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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. 
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| 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 |
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