USO Canteen FReeper Style....Monday Mail Call ....July 8,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen Freeper Style and Snow Bunny

[Snow Bunny]

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Our troops need our support and encouragement. They are away from home, some for the first time, and usually lonely or discouraged. It is important for us to reach out and help them in the same way we would want someone to reach out to our loved ones if and when they are in the same position.

They answered their call and we are answering theirs offering them the USO Canteen FReeper Style each day and thanking them for serving.

This is IN Coming Mail from some of those serving now.

We at the USO Canteen FReeper Style, a running thread at Free Republic, are proud to support our Military. The mail comes in from contacting some of our Military Bases, Marine Corps Leagues , and friends and family of those serving now. Also from responses at the wonderful P.O.Box that 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub has made so easily available to each of us here at Free Republic.

They are writing to those that frequent the FReeper USO Canteen to thank you for your support.

ALL the mail posted on Monday Mail Call is Recent Mail from the prior week.

Snow Bunny
Thank you for the tribute to Chesty Puller.
And one of your Bunny hugs to everyone
there for the best support a Marine could
ask for from back home.
My Dad served in the Marines in Vietnam
he doesn’t talk about it much but this last
time I was home, we sat and talked for hours.
He is also a Freeper and showed me what FR
was and the Freeper USO Canteen.
He said he wished FR had been around when he
was serving. I can see what he means Freepers
are what I think about right after I think about
my Dad when I am over here.
Thank you and everyone at the Canteen .

Ron
USMC

Snow Bunny
Great music and fun day going to New York.

Victoria Delsoul and Aquamarine thanks for
the music it was the best. You read my mind
on most of the songs you played.

Your USO sure knows how to throw a party and
and how important liberty is to all of us.

Kisses to all the girls, and a special one for Victoria.

Your friend,
Tony
USMC

Snow Bunny and the Canteeners,

I get to see the Freeper USO Canteen each day and I have yet to be disappointed am a veteran of two wars and from seeing each of you and the Canteen,I can tell you I would go back again and fight in those same wars over again.

YOU all are what America is about!

I give you permission to add this to your Monday Mail Call day. I want everyone there to know we are out here and you make a difference in lives you touch. You see, each day I get up and after my physical therapy I come back home. The first thing I do is turn on my computer and come to Free Republic. I keep two screens open, one with the Canteen and the other with all the threads at FR that I read . The information at FR is top notch and usually before it is on my news here.

The anger builds sometimes as I read of things eating away at MY America. Then I read the Canteen screen and smile or a hearty laugh. It keeps me sane in a world gone half crazy with liberals.

Thank you for welcoming all of us Veterans home and for your marvelous support of our kids serving now. The Canteen is exactly how I remember the USO except for one BIG thing, Free Republic’s IS EVEN BETTER.

God be with each of you and your families that let you spend the time at the Canteen to make such a big difference in the life of an old worn out veteran.

In your service,
Tyler
USNAVY Veteran and now lurker at FR

Dear Bunny
This is a special request, please use the top part of my letter to display
on your Mail Call Day.
First I would like you to know how much all the support I get at the
Freeper USO Canteen means to me. Thank you everyone there.

Victoria Delsoul can you hear me because this is for you.
I LOVE YOU !

There I’ve said it and I feel much better now. Thank you for
making my days over here feel a little more like I am home.
The Canteen is my home away from home over here and Bunny
your gift to us with the Canteen is more then appreciated.

Admirer of the Freeper USO Canteen and Victoria, Thank you !
Mike
US Army

Snow Bunny please put this on your Monday Mail Call for the Bad Boys

My Mom wrote me an email and told me after reading my letters to her I had better check out Free Republic’s USO Canteen for Freepers. I finally did and now I am addicted to it. I don’t know your real names, but the 4 Bad Boys here are Joe, Marty, Al, and myself Scully the Scrounger.

So far we have only been in trouble once, but that is because we had a little misunderstanding if you get what I mean. A guy has to do what a guy has to do after all. LOL

It is good to see we can carry on the fine tradition of Bad Boys that was set before us in you Veterans. Fine job men!

My mom likes it because she said there is hope for us over here when I tell her a little of what we have done. She says if we turn out to be the kind of Bad Boys she sees at the Freeper USO Canteen there is hope. Ya got to love Mom !

Mainly I , no we all want to thank you for the Freeper USO Canteen. There are some tuff days for us and you make them better.

Thanks much!
Scully and the Pirates
US Navy

Snow Bunny/Atilla the Bun ( honorary Marine)

Thank you and all of you that make such a great place online. My Uncle is with the National Guard and where they are right now, we’re not sure. Before he left he told me about the USO Canteen Freeper Style and also Jim Robinson founding Free Republic.

What a fine man Jim Robinson is and reading about him in the tribute you all did at the Canteen was very motivating to me. I have some favorite days there that I look forward to each week when I can get the time online:Themeless Thursday, Freeper Friday and when you do threads about different topics.

Tell LadyX she is beautiful and I am proud of her. She has raised a fine family besides being a lady Marine. We can always use more lady Marines like LadyX setting such a fine example.

All of your support means a lot over here.
Your friend, Love you Snow Bunny,
Cole
USMC

Snow Bunny.
Thank you! You Freepers are grade A, First Class all the way!

Now SAMWolf we need to have a little talk here. I read your
Freeper Friday and saw you were in the Army. Now IF and I say IF
you had been a Marine you never would have been in that Volcano
in the first place. You would have taken those fine ladies, Misty CA,
and yes GREAT legs on that one, SpookBrat (the most delightful
personality ) and AntiJen ( got a crush on her) and led them away from
that nasty volcano.

But we can’t all be Marines and you did give the ladies a fine time of it.
So I won’t be too hard on you Sam.

You have it all at the Freeper USO Canteen. Humor that is great, not only
the jokes which I send back home to my family. But in heartfelt reaching
out in the truest support of the military I have ever seen.

Ladies go easy on Sam, LOL , Bad Boys need love too.
The Canteen just keeps getting better each time I check in. God bless each
of you!

Steve
USMC

Dear Snow Bunny,
You sure know how to make a guy feel at home. And to find so many
warm and loving people that gel like they do is nothing short of a
miracle.
Thank you Jim Robinson for founding Free Republic and for the
phenomenal USO Canteen Freeper Style.
I would also like to give a special thank you to 68-69Tonkin Gulf
Yatch Club for the mail box. You do an exceptional job with it .

Jim Robinson, a lot of us here can’t post as you understand , but we
want you to know that your life makes a difference in others you have
not met on your forum. Thank you Sir !

Slim
USAF

To Snow Bunny
I think my heart burst with pride the day I came to the FR web site.
read some things there and then stopped by the Canteen.
Thank you Patriots! One day when I can in the future I plan on
giving Victoria some turns, heck many turns on the dance floor.
Victoria, we will just let ole Sam play the records for the night,
you will be way too busy if you say yes. Dancing under the stars
with me. I took some notes from Tonkin at the last dance and from
one sailor to another he knows his stuff. So I trust you will not be
disappointed in my footwork.

Thank you for the thread about Ordies. My cousin is an Aviation
Ordnanceman and I sent him the web site that day in an email.You
all made his day.

Thank you may be just two words but it carry’s with is a lot of
meaning.
Hugh
US NAVY

Hi Snow Bunny
I laugh so hard when I get to visit the Freeper USO Canteen.THANK YOU !

I just love everyone there and especially the way you hit hard with posts and
then turn around and play hard too. Leadpenny, I like your name and thank you for
Serving. DoughtyOne, you are very talented and I really like the things you make
that Bunny shows us each day.
I feel like I have come from a town where all of us girls have been friends. Jen, Misty,
Spookie, Sassy ,Deadhead, Coteblanche ( I love to say your name) ,Iowa Granny
(Grandpa was born in Iowa), Victoria, Linda, Aquamarine, Souris, I will feel awful if I leave
out any one of you.

And you guys are so funny, Tomkow6, HiJinx, Sam, Kneezles, Mr_Magoo, Radio Astronomer, how can I thank
you. Ligeia and MeeknMing, Light Speed, Bahbah, LadyX, BeforeISleep, The Mayor, DoughtyOne , Larry Johnson, Lodwick,so many I wish I could name you all.

I love the Canteen, it makes a bad day good, sadness go away, a loneliness disappear
Each time I am there. In one of your posts you have me crying it is so touching, then you
Turn around and have me laughing so hard. Thank you! God be with you and your families you deserve every happiness and protection. You
deserve not to worry about your safety and to know we are doing our jobs. And we are and
will continue too. God bless our Commander in Chief.

Thank you for your generous support each day. I carry it with me when I am not able to
Visit.
Karyn
US Army

[tomkow6]

Sorry, HAD to leave work to come home............

The inmate on death row was scheduled to be put to death by
firing squad the follow morning. Throughout the day, the prison
guards were being very nice to him. But when they asked him if
he wanted something specific for his last meal, he didn't want
anything special. When they asked if there was something special
he wanted to do, he said nothing. It went on like this all day.

Finally when he was put before the firing squad, the guard asked
if he wanted a cigarette and a blindfold.

"No," the inmate said, "just get it over with."

"Well, is there anything that I can do for you before you go?"
said the guard. "You didn't even want a special last meal!"

The inmate thought. "Actually," he said, "Music is my life. One
thing I would really like would be to sing my favorite song, one
whole time through, with no interruptions."

The guard nodded and told him to go ahead.

The inmate started, "One billion bottles of beer on the wall..."

[kneezles]

WOOOO HOOOOOO!!!! Here come da judge...Here come da judge...and a little patriotic theme (for the troops)

[tomkow6]

Does Sassy know about this?

[kneezles]

SassyMom wants to be a judge for the mens swimwear. I guess that I'll allow her to do so since it's her birthday week.

[SpookBrat]

I was going to tell you to bend over, but I didn't think that would be appropriate...ROFL!!!!!

[tomkow6]

...it looks like we're gonna have to induct TomKow6. He's earned it for sure. I'll make it official tonight.

Does that mean you'll tell me where the picturs of nakid women are?

[Mr_Magoo]

The Boston Symphony Orchestra was performing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. In the piece, there's a long passage, about 20 minutes, during which the bass violinists have nothing to do.

Rather than sit around that whole time looking stupid, some bassists decided to sneak offstage and go to the tavern next door for a drink. After slamming several beers in quick succession, one of them looked at his watch. "Hey! We need to get back!" he cried.

"No need to panic," said a fellow bassist. "I thought we might need some extra time, so I tied the last few pages of the conductor's score together with string. It'll take him a few minutes to get it untangled."

A few moments later, the drunk musicians staggered back into the concert hall and took their places in the orchestra.

About this time, a member of the audience noticed the conductor seemed a bit edgy. She pointed this out to her date.

"Well, of course," said her companion. "Don't you see? It's the bottom of the Ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded."

[tomkow6]

I was going to tell you to bend over

Something like this?

[tomkow6]

A study in London showed that the kind of "male face" a woman finds attractive can differ depending on where a woman is in her menstrual cycle.

For instance, if she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged, masculine features, and if she is menstruating, she is more prone to be attracted to a man with a heavy pair of scissors shoved in his forehead.

[Mr_Magoo]

A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself, "Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven. Three plus six, that son of a bitch is nine...."

His mother heard what he was saying and gasped, "What are you doing?" The little boy answered, " I'm doing my math homework, mom." "And this is how your teacher taught you do it?" the mother asked. "Yes," he answered.

Infuriated, the mother asked the teacher the next day, "What are you teaching my son in math?" The teacher replied, "Right now, we are learning addition."

The mother asked, "Are you teaching them to say two plus two, that son of a bitch is four?"

After the teacher stopped laughing, she answered, "What I taught them was two plus two, THE SUM OF WHICH, is four."

[tomkow6]

What did the post card from the blonde say?
"Having a good time. Where am I?"

[Mr_Magoo]

At age 4.....success is...not peeing in your pants

At age 12...success is ...having friends

At age 16...success is ...having a drivers license

At age 20...success is ...having sex

At age 35...success is ...having money

At age 50...success is....having money

At age 60...success is....having sex

At age 70...success is....having a drivers license

At age 75...success is....having friends

At age 80...success is....not peeing in your pants

[tomkow6]

You must be aware of the following viruses...

Government Economist Virus
Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is
fine

Federal Beaurocrat Virus
Divides your hard disk into hundreds of little units, each of
which does practically nothing, but all of which claim to be the most
important part of your computer

Adam and Eve Virus
Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple computer

Congressional Virus #1
The computer locks up, screen splits erratically with a message
appearing on each half blaming the other side for the problem

Congressional Virus #2
Runs every program on the hard drive simultaneously but doesn't
allow the user to accomplish anything

Airline Virus
You're in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore

Freudian Virus
Your computer becomes obsessed with its own motherboard. Or
becomes very jealous of the size of your friend's hard drive

PBS Virus
Your computer stops every few minutes to ask for money

Jimmy Hoffa Virus
Your programs can never be found again

LAPD Virus
It claims it feels threatened by the other files on your PC and
erases them in "self-defense".

O.J. Virus
It claims that it did not, could not and would not delete two of
your files and vows to find the virus that did it.

[Mr_Magoo]

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THINGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME

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MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it
outside...I just finished
cleaning in here."

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet!

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm gonna knock you
into the middle of next
week."

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why."

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear in case you're
in an accident."

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME IRONY.
"Stop that crying or I'll give you something to cry
about."

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at the dirt on the back of your
neck."

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until you clean your plate."

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT WEATHER.
"It looks like a cyclone hit this room."

MY MOTHER TAUGHT BE ABOUT HYPOCRISY.
"If I've told you once, I've told you a million
times...don't exaggerate!"

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME THE CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you
out!"

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father."

[tomkow6]

"This is Captain Sinclair speaking. On behalf of my crew I'd
like to welcome you aboard British Airways flight 602 from
New York to London. We are currently flying at a height of
35,000 feet midway across the Atlantic.

"If you look out of the windows on the starboard side of the
aircraft, you will observe that both the starboard engines
are on fire.

"If you look out of the windows on the port side, you will
observe that the port wing has fallen off.

"If you look down towards the Atlantic ocean, you will
see a little yellow life raft with three people in it
waving at you.

"That's me your captain, the co-pilot, and one of the air
stewardesses. This is a recorded message."

[kneezles]

Another one "for the troops".

[Mr_Magoo]

Feeling more secure now

Almost 150 years ago, President Lincoln found it necessary to hire a private investigator - Alan Pinkerton - for protection. And that was the beginning of the Secret Service. Since that time, federal police authority has grown to a large number of multi-letter agencies - FBI, CIA, INS, IRS, DEA, BATF, etc.

Now we have the "Federal Air Transportation Airport Security Service." Can't you see them now, these highly trained men and women in their black outfits with their initials in large white letters across their backs:

"FATASS."

I feel safer already.

[tomkow6]

Melvin was playing football very badly.
He tried to kick a goal and missed. Finally,
He threw himself down on the bench and said
in disgust, "Boy, I could just kick myself."
The coach looked the other way. "Don't
bother," he said, "you'd probably miss."

[Mr_Magoo]

Mary the town gossip and self-appointed supervisor of the town's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business.

Several local residents were unappreciative of her activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

However, she made a mistake when she recently accused George, a local man, of being an alcoholic after she saw his pickup truck parked outside the town's only bar one afternoon.

George, a dedicated Christian and man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just walked away without saying a word.

Later that evening, he parked his pickup truck in front of her house and left it there all night.

[tomkow6]

Two brothers, John and Richard lived in
the same town. John with his 12 year old
cat, Richard with their 88 year old
Mother. John's whole life was his cat.
He never went anywhere without her. One
day he was faced with a terrible decision.
He had to go to England on business for
his company and he could not take the cat
into England with having to quarantine
her for 14 days. He wouldn't do that so
he was faced with either losing his job
or leaving his cat.

Finally he decided to trust his brother
with the cat for the week he would be
gone. He gave Richard detailed instructions,
schedules, food, etc. Finally he flew to
London and called Richard every few hours
to make sure Gracie the cat was ok. Four
days of this went by and John was really
getting to be a pain in the neck.

On the fifth day when he called John asked
Richard how Gracile was and Richard told
him. "Gracile is dead"! Well as you can
imagine, John nearly had a heart attack.

When he recovered he said to Richard, "That
was the most cruel thing I ever heard. You
know how much I loved that cat, why couldn't
you have broken it to me gently. You know
like when I called said something like,
well she's OK but she is up on the roof.
And then when I called the next time, tell
me oh oh, bad news, she fell off the roof
and she's at the vets. And then the next
time break the news that she passed away.
At least I would have been a little prepared
for the bad news.

"Yes, you are right John. I am sorry for
being so heartless."

John accepted Richard's apology for being
so uncaring, and then said, "Oh, by the
way, how's Mother?"

Richard then said, "Well, John, she's OK,
but she's on the roof!"