USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 20 August 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday August 20, 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.

EDACIOUS

Relating to eating.

That, at least, is the literal sense of the word, since it comes from the Latin verb edere, to eat. But even in Latin it had a stronger sense of voracious consumption and that was carried with it into English. It was brought into the language—surprisingly recently—by classically educated writers at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It never really caught on and is now almost extinct, perhaps because voracious is a better established and more vigorous-sounding alternative. The Roman writer Ovid created a maxim in his Metamorphoses: “Tempus edax rerum.” time devours everything. As a result, in its rare appearances the word is most likely to be linked with time. Thomas Carlyle used it in this way when he referred to events “swallowed in the depths of edacious time.”

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Happy Birthday

Benjamin Harrison (U.S.)1833

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1888 Election

Pancakes

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H.P. Lovecraft 1890

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Would you like some flakes with your pancakes?

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Isaac Hayes 1942

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Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) 1948

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Rudy Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers) 1952

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Quinn Buckner 1954

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1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow.

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the Twilight Zone

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1967 - The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record's subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings.

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1969 - Frank Zappa disbanded the Mothers of Invention right after an eight-day tour in Canada. Zappa said that he was "tired of playing for people who clap for all the wrong reasons."

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1973 - The Rolling Stones released "Angie."

They should not have tied her up for so long!

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[beachn4fun]

LOL...that's cute!

[tomkow6]

A man walks into a Silicon Valley pet store looking to buy a monkey. The
store owner points towards three identical looking monkeys in
politically-correct, animal-friendly natural mini-habitats.

"The one on the left costs $500," says the store owner.

"Why so much?" asks the customer.

"Because it can program in C," answers the store owner.

The customer inquires about the next monkey and is told, "That one costs
$1500, because it knows Visual C++ and Object-Relational technology."

The startled man then asks about the third monkey. "That one costs
$3000," answers the store owner.

"3000 dollars!!" exclaims the man. "What can that one do?"

To which the owner replies, "To be honest, I've never seen it do a
single thing, but it calls itself a Consultant."

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hey, we had our first IHOP open last summer. It took forever to build. The contractors were 2 little old ladies.....they knew their job, but were slow. We get commercials for all sorts of businesses that we don't have. Under construction...

[stand watie]

!!!!!!!

[SouthernHawk]

..."It took forever to build"...

Kathy, do you suppose that eleven months of winter had anything to do with that? LOL!!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"I spoke with my son in the sand box yesterday. He is doing well but he was tired due to a long day."

Please convey my Thanks to him and your other sons serving our country.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Hey Brother!
Great seeing you in the Canteen!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Another attempt.....I think I've seen this one before....

Marriage Communication

While attending a marriage seminar on communication, Tom and his wife Peg listened to the instructor declare, "It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other."

He addressed the men., "Can you describe your wife's favorite flower?" Tom leaned over, touched his wife's arm gently, and whispered, "Pillsbury All-Purpose, isn't it?"

The rest of the story is not pleasant.

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

HEY last time we have pancakes and waffle you bogart the maple syrup NOT COOL AT ALL

NOT COOL

Well report off Hareetz wire Israeli saying now that they going release no more prisoners until the bombing stop for once and for all

And Wash Post reporting that it was 1,000 lbs bomb that lay smackdown on UN building

UN is promising stay in Iraq for long haul

[Kathy in Alaska]

Cyber pancakes for all! With ham!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

what?

[PigRigger]

"Glad to hear that you were able to escape the blackout "

Could have used a stack of those cakes last Thursday/Friday. Although there was plenty of "liquid refreshments" there was little in the way of food.

Hope all is well in your neck of the woods. Pray all our valiant troops are kept safe from harm.

P.S. Checkout my profile; picture of the "PigRigger bunch" has been posted. Littlest one is all the way from China! Talk again soon.

[SouthernHawk]

Good to see you again Seven! Thanks foral of your posts and thanks for spending time at the Canteen.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Pancakes morning, Tom! Good Pancakes morning, Patriotic Pattie!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Mornin' beach. I can smell the pancakes from here. I've brought my own syrup.

[SouthernHawk]

foral= for all

[Kathy in Alaska]

Here ya go, Seven...........

UN says they are staying in Iraq, but they are blaming the US for not having better security. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! This from the chief obstructors! This from the idiots that gave Saddam time to hide everything!

[Kathy in Alaska]

USS Daisy? USS Daisy? What kind of name is that for a Navy ship?? Thanks, aomagrat, for today's weird ship.

[Kathy in Alaska]

CHECK UP — U.S. Army Lt. Jennifer Ferrell, on site medical officer with the 123rd Medical Support Battalion, examines an Iraqi child at a mobile medical setup in Wassat, Iraq, Aug. 12, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Matthew Willingham

[Kathy in Alaska]

Jenessa Alexis Largent is interviewed by CNN while visiting the Pentagon Aug. 18. Largent was recognized for her efforts in making 36,000 bracelets honoring soldiers fighting the War on Terror. Spc. Bill Putnam

Labor of love swells troop support

By Beau Whittington
August 19, 2003

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 18, 2003) -- One 12-year-old’s love for her uncle stationed in Kirkuk, Iraq, has swelled into a ground roots campaign to show support for the troops fighting the War on Terror.

It’s also caused her a lot of work.

In April, Jenessa Alexis Largent, of White Bear Lake, Minn., was thinking a lot about her uncle Sgt. 1st Class Mike Chamorro and decided she wanted to do something special in his honor.

“At first I wanted to wear a yellow hair binder around my wrist to represent the yellow ribbons of the past,” she recalled. She quickly found the binders were too flimsy and looked for a better answer.

She decided to maker herself a bracelet.

The rest of the story