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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 20 August 2003
Canteen FRiends ~ Radix
Posted on 08/20/2003 2:13:41 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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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.
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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 languagesurprisingly recentlyby 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 |
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: michaeldobbs
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To: HiJinx
I have always used a gas stove. I like the idea of seeing the heat!! LOL
To: Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; Fawnn; HiJinx; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; *all
Time for lights out Canteen Crew!
Good Night One and All!!
To: HiJinx
You won't hear me arguing that theory...it's a great one, actually.
Put them on PUBLIC-for-the-world-to-hear-notice...one more time...and then take care of business.
343
posted on
08/20/2003 10:32:47 PM PDT
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Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: bentfeather
Good night Diva!! I hope to be here for the Circus! Gotta see what my mom and dad will want to do.
To: bentfeather
I believe I'm going to steal borrow that pic for Logan's page. Thanks!
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:34:01 PM PDT
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Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: bentfeather
Thank you so much for your wonderful poem!! *HUGS*
To: bentfeather; Brad's Gramma; Kathy in Alaska
Good night, Ms. Feather...
I'm following your lead, tomorrow comes early here in the Old West, too!
See everyone in the AM!
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:38:07 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(The Right person, in the Right place, at the Right time...to do His work.)
To: HiJinx
Good night HiJinx! (love your pj's)
:-)
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:39:12 PM PDT
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Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: HiJinx
*HUGS* Goodnight, Jinxie!!
To: MoJo2001
HELLO MOJO!
To: HiJinx
So, you don't see a gas stove in your future? LOL!
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:41:07 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: bentfeather; Old Sarge; Radix; Brad's Gramma; LindaSOG; Kathy in Alaska; All
I see that the new thread is up, but I haven't moved beyond your poem. Want to share some thoughts it triggered.
It made me think of:
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by T.S. Eliot
"But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen..." <-- I've often said that that line was a prophetic one about the Internet. (Your poem triggered memories of other lines from that poem, but I just wanted to point that part out.) ;)
At the same time, it made me think of Gramma and Don Marchis' archy and, specifically, mehitabel:
I have had my ups and downs
but wotthehell wotthehell
yesterday sceptres and crowns
fried oysters and velvet gowns
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but there is nothing I really regret
wotthehell wotthehell
there s a dance in the old dame yet....
I included old sarge and Radix on this post because the picture in post #281 made me think of:
Windy Nights
by Robert Louis Stevenson
From Child's Garden of Verses
Whenever the moon and stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes riding by.
Late in the night when the fires are out,
Why does he gallop and gallop about?
Whenever the trees are crying aloud,
And ships are tossed at sea,
By, on the highway, low and loud,
By at the gallop goes he.
By at the gallop he goes, and then
By he comes back at the gallop again.
(I've always loved the cadence of that poem!)
352
posted on
08/20/2003 10:41:43 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
To: HiJinx
Good night and sleep tight. God bless you good for your support of our military. And thank you for your service to our country.
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:45:22 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: Brad's Gramma
Now I know why that maple tree I passed the other day told me to tell you "HI!"
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:46:05 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
To: Fawnn
Ha!
The trees talk to you too??????????
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:48:21 PM PDT
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Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: bentfeather
Yes, you did read about a book. :)
Well!? Aren't you going to share the details!? (Or are you still waiting for the contract to arrive? I'm always paranoid about announcing things before the signatures hit the dotted lines.) ;)
356
posted on
08/20/2003 10:49:03 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
To: yall
Well.....this chick is RE-tiring for the night. Sleep well everyone.
PRAY FOR AMERICA, ISRAEL AND THEIR TROOPS!!!
God bless you all!
357
posted on
08/20/2003 10:51:07 PM PDT
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Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: Fawnn; Brad's Gramma
Now I know why that maple tree I passed the other day told me to tell you "HI!" And I was thinking that maybe it was algore! ROTFLMAO!! Is Saturday ok for package mailing?
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:51:58 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: HiJinx; Kathy in Alaska; bentfeather; Brad's Gramma
I can no longer use gas. (Well, I could, but because I have a sensitivity to the additive they put in natural gas and propane so that it has an odor, IF I use a gas stove, I can only remain upright for a short cooking session. It makes me get REALLY REALLY dizzy! ... I won't go into the barfing that follows, because that would upset Gramma. Suffice it to say that that tends to put a damper on the cooking experience.) ;)
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:53:06 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
To: bentfeather
Dream your good dreams!
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posted on
08/20/2003 10:53:44 PM PDT
by
Fawnn
(I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
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