USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 15 October 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday...
Thank the Veterans who served in
The United States Armed Forces.

Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom?
Support The United States Armed Forces Today!

Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday October 15, 2003

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Here is an amalgamation of trivial facts and seemingly useless data.

Do not forget to hit the hyperlinks.

We have links, lots of them.

SISYPHEAN

Of or relating to an endless and ineffective task.

This one comes straight out of Greek myth. Sisyphus was a king of Corinth, a son of Aeolus (the ruler of the winds, hence our word aeolian for something produced by or borne on the wind). In later legend he was the father of Odysseus or Ulysses. His name actually meant “crafty” in Greek: he was noted for his deception and he’s the equivalent in Greek folklore of the master trickster who turns up in many folk beliefs, such as Coyote in American Indian mythology. He even managed to cheat Death the first time around, surviving the experience to live to a ripe old age. In Greek legend Sisyphus was punished in Hades for his misdeeds in life by being condemned eternally to roll a heavy stone up a hill. As he neared the top, the stone rolled down again, so that his labour was everlasting and futile. The word first appeared in English in the middle of the seventeenth century. It isn’t used much these days because so few people understand the reference to classical literature.

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Happy Birthday

Virgil 70 B.C.

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate,
  And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
  Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.
  Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore,

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Happy Birthday

Friedrich Nietzsche 1844

Thus Spake Zarathustra.

2001 a Space Odyssey.

more.

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Happy Birthday

Mario Puzo 1920

Godfather.

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the
on-line pumpkin carving site

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Happy Birthday

Lee Iacocca 1924.

I am an excellent driver.

Lee Iacocca's next venture into electric vehicles, the Lido NEV, offers both style and function in a proven platform.

 

 

 

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Proglottids

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Happy Birthday

Jim Palmer 1945

We are counting cards.

3-time Cy Young Award winner (1973,75-76); won 20 or more games 8 times with Baltimore; 1991 comeback attempt at age 45 scrubbed in spring training.

Ball Four.

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Would you like a Halloween Screensaver with your pancakes?

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On this day:

1968 - Led Zeppelin made its performance debut in England.

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1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.

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1917 - Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad. Hari was a Dutch dancer that had spied for the Germans.

The very name of Mata Hari has become synonymous with spying, espionage, intrigue, and sensuality.

 

Excuse me, but her top reminds me of pancakes!

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Sin, cosin, every where a sin.

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1998 - James Woods received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

One of Hollywood's most intense supporting and leading actors, James Woods has built a distinguished career on stage, screen, and television. Early in his career, Woods, with his lean body, close-set eyes, and narrow, acne-scarred face, specialized in playing sociopaths, psychopaths, and other crazed villains.

I honestly admire you James Woods.

"It's just a bunch of old shit - all these guys pretending to be a radish."

Just in case you missed it, the James Woods quote site is here below linked.

http://www.hillebrander.de/woods/quotes.htm

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

[MoJo2001]

Go MoJo! Go MoJo! Go MoJo! Go MoJo! Go MoJo!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Nite Brother
God Bless You and your family.

[MoJo2001]

Did you see that? Woohoo!!

[StarCMC]

I LOVE DC TALK!! :o)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

We Love the Love Meter!
You got post 500!
From left to right
Sylvester, Momma Cat and Run-A-Muck

[Radix]

There are exactly 3 people who will watch with serious interest this lame World Series, to come.

 

George Steinbrenner is one, and the other two viewers will remain anonymous.

I have lost interest in Baseball for this year.

I don't like MLB that much anyhow, I only like stuff that involves the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox.

Freaking Marlins, what is that all about?

The only thing that I can say tonight is that indeed there is such a thing as "Crying in Baseball."

 

I am very disheartened, right now!

[Soaring Feather]

Good night Tom, I am sorry your team lost. I know how much it meant to you for the Cubs to win.

Thanks for all you do in the Canteen and for your service to our nation.

[StarCMC]

Wow!! Busy thread today -- it took me forever to catch up!! Sorry about the Cubbies Tomkow -- I was pulling for you.

[Soaring Feather]

Yes, I guess we have been busy here today!
'Tis good!!

[Fawnn]

MoJo2001!!! #500!!!

[Soaring Feather]

Here I am fatima!!
I heard you were looking for me.
I took off without you!! LOL

[StarCMC]

Now do you feel better?

[Soaring Feather]

ROTFLOL!!

[StarCMC]

Yikes - that got all freaky!!

[Soaring Feather]

Okay fatima let's let her rip!!
We are on our way Kathy!!

[StarCMC]

It is the soldier, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag,
who serves under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.

Freedom isn't free! Thank you to every airman, soldier, and sailor who protects our freedoms...both today and in days gone by. Those of us who enjoy the freedoms you have secured will never be able to repay you for your sacrifice. We are indebted to you.

[Fawnn]

Thank you to every airman, soldier, and sailor who protects our freedoms...both today and in days gone by. Those of us who enjoy the freedoms you have secured will never be able to repay you for your sacrifice. We are indebted to you.

Amen!!!

[Radix]

I hope that you do not mind, Star, but I am going to use some of your latest posts, on my new still not shown yet, profile, which is not quite ready.

It will be soon.

-Radix

[Soaring Feather]

The Canteen

As a light house beacon warns
a ship away from dangerous shores...
We in the USO Canteen FReeper Style
offer a safe haven for our troops and their families.
May God Bless our ship The USO Canteen FReeper Style.

bentfeather
9/05/03

[StarCMC]

I don't mind at all - I would be honored! :o) I am really having fun learning how to do this stuff -- and scavenging the internet is a good time, too!