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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 27 August 2003
Canteen FRiends ~ Radix
Posted on 08/27/2003 2:13:27 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 27, 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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SPONDULICKS |
Money, cash. Though originally a bit of mid-nineteenth-century American slang, this has travelled widely, being cast up on the shores of Britain and Australia among other places. Its a member of a group of words created in a century-long fit of logographical exuberation which also gave the world slumgullion, rambunctious, and absquatulate (not to mention, as Elsie L Warnock did in Dialect Notes in 1913, such otherwise lost treasures as scrumdifferous, hyperfirmatious, and supergobosnoptious). It would seem from the evidence that spondulicks (either so spelled or as spondulix) was originally American college slang. One of its earliest appearances was in a piece about college life in the New York magazine Vanity Fair in 1860: My friend the Senior got out of spondulix, and borrowed [my watch] to spout for the purpose of bucking the Tiger (to interpret, his friend had run out of money and pawned the watch to get some more cash in order to gamble on cards, probably faro). The word was used later by such literary luminaries as O Henry and Bret Harte. From usage data, it now looks to be much more common outside the US, to the extent that the New Oxford Dictionary of English marks it as British slang. Where does it come from? A fanciful coinage, the big Oxford English Dictionary says. It has been described as a perverted and elaborated form of greenback (you may feel that to believe spondulicks could come from greenback requires a perverted imagination all its own). Eric Partridge suggests it might derive from Greek spondulikos, from spondulos, a species of shell once used as money. However, Doug Wilson pointed out that that Greek stem is also the source of various English words beginning in spondylo that refer to the spine or vertebrae. He suggested that a stack of coins may have been likened to the spine, with each coin a vertebra. He found a supporting reference in an 1867 book, A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition: for the Use of Colleges and Schools, by John Mitchell Bonnell. A list of provincialisms included: Spondulicscoin piled for counting. If it is indeed college slang, either explanation may well be the kind of academic joke that would appeal. Otherwise, your guess is as good as mine. About a hundred dollars |
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Happy Birthday Confucius 551 B.C.
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Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S.) 1908 |
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Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens 1952
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Would you like to do some Sorting with your pancakes? Assume that n numbered pancakes are stacked, and that a spatula can be used to reverse the order of the top k pancakes for . Then the pancake sorting problem asks how many such "prefix reversals" are sufficient to sort an arbitrary stack (Skiena 1990, p. 48). The maximum numbers of flips needed to sort a random stack of n = 1, 2, 3, ... pancakes are 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, ... (Sloane's A058986), with the number of maximal stacks for n = 2, 3, ... being 1, 1, 3, 20, 2, 35, 56, ... (Sloane's A067757). For example, the three stacks of four pancakes requiring the maximum of four flips are , , and , which can be ordered using the flip sequences , , and , respectively (illustrated above). Similarly, the two stacks of six pancakes requiring the maximum of seven flips are and , which can be ordered using the flip sequences and , respectively. It is known that for , if n is a multiple of 16, and . |
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1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughn and three members of Eric Clapton's band were killed in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin.
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1912 - The Edgar Rice Burroughs book "Tarzan of the Apes" was published for the first time.
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1921 - The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers. (NFL)
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1938 - Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt a poetry recital by another poet, Archibald MacLeish.
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1945 - American troops landed in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government at the end of World War II. Japanese Surrender Certificate
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I am an excellent driver
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2001 - Work began on the future site of a World War II memorial on the U.S. capital's historic national Mall. The site is between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. |
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Todays Wednesday field trip is to Xanadu |
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Lamborghinis!
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Cincinnatti. |
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The maple syrup is defintely supposed to be on the table before the pancakes
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Buick convertible
1949 roadmaster |
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hybrid rosebushes . |
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high functioning autistic |
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Wheel of Fortune Look at these fabulous prizes Over a hundred thousand dollars in fabulous prizes just waiting to be won
It reminds me of pancakes on Wednesdays |
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On this day 40 years ago.......... I can imagine a certain man, in a room, alone. I can almost picture him at prayer concerned about what the morning would bring. On that day 40 years ago he gave what I consider to be, one of the greatest speeches of all time. |
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Pancakes Wednesdays |
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
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To: tomkow6
tomkow6: Go put your burka back on. Some men just should NOT wear Speedos! ;)
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:09:17 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(Please Be a Part of the Powerful freerePublic Prayer Posse! Pass it on....)
To: Brad's Gramma
LOL!!!
But, I want a picture showing the blue ribbon!!! ;)
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:10:33 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(Please Be a Part of the Powerful freerePublic Prayer Posse! Pass it on....)
To: tomkow6
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:10:42 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: Kathy in Alaska; Brad's Gramma
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww (Please help me start a "new glasses for Gramma" fund SOON!)
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:12:13 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(Please Be a Part of the Powerful freerePublic Prayer Posse! Pass it on....)
To: beachn4fun
Now aren't you cute....LOL!
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:12:50 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: Brad's Gramma
HUBBA HUBBA???????
Decisions. Decisions. ;)
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:13:51 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(Please Be a Part of the Powerful freerePublic Prayer Posse! Pass it on....)
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:13:51 PM PDT
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minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: tomkow6
Well, I guess it depends on what kind of animal. This is one voice with whom you need to have a talk.
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:16:03 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:18:18 PM PDT
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minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:19:01 PM PDT
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minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
I'm saving the rest for the circus!
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:19:23 PM PDT
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minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: bentfeather
Will there be poets at the Canteen Circus on Saturday?
To: minor49er
What happened?
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:24:08 PM PDT
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minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: minor49er
The graphics from tripod are not showing up.
You can see them because they are on your hard drive.
But no one else can.
tripod.com does not allow "hot linking" of pictures.
To: Kathy in Alaska
Well, it worked at first.
I don't get it.
I did what beachn4fun said to do.
So, what happened?
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:25:21 PM PDT
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minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Oh. I need to find a different way to fulfill my asignment then.
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:26:09 PM PDT
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minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Is there another way to get pictures in the canteen?
Besides "hot linking" them?
I know that there is a way that you need a website for, but I don't have a website. Are there any other ways to get pictures?
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:29:43 PM PDT
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minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: minor49er
"I know that there is a way that you need a website for, but I don't have a website."
Check this out.
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Fiddlstix
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Will there be poets at the Canteen Circus on Saturday?
POETS?? ohhhhh sure!!
Oh yes, and horses, also.
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Somehow I don't think this is doctrinally correct, but here's a humor attempt all the same:
A woman arrived at the Gates of Heaven. While she was waiting for Saint Peter to greet her, she peeked through the gates.
She saw a beautiful banquet table. Sitting all around were her parents and all the other people she had loved and who had died before her. They saw her and began calling greetings to her "Hello! How are you ! We've been waiting for you ! Good to see you."
When Saint Peter came by, the woman said to him, "This is such a wonderful place ! How do I get in ?"
"You have to spell a word," Saint Peter told her.
"Which word?" the woman asked.
"Love."
The woman correctly spelled "Love" and Saint Peter welcomed her into Heaven.
About a year later, Saint Peter came to the woman and asked her to watch the Gates of Heaven for him that day.
While the woman was guarding the Gates of Heaven, her husband arrived. "I'm surprised to see you," the woman said. "How have you been ?"
"Oh, I've been doing pretty well since you died," her husband told her. "I married the beautiful young nurse who took care of you while you were ill. And then I won the multi-state lottery. I sold the little house you and I lived in and bought a huge mansion. And, my wife and I traveled all around the world. We were on vacation in Cancun and I went water skiing today. I fell and hit my head, and here I am. What a bummer. How do I get in?"
"You have to spell a word," the woman told him.
"Which word ?" her husband asked.
"Czechoslovakia."
Moral of the story: Never make a woman angry ... there'll be Hell to pay later.
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posted on
08/27/2003 1:43:36 PM PDT
by
Fawnn
(Please Be a Part of the Powerful freerePublic Prayer Posse! Pass it on....)
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