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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 26 November 2003
Canteen FRiends ~ Radix
Posted on 11/26/2003 2:13:42 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 26, 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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TAUTOCHRONE |
A curve on which an object falling under gravity will reach the bottom in the same amount of time, no matter from where it starts. This may seem like the most abstruse of mathematical ideas, but it makes accurate pendulum clocks possible. It goes back to the seventeenth century Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, who knew that the pendulum is not quite the perfect keeper of time that one would like. It works well enough if its movements are kept small, but as the size of the pendulums swing varies, so does the time it takesonly slightly, but its a serious problem if youre trying to make your clock precise. Huygens discovered that there is one curved shape, and only one, which is perfect in this respect: the cycloid, the curve traced out when a point on the edge of a wheel rolls along a road. If you position a cycloidal curve like an inverted arch, and release a marble from any point on it, it will always take exactly the same time to reach the bottom, no matter where on the curve you start from. So the cycloid is said to be a tautochrone. Huygens used this discovery to construct curved jaws from the point of support of the pendulum; these forced its string to follow the right curve no matter how large or small the swing. The word comes from the Greek tauto, the same (which we have inherited in words like tautology) and chronos, time (as in chronometer); so the word means a curve of equal time. |
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Happy Birthday 1731 - English poet William Cowper Cowper's name will always be associated with that of John Newton, his friend and pastor. Together they wrote many hymns familiar to us today. His poetry was quite influential. Many people who scorned evangelicals as "Methodists" would read Cowper's poems. He addressed many social issues, such as African slavery, as well as spreading the Gospel.
Peace After a Storm
1 When darkness long has veil'd my mind, And smiling day once more appears; Then, my Redeemer, then I find The folly of my doubts and fears.
2 Straight I upbraid my wand'ring heart, And blush that I should ever be Thus prone to act so base a part, Or harbour one hard thought of thee!
3 Oh ! let me then at length be taught What I am still so slow to learn; That God is love, and changes not, Nor knows the shadow of a turn.
4 Sweet truth, and easy to repeat! But when my faith is sharply try'd, I find myself a learner yet, Unskilful, weak, and apt to slide.
5 But, O my Lord, one look from thee Subdues the disobedient will; Drives doubt and discontent away, And thy rebellious worm is still.
6 Thou art as ready to forgive, As I am ready to repine; Thou, therefore, all the praise receive; Be shame and self-abhorrence mine.
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What is your vector Victor?
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Happy Birthday eugene ionesco 1912 "It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind."
The Theatre of the Absurd surfaced in the 1950s with a group of playwrights who included Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter. Their avant garde plays expressed the belief in a godless universe where human existence has no meaning or purpose so therefore all communication breaks down. Logical construction and argument gives way to both irrational and illogical speech. The Theatre of the Absurd reached it's ultimate conclusion in Beckett's play 'Breathe' in 1970 - this play consisted of noise rather than dialogue. |
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Turkey pancakes
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Happy Birthday Charles M. Schulz 1922
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Happy Birthday Rich Little 1938
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I am an excellent prestidigitator. |
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Happy Birthday Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) 1938
A CHANGE IS GONNA COME I was born by the river in a little tent Oh, and like that river I've been running ever since It's been a long, long time coming But I know a change is gonna come Oh yes it is
It's been too hard living and I'm affraid to die I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long, long time coming But I know a change is gonna come Oh yes it is
I go to the movies and I go around in town Everybody there keeps telling me "don't hang around" It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come Oh yes it is
Then I go to my brother And I say "Brother, please" But he just winds up, knocking me Back down on my knees
Sometimes I thought I wouldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, long time coming But I know a change is gonna come Oh yes it is |
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Isometrical.
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Would you like some Triangulation with your pancakes?
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We are counting cards!
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On this day: 1789 - U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
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1832 - Public streetcar service began in New York City. The first railroad system in New York, owned by the New York and Harlem Railroad company, begins operating approximately nine blocks between Union Square and 23rd Street.
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1861 - West Virginia was created (out of Virginia) over a dispute of slavery. West Virginia was against slavery. |
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Happy Thanksgiving
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1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto
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1942 - The motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
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1983 - A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London's Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men have been convicted in the heist. About a hundred Dollars
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1998 - Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000. We are counting votes.
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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to an animation show |
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Pancakes Wednesdays |
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To: LindaSOG
Feel the love...
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posted on
11/26/2003 8:28:43 AM PST
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tomkow6
(...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?)
To: E.G.C.
Good morning E!
I'm great! I'm babysitting today.
I've got kids ages 9,7,6 and 5. Can you say "loud?" LOL
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posted on
11/26/2003 8:37:19 AM PST
by
Bethbg79
(God bless our Troops and their families!)
To: Radix
Pancakes on Wednesday ~ Bump!
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posted on
11/26/2003 8:42:01 AM PST
by
blackie
To: Kathy in Alaska
Right on time, 'Lil Pretty ~ thanks for the coffee! :)
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posted on
11/26/2003 8:42:57 AM PST
by
blackie
To: Bethbg79
Hi, Sis! Hi, Connor! Hi, Tony! Hi, Mama Cat! Hi, kitties!
Can you say "DUCT TAPE"????
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:04:09 AM PST
by
tomkow6
(...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?)
To: tomkow6
LOL! Good morning Bro!
I can't do that!
They're being good, just loud!
How are ya? PBLT!
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:05:27 AM PST
by
Bethbg79
(God bless our Troops and their families!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
are you trying to EXPAND my waistline????
free dixie,sw
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:12:41 AM PST
by
stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ,T. Jefferson)
To: tomkow6; Kathy in Alaska; All
Good morning Canteen members
HEY Kerry cut the Mullet that backward mullet doesn't work Don't bogart Syrup GEE you are stingy you are Demo right???
I be so smack upside the head by Kerry wife
Well report off AFP wire reporting that overnight we all sleep IDF did morning wake call on Hamas members who try blow up Jewish day school in Tel Viv
Also report off AP wire reporting that Turkey just announced confirm a story I try score last night that yes Al Quadda network may had Turk members in their group
And also latest off Jacko Watch report from SO Cal news reporting and Aussie Age wire confirm Jacko accusser parents are bunch of psycho they have accused anybody in the past who look at their son in wrong way
GEE what psycho parents
And relationship between mom and dad more tempsourses than Ike and Tina Turner marraige
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:14:04 AM PST
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SevenofNine
(Not everybody in it for truth, justice, and the American way=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: tomkow6; Kathy in Alaska; All
Good morning Canteen members
HEY Kerry cut the Mullet that backward mullet doesn't work Don't bogart Syrup GEE you are stingy you are Demo right???
I be so smack upside the head by Kerry wife
Well report off AFP wire reporting that overnight we all sleep IDF did morning wake call on Hamas members who try blow up Jewish day school in Tel Viv
Also report off AP wire reporting that Turkey just announced confirm a story I try score last night that yes Al Quadda network may had Turk members in their group
And also latest off Jacko Watch report from SO Cal news reporting and Aussie Age wire confirm Jacko accusser parents are bunch of psycho they have accused anybody in the past who look at their son in wrong way
GEE what psycho parents
And relationship between mom and dad more tempsourses than Ike and Tina Turner marraige
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:15:41 AM PST
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SevenofNine
(Not everybody in it for truth, justice, and the American way=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Coffee Time ~ Bump!
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:19:31 AM PST
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blackie
To: tomkow6
Quick get some glue! It's broke!
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:29:06 AM PST
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Bethbg79
(God bless our Troops and their families!)
To: Bethbg79
Will Duct Tape do?????
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:33:52 AM PST
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tomkow6
(...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?)
To: tomkow6
I suppose!
We gotta do something!
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:35:13 AM PST
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Bethbg79
(God bless our Troops and their families!)
To: Bethbg79; All
Since no one's here, wanna STREAK?
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:41:00 AM PST
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tomkow6
(...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?)
To: tomkow6
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:42:34 AM PST
by
Bethbg79
(God bless our Troops and their families!)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Bethbg79
Hey, Tonk! Okay with you if me & Bethy get nakid & streak thru the Canteen???
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posted on
11/26/2003 9:47:26 AM PST
by
tomkow6
(...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?)
To: Bethbg79
psst!......Beth!
.................nobody's here..........
..................we can do ANYTHING WE WANT!
nobody's here to stop us!
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posted on
11/26/2003 10:04:21 AM PST
by
tomkow6
(...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?)
Comment #118 Removed by Moderator
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; LindaSOG; Radix; 2LT Radix jr; LaDivaLoca; Severa; Bethbg79; ...
I deliver pizza to help cover my college tuition. Once I called on customers who sent their seven-year-old son to pay me.
As he approached the screen door, I noticed he was carrying a check in one hand and two dollars in the other, which I assumed was my tip.
To my dismay, he pocketed the bills before handing me the check, which was for the exact cost of the pizza.
"Could that have been a tip?" I asked, trying not to sound accusatory.
"Yep," he replied proudly. "not bad for just a walk from the living room and back!"
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posted on
11/26/2003 10:27:26 AM PST
by
tomkow6
(...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?...........exercise?)
Comment #120 Removed by Moderator
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