USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 06 August 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix ~ Society for the Banishment of Burkas

[Radix]

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday...
Thank the Veterans who served in
The United States Armed Forces.

Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom?
Support The United States Armed Forces Today!

 

---

Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday August 6, 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.

LIPOGRAMMATIST

As opposed to pangrammatists, who strive to crowd all the letters of the alphabet into a composition of the very briefest scope, a lipogrammatist systematically leaves one of them out. This ditty from the nineteenth century avoids a certain vowel:

A jovial swain may rack his brain,
and tax his fancy’s might,
To quiz in vain, for ’tis most plain,
That what I say is right.

A lipogram without an e is the most difficult kind to write, since that’s the most common letter in English. There have been some celebrated modern examples.

In 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright published a 50,000-word novel called Gadsby without a single e in it.

The French author Georges Perec produced a 300-page tour-de-force in 1969, similarly without an e in sight, under the title La Disparition. It was translated into e-less English by Gilbert Adair in 1995 as A Void.

The word lipogram is from the Greek lipogrammatos, lacking a letter, which derives from the verb leipein, to leave out, plus gramma, a letter. The first part has nothing to do with the modern prefix lipo-, fat, which is from a different Greek stem

---

Happy Birthday

Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809

---

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.

---

Lucille Ball 1911

---

Robert Mitchum 1917

 

---

Andy Warhol 1928

---

Geri Estelle Halliwell (Spice Girls) 1972

---

Would you like Toast with your pancakes?

---

1960 - Chubby Checker performed "The Twist" on American TV for the first time on "American Bandstand."

---

1970 - An anti-war rock festival was held at Shea Stadium in New York. Janis Joplin, Paul Simon, Steppenwolf and Johnny Winters were the acts.

Lets give them Medals with their Pancakes.

---

Todays Wednesday field trip is to Burkas R US
owned and operated by minor49er - franchises available!

---

1982 - "The Wall" had its U.S. premiere in New York City.

---

1787 - The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began. The articles of the U.S. Constitution draft were to be debated.

---

1890 - Cy Young achieved his first major league victory. He would accumulate 511 in his career.

---

1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed.

---

1952 - Satchel Paige, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major league baseball game.

---

1986 - Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named "James Bond."

---

= = 0 .

---

A function f with domain D in R converges to a limit L as x approaches a number c closure(D) if:

given any > 0 there exists a > 0 such that if x D and | x - c | < then | f(x) - L | <  

---

   A Function

---

1993 - Morihiro Hosokawa was elected prime minister of Japan

---

Okonomiyaki On Wednesdays

---

---

Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

---

 

[Aeronaut]

Hi Aeronaut and welcome back!
We missed you!

Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Bandon is 30 miles south of Coos Bay
Real Time Radar provided by www.flightarrivals.com

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Good Morning Brother!
Thanks for helping protect America!

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Tonk.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

We await your return to the USA.
Thnak You for your service to our country.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"See you later!"

Aye Aye Co-Captain!

[Soaring Feather]

An absent-minded husband thought he had conquered his problem of trying to remember his wife's birthday and their anniver-sary. He opened an account with a florist, provided that florist with the dates and instructions to send flowers to his wife on these dates along with an appropriate note signed, "Your loving husband."

His wife was thrilled by this new display of attention and all went well until next year, on their anniversary, when he came home, kissed his wife and said off-handedly, "Nice flowers, honey.
Where'd you get them?"

[Soaring Feather]

Thank You Military men and Canteen men for the flowers.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Good Morning!
BTW, Thanks for the weekly tips you give us regarding computer virus, etc.
I used the Outlook one about previewing yesterday.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Good Morning oh Canteen Poet!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"My bear told me this joke..."

LOL!!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Hope you are getting caught up on your rest after your trip.
BTW, I'm still smoke free in 03!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Can I have more pancakes please?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Can I have more waffles please?

[Soaring Feather]