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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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Pancakes on Wednesdays

Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday August 27, 2003


Here is an amalgamation of trivial facts and seemingly useless data.

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SPONDULICKS IPA pronunciation
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. It’s 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: “Spondulics—coin 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


Happy Birthday

Confucius 551 B.C.

Confucious say, day without pancakes is very bad start...


Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S.) 1908

My fellow pancakes lovers, pancakes are good....


Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens 1952

Pancakes are the cornerstrone of a nutritious breakfast


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 .


1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughn and three members of Eric Clapton's band were killed in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin.

SRV brought a real ray and sunburst to blues music and he died as he lived in a bolt (ray) of lightening.


1912 - The Edgar Rice Burroughs book "Tarzan of the Apes" was published for the first time.

This link should take you to the novel Tarzan, which I read three times.


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)

Would you like some cheese with your pancakes?


I am famous    I am washed up     Pancakes are for everybody, and for all ages....       I was inspired I lost my mind.


1938 - Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt a poetry recital by another poet, Archibald MacLeish.

Pancakes are fluffy, hot, and sweet.....


1945 - American troops landed in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government at the end of World War II.

Japanese Surrender Certificate

Surrender, or find yourselves flattened like a pancake....


I am an excellent driver

Shockwave required here.


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.

Funding for the Pancake memorial has not come through yet


Todays Wednesday field trip is to Xanadu

Lamborghinis!

Pancakes are yellow, flat, hot, and they go fast.


http://www.timburtoncollective.com/review-pwba.shtml

Cincinnatti.

Toothpicks always come after the pancakes, definitely.

The maple syrup is defintely supposed to be on the table before the pancakes

Maple syrup goes on the right.


Buick convertible

I am an excellent driver

1949 roadmaster


hybrid rosebushes

.A pancake by any other name would still be sweet....


high functioning autistic

Wheel of Fortune
Look at these fabulous prizes
Over a hundred thousand dollars in fabulous prizes just waiting to be won

Is there a "c" in pancakes?

It reminds me of pancakes on Wednesdays


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.

Pancakes everyday

Pancakes Wednesdays
Definitely
 

 


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To: Kathy in Alaska; tomkow6; minor49er; Radix; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; bentfeather; beachn4fun; ...

Have you guys met Jake yet? He's coming to the circus with me this weekend...his job is to keep the midway barkers at bay! Don't let that tail and those big sharp teeth fool you. Jake is really a very nice guy, a lot like me. He just looks mean when he thinks someone is out to get my money. He really wouldn't hurt a flea. Now, a Jackrabbit OTOH...

341 posted on 08/27/2003 4:05:41 PM PDT by HiJinx (The Right person, at the Right place, at the Right time...)
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To: M0sby
It is not a problem. Lots of closet space available for sharing. Holler if you need a shelf.
342 posted on 08/27/2003 4:08:57 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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To: HiJinx
Hello, Jake! Nice to meet you.I didn't know HJ had real money. I thot he only had plastic.


343 posted on 08/27/2003 4:12:06 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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To: HiJinx
Oh good Jinx, Jake is the only snake in the circus so far.

He is a crafty looking sort though!!
344 posted on 08/27/2003 4:16:08 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather
I found these guys wandering the streets, trying to find your house. LOL!

Haven't see river rafter, but I'll keep an eye out.

345 posted on 08/27/2003 4:17:01 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; bentfeather; beachn4fun; Ragtime Cowgirl; ...
From the men in the Military and the Canteen


346 posted on 08/27/2003 4:22:46 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (From the Red Sky at Night, Sailors Delight nightly series)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Haven't see river rafter, but I'll keep an eye out.

Probably over shot the falls again this year!!

347 posted on 08/27/2003 4:25:12 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather
Will there be music at the Canteen Circus on Saturday?


348 posted on 08/27/2003 4:25:38 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (WOO HOO The Circus is coming to the Canteen this Saturday!)
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To: tomkow6
WHAT????
349 posted on 08/27/2003 4:26:50 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (WOO HOO The Circus is coming to the Canteen this Saturday!)
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To: Radix
WHAT????
350 posted on 08/27/2003 4:27:21 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (WOO HOO The Circus is coming to the Canteen this Saturday!)
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To: HiJinx
Hey, Jinxie!
He kinda looks like this cute little varmint!


351 posted on 08/27/2003 4:37:17 PM PDT by TexasCowboy (COB1)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
BRATT!!

And you've had how many glasses of water today?


352 posted on 08/27/2003 4:40:42 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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To: TexasCowboy

353 posted on 08/27/2003 4:42:37 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska

Kids are coming.
Mr.Tonkin, did you know that?


Circus Music!!


Have to ask the TexasCowboy bout Cowboy music.


354 posted on 08/27/2003 4:43:37 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: Kathy in Alaska; bentfeather; MoJo2001; HiJinx; StarCMC; Snow Bunny; Fawnn; ...
I think we can stand a little more of this guy:


355 posted on 08/27/2003 4:56:01 PM PDT by TexasCowboy (COB1)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
WOW!
Now that is a pretty pair of boots!
Let's see..........I have four pair, I wonder if I should......
356 posted on 08/27/2003 4:58:33 PM PDT by TexasCowboy (COB1)
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To: StarCMC
Hey StarCMC, anytime you're in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, drop by and I'll take you for a ride on it. :)
357 posted on 08/27/2003 5:07:18 PM PDT by blackie
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To: bentfeather
Will there be rides at the Canteen Circus on Saturday?


358 posted on 08/27/2003 5:12:52 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (WOO HOO The Circus is coming to the Canteen this Saturday!)
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To: TexasCowboy
Didn't he leave his skin on the wall at Ventner's Daughter's place in San Angelo?
359 posted on 08/27/2003 5:16:02 PM PDT by HiJinx (The Right person, at the Right place, at the Right time...)
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To: HiJinx
Boy, Jinxie! I wish I had your memory!

That was the Santa Fe Junction instead of Zenter's Daughter, and it was a boa instead of a rattlesnake, but you were close!!

360 posted on 08/27/2003 5:18:29 PM PDT by TexasCowboy (COB1)
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