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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....12-10-02
FreeTheHostages and Billie
| Billie; FreeTheHostages
Posted on 12/10/2002 5:27:51 AM PST by Billie
A Few of FR's Finest..... ......Every Day
FR is a Treasure Trove of talented, compassionate, patriotic, wonderful people who gather every day to discuss the latest news and issues; salute and support our military and our leaders; tell a few jokes; learn a new word; write poetry; pray for those in need; and congratulate those who are deserving. Thank you, Jim Robinson, for giving us the vehicle in which we can express ourselves.
Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997. I can remember lurking when there were only a few regulars who posted, and now there are over 60,000 who have registered for posting privileges. The forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world.
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![](http://d21c.com/billie/FRfinest/eaglewithstars.jpg) A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001
So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I can no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I've been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.
Still that doesn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why, in addition to seeing FR's Finest Military Personnel every day, I thought it might be fun to feature a different FReeper (or FReepers) each day. If you would like to be pictured, or know someone who would, please FReepmail me and we'll turn the spotlight - on YOU - for the day!
And do let me know if you'd like your picture added to the groups of Veterans/Active Military below. I will keep this page updated, and continue to add them to the comment section of the original Veteran's Day thread as well.
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TOP: g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett. MIDDLE: fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick,Leroy S Mort, Mark17. BOTTOM: Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau.
TOP: ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam, dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony BOTTOM: rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang
TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx MIDDLE: The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law BOTTOM: deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.
TOP: spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68. MIDDLE: FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797 BOTTOM: usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack
We now have eleven groups of veterans/active military; we will post each group of three or four twice a week, with thumbnail/links of the remaining seven or eight groups on each thread. Click on any of the thumbnails below to see the group full-size.
GROUP 1A: TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete MIDDLE: T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub BOTTOM: YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1
GROUP 2A: TOP: Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet MIDDLE: 4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga BOTTOM: Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc
GROUP 3A: TOP: mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette MIDDLE: Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid BOTTOM: gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf
GROUP 4A: TOP: porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP MIDDLE: RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian BOTTOM: USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma
GROUP 9A: TOP: Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog. MIDDLE: Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son. BOTTOM: JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.
GROUP 10A: TOP: dakine's wife, MeeknMing's dad, Auntbee's nephew, MilitiaMan7, AlasBabylon. BOTTOM: Joe Brower, Temple Owl, Temple Owl's wife, dutchess' dad, Aomagrat.
GROUP 11A: TOP: ladtx #2 son; DiverDave's twin Don; petuniasevan and husband poorman; Mustard; ladtx #1 son. BOTTOM: AlamoGirl's brother Floyd; AG's dad; AG's brother Jim (inset); WVNan's husband; ladtx' Aunt Eva.
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by FreeTheHostages Graphics and layout by Billie
Welcome to a Gingerbread House party! Today we're going to have a contest with a REAL prize!! If you win, we'll snail-mail you a *real prize* -- your choice of:
Lynne Cheney's "A Patriotic Primer," a great book for kids of all ages......
or Carlo3b's
The Clinton Legacy Cookbook
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A fun and fanciful look at the world of Great Food and Hilarious Politics, blended by a world renowned Chef Entrepreneur Carlo Morelli! This 375 page recipe, cartoon, and original humor collection, is a real world cookbook and is a true recipe for sidesplittin' and tummybustin' fun and a body of collaborative effort with over 200 contributors and two years in the stirring presentation!
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To enter and win, you just have to follow these rules.
1. No fair complaining about how the judging is impulsive and the judges were probably drunk when they made their decision. You're not supposed to know that . . . .
2. The judges will accept bribes. The judges are Mudboy Slim and FreeTheHostages. We tend to agree on things and if we don't, we'll just have a big public fight on this thread and resolve the issue violently. So don't worry about there being an even number of judges. Mudboy Slim has only half a brain anyway. If I were you, I'd focus on persuading me, FreeTheHostages!
3. This being FReeper's Finest, cheerfulness, beauty, and humor count.
4. For purposes of this contest, "Gingerbread House" is *very* liberally defined. (Apologies for using the word "liberal" -- I'm a guest host you see, just helping out for the holidays; you can't expect much of me!) Your entry can be a picture stolen from the web, something you drew yourself on Paintshop Pro, a verbal description of a gingerbread house, blueprints for a gingerbread house, or something just generally gingerbread-housey.
5. If there are FReeper kids who post cute, patriotic gingerbread house pictures of houses they actually did, you should know that I (FreeTheHostages) will totally get teary-eyed and probably give them extra points just for being Right-wing children!
6. Knowing a lot about cooking and the history of gingerbread house-making won't impress the judges. We're not terribly learned, although we did read a bunch (well, maybe not a bunch, but a little) of background info on gingerbread houses to earn our keep as guest hosts!
7. The judges reserve the right to pick something submitted in total violation of these rules. Just for fun! So go ahead and have your daily chit-chat and fun on this thread. Who knows? Maybe one of loddy's puppy photos will charm us in the end!!
8. Post must be made to this thread by midnight PST today and winner will be pinged in an announcement in this thread by December 12th! Isn't this FUN?!
A Good Recipe for Gingerbread "Lumber" for a Real Gingerbread House...
Never made a gingerbread house? FreeTheHostages has 6-8 gingerbread parties every December. She uses the following recipe, passed on to her from her Vermont relatives, and it works pretty well in creating sheets of good construction material from which, when cooked, to cut out your walls and roof. (Psst... the secret to solid gingerbread for house construction: work the dough TOO MUCH before rolling it out, and after it comes out of the oven, leave it in the pan a second so that one side gets tough -- not burned, but tough).
If you're going to cut out the walls after it's cooked, why not roll out the dough right onto an edged cookie sheet, and prong it a few times with a fork? The dough's expansion along the edge of the cookie sheet makes a nice flat bottom for walls.
Nancy's Gingerbread Construction Material
1/2 cup shortening 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1 1/2 cups unsulfured molasses 1 egg 2/3 cup water 6 cups flour (maybe more) 1 tsp each of cinnamon, ginger, allspace, and ground cloves 2 tsp baking soda
Sift the flour and spices and baking soda together. Mix the shortening and the sugar. Add the egg and water to it. Then mix with the flour mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes -- until done.
When it's cool, cut it to the size you want for your walls and roof. Use foil-covered sturdy carboard for your yard. On the yard, make two of the four walls have a point atop them, a triangle to support the roof. Use melted chocolate chips to put the walls together, and hold them in place with toothpicks until the seams dry before putting on the roof.
When the house is done, consider decorating with candy using a frosting that hardens as it cools. Everyone has their favorite, but here's a frosting recipe that hardens quite well:
1 1/2 cups sugar 1/4 tsp cream of tarter 5 TBLS of ice-cold water 2 egg whites.
Atop a double boiler with boiling water below, vigorously beat with electric beater on "high" for 7 minutes. Frost and decorate as desired! ~ FreeTheHostages
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With special thanks again to FreeTheHostages, who has written another fun and entertaining thread for our holiday reading, and is also providing the prize for First Place in today's contest. This thread, and Mud's "Life Story" on Friday, were such fun to 'get creative with' in the layouts and graphics - just my cup of tea!
A big thanks also to our judges, MudboySlim and FreeTheHostages, for taking the time from their busy holiday schedules to offer their votes-for-sale to the highest bidder. ~ Billie
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Thanks, Mixer!
1) Click on the graphic to open the Calendar. 2) Once there you can click on any month and even click to the right to go into next year. Once you are in the month that you joined FR you will need to click on the number in the calendar and then an add item screen will come up. 3) In the next box enter your name in the "Calendar Text" field and then click on submit. 4) If any of the screens fail to load simply click on refresh in your browser and that will usually fix it. 5) If all else fails or simply if you want me to do this for you send me an FReepmail and I will gladly do it for you. ~Mixer
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Time's Running Out! ~ Billie
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: christmas; contest; freepers; fun; military; patriotic; surprises; veterans
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To: Balata
I LIKE YOUR DOGGIE!!!
To: FreeTheHostages
SHEEEESH, this is hard...so many good entries, look what you've wrought with this thread!!
Sorry I've been without 'puter access, but I'm back now and will help however I can...MUD
To: Flyer; Balata; Mudboy Slim; FreeTheHostages; Cool Guy
Are ya up yet huh???? I just worked double shifts and six days straight and came home from a stressful night (last night-right?) to this thread. THANK-YOU ALL!!!! I am off today and I have my TV on waiting for Mudboy and FreeTheHostages to break into FOX NEWS and announce the winner and 48 finalists!!!
Do we all get cook books huh huh? Do the finalists get to go on FR's next cruise for free? Do we get to appear on Katie Couric in da mornin if we be the losers and say it is vast right wing conspiracy they did not pick me?
WHO WON....huh huh who who who the hmmmmmm are you who who?
To: Mudboy Slim; Mama_Bear; yall
484
posted on
12/11/2002 7:22:40 AM PST
by
lodwick
To: Mudboy Slim; FreeTheHostages
418,419,445,466 for starters :-) and now that you are HERE I will fess up NONE I repeat NONE of the toilets I posted are gingerbread...and ahhhhhh I did not bake squat but they are awesome aye????
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
"NONE of the toilets I posted are gingerbread" LOL...thank you fer that frank admission!!
FReegards...MUD
To: Mudboy Slim
Yeah, I'm here now. Let me look at the ones in the 400 series to see if there's anything to add to our finalist list. We have our work cut out for us.
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
OK, now you're scaring me!
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!; Mudboy Slim; lodwick
Subject: "Pit Stop"
I left Montreal on Route 20 heading toward Quebec City when I decided to stop at a comfort station. The first toilet stall was occupied, so I went into the second one.
I was no sooner seated than I heard a voice from the next stall. "Hi, how are you doing?" Well, I am not the type to chat with strangers in highway comfort stations and I really don't know quite what possessed me, but anyway, I answered, a little embarrassed. "Not bad." And the stranger said, "And where are you off to?" Talk about your dumb question! I was really beginning to think this was too weird, so I said: "Well, just like you, I'm driving East."
Then I heard the stranger all upset say, "Look, I'll call your right back, there is some idiot in the next stall answering all the questions I'm asking you. "Bye!"
To: Mudboy Slim; uglybiker; Mercuria; agitator; AnnaZ; MeeknMing
To: Balata; Mudboy Slim
I think we can say to a certainty that Balata's dog didn't eat Flyer's house. All Balata's dog does is run back and forth.
Mudboy, there was much late-night revelry here! I need 5 more minutes to look for entries amongst the wreckage.
To: Diver Dave
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! Too funny!!! How embarrassin!!!
To: Mudboy Slim
493
posted on
12/11/2002 7:38:31 AM PST
by
lodwick
To: Diver Dave
LOL - good one Dave. Thanks for the laugh.
494
posted on
12/11/2002 7:40:33 AM PST
by
lodwick
To: Diver Dave
To: Mudboy Slim
As much fun as Tara's rampage has been in the 400s series, the only one that's gingerbreadhousy is that one little single jobber number which, combined with the free breakfast for you, and the general high-spirited of Tara's single-handed hijacking of the 400 series of this post, might get TaraBoom finalist status, but for the unfortunate posting of the photo of Monica Lewinsky. Sigh -- somethings just *aren't* funny.
Tara was good, but I think the top of our finalist is still better.
Let's focus on the finalist list and any additions you want to add to it.
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
LOL!
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!; Diver Dave; lodwick
LOL! Now, now, we'll all get in *big* trouble if you stay in yesterday's thread. Contest ended about 8 hours ago. You guys are too much fun and if we keep you here, we'll get in big trouble with our regular hostesses.
Off you go to 12-11-02! :::sweeping:::
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!; Mudboy Slim
(For the record, I think 445 is the best of TaRa's entry. I like the whimsy of "gingerbread baby" and I love the childlike simplicity of the house and I might add Tara!)
To: FreeTheHostages
Alright I'll stop posting my silly pictures. Sorry I ticked you off so badly.Excempt me from the contest I am just having fun.Sorry, have a great day. Sorry I ruined the 400's. You know the saying somebody STOP ME!!! LOL thanks.
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