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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 03 December 2003I
Canteen FRiends ~ Radix
Posted on 12/03/2003 2:20:55 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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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.
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HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS |
With honour. We are in the arena of sesquipedalian wordsthose 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 Loves Labour Lost) cant 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. Shakespeares 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.
(Somebodys 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. Bacons 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 courseas 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
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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
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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? Its 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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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 |
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Please Thank someone in the military for ensuring our Freedom. Take a moment and Thank a Service Man or Woman. Just Click on the graphic to SEND an e-mail.
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The Fisher House program is a unique private-public partnership that supports America's military in their time of need by providing homes close to a loved one during the hospitalization for an unexpected illness, disease, or injury. There are currently 31 houses located on the grounds of every major military medical center and several VA medical centers. These houses will play a critical role in caring for casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom. Donations will be used to help meet the cost of lodging for a family whose loved one was injured in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. There is a limit to the number of families who can stay in a Fisher House and program is committed to help provide lodging for families who must find commercial lodging, because the Fisher House is full. |
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Send deployed troops message on SoldierRadio.com |
Cick to listen!SoldierRadio is again this year providing a way to let you tell Service members worldwide that you care and are thinking about them during the Holidays.
You can do an Audio Post Card simply by calling 1-800-330-5090. Your recorded personalized message will be played back on www.SoldiersRadio.com.
You can record a short message (30 seconds) to friends, family members or just a random message of good will. SoldiersRadio will then take your message and put it on the radio Web cast throughout the Holiday Season. Its very simple to do and works both ways ... from the field or to the Service member.
The cut-off date for the call in is Dec.15. |
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Access the Wounded Heroes Guestbook to write a message of encouragement for a hero wounded in the line of duty. Messages in the Wounded Heroes Guestbook are viewed by wounded soldiers, their loved ones, and the general public. |
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Links to Veteran Associations |
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Share your thoughts, good wishes and messages with American troops deployed around the globe. In turn, we hope those in service will be able to view them on this site, and perhaps respond themselves.ADD A SERVICEPERSON: Please help make this tribute more complete by creating a page for your own friends and family who are currently deployed around the globe. |
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Support the Military Relief Societies! Please support the the Military Relief Societies that help families whose loved ones were injured or killed in battle. Click any one of the following:
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Audio Reports from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team
Click on the patch and you can see and hear the voice of our own txradioguy reporting from somewhere incountry. |
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Veterans Helping Hospitalized Veterans and Troops Overseas!
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Click here for info on USO Canteen FReeper Style Business Cards |
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posted on
12/03/2003 2:20:55 AM PST
by
Radix
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Aeronaut; Bethbg79; blackie; E.G.C.; fatima; Fawnn; HiJinx; Hondo1952; ...
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posted on
12/03/2003 2:23:14 AM PST
by
Radix
(Is this a Tag Line worthy of merit?)
To: Radix
Good morning Radix.
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posted on
12/03/2003 2:25:24 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
(In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
To: Aeronaut
Good Morning Sky Pilot.
I'll be back later after a day of tilling the soil, and sweat. This is my day, and I understand the neccesity of the curse.
See you soon, be well! Thanks for your contributions to the Canteen, you make a difference.
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posted on
12/03/2003 2:36:29 AM PST
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Radix
(Is this a Tag Line worthy of merit?)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; tomkow6; txradioguy; Long Cut; bentfeather; ...
Good morning y'all!! Hello troops, veterans, and military family members!
THANK YOU for serving the USA!
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posted on
12/03/2003 3:03:44 AM PST
by
radu
(May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
To: Radix
Good morning, Radix. How's it going?
And a very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Freeper canteen and all of our military and aliies at home and abroad. Thank you for your continued service to our country.
Folks, be sure to update your anti-virussoftware and get the latest critical updates for your computer. This is the day Norton releases their weekly list of viruses updates.
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posted on
12/03/2003 3:05:59 AM PST
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E.G.C.
To: Radix; Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; bentfeather; Fawnn; Bethbg79; ...
To: All
The USO Canteen Post Office
E-Mail Our Military Links
To enter, Click on the Post Office
Please stop in the USO Canteen Post Office Daily to E-Mail our Troops.
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To: TEXOKIE; All
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posted on
12/03/2003 4:12:25 AM PST
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68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
(God Bless and Protect our military and our allies military.)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl; All
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; thumperusn; All
Good morning to everyone in the Canteen!Thanks to all of you in the armed forces,past and present.Thanks to the families who wait at home.Hope you all have a good day.Welcome,new Freeper,Thumperusn.
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posted on
12/03/2003 4:15:16 AM PST
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MEG33
To: ODC-GIRL; thumperusn; Long Cut; 2LT Radix jr; Defender2; OneLoyalAmerican; darkwing104; ...
To: MEG33
Good Morning Meg33!
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
During the holidays I've been known to have pie for breakfast!My father was my partner in crime!
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posted on
12/03/2003 4:19:09 AM PST
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MEG33
To: Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; bentfeather; beachn4fun; Ragtime Cowgirl; ...
From the men in the Military and the Canteen
To: Radix
The kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared. Titus 3:4
Kindness is treating others the way God treats you.
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posted on
12/03/2003 4:26:09 AM PST
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The Mayor
(Through prayer, finite man draws upon the power of the infinite God.)
To: MEG33
"During the holidays I've been known to have pie for breakfast!"
To: The Mayor
Good Morning Your Honor !
To: Radix
Thank You for today's thread Brother!
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
On,heck,it is nearly Christmas..believe I will have a slice!Thanks!
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posted on
12/03/2003 4:31:10 AM PST
by
MEG33
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