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The FRIDAY THREAD from the FReeper Canteen ~ FRIDAY, the 13th! ~ Friday, May 13, 2005!
The Canteen Crew, and FRiends of the Canteen | May 13, 2005

Posted on 05/12/2005 7:46:57 PM PDT by tomkow6

 
 
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!
 
 

 

...walk under ladders?....throw salt over your shoulder?.....black cat cross your path?.....lucky horse shoes?......Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home......Skin Of Your Teeth?.........3 lights on a match?......did you drop the scissors?....were you singing before seven?.... did you bite you tongue?...

Are you superstitious?

It's Friday the 13th
with so much to dread.
Some people ignore it
and just stay in bed.

Silly Superstitions

It's bad luck to walk under a ladder. This came from the early Christian belief that a leaning ladder formed a triangle with the wall and ground. You must never violate the Holy Trinity by walking through a triangle, lest you be considered in league with the devil. (And you all know what good Christians did to people they suspected of being in league with the devil.)

Beware of Friday the Thirteenth. Those who know about these things, inform us that Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden on a Friday, Noah's flood started on a Friday, and Christ was crucified on a Friday. Christians also noted that twelve witches plus one devil are present at Satanic ceremonies so Friday and 13 make a deadly combination.

God Bless You. During the sixth century, it was customary to congratulate people who sneezed because they were expelling evil from their bodies. Later, when a great plague took hold of Europe, and people began sneezing violently, the Pope passed a law. Since sneezing meant that the person was going to die of plague, people were required to bless the sneezer.

Don't spill the salt. Although some people believe that Judas spilt salt during the last supper, this claim can't be proven. Salt was a very precious expensive commodity in the middle ages. It was also used for medicinal purposes. If you spilled any, you must immediately throw it over your left shoulder to strike the nasty spirits in the eye, thus preventing sickness.

Wear a St. Christopher Medal when you travel. Historians don't believe there ever was a Saint Christopher.

Black cats are evil. In ancient Egypt, the Goddess Bast, was a black female cat. Christian priests wanted to wipe out all traces of other religions so convinced their ignorant followers to destroy the evil demons that were black cats. While they were at it, they destroyed the kindly little old ladies who cared for the cats believing them to be witches.

Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home. It is bad luck to kill a ladybug because it represents the Virgin Mary.

Pie In The Sky. Of course, this means to search for the impossible dream but it originated in the early 1900's. A famous labor organizer named Joe Hill was extremely critical of the clergy's treatment of slaves. He wrote a tune called 'The Preacher and the Slave" accusing the clergy of making false promises of a better life in heaven while people starved on earth. The song goes: 'Work and pray, live on hay. You'll get pie in the sky when you die. That's a lie!'

Skin Of Your Teeth. This saying means to barely escape from a harrowing situation. It comes from Job 19:20, where God inflicts all sorts of terrible things on one of those who love him. Poor Job had all his animals stolen, his children die, his house collapse and his body covered with sores. Job has this to say; "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."

Fleshpot. - Today 'fleshpot' describes decadence. In the time of Moses, it was a large pot in which to boil meat. Somehow, preachers managed to change the meaning to scare their flock about 'sins of the flesh'.

To make a scapegoat. - The poor scapegoat gets the punishment for everyone else's mistakes. God condoned this cruelty to animals in Leviticus 16:7-10 "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other for the scapegoat." The scapegoat got to escape, and carry the tribe's sins into the wilderness, to be eaten by some animal instead of being offered alive as a sacrifice for the Lord.


Get a rabbit's foot, a 4-leaf clover
or even a horseshoe.
If you think that might help,
it could always be true.


But no matter how much it
seems like an unlucky time,
It isn't any fun
to sit home and whine.

So, I've only got one thing to say...

Do YOU have any SUPERSTITIONS?????

Material posted is not meant to offend ANYONE!



TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Illinois
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To: tomkow6

Supporting our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen at more than 1,000 places across the U. S. and around the world.

Brad Fletcher~To All Our Mothers Children


21 posted on 05/12/2005 8:03:10 PM PDT by AZamericonnie (I AM an AMERICAN not because I live in America but because America lives in me!~Ray Cornelius~)
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To: tomkow6


Ray Charles~America The Beautiful

22 posted on 05/12/2005 8:03:58 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; bentfeather; HiJinx; MoJo2001; Radix; Spotsy; ...

A Mixed Bag of MUSIC!

Everybody
Thunderstruck
We Die Young
Here We Go
Bopsie's Blues
Forever Young
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Saturday Night
Raunchy
Total Eclipse Of The Heart
My Heart Will Go On
Lady in Red
Sometimes When We Touch
Come On Eileen
When Your In Love With A Beautiful Woman
Matrix Theme
Beach Baby
Baker Street
Popcorn
Hurt So Good
Islands In The Stream
Labamba
Night Shift
Fields of Gold
The Final Countdown
Jump

23 posted on 05/12/2005 8:08:36 PM PDT by tomkow6 (Friday the 13th)
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To: tomkow6
FIRST!

24 posted on 05/12/2005 8:09:19 PM PDT by StarCMC (Free tagline courtesy of JesseJane!)
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To: tomkow6
Thank you for this evenings thread Tom...


25 posted on 05/12/2005 8:11:20 PM PDT by AZamericonnie (I AM an AMERICAN not because I live in America but because America lives in me!~Ray Cornelius~)
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To: Aeronaut

Good evenin Aeronaut!


26 posted on 05/12/2005 8:12:10 PM PDT by StarCMC (Free tagline courtesy of JesseJane!)
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To: StarCMC
25th!
27 posted on 05/12/2005 8:12:39 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

LOL!!!!


28 posted on 05/12/2005 8:13:21 PM PDT by StarCMC (Free tagline courtesy of JesseJane!)
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To: AZamericonnie

Dang! Beat me to it... : )


29 posted on 05/12/2005 8:13:22 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
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To: tomkow6
Thanks, tom! This is gonna be another fun Friday!

BTW, some white cats are scary, too!

30 posted on 05/12/2005 8:13:23 PM PDT by luvie ((Freedom is on the march. Freedom is the birthright and deep desire of every human soul.GWB 3-29-05))
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To: StarCMC

Hi Star.


31 posted on 05/12/2005 8:13:24 PM PDT by Aeronaut (I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things - Saint-Exupery)
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To: laurenmarlowe

Hey, lauren! You still here or is it post and run tonight! LOL! Thanks, as ever, for Ray Charles singing this song--it is awesome!


32 posted on 05/12/2005 8:15:14 PM PDT by luvie ((Freedom is on the march. Freedom is the birthright and deep desire of every human soul.GWB 3-29-05))
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To: tomkow6

Capt. Edward Hollis, the commander of Company A, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, uses the scope on an M4 carbine to scan a distant ridgeline in Zambar, Afghanistan.

"7.62 millimeter, full... metal... jacket." 

Colombian Army Commander Reinaldo Castellanos, left, speaks with U.S. Southern Command Army Gen. Bantz J. Craddock during a visit to the Sumapaz region near Bogotá, Colombia, on Wednesday. Craddock pledged a complete review of the rules governing the conduct of American troops in Colombia, where U.S. soldiers were recently implicated in plots to traffic cocaine and smuggle stolen ammunition to death squads.

 Downtown Bogotá? Sure, you take the number "7" bus which stops right over there every 45 minutes.

 


Soldiers with the Fort Bragg, N.C.-based 82nd Airborne Division wait to board C-17 Globemaster aircraft during the Joint Forcible Entry exercise at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., on Tuesday. The exercise is designed to enhance service cohesiveness between the Army and Air Force. 

Hey MoJo, I know the answers to at least one of the trivia questions from yesterday!

 


An F-16 fighter jet, fully armed with air-to-air missiles, maneuvers above the northwest section of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. At least two F-16s were scrambled to intercept a small airplane that flew into the restricted airspace that circles the nation's capital. The White House and the Capitol building were evacuated until the situation was resolved. 

During a recent terrorist scare in D.C. Senator Kennedy was given a military fighter plane escort  as he made his way to a luncheon where he had the liver of a federal court nominee, a few fava beans, and a nice Chianti.

A soldier from the Fort Bragg, N.C.-based 82nd Airborne Division waits for the command to jump onto drop zone Sicily from a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft during the Joint Forcible Entry exercise on Tuesday at Pope Air Force Base, N.C. 

The terrorist warning system went to condition red which compelled the Troops to go on high alert.

 


Tech. Sgt. Steven Roudebush holds his daughter, Annie, 4, after arriving at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, on Wednesday from a deployment to Southeast Asia. 

Hey Daddy, don't you know that girls do not make passes at Troops who wear glasses?

California National Guardsmen Sgt. Justin Gunn, top, and Spc. Kyle Decker, both UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter technicians with C Company, 1st Battalion, 140th Aviation, Task Force Liberty, work the night shift of a 24-hour helicopter maintenance operation. The helicopters are flown frequently, necessitating the use of generator lights to work outdoors when the hangar is full. 

On the weekends the hangar has been known to be used as a popular Discothèque.  

 

Sailors and marines climb down a cargo net and into the Persian Gulf during a swim call aboard the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson (CVN 70) on Tuesday. The Vinson Carrier Strike Group is currently deployed to the Persian Gulf and will end its deployment with a homeport shift to Norfolk, Va. It will also undergo a three-year refuel and complex overhaul.

Gosh, I hope that this climb down to TomKow's  camp thread is worth it.

33 posted on 05/12/2005 8:15:56 PM PDT by Radix (Having the best Free Republic Tag Lines since...what time is it anyhow?)
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To: tomkow6
HI TOMKOW!!!!

THANK YOU!!!


34 posted on 05/12/2005 8:16:15 PM PDT by GummyIII ("Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.")
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Hey...I was aiming for 27! Sheesh! LOL


35 posted on 05/12/2005 8:16:57 PM PDT by AZamericonnie (I AM an AMERICAN not because I live in America but because America lives in me!~Ray Cornelius~)
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To: tomkow6

It isn't a superstition, per se, but I do have what I believe to be a healthy skepticism of any writer who uses the phrase "God condoned this cruelty to animals" to describe a biblical passage.


36 posted on 05/12/2005 8:18:13 PM PDT by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; bentfeather; HiJinx; tomkow6; Radix; Spotsy; ...
 

Click to listen.

\

Carrying Your Love With Me
by George Strait
(Click the picture to listen)


Baby all I got is this beat up leather bag.
And everything I own don't fill up half.
But don't you worry 'bout the way I pack.
All I care about is getting back real soon.
A goodbye kiss is all I need from you.

I'm carrying your love with me.
West Virginia down to Tennessee.
I'll be movin' with the good Lord's speed.
Carrying your love with me.
It's my strength for holdin' on,
Every minute that I have to be gone.
I'll have everything I ever need.
Carrying your love with me.

On a lonely highway, stuck out in the rain.
Darlin' all I have to do is speak your name.
The clouds roll back and the waters part.
The sun starts shining in my heart for you.
You're right there in everything I do, 'cause...

I'm carrying your love with me.
West Virginia down to Tennessee.
I'll be movin' with the good Lord's speed.
Carrying your love with me.
It's my strength for holdin' on,
Every minute that I have to be gone.
I'll have everything I ever need.
Carrying your love with me.
 

 

 

 
37 posted on 05/12/2005 8:20:49 PM PDT by StarCMC (Free tagline courtesy of JesseJane!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; StarCMC; Kathy in Alaska; bentfeather; tomkow6; MoJo2001; HiJinx; ...
Greetings, FReepers, Troops,
and All the Ships at Sea!

Reporting in Drive-by Mode from the Dust Bowl in sunny Fort Irwin, it’s Day 158 of Sarge's Most Excellent Adventure!

And the Kids of The Company are about to head out into The Sandbox, here at NTC. The weather's not near as hot as it could be, but still being only 20 miles south of Death Valley, it ain't a resort...

Sarge and The Kids are doing fairly well, considering the pressure we're being put under. Lots of last-minute, eleventh-hour, five-minutes-to-midnight BS that happens, and y'all know what I'm talking about!

Nasty evil mean-spirited rumors abound out here, that we might have Web access while we're out there. It's a far cry from the analog Army Sarge grew up in, with stuby pencils, paper maps, stone knives and bearskins.

Sarge might be back in the area, but if not, then Y’all Have Fun!

SARGE

DISCLAIMER: If you wish to be on/off Sarge's Daily Report, FReepmail with details!

38 posted on 05/12/2005 8:22:06 PM PDT by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
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Hey Daddy, don't you know that girls do not make passes at Troops who wear glasses?

That girl's gonna miss out on a lot of good men with that attitude! *grin*

Great captions Radix!

39 posted on 05/12/2005 8:23:04 PM PDT by StarCMC (Free tagline courtesy of JesseJane!)
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To: Old Sarge

WOO-HOO!!! Give the kids a big HOOAH from us, ok? *HUGS!*

Safe hunting - we'll see you when you return!


40 posted on 05/12/2005 8:24:16 PM PDT by StarCMC (Free tagline courtesy of JesseJane!)
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