FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 21 April 2004

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[Radix]

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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.

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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

 

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30 July 2004

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

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6 August 2003

 

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13 August 2003

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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\

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5 November 2004

Would you like some Quarks with your pancakes?

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12 November 2003

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19 November 2003

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26 November 2003

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

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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."

 

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10 December 2003

Happy Birthday

Arthur Fiedler 1896

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17 December 2004

 A pancake kitchen in Iraq

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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

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31 December 2003

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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.

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14 January 2004

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21 January 2004

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28 January 2004

 

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4 February 2004

43

11 February 2004

44

18 February 2004

45

24 February 2004

46

3 March 2004

Golden Mean

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24 March 2004

 

48

31 March 2004

49

7 April 2004

50

14 April 2004

Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[beachn4fun]

Morning Radix. Thanks for the Pancakes. You always make the best.

[beachn4fun]

Morning EG. How's it going?

[beachn4fun]

Morning Mr. Tonk. Up early? Still damp over there?

[beachn4fun]

Morning

[beachn4fun]

Morning. Glad to see you this morning. What's ya doing?

[Arrowhead1952]

OMG -- too funny!!!!

Good morning Star!

Glad you liked the jokes.

[Soaring Feather]

[beachn4fun]

Morning. Enjoying the pancakes today? Need more syrup?

[blackie]

Pancakes on Wednesday ~ breakfast and coffee with our Oregon Brother Tonk!

[tomkow6]

Hey, Ms Feather.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[darkwing104]

Good Morning Canteen FReepers! Just finished PT and ready for pancakes and coffee.

[beachn4fun]

Morning. I enjoyed the fact that you shared some of your hometown history with us. You're usually a "quiet poster." LOL

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, Tomkow.

[Pippin]

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!

Here's something I posted on the DOSE thread Monday night and on yesterday's FR's Finest Thread (with some alterations)

I have something to say and I'm posting it here but I'll be saving it to post on other threads too.

Sooooo.......!

Taking a deep breath! here I go!

I really like to say this on "Sanity Island"

Everyone here knows how I feel about President Bush, I've made it no secret how much I love and support him. and living and working with (and for) people who do not hold these same feelings (they hate and fear him) It really hurts to hear constantly, day after day how wrong, stupid, arrogant and inept they percieve him to be. He is a failure to some and the devil to others.

I am sick and tired of every time I turn on the TV or the Radio I hear about another "tell all" book or that someone else is calling for President Bush's inmpeachment or hear how people in other countries are telling us how we should vote and who we should be voting for as our leader.

I mean, The last time I checked, George W. Bush is the President of the United States of America, not France or Germany or Russia or Australia or any other country so why to they feel they have a say in our selection of who is going to lead OUR country?

And now I read were this internet group is calling not only for Bush's assasination, they are also calling for the murders of Colin Powell, VP Cheney, Condi; Rummy and Ashcroft as well as the deaths of our troops.

When is this all going to stop?

This is why I come to FR and why I don't like to go onto certian threads that all they do is bash Bush, if I want to hear Bush bashing I'll listen to my coworkers and some of the people that live in my building!

I like coming to the DOSE and to FR's Finest because there are people on this thread who understand how I feel because they feel the same way about Dubya.

I admire his humility, (he's in not way arrogant IMO) his strength and courage. I admire the way that he turned his life around and continued on, leaving the past behind and forging ahead. I admire his love for his country and for his family even though some of the risks he's taking gets me scared for his safety but I know he is well protected both physically by the Secret Service and spiritually by God.

I may not know a lot about how to judge character and the science of politics but I do know what I see in President Bush and what I see I like.

Some time ago Sauropod asked me what would President Bush have to do to get me to stop supporting him.

The answer, he would have to commit a most horrendous crime such as murder. That is what would get me to stop supporting him.

I' not very articulate (so I sypathize with GWB about that!) and I can't fully describe what I'm trying to say like a lot who post on this and other threads. so I'll say it in simple terms. As a Christian, I see President Bush as a "brother" in Christ. So I can say to him with confidence, Mr. President, I love you, Brother!

And I'll keep praying hard for God to bless and protect him from all harm physically;spiritually, and politically. and may his enemies be few and his friends be many!

And I pray most fervently for his re-election.

That's the end of my rant.

[beachn4fun]

I have an IMAGE to maintain!

YES, we can see that! LOL

[beachn4fun]

Good morning. Thank you for posting the Pledge every day.

[tomkow6]

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, darkwing.

[beachn4fun]

Morning. I really like....."Real Woman's Way #2: Buy Hungry Jack mashed potato mix and keep it in the pantry for up to a year."

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, beachn4fun.

Our area is in a moderate risk of severe weather today. The Emergency Alert System had a run yesterday up in Northeast Oklahoma with numerous Tornado Warnings. Today looks to be really active.

We had a little dense fog this morning but it's all burnt off. It's sunny right now.