USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 22 October 2003

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday October 22, 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.

WELKIN

The sky; heaven; the firmament

We don’t use this much nowadays—dictionaries usually tag it as archaic or literary—except in the set phrase make the welkin ring, meaning to make a very loud sound. What supposedly rings in this situation is the vault of heaven, the bowl of the sky. In older cosmology this was thought to be one of a set of real crystal spheres that enclosed the Earth, to which the planets and stars were attached, so it would have been capable of ringing like a bell if you made enough noise. The word comes from the Old English wolcen, a cloud, related to the Dutch wolk and German Wolke. Very early on, for example in the epic poem Beowulf of about the eighth century AD, the phrase under wolcen meant under the sky or under heaven (the bard used the plural, wolcnum, but it’s the same word). Ever since, it has had a strong literary or poetic connection. It appears often in Shakespeare and also in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: “This day in mirth and revel to dispend, / Till on the welkin shone the starres bright”. In 1739, a book with the title Hymns and Sacred Poems introduced one for Christmas written by Charles Wesley that began: “Hark! how all the welkin rings, / Glory to the King of kings”. If that seems a little familiar, it is because 15 years later it reappeared as “Hark! the herald-angels sing / Glory to the new born king”.

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Happy Birthday

Sarah Bernhardt 1844

We are counting cards!

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Happy Birthday

Jimmie Foxx 1907

We are counting cards.

We are counting the players from the city of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia!

Jimmy, oh Jimmy Foxx when are you coming back?

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Astounding fact # 564,891...
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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Happy Birthday

Timothy Leary 1920

He is dead, Tim.

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Happy Birthday

Christopher Lloyd 1938

I am an excellent driver.

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Khanom Buang

Crispy Pancakes with Fillings. Thai crispy pancakes which look very much like Mexican tacos. Coconut cream is topped on the small pancakes before fillings are placed on it. The two different fillings from which one can choose are the sweet filling: containing shredded coconut and golden threads (egg yolk strips) and the salty filling: shredded coconut and chopped spring onions.

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Happy Birthday

Annette Funicello 1942

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"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."
                         -John Gunther

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Would you like some subatomic particles with your pancakes?

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Happy Birthday

Leslie West (Mountain) 1945

Mississippi Queen, you know what I mean.

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I am feeling so tens today.

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Happy Birthday

Jeff Goldblum 1952

We are Fighting Fire.

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the America's Stonehenge

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On this day:

1961 - Chubby Checker appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and performed "The Twist."

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1966 - The Beach Boys released the single "Good Vibrations."

 

Ah! I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair

Ah! I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air


I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's givin' me the excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Ooo, bop-bop, good vibrations)
She's givin' me the excitations
(Bop-bop, excitations)
(Good, good, good, good vibrations)
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Ooo, bop-bop, good vibrations)
She's givin' me the excitation
(Bop-bop, excitations)
(Good, good, good, good vibrations)
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Ooo, bop-bop, good vibrations)
She's givin' me the excitations
(Bop-bop, excitations)

Close my eyes; she's somehow closer now
Softly smile I know she must be kind
When -- I look in her eyes
She goes with me to a blossom world


I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's givin' me the excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Ooo, bop-bop, good vibrations)
She's givin' me the excitations
(Bop-bop, excitations)


I don't know where, but she sends me there
(Oh, my my love sensation)
(Oh, my my heart elation)

Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations a-happenin' with her x3

Ohh!

(Good, good, good, good vibrations)
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Ooo, bop-bop, good vibrations)
She's givin' me the excitation
(Bop-bop, excitations)
(Good, good, good, good vibrations)
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Ooo, bop-bop, good vibrations)

Na na-na na-na na-na-na

Na na-na na-na na-na-na

Na na-na na-na na-na-na

Na na-na na-na na-na-na

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Wednesdays have always seemed like pancake days to me. Whether they were cooked at home on my mom's old Sunbeam electric griddle or at the local pancake house, it just seems to be the right kind of food for a Wednesday. A tall steaming stack of buttermilk cakes with heated syrup dripping down the sides make a sweet ending to a busy week.

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1954 - The Federal Republic of Germany was invited to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

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1999 - China ended its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied Western definitions of civil liberties.

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1746 - The College of New Jersey was officially chartered. It later became known as Princeton University.

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1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.

Don't mess with Texas!

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Pancakes.

Wednesday.

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1962 -  President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform his nation about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.

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1968 - Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft had orbited the Earth 163 times.

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

MoJo2001 just called.
Her cable is down for mainteance until about 5PM EST
She'll be here this evening.

[PoorMuttly]

Muttly like pancakes.

[stand watie]

cute goat. too bad tomcow's not as cute! LOL!

free dixie,sw

[tomkow6]

 

Hi,  PoorMuttly!

Welcome to the Canteen!

Wanna buy a burka?

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, TM. Always nice to see the good china for our troops coffee.

[PoorMuttly]

well...no...but Muttly WOULD like some goat with his pancakes today.

[beachn4fun]

the goat might come in handy if tomkow keeps coming to the Canteen in a state of undress....

[beachn4fun]

Hey Muttly......

[Kathy in Alaska]

And he took a large bite while waiting for the answer. His nephew replied, "I licked them."

Makes perfect sense to a kid. Off to email.

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

Well report off Hareetz wire has IDF disrupt bomb before went off last night

Also report off USA TOday report that Rummy kinda warn Pentagon guys we might need more troops because of Iraqi troubles

US State dept didn't listen

Care to explain Powell HMMMM

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"...but Muttly WOULD like some goat with his pancakes..."

[Soaring Feather]

Awwwwwwwwww, dear Jinx, I was raised on it!!!

Thanks for the link! Fun indeed!!

OBTW, Finnish Pancakes are very good! I will post a receipe for them!!!

Auntie Fawnn, jote this one down.

[tomkow6]

The FDA just approved a new drug for obesity; they say it causes modest weight loss when combined with diet and exercise. 

Of course, Twinkies combined with diet and exercise do the same thing . . .

[Pippin]

BRAT!!!!!

TOMKOW!!!

[StarCMC]

Tell him Thank You for his willingness to serve! Congrats on raising a good one!!

[PoorMuttly]

Hey...that IS what my pancakes look like...just keep that goat away from them.

Muttly like gorilla. I think I worked with him once, at The Studio.

Muttly want PANCAKES !

BTW, Muttly need more RAM (had some, but ate it), and scrolling through all that blank space in first post slows down my feeding process while I type. Muttly a one-paw, one-fork typist.

[StarCMC]

I thought about him soon after I woke this a.m. and said a prayer right then and there. He and Faith will be in my prayers all day.

[SevenofNine]

Well another item off Hareetz wire PLO is stockpiling weapons just in case of Arafat death

Going back to PLO bad boy report off the that they predict a cival war

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Sunshine! Looking sharp this fine day.

Hi Connor!!

[SevenofNine]

Well another item off Hareetz wire PLO is stockpiling weapons just in case of Arafat death

Going back to PLO bad boy report off the that they predict a cival war