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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 20 August 2003
Canteen FRiends ~ Radix
Posted on 08/20/2003 2:13:41 AM PDT by Radix
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For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. |
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Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! |
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Pancakes on Wednesdays |
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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays. Wednesday August 20, 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.
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EDACIOUS |
Relating to eating. That, at least, is the literal sense of the word, since it comes from the Latin verb edere, to eat. But even in Latin it had a stronger sense of voracious consumption and that was carried with it into English. It was brought into the languagesurprisingly recentlyby classically educated writers at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It never really caught on and is now almost extinct, perhaps because voracious is a better established and more vigorous-sounding alternative. The Roman writer Ovid created a maxim in his Metamorphoses: Tempus edax rerum. time devours everything. As a result, in its rare appearances the word is most likely to be linked with time. Thomas Carlyle used it in this way when he referred to events swallowed in the depths of edacious time. |
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Happy Birthday Benjamin Harrison (U.S.)1833
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1888 Election Pancakes |
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H.P. Lovecraft 1890
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Would you like some flakes with your pancakes? |
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Isaac Hayes 1942
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Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) 1948
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Rudy Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers) 1952
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Quinn Buckner 1954
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1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow.
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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the Twilight Zone
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1967 - The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record's subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings.
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1969 - Frank Zappa disbanded the Mothers of Invention right after an eight-day tour in Canada. Zappa said that he was "tired of playing for people who clap for all the wrong reasons."
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1973 - The Rolling Stones released "Angie." They should not have tied her up for so long!
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Pancakes Wednesdays |
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: michaeldobbs
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To: Old Sarge
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:08:27 PM PDT
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Radix
(Pancakes on Wednesday.)
To: Old Sarge
Thank you for your service to Kentucky and the USA.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:10:19 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: never4get
Good evening, never4get. It's great to see you. I'm glad to hear you're OK from the black out recently. Is everything up and running now?
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:12:36 PM PDT
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LaDivaLoca
(Sorry, all taglines have been sold - come back next year)
To: Radix
VERY nice, Radix! I likes it!
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:13:29 PM PDT
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Old Sarge
(Serving You... on Operation Noble Eagle!)
To: armymarinemom
LOL! Love his sense of humor. Please send your sons lots of cyberhugs from all of us here.
285
posted on
08/20/2003 7:15:02 PM PDT
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LaDivaLoca
(Sorry, all taglines have been sold - come back next year)
I'm outa here. Back in a few.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:15:30 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: aomagrat
I don't think I could have served on a ship named "Daisy" with a straight face. Hmmmmmmmmm..........actually, if you call on Martha Stewart, maybe she could do something about Daisy.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:17:28 PM PDT
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LaDivaLoca
(Sorry, all taglines have been sold - come back next year)
To: LaDivaLoca
LaDivaLoca, Look what I have found for you!
To: LaDivaLoca
I'm fine thanks...hope you are too.
I remember when my son was in high school and he was in MUN how well behaved, dressed, CLEAN-CUT they were...and did you read much of that in the paper? Nooooooo....
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:20:52 PM PDT
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Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: bentfeather
OH how adorable! Thank you, Diva. Now it's time to feed him some pancakes - he's a bit skinny. LOL
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:28:36 PM PDT
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LaDivaLoca
(Sorry, all taglines have been sold - come back next year)
To: Brad's Gramma
I've had my Logan fix. But we need more, Gramma.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:29:46 PM PDT
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LaDivaLoca
(Sorry, all taglines have been sold - come back next year)
To: Kathy in Alaska
No rain, grrrr, but little patches moving on radar hither and yonder. Just have to wait 'n see.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:39:23 PM PDT
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wolficatZ
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To: wolficatZ; Radix; Kathy in Alaska; bentfeather; tomkow6; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Brad's Gramma; ..
Time for bed.
Goodnight Canteeners, our Military, Vets, Allies, Volunteers and your Families. Take care and God bless you.
THANK YOU for protecting our FREEDOM
I Said a Prayer for our Troops and Allies I said a prayer for you today, And know God must have heard. I felt the answer in my heart, although He spoke no word.
I didn't ask for wealth or fame, I knew you wouldn't mind, I asked Him to send treasures, Of a far more lasting kind.
I asked that He'd be near you, At the start of each new day. To grant you health and blessings, And friends to share your way.
I asked for happiness for you, In all things great and small. But it was His loving care, I prayed for most of all. |
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:43:06 PM PDT
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LaDivaLoca
(watch out for tomkow - he's going to sneak in)
To: wolficatZ
We just had about 2 hours of good rain. It just now stopped, but..........maybe more tonight. Hope your radar patches settle over your house.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:49:55 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: LaDivaLoca; Kathy in Alaska; Old Sarge; Radix; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; tomkow6; SouthernHawk; ...
Of Beer and Beethoven
Of beer and Beethoven I know not since my lot is that of a fair maiden country lass, with lots o sass with golden locks, simple frocks for tending flocks of butterflies and cattails wild, and pollywogs with half a tail....
And trains running on skinny rails wails of wolves in the glens and brown and white and speckled hens of crying out for fear of wrens brightly spangled fighting hens and screams making the blood run cold from down the hollow blowing heat and sweat ... in saunas old covered with mould
And where is your loyality you may ask... It's freedom, it's mine no renegade I... nor gaunt, nor dead nor spit in the eye Like silent partners roaming in fields of clover these poets hover over this place known
I am the poet whose voice doth sing and fly with dragons in the sky Stand me near the perpheral rim and I will fly with him.... sprinkle diamonds in the night hold him dear in our flight, or yes hold him dear in our flight
bentfeather a/k/a MHL Copyright © 2003 All Rights Reserved
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To: LaDivaLoca
Good night Diva, thanks for your support of our troops and the Canteen.
To: Kathy in Alaska
Kathy,Jim is going on the Ronald Reagan ,he is very happy.He got his orders awhile ago but I didn't know if I had permission to post.He wants us to come out to the new ship when they are in port,maybe we will.Karen is still in Baghdad and will be there for some time.We brought writing paper and envelopes down the shore so everyone can write her.I am down the shore for a week and it is beautful.We just came back from dinner at a bayside resturant.Everyone else is on the boardwalk.We have 15 to 20 familiy members off and on here so we are sharing beds and some are sleeping on the floor.I had teen patrol last night and made them all go to bed at 2AM.They were all on cells and internet.How are things in Alaska?
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:55:50 PM PDT
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fatima
(Jim,Karen,We are so proud of you.Thank you for all you do for our country.4th ID)
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