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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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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Coffee Time ~ Bump!
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:28:07 AM PST
by
blackie
To: tomkow6
To: Valin
Good morning Valin, thanks for the daily info. We must remember our history if we are not to repeat it.
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:31:46 AM PST
by
USAF_TSgt
(Eyes on MSgt in 2005)
To: tomkow6; Fawnn
Not yet. I got an IM from her at about 0300 this morning. Evidently the barbed wire was connected for a few seconds. All it said was "you there?" I'll talk to her in a little while. She sounded terrible yesterday. Poor baby.
I can see weather bars. What's up with that? Did one of the good gremlins get into my puter over night?
Hubba hubba your own self Miss Fawnn.
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:33:34 AM PST
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Hondo1952
("I don't guess people's hearts got anything to do with a calendar." Hondo Lane)
Comment #65 Removed by Moderator
To: Hondo1952
Morning Hondo!!
How be ya today??
To: bentfeather
I be needing some biscuits and gravy. Other than that I be good.
How you be?
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:37:36 AM PST
by
Hondo1952
("I don't guess people's hearts got anything to do with a calendar." Hondo Lane)
To: LindaSOG
Anybody ever tell you you got skinny leggs????
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:40:08 AM PST
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tomkow6
(.......holiday shopping ideas.......holiday shopping ideas.......holiday shopping ideas.......holida)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Yum. Pancakes with coffee!
Morning to the Canteen!
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:44:01 AM PST
by
Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
To: LindaSOG
Good morning Goddess!
Great lessons this morning!
8. Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. (Gen. MacArthur)
ummmmmm he was not a poet was he??
To: bentfeather; All
This is from the Kitchen Table Gang newsletter. Thought you all might want to see it.
4. PRE-PAID CALLING CARD PROGRAM
Thanks to all who sent in AT&T INTERNATIONAL CALLING CARDS! We received 619 cards and they have been sent out to both hospitalized veterans and troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, when AT&T found out what we were doing -they donated 500 pre-paid cards. This campaign was created to make it possible for Americans to extend this touch of home to the men and women of our armed forces.
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:45:16 AM PST
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Hondo1952
("I don't guess people's hearts got anything to do with a calendar." Hondo Lane)
To: Hondo1952
Oh, Hondo this is fantastic news!!
Thanks so much!
Ohhhhhhh, I be good thanks!!
To: tomkow6
There you go flirting with disaster again. She's gonna smack you around and you brought it on yourself.
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:47:30 AM PST
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Hondo1952
("I don't guess people's hearts got anything to do with a calendar." Hondo Lane)
To: bentfeather
More good deeds are rewarded:
A NOTE FROM A SOLDIER IN IRAQ
"You would not believe the response of the crew once we found out the boxes had arrived. Everyone was very excited and thankful for the thoughtful gifts you sent out to us. I would like to take a moment of your time to personally thank you for thinking of us while we are away from our families and friends. It is people like you that truly make our job easier to accomplish and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. The slippers I selected keep my feet warm and also fill my heart with warm thoughts of you and others like you that support us in so many ways."
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:49:52 AM PST
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Hondo1952
("I don't guess people's hearts got anything to do with a calendar." Hondo Lane)
To: Hondo1952
I be needing some biscuits and gravy.
I'll bring the Gravy!
hehehehe
To: bentfeather
Oh Miss Feather what a terrible faux pas. Never ever mix creamed possum and coon fat gravy. Mortal enemies shouldn't end up in the same can no matter how tasty they may be.
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:56:19 AM PST
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Hondo1952
("I don't guess people's hearts got anything to do with a calendar." Hondo Lane)
To: Hondo1952
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:58:32 AM PST
by
tomkow6
(.......holiday shopping ideas.......holiday shopping ideas.......holiday shopping ideas.......holida)
To: Hondo1952
Hondo, we should a column named:
Hondo's Good News Tidbits from the Front.
The Whole Story!
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Congrats Excuse_My_Bellicosity on your post #50!
Thanks for stealing keeping it from Tomkow! LOL!
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posted on
12/03/2003 8:02:02 AM PST
by
StarCMC
(God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)
Comment #80 Removed by Moderator
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