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

 

[Fawnn]

The trees talk to you too??????????

I've had scarier things happen. LOL

[Fawnn]

Is Saturday ok for package mailing?

ANY time that is convenient for YOU is wonderful! (Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sleep well, BG. God bless you for your support of our troops.

[Fawnn]

Dream your good dreams! (Thanks for being YOU!)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Wow! Jim is going to the Ronald Reagan. I watched its commissioning on TV. The very best of everything to him. And prayers always for Karen. We are still trying to get some rain. Have fun on your vacation.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hey there! You are supposed to be sleeping. G-d bless you good.

[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

 

Time for bed. God Bless all our troops, their families, our veterans and our Israeli, British, Australian, Polish, and Italian allies. We pray for your safe and soon return. Thank you for doing the jobs you do to keep this UNITED STATES OF AMERICA safe. We love you all.

 

 

Thank you to all who enter the Canteen. Salute!

 

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are, God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

 

 

Wherever you are, God is, and all is well! Amen.

 

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[blackie]

Now you are talking ... my kinda ham! :)

[blackie]

Ya can't eat too much pig meat ... the other white meat! :)

[blackie]

Play through. :)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

NEW THREAD

[Soaring Feather]

Fawnn,

Thank you so much for the comments. I appreciate hearing from people how a particular line, word, moves or triggers them.

Robert Louis Stevenson is my favourite poet.
Then Poe, William Carlos Williams, and so on.