USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 4 June 2003

Canteen FRiends and Radix (You're in Trouble)

[Radix]

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday...
Thank the Veterans who served in
The United States Armed Forces.

Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom?
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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday June 4, 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 shogun.

Main Entry: sho·gun
Pronunciation: 'shO-g&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Japanese shOgun general
Date: 1727
: one of a line of military governors ruling Japan until the revolution of 1867-68
- sho·gun·al /'shO-g&-n&l/ adjective
- sho·gun·ate /'shO-g&-n&t, -"nAt/ noun

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Happy Birthday

Dr. Ruth Westheimer 1928

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1615 - The fortress of Osaka, Japan, fell to shogun Ieyasu after a six month siege.

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Japanese Pancakes

The maple Sylup goes on the light.

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1919 - The U.S. Senate passed the Women's Suffrage bill.

About a hundred dollars

   

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1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific.

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Okonomiyaki on Wednesdays

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1944 - During World War II, the U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, which began the liberation of the Italian capital

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1984 - Bruce Springsteen released his "Born In The U.S.A." album.

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1992 - The U.S. Postal Service announced that people preferred the "younger Elvis" stamp design in a nationwide vote.

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Todays Wednesday Field trip is to Epcot Center.

We are counting SARS

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I am an excellent driver.

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Samurai Golf

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Pancakes Wednesdays

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Definitely

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E.G.C. Thanks for bumping by. Don't let the weather get your computer. Stay safe. Rain prodicted maybe tomorrow. I won't believe it until it is actually raining. We are VERY dry!

[tomkow6]

RADIX steals, um, BORROWS tag lines..............not me....

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Pancake Wednesday morning, Tom! Good Pancake Wednesday morning, Patriotic Pattie!

[beachn4fun]

great come back lind

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oops, I shouldn't rush. Sorry about the double post at #78. Thanks Admin Mod.

[Argh]

HAH! Reminds me of the good old days (sniff!)...

:^)

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

I take waffles or pancake I want coffee none of that Starbuck coffee crap

Well report off BBC wire reporting that Hamas just said NO WAY to Road map so expect another suicide bombing very soon

Egypt Prez talk to BBC wire also said that we need stop terrorism in Middle East

YEAH YOU THINK DUDE


Also any of you Canteen members are Direct TV subscriber wellll according to UK Guardian you might get veryyy soon

SKY NEWS

That right Brit cousin of Fox news channel

RACK ITTTTTT

I think I talk to Direct TV representative


SOOO I am thereeee

[tomkow6]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LINDA!

50!

 

SALUTE!

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Seven, here ya go.

Well, as far as Hamas is concerned, it's not like everybody didn't know what they were before, but this could change things a little.....prove that peace is not on their agenda, NO MATTER WHAT!!

[blackie]

Pancakes (with a big slab of ham)... Bump!

Let's Eat!

[SevenofNine]

Tomkow what going on with Sammy Sosa I HEAR ABOUT THAT

You know what they goofing on that they making fun of Lizard Dusty baker

CORKED Bat now everybody think Sammy is not good hitter

NICE GOIN SAMMY

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Aeronaut and Otto, and thank you for the daily flyover of protection for our troops' Canteen. I hope your prospects of moisture are better than ours. "They" are saying possibilities tomorrow and Friday, but "they" haven't been very right for a couple weeks.

[SevenofNine]

HMMMM PANCAKES

COOL Folgers coffee thanks I not snob LOLOL!!

This is cool

Interfax wire report that during St. Petersburg party bash Chechen terrorist got busted by St. Petersburg cops try put explosive next to palace in Petersburg

That dude won't be seen AGAIN

Also one of these weird item off Ananova site New Orlean Brothel is offering free sex to anybody come home from Iraq


OMGGGGG

[Kathy in Alaska]

LOL! I love the graphic. Good morning, PigRigger, and wishes of sunshine to you this weekend.

[aomagrat]

HMS K5

HMS K6

HMS K9

HMS K15

Wednesday’s weird warship, HMS “K” class submarines

Displacement. Surface 1880, Submerged 2650
Lenght. 337’
Beam. 26’6”
Draft. 16’
Complement. 60
Speed. Surface 24 k., Submerged 9.5 k.
Armament. 1 4”; 1 3”, 1 dct.

The story of the K class submarines is a huge disaster. The idea of an oil fired, steam driven submarine seems so ridiculous as to prove the Royal Navy was hopelessly incompetent.

In 1915, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe asked the Admiralty for a new class of fleet submarine capable of accompanying the battlefleet to sea. This required a minimum speed of 21 knots. The diesel engines of the day were capable of only 19 knots at their best, so the Royal Navy decided on steam. Steam powered submarines were not a new concept. By 1914 the French (why does that not surprise me) were operating several classes of steam submarines.

To meet the requirement for speed, a pair of steam turbines developing 10,000 hp, using steam generated by two Yarrow boilers, was used. An 800 hp diesel engine drove a 700 hp dynamo to supply electric current. A 386 cell battery was used to provide power to two 700 hp electric motors for use while submerged. 17 K class submarines were built.

Soon after entering service, the problems arose. They were much larger and complicated than any previous submarines. The ease with which they could operate on the surface with the battlefleet was greatly exaggerated. A K class officer said that “they handled like destroyers but had the bridge facilities of a picket boat.” The view from the conning tower was limited because it was too close to the water, and the submarine itself was equally difficult to spot from surface ships. The K’s were built with a flush bow and they took a lot of water when steaming at speed in rough weather. It was soon discovered that a heavy wave taken over the bow would cause the submarine to submerge on its own, and due to its high speed, it could easily go beyond its crush depth before it began to respond to the diving planes. All of the K’s were retrofitted with a prominent “swan bow” to correct this problem.

To dive the ship, the procedure was to shut down the boilers, lower the funnels into wells in the superstructure and then clutch in the electric motors and the 386 cell battery. The funnels folded down into their wells in only 30 seconds, but there were also a number of quadruple mushroom capped ventilators to be secured, and any small obstruction, such as any small piece of debris could keep the ventilator from closing properly. With the ship submerged, there was no place for the heat from the boilers to go, and the ships became quite hot.

The K class were involved in a number of accidents, and talk of a “jinx” soon went around the fleet. Of the 17 built, 5 were lost from 1917 to 1921. The biggest blot on their reputation was the so called “Battle of May Island” in the Firth of Forth on 31 January 1918. Two flotillas of K class submarines were steaming at high speed without lights. K14’s helm jammed and she was rammed by K22, throwing the flotillas into confusion. A squadron of battlecruisers coming up astern steamed right into the milling submarines. In the confusion, HMS Inflexible rammed K22. HMS Fearless rammed K14, cutting her in half. K6 rammed K8. K17 rammed K8. K4 was rammed and sunk by an unknown battlecruiser or submarine.

The K class submarine remained in service for less than 8 years. The K class submarines were a bold attempt to integrate the submarine with surface ship operations. The high speed plant of the K class required large quantities of air to provide sufficient draft for the boilers, and produced a great amount of heat. That meant large ventilators and funnels, each set of which had to be closed as tightly as possible when diving. Any failure of procedure was potentially fatal. The K class was the last attempt at a high speed steam powered submarine until the advent of nuclear power.

[tomkow6]

I really HOPE Sammy picked up that bat by mistake; some of the excuses he mentioned for using it just don't gel:like he says that it uses it for batting pratice, to please the crowd....well, at Wrigley Field, when they open the gates to the general public, Cub's batting practice is OVER! If you're lucky, you MIGHT see the visitor's batting practice!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, ms feather!!

Can he help you entertain? Or maybe help you muse? Muse well today.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I am cracking up at the swords and stuff. LOL!

[HiJinx]

Coffee Pot Rock (Horizontal)
7 minute exposure of Hyakutake on the morning of March 27, 1996. City lights lit up the red rocks.

[beachn4fun]

hey, did you realize you posted katz and a mouse in the same spot? Are they buds or what?