69, before all of I-40 was completed. I can remember leaving the Interstate at Shamrock, then picking it up again just shy of Amarillo...home of the 72oz T-Bone that you got for free if you could eat it in less than an hour!

Yup...much of the route was US66 before it was overlaid with I-40.

[MeekOneGOP]

Amarillo...home of the 72oz T-Bone that you got for free if you could eat it in less than an hour!

I've heard of that. No WAY I would even try. VERY few could pull THAT off I think! :O)

Thanks for the info on Route 66 !

[Kathy in Alaska]

ATTENTION ON DECK!! All messes will be cleaned up by those making the mess; and that includes Tom! Or there WILL be consequences!

[HiJinx]

I never tried...last time through, the son and I just settled for burgers and suds at that Owl Restaurant...

[LaDivaLoca]

A good evening to my fellow Canteeners,
our Military, Veterans, Allies and your families