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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[SouthernHawk]

..."Just one problem: I don't pay taxes! My parents pay them. "...

OK, how 'bout selling the burkas to your parents at a discount, then they can donate them to the military, get the tax credit, and they will make money. This will make them want to come back and get more Burkas from you.

Sound Good to you?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E.G.C. Thanks for the reminder about virus protection updates. Another sunny day here. NO RAIN!

[MoJo2001]

LMAO! Good morning Radix and Goddess!! I'm trying to move on in the thread, but the graphic that you have with everyone is absolutely hilarious. I'm trying not to wake the Sailor up. (He just got home from Watch this morning.) And I'm gonna have to leave for a few. It is so hilarious! Great job, Radix! Goddess, you've outdone yourself again! *HUGS* to you both.

[Wild Thing]

Good morning beautiful Bentfeather.
Good to see you this fine day.

Wild Thing

[SouthernHawk]

..."can you fly over here "...

Be glad to, as soon as I wash this syrup off my wings. LOL!!

(It's hard to fly with your wings stuck together!)

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Wild Thing. How's it going?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, SH! Being behind, UGH!!

"Don't know," he said. "Radio broke."

GROAN...but a good email. Thanks for the non warm up this morning. Hope you and LadyHawk have a not too hectic day today.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Tom, what are your voices doing on that train? Where are you "bound" for?

[Wild Thing]

{{giggle}}
Good morning Tomkow,
Thank you for my Cyber Hug. {{hug}}

Wild Thing

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good PANCAKES morning, Tom! Good PANCAKES morning, Patriotic Pattie!

[Fawnn]

Speaking of things not to say to a cop, here are the ones I wrote back in 1998 -- back when you were still young enough to be swaddled in a burka:

Top 5 Things NOT to Say to a Cop

5. Couldn't pass the postal exam, eh?

4. Will you puh-lease get that light out of my eyes???

3. That isn't how you spell wreckless.

2. Excuse me! Did I ask for your opinion?

1. Here look! My gun's bigger than yours!

(I worked as a "sworn-at" PD employee -- as opposed to an officer who is a "sworn-in" PD employee -- for 10 years; my on-the-job list of things not to say would be different. ;) )

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, minor. Good list of what NOT to tell a policeman.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, TM. Good to see you this fine day. Hope all is well with the family.

[tomkow6]

BRATTWildThing!

[SouthernHawk]

OK, how about one about MA?

My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE -
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning!"

My mother taught me RELIGION -
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL -
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

My mother taught me LOGIC -
"Because I said so, that's why."

My Mother taught me more LOGIC -
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

My mother taught me FORESIGHT -
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

My mother taught me IRONY -
"Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about."

My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS -
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper!"

My mother taught me about CONTORTIONIST -
"Will you "look" at the dirt on the back of your neck!"

My mother taught me about STAMINA -
"You'll sit there 'till all that spinach is finished."

My mother taught me about WEATHER -
"It looks as if a tornado swept through your room."

My mother taught me how to solve PHYSICS PROBLEMS -
"If I yelled because I saw a meteor coming toward you; would you listen THEN?"

My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY -
"If I've told you once, I've told you a million times - Don't Exaggerate!!!"

My mother taught me THE CIRCLE OF LIFE -
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION -
"Stop acting like your father!"

My mother taught me about ENVY -
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do!"

My Mother taught me about ANTICIPATION -
"Just wait until we get home."

My Mother taught me about RECEIVING -
"You are going to get it when we get home!"

My Mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE -
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."

My Mother taught me to THINK AHEAD -
"If you don't pass your spelling test, you'll never get a good job."

My Mother taught me ESP -
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you're cold?"

My mother taught me HUMOR -
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

My mother taught me how to BECOME AN ADULT -
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

My Mother taught me about GENETICS -
"You're just like your father."

My Mother taught me about my ROOTS -
"Do you think you were born in a barn?"

My Mother taught me about WISDOM OF AGE -
"When you get to be my age, you will understand."

And my all time favorite... JUSTICE -
"One day you'll have kids ... and I hope they turn out just like you!"

[armymarinemom]

Good Morning!!

God Bless our troops and God Bless Freepers!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, aomagrat, for today's history of the USS Guam. She had a long career. 2 battle stars.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Sarge. Take good care of the Missus.

[Wild Thing]

Hi E.G.C. good to see you.

I am doing good thanks so much.

Wild Thing