USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 09 July 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday...
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Pancakes on Wednesdays  

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday July 9, 2003

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Here is an amalgamation of trivial facts and seemingly usesless data.

Do not forget to hit the hyperlinks.

We have links, lots of them.

Three entries found for fame.

Main Entry: ¹fame
Pronunciation: 'fAm
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fama report, fame; akin to Latin fari to speak -- more at BAN
Date: 13th century
1 a : public estimation : REPUTATION b : popular acclaim : RENOWN
2 archaic : RUMOR

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Happy Birthday

Brian Dennehy 1938

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O.J. Simpson 1947

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Debbie Sledge (Sister Sledge) 1954

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Tom Hanks 1956

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Jimmy Smits 1958

Why am I famous?

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I am an excellent driver.

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1776 - The American Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.

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1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel.

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Would you like some coffee with your pancakes?

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Todays Wednesday field trip is to the Hollywood walk of fame.

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1922 - Johnny Weissmuller became the first person to swim the 100 meters freestyle in less than a minute.

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1968 - The first All-Star baseball game was  played indoors.

It took place at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

The Astrodome was originally designed as a giant pancake.

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

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[beachn4fun]

Congrats LC. Yes, you will be a different person tomorrow. And, you will never be the same from that day forward. Just think....this could be you in a few years (smile)

[Long Cut]

PING!!! Big news, here.

[tomkow6]

Anybody wanna hold my cat?

 

[beachn4fun]

NOW THAT IS A "FAT CAT"

[SouthernHawk]

Congratulations and best of luck to all three of you!

I have heard of the "kindest cut" before, but now it has a whole new meaning!

[SouthernHawk]

Here's some more rain for you. Hope it will last all the way from Tennessee to Alaska!

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

Well BBC wire reporting that they sticking by Story on WMD might be falsifed by Dubya administratoiin but Rummy telling wire services like Reuters oh BBC come down to DC and I show you about falsifing

YEAH little Stone cold Rummy a***kick that bottom line

Also report off SKY news reporting that perdiocal outbreak of violence happen in COngo overnight last night when French troops try restore order

Froggys NO WONDER

Also report off Aussie Age wire reporting Ariel Sharon is promising to Visit UK talk business with Tony Blair

[CWOJackson]

Congratulations Poppa.

[HiJinx]

Pancakes in the Desert

Mmmmmm.....pancakes! Bet you can't guess where we're going today, boys and girls. What? You've never been to Arizona's big pancake in the desert? You've never heard of the Wilcox playa? You say you don't even know what a playa is? Well, now, we're just going to have to do some ed-yoo-kayt'n here!

From the Playa at Wilcox Arizona these are but a few of the Sandhill Cranes that arrive from as far away as Siberia and winter here thriving on the grain crops grown nearby. This picture was taken January 26, 2002. This flock was caused to fly by a Bobcat in the area.

PLAYAS
Though named playas (PLY-yas, Spanish for beaches), the dry lakes that dot the western deserts in the United States and Mexico don't bring the ocean to mind. Most often, these flat, hardened lakebeds are desolate places that seem better suited for otherworldly adventures like landing the Space Shuttle (at Edwards Air Force Base, California) or setting the world's first supersonic land speed record (in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

During the last Ice Age, when the climate was much cooler and wetter, most southwestern playas were filled with water—lakes in landlocked drainage basins between mountain ranges. Even Death Valley once cradled a glistening lake. As the climate warmed to today's temperate conditions, lake water evaporated, leaving dissolved minerals behind. Because storm runoff from nearby mountains transports dissolved salts to lake basins below, playas are often thickly layered with salt deposits.

Although usually seen as bleak, flat, dry landscapes, playas come to life in the rain. Just one desert downpour can cover acres of a dry lakebed with a thin sheet of water—looking for all the world like a mirage. Willcox Playa in southeastern Arizona hosts thousands of sandhill cranes each winter (24,000 during the 1998-99 season). These four-foot-tall birds roost in the shallow water, safe from coyotes and bobcats, and spend their days foraging on leftovers in nearby cornfields. The lake teems with tiny fairy shrimp, food for thousands of smaller wading birds. In February and March, the cranes venture north again, as far as Alaska, to breed. With the approach of summer, the lake vanishes, appearing only as a mirage until the next rain.

Playing Catch on the Wilcox Playa during a Field Trip, May 2003. Notice the mirage effect in the distance...the Chiricahua Mountains in the background seem to float above the nonexistent water on the dry lakebed of the playa.

[HiJinx]

Fingers crossed and prayers said, LC.
Witnessing the birth of your first is an awesome adventure!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Long Cut and Mrs Cut and Mini Cut..........wishing you the best of luck tomorrow morning, with lots and lots of prayers for all of you. LC, anxiously awaiting your first message as a DADDY!

[SevenofNine]

WOW what a tabby OUCH

That fat cat if I ever saw one

Breaking news off Hareetz wire special OPS IDF just happen in Jenin and kill one Hamas miltant at this hour

And breaking news off SKY news wire report that South Korean think that North could launch nuke smackdown in 70 missile attack

And more news off Reuters Liberian citiezn storm Airport in Liberia to welcome US humanitairn troops at this hour

[Kathy in Alaska]

LOL! Linda, I love this pancake picture.

[E.G.C.]

Wow, cool stuff thanks Hijinx.

Floks I've just finished new critical updates for my computer with Windows XP. If you have Windows and have not gone to Windows Updates and downloaded these new updates please do. It's very impoerant.

[Kathy in Alaska]

CHECK THIS OUT EVERYBODY! Our very own txradioguy, on scene in Baghdad sends a report.......

"Thought you might like to see this one. These guys are true heroes in ANY one's book. The soldiers are from Hawk Troop 1st Calvary. They are the brigade's recon troop. Enjoy."

HAWK TROOP SAVES IRAQI FAMILY

By Spc. John S. Wollaston (txradioguy)
3BCT PAO

What started out as a sweep through a Baghdad neighborhood for improvised explosive devices like those that have wounded U.S. Soldiers over the last few weeks, turned into a rescue mission for the 3rd Brigade’s reconnaissance troop. In what intelligence later revealed to be an elaborate trap for the 2nd Battalion 70th Armor Regiment’s Quick Reaction Force, two rocket propelled grenades slammed into liquor store and a hand grenade was tossed into a house two blocks from the store. Both structures were set ablaze by the grenades. The explosions occurred moments after the BRT’s 2nd Platoon discovered I.E.D.’s near the liquor store placed approximately 75 meters apart.

The unknown attackers original plan had been to lure the 2-70th’s QRF to the area with the blasts, then detonate the I.E.D. when the QRF approached. But because of the discovery of the explosives by the BRT and the speed in which the soldiers cordoned off the area, the attackers were unable to proceed with the second part of their attack.

Making this story even more amazing was the heroism displayed by the soldiers of 2nd Platoon, who rushed headlong into the burning liquor store to rescue the owner his wife and three daughters trapped on the roof of their house located above the building.

“Anyone would have done it.” Said 2nd Platoon’s Staff Sergeant Joseph R. Dirks.

“When we went in there is was just an automatic thing. I wasn’t worried about my safety, my only concern was getting anyone trapped in the building out safely.” The storeowner, his wife and 3 daughters were rescued safely from the blaze. None of the family members or the soldiers of second platoon received any injuries in the incident.

107 posted on 07/09/2003 8:23 AM AKDT by txradioguy (HOOAH! Not just a word, A way of life!)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Last year's hide and seek champ.

GROAN!!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Awesome news, 'Cut - I'm excited for you!!!

And don't forget - we want pictures of that baby!!

(And I will be praying for all of you - I hope it goes just as expected.)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Jumping Jacks: Jack Russell terriers Libby (left) and Oakwood Nova go muzzle to muzzle in the high hurdles event at the American Terrier Fest in Fairfield, Iowa.

[Kathy in Alaska]

The pain in Spain: A runner takes the bull by the horns and hangs on for dear life after being gored on the second day of bull running in the streets of Pamplona, Spain.

I don't understand why anyone would want to do this.