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]

"ROTFLMAO" just don't laugh your head off! LOL!!!!

[Pippin]

Good afternoon, WT!

I have a question, How do you "tie" flapjacks?

[blackie]

Pancakes ... Bump!

Love those cyber cakes!! :)

[Pippin]

Hi, Tom!

BURKA KING!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Tom, it's great to see that you and I are bring home a whole case of diet pepsi. And it's nice to see you helping Ma make sure she doesn't fall from the weight of the case. What a thoughtful son you are.

[Wild Thing]

Mr.Tonkin,
Thank you for the beautiful flowers from the men in the military and the Canteen. So pretty!

And thank you for the Post Office.

Wild Thing

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning afternoon, ms feather. Did you make coffee on your new stove this morning? Wonderful musings you've been sharing. Thank you so much.

[tomkow6]

Better look closer at the case YOU'RE carrying.....

[Wild Thing]

Hi Old Sarge, I am sorry about the summer colds. I hope your wife feels better soon.

Wild Thing

[beachn4fun]

HELLO EVERYONE. Well I have used up my whole lunch hour trying to catch up on this thread. Now I have to get back to work.

But first I want to say.........

I am so upset that I didn't get in the group photo.

Next, Radix this graphic is so cool....

And then, Mr.Hawk please don't tell eveyone how much money I have! Next thing you know others will start looking at my money like you have been!

And, then finally, I am leaving you with a little dash of humor as I leave.........

Two old men feeling they are close to their last days on earth decided to have a last night on the town. After a few drinks they end up at the local brothel. The madam takes one look at the two old geezers and whispers to her manager, "go up to the first two rooms and put an inflated doll in each bed, I'm not wasting two of my girls on them". These two are so old and drunk they won't know the difference." The two men go up the stairs and take care of their business. As they are walking home the first one says, "You know, I think my girl was dead!" "Dead?" says his friend, "why would you think that?" "Well, she never moved or made a sound all the time I was loving her.." His friend says, "I think mine was a witch." "A WITCH!!! Why the hell would you say that?" "Well, I was making love to her, kissing on her neck and I gave it a little bite, then she farted and flew out the window.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, John. Thank you for letting us hear about what's going on in Baghdad. Stay safe.Audio Reports
from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team

Click on the patch and you can see and hear the voice
of our own txradioguy reporting from somewhere incountry.

Thank you, John, for your service to our country.

[Soaring Feather]

Coffee, yes, oh yes, each and every morning! That's what the new stove is for. Poets do not cook.!!!
LOL
Thank you Kathy for your kind words.

[wolficatZ]

Happy Wednesday Canteen and Troops!

 

60 years ago...TODAY

August 6, 1943

www.onwar.com

In Sicily... The US 1st Division takes Troina after several days of heavy fighting. There are new British attacks toward Adrana.

On the Eastern Front... Northwest of Kharkov, Zolochev falls to the advancing Red Army.

In the Solomon Islands... In Vela Gulf there is an encounter engagement between 6 American destroyers and 4 Japanese destoyers carrying troops and supplies to Kolombangara. Three of the Japanese vessels are sunk.

In Italy... At Verona, representatives of the German and Italian governments meet. The Foreign Ministers (Ribbentrop and Guaniglia) and the Chiefs of Armed Forces High Commands (Keitel and Ambrosio) are among those present. The Italians attempt to assure the Germans that they are not negotiating with the Allies.

6 AUGUST 1943

AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

  ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE (AAF Antisubmarine Command): A B-25 of the 10th
Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 25th Bombardment Group (Medium), and US Navy
land-based aircraft sink U-615 at l2-38N 64-15W.

(This was possibly the longest ongoing combat between a U-boat and aircraft. U-615's battle enabled many other U-boats in the Caribbean to surface and escape to the east. The aircraft were from the following squadrons; VP-204 (P-6 and P-8), VP-205 (P-2, P-11 and P-4) and VB-130 (Ventura B-5).

On 11 April, 1943 U-615 was slightly damaged by debris, when the Liberty ship Edward B. Dudley exploded after being hit by a coup de grâce from a distance of 800 meters. The commander was wounded and the U-boat was forced to return to base.

Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-615 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.

U-615 Successes against aircraft

6 Aug, 1943
(American Mariner aircraft, Squadron VP-205/P-4)
The boat was lost in this massive hunt in the Caribbean. It fought bravely for days against overwhelming odd before finally being sunk.)

Lieutenant (jg) John M. Erskine, pilot of a PBM-3S Mariner of VP-204, attacked the surfaced U-615 on 6 August, causing moderate damage. The squadron aircraft maintained contact with the submerged submarine and kept it down over night. On the morning of the 7 th , Lieutenant Anthony R. Matuski spotted the U-boat when it surfaced and made an attack run. His aircraft was damaged by return fire and crashed with the loss of all hands. Lieutenant Lewis D. Crockett, flying a VP-204 Mariner, located the U-boat and conducted a bomb run that further damaged the vessel, but resulted in severe damage to his aircraft from AA fire. He remained on the scene until Lieutenant Holmes, pilot of a PV-1 Ventura of VB-130, arrived to assist him. The two aircraft conducted a coordinated bombing and strafing attack. Lieutenant (jg) John W. Dresbach, in a VP-204 Mariner, arrived and made a bombing and strafing attack on the U-boat. This attack resulted in mortal wounds to the pilot, Lieutenant Dresbach, and the final blow for the submarine. A U.S. Navy destroyer from Trinidad reached the area the next morning and rescued forty-five of the U-boat's crew of 49.

 

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

  ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE (AAF Antisubmarine Command): HQ 479th Antisubmarine
Group and it's 4th and 19th Antisubmarine Squadrons (Heavy) transfer with
B-24's from St Eval to Dunkeswell, England.

  STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): The 352d Fighter Squadron, 353d
Fighter Group, transfers from Goxhill to Raydon, England with P-47's. The
squadron will fly it's first combat mission on Monday and will remain at
this station until Apr 44.

MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

  EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (Ninth Air Force): In Sicily, 60+ B-26's hit
Bronte, Catania, and Randazzo and the area N of the Adrano-Biancavilla
road; 20+ others bomb road intersections in Adrano and Bronte; and 100+
P-40's attack shipping and shore targets in the Messina area while 30
others attack shipping on the W coast.
 
  WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (Northwest African Air Force): In Sicily, Northwest
African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) B-17's bomb coastal roads near Messina;
B-26's and B-25's hit a road junction SW of Badiazza and railroad bridges N
of Gesso; Northwest African Tactical Air Force (NATAF) light and medium
bombers hit roads, junctions, and buildings in the Troina, Adrano, Bianca-
villa, Tortorici, Bronte, Piranino, and Randazzo areas and the Bagnara,
Italy area; and fighter-bombers hit shipping from Vibo Valentia S to the
Straits of Messina.
  On the ground in Sicily, US troops are unable to cross the Furiano River
as fierce resistance continues. At Troina, troops push through the town and
1 mile (1.6 km) to the E before opposition halts them. The British take
Biancavilla, and Adrano falls as the enemy pulls out during the night of
6/7 Aug.
  HQ 301st Bombardment Group (Heavy) and it's 32d, 353d and 419th Bombard-
ment Squadrons (Heavy) transfer with B-17's from St-Donat, Algeria to
Oudna, Tunisia.

SOUTH PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Thirteenth Air Force): On Santa Isabel
Island in the Solomon Islands, 20 P-39's and P-40's hit the Tanagaba Harbor
area; and 24 B-17's and B-24's, 24 B-25's, and 50+ US Navy and US Marine
Corps fighters and dive bombers pound the Rekata Bay area, hitting bivouac
and supply areas.
  The 63d Troop Carrier Squadron, 403d Troop Carrier Group, arrives on
Espiritu Santo Island, New Hebrides Islands from the US with C-47's. The
squadron begins flying missions upon arrival.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Fifth Air Force): During the night
of 6/7 Aug, B-24's bomb Laha Airfield on Amboina Island in the Celebes
Islands.

                        Martin PBM-1 Mariner

[Wild Thing]

Hi Darkwing!

Thank you Darkwing for all you do and serving our country.

[Soaring Feather]

Sorry you have to go so soon. Thanks for your support.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Looks can be deceiving! The lengths we Ma's will go to to look out for the health and welfare of our kids. Truth in packaging is NOT a must for Ma.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Pancakes ... Bump!
Love those cyber cakes!! :)

good morning, blackie!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks fellas for today's beautiful flowers. I love the planter box.

[Wild Thing]

LOL
Linda I love the bear joke and the doll you made with the bear for it. So clever, you are so talented.

Wild Thing

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Wild Thing!