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

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix ~ Society for the Banishment of Burkas

[Radix]

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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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[Radix]

[FlyVet]

Mmmmm...pancakes bump. Scrambles, bacon, sausage, coffee, OJ. Sounds good.

[Fawnn]

I love the new burkasRus group photo!!! ;)

[fatima]

You know,I am still up,is that you.I don.t eat pancakes.

[Radix]

I don.t eat pancakes

You don't eat pancakes? What do you do with them?

[Fawnn]

Wild Thing's my fashion consultant! I think she's really helped me find my "Fair Funkle Fawnn Freedom Flapjack" look, don't you?

[Radix]

Do you have any pancake recipes for the Canteen crew?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Geoffrey, thank you for the pancakes. You serve so well.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Duty ~ Honor ~ Country

Click above to visit "A Day in the Life of President Bush"

[fatima]

Radix,I stayed up all night ,Guess so did you.I am being very nice,I hate pancakes.

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are,God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

Bless This House

Bless this house O Lord we pray;
Make it safe by night and day;
Bless these walls so firm and stout,
Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall,
Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove
ever open to joy and love.


Bless these windows shining bright,
Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there,
with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within,
keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be
Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we
May dwell O Lord with thee.

(Click on praying hands above, or on banner at the top to hear the music)

[Fawnn]

Do you have any pancake recipes for the Canteen crew?

I'm about to head to bed,... (It's another "tomorrow is going to get her earlier than usual" night, Kathy.)

...so forgive me for not taking a moment to go "test" my Freedom Flapjacks (lemon crepes) recipe. This is one where I throw together a bit of that and scootch of this and it's yummy. I hoping that in my fatigued state, I remember all of the this and that that goes into it.

I mix this up in a coffee cup, and if I make it a thin crepe (Freedom Flapjack) batter, it makes 4 of 'em; adding a scootch more flour and you get 2 pancakes:

Luscious Lemon Freedom Flapjacks

3 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoons FRESH lemon juice*
1 large egg
1 teaspoon sugar
Pinch sea salt
Beat until combined and frothy.

Add:
2-3 tablespoons unbleached flour
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch baking powder
Optional: lemon zest or crushed dried lemon granules
Optional: a plop of vanilla ;)
I plop the flour, etc. on top of the milk-egg mixture, then use a fork to mix the baking soda and powder into the flour, and then mix it all together. For Freedom Flapjacks, it'll be a thin batter.

Melt a smidgen butter in a small nonstick pan until it froths, then pour in 1/4 of the batter, turning the pan until the batter coats the bottom of the pan. I prefer to keep them "soft," so once the butter is melted, I only use a medium-low heat. Also, unlike for regular pancakes, these won't have the bubbles that form on the surface and break; instead, occasionally jiggle the pan to keep the crepe "loose" in the pan or use a spatula to loosen the crepes around the edges. Once it slides easily in the pan, flip it over and continue to cook for another 15 seconds or so. (It's important that you DO NOT BROWN the crepe ... err Freedom Flapjack!)

*I usually use Minute Maid 100% lemon juice -- available in the freezer case at the supermarket. It comes in a bright yellow squirt bottle. (Thawed by the time I use it, of course; it keeps thawed for weeks in the fridge and still continues to taste "fresh.")

I'll try to get some pictures taken so you can see 'em. No promises that I'll get that done today, but how 'bout by next week? ;)

OH! I prefer to serve 'em with a light dusting of powdered sugar OR spread with a little raspberry creme (honey-raspberry blend), then rolled, and dusted with powdered sugar if I'm feeling really ambitious and craving sweets.

I'll post some of my pictures of some other breakfast goodies here in a bit. (I've been told that I even blink in slow motion when I'm in a tired state, so bear with me here.) ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Radix, Pancakes on Wednesdays! I love the group photo, and everybody has pancakes. LOL! Good job!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Fawnn]

tomkow6 won't like this stuff, but too bad. ;)


Mag's Belgian (or Otherwise) Waffles


Easy Pecan (or Walnut) Waffles

The Quickies page has instructions on how to make these yummy luncheon waffles:
&
-- a Cheddar Chicken Waffle & Monte Cristo Waffle!

[Fawnn]

Turn to foodnetwork! The Galloping Gourmet is making pancakes! LOL

[Fawnn]

Never mind: It appears he's making some sort of fishy-filled crepes -- and he's getting his crepes entirely too dark! I guess I'll have to give him lessons. ;)