USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 18 June 2003

[Wild Thing]

Hi Nix2,nice to meet you. Your post is so good, the photos and thank you for the link too.I never heard of that site before.

Wild Thing

[Soaring Feather]

I guess you are pretty well armed Wild Thing. I see no problems for you.

[Radix]

Dorothy Parker.

 

Wasn't she the female Oscar Wilde? She made allusions to that fact. I think so.

 

 

Oscar said it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the Radixionary.

 

 

 

 

 

One entry found for allusion. Main Entry: al·lu·sion
Pronunciation: &-'lü-zh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin allusion-, allusio, from Latin alludere
Date: 1548
1 : an implied or indirect reference especially in literature; also : the use of such references
2 : the act of alluding or hinting at
- al·lu·sive /-'lü-siv, -ziv/ adjective
- al·lu·sive·ly adverb
- al·lu·sive·ness noun

 

[Fawnn]

Don't recall the Oscar Wilde comparison. I know Dorothy Parker was a part of the Algonquin Round Table.

She was famous for her zingers and one-liners. She once wrote a book review where she said, "This is not a book that should be set aside lightly. ... It should be thrown with great force!"

[Kathy in Alaska]

ms feather, I love your dictionary. They are all good, but I like the counterfeiters. Sending in email.

[Radix]

May the FORCE be with you

[tomkow6]

 

Hi,  Nix 2!

Welcome to the Canteen!

Wanna buy a burka?

 

[Fawnn]

May the FORCE be with you

That's a good thing, right? ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

[TexasCowboy]

Guess you meant a different Tuesday. silly me!

(Head down, kicking dirt with the toe of my boot) I'm sorry. Please read my freep before you delete it...

[Radix]

Humor to me, Heaven help me, takes in many things. There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind. There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it. There must be some lagniappe in the fact that the humorist has read something written before 1918.

From Dorothy Parker. Introduction. The Most of S. J. Perelman, by S. J. Perelman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958, xi-xiv.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the radixionary:

 

One entry found for lagniappe. Main Entry: la·gniappe
Pronunciation: 'lan-"yap, lan-'
Function: noun
Etymology: American French, from American Spanish la ñapa the lagniappe
Date: 1844
: a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure

[Wild Thing]

LOL, yes but I have to feed them, and that takes a lot of cyber food. ha ha

Looking forward to another poem by you Bentfeather.

Wild Thing

[Soaring Feather]

Thank you. I love the graphic, it is adorable.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

From the men in the Military and the Canteen

[Kathy in Alaska]

Fly-through window: A customer orders fast food in Fairfax County, Va.

E(quine)- mail: Tracey Potts and Egypt wait for Larry McPherson to pass them a mail pouch in Fort Churchill, Nev., during the annual Pony Express re-enactment. The mail was to wind up its journey in Sacramento.

[TexasCowboy]

"I had a heck of a time getting on FR this morning."

MoJo, when that happens to me I go out and see if a darn cow is standing on my telephone line.

[Soaring Feather]

Good evening Tonkin.

Thank you Military men and Canteen men for the lovely painting. It's lovely on the Canteen wall.

[TexasCowboy]

"Well nice to meet you partner."

Likewise, Ma'am.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

[TexasCowboy]

"but I REALLY enjoyed Sunday's music."

Kat, I live, eat and breathe country music.
I make medleys out of most of them with some software I have.
If you have any artist you particularly like, let me know.