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

Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Wednesday, November 12, 2003

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

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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.

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.

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."

Happy Birthday

Grace Kelly 1929.

Amazing Grace

I am an excellent driver!

Charles Manson 1934

Sharon Tate, et al

The maturing of a pancake is a fascinating thing to behold.

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

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

Happy Birthday

Nadia Comaneci 1961

She was perfect....

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Happy Birthday

David Schwimmer 1966

I never met a pancake that I didn't like.

Happy Birthday

Tonya Harding 1970

She ain't perfect.

On this day:

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

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.

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?

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.

1940 - Walt Disney released "Fantasia."

Pancakes are magical.

Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the know place!

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

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.

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

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.

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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On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on November 12:
1651 Juana Ines de La Cruz Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primer Sueno)
1790 Letitia Christian Tyler 1st wife of President Tyler
1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years & More)
1817 Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn Ali) founded Bahá'ís faith
1833 Aleksandr Borodin Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)
1840 Auguste Rodin France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)
1841 Lord Rayleigh England, physicist/chancellor of Cambridge (1908-14)
1866 Sun Yat-sen father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)
1889 DeWitt Wallace St Paul MN, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)
1903 Jack Oakie Sedalia MO, actor (Great Dictator, 1974 Photoplay Award)
1908 Harry A Blackmun Illinois, Supreme Court justice (1970- )
1912 Alphonse [Tuffy] Leemans NFL fullback (NY Giants)
1914 Roberto Cavanagh Argentina, polo (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 Sylvi Saimo Finland, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1952)
1915 Roland Barthes French literary critic (L'Empire des Signer)
1918 Jo Stafford Coalinga CA, singer (I'll Never Smile Again)
1920 Richard Quine Detroit, actor (Clay Pigeon)
1922 Kim Hunter Detroit MI, actress (Planet of the Apes, Lilith)
1929 Grace Kelly Phil, Monaco princess/actress (Philadelphia Story, Rear Window)
1934 Ann Flood Jamaica NY, actress (As the World Turns, Edge of Night)
1934 Charles Manson [No Name Maddox], Cincinnati OH, criminal (Tate-Labianco)
1935 Jerry Douglas actor (John-Young & Restless)
1937 Ina Balin actress (Danger in Paradise)
1937 Richard H Truly Fayette Miss, Rear Adm USN/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 8)
1939 Lucia Popp Uhorsk Ves Czechoslovakia, soprano (Die Zauberflute)
1943 Brian Hyland Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini)
1945 Al Michaels Brooklyn, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football)
1945 Neil Young Canada, singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
1961 Nadia Comaneci Onesti Romania, gymnast (Oly-gold-1976, 80) (or 11/12)
1967 Charlie Pennaelino Queens NY, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way)
1973 Melanie Gaffin Santa Monica CA, actress (Cheryl-Whiz Kids)
1975 Angela Watson actress (Karen Foster-Step by Step)
1989 Paul Jessup actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)
1989 Ryan Jessup actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)

Deaths which occurred on November 12:
1035 Canute "The Great" King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41
1558 Rabbi Shalom Shakna ben Joseph founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva, dies
1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1777 Rev. Benjamin Russen hanged at Tyburn, England for rape
1889 Robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77
1939 Douglas Fairbanks, actor (Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies at 56
1962 Sid Tomack actor (Jim Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma)
1987 Roger Lewis aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75
1990 Eve Arden actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82
1971 David Sarnoff, US TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80
2000 Actor George Montgomery died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 84.

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 HUNTING PETER M
[REMAINS RETURNED 11/13/65]
1966 FROSIO ROBERT CLARENCE---WARRINGTON FL.
1966 JONES JAMES GRADY---BIRMINGHAM AL.
1967 CAYCE JOHN D.---SAN ANTONIO TX.
1967 ROARK JAMES D.---ABINGDON VA
1969 BODAHL JON KEITH---BOISE ID.
1969 DENNANY JAMES E.---MATTAWAN MI.
1969 HELMICH GERALD ROBERT---MANCHESTER NH.
1969 SMITH HARRY WINFIELD---BATON ROUGE LA.
1969 TUCCI ROBERT L.---DETROIT MI.

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

On this day...
324 -BC- Origin of Era of Alexander
295 Origin of Era of Ascension
607 Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1098 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Mara, Syria
1428 Siege of Orléans Begins The siege of Orléans lasted until Joan of Arc persuaded King Charles VII of France to send an army to relieve the city in April.
1474 Isabella crowns herself queen of Castilia & Aragon
1492 A sailor on board the Pinta sighted land early in the morning, and a new era of European exploration and expansion began.
1533 Juan Diego said he saw the Virgin Mary on a hill near Mexico City; Our Lady of Guadalupe became the patron saint of all Latin America by 1910.
1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1792 In Vienna, Ludwig Van Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1800 Washington DC established as capital of US
1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris). He also designed the garment that bears his name
1873 Bay District Race Track opens
1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0 in football
1910 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1915 Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice Islands
1917 Father Edward J. Flanagan, a thirty-one-year-old Irish priest, founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb A home for troubled and neglected children, and a half-dozen boys enter to seek a better life.
1918 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 Ross & Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1925 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo, CA
1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1931 NHL's Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto, Leafs beat Black Hawks 2-1
1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1936 1st TV Gardening show
1936 Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1939 Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands
1940 Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941 WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in New York City swap call letters
1944 German battleship "Tirpitz" sunk off Norway
1946 1st driv-up bank window established (Chicago)
1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released
1947 KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yards) vs Chicago Cards
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL
1953 US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II"
1955 E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1960 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1970 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
1975 Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1977 Ernest N Morial elected mayor of New Orleans
1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest (Dutch) Morial
1979 Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1979 US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1981 1st balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
1982 Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader
1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1983 NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
1984 Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1985 STS 61-B vehicle moves to the launch pad
1987 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1989 Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1991 "Full House" 100th episode-The twins are born
2000 A divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in Florida's contested election, effectively transforming George W. Bush into the president-elect. (The high court agreed, 7-to-2, to reverse the Florida court's order of a state recount and voted 5-to-4 that there was no acceptable procedure by which a timely new recount could take place.)

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

Austria : Republic Day (1918)
Bermuda : Rememberance Day
Saudi Arabia : Coronation Day
Taiwan : Sun Yat Sen's Birthday (1866)
Women's Organizations : Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day (1815)
West Germany : Repentance Day (Wednesday)
England : Lord Mayor's Day (Saturday)
US : Operating Room Nurse Week (Day 4)
Aviation History Month

Religious Observances
Old RC : Commemoration of Martin I, pope (649-55)
RC : Memorial of St Josaphat Kuncevyc, bishop/martyr
Ang : Commemoration of Charles Simeon, priest

Religious History
1556 Dutch Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons wrote in a letter: 'I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.'
1701 The Carolina Assembly passed a Vestry Act making the Church of England the official religion of the Carolina Colony. (Strong opposition by Quakers and other resident Nonconformists forced the colony's proprietors to revoke their legislation two years later.)
1818 Birth of Henri F. Hemy, English church organist. Of his several original compositions, best known is the tune ST. CATHERINE, to which we commonly sing the hymn, "Faith of Our Fathers."
1899 American evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, 62, began his last evangelistic campaign in Kansas City, Missouri. Becoming ill during the last service, Moody was unable to complete his message, and died a few days later, on Dec 22.
1954 American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Loyalty to organizations and movements has always tended over time to take the place of loyalty to the person of Christ.'

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

Thought for the day :
"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."

Question of the day...
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

Murphys Law of the day...
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

oddment and exotica fact #98,761...
Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S

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