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

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

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The United States Armed Forces.

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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

 

[Radix]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you for your service to Kentucky and the USA.

[LaDivaLoca]

Good evening, never4get. It's great to see you. I'm glad to hear you're OK from the black out recently. Is everything up and running now?

[Old Sarge]

VERY nice, Radix! I likes it!

[LaDivaLoca]

LOL! Love his sense of humor. Please send your sons lots of cyberhugs from all of us here.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I'm outa here. Back in a few.

[LaDivaLoca]

I don't think I could have served on a ship named "Daisy" with a straight face.

Hmmmmmmmmm..........actually, if you call on Martha Stewart, maybe she could do something about Daisy.

[Soaring Feather]

LaDivaLoca, Look what I have found for you!

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'm fine thanks...hope you are too.

I remember when my son was in high school and he was in MUN how well behaved, dressed, CLEAN-CUT they were...and did you read much of that in the paper? Nooooooo....

[LaDivaLoca]

OH how adorable! Thank you, Diva. Now it's time to feed him some pancakes - he's a bit skinny. LOL

[LaDivaLoca]

I've had my Logan fix. But we need more, Gramma.

[wolficatZ]

No rain, grrrr, but little patches moving on radar hither and yonder. Just have to wait 'n see.

[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]

We just had about 2 hours of good rain. It just now stopped, but..........maybe more tonight. Hope your radar patches settle over your house.

[Soaring Feather]

Of Beer and Beethoven

Of beer and Beethoven I know not
since my lot is that of a fair maiden
country lass, with lots o sass
with golden locks, simple frocks
for tending flocks of butterflies
and cattails wild, and pollywogs
with half a tail....

And trains running on skinny rails
wails of wolves in the glens
and brown and white and speckled hens
of crying out for fear of wrens
brightly spangled fighting hens
and screams making the blood
run cold from down the hollow
blowing heat and sweat ... in saunas old
covered with mould

And where is your loyality
you may ask...
It's freedom, it's mine
no renegade I...
nor gaunt, nor dead
nor spit in the eye
Like silent partners
roaming in fields
of clover these poets
hover over this place known

I am the poet whose voice
doth sing and fly with dragons in the sky
Stand me near the perpheral rim
and I will fly with him....
sprinkle diamonds in the night
hold him dear in our flight, or yes
hold him dear in our flight

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

[Soaring Feather]

Good night Diva, thanks for your support of our troops and the Canteen.

[fatima]

Kathy,Jim is going on the Ronald Reagan ,he is very happy.He got his orders awhile ago but I didn't know if I had permission to post.He wants us to come out to the new ship when they are in port,maybe we will.Karen is still in Baghdad and will be there for some time.We brought writing paper and envelopes down the shore so everyone can write her.I am down the shore for a week and it is beautful.We just came back from dinner at a bayside resturant.Everyone else is on the boardwalk.We have 15 to 20 familiy members off and on here so we are sharing beds and some are sleeping on the floor.I had teen patrol last night and made them all go to bed at 2AM.They were all on cells and internet.How are things in Alaska?