WELCOME TO
(where our troops, allies and their families can refresh themselves)
Good morning, Everyone. Good morning
Thank you, fatima, for preparing the Canteen for today's activities.
GOOD GOD! Over 1000 posts first thing in the morning?
I thought about throwing a tantrum and not play this morning since there is no way to get through all 1000-some-odd posts (I am not MA). But, I decided that I had to throw in at least one
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." ---Gandalf to Frodo in Lord of the Rings ...
DC Metroland weather report ~ Today....A mix of clouds and sun with gusty winds. High 53F. Winds WNW at 15 to 25 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph. ~ Tonight.....Mostly clear. Cold. Low near 30F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph.
I'm behind schedule.....AGAIN! So, I have to make my way through the Canteen to see whatz been happening.
But, you stay right where you are. Don't touch that dial. Don't change that channel. Put down that remote. Don't leave the room. Keep your eyes on your monitor. Cause...............I'll be bock!
And, for the rest of you………..
Now remember, the Canteen is
So, come on in and sit for a while. There's always plenty of coffee, pancakes, conversation, silliness, and plain old BS
REMEMBER THEM ....
DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM
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Good Morning fatima.{{{HUGS}}}
Wonderful thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPmk315w4dM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJryJaXKUv4
He asked me and probably some other folks here, to share these links with my friends.
I figured the Canteen would be a good place to honor Cpl Chris Mason a fallen hero and get his Father’s message out.
Feel free to use the links to get Chris Mason’s story to as many people as possible.
Dad of Chris Mason also posted the following threads:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811551/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809623/posts
I post those links here to his threads here,because I don’t know how many of us have seen the threads.
God bless Chris Mason and his family.
God bless our troops.
I don’t have any.
Hannibal Lecter: [in the final letter to Will] My dear Will, you must be healed by now... on the outside at least, I hope you're not too ugly. What a collection of scars you have. Never forget who gave you the best of them, and be grateful, our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real. We live in a primitive time, don't we, Will? Neither savage nor wise. Half measures of the curse of it, any rational society will either kill me or put me to some use. Do you dream much, Will? I think of you often. Your old friend, Hannibal Lector.
My favorite part of the quote is bolded. I think it really nails the time we live in.
“We’re on a mission from God.”
You'd think after a decade or so that the humor would wear away, but no.
The opening monologue from “Patton”, and other lines too numerous to mention. George C. Scott was great in that movie!
Dean Vernon Wormer, 1962
OK, all, here are several:
Sir John Gielgud (with stuffy British accent) from “Arthur:”
(upon meeting one of Arthur’s hookers)”You obviously have a marvelous economy with words. I await your next syllable with great eagerness.”
(upon meeting Arthur’s new love, Linda Marolla)”Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet someone of your stature.”
(upon meeting Linda Marolla’s unshaven unkempt father)”Bring me two aspirins. You’ll find them in the medicine cabinet behind the untouched shaving cream.”
From the movie “Home Alone”
(line from the gangster movie Kevin is watching)”I’m gonna give you to the count of ten to get your ugly, yellow, no-good keister off my property before I pump your guts fulla lead....one, two, TEN!” (machine gun fire) “Keep the change, ya filthy animal.”
“You’ve had your whole f**king LIFE to think things over! What good’s a few more minutes gonna do you now???”
“Wendy....darling.....light of my LIFE.....I’m not gonna hurt ya....ya didn’t let me finish my sentence....I said I’m not gonna hurt ya.....I’m just gonna bash your brains in....I’m just gonna bash ‘em right the f**k in!”
Both taken from “The Shining”
“BADGES, badges? We don need no stinkin’ badges.”
“Leave the gun, take the canoli.”
“Blood is a big expense.”
Meeting at a restaurant, Robert Redford is seated at the table; Lena Olin arrives late and asks:
“Have you been waiting long?”
He replies...
“All my life.”
Great movie...”Havana”
MOTHER; Butch, stop watching TV a second.
We got a special visitor.
Now do you remember when I told you your daddy dies in a P.O.W. camp?
BUTCH; (OS) Uh-huh.
MOTHER; Well this here is Capt. Koons.
He was in the P.O.W. camp with Daddy.
CAPT. KOONS steps inside the room toward the little boy and bends down on one knee to bring him even with the boy's eyeline. When Koons speaks, he speaks with a slight Texas accent.
CAPT. KOONS; Hello, little man. Boy I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your Daddy's. We were in that Hanoi pit of hell over five years together. Hopefully, you'll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your Daddy were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. If it had been me who had not made it, Major Coolidge would be talkin' right now to my son Jim. But the way it worked out is I'm talkin' to you, Butch. I got somethin' for ya.
The Captain pulls a gold wrist watch out of his pocket.
CAPT. KOONS This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-granddaddy. It was bought during the First World War in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was bought by private Doughboy Ernie Coolidge the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great- granddaddy's war watch, made by the first company to ever make wrist watches.
You see, up until then, people just carried pocket watches. Your great-granddaddy wore that watch every day he was in the war. Then when he had done his duty, he went home to your great- grandmother, took the watch off his wrist and put it in an ol' coffee can. And in that can it stayed 'til your grandfather Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War Two.
Your great-granddaddy gave it to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Your granddad was a Marine and he was killed with all the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death and he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your 22-year old grandfather asked a gunner on an Air Force transport named Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he had never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your grandfather was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's gold watch.
This watch.
This watch was on your Daddy's wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured and put in a Vietnamese prison camp. Now he knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it's be confiscated. The way your Daddy looked at it, that watch was your birthright.
And he'd be damned if and slopeheads were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'. His a$$. Five long years, he wore this watch up his a$$.
Then when he died of disentary, he gave me the watch. I hid with uncomfortable hunk of metal up my a$$ for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.
The Operative: And are you willing to die for that belief?
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: ...I am.
[pause]
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: [whips out a gun and shoots at Operative several times]
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: [Turning away] ‘Course, it ain’t exactly Plan A...
Bette Davis: "But you are, Blanche, ya are in that chair."
Wally to Eddie Haskell as they entered the Cleaver kitchen:
"You wanta hunk of milk?"
