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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[Wild Thing]

LOL I like that one. haha
Hahaha

Good to see you SouthernHawk.

And Hi to LadyHawk too.

Wild Thing

[Soaring Feather]

These are great SH!! I heard all these from my mom. LOL

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Wild Thing]

LMAO

You and Ma together how funny. LOL

Hi MA

Wild Thing

[SouthernHawk]

Thanks for the BUMP! Hope your day is going well!

[Wild Thing]

Linda this guy is adorable!

LOL I think I am in love. haha

I just love this thread what fun.
Thanks again Radix.
And the way you have all of us in that graphic and all the other characters is SO FINE ! LOL

Wild Thing

[Wild Thing]

{{giggle}} Thank you both of you.
Fawnn that one is one that Linda made you. It is so beautiful.I love it.
I do thank you too for having me as your fashion consultant. ( big smile)

Dolls are such fun I love playing with them.

Wild Thing

[Wild Thing]

LOL Yes I am a bratt. hahaha

Love it

Wild Thing

[Wild Thing]

YUM thank you for this Fawnn.

Luscious Lemon Freedom Flapjacks

YUMMY!

Wild Thing

[Wild Thing]

Good morning Aeronaut.Love your plane.

Wild Thing

[Fawnn]

I love it, too! I find Fair Funkle Freedom Flapjack Fawnn quite fetching. ;) ... Thanks, Linda!

Who created this one?



That "look" is my "ready to play outside with the grandkids" one, of course. ;)

[SouthernHawk]

I heard them from my Mom also. (The bad part is, that as a father - I have used most of them as well!) LOL!!!

[Wild Thing]

LMAO

Wild Thing

[Soaring Feather]

LOL

DITTO!!

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

Well report off AP wire some of returning Marines come from Iraq claiming that US presence is on thread and dont' be surprise if not stablized Iraq going fall into Anarchy

They claim they didn't get no support from Pentagon Iraqis getting ansty that they resort to Robbery and murder not enough cops on the streets


Also report off Drudge site reporting that ARNOLD is not going run for Cali gig he going announced on Tonight show he not running but would endore Richard Riodarn as Cali governor

[Wild Thing]

Maybe you could donate the unsold burkas to the military for taget practice. Then, you can claim the donation as a tax credit. Before long, you'll be rich!

ROTFLMAO

Love this SouthernHawk. haha

Wild Thing

[Soaring Feather]

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix ~

Society for the Banishment of Burkas

ROTFLOL!! Did everyone see this??

[tomkow6]

Love me, love my BURKAS!

[Wild Thing]

{{giggle}}Hi Fawnn
That one I made.
I love Linda's dolls. She gave me one of me in a bathtub and I just love it.

I look forward to tying your flapjack's you wrote about. Maybe this weekend.Yum

Wild Thing

[Wild Thing]

LMAO Yes I did and I am still laughing.

Wild Thing