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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 06 August 2003
Canteen FRiends ~ Radix ~ Society for the Banishment of Burkas
Posted on 08/06/2003 12:22:31 AM PDT by Radix
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For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. |
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Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! |
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![Would you like some Ethiopian pancakes?](http://users.rcn.com/sue.interport/food/pancake2.gif) |
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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. ![Look it up!](http://bellsouthpwp.net/l/i/lindasog/Radix/radixionary.gif)
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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 fancys 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 thats 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 ![What do you know for heaven sakes, A thread devoted to of all things pancakes.](http://www.ipcvision.com/page02/tennyson01.jpg)
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The Charge of the Light Brigade ![The Crummean war is what it should be called.](http://charon.sfsu.edu/tennyson/crimea.jpg)
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 ![The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.](http://www.hollywoodscreentest.com/imag/images/bdays/Lucille%20Ball.jpg)
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Robert Mitchum 1917 ![The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.](http://www.crossd91.freeserve.co.uk/faces/mitchum2.jpg) |
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Andy Warhol 1928 ![This guy did everything from soup to nuts.](http://www.uwrf.edu/history/images/a212/andy-warhol-tomato.jpg)
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Geri Estelle Halliwell (Spice Girls) 1972 ![](http://maverick.brainiac.com/mwwg/geri.gif)
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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." ![I am twisting for Pancakes](http://www.marstalent.com/pics/checker.jpg)
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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!![](/images/canteen/Canteen/burkas.jpg)
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1982 - "The Wall" had its U.S. premiere in New York City. ![Be careful with that axe Eugene.](http://www.bymp3.com/listen/images/pink.jpg)
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1787 - The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began. The articles of the U.S. Constitution draft were to be debated. !["On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia"; W.C, Fields](http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/WashingtonMillES/stuact/concon.gif)
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1890 - Cy Young achieved his first major league victory. He would accumulate 511 in his career. ![511 Victories, but who is counting?](http://images.collectors.com/articles/youngstamp_large.jpg)
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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. ![Banzai to this. How did you like us then imperial warriors?](http://www.theenolagay.com/images/top.jpg)
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1952 - Satchel Paige, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major league baseball game. ![I was the oldest "rookie" ever in the major leagues.](http://images.collectors.com/articles/paigestamp_large.jpg)
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1986 - Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named "James Bond." ![I am licensed to kill a genre.](http://www.jamesbondposterpage.com/dalton1.jpg)
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= = 0 .
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 | <
A Function ![one plus one. no problem.](http://www.tpub.com/doemathematics/mathematics_files/image552.jpg)
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1993 - Morihiro Hosokawa was elected prime minister of Japan ![Okonomiyaki, on Wednesdays](http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/cabinet/images/souri79.jpg)
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Okonomiyaki On Wednesdays ![](/images/canteen/Canteen/camp-samurai.gif)
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![Pancakes everyday.](http://www.waynescomputerworld.com/Dotti/Images/Food/bisquick1.gif) |
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Pancakes Wednesdays Definitely |
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
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To: LindaSOG
Hi Aeronaut and welcome back!
We missed you!Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment.
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posted on
08/06/2003 5:51:59 AM PDT
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Aeronaut
("He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool...shun him.")
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To: LindaSOG; Kathy in Alaska; E.G.C.; MeeknMing; All
To: darkwing104
Good Morning Brother!
Thanks for helping protect America!
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Good morning, Tonk.
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posted on
08/06/2003 6:02:16 AM PDT
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E.G.C.
To: 2LT Radix jr; Radix
We await your return to the USA.
Thnak You for your service to our country.
To: LindaSOG
"See you later!"
Aye Aye Co-Captain!
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08/06/2003 6:07:35 AM PDT
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68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
(Thank You :Captain Linda for helping organize and run the Canteen!)
To: tomkow6; SouthernHawk; Radix; Kathy in Alaska; Bethbg79; Fawnn; Wild Thing; MoJo2001; *all
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An absent-minded husband thought he had conquered his problem of trying to remember his wife's birthday and their anniver-sary. He opened an account with a florist, provided that florist with the dates and instructions to send flowers to his wife on these dates along with an appropriate note signed, "Your loving husband."
His wife was thrilled by this new display of attention and all went well until next year, on their anniversary, when he came home, kissed his wife and said off-handedly, "Nice flowers, honey.
Where'd you get them?"
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Thank You Military men and Canteen men for the flowers.
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To: E.G.C.
Good Morning!
BTW, Thanks for the weekly tips you give us regarding computer virus, etc.
I used the Outlook one about previewing yesterday.
To: bentfeather
Good Morning oh Canteen Poet!
To: LindaSOG
"My bear told me this joke..."
LOL!!!
To: Aeronaut
Hope you are getting caught up on your rest after your trip.
BTW, I'm still smoke free in 03!
To: tomkow6
Can I have more pancakes please?
To: Radix
Can I have more waffles please?
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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