USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 16 July 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

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

Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom?
Support The United States Armed Forces Today!

Pancakes on Wednesdays  

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday July 16, 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.

Two entries found for trivia.

Main Entry: triv·ia
Pronunciation: 'tri-vE-&
Function: noun plural but singular or plural in construction
Etymology: (assumed) New Latin, back-formation from Latin trivialis
Date: 1920
: unimportant matters : trivial facts or details; also singular in construction : a quizzing game involving obscure facts

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Wednesdays

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Happy Birthday

Orville Redenbacher 1907

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Ginger Rogers 1911

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Tom's Pancakes and the Lake of Fire Sale

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Jimmy Johnson (NFL) 1943

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Mickey Rourke 1953

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About a hundred dollars

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Barry Sanders 1968

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"Shoeless Joe Jackson black sox player born (Say it ain't so, Joe).

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Todays Wednesday field trip is to the Hot Dog Stand.

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1439 Kissing is banned in England.

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The very first K-mart was built on 1439 Oak Street

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Whole Wheat Pancake Mix

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1935 1st automatic parking meter in US installed, Oklahoma City, Ok

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1945 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico     Potential Iraq parking lot site

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1969 - The Who's "I'm Free" was released.

Beans on Saturdays, Pancakes on Wednesdays!

No burkas on Fridays!

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1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government

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1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," was first published.

Holden Caulfield

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1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.

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1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.

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1999 - The plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, MA. His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were also on board the plane. The body of John Kennedy was found on July 21, 1999.

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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Good Morning Co-Captain!
Salute

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Would you please correct the date on the thread from the 17th to the 16th.
Thank You

[SouthernHawk]

Catch you when I can!Tell the Cubicle Police that I'm not missing.

(8:00, 10:00, 1:00 and 3:00 meetings today!)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

From the men in the Military and the Canteen

[aomagrat]

Wednesday's weird warship, the Brazilian navy's Sao Paulo

Minas Geraes class battleship
Displacement. 19200 t.
Lenght. 540'
Beam. 83'
Draft. 25.5'
Speed 21 k.
Complement. 1200
Armament. 12 12"; 22 4.7"; 12 76mm; 12 47mm; 4 40mm.

The São Paulo is featured as a weird warship because she was the largest ship, and the only battleship to disappear in the Bermuda Triangle.

The São Paulo was launched on April 19,1909, her launch sponsor was Mrs. Regis de Oliveira, wife of presidente of São Paulo state. The São Paulo was commissioned on July 12,1910 and her first commander was the captain Francisco Marques Pereira de Sousa.

After commissioning she voyaged to Liverpool, UK to be laid up again for inspection by Brazilian naval engineers The people of Liverpool came to the port to see "The most powerful ship of world" as the local newspaper said at the time. And on trials she proved she was the best of her time, with runs at 21 knots, very fast for a battleship of the time, and had very successful full gun salvos, due to adequate freeboard for heavier seas.

On her first voyage she stopped at Cherbourg, French, to take on the new Brazilian president, the Marchal Hermes da Fonseca. On October 2,1910 she entered the Tejo river cruising to Lisboa, Portugal. The Portuguese Exterior Relation Minister Mr. José Azevedo Castelo Branco came on board São Paulo to welcome the ship. The same night the Portuguese Imperator Dom Manuel II himself came on board, and the Brazilian president and ship's officers dined at the Portuguese palace.

On October 3, 1910 the São Paulo witnessed the Portuguese rebellion that ended Imperator Dom Manuel II's reign. Hermes da Fonseca offered protection to the Imperial government but Dom Manuel II refused with thanks, preferring to stay and await the outcome.

São Paulo entered Rio de Janeiro port for the first time on October 25, 1910, and was immediately incorporated into the Center Naval Division.

In the early 1920s the Brazilian government planned on modernizing São Paulo similiar to Minas Geraes but this was cancelled and she remained much the way she was commissioned (including coal burning) for the rest of her career.

In World War II she operated as a floating static cannon battery at Port of Recife, Pernambuco state, and returned to Rio de Janeiro after the end of the war. She was placed into reserve on July 2,1947, and was then operated as a training ship.

She was decommissioned in 1951 and sold to an English shipyard for scrap. While being towed to England by a single tugboat through the Bermuda Triangle, she broke tow and disappeared the night of November 6, 1951. No trace of her or the 8 men onboard was ever found.

[tomkow6]

SALUTE!

 

 

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Mr. RADIX! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"and man of leisure!"

That was yesterday, 1st day of paid vacation. LOL
Today I have to drive in just to approve my time card.
BUT before that I'll be at the Coast Guard base doing some work.

Actually from now on I'll be working at home
on my internet business with my partner in Las Vegas.
We've been in business since Nov 1997
and just now are recovering from the economic fallout of 9/11.

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, Linda SOG. How are things where you are?

These pancakes sure taste good.

[tomkow6]

 

Chicagoland Weather

 

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Excerpt from the Remarks by President Bush in honor of Independence Day
United States Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio | July 4, 2003

"...Our nation is still at war. The enemies of America plot against us.
And many of our fellow citizens are still serving and sacrificing
and facing danger in distant places.
Many military families are separated. Our people in uniform do not have easy duty,
and much depends on their success. Without America's active involvement in the world,
the ambitions of tyrants would go unopposed, and millions would live at the mercy of terrorists.
With Americans' active involvement in the world, tyrants learn to fear, and terrorists are on the run..."

Click on a service emblem to send an online
Thank You to a service man or woman in any branch.

Army	Navy	Marines	Air Force	Coast Guard

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[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

 

An elderly man stands in line for hours at a Warsaw meat store (meat is
severely rationed).  When the butcher comes out at the end of the day
and announces that there is no meat left, the man flies into a rage.

"What is this?" he shouts.  "I fought against the Nazis, I worked
hard all my life, I've been a loyal citizen, and now you tell me I
can't even buy a piece of meat?  This rotten system stinks!"

Suddenly a thuggish man in a black leather coat sidles up and murmurs
"Take it easy, comrade.  Remember what would have happened if you had
made an outburst like that only a few years ago" -- and he points an
imaginary gun to this head and pulls the trigger.

The old man goes home, and his wife says, "So they're out of meat again?"

"It's worse than that," he replies.  "They're out of bullets."

 

 

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