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]

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?'

LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

LOOK! tomkow6 finally has found a playmate he can get along with!

PERFECT!!

[Fawnn]

Exactly! However, males get out of tickets by being polite, too. What people forget is that cops are human. So many people automatically get rude and defensive when they're stopped. Oftentimes such stops are because the officer is just concerned and intended to issue only a warning.

Smile. Be nice. And chances are you're the first nice, smiling person the cop's seen his entire shift. Think about it. ;)

[LaDivaLoca]

Sweet Old Sarge - you will NEVER be a faceless wonder. Any idea what kind of icon you would like? We can all help you find the perfect one for a perfect warrior like yourself.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!

[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping
& the smile
Hope you had a nice day (-:

[LaDivaLoca]

Beautiful, EV! Love the eagle and the poem.

[EternalVigilance]

Glad you liked it!

[LaDivaLoca]

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?

You have to make sure you specifically know which of his voices you address.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I feel it, ms feather, I feel it. LOL! BRATTFEATHER

[LaDivaLoca]

HALLO, Tonk! How is the business coming along? One of these days, I too will venture out and be my own boss. I could use the change.

[LaDivaLoca]

These are AWESOME pics of our Troops, Radix! I especially love the ones with the sunsets.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Diva! How has life been treating you? Sun? My rain?

[LaDivaLoca]

LOL! Diva, Tonk may be able to operate in water but I think we should leave the flying either to aeronaut or southernhawk.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Nan: Not with the teabag hanging from it, it's not!

I like it! Good jokes, Diva.

[Soaring Feather]

Comfortable Memory

I know...

like a comfortable deep memory

I treasure the wonder of his laugh

as night closes around me....

bentfeather
a/k/a MHL
Copyright ©2003
All Rights Reserved

[LaDivaLoca]

Who wouldn't be smiling at a police officer especially if he looks like this

[LaDivaLoca]

Can't complain - could be worse. Humid, sunny, and rainy. Still praying for that rain to go your way. LOL! *HUGS*

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"How is the business coming along?"

Actually better than my business partner and I thought!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

BRATTLASKA