USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ U.S. Coast Guard 213th Birthday Celebration ~ August 4 2003

68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub and FRiends of the Canteen

[tomkow6]

1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte inventor (modern pencil)

From authors to presidents to footsoldiers alike, people making history have made their mark with cedar pencils.

John Steinbeck, who wrote The Grapes of Wrath
and Cannery Row, used as many as 60 cedar pencils every day!
Ernest Hemingway, author of The Old Man and the Sea and The Snows of Kilimanjaro, also favored cedar pencils for putting down his thoughts.

Before he wrote Walden, Henry David Thoreau manufactured pencils in his father's factory. Thoreau's pencils held the reputation of being the hardest, blackest pencils in the United States!

Thomas Edison's bright idea was to keep a 3-inch-long pencil in his vest pocket just to jot down notes! Pencils were standard issue for soldiers during the Civil War.

And artist/ inventor Leonardo da Vinci frequently
sketched in pencil.

ICIpencils@pmcedar.com

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

SEARCH AND RESCUE:

the Coast Guard & 

the U. S. Life-Saving Service

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[RaceBannon]

Happy Birthday TONK!!

Fun Facts about Happy Birthday to You

Happy Birthday to You, the four-line ditty was written as a classroom greeting in 1893 by two Louisville teachers, Mildred J. Hill, an authority on Negro spirituals, and Dr. Patty Smith Hill, professor emeritus of education at Columbia University. The melody of the song Happy Birthday to You was composed by Mildred J. Hill, a schoolteacher born in Louisville, KY, on June 27, 1859. The song was first published in 1893, with the lyrics written by her sister, Patty Smith Hill, as "Good Morning To All."

Happy Birthday to You was copyrighted in 1935 and renewed in 1963. The song was apparently written in 1893, but first copyrighted in 1935 after a lawsuit (reported in the New York Times of August 15, 1934, p.19 col. 6) In 1988, Birch Tree Group, Ltd. sold the rights of the song to Warner Communications (along with all other assets) for an estimated $25 million (considerably more than a song). (reported in Time, Jan 2, 1989 v133 n1 p88(1)

In the 80s, the song Happy Birthday to You was believed to generate about $1 million in royalties annually. With Auld Lang Syne and For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, it is among the three most popular songs in the English language. (reported in Time, Jan 2, 1989 v133 n1 p88(1) Happy Birthday to You continues to bring in approximately 2 million dollars in licensing revenue each year, at least as of 1996 accounting, according to Warner Chappell and a Forbes magazine article.

And a movie clip

http://www.ibiblio.org/team/fun/birthday/SIXTEEN.KAR

http://www.ibiblio.org/team/fun/birthday/

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Crewmen [who shall remain anonymous] from the cutter Eastwind discovered a new friend when the icebreaker participated in the first Deep Freeze expedition. According to the grandson of one, "This penguin kept hanging out with various Eastwind crew members while they were ashore. They originally painted a bow tie around his neck and buttons on his chest in grease. The penguin then wiped the bow tie away by turning his head (hence the smudge in the picture). They then painted USCG on its stomach. He apparently loved it, and held a higher place in the penguin flock because of it. The bird was a popular figure during the shore work, but was never brought aboard the Eastwind."

[Radix]

1830 Plans for the city of Chicago laid out

 

 

The Name Burkaville was considered, but the town elders and the citizens at a community meeting voted instead for the name Chicago.

 

 

 

[darkwing104]

Good Morning Canteen FReepers. Happy Birthday Coast Guard.

[M0sby]

Trikebuilder,
Thanks to you!
I will be sending these off to Dan soon!
Thanks so much!

[M0sby]

WOW! Neato...
I will pass it on!
Thanks so much!
M0sby!

[M0sby]

Hey everybody, Sorry if I have double pinged you..(Is that possible?)
I wanted to say thanks to all of you again!
I got an e-mail from Dan this AM, apparently it has become very humid over ther all of a sudden (big wind change) and it is quite GROSS.

All of your kind words could not have come at a better time! THANKS AGAIN!!!

Here is the forcast for Kuwait City...
The Marines at Camp Commando are farther inland but this is as close as I can find..

August 04, 2003
	Monday Clear. High: 118° F. / 48° C.
	Monday Night Clear. Low: 84° F. / 29° C.
	Tuesday Clear. High: 120° F. / 49° C.
	Tuesday Night Clear. Low: 84° F. / 29° C.
	Wednesday Clear. High: 120° F. / 49° C.
	Wednesday Night Clear. Low: 84° F. / 29° C.
	Thursday Clear. High: 122° F. / 50° C.
	Thursday Night Clear. Low: 87° F. / 31° C.
	Friday Clear. High: 122° F. / 50° C.
	Friday Night Clear. Low: 89° F. / 32° C.
	Saturday Clear. High: 122° F. / 50° C.
	Saturday Night Clear. Low: 87° F. / 31° C.
	Sunday Clear. High: 120° F. / 49° C.
	Sunday Night Clear. Low: 91° F. / 33° C.

[Soaring Feather]

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings TGYC, Freepers, et al:

On behalf of Semper Gumby Coastie brethren worldwide, a heartfelt thanks for your support!

Guarding Liberty,
OLA

[M0sby]

THanks for the Happy Birthday info!
Happy Birthday!
As a Puget Sound area FReeper, I know enough to be very grateful for your service!
:-)

[M0sby]

I know I'm relatively new to this thread, but do you people sleep?
And how do I really know that you are people?

[tomkow6]

 

Hi, OneLoyalAmerican!

Welcome to the Canteen!

Wanna buy a burka?

 

[tomkow6]

Check out our profile pages...most of us have links where you can email us directly. I know I'M FOR REAL (others here at the Canteen may dispute that...)

Tom

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, fellas, for today's beautiful bouquet.

[tomkow6]

Mornin', Ma!

[tomkow6]

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[tomkow6]

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