USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 03 September 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[HiJinx]

200?

[Old Sarge]

GUESS WHERE SARGE IS TAKING THE FAMILY?

We just got BALCONY seating for Sarge, The Missus, and The Boy for the matinee show in Louisville on the 28th!

We fell in love with the show ever since it first came to these shores, and wonder of wonders, The Boy wants to learn!

THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT!

[HiJinx]

Well, looks like you get the fast fingers award for 200, BG!

[blackie]

Waylon Jennings ... an original!

[Soaring Feather]

Wow this is great Sarge. The dancers are terrific preformers to be sure. WOO HOO!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hmmm...should be home by now. After 4p on the east coast. Speaking of first days, is your son home from his first day of watching over freshmen?

BTW, instead of going back to yesterday's thread and trying to find it...I almost fell off of my chair laughing at "You Rang?" and Hobbes!! Priceless!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Did you remember to eat?

[HiJinx]

Thanks for the reminder, Kathy, I almost forgot!
Hey, Mojo! Here are my picks. What do I win?

Thursday, Sep. 4

N.Y. Jets blow by Washington

Sunday, Sep. 7

Arizona burns Detroit
Baltimore skewered by Pittsburgh
Denver kicks Cincinnati
Houston bottled up by Miami
Indianapolis races past Cleveland
Jacksonville clawed by Carolina
Minnesota packs it in at Green Bay
New England stands firm at Buffalo
San Diego is scalped in Kansas City
St. Louis scampers over N.Y. Giants
Atlanta flies past Dallas
Chicago pans the 49ers in San Francisco
New Orleans gets picked clean by Seattle
Oakland gets ba-ad with Tennessee

Monday, Sep. 8 - Tie-Breaker

And finally, the Tampa Bay Bucs fall prey to the Eagles, 21-10 in Philadelphia

So? What do I win? I picked all the games! All you gotta do is pick, right? Right?

[PigRigger]

Thanks, hope all is well in your neck of the woods.

[Kathy in Alaska]

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Umbizza from Eagle Troop, 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, breaks in the door of an abandoned building, where an improvised explosive device and a cache of hand grenades were spotted, northeast of Fallujah, Iraq, Aug. 27, 2003. The soldiers from Eagle Troop are participating in an Army-wide operation to search a large sector of Iraq for illegal weapons. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Derek Gaines

Soldiers from the Grimm Troop, 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and 498th Engineer Battalion, a National Guard unit from Arkansas, attached to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment , form a daisy chain to move artillery rounds at a collection point northeast of Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Grimm Troop is participating in a mission to search Iraq for illegal munitions, Aug. 29, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Derek Gaines

[HiJinx]

Did you notice SouthernHawk picked up on it, too? Back around 180 or 140, I think.

Wasn't tomkow6 talking about Hobbes? I thought sure he was...

A golden oldie from the Afghan campaign...

[HiJinx]

The first day went great, he's such a...hmmm..what's the word? He really enjoys the idea of being in charge of the 'little kids.' Yeah, he's going to be a great Senior!

[Radix]

 

 

Political Commentary by Edward Scissorhands

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks for leaving them up a bit. If I haven't gotten them by the next day, that's my problem. I love "Amanda". Still listening. LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Mr S, those one liners are great!! Thanks for sharing.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Tow truck: Glenn Kaifas pulls a 25,000-pound dumptruck at an amateur strongman contest in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

[firewalk]

Hi BIS! I have been thinking about you. Glad you stopped around

Thanks bentfeather
hope you're having a good day (-:

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks always, Rags, for the links to the human stories, and the ones that the press won't allow the masses to see. I'm working on the kid thingy.

[Kathy in Alaska]

You can be the Seabiscuit of frogs! Six-year-old Kade Stutes gives Bryan a pep talk before the big frog-jumping competition at the Rayne (La.) Frog Festival. Alas, Bryan failed to make it to the finals.

[aomagrat]

Wednesday's weird warship, the Italian Navy Duilio class battleships

Displacement. 12071 t.
Lenght. 358.2'
Beam. 64.8'
Draft 27.4'
Speed 15 kts
Complement. 420
Armament. 4 17.7" muzzle loaders, 5 4.7", 16 57mm, 4 14" torpedo tubes

Laid down in 1878 and commissioned in 1882, the Duilio and Dandolo were armed with two pairs of giant 17.7 inch guns. The only other battleships to carry bigger guns were the Japanese Musahi and Yamato in WWII.

They caused quite a stir when they joined the Italian Navy. Nothing at sea in 1882 could resist the sledgehammer blows from the 17.7" muzzle loading (that's right, muzzle loading) rifled guns. However their rate of fire was only one round in 15 minutes. They were the first ships in the world with steel armor, 12.5" maximum thickness. They were subdivided into 83 watertight compartments. The two twin turrets were disposed en echelon, to port and starboard admidship to allow a degree of end on fire as well as to allow all four guns to be trained on either beam.

The Duilio was decomissioned in 1909 and turned into a floating oil tank. The Dandolo was modernized in 1900, with 10" breech loaders replacing the 17.7" muzzle loading monsters. She was decomissioned in 1920 and scrapped in 1923.