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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[Fawnn]

I thank you both!!!

You can not imagine how much sexier I feel klutzing around in my (all too tiny) kitchen now. ;)

[Fawnn]

can not

cannot! I think I should go back to bed!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Looks like it's clear as a bell, no clouds. Love the lighthouse banner.

[Pippin]

Yeah!

But as many typos as I have had, I really have no room to talk! LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

UP WITH TENTS — (Left to right) Staff Sgt. Paul Roy, Master Sgt. Kenneth Velez, Senior Airman William Plum, Master Sgt. Clifford Powers, all of 407th Expeditionary Communications Squadron, assemble an Alaskan tent for a Visual Information unit to support Operation Iraqi Freedom at Tallil Air Base, Iraq. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Karolina Gmyrek

[Kathy in Alaska]

Stolen vehicles returned to Mosul

By Staff Sgt. Mark Swart
August 5, 2003

ZEWEETA, Iraq (Army News Service, Aug. 5, 2003) -- One by one, they rumbled to life. Parked for more than three months on a grassy, mountain hillside in Northern Iraq, the random collection of 43 government vehicles stolen from Mosul authorities during the war are being returned to the Ninevah Province.

The vehicles were confiscated by Peshmerga forces at traffic checkpoints outside of Mosul as thieves tried to take them out of the city, according to Sgt. 1st. Class Gilbert Ortiz, the 101st liaison officer to the Peshmerga Forces in Dohuk. Any vehicles without proper paperwork were brought to the Peshmerga Special Forces compound for safekeeping as the Mosul government was reformed and restored, Ortiz said.

The handover is a cooperative effort between Mosul authorities, the Peshmerga forces and the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) out of Fort Campbell, Ky.

The vehicles included several large buses, flatbed trucks, water tankers, pickup trucks and tractor-trailer rigs. They belong to various government branches, from power to public transportation to the fire department. Many were riddled with bullet holes and are partially cannibalized, but the majority are still in running order, Ortiz said.

"They might not look like much," said Ortiz, "but they will make a difference."

The head of the Nineveh province Traffic Department, Col. Samir Dawood Muhammad, said that the vehicles were primarily stolen for two reasons: cash resale value and possible use in terrorist acts.

The 101st Abn. Div. is serving as a conduit between the Kurdish Peshmerga military forces that confiscated the vehicles and the predominantly Arab Mosul civil authorities. The Americans are also witnessing the transfer, ensuring that all vehicles are returned as promised.

"We hope this will encourage other people who stole vehicles to turn them in," Ortiz said.

(Editor's note: Staff Sgt. Mark Swart is a member of the 101st Airborne Division Public Affairs)

[Kathy in Alaska]

A view from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter shows all that's left of the Uday and Qusay house in Mosul, Iraq, July 31, 2003, after Iraqi engineers were hired by the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) to demolish the building during Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. William Armstrong

This is only a certain portion of Uday's palace that was taken by the Marines after 18 hours of fighting during Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. William Armstrong

[Kathy in Alaska]

A view from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter shows all that's left of the Uday and Qusay house in Mosul, Iraq on July 31, 2003, after Iraqi engineers were hired by the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) to demolish the building during Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. William Armstrong

A view from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter shows all that's left of the Uday and Qusay house in Mosul, Iraq, July 31, 2003, after Iraqi engineers were hired by the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) to demolish the building during Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. William Armstrong

[Kathy in Alaska]

A portion of Uday's palace that was taken by the Marines after 18 hours of fighting during Operation Enduring Freedom. The United States is in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. William Armstrong

A view from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter shows all that's left of the Uday and Qusay house in Mosul, Iraq, July 31, 2003, after Iraqi engineers were hired by the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) to demolish the building during Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. William Armstrong

[Soaring Feather]

"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic."

[blackie]

Good morning, Kathy in Alaska. :-/

[Kathy in Alaska]

Biking weather today?