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.

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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”.

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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

 

[StarCMC]

Steve Walsh's Schemer-Dreamer in it's entirety - Enjoy!!

 

 

Steve Walsh

Schemer-Dreamer/That's All Right

 

 

 

Steve Walsh

Get Too Far

 

 

 

Steve Walsh

So Many Nights

 

 

 

Steve Walsh

You Think You've Got It Made

 

 

 

Steve Walsh

Every Step Of The Way

 

 

 

Steve Walsh

Just How It Feels

 

 

 

Steve Walsh

Schemer-Dreamer/That's All Right

 

 

[The Sailor]

There are Continents she's only read about, let alone expirienced...

[Old Sarge]

Ms. Hope, we need to discuss Sissy...

[tomkow6]

OHHH! That's what they are!


You get alot of offers from the KFC, don't ya?

[mylife]

you've been busy!

[Kathy in Alaska]

WooHoo, The Sailor is in the house!! Thanks for giving everyone the opportunity to directly contribute to our military guys and gals who are doing all they can to protect America. Thanks for your service.

[Fawnn]

Continents

First time I've seen that word used as a euphemism. ;)

[MoJo2001]

But! But! What about MoJo? LOL!

[tomkow6]

He IS a sailor!

[MoJo2001]

Um, Auntie Fawnn does not like spelling errors. Cause there is a SPELL CHECKER in the post/preview thing. Sorry I didn't point that out.

Next time!

[Brad’s Gramma]

NEWBIE!!!!!!


LOL!!!!!!


Welcome aboard, Sailor! Now highTAIL it over to the other thread, will ya? You have people with BAIT on their breath, waiting for you. NOW SAILOR, NOW!

(Did that sound good enuf MoJo?)

[MoJo2001]

The Sailor has duty tomorrow. So? We'll have to do a copy and paste thing for them over there. I hope that's okay.

*HUGS*

[Fawnn]

Did you see American Idol tonight?

I'm trying to forget that SOMEBODY got robbed in the voting! HOWEVER,...

I'm sure hoping you did watch, because the chance to see/hear Barry Manilow do LET FREEDOM RING along with the AI crew absolutely HAD TO convert you to being a BarryM fan!!! ;)

[MoJo2001]

OMG! Who was voted off tonight? I've been busy emailing, freepmailing, and feeding my face.

[Old Sarge]

STAR!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

catr keys!

Yeah! Those catr keys are killers!

[The Sailor]

Thanks Ma, I appreciate your support without doubt.

[StarCMC]

He's home!! Thank you Sailor, for allowing your living room to be a staging area -- you have no idea how much MoJo means to us!! HUGS!!

[Fawnn]

Ahem! I'd NEVER EVER diss the creative use of the alphabet by any of our fine people in the military! (MoJo, on the other hand, is a civilian, so....)

Okay, I cut some slack for military spouses, Canteen members,... Pretty much anyone except for liberals and/or Kerry jock straps supporters. ;)