USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 12 November 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix and LindaSOG ( Thank you LindaSOG for all that you do out here.

[Radix]

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday, November 12, 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.

LIPOGRAMMATIST

A writer of lipograms.

As opposed to pangrammatists, who strive to crowd all the letters of the alphabet into a composition of the very briefest scope, a lipogrammatist systematically leaves one of them out. This ditty from the nineteenth century avoids a certain vowel:

A jovial swain may rack his brain,
and tax his fancy’s might,
To quiz in vain, for ’tis most plain,
That what I say is right.

A lipogram without an e is the most difficult kind to write, since that’s the most common letter in English. There have been some celebrated modern examples. In 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright published a 50,000-word novel called Gadsby without a single e in it. The French author Georges Perec produced a 300-page tour-de-force in 1969, similarly without an e in sight, under the title La Disparition. It was translated into e-less English by Gilbert Adair in 1995 as A Void. We might ask ourselves why anyone would attempt such feats, but that question might take us too far into the murkier realms of human psychology.

Such unusual constructions can fatally limit an author, as crucial grammatical forms must not play a part in any composition. Though a good author might find avoiding a particular symbol is not always too much of a handicap, it’s hard to maintain such an approach for long without producing writing that is a thoroughgoing oddity, as this part of my discussion plainly shows. Writing in this way for fifty thousand words would tax anybody’s brain, and could bring about a long-lasting loss of ability in a wordsmith!

The word lipogram is from the Greek lipogrammatos, lacking a letter, which derives from the verb leipein, to leave out, plus gramma, a letter. The first part has nothing to do with the modern prefix lipo-, fat, which is from a different Greek stem.

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Happy Birthday

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815

Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902) is believed to be the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, and for the next fifty years played a leadership role in the women's rights movement.

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Happy Birthday

Auguste Rodin 1840

The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin.

1840 - Sculptor Auguste Rodin was born in Paris. His most widely known works are "The Kiss" and "The Thinker."

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Happy Birthday

Grace Kelly 1929.

Amazing Grace

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I am an excellent driver!

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Charles Manson 1934

Sharon Tate, et al

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Happy Birthday

Neil Young 1945

As a result of songs, a lot of people assumed that there was a feud between Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd. But the fact is that they were mutual fans!

You've got to turn on evil
When its coming after you

I know I said I love you
I know you know it's true
I've got to put the phone down
And do what we've got to do
One standing in the aisle way
Two more at the door
We've got to get inside there
Before they kill some more

Time is running out
Let's roll

Time is running out
Let's roll

No time for indecision
We've got to make a move
I hope that we're forgiven
For what we've got to do
How this all got started
I'll never understand
I hope someone can fly this thing
And get us back to land

Time is running out
Let's roll

Time is running out
Let's roll

No one has the answers
But one thing is true
You've got to turn on evil
When its coming after you
You've got to face it down
And when it tries to hide
You've got to go in after it
And never be denied

Time is running out
Let's roll

Time is running out
Let's roll

Let's roll for freedom
Let's roll for love
Going after Satan
On the wings of a dove
Let's roll for justice
Let's roll for truth
Let's not let our children
Grow up fearful in their youth

Time is running out
Let's roll

Time has run out
Let's roll

Time is running out
Let's roll

- Neil Young

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Would you like some existentialism with your pancakes?   ponder the meaningless nature of the cosmos    

WOODY ALLEN:  That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn't it?

GIRL IN MUSEUM:  Yes it is.

WOODY ALLEN:  What does it say to you?

GIRL IN MUSEUM:  It restates the negativeness of the universe, the hideous lonely emptiness of existence, nothingness, the predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity, like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void, with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation, forming a useless bleak straightjacket in a black absurd cosmos.

WOODY ALLEN:  What are you doing Saturday night?

GIRL IN MUSEUM:  Committing suicide.

WOODY ALLEN:  What about Friday night?

GIRL IN MUSEUM: [leaves silently]

"Play It Again, Sam", Paramount Pictures, 1972

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Happy Birthday

Nadia Comaneci 1961

She was perfect....

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Happy Birthday

David Schwimmer 1966

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Happy Birthday

Tonya Harding 1970

She ain't perfect.

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On this day:

1966 - Donovan's "Mellow Yellow" was released.

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What is a syllogy?  

A	All S is P	One category is a subset of another
E	No S is P	The two categories do not intersect
I	Some S is P	The two categories intersect
O	Some S is not P	One category is not a subset of another

                         What is Logic?      ........       Amazing Logic.

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1984 - Madonna released the album "Like A Virgin."

I made it through the wilderness
Somehow I made it through
Didn't know how lost I was
Until I found you

I was beat incomplete
I'd been had, I was sad and blue
But you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
Shiny and new

Chorus:

Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats (after first time, "With your heartbeat")
Next to mine

Gonna give you all my love, boy
My fear is fading fast
Been saving it all for you
'Cause only love can last

You're so fine and you're mine
Make me strong, yeah you make me bold
Oh your love thawed out
Yeah, your love thawed out
What was scared and cold

(chorus)

Oooh, oooh, oooh

You're so fine and you're mine
I'll be yours 'till the end of time
'Cause you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
I've nothing to hide

(chorus)

Like a virgin, ooh, ooh
Like a virgin
Feels so good inside
When you hold me, and your heart beats, and you love me

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ooh, baby
Can't you hear my heart beat
For the very first time?

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1859 - The first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules Leotard at Cirque Napoleon in Paris, France. He was also the designer of the garment that is named after him.

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1940 - Walt Disney released "Fantasia."

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the know place!

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1942 - During World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. The Americans won a major victory.

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1979 - U.S. President Carter ordered a halt to all oil imports from Iran in response to 63 Americans being taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran on November 4.

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1980 - The U.S. space probe Voyager I came within 77,000 miles of Saturn while transmitting data back to Earth.

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2002 - Stan Lee filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment Inc. that claimed the company had cheated him out of millions of dollars in movie profits related to the 2002 movie "Spider-Man." Lee was the creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Daredevil.

Actually, for all you comic book nerds, "Steve Ditko" was the creator of SpiderMan.

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This space was intentionally left blank of hyper links, or anything of substance, because We all need a good laugh about nothing sometimes.

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[MeekOneGOP]

Wow ! Nothing like spelling Farrah FawceTT wrong ...

[tomkow6]

You guys are just JEALOUS!

[Soaring Feather]

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Ms Feather!

[MeekOneGOP]

You guys are just JEALOUS!

hehe ! ...

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning Tomkow!

[tomkow6]

Don't know if this has been posted here in the Canteen.  I checked it out & it IS TRUE:

Didn't see this in the media did we????


Hello, Another example of what is NOT reported. The writer and his wife
live in LA and both work for Uncle Sam.

A Day at Baltimore Airport

Dear Friends and Family,
I hope that you will spare me a few minutes of your time to tell you
about something that I saw on Monday, October 27.
I had been attending a conference in Annapolis and was coming home on
Sunday. As you may recall, Los Angeles International Airport was
closed on Sunday, October 26, because of the fires that affected air traffic
control. Accordingly, my flight, and many others, were canceled and I
wound up spending a night in Baltimore.
My story begins the next day. When I went to check in at the United
counter Monday morning I saw a lot of soldiers home from Iraq. Most were
very young and all had on their desert camouflage uniforms. This was as
change from earlier, when they had to buy civilian clothes in Kuwait to fly
home. It was a visible reminder that we are in a war. It probably was pretty
close to what train terminals were like in World War II. Many people were
stopping the troops to talk to them, asking them questions in the Starbucks
line or just saying "Welcome Home."
In addition to all the flights that had been canceled on Sunday, the
weather was terrible in Baltimore and the flights were backed up. So,there
were a lot of unhappy people in the terminal trying to get home, but nobody
that I saw gave the soldiers a bad time.
By the afternoon, one plane to Denver had been delayed several hours.
United personnel kept asking for volunteers to give up their seats and take
another flight. They weren't getting many takers. Finally, a United
spokeswoman got on the PA and said this, "Folks. As you can see, there are a
lot of soldiers in the waiting area. They only have 14 days of leave and
we're trying to get them where they need to go without spending any more
time in an airport then they have to. We sold them all tickets, knowing we
would oversell the flight. If we can, we want to get them all on this
flight. We want all the soldiers to know that we respect what you're doing,
we are here for you and we love you."
At that, the entire terminal of cranky, tired, travel-weary people, a
cross-section of America, broke into sustained and heartfelt applause. The
soldiers looked surprised and very modest. Most of them just looked at their
boots. Many of us were wiping away tears.
And, yes, people lined up to take the later flight and all the soldiers
went to Denver on that flight.
That little moment made me proud to be an American, and also told me why
we will win this war.
If you want to send my little story on to your friends and family, feel
free. This is not some urban legend. I was there, I was part of it, I saw it
happen.

Will Ross
Administrative Judge
United States Department of Defense

[tomkow6]

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[tomkow6]

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[tomkow6]

50!

[tomkow6]

50!

Can't ya just FEEL the LOVE?

Tomkow6!!! #50!!!

 

 

[Soaring Feather]

A Day at Baltimore Airport

Good reading Tom thanks for posting it.

[Old Sarge]

Ah, how deliciously stacked...

Nice pancakes, too...

(ducking and fastening Kevlar)

I've got two glorious days off, and how will they get spent, you ask?

Cooped up on a rainy day, three loads of laundry, two loads of dishes in the sink, Her Royal Highness and her guardsman chasing each other up and down the hall, and a toothache.

Hope your day's better, Canteeners. I'll check in with y'all later tonight...

SARGE

[darkwing104]

Good Morning Canteen FReepers. How is everyone today?

[Kathy in Alaska]

[tomkow6]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Duty ~ Honor ~ Country

Click above to visit "A Day in the Life of President Bush"

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are,God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

Bless This House

Bless this house O Lord we pray;
Make it safe by night and day;
Bless these walls so firm and stout,
Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall,
Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove
ever open to joy and love.


Bless these windows shining bright,
Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there,
with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within,
keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be
Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we
May dwell O Lord with thee.

(Click on praying hands above, or on banner at the top to hear the music)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning Troops, families, veterans, Israeli, British, Australian, Polish, and Italian allies (and everybody else, and all the ships at sea). Thank you for taking such good care of the USA.

Today in Anchorage, Alaska:

Sunrise 8:55am
Sunset 4:30pm

Hi 31°F
Lo 14°F

Some sun (SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW ON THE GROUND AND COMING DOWN)

Actual yesterday in Anchorage:

Hi 28°F
Lo 25°F

State Hi 50°F Metlakatla
State Lo -26°F Anaktuvuk Pass

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Ma!