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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[Kathy in Alaska]

Yuck! Rattlesnake is on my TV! I want pancakes.

[Fawnn]

Yuck! Rattlesnake is on my TV! I want pancakes.

It sounds like your programming is broadcast hours behind it here in the EDT zone. That was on earlier. I couldn't handle watching 'em rustle up those things, so I turned to hgtv and watched two female homeowners address the "curb appeal" of their home. I turned back to foodtv while writing my "precise" pancake instructions.

Forgive me my editorializing moment here, but when one watches much hgtv, it can begin to look like the only people in the world who have fabulous houses are "life partners."

[Kathy in Alaska]

Bless This House sung along with this morning,
twice because I love this song for our troops USO Canteen,
and A Prayer of Protection
said for all who enter the USO Canteen Freeper Style,
including our troops, our veterans,
their families and our allies.

Welcome to all who come to honor our troops and veterans, for whom this USO Canteen was created.

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are, God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

Wherever you are, God is, and all is well!

Wherever you are, Godand all is well!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Morning, darkwing! This should keep you until the regular coffee guys get here.

Thanks for helping protect this great country of ours.

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Linda and all.

[Kathy in Alaska]

How about some bacon and eggs?

Now I'm off to bed.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, FlyVet. Thanks for stopping in for Pancakes Day. Close?

And thank you for your service to this great country of ours.

[Radix]

[Radix]

 

 

Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!!

 

Pancake Bob

  

Radix

[E.G.C.]

good morning Kathy and everyone at the canteen and all of our military at home and abroad.Thank you for your continued service to our country.

Got a quater inch of rain from a severe thunderstorm yesterday. Unplugged computer at first sound of thunder.

Be sure to uipdate your virus definitions and download the latest critical updates for your computer.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Linda.

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Radix.

[SouthernHawk]

Good Morning Radix! Now, I know how Kathy feels when she gets up and finds a large number
of posts already on the thread. Good morning to our military and good morning to the whole Canteen crew.

Warm up exercise for today won’t be necessary (everybody’s already up and at it early this morning).
I thought we'd have a "Weather joke" for those either who have had too much rain or too little of it . . . . .

A film crew was on location deep in the desert. One day an old Indian went up to the director and said,
"Tommorrow, rain." The next day it rained. A week later, the Indian went up to the director and said,
"Tomorrow, storm." The next day there was a hailstorm. "This Indian is incredible," said the director.
He told his secretary to hire the Indian to predict the weather. However, after several successful predictions,
the old Indian didn't show up for two weeks. Finally the director sent for him "I have to shoot a big scene
tomorrow," said the director, "and I'm depending on you. What will the weather be like?"
The Indian shrugged his shoulders.

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

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Southernhawk. I think everyone's anxious for those pancakes.:-D(LOL)

[SouthernHawk]

..."love the new burkasRus group photo..."

YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!!! I have always wondered what it would be like for all of us to get together. We sure have a great Crew! This is a great graphic!!

[minor49er]

Since when do I own a burka store? And what's a franchise?

[minor49er]

Here's my usual definitely-not-as-feeble-as-tomkow's attempt at humor for today:

The top 20 things not to say to a cop when he pulls you over.

20. I can't reach my license unless you hold my beer.

19. Sorry officer, I didn't realize my radar detector wasn't plugged in.

18. Aren't you the guy from the villiage people?

17. Hey, you must have been doing 125 to keep up with me, good job.

16. I thought you had to be in relatively good physical shape to be a police officer.

15. I was going to be a cop, but I decided to finish high school instead.

14. Bad cop. No donut.

13. You're not going to check the trunk, are you?

12. Gee, that gut sure doesn't inspire confidence.

11. Didn't I see you get your butt kicked on cops?

10. Is it true that people become cops because they are too dumb to work at McDonalds?

9. I pay your salary

8. So uh, you on the take or what?

7. Gee officer, that's terrific. The last officer only gave me a warning.

6. Do you know why you pulled me over? Okay, just so one of us does.

5. I was trying to keep up with traffic. Yes, I know there is no other cars around, that's how far they are ahead of me.

4. What do you mean have I been drinking? You are the trained specialist.

3. Well, when I reached down to pick up my bag of crack, my gun fell off of my lap and got lodged between the brake and the gas pedal, forcing me to speed out of control.

2. Hey, is that a 9mm? That's nothing compared to this 44 magnum.

1. Hey, can you give me another one of those full cavity searches?

[SouthernHawk]

(Check Your Mail)

Do you take Burkas in on trade? How are sales?