USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 5 November 2003

Pancakes on Wednesdays

Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday, November 5, 2003

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

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DEIPNOSOPHIST

A master of dinner-table conversation.

It comes from two Greek words, deipnon, “dinner” and sophist, “a master of his craft; a clever or wise man”. (From the latter we get our modern word sophistry, which has gone down in the world, so that it means arguments that are undoubtedly clever, but also specious or fallacious.) Its origin is the book of the same name that was written by the Greek Athenaeus in about 228AD, in which a group of learned men discuss a great range of issues over dinner. Though a principal subject is food and the preparation of food, from which we learn a great deal about classical Greek cookery, the subject matter ranges very widely. These days, the word seems to turn up most often in the vocabulary of toast masters.

Happy Birthday

Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) 1912

Would you like some Quarks with your pancakes?

Quarks only exist inside hadrons because they are confined by the strong (or color charge) force fields. Therefore, we cannot measure their mass by isolating them. Furthermore, the mass of a hadron gets contributions from quark kinetic energy and from potential energy due to strong interactions. For hadrons made of the light quark types, the quark mass is a small contribution to the total hadron mass. For example, compare the mass of a proton (0.938 GeV/c²) to the sum of the masses of two up quarks and one down quark (total of 0.02 GeV/c²).

A Question of Scale

Happy Birthday

Elke Sommer 1940

About a hundred dollars!

Happy Birthday

Eugene Victor Debs 1855

Happy Birthday

Will Durant 1885

“Made pessimistic by the wars and politics that filled with sound and fury the pages of most historians, I found that I could recapture my sense of the worth and beauty of life by turning from the dramatic spectacles of military and political conflict to contemplate on the one hand the humane and peaceful life of the people, and on the other the contributions of exceptional men and women to the civilization and culture of their nation and the race. I determined to devote my life to recording the creative, rather than the destructive, things that men had done.”

-- Will Durant

I am an excellent driver

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Happy Birthday

Bill Walton 1952

We are counting cards!

I have been professionally trained to drive big Rigs by The United States Army. I am an excellent driver.

The U.S. Department of Labor, the Hudson Institute, and the American Trucking Association (ATA) reports show that more than 450,000 truck drivers will be needed each year through 2005 in order to keep America at it's best.

Happy Birthday

Tatum O'Neal 1963

"Set in Depression-era Kansas, Paper Moon is a miracle of unity. The set design and cinematography combine to give both the flavor of documentary photos and the visual quality of movies from the period, and every performance meshes with the overall tone of sincerity, earnest optimism, and creeping desperation..."

Lemon Souffle Pancakes

1977 - Ozzy Osbourne quit Black Sabbath only to rejoin a few weeks later. He later quit again to pursue a solo career.

Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all,
Or if he moves will he fall?
Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
We'll just pass him there
Why should we even care?

He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
Where he traveled time
For the future of mankind

Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfold

Now the time is here
For Iron Man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved

Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge

Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron Man lives again!

Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the Phantom Zone.

On this day:

1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.

1872 - In the U.S. Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never paid the fine.

The 'idea' of 'structurelessness' has created the 'star' system. We live in a society which expects political groups to make decisions and to select people to articulate those decisions to the public at large. The press and the public do not know how to listen seriously to individual women as women; they want to know how the group feels.

The pancakes are hot in the Canteen, come and get em.

1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.

About a hundred dollars

Monopoly Trivia Contest.

True or False:
1) Escape maps were placed inside Monopoly games and smuggled into POW camps in Germany during W.W.II.

2) Twinkies were inserted into a Monopoly game and smuggled on to the Apollo Eleven spacecraft by Buzz Aldrin.

3) The largest Monopoly board ever required a full city block.

4) The longest Monopoly game ever played was 70 days long.

5) Values of monopoly properties have been adjusted twice for inflation since 1935.

6) In 1986, Donald Trump offered Parker Brothers $9 million to change the property "Park Place" to "Trump Place."

7) Each year the makers of Monopoly produce more than twice as much play money as the U.S. Mint does real money.

8) For a brief period following W.W.II, Monopoly money was used as legal tender in the Mariana Islands.

9) In a recent online poll, the dog was the most popular Monopoly token.

10) In a recent online poll, the candlestick was the least popular Monopoly token.

11) Charles Darrow created Monopoly while unemployed during the Great Depression.

12) Charles Darrow later sold a less-successful game to Parker Brothers called "Father Stan, Where's My Ham?"

13) The "Get out of Jail Free" card can be cashed in for $50.

14) The "Whole Life Insurance" card can be redeemed for $67.

Tiebreaker:
Roughly how much Monopoly money does Parker Brothers produce every year?

1959 - The American Football League was formed.

1986 - The White House reaffirmed the U.S. ban on the sale of weapons to Iran.

There is a reason.

1994 - George Foreman, 45, became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas, NV.

Pancakes by Foreman

1998 - The U.N. announced that the Taliban militia had killed up to 5,000 civilians in a takeover of an Afghani town.

The Taliban movement was formed in Kandahar in 1994 by Islamic students who take a radical approach to interpreting Islam.

Understatement!

1999 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft Corp. enjoyed "monopoly power".

About a hundred dollars

Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on November 05:
1818 Benjamin F Butler Union general/presidential candidate (anti-monopoly)
1849 Rui Barbosa Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
1855 Eugene V Debs labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1857 Ida Tarbell muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
1876 Raymond Duchamp-Villon cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)
1884 James Elroy Flecker English poet/dramatist (Hassan)
1885 Will Durant writer/historian (Story of Civilization)
1887 Paul Wittgenstein Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist
1891 Earle (Greasy) Neale NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
1894 Eugen Zador Bataszek, Hungary, Hungarian/American composer (Diana)
1905 Joel McCrea South Pasadena CA, actor (Marshal-Wichita Town)
1911 Roy Rogers Cincinnati Ohio, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show)
1912 Natalie Schaeffer Rumson NJ, actress (Lovey Howell-Gilligan's Island)
1913 John McGiver NYC, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show)
1913 Vivien Leigh (Gone With Wind) Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn
1915 Moe Biller NYC, labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers)
1919 Myron Floren Webster San Diego CA, accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1927 Robert Abernethy Geneva Switzerland, Newscaster (NBC News Encore)
1930 Herb Edelman Brooklyn NY, actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5)
1931 Ike Turner AKA Mr Tina Turner!, singer (A Fool in Love)
1932 Arthur L Liman NYC, trial lawyer (Oliver North)
1935 Dick Davalos Bronx, actor (Jeff-The Americans)
1938 Chris Robinson Florida, actor (Stanley, General Hospital, Another World)
1941 Patricia Harty Wash DC, actress (Occasional Wife, Blondie)
1942 Art Garfunkel NYC, singer/actor (Sounds of Silence, Carnal Knowledge)
1942 Elke Sommer Berlin Germany, actress (Oscar, 10 Little Indians)
1942 Richie Scheinblum Bronx-born outfielder for the Kansas City Royals (Sporting News All Star Right fielder 1972 American League)
1943 Sam Shepard US, actor/playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart)
1946 Patricia K Kuhl speech & hearing scientist
1947 Oleg Antropov USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 Peter Noone rocker (Herman-Herman's Hermits-Silhouettes)
1951 Cindy Brooks Gettysburg PA, playmate (April, 1985)
1952 Bill Walton NBA center (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics)
1957 Jon-Erik Hexum Tenafly NJ, actor (Voyager, Cover-up)
1959 Bryan Adams Vancouver BC Canada, singer (Heaven)
1959 Rob Fisher rocker (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
1963 Andrea McArdle Philadelphia PA, actress (Annie); "Sun Will Come Out Tommorrow"
1963 Tatum O'Neal Los Angeles CA, Mrs John MacEnroe (Paper Moon, Little Darlings)
1969 Jennifer Guthrie Willimantic CT, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
1971 Corin "Corky" Nemec Little Rock AR, actor (Tucker, Parker Lewis)

Deaths which occurred on November 05:
1370 Kazimierz III ("The Great"), king of Poland (1333-70), dies at 61
1879 James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48
1942 George M Cohan, composer/actor/dancer, dies at 64 (I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Oh how I hate to get up in the morning)
1956 Art Tatum Jazz pianist, dies at 46 in Los Angeles
1960 Ward Bond actor(Wagon Train), dies at 55
1969 Lloyd Corrigan actor (Prof McKillup-Hank), dies at 69
1974 Stafford Repp actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman), dies at 56
1977 Guy Lombardo orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75
1979 Al Capp cartoonist (Lil' Abner), dies at 70
1982 Jacques Tati actor/director, dies of pulmonary embolism
1989 Barry Sadler singer (Green Berets), dies at 49 in Murfreesboro Tn
1989 Vladamir Horowitz pianist, dies at 85
1990 Meir Kahane, the US rabbi who founded the militant Jewish Defense League and was thrown out of Israel's parliament for his racist anti-Arab views -- gunned down by a terrorist (Egyptian native El Sayyed Nosair was convicted of the slaying in federal court.)
1991 Fred MacMurray actor (My Three Sons), dies at 84
1991 Robert Maxwell Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68
2000 Jimmie Davis, Louisiana's "singing governor," died in Baton Rouge; he was believed to be 101.

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 CHAPMAN HARLAN P.---ELYRIA OH.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1965 MC CLEARY GEORGE C.---BATON ROUGE LA.
[REMAINS RETURNED ID'D 05/91]
1967 COBEIL EARL GLENN---PONTIAC MI.
[03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED]
1967 DUTTON RICHARD A.---CHICAGO IL.
["03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, RIP 12/12/99]
1968 CORNTHWAITE THOMAS G.---GREAT BRITIAN
1968 SIMPSON JAMES E.
["ESCAPED, KILLED IN BINH THUAN"]
1969 ECHANIS JOSEPH---PORTLAND OR.
1969 LE FEVER DOUGLAS P.---ARCANUM OH.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
1219 The port of Damietta falls to the Crusaders after a siege.
1414 Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
1556 The Emperor Akbar defeats the Hindus at Panipat and secures control of the Mogul Empire
1605 Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered & leader Guy Fawkes hanged
1781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of the US in Congress assembled"
1811 El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence
1838 Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
1862 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota
1862 Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac
1872 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
1875 Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote
1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
1895 King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
1895 US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1911 Italy attacks Turkey, takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica
1911 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) beats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & President Taft (R)
1913 Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria
1914 Britain annexes Cyprus
1917 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville KY ordinance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas
1927 Walter Hagen wins his 4th straight PGA championship
1933 Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
1935 Maryland Court of Appeals orders U of M to admit (black) Donald Murray
1935 Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1938 Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
1938 Rutgers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 years as Rutgers Stad dedicated
1940 President FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
1942 Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission
1946 John F Kennedy (D-MA) elected to House of Representatives
1953 Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds
1955 New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1956 Britain & France land forces in Egypt
1959 AFL announced with 8 teams
1964 US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
1967 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1967 New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24
1968 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain
1968 Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency
1969 Bobby Seale, the founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, is sentenced to four years in prison on sixteen counts of contempt of court (Chicago Eight)
1971 NBA's Los Angeles Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak
1973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service
1974 Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
1974 Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC
1977 NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young)
1978 Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
1978 Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games
1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"(right back at ya guy!)
1981 Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine
1982 Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
1982 George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album
1983 Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden
1987 Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1987 Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana
1988 Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
1988 Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
1989 20th NYC Marathon (J Kanganaa 2h08m01s & Ingrid Kristiansen 2h25m28s)
1989 US plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1994 Former President Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.
1996 Voters returned President Clinton to the White House for a second term

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

El Salvador : 1st Cry for Independence (1811)
England : Guy Fawkes Day
Sweden : All Saints Day
Virgin Islands : Liberty Day (Monday)
Liberia : Thanksgiving Day (Thursday)
World : World Community Day (1945) (pray for peace) (Friday)
Denmark : Esbjerg Cup-World's largest ice skating championship (Saturday)
US : Impotency Week (Day 3)
US : Chemistry Week (Day 4)
US : Double Talk Week (Day 4)
National Neurofibromatosis Month

Religious Observances
Christian-Sweden : All Saints Day
RC : Commemoration of St Bertilla, virgin
Christian : Feast of Martin de Porres & Holy Relics

Religious History
1917 In Moscow, following abdication of Russian Czar Nicholas II, the historic Orthodox Church Council of 1917_1918 restored the office of patriarch, suppressed by Peter the Great in 1700.
1935 The Cooperative General Association of Free Will Baptists (northern U.S.) and the General Conference of Free Will Baptists (southern U.S.) merged in Nashville, TN, to form the National Association of Free Will Baptists.
1950 Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" program was first broadcast over television.
1959 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'All joy (as distinct from mere pleasure, still more amusement) emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.'
1970 American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'The Bible does not minimize sexual sin, but neither does it make it different from any other sin.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment."

Question of the Day...
Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips?

Murphys Law of the day...(Osborn's Law)
Variables won't; constants aren't.

Amazingly Astounding fact #482...
Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.

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