USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 03 December 2003I

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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American Pancakes

Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday, December 3, 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.

HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS

With honour.

We are in the arena of sesquipedalian words—those a foot and a half long, whose prime characteristic is their length rather than their sense or value.

Any word used by James Joyce (in Ulysses) and William Shakespeare (in Love’s Labour Lost) can’t be entirely dismissed from the canon of English, even though the former borrowed it from the latter, who in turn borrowed it from Latin. The only other person who seems to have used it, ever, was John Taylor, a Thames waterman known as the Water Poet, in the middle of the seventeenth century.

Shakespeare’s wondrous creation appears in Act 5, Scene 1:

I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
for thou art not so long by the head as
honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
swallowed than a flap-dragon.

(Somebody’s now sure to ask me about flap-dragon. It was the name given to a game in which the players snatched raisins out of a dish of burning brandy and extinguished them in their mouths before eating them. By extension, it was the burning raisins used in the game.)

An anagram of honorificabilitudinitatibus is Hi ludi, F. Baconis nati, tuiti orbi. In English, this says: “These plays, F. Bacon’s offspring, are preserved for the world”. This little gem of misapplied cryptography was presented by Sir Edwin Lawrence-Durning in 1910 in his book Bacon is Shakespeare as a hidden message left by Francis Bacon, who (as some are convinced) actually wrote the plays usually said to be by Shakespeare. This is all nonsense, of course—as every schoolboy knows, they were really written by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford.

But the same set of letters, tested in the common tongue, makes up Inhibit in fabulous, idiotic art, Inhabit furious libido in attic, Habitual if ionic distribution, and Hi! fabulous tit in idiotic brain. What would Sir Edwin have made of all these?

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Happy Birthday

Joseph Conrad 1857

"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. "

Joseph Conrad

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Happy Birthday

Carlos Montoya 1903

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Toddler Breakfast

Two pancakes with plenty of syrup, eat one with fingers, rub in hair.
Glass of milk; drink half, stuff other pancake in glass.
After breakfast, pick up yesterday's sucker from rug, lick off fuzz, put it on the cushion of best chair.

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Would you like a Mercator Projection with your pancakes?

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Happy Birthday

Ferlin Husky 1927

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the North Pole.

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Happy Birthday

Andy Williams 1929

LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND

On a day like today
We pass the time away
Writing love letters in the sand

How you laughed when I cried
Each time I saw the tide
Take our love letters from the sand

You made a vow that you would ever be true
But somehow that vow meant nothing to you

Now my broken heart aches
With every wave that breaks
Over love letters in the sand

Now my broken heart aches
With every wave that breaks
Over love letters in the sand

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Happy Birthday

Jean-Luc Godard 1930

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A Helpful Man

A man is driving down the road and notices a car in the ditch. He doesn't usually help many people so he drives on by. Then he notices that a pretty woman is the driver so he goes back to help.

As he is hooking his truck to her car he says, “You know, you are the first pregnant woman I've ever helped out of a ditch.”

“But I'm not pregnant,” she says.

“Well, you're not out of the ditch yet,” he says.

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Happy Birthday

Ozzy Osbourne 1948

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What do you call a handcuffed man? Trustworthy.

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We are counting cartons

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What is the wing speed of a South African Swallow?

It’s a simple question of weight ratios.

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Happy Birthday

Daryl Hannah 1960

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Who is on First Base!

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On this day:

1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.

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On this day:

1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.

Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is!®

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On this day:

1947 - The Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater.

I am an excellent driver.

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On this day:

1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

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On this day:

1964 - Police arrested about 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley. The arrest took place one day after the students staged a massive sit-in inside an administration building.

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On this day:

1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by
Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on
Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.

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On this day:

1973 - Pioneer 10 sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter. The first outer-planetary probe had been launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on March 2, 1972.

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On this day:

1988 - Barry Sanders of Oklahoma State University won the Heisman Trophy.

We are counting cards.

Heisman Trophy winners

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On this day:

1999 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander as it entered Mars' atmosphere. The spacecraft was unmanned.

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Don't forget the Maple Syrup!

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[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.

I'm on vacation.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Fawnn]

LindaSOG's dad!!!

[Hondo1952]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR O

THANKS FOR GIVING US THE GIFT OF YOUR WONDERFUL DAUGHTER.

I AM NOT SUCKING UP, I ALREADY DID THAT

[Kathy in Alaska]

[SevenofNine]

Well UK Telegraph reporting today that Israel BORN Arab is being link to one of Hamas members
Speaking of those wild crazy guys

There is report that one of senior member of Hamas miltary group was whack they don't know who did it

Hamas blame the Mossad while Israel blame the Hamas who said this guy was going drop the dime on them according to Jersrelum Post wire

And report off AP wire reporting that one of Muslum school in US connect to US miltary made had got JACK from AL Quada network in mid 1990s

Well isn't that special

And report off World Tribune report that senior Saudi Crown prince was whack by Al Quada suspect

[Kathy in Alaska]

Toddler Breakfast

Two pancakes with plenty of syrup, eat one with fingers, rub in hair.
Glass of milk; drink half, stuff other pancake in glass.
After breakfast, pick up yesterday's sucker from rug,
lick off fuzz, put it on the cushion of best chair

Priceless! I'll bet Star has been there, done that. LOL!

[tomkow6]

Ya BIG brown noser!!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good afternoon, E! ((HUGS)) Things are going well. I'm trying to get a book read, but don't seem to have time. LOL! Going out to a late lunch with friends in a couple hours. I need to stop eating. ARGH!! Hope all is well with you and it's not too cold in Oklahoma.

[Hondo1952]

AM NOT

[beachn4fun]

GOOD AFTERNOON ALL. HELLO to our military and our allies.

Sorry I have been away the last couple of days. Trying to stay on top of my workload before the Christmas holiday vacation arrives.

Plus, I am taking an extra day in the middle of December so that I can pay a quick visit to my son and his family in Florida before the Christmas rush. We are expecting a grandson in the spring and this will give me a chance to see my pregnant daughter-in-law and those lovely snowy, black-n-white photos of our soon-to-be grandson. And, of course see my son and granddaughter, whom I miss already even thought they've only been in Florida a few months.

I will be taking my final in my algebra class this coming Monday! Whew! I sure hope I can pass this thing! The stress .....ugh! Can anyone out there tell me how many times in, what is left of my lifetime as a finance specialist, I will ever use logarithms?

Well, only weeks away from Christmas. I wonder what Santa and his elves are doing?

[Hondo1952]

Hey Miss Beachn, just remember this when you go to take that final in algebra.

No matter what anybody in school tells you.

Pie are round. Cornbread are square.

I don't know where those mathmatical geniuses come up with that pie are square stuff. I have never seen a square pie.

[beachn4fun]

Hey never4get.....how's those Giants doing? I hear they are playing against the Skins this weekend. What's your prediction? Santa wants to know.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good day, MEG, and thanks for helping honor our troops.

[E.G.C.]

Things going O.K. had a cold front move through. It's a little chilly today. Sun's out though.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, TM, for coffee served in the good china.

[beachn4fun]

I don't know where those mathmatical geniuses come up with that pie are square stuff. I have never seen a square pie.

Why hondo, that is exactly what I thought when they tried to tell me that. However, you can get round cornbread if you bake them in muffin tins. Will that fit into the equation you think?

BTW.... Santa wants to know if you've been a good boy this year?

[Hondo1952]

[beachn4fun]

LOL....Hondo, you bad! LOL