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

 

[Hondo1952]

Tom if they buy burkas from you where are they? I'm sorry, but those don't look like burkas to me. Maybe Miss THe Goddess lines her bird cage with them and Miss Feather uses hers for covering the furniture in the castle so the painters don't make such a mess.

[tomkow6]

hey! Why are you picking on me?

'Cause I haven't done it in a while......

Besides, you need a little harassment every now & then

[Hondo1952]

You are in a heap of trouble.

[StarCMC]

You've got email! (finally!)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Too funny. I did it by accident.

[USAF_TSgt]

Thanks for the lesson, LindaSOG: all points have been printed and posted for all to learn at this educational facility (the National Geospatial-Intelligence School, Ft Belvoir, VA).

[StarCMC]

[StarCMC]

Biscuits & Jerky Gravy: The Best Breakfast A Cowboy Ever Ate
Gail I. Gardner’s Biscuits & Jerky Gravy
Interview with Prof. Jan Rousch December 11, 1986 Prescott, Az.


We made some jerky just recently. I got some meat and told my good wife how to make it. I’ve still got my jerky lines out on the back porch, you know.

She cut up the jerky (1 inch wide and 6-8 inches long) and hung it over the jerky line. When it’s done, you take it off the line and put it in a flour sack and you got jerk. And of course the greatest ranch dish you can have is jerky gravy. You grind up the jerky in the food chopper and then make gravy out if it--that’s jerky gravy. Put that over hot biscuits and that’s the best breakfast a cowboy ever ate.

To prepare the jerk, you make a brine that’s just salty enough to float a potata; not enough to float an egg, but salty enough to float a potata. When you cut that meat in strips, I take a pinch fork and dip a strip of that meat twice in that brine, then season it up before you throw it over the jerk line to dry. To season it, throw the strips into a dish pan and shake pepper over it--you get enough pepper on there to keep the flies off of it, then you hang it on the line.

You usually make jerky in the Summer or the Fall, and it’d dry in less than a week. I always put my jerky in an empty flour sack, you know. If you tie the top of the sack, that’ll keep the moisture away.

And you make your biscuits in the Dutch oven. I lived for twenty years out of a Dutch oven and there’s quite an art to cookin’ with a Dutch oven. You build your fire and you throw your Dutch oven right in the fire, and you have the oven itself just hot enough to melt shortening.

Under the oven, you put no more than just a handful of coals. You put all the coals you can on the lid, put the lid on and your biscuits cook from the top, but you have just a handful of coals underneath, just enough to melt the shortening that you put in the oven when you start. Butter was the best. If you had butter, you’d put butter in there. If you didn’t have butter you’d put ordinary bacon grease.

For the biscuits, you used flour and bakin’ powder. Maybe a teaspoon of baking powder stirred-up in this, you see. You’d just put a spoonful of dough in there then turn it over so you’d get shortening on all sides of it. Then you put the lid of the Dutch oven on.

The biscuits were baked entirely from the top. That hot lid is what baked your biscuits. The biscuits took about nine or ten minutes--it didn’t take very long. I’ll tell you what I used to do. I’d roll a brown paper cigarette you know, I smoked anyway, and I’d light it. And when that cigarette was smoked a little more than half way down, well then it was time to take my gaunch hook (it’s what you lifted the oven lid with) and look at the biscuits and see how they were doin’. I’d take my Case knife, turn one biscuit over and it was done, why I’d put the gaunch in the handle of the Dutch oven and kick the coals off the lid, then put the oven back on the coals and the biscuits would stay hot all through breakfast.

You made your gravy in a fryin’ pan as you were going along. Yeah, my wife made a whole bunch of jerky gravy. And that’s the best breakfast you ever had was jerky gravy on hot biscuits. Best breakfast a cowboy ever ate.

-Gail Gardner

[MoJo2001]

 

GOOD MORNING TROOPS AND CANTEEN!

MoJo wanted to stop in and say "HELLO" to everyone!

Today is a very busy day at MoJo's house! There are doctor's appointments for the kids and a very dear friend visiting from out of the country. I haven't seen her in 3 years and I finally get to see her. It's been too long, but what a great early Christmas gift. Oh! Did I mention that I have to go to the COMMISSARY today. UGH!

Anyways, while I'm venturing out amongst the peeps today. I will leave you with an early Lunch Hour Music Break!! I hope you all enjoy it. Don't forget to click on the album covers!!

God Bless Our Military and Their Families! God Bless everyone in the Canteen and those that lurk.

*HUGS* to all!

 

[Hondo1952]

No I don't you do.

[StarCMC]

One more for the road, for all you cat lovers out there...

[StarCMC]

Just want to say thanks in case I don't make it back again today...

HOW DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT?

Bed a little lumpy...
Toss and turn any...
Wish the heat was higher...
Maybe the a/c wasn't on...
Had to go to the john...
Need a drink of water...

Yeah
It is like that!

Count your blessings.

Thank you to all the military heroes who sleep like this so I can sleep in peace when I lay down my head at night. God bless you all.

[USAF_TSgt]

I'm glad you stopped by, a day without MoJo is like a day without sunshine: Sure, you'll live through it, but it just isn't any good (a little borrowing from the Duke and Full Metal Jacket).

[StarCMC]

So true TSgt soon to be MSgt!

[StarCMC]

Pong

[StarCMC]

ANyone wanna race???

[StarCMC]

ANyone wanna race???

[StarCMC]

ANyone wanna race???

[StarCMC]

ANyone wanna race???

[StarCMC]

ANyone wanna race???