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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 5 November 2003
Canteen FRiends ~ Radix ~ Society for the Banishment of Burkas
Posted on 11/05/2003 2:10:34 AM PST by Radix
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For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. |
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Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! |
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Pancakes on Wednesdays
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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays. Wednesday, November 5, 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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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. |
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Happy Birthday Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) 1912
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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
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Happy Birthday
Elke Sommer 1940
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About a hundred dollars! |
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Happy Birthday Eugene Victor Debs 1855
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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
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I am an excellent driver
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Happy Birthday Bill Walton 1952 We are counting cards!
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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. |
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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..."
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Lemon Souffle Pancakes
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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!
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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the Phantom Zone. |
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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.
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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.
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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? |
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1959 - The American Football League was formed. |
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1986 - The White House reaffirmed the U.S. ban on the sale of weapons to Iran. There is a reason. |
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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
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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!
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1999 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft Corp. enjoyed "monopoly power".
About a hundred dollars
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Pancakes Wednesdays |
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
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To: Kathy in Alaska
BTTT!!!!!!
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:17:35 AM PST
by
E.G.C.
To: Kathy in Alaska
BTTT!!!!!!
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:18:08 AM PST
by
E.G.C.
To: Kathy in Alaska
Got a little bit of rain but I'm not sure if it's going to be enough for the fire alert. We'll see.
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:19:02 AM PST
by
E.G.C.
To: beachn4fun
WTG, beach!! You got #50! Off to work.
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:25:09 AM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: bentfeather
Your color's seemed to have improved now that you're on your second cup:
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:48:17 AM PST
by
Fawnn
(Official Canteen wOOhOO Consultant ... and www.CookingWithPam.com person)
To: Fawnn; Radix
Belgian Waffles Marne Style
1/2 cup warm water
1 tbsp. active dry yeast
2 cups lukewarm milk
1/2 cup of canola oil
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 tsp. vanilla
Pinch baking soda
1 1/2 cups sliced fresh strawberries for topping
The night before you want to serve the waffles, stir together in large mixing bowl water and yeast. Allow to stand 10 minutes, then stir in warm milk, canola oil, salt and sugar. With a wooden spoon or rubber spatula, beat in flour. Wrap bowl tightly with plastic and let stand overnight on counter top - do not refrigerate. The next morning, preheat well-greased waffle iron. Stir in eggs, vanilla and soda; beat well. Bake on prepared iron until golden brown. Serve at once topped with whipped cream and fresh strawberries. Serves 4.
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:56:11 AM PST
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tomkow6
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To: Fawnn
Ohhhhhhh, that's fantastic!!!!
I love it!!!!
ROTFLOL!!
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Pancakes on Wednesday ~ Bump!
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:01:31 AM PST
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blackie
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Coffee Break ~ Bump!
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:02:05 AM PST
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blackie
To: Kathy in Alaska
Prayers for our troops bump,
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:10:15 AM PST
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fatima
(Prayers for all our troops,also Karen,4ID,stay safe.)
To: tomkow6
Reference your post 54. Where is that smoke coming from? Inquiring minds want to know.
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:14:59 AM PST
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Hondo1952
("Did you know Beth could stand on her head, eat peanut butter and whistle?")
To: Hondo1952
You didn't notice the steaks on the grill????
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:16:33 AM PST
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tomkow6
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To: beachn4fun
And your point would be? That's what we do. We are guys. We also throw rocks, spit and do other things that you just wouldn't understand. That's why you love us.
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:18:05 AM PST
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Hondo1952
("Did you know Beth could stand on her head, eat peanut butter and whistle?")
To: tomkow6
Tom why do you know how the Belgian Marines make waffles? I'm beginning to worry if the girls aren't right. Please tell me Miss Fawnn sent you that to post.
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:20:45 AM PST
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Hondo1952
("Did you know Beth could stand on her head, eat peanut butter and whistle?")
To: tomkow6
What grill?
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:22:18 AM PST
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Hondo1952
("Did you know Beth could stand on her head, eat peanut butter and whistle?")
To: Hondo1952
Me thinks you been in the closet toooo long!
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:29:36 AM PST
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tomkow6
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To: tomkow6
ME?
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:29:56 AM PST
by
tomkow6
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To: tomkow6
ME?
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:29:56 AM PST
by
tomkow6
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To: tomkow6
ME?
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posted on
11/05/2003 9:29:56 AM PST
by
tomkow6
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To: tomkow6
ME?
100
posted on
11/05/2003 9:29:57 AM PST
by
tomkow6
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