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!

 

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday August 6, 2003

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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

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Happy Birthday

Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809

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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.

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Lucille Ball 1911

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Robert Mitchum 1917

 

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Andy Warhol 1928

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Geri Estelle Halliwell (Spice Girls) 1972

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Would you like Toast with your pancakes?

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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= = 0 .

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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 | <  

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   A Function

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1993 - Morihiro Hosokawa was elected prime minister of Japan

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Okonomiyaki On Wednesdays

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

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[Soaring Feather]

Hi ,

I have no idea what the cat's names are. They came in email from a cat loving friend.

[minor49er]

Are you trying to tell me that tomkow may not be crazy but is crazy?
This is confusing!

[minor49er]

I thought of a good tagline.
Check it out:

[tomkow6]

 

Hey, Minor49er!

 

Wanna RENT a burka?

 

[minor49er]

I still don't...er..think I'm...er...ready for the...er...responsibility of renting a burka.
Maybe I'll rent one....NEVER!

[minor49er]

It's minor49er! NOT miner49er! Change your tagline to the right way!

[minor49er]

You'd think that people who are smart enough to sell burkas to people would at least know how to spell right!
Especially after someone tells them the right way to spell it!

[minor49er]

That last comment was supposed to be to you. I left my name in the thing on accident.

[minor49er]

And before you ask, I DID NOT HAVE A BLONDE MOMENT!

[minor49er]

That was supposed to be to you too.
I left my name in the thing again.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on August 06:
1651 Francois Fenelon France, writer (Playing for Time)
1697 Charles VII Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson poet laureate of England
1861 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1868 Paul Claudel France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909)
1881 Sir Alexander Fleming cashed in on penicillin (Nobel 1954)
1883 Scott Nearing US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life)
1893 Guthrie McClintic Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset)
1906 Ken Strong NFL, AFL halfback (Staten Island, NY Yanks, NY Giants)
1908 Helen Jacobs US tennis champ (1932-35)
1910 Charles Crichton director (Battle of Sexes)
1911 Lucille Ball Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, Mame)
1916 Michael Burke sports executive (NY Yankees, NY Knicks)
1917 Robert Mitchum Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South)
1921 Ella Raines Sinoqualmie Falls Wash, actress (Janice Dean RN)
1922 Sir Freddie Laker entrepreneur (Laker airlines)
1923 Jack Parnell London England, orch leader (Englebert Humperdick Show)
1923 Jackie Kelk Brooklyn NY, actor (Homer-Aldrich Family)
1923 William B Williams Babylon NY, DJ (WNEW, Sammy & Company)
1925 Barbara Bates Denver Colo, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life)
1927 Andy Warhol pop artist (or 08081930)
1927 William David Ford (Rep-D-Mich)
1928 Janice Lee York Romary US, fencer (Olympics-1952-68)
1929 Anneliese Kuppers German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)
1930 Abbey Lincoln actress/singer (Nothing But a Man)
1934 John Storey Bonington UK, mountain climber (Annapurna I in 1970)
1938 Peter Bonerz Portsmouth NH, actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5)
1940 Louise Sorel LA Calif, actress (BS I Love You, Crimes of Passion)
1943 Michael Anderson Jr London, actor (Clayt-The Monroes)
1943 Ray Buktenica Greenwich Village NYC, actor (Rhoda, House Calls)
1944 Swoosie Kurtz actress (Vice Versa, World According to Garp)
1945 Ken Norton heavyweight boxer (or 0809)
1947 Sally Eaton Ill, actress
1950 Dorian Harewood Dayton Ohio, actor (Earl-Glitter, Trauma Center)
1950 Nathan Purdee actor (Nathan-Young & Restless)
1950 Winston E Scott Miami Fla, USN Commander/astronaut
1951 Catherine Hicks Scottsdale Az, actress (Star Trek IV, Child's Play)
1952 Carl C Perkins (Rep-D-Ky)
1952 Wojiech Fortuna Poland, ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1956 Stephanie Kramer LA Calif, actress (Claudia-We Got it Made, Hunter)
1956 Vinnie Vincent heavy metal rocker (Solo-Ashes to Ashes)
1959 Joyce Sims rocker (All & All)
1963 Kimberley Conrad Hefner Moulton Al, playmate of year (Jan, 1988)
1964 Moosie Drier Chic Ill, actor (Laugh-in)
1965 David Robinson NBA center (San Antonio Spurs)
1976 Soleil Moon Frye actress (Punky Brewster)

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Deaths which occurred on August 06:
0258 Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded
1221 St. Dominic, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)
1623 Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies
1914 Ellen Wilson Pres Wilson's wife, dies at 54
1964 Sir Cedric Hardwicke actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71
1965 Nancy Carroll actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60
1978 Pope Paul VI dies of heart attack at summer residence at 80
1979 Kurt Kaszner actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65
1986 William J Schroeder (world's longest-survivor with permanent artificial heart, dies after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)
1991 Harry Reasoner newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68
2001 General Duong Van "Big" Minh

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1964 CUTRER FRED C. JR. OSYKA MS.
[AC CRASH EXPLODE]
1964 KASTER LEONARD L. HOLYOKE MA.
[AC CRASH EXPLODE]
1967 KEMMERER DONALD R. QUAKERTOWN PA.
1967 PAGE ALBERT L. DERRY NH.
1972 PENN MICHAEL G. JR. FORT WORTH TX
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]


POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
258 St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
523 St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
768 [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1181 Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
1497 John Cabot returns to England after his first successful journey to the Labrador coast.
1787 Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate
1806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act
1862 CSA ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
1863 The CSS Alabama captures the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope.
1864 Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
1870 White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
1888 Martha Turner is murdered by an unknown assailant, believed to be Jack the Ripper, in London, England
1890 1st use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in NY for murder
1890 Cy Young pitches & wins 1st game
1908 St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn
1914 Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia
1914 Serbia declares war against Germany
1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
1921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
1926 NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel
1926 Warner Bros premiers Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY), Don Juan with John Barrymore shown
1934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
1937 Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
1944 Deportation of 70,000 jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
1946 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
1948 Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
1958 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
1960 Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
1961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits), 1st case of motion sickness in space reported
1962 Jamaica gains independence from Britain
1965 Beatles release "Help" album in UK
1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
1967 Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings
1969 Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals)
1974 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice
1974 Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
1980 University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript &curriculum abuses
1981 NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
1983 Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)
1984 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1984 Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
1985 STS 51-I vehicle moves to the launch pad
1986 Baltimore Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for the IBM
1988 Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
1989 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8
1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats
1990 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstentions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Wiggle Your Toes Day
National Gossip Day
Australia : Bank Holiday
Bolivia : Independence Day (1825)
Hiroshima, Japan : Peace Festival at Peace Memorial Park (1945)
Iceland : Bank Holiday
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962)
Malawi, Ireland : August Holiday
UAE : Accession of H.H. Sheik Zayed Ben Sultan Al-Nahayan
Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day ( Sunday )
Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) ( Sunday )
British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday ( Monday )
Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) ( Monday )
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) ( Monday )
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins ( Monday )
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day ( Saturday )

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Religious Observances
RC, Ang : Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

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Religious History
1651 Birth of Francois Fanelon, French priest and scholar. His 1697 writing, "Christian Perfection," provided a reasoned defense of mystical spirituality, though it afterward brought him into disfavor with the pope.
1727 French Ursuline nuns first arrived at New Orleans, where they set up the first Catholic charitable institution in America. It comprised an orphanage, a girl's school and a hospital.
1774 English religious leader Ann Lee (1736-1784) and a small band of followers first arrived in America. Her sect called itself the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, but to the rest of the world her followers came to be known as the "Shakers."
1801 The Great Religious Revival of the American West began at a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky.
1821 Birth of Edward H. Plumptre, Anglican theologian. He served on the Old Testament committee for the 1881 English Revised Version of the Bible. Today, he is better remembered as author of the hymn, "Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart."

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
" The average woman would rather be beautiful than smart because the average man can see better than he can think."

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You might be an animaniacs fan if...
whenever in the hospital, you have the urge to say, "Helllooooooo Nurse!"

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Todays Murphys law...
The other line always moves faster.

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Cliff Clavin says, it's a little know fact that...
A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.

[tomkow6]

Looks to me like you're having SEVERAL "BLOND MOMENTS", it seems.......

[tomkow6]

1956 Stephanie Kramer LA Calif, actress (Claudia-We Got it Made, Hunter)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Aeronaut and Otto, and thank you both for your dedication to the flyover of protection for our troops' Canteen, a place where we offer a "touch of home" for our troops, our veterans, their families, and our allies. I hope y'all got rested from your "working" trip.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning Troops, families, veterans, Israeli, British, Australian, Polish, and Italian allies (and everybody else, and all the ships at sea). Thank you for taking such good care of the USA.

Today in Anchorage, Alaska:

Sunrise 5:46am
Sunset 10:23pm

Hi 70°F
Lo 52°F

Mostly sunny; warm, nice

Actual yesterday in Anchorage:

Hi 70°F
Lo 48°F

State Hi 76°F King Salmon
State Lo 31°F Barrow

[Wild Thing]

Good Morning everyone!
Good Morning Troops!
We Love you!
ROTFLMAO I love this thread!
Thank you Radix for this amazing and delightful, hilarious thread!

That GROUP of all of us is such fun, I am saving it!
Thank you for including me.

Have a Burka R Us kind of day.
LMAO

Pancakes for the troops.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Pancake Bob!!

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning Wild Thing.

[tomkow6]