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[JohnHuang2]

Hiya, friend.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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







Please Thank someone in the military for ensuring our Freedom.
Take a moment and Thank a Service Man or Woman.
Just Click on the graphic to SEND an e-mail.

[JohnHuang2]

May God bless America's best and brightest -- the men and women who wear our nation's uniform.

[WSGilcrest]

Links to some great online (and downloadable)games:

http://www.wildtangent.com/

http://www.nstorm.com/

http://www.miniclip.com/Homepage.htm

http://www.shockwave.com/sw/home/

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

If YOU are interested in participating in doing threads, either your own,
or helping on existing ones, please contact LindaSOG by FReep mail.

If you are interested in being a Sports Columnist please FReep mail MoJo2001


From the USO Website
"The USO mission is to provide morale, welfare and recreation-type services
to uniformed military Personnel."

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Honoring those who have served before.
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This is the same as the real USO AND Free Republic itself.

From the front page of Free Republic.

"Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent,
grass-roots conservatism on the web."

To our military readers, we remain steadfast in keeping the Canteen doors open.
The Canteen is Free Republics longest running daily thread specifically designed
to provide entertainment and morale support for the military.
The doors have been open since Oct 7 2001,
the day of the start of the war in Afghanistan.
We are indebted to you for your sacrifices for our Freedom.

To every service man or woman reading this thread.
Thank You for your service to our country.
No matter where you are stationed,
no matter what your job description
Know that we are are proud of each and everyone of you.

[MoJo2001]

Hi Mr.Tonkin! Thanks for posting the thread. The hubby and I just got done watching a movie. Woohoo!! Have a great day at the Coast Guard Station!! Let me know what kind of soup they're serving.

[wolficatZ]

 

downloading the latest x-plane demo right now. It has a time limit, but

it's free and let's you try it out..we'll see in about 3-4 minutes

[Radix]

This is THE game

 

 

[SouthernHawk]

Good Morning Mojo,Tonk and Ma! So many games, so few weekends! Good morning to our military
and good morning to the whole Canteen crew.

Warm up exercise for today . . . . .

Two skiers sitting at the Ski Lodge Bar talking, one is dyslexic
"I've just zag-zigged down that slope."
"No, you have zig-zagged."
"Are you sure?"
An argument takes place
"Okay, to settle this I'll ask that bloke over there."
"Excuse me can you settle an argument, Do you zag-zig or do you zig-zag?"
"Sorry I can't help you I'm a tobogganist."
"That's handy, I'll have twenty Benson and Hedges then!"

[tomkow6]

SALUTE!

 

 

[tomkow6]

Good morning, MoJo! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!!

[tomkow6]

 

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[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

 Two Northern blondes were driving through Louisiana.  As they approached
the town of Natchitoches, they started arguing
about the pronunciation of the name.  They continued to argue until they
stopped for lunch.

As they stood at the counter, one blonde asked the manager: "Before we
order can you please settle an argument for us?  Would you pronounce the
name of where we are?"

The manager leaned over the counter and said:
BURRRRRRRR-GERRRRRRR-KIIIIIIING

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS Marietta (PG-15)

Marietta class gunboat
Displacement. 1,000 t.
Lenght. 189'7"
Beam. 34'
Draft. 12'
Speed. 13 k.
Complement. 140
Armament. 6 4", 1 3", 4 6-pdr., 2 1-pdr., 1 mg.

The USS Marietta, a schooner rigged gunboat, was laid down by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif., 13 April 1896; launched 18 March 1897 ; sponsored by Mrs. C. L. More, daughter of Brig. Gen. T. C. H. Smith ; and commissioned 1 September 1897, Comdr. F. W. Symonds In command.

Following brief duty on the Pacific station, Marietta departed San Francisco 19 March 1898 for Callao, Peru, to arrange for the coaling of Battleship Oregon (BB-3) which was steaming to join the North Atlantic Squadron off Cuba. Moving on to Valparaiso, Chile, 31 March, the gunboat was joined by Oregon 6 April and together the two warships proceeded through the Straits of Magellan and up the east coast of South America, separating at Bahia, Brazil 11 May. Marietta arrived Key West, Fla., 4 June, then joined the blockade of Havana Harbor.

On 2 September the gunboat arrived at Boston for repairs and then sailed 10 October for her second tour of duty off Cuba. For the next 5 months, the ship patrolled the Caribbean, showed the flag in Latin American ports, and helped clear mines from Cuban waters. On 17 October she sailed from Virginia for the Philippines. Steaming via the Suez Canal, Marietta arrived Manila 3 January 1900. Operating in support of American forces ending the Philippine insurrection, the gunboat acted as a patrol and convoy escort vessel in the Islands, assisting and cooperating with the Army In military expeditions and landings until ordered home 3 June 1901. Again sailing via Suez, Marietta arrived Boston 17 September and then proceeded immediately to Portsmouth, N.H., reporting to the North Atlantic Squadron.

On 21 November, the ship cleared Portsmouth, sailing via New York for another tour of duty in the Caribbean. Arriving Colon, Colombia, on the 23d, she spent the next year and 5 months cruising on this station, protecting American interests in Colombia, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela, Trinidad, Curaçao, and Honduras, in addition to carrying mail for American legation officials. She completed her duty 10 April 1903, and sailed for home, returning to Boston 16 days later. Marietta decommissioned at Boston 6 May 1903.

The gunboat recommissioned 11 February 1904, and sailed for Panama 9 March. She operated off Central America, protecting American interests in Panama during that nations revolution against Colombia. On 24 June, the ship arrived at Gibraltar, and reported for duty with the European Squadron. She remained in foreign waters, alternating duty with this and the South Atlantic Squadron until 4 December when she sailed for League Island, Pa., arriving 31 December, and decommissioning 21 January 1905.

Marietta recommissioned 14 May 1906 and departed League Island on the 26th for the West Indies. For the next 5½ years, the ship served in the islands of the Caribbean, calling at numerous Latin American ports and protecting American lives and property from damage.

On 4 November 1911, she reported to Portsmouth, NH to go into reserve. On 27 May 1912 Marietta was turned Over to the New Jersey Naval Militia and 2 days later was placed in full commission at New York Navy Yard. For the next 2 years the gunboat operated in the Caribbean and western Atlantic, enforcing American neutrality. In February 1916, the veteran warship joined American forces off Vera Cruz to assist in operations against Mexican insurgents. She returned to the United States shortly before the start of World War I, and soon after joined the Atlantic Fleet patrol force for convoy duty. Continuing her escort service, she was assigned to the European patrol force in 1918 and operated on this assignment until she decommissioned 12 July 1919 at New Orleans, La. Marietta was sold 25 March 1920.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on July 31:
1763 James Kent Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia)
1803 John Ericsson US, invented screw propeller, built USS Monitor
1837 William Clarke Quantrill Col (Confederate Army)
1841 George Melville polar explorer, naval engineer
1894 Roy Bargy Mich, orch leader (Jimmy Durante Show)
1900 Elmo Roper pollster (Roper Poll)
1901 Jean Dubuffet France, painter (Landscape with 2 Personages)
1904 Arthur Daley sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956)
1911 George Liberace Menasha Wisc, violinist (Liberace Show)
1912 Irv Kupcinet Chicago Ill, TV host (Tonight! America After Dark)
1912 Milton Friedman economist (Nobel 1976)
1919 Curt Gowdy Green River Wyo, sportscaster (ABC)
1919 Primo Levi Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz)
1921 Whitney M Young Jr civil rights leader, head of Urban League
1923 Ahmet Ertegun CEO (Atlantic Records)
1929 Don Murray Calif, actor (Bus Stop, Advise & Consent, Endless Love)
1935 Geoffrey Lewis Plainsfield NJ, actor (Earl-Flo, Gun Shy)
1939 France Nuyen Marselles France, actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head)
1940 Stanley Jaffe producer (Fatal Attraction)
1943 Susan Flannery NYC, actress (Leslie Stewart-Dallas)
1943 William Bennett US Secretary of Education (1985-88)/drug czar
1944 Geraldine Chaplin Santa Monica Ca, actress (Dr Zhivago, 3 Musketeers)
1944 Sherry Lansing Chicago Ill, actress (China Syndrome, Black Rain)
1946 Bob Welch rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
1946 Gary Lewis Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1950 Lane Davies actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts)
1951 Barry Van Dyke Atlanta Ga, actor (Lt Dillon-Battlestar Galactica)
1951 Evonne Goolagong Cawley Australia, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1971)
1953 Hugh McDowell chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line)
1957 Dirk Blocker LA Calif, actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four)
1957 Irina Nazariva USSR, 4 X 400m relay (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 Victoria E Cooke Hollywood Ca, playmate (Aug, 1980)
1958 Wally Kurth actor (Days of Our Lives)
1962 Kym Malin Dallas Tx, playmate (May, 1982)
1962 Sandra "Sweetness" Hodge basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
1963 Norman Cook rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1973 Jerry Rivera Puerto Rico, spanish singer

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Deaths which occurred on July 31:
1556 St Ignatius of Loyola founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome
1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish
1875 Andrew Johnson 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
1953 Robert Taft (Sen-R-Oh) (Mr Republican), dies in NY at 63
1964 Jim Reeves Country singer.(He'll Have to Go, Four Walls) Plane crash
1977 Stacy Moskowitz shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
1978 Enoch Light orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70
1981 Gen Omar Torrijos leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
1984 Bill Raisch one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79
1997 Bo Dai, Last emporer of Vietnam, dies at 85

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 BURROUGHS WILLIAM D. INDIANHEAD MD.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, DECEASED 03/21/99]
1967 ALLEN THOMAS R. WOODWARD OK.
[REMAINS RETURNED 11/03/97]
1967 PACKARD RONALD L. CANON CITY CO.
[REMAINS RETURNED 11/03/97]
1967 ZUHOSKI CHARLES P. JAMESPORT NY.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1969 BURNS MICHAEL P. EL PASO TX.
1969 NEAL DENNIS P. TARPON SPRINGS FL.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
432 St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
768 [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
904 Arabs capture Thessalonica.
1291 Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
1774 Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen
1760 Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, drives the French army back to the Rhine River.
1777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
1790 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1809 1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila
1813 British invade Plattsburgh, NY
1872 C H F Peters discovers asteroids #122 Gerda & #123 Brunhild
1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U
1876 US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA)
1910 Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
1912 US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights
1917 The third Battle of Ypres commences as the British attack the German lines.
1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
1930 Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13
1932 Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0
1934 St Louis Cards defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean & Tony Freitos go the distant
1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1362 Griqua & #2865
1938 NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club"
1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1948 Pres Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills the SS & 3rd baseman
1953 Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created
1954 Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)
1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1961 2nd All Star Game of 1961 ends 1-1 due to rain at Fenway Park
1962 Federation of Malaysia formed
1963 Cleve ties record of 4 consecutive HRS (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown)
1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor
1964 US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
1966 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
1966 Charles Whitman wounds 46 & kills 5 at University of Texas
1968 Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free
1969 Mariner 6 flies past Mars
1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La
1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1972 Chic White Sox Dick Allen hits 2 inside-the-park-homers in Minn
1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
1973 ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to the NY Nets
1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
1978 Gunman shoots his way into the Iraqi Embassy in Paris
1978 NY Yanks now 7« out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2402 Satpaev & #2416 Sharonov
1980 John Phillips of the Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges
1980 Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of the Natl Bar Assn
1982 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France
1984 US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
1988 Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London
1988 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
1990 Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Mexico : Day of National Mourning (1811-Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla)
Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival ( Friday )
Make a Budget Day

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Religious Observances
Ang, RC : Feast of Joseph of Arimathaea
Buddhist-Thailand : Buddhist Lent
Witch : Lughnasadh, sabbat
Ang, RC : Memorial of St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits

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Religious History
1773 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Duty is ourpart; the care is His.'
1776 Francis Salvador, a plantation owner from South Carolina, became the first Jewto die for American independence, when he was killed in a skirmish with the British.
1874 Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated president of Georgetown University, theoldest Catholic university in America. Healy at the same time became the first African-American to head a predominantly white university.
1889 Death of Horatius Bonar, 81, Scottish preacher and author of the hymn, 'I Heardthe Voice of Jesus Say.'
1970 The complete New American Standard Version of the Bible (NASB) was firstpublished. (The completed NASB New Testament had been released earlier, in 1963.)

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"Conceit is God's gift to little men."

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You might be a bad cook if...
the EPA requires that all your garbage cans be marked with large bright red 'biohazard' symbols.

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Todays Murphys law...
Nature always sides with the hidden flaw

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Cliff Clavin says, it's a little known fact that....
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

[Fiddlstix]

Good Morning Everybody.

You Know The Drill
Click the Pics J

Coffee & Donuts J

[HiJinx]

Good Morning Canteeners! Guess who's going to take Aeronaut's lead tomorrow and take wing? Yup, you got it! The HJ family is headed out to visit family somewhere in East Texas, and we aren't coming home until the cows do. Well, maybe not quite that long...ok, we'll be back home a week from Saturday. Until then, we're going to just relax somewhere between Texarkana and the middle of nowhere, where towns' populations are numbered in the low thousands and everybody knows everybody else, where you're always welcomed with open arms to Sunday meeting, and if it wasn't so doggoned hot and humid I might consider staying there... So, with that in mind, let's take a look at some of the ways we might like to get there.

Mrs. HJ is an adventurous soul and suggested we go by balloon. These are floating over the red rock country of Sedona. I reminded her she only has 6 days of vacation, and that wouldn't be long enough to get us to Texas, let alone get home on time.

An air tanker makes a low pass near Oracle, Arizona.
Fast work by firefighters and air tankers saved the town from a sprawling brush fire.
Image © W. "Fireball" Faidley.

AZ Flyboy can't resist the temptation to sit sidesaddle with a slurry bomber pilot. He's hoping they get closer to the houses next time...Dad isn't taking him along if that's what he plans to do all next week. Besides, the fires are in Idaho right now, not Texas!!

F-16 of the 56th Fighter Wing banks right over red rock country

I tend to like fast transport, and the hot fighters of the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB are about as hot as it gets! I'm just going to have to figure out how to get the rest of the family into that little luggage compartment thingie they have under the cockpit...

[mhking]

NFL Hall of Fame Class 0f 2003:

And now, to present the honor
Inductee	Presenter	Relationship
Marcus Allen	Harold "Red" Allen	Father
Elvin Bethea	Hornsby Howell	Bethea's North Carolina A&T coach
Joe DeLamielleure	Larry Felser	Former Buffalo News reporter/columnist
James Lofton	David Lofton	Oldest son
Hank Stram	Len Dawson	Hall of Fame quarterback under Stram

The Hall of Fame induction ceremony is Sunday afternoon at 2P ET; the annual Hall of Fame football game will be Monday night at 8P ET on ABC between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs in a rematch of Super Bowl I.

The first game of the pre-season will be the American Bowl, Saturday morning US time in Tokyo between the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New York Jets. That game will be aired twice Saturday, live at 5A ET on ESPN2 and tape delayed at 8P ET on ESPN.

[SouthernHawk]

Went back to the original theme of the thread. My favorite computer game is

FREECELL (for those days when you aren't already frustrated enough!)

[Old Sarge]

Evening, Folks and FRiends! Sarge is back for another duty watch.

Not too bad a weather picture, for once. A little rain this morning, but we got a steamy humid day out of it.

Here's a few pics for y'all!

This is the shoulder patch of the 35th Infantry Division, "The Santa Fe "Division". The Santa Fe Cross was a symbol used to mark the old Santa Fe trail, an area where the unit trained, and was officially designated as an identifying device for the unit by Headquarters, 35th Division, General Orders Number 25, dated 27 March 1918. The organization is referred to as the Santa Fe Division.

This is the patch of the Kentucky Army National Guard.

Red, white and blue are our national colors. The color Yellow and the red and blue allude to the combat arms: Armor (Cavalry), Artillery, and Infantry. The long rifle is inseparably associated with the early history of Kentucky prior to and after its admission to the Union as the 15th State.

Pretty neat history bites, huh?

I'll be on watch the rest of the night. See You Online!