bouncingbean's Journal: history of mess dinners

Ok so I have a presentation to give tomorrow on the history of dining in and mess dinners. Should be simple right? Well I have 5 minutes to give this lecture and no reference material (except the internet). Small time limit means that I can't give a detailed presentation and the broad topic means that I am pretty much scraping up a timeline and presenting it. I'll ask my audience alot of questions... heh. I have to give this tiny presentation right before the mess dinner, which is to celebrate St Barbra's day. It sucks having to celebrate a christian saint that had her saintly status revoked in 1969 (I'm an atheist who hates having religion stuffed down my throat). I guess I can say I'm supporting a tradition of the artillery. Maybe my appendix will burst tonight or something. heh.

-Leon