FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 21 April 2004

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Here is an amalgamation of trivial facts and seemingly useless data.

Do not forget to hit the hyperlinks.

We have links, lots of them.

From the Radixionary

JUBILEE

2 a : a special anniversary; especially : a 50th anniversary b : a celebration of such an anniversary

We are counting Pancakes

1

23 April 2003

2

30 April 2003

3

7 May 2003

4

14 May 2003

 

5

21 May 2003

We are counting cards.

6

28 May 2003

7

4 June 2003

Samurai Golf

8

11 June 2003

9

18 June 2003

Pancakes in Space

10

25 June 2003

Chinese Pancakes

11

2 July 2003

 

12

9 July 2003

13

16 July 2004

About a hundred dollars

 

14

23 July 2003

Here is your waffles on Wednesdays

 

15

30 July 2004

" Waiter, there is a Burka Man in my pancakes."

16

6 August 2003

 

17

13 August 2003

18

20 August 2003

19

27 August 2003

20

3 September 2003

21

10 September 2002

22

17 September 2004

23

24 September 2004

24

1 October 2004

25

8 October 2004

26

15 October 2003

27

22 October 2003

WELKIN

The sky; heaven; the firmament

We don’t use this much nowadays—dictionaries usually tag it as archaic or literary—except in the set phrase make the welkin ring, meaning to make a very loud sound. What supposedly rings in this situation is the vault of heaven, the bowl of the sky. In older cosmology this was thought to be one of a set of real crystal spheres that enclosed the Earth, to which the planets and stars were attached, so it would have been capable of ringing like a bell if you made enough noise. The word comes from the Old English wolcen, a cloud, related to the Dutch wolk and German Wolke. Very early on, for example in the epic poem Beowulf of about the eighth century AD, the phrase under wolcen meant under the sky or under heaven (the bard used the plural, wolcnum, but it’s the same word). Ever since, it has had a strong literary or poetic connection. It appears often in Shakespeare and also in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: “This day in mirth and revel to dispend, / Till on the welkin shone the starres bright”. In 1739, a book with the title Hymns and Sacred Poems introduced one for Christmas written by Charles Wesley that began: “Hark! how all the welkin rings, / Glory to the King of kings”. If that seems a little familiar, it is because 15 years later it reappeared as “Hark! the herald-angels sing / Glory to the new born king”.

28

29 October 2004

The Greatest.

ALI.

Clay comes out to meet Liston
And Liston starts to retreat
If Liston goes back any further
He'll end up in a ringside seat.
Clay swings with a left,
Clay swings with a right,
Look at young Cassius
Carry the fight.
Liston keeps backing
But there's not enough room
It's a matter of time.
There, Clay lowers the boom.
Now Clay swings with a right,
What a beautiful swing,
And the punch raises the bear,
Clear out of the ring.
Liston is still rising
And the ref wears a frown,
For he can't start counting,
Till Sonny comes down.
Now Liston disappears from view.
The crowd is getting frantic,
But our radar stations have picked him up.
He's somewhere over the Atlantic.
Who would have thought
When they came to the fight
That they'd witness the launching
Of a human satellite?
Yes, the crowd did not dream
When they laid down their money
That they would see
A total eclipse of the Sonny!
I am the greatest!

Cassius Clay before the first Liston-bout\

29

5 November 2004

Would you like some Quarks with your pancakes?

30

12 November 2003

31

19 November 2003

32

26 November 2003

1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto

33

3 December 2003

1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.

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

 

34

10 December 2003

Happy Birthday

Arthur Fiedler 1896

35

17 December 2004

 A pancake kitchen in Iraq

36

24 December 2003

I'm the pancake man,
    And I do, when I can,
Eat pancakes by the score;
    I bake them brown,
    And swallow them down,
And loudly call for more.
 
    I'll lay my stakes
    That a million cakes
I can eat between two naps;
    Then call for more,
    A million and four,
Or a million and five, perhaps.
 
    It makes me fat,
    And more than that,
I'm jolly through and through;
    I've been known to laugh
    For a year and a half,^___
Or why not call it two
 
    Oh, I long for a cake
    As big as they make,^___
Say, fifty townships wide;
    I would handle it quite
    At a single bite
And stow it away inside.

^___John Edward Everett

37

31 December 2003

38

7 January 2004

The poet is unknown. It is inscribed on the monument to the Pacific War Dead, in Corregidor, Philippines. Each May 6th, the sun is in such a position that it's rays fall into the center of the monument, exactly at noon.

39

14 January 2004

40

21 January 2004

41

28 January 2004

 

42

4 February 2004

43

11 February 2004

44

18 February 2004

45

24 February 2004

46

3 March 2004

Golden Mean

47

24 March 2004

 

48

31 March 2004

49

7 April 2004

50

14 April 2004

Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thanks for the heads up, Tonk...
I will be happy to help!!
Ms.B

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Endeavor]

Here's something The Guild could help out with. See post 127

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thanks!

[Lady Jag]

You have more freepmail. Thanks for the effort and the ping.

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Linda. How's it going?

BTTT!!!!!

[Soaring Feather]

mine

[Soaring Feather]

mine

[Lady Jag]

Happy Wednesday!

[StarCMC]

Ms. Feather!! You did it!! You got #150!!

[StarCMC]

G'morning -- almost afternoon -- to you sciencediet!! HUGS!!

[Arrowhead1952]

Good day Kathy. How are you doing today? Looks like we are in for another hot one todat. Should reach 85 or better. 69 was the overnight low, if you can call that a low temp.

[Kathy in Alaska]

WOW!......Pancakes on Wednesdays for a whole year. Always lots of fun links to follow. Thanks, Radix!!

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

Well breaking news off Sky news alert report that car bomb went off near Saudi Arabia govt building killin 40 so far injuring dozen more

Also report off AP wire reporting that Basha govt officials think that overnight run of suicide attack that whack 5 police station were works of Al Quada

[Kathy in Alaska]

Al-Qaeda??? Do ya think? The scum don't care who they murder, and this time they got little kids. Come on Iraqis...start spilling the info. What do you call it...dropping a dime.

And now, Saudis, do you have the message that they are out to get you too? Duh!!

[SevenofNine]

NO KIDDING that what I thinking of

Well there is update on that story about Chechen terrorist who plan destroy Moscow tourist interests like St Basil of Blessed that infamous Dome Church well report off Tass KGB probably Vlad question him personally claim that dead leader who got whack by KGB last week had Al Quada connection accoridng to his capture second in command

Also another report off AP wire taking Bob Woodward to the woodshed claim that he didnt' interview Rummy after all remember I Told you he call him Liar

Well there is prove he is


NO KIDDING

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Arrowhead. Oops, it's afternoon in Austin. I couldn't handle your heat. Bright and sunny and crisp and beautiful outside today.

Did you go fishing this weekend? Thanks for helping keep Texas and the US of A safe. And thanks for helping honor our military, past and present.

[Arrowhead1952]

Kathy, I did get a chance to go fishing and had some luck with catfish. Biggest one was just over four pounds, and that will fry up for a very tasty treat one of these days.

I don't think I could handle the cold you have there. I have more fun watching the babes running in sports bras and shorts, rather than having to bundle up.
Snicker!! Snicker!!