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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[EternalVigilance]

Great poem, feather!

But who's 'Al'?

;-)

[tomkow6]

 

 

GOODNIGHT TROOPS AND CANTEEN

 

 

 

My fat cat is telling me it's time for bed; soooooooo:

Good Night, All!

May God bless all who come to the Canteen.
May God bless & keep safe all our troops & their families!

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Dear Lord,
There's a young man far from home,
called to serve his nation in time of war;
sent to defend our freedom
on some distant foreign shore.

We pray You keep him safe,
we pray You keep him strong,
we pray You send him safely home ...
for he's been away so long.

There's a young woman far from home,
serving her nation with pride.
Her step is strong, her step is sure,
there is courage in every stride.

We pray You keep her safe,
we pray You keep her strong,
we pray You send her safely home ...
for she's been away too long.

Bless those who await their safe return.
Bless those who mourn the lost.
Bless those who serve this country well,
no matter what the cost.

God, Bless America!

 

 

 

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"My fat cat is telling me it's time for more pancakes."

[Soaring Feather]

Well EV, we will find out, I meant ALL!!


ROTFLMAO!!

[LaDivaLoca]

It was a nice day - when I stepped out of the office. LOL! Hope all is well on your end too.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yummers!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Fantastic pictures today. I've been watching for pics of the "Death Rattlers" and "Black Knights" forever. I met a lady at the snail mail office months ago who had Marine sons on the 2 carriers that had those groups. Finally I can send her pictures. Thanks, Radix.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

030803-N-6477M-040 Seattle, Wash. (Aug 3, 2003) -- F/A-18 Hornets assigned to the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team take off from the Boeing Museum of Flight in Seattle, Wash., during Seattle Seafair Fleet Week. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Eli J. Medellin. (RELEASED)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

030802-N-9769P-104 Pacific Ocean (Aug. 2, 2003) -- Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Russell Crow fires a 40mm gun during a training exercise aboard USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). Stennis is at sea in the Southern California operating area conducting carrier qualifications in preparation for a scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jayme Pastoric. (RELEASED)

[LaDivaLoca]

Goodnight, tom, sweet dreams.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"F/A-18 Hornets assigned to the U.S. Navy Blue Angels"

At my last job I talked to a former Blue Angel on the phone.
He said in the tight formations, i.e. 18"-36" away,
you are trained to look at the rivots on the planes next to you.
He said looking at the instruments etc was not feasible on those formations.
Eye contact with planes only.

[LaDivaLoca]

Hello, EMB. These are great pics.

[EternalVigilance]

I meant ALL!!

I knew that...but it was funny anyway! ;-)

[LaDivaLoca]

Time for bed.

Goodnight Canteeners, our Military, Vets, Allies, Volunteers and your Families.
Take care and God bless you.







THANK YOU for protecting our FREEDOM

I Said a Prayer

for our Troops and Allies

I said a prayer for you today,
And know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart,
although He spoke no word.

I didn't ask for wealth or fame,
I knew you wouldn't mind,
I asked Him to send treasures,
Of a far more lasting kind.

I asked that He'd be near you,
At the start of each new day.
To grant you health and blessings,
And friends to share your way.

I asked for happiness for you,
In all things great and small.
But it was His loving care,
I prayed for most of all.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Severa, you have to stop being sick! It's not a lot of fun. So you're going to Kentucky, huh? Going to rent a car again so you'll have room for all the stuff the boys will get?

Hi JJ!! Hi Robbie!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Sweet Dreams
God Bless You

[SevenofNine]

Well breaking news off SO Cal news report that Arnold aka Terinmator is going run for Cali gig



WAR Terimnator Governor

[Kathy in Alaska]

That's because you put them on the wrong feet.
Well, they're the only feet I have.

LOL! Out of the mouths of babes is right! Perfectly logical I would say.