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

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[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!

Pancakes on Wednesdays

---

Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday August 20, 2003

---

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.”

---

Happy Birthday

Benjamin Harrison (U.S.)1833

---

1888 Election

Pancakes

---

H.P. Lovecraft 1890

---

Would you like some flakes with your pancakes?

---

Isaac Hayes 1942

---

Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) 1948

---

Rudy Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers) 1952

---

Quinn Buckner 1954

---

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

---

Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the Twilight Zone

---

---

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.

---

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."

---

1973 - The Rolling Stones released "Angie."

They should not have tied her up for so long!

---

---

Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[Soaring Feather]

Oh boy, the circus is coming!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Listening to Barry with you tonight. Good night and sleep well, ms feather. God bless you good for your steadfast support of our troops' Canteen. Thanks for all you musings that you share with all of us.

[SevenofNine]

Well surf over to Jersrelum Post wire they report IDF commando are lay smackdown on Ramallah area and surrounded Arafat HQ in Ramallah

OOPS maybe bomb that bus wasn't good idea eh

[Soaring Feather]

Thanks for the update Seven.

[HiJinx]

You know, maybe I am the prehistoric heathen that the Southern Horoscope made me out to be, 'cause if it was mine to do re: the Palestinian Problem - here's what I'd do.

As Sharon, I would make a televised, radio broadcast, and print statement. I would talk with Arafat and Abbas by phone. I would make sure everybody heard me. I would do it in 24 hours.

I would say, "You insist that the latest attack was retribution/revenge for something we did. It wasn't, but for the sake of argument let's say it was. So, we're even. We will do nothing. But, the cease-fire is now in effect. If you or any Palestinian so much as looks cross-eyed at an Israeli....if we find any trace of explosives...if we find a bomb factory...if there is another bombing or shooting or even a stabbing...

The Palestinians shall cease to exist as a people."

[Fawnn]

Saved it. (I must say, I prefer my dolls, but maybe if I at least made her a natural blonde....) ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

HI ms feather!! MoJo says HI!! She has her mouth full eating a Klondike bar.

[Soaring Feather]

Hey hey little Diva, can you believe I have not eaten my dinner yet??

[Kathy in Alaska]

"...'cause if it was mine to do re: the Palestinian Problem - here's what I'd do.

Hear, hear, HiJinx, hear, hear!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

"...'cause if it was mine to do re: the Palestinian Problem - here's what I'd do.

Hear, hear, HiJinx, hear, hear!!

[HiJinx]

Have we found someone else who needs a dinner nudge from time to time?

[Kathy in Alaska]

These guys are bringing you some dinner.

[Fawnn]

I love this poem!!! Wonderful job, bentfeather.

Did I read somewhere that you're having a book published? (The poem triggered a "sorta" memory. Sorry but I've been having a foggy few days again and haven't read all of all threads -- and the stuff I "skim" often goes in one eye and out the other.) ;)

[Soaring Feather]

Oh Jinx, I am terrible about eating. I know I have to, but I keep putting it off.

[Kathy in Alaska]

It would seem yes, we have another who has forgotten to eat. And ms feather has a brand new gas stove!!

[Soaring Feather]

Thanks for sending the guys and the vittles Ma.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Not to worry! MoJo is eating enough for everybody. All I can hear is slurping and chewing. Now she's eating leftover roast, and has already eaten her Klondike Bar, and is slurping a Mountain Dew.

[Soaring Feather]

Thanks Fawnn. Yes, you did read about a book. :)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of Thursday's
NFL Preview Thread

[HiJinx]

Brings back a funny memory...while on vacation, Mrs. HJ found out her sister has a new gas stove...and we use electric!

She had so much fun trying to light it...the spark-starter worked for everyone but her. She's used to the burners cooling down slowly, and adjusts the heat accordingly. Can't do that with gas! And she kept turning the burners down for low so far that they went out...and wouldn't start again!

Well, I now know what we aren't getting the next time we move!