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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
KEYWORDS: michaeldobbs
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To: minor49er
Beat you!
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:07:52 PM PDT
by
Fawnn
(Please Be a Part of the Powerful freerePublic Prayer Posse! Pass it on....)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Did the penguin picture work?
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:08:16 PM PDT
by
minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: Fawnn
303
posted on
08/27/2003 2:08:22 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: minor49er
or not. ;)
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:08:22 PM PDT
by
Fawnn
(Please Be a Part of the Powerful freerePublic Prayer Posse! Pass it on....)
To: Brad's Gramma
The guy on the left with the beard looks promising, but keep trying. ;)
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:09:16 PM PDT
by
Fawnn
(Please Be a Part of the Powerful freerePublic Prayer Posse! Pass it on....)
To: Fawnn; Kathy in Alaska
You would've except for Mrs. tomkow's mom posting her post to beach at the time that she did.
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:09:17 PM PDT
by
minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: minor49er
Good job! Shows up on my end. Try a couple more, and then you can prepare for the Saturday Circus.
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:11:30 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: Fawnn
NOT counting the one in the back.....fourth from the left. He has his hand behind his back, and he's looking to his right.
WHATAGUY!
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:11:31 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: Brad's Gramma
The one with the mustache?
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:15:34 PM PDT
by
Fawnn
(Please Be a Part of the Powerful freerePublic Prayer Posse! Pass it on....)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
And you've had how many glasses of water since you got home? And you ate lunch, right?
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:17:46 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Did this one show up?
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:20:22 PM PDT
by
minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Or how about this one?
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:23:01 PM PDT
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minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: Fawnn
No. The girly one to the mustached man's right.
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:23:54 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Or this one?
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:24:04 PM PDT
by
minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: minor49er; bentfeather
By jove, I think you've got it! That little guy, Nonie, lives at ms feather's house. She has a whole family of hamsters living at her place.
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:29:35 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: minor49er
Now you've got the hang of it. Bookmark that site, and you're all ready for the circus.
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:30:35 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Now I just have to find some animals for saturday, that will show up here. Should be too hard.
The assignment is half done!
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:31:51 PM PDT
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minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: minor49er
should=shouldn't
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:32:07 PM PDT
by
minor49er
(This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
To: minor49er
"All: Post back, and tell me if it worked. Please."
It worked!
To: minor49er
Good girl. Just remember the sites that don't work. Every now and then I forget and get fooled. I suppose there are more, but those are the 3 I know. And did you send the troops a couple emails today? Don't forget!
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posted on
08/27/2003 2:38:36 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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