USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Julius Caesar: The Gallic Wars ~ September 16, 2003

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[Aeronaut]

Good morning Diva.

[LaDivaLoca]

A good morning to my fellow Canteeners,
our Military, Veterans, Allies and your families



Have a wonderful day!


See you all later.

[tomkow6]

SALUTE!

 

 

[tomkow6]

Good morning, LaDiva! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!!

[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

The teacher of the earth science class was lecturing on map reading. After explaining about latitude, longitude, degrees and minutes the teacher asked, "Suppose I asked you to meet me for lunch at 23 degrees, 4 minutes north latitude and 45 degrees, 15 minutes east longitude...?"

After a confused silence, a voice volunteered, "I guess you'd be eating alone."
 

[R. Scott]

Caesar quickly grasped the changed situation and followed, immediately beginning on his arrival that inexorable enclosure of his enemy that would isolate Vercingetorix's army from its remaining allies.

by Julius Caesar:

The siege works that we were beginning to build formed a circuit of 18 kilometers. Camps were constructed at strategic points along it, and we built 23 redoubts there as well. Pickets were stationed in these during the daytime to guard against any sudden breakout from the oppidum; at night they were occupied by strong garrisons with sentries on watch.
…
When I was informed of this by fugitives and prisoners, I began building siege works of the following kind. I had a trench dug 20 feet wide, with perpendicular sides so that it was as broad at the bottom as it was at the top. Then I moved all the other siege works back 600 meters from this trench. I did this to counter certain difficulties: the area to be enclosed was very wide and it would not be easy to man the whole circuit; the enemy might suddenly swoop down en masse on our fortifications at night, or they could possibly, during the daytime, hurl their weapons at our men while they were busy and occupied with the work.
So, at this distance of 600 meters, I had two trenches dug, of equal depth and each 5 meters wide. The inner one ran across the plain and the low ground, so I filled it with water diverted from the river. Behind these trenches, I erected a rampart and palisade 4 meters high. To this I added a breastwork with battlements, with large forked branches projecting at the point where the breastwork joined the rampart, to stop the enemy if they tried to climb up. Finally, I had turrets erected at intervals of about 27 meters along the entire circuit of our fortifications.

A whole lot of digging and building on the part of his Legions, but they were Combat Engineers as well as Heavy Infantry – and it did cut down on Roman casualties.

[tomkow6]

 

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[Fawnn]

Looking back:

26 Feb. 2003

Forget about oil! I say we can get
Saddam to back down if we threaten to stop
the world's supply of Grecian Formula.
(Pamela Rice Hahn)
www.CookingWithPam.com
Published in Club Ruminations

Just wanted to show y'all how somewhat prophetic my humor attempts can be. I mean, has anyone else noticed how gray all those deck of cards guys are now when our guys apprehend them???

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of today's thread

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

[The Mayor]

[minor49er]

Good Morning everybody! Good Morning troops! Here is today's humor atempt.

A traffic Policeman stopped a woman for exceeding the posted speed limit. He asked the driver her name.

She said, "I'm Mrs. Chadivaler Zuminskagia Ragretumunga from the Republic of Uzbetikan visiting my daughter in Columbia."

As she finished speaking the cop paused for a moment and then put away his summons book and pen, and said, "Well... OK... but don't let me catch you speeding again."

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

You will stay right where you are on the thread.
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[minor49er]

Good Morning Mayor!
How are you today?
I hope you have a great rest of the day. And rest of the week. And rest of the month. etc.

[minor49er]

Good Morning Tonk!
How are you today?
I hope you have a great rest of the day! And rest of the week! And rest of the month! And etc!

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good to everyone here at the USO Canteen and to all of our military personal at home and abroad as well as to all our allies nations supporting us. Thank you so very much for your continued service to our country.

Folks, be sure to keep up with Isabella on the East Coast and listen to the adive and recommendations of your local officials.:-D

[minor49er]

Good Morning E.G.C.!
How are you today?
I hope you have a great rest of the day today! And rest of the week! And rest of the month! And etc.!

[E.G.C.]

Thanks, you too:-D

[minor49er]

It looks like Isabella might miss us. But if it's gonna hit us, then people are saying Friday or Saturday. It reminds me of that hurricane that we had up here in 96 or 97. I think it was Floyd.
And as for local officals, I don't even know who my local officals are. I've never seen any of them.