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.

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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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[tomkow6]

She's 16!!!

[LaDivaLoca]

I still don't...er..think I'm...er...ready for
the...er...responsibility of renting a burka.
Maybe I'll rent one....NEVER!

UH-OH! You are getting close, Minor! Soon you will be competing with tom selling your own burkas. Well, competition is always good. What color would your burkas be?

[Radix]

 

Marines with Task Force Tarawa take in surrendering Iraqis March 26 in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.

 

 

Aviation Electronics Technican 2nd Class Marlon Enriquez of San Diego bundles up against a sandstorm and the accompanying 40-knot winds aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the Arabian Sea March 26. Enriquez was helping cover up aircraft to prevent sand from blowing into critical parts. The sandstorm temporarily caused a suspension of flight operations.

 

 

 

Cpl. Patrick Rivera (left), 21, of Glendale, Calif., and 1st Sgt. Henry Prutch, 40, of Dubuque, Iowa, both with Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines, hold an Iraqi civilian non-combatant who was trying to walk through their artillery position in central Iraq March 27. Marines escorted the civilian around the position and let him go after they searched him.

 

 

 

Soldiers with the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division kick in a door and search a residence near the town of Najaf, Iraq, March 27. The 3rd Infantry Division continues to push north into Iraq, but has been hampered by pro-Saddam militiamen carrying out ambushes and attacks using small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.

 

 

 

Marine Capt. Christopher Niemann, with the "Death Rattlers" of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323, flies his F/A-18 Hornet over Kuwait March 27.

 

 

 

A B-2 Spirit, returning from a mission in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, takes on fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over the Indian Ocean March 27.

 

 

 

Marines with Charlie Company, 1st Tank Battalion, 7th Marines guard a main supply road in central Iraq with their M-1A1 Abrams tank March 28.

 

 

 

A masked Marine with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit plays cards at an undisclosed desert base in southern Iraq March 28.

 

 

 

Cmdr. Bill Devine, the 7th Marines chaplain, performs a Catholic service for Marines with Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines March 29 in central Iraq.

 

 

 

Airman 1st Class Jay Charlebois, left, of Hillsdale, Mich., and Airman 1st Class Sven Berger of Battle Creek, Mich., both crew chiefs for the 332nd Expeditionary Air Maintenance Squadron, wave to an A-10 pilot taxiing to take-off on a mission over Iraq March 29.

 

 

 

As the sun sets, an A-10 fighter takes off toward Iraq during flight operations from an undisclosed air base in Southwest Asia March 29.

 

 

 

Marines from Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines sing during a Protestant service in the battery's artillery position in central Iraq March 29.

 

 

 

Airman Wan Lee Wu of Brooklyn, N.Y. a plane captain for Sea Control Squadron 21, awaits launch of the S-3B Viking he is assigned to care for on March 30. The aircraft is being used for tanker duties, often over Iraq, for aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 5, embarked on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk.

 

 

 

A crew chief with the 334th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., completes a maintenance check on an F-15E Strike Eagle before a night mission March 30.

 

 

 

An F/A-18 Hornet with the "Death Rattlers" of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 flies over the aircraft carrier Constellation as it prepares to land following a mission over Baghdad March 30.

 

 

 

Members of Delta Company, 3rd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) go room to room, clearing the local Baath Party headquarters in Kifl, Iraq, March 30. The soldiers found documents, weapons and full grain bags hidden inside the walled compound.

[Severa]

Hey just checking in. Hubby gets home tomorrow and if all goes well we'll be taking a few weeks of vacation time to visit family in KY and IN. Kids are doing fine, JJ is already excited about starting school (on Robbie's 4th birthday no less!) I'm slowly but surely getting over a cold. Hope all is well with everyone!

[LaDivaLoca]

Top 5 Things NOT to Say to a Cop

LOL! Twice I was stopped and all I had to do was flash my sweetest smile, bat my eyelashes and in my most ladylike voice ask, "yes, officer?" I love being a woman!!! LOL!

[Soaring Feather]

LADIVALOCA'S FAVOURITE!

NOW HERE THIS CANTEEN CREW
SCHEDULED FOR A LATE NIGHT FLIGHT
CAPTAIN TONKIN IS TAKING US INTO
THE LOST FRONTIER OUTER SPACE
HEAVEN HELP US!
DO YOU SEE WHAT HE HAS ON HIS HEAD???

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CAPTAIN TONKIN S. FLYGOOD PREPARES HIS CREW
"The RAG TAG
CANTEENERS" for FLIGHT!

Kathy, stay away from that button!!

Tomkow6, Radix, Southern Hawk, Old Sarge, HiJinx, check out the space craft!

GET READY, GET SET,

HUSTON, WE HAVE LIFT OFF!!

[LaDivaLoca]

OK, how about one about MA?

ROTFLOL!!! I love these - going to email.

[minor49er]

Why are we fighting over my age?
I'm not telling how old I am!

[LaDivaLoca]

LOL! Yes, I saw the header too - had to laugh out loud.

[Radix]

Huston, we have a problem

 

 

 

[minor49er]

I'm not going to sell, buy, or rent ANY burkas EVER!
This seems to be a hard concept for everyone to grasp.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Powerful graphic and powerful poem. Thanks, EV.

[EternalVigilance]

You're quite welcome.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Beautiful sunset, AND it looks like viewed from the deck of a sailing ship. Thanks guys.

[Soaring Feather]

Huston, we have a problem
 
ROTFLOL!!

[Fawnn]

She's 16!!!

I hope she's not driving on Ohio roadways! I've heard that it's easy to get your foot tangled up in a burka -- and that could prove reckless and dangerous!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Wow, this looks like quite the project for the University of Arizona.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Somebody?

Somebody ate them? Hmmmmmmm..........LOL!
d:o)

[LaDivaLoca]

Straight from the mouth of babes

'Can you lend me $1,000?'
'I only have $800.'
'That's all right You can owe me the other $200.'

Brother: Where was Solomon's temple ?
Sister: On either side of his head.

Mum: How did you do in the grammar test ?
Kate: Great, mum. I only made one mistake and I seen it as soon as I done it.

Little Susie stood in a department store near the escalator, watching the moving handrail.
'Something wrong little girl?' inquired the security guard.
'Nope,' replied Susie, 'just waiting for my chewing gum to come back.'

Why did you refuse to marry Richard, Tessa ?
COs he said he would die if I didn't and I'm just curious.

Mandy was applying for a summer job.
'How old are you?' asked the owner of the store.
'I'm twelve years old, Sir,' answered Mandy.
'And what do you expect to be when you grow up ?'
'Twenty one, Sir.'

Science teacher: Can you tell me one substance that conducts electricity, Jane ?
Jane: Why er......
Science teacher: Wire is correct.

Why are you crying, Janie?
Because my new tennis shoes hurt.
That's because you put them on the wrong feet.
Well, they're the only feet I have.

Girl: How much is a soft drink ?
Waitress: Fifty cents.
Girl: How much is refill ?
Waitress: The first is free.
Girl: Well then, I'll have a refill.

The second grader was in bed with a cold and high temperature. 'How high is it, Doctor?' she wanted to know.
'One hundred and three,' said the doctor.
'What is the world record?'

Little Sheila's mother was on the telephone to the girl's dentist. 'I don't understand it,' she complained, 'I thought her treatment would only cost me $20, but you've charged me $80.'
'It is usually $20, ma'am,' agreed the dentist, 'but Sheila yelled so loudly that three of my other patients ran away!'

Teacher: Didn't you know the bell had gone ?
Silly Sue: I didn't take it, Miss.

'Mary,' said her teacher. 'You can't bring that lamb into school. What about the smell ?'
'Oh, that's all right, Miss,' replied Mary. 'It'll soon get used to it.'

Jennifer: Are you coming to my party ?
Sandra: No, I ain't.
Jennifer: Now, you know what Miss told us. Not ain't. It's I am not coming, he is not coming, she is not coming, they are not coming.
Sandra: Blimey, ain't nobody coming ?

Visitor: You're very quiet, Jennifer.
Jennifer: Well, my mum gave me a dollar not to say anything about your red nose.

Biology teacher: What kinds of birds do we get in captivity?
Janet: Jail birds, Miss!

Mother: Did you enjoy the school outing, dear ?
Jane: Yes, and we're going again tomorrow.
Mother: Really ? Why's that ?
Jane: To try and find the kids we left behind.

Teacher: Are you good at arithmetic?
Mary: Well, yes and no.
Teacher: What do you mean, yes and no?
Mary: Yes, I'm no good at arithmetic.

Grandma: You've left all your crusts, Mary. When I was your age I ate every one.
Mary: Do you still like crusts, Grandma?
Grandma: Yes, I do.
Mary: Well, you can have mine.

[Soaring Feather]

Wow, this looks like quite the project for the University of Arizona.

I think this project is so very exciting!