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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[Soaring Feather]

FEEL THE LOVE GUYS???
#300

[minor49er]

What makes you think I'm 13?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

BRATT

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Let's take a trip into space"

[Soaring Feather]

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WHOO HOO
WE ARE GOING INTO SPACE!!

Ms feather is a little excited here!
WHOO HOO!!

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"WE ARE GOING INTO SPACE!! "

[LaDivaLoca]

ROTFLOL!!! I love the group portrait - that is so cool.

A good evening to my fellow Canteeners,
our Military, Veterans, Allies and your families



THANK YOU to our TROOPS who have served and are serving this great country of ours,
the UNITED STATES of AMERICA
LAND OF THE FREE and HOME OF THE BRAVE

Though you may be tired and weary
Be light of heart and mind
For yours is a noble endeavor
And we SALUTE all of you
Pray for your safety, for courage and strength
That you may endure the challenges ahead
May the sun shine on you
May the angels sing your praise
And may the Good Lord keep you all safe
We hold you dear to our hearts
Though we may not know your names
Know that we do care and lift you up in our thoughts
And will forever be grateful for your sacrifices
True WARRIORS, one and all

LaDivaLoca

[LaDivaLoca]

Good evening, FlyVet!

[LaDivaLoca]

Just looking at all those pancakes and waffles is making me hungry - AGAIN! LOL!

[LaDivaLoca]

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

LOL! I love these jokes - what a great way to start a day. I was reading this thread at work and had to stifle my laughter. Too funny.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

WOO HOO!
Look who's in the House!

[minor49er]

How is it that you manage to spell my name right in your tagline but tomkow can't?
Even when I told him 3 or 4 times?

[LaDivaLoca]

Nan: My boyfriend really embarrassed me yesterday. We were at a very expensive restaurant and he drank his tea with his little finger sticking out.
Dan: But that's considered polite in some circles.
Nan: Not with the teabag hanging from it, it's not!

Waiter! waiter! what's this creepy crawly thing doing on my girlfriend's shoulder?
I don't know - friendly thing isn't he ?

1st Witch: What's your new boyfriend like ?
2nd Witch: He's mean, nasty, ugly, smelly and totally evil - but he has some bad points too !

A little boy ran home from school on the first day and pestered his mother into taking him into a toy shop. When they got there he insisted that she buy him a gun.
'But why do you need a gun?' asked his mother.
'Because our teacher told us she was going to teach us to draw tomorrow.'

When George left school he was going to be a printer. All the teachers said he was the right type.
'We're going to play elephants and circuses,' said a little boy at kindergarten, 'Do you want to join in?'
'I'd love to,'replied the teacher. 'What do you want me to do?'
'You can be the lady that feeds us peanuts !'

A little boy came home from his first day at kindergarten and said to his mother, 'What's the use of going to school ? I can't read, I can't write, and the teacher won't let me talk.'

'I'd like you to be very quiet today, boys and girls. I've got a dreadful headache.'
'Excuse me,' said Alec, 'why don't you do what mum does when she has a headache?'
'What's that ?'
'She sends us out to play.'

'I hope you're not one of those boys who sits and watches the school clock,' said the principal to a new boy.
'No, Sir. I've got a digital watch that bleeps at three-fifteen.'

The principal was very proud of his school's academic record. 'It is very impressive.' said one parent who was considering sending his son there. 'How do you maintain such high standards?'
'Simple,' said the principal. 'The school motto says it all.'
'What's that?' asked the parent.
'If at first you don't succeed, you're expelled.'

Ben's teacher regards Ben as a wonder child. He wonders whether he'll ever learn anything.
'How old would you say I am, Francis ?' the teacher asked.
'Forty,' said the boy promptly.
'You seem very sure,' said the puzzled teacher. 'What makes you think I'm 40?'
'My big brother's 20,' replied the boy,' and your twice as silly as he is !'

'Now remember boys and girls,' said the science teacher. 'You can tell a tree's age by counting the rings in a cross section. One ring for each year.'
Alec went home for dinner and found they were having a jelly roll for dessert. 'I'm not eating that, Mum,' he said, 'It's five years old!'

The school teacher was furious when Alec knocked him down with his new bicycle in the playground.
'Don't you know how to ride that yet?' he roared.
'Sure!' shouted Alec over his shoulder. 'It's the bell I can't work yet!'

'Hello, Billy. Do you like your new school?' asked Uncle Ned.
'Sometimes,' said the boy.
'When is that?'
'When it's closed!'

First Teacher: What's wrong with young Jimmy today? I saw him running round the playground screaming and pulling at his hair !
Second Teacher: Don't worry. He's just lost his marbles !

Simple Simon was writing a geography essay. It began like this: The people who live in Paris are called parasites....

[LaDivaLoca]

Good for you, Tonk. While I, on the other hand,is still working on being smoke free. I'll get there as soon as I decide I would like to be smoke free.

[LaDivaLoca]

Awwwww, Diva - that is such a cute pic of the cats asleep. Looks good enough to snuggle in. LOL!

[Fawnn]

What makes you think I'm 13?

Seemed like a lucky number. ;)