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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 23 July 2003
Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

Posted on 07/23/2003 1:25:15 AM PDT by Radix

 
 
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Pancakes on Wednesdays
This is a plate of pancakes

Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays

Wednesday July 23, 2003


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

Do not forget to hit the hyperlinks.

We have links, lots of them.

Look it up!

Two entries found for clone.
Main Entry: 2clone
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): cloned; clon·ing
Date: circa 1948
transitive senses
1 : to propagate a clone from
2 : to make a copy of
intransitive senses : to produce a clone

Happy Birthday

Don Drysdale 1936

We're counting cards!

We are counting cards.


Don Imus 1940

Just shut up you stooge

What are you looking at Pancake head?


Woody Harrelson 1961

Yes, I am a weirdo


1715 - The first lighthouse in America was authorized for construction at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.

If this house is Light, how come noone can pick it up?


1977 - Foreigner's "Cold As Ice" was released.

Link to pictures here


1904 - The ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis,MO.

Here is your waffles on Wednesdays

That's cone not clone.


1914 - Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin. The dispute led to World War I.

I am the Dude who cause the war by being murdered.


The war to end all wars, didn't.

I am an excellent Pancake driver.

All together now, the maple syrup goes on the right.


Todays Wednesday field trip is to a Museum 

1962 - The "Telstar" communications satellite sent the first live TV broadcast to Europe.

What's UP?


Would you like some juice with your pancakes?

We are counting cards.


The Quadratic Formula uses the "a", "b", and "c" from "ax2 + bx + c", where "a", "b", and "c" are just numbers.   The Formula is derived from the process of completing the square, and is formally stated as:

For ax2 + bx + c = 0, the value of x is given by

x = [ –b ± sqrt(b^2 – 4ac) ] / 2a


1998 - U.S. scientists at the University of Hawaii turned out more than 50 "carbon-copy" mice, with a cloning technique.

Mouse Cloning

Mouses are magicHere I come to save the thread


2000 - Lance Armstrong won his second Tour de France.

Medal to the Pedal


A picture is worth a thousand pancakes!

Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely


 
 

 


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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Radix; tomkow6; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; southerngrit; TEXOKIE; HiJinx; ...
Commander Details Mission That Killed Hussein's Sons

By Kathleen T. Rhem / American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2003 — U.S. military officials in Iraq believe a coalition missile barrage at roughly 1 p.m. local time July 22 struck the fatal blow to Uday and Qusay Hussein.

Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez this morning described the 101st Airborne Division operation in northeast Mosul, Iraq, that led to the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons, numbers two and three on U.S. Central Command's list of most wanted members of the former regime, and two others.

The rest of the story!

181 posted on 07/23/2003 11:16:29 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Radix; tomkow6; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; southerngrit; TEXOKIE; HiJinx; ...

Spc. Cole Rose, light wheeled vehicle mechanic, C Company, 440th Signal Battalion, 22nd Signal Brigade, raises a Humvee on a hydraulic jack so he can repair a part beneath the vehicle in Baghdad July 21. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Ryan Smith

Military Mechanics Keeps Their vehicles Rolling in Iraq
By U.S. Army Spc. Ryan Smith

BAGHDAD, Iraq (July 21, 2003) - - New York has traffic. Houston has traffic. Los Angeles has traffic. Driving in cities such as these takes a toll on drivers as well as their vehicles.

But if the wear and tear on a vehicle driven in these cities can be compared to a football game, the three above are only in the peewee league. Iraq is the Super Bowl.

That’s where the soldiers of C Company, 440th Signal Battalion’s motor pool come in. They endure the scorching heat of the sun over Camp Victory in Baghdad to maintain and repair their unit’s vehicles every day.

The unit, a V Corps asset, out of Darmstadt, Germany, is a part of the 22 Signal Brigade and performs preventive maintenance checks and services to the company’s light wheeled vehicles, as well as repairing damaged or worn out parts, said Sgt. Rodger Evans, senior mechanic for C Company.

The rest of the story

182 posted on 07/23/2003 11:23:44 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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To: Bethbg79
OMGosh, Hello Beth. Long time no see
183 posted on 07/23/2003 11:25:02 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Can I interest you in a SUV?)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Great read! The radio news doesn't explain the preliminary action taken to let the four come out on their own. Wow!! I would return fire if I was fired on, too!!!
184 posted on 07/23/2003 11:25:32 AM PDT by LadyHawk (God bless those who strive for freedom and peace.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Radix; tomkow6; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; southerngrit; TEXOKIE; HiJinx; ...

General John Abizaid, U.S. Central Command commander, walks with Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez, Combined Forces Land Component Command, following General Abizaid’s arrival at Baghdad Air Base, July 20, 2003. General Abizaid was in Baghdad visiting with commanders and troops supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Air Force Photo By Master Sgt. Robert R. Hargreaves Jr.

General John Abizaid, U.S. Central Command commander, walks with Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez, Combined Forces Land Component Command, following General Abizaid’s arrival at Baghdad Air Base, July 20, 2003. General Abizaid was in Baghdad visiting with commanders and troops supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Air Force Photo By Master Sgt. Robert R. Hargreaves Jr.

185 posted on 07/23/2003 11:26:06 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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To: LadyHawk
The "news" seems to leave a lot of facts out of its stories. It would never do to show what our troops are really doing, and how well they do it; and the extraordinary lengths they go to (even exposing themselves to more trouble) to make sure innocents don't get involved!.
186 posted on 07/23/2003 11:30:48 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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To: LadyHawk
The lioness pictured in the cage, that was just me having a bad day! LOL!!!

Hi ya LadyHawk. Have been wondering where you've been. But, now that I've seen the photo and heard your confession, I am afraid to ask. he he

187 posted on 07/23/2003 11:32:13 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Can I interest you in a SUV?)
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To: Radix
Humor Break:

An American tourist in London found himself needing to take
a leak something terrible. After a long search he just couldn't
find any public bathroom to relieve himself. So he went down
one of the side streets to take care of business. Just as he was
unzipping, a London police officer showed up.

"Look here, old chap, what are you doing?" the officer asked.

"I'm sorry," the American replied, but I really gotta take a leak."

"You can't do that here," the officer told him. "Look, follow me."

The police officer led him to a beautiful garden with lots of grass,
pretty flowers, and manicured hedges. "Here," said the policeman,
"whiz away."

The American tourist shrugged, turned, unzipped, and started
peeing on the flowers.

"Ahhh," he said in relief. Then turning toward the officer, he said,
"This is very nice of you. Is this customary British courtesy?"

"No," retorted the policeman. "It's the French Embassy."
188 posted on 07/23/2003 11:32:58 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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To: Bethbg79

Hello Sweet Beth!!
Soooooooo, good to see you!!

189 posted on 07/23/2003 11:34:35 AM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: Kathy in Alaska
How true! All the media needs to be re-educated on how real journalism is done. Even FoxNews has things to fix. Almost too conservative. And FoxNews is the only new we watch!!! CNN is way too liberal, as is NPR!! SH and I listen to Lake WoaBeGone and Thistle N' Shamrock on NPR Sunday evenings only!! Good old time radio and fantastic music!
190 posted on 07/23/2003 11:38:09 AM PDT by LadyHawk (God bless those who strive for freedom and peace.)
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To: beachn4fun
he he he he
191 posted on 07/23/2003 11:40:13 AM PDT by LadyHawk (God bless those who strive for freedom and peace.)
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To: LadyHawk
new=news
192 posted on 07/23/2003 11:40:58 AM PDT by LadyHawk (God bless those who strive for freedom and peace.)
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To: Bethbg79
Hello Beth!! Nice to see you here!!
193 posted on 07/23/2003 11:43:54 AM PDT by LadyHawk (God bless those who strive for freedom and peace.)
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To: Radix; tomkow6; All
 

Archive > High Strangeness Reports

 
 

Space Pancakes...
A Fortean Breakfast Story

by Loren Coleman

On April 18 1961, three humanoids in a silver craft landed in Eagle River, Wisconsin and gave Joe Simonton some pancakes. They didn't speak English, and all communication was in the form of gestures.

"I've always wondered why they were called pancakes," wondered Bill Jacobs at Boston University on the Fortean List recently, "as the one Simonton is holding in the classic photo looked more like a pizelle to me. Did Simonton use the term 'pancake' in his original statements or did that characterization start with the UFO researchers?"

Jacobs' question was a good one, so I decided to look into it. There's a new regional book out I'd just read entitled The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena by Jay Rath (Wisconsin Trails, PO Box 5650, Madison, Wisconsin 53705; 800-236-8088; $14.95). The very first story in the book is about a respected local man, Joe Simonton and his "Pancakes from Space".

Let me review briefly the evidence that stacks up (sorry, I couldn't help myself) in favor of "pancakes" vs "pizelles"--whatever they are. Though being from the Midwest, I must say "pizelle" is not a word you would have heard in 1961.

Joe Simonton was having a late breakfast at 11 AM when some low, jet-like noises disturbed him and he went outside. (He probably was "thinking" about pancakes.) Seeing a disc land, hatch open and a nonthreatening being get out, Joe apparently telepathically picked up a message to get some water in a jug for the entity. Then, according to the Air Force report: "Looking into the [saucer] he saw a man 'cooking' on some kind of flameless cooking appliance." As Rath notes: "The alien was preparing pancakes."

Rath goes on: "In return for the water, one of the aliens...presented Simonton with three [actually four--LC] of the pancakes, hot from the griddle....Each of the pancakes was roughly 3 inches in diameter and perforated with small holes....Simonton ate one of the pancakes....'It tasted like cardboard,' he told the Associated Press."

Astronomer J. Allen Hynek was dispatched by the US Air Force to investigate. He took one of the pancakes away for government analysis at the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center. They found them to be made from flour, sugar and grease. Rath writes: "It was rumored, however, that the wheat in the pancake was of an unknown type."

Jerome Clark in his High Strangeness: UFOs from 1960 through 1979: The UFO Encyclopedia, Volume 3 (Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1996) gives a more detailed rundown of the Joe Simonton case under "Eagle River CE3" on pages 168-175. Clark's comprehensive report on the case does not talk about anything but how the objects were seen as "pancakes." The FDA who also analyzed one of the objects called them all "pancakes". Clark also does note the "pancakes" were "still hot" when Simonton bite into one of them.

The official Air Force verdict for the Simonton Pancake Incident: "Unexplained." Jerry Clark basically concurred: "There was, and is, no evidence to suggest that Joe Simonton cooked up--in the literal sense--a bogus UFO story." Which I guess is my way of saying, from my reading of this very intriguing case, they were "pancakes." However, in an attempt to be "balanced," it is interesting the good Bill Jacobs would use the phrase "pizelle" as Simonton said the aliens looked "Italian-looking". Hummm.

Well, it's time to go have breakfast, I think I'll have....English muffins and tea. While being a Midwesterner, no one said we couldn't be civilized, now and then.


194 posted on 07/23/2003 11:43:57 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Pancakes are out of this world!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Bethbg79

Mr Tonkin, I want to go for a ride too!!

Can Little Blonde FReepers go, too?? Please???


195 posted on 07/23/2003 11:45:35 AM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: LadyHawk; beachn4fun
Hey LadyHawk, glad that you stopped in!

You are looking good today!

(Beach - see I never make her mad! ha ha ha ha ha)

196 posted on 07/23/2003 11:46:58 AM PDT by SouthernHawk
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A man from Texas, driving a Volkswagen Beetle, pulls up next to a guy in a Rolls Royce with Nevada plates at a stop sign. Their windows are open and he yells at the guy in the Rolls,

"Hey, you got a telephone in that Rolls?"

The guy in the Rolls says, "Yes, of course I do." "I got one too... see?"

the Texan says. "Uh, huh, yes, that's very nice." "You got a fax machine?" asks the Texan.

"Why, actually, yes, I do."

"I do too! See? It's right here!" brags the Texan. The light is just about to turn green and the guy in the Volkswagen says, "So, do you have a double bed in back there?"

The guy in the Rolls replies, "NO! Do you?"

"Yep, got my double bed right in back here, see?" the Texan replies. The light turns and the man in the Volkswagen takes off.

Well, the guy in the Rolls is not about to be one-upped, so he immediately goes to a customizing shop and orders them to put a double bed in back of his car! . A bout two weeks later, the job is finally done. He picks up his car and drives all over town looking for the Volkswagen beetle with the Texas plates. Finally, he finds it parked alongside the road, so he pulls his Rolls up next to it. The windows on the Volkswagen are all fogged up and he feels somewhat awkward about it, but he gets out of his newly modified Rolls and taps on the foggy window of the Volkswagen. The man in the Volkswagen finally opens the window a crack and peeks out.

The guy in the Rolls says, "Hey, remember me?"

"Yeah, yeah, I remember you," replies the Texan. "What's up?"

"Check this out... I got a double bed installed in my Rolls."

The Texan exclaims, "YOU GOT ME OUT OF THE SHOWER TO TELL ME THAT?!"

197 posted on 07/23/2003 11:47:49 AM PDT by tomkow6 (.............................choo----choo!.......................)
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To: SouthernHawk
WHATARE YOU DOING?
198 posted on 07/23/2003 11:49:15 AM PDT by tomkow6 (.............................choo----choo!.......................)
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To: SouthernHawk
Oh you are a smoothie, you are.......
199 posted on 07/23/2003 11:49:51 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Can I interest you in a SUV?)
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To: bentfeather
Hi!
200 posted on 07/23/2003 11:50:02 AM PDT by tomkow6 (.............................choo----choo!.......................)
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