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.

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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

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thanks for today's thread and the pancakes Brother!
Thanks for helping boost the morale of the military and their family members.

[HiJinx]

Mmmmmm....I'm Beary Hungry tonight...may I have my pancakes early, please?

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[bellevuesbest]

Hi All!

My #1 son is off tomorrow to Basic Training.
I'd be with him but they won't take me.
He loves his country and will serve her well.

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Mr Goat wants to know if you have any 007 tunes?

[SevenofNine]

That what I love about Wednesday it is hump day and pancake breakfast RACK ITT

Well report off Interfax has Kremlin smack chat UK on release those two dude that was this close of whack Vlad on foreign trip

Yeah I be tick off too


Also another report off AFP wire has North Korea calling US proposal laugable

You know what you are laugable

You got Wo Fat lookalike running your country
Kim Jong 11 HELLO does ring a bell????

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Please say a prayer for Texas Cowboy.
He is traveling to CA today to be with his 42 yaer old daughter faith.
She has some medical issues and has asked him to come and be with her.
Thank You

[SevenofNine]

Well some sad news report out of Hollywood tonight Reuters wire report that legendary Character actor and heavy Jack Elam has just died

Developing...

HOW MAN How sad

He start in Gunsmoke and other movie through out his long career

[Kathy in Alaska]

Pancakes Anyone?

Yum. I'd love some. Just need the syrup.