USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 27 August 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

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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.

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. 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

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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

Definitely

 

[minor49er]

Hello everybody! I just got back from my brothers footbal, practice (what a waste of time!).
Oh! I notice that Tex is back.
Hey Tex?
I know that you are going to be very disappointed, but the PETA people told me that since you've been gone all day, they've decided to drop the matter. You got off easy, this time.
Hey Mayor! You can come out of hiding now!
Now, I have to go again cuz I have to help make dinner.

[HiJinx]

Well, it has been over a year, you crusty ol'...Cowboy!

[HiJinx]

Well, aren't you a sweetheart!

You watch your brother practice football when you don't like it, you help get dinner ready for the family, and you called off the PETA patrol. You're ok, minor!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I'm standing, I'm standing!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Will there be dare devils at the Canteen Circus on Saturday?

r

[Soaring Feather]

Excellent choice Cowboy! Thank you!

[TexasCowboy]

"I'm standing, I'm standing!"

LOL!
You know I'm ripping and chopping these songs off the original track so if there's any of them you want to hear the entire song so you can get it on your hard drive, let me know.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Sailors Find Home Away From Home at USO

Story Number: NNS030826-12
Release Date: 8/26/2003 8:14:00 PM

By Journalist Seaman Timothy Cox, USS John F. Kennedy Public Affairs

ABOARD USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (NNS) -- The novelist Thomas Wolfe once wrote, “You can never go home again,” and in a sense, that may be true. But for Sailors aboard USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), the United Service Organization (USO) acts as a surrogate home to which they can return time and again.

The USO has played an integral part in the personal development of Sailors in the Mayport, Fla., area for more than a decade. It provides a host of activities and services – everything from discounted movie tickets to the occasional free meal.

“Our main goal is to provide Sailors with a temporary respite from the daily grind,” said Wendy Layton, USO Mayport program coordinator. “We’re aiming for wide-range appeal. We want to give them an alternative to just going to the bars after work.”

Layton, who has worked at USO for over a decade, feels it’s vital for the organization to get support from Kennedy. She said she’s concerned for the future of the USO at Mayport. Recent closures of other branches across the country have forced her to get creative when it comes to programming.

“We now offer high-speed Internet service, and we’ve recently added a Web camera to enable users to send digital video-grams to their families, said Layton. “We also have movies, TV, video games, a library, tickets to area theme parks - you name it.

“People have no idea how many things they can do at the USO,” continued Layton. “Most who take the time to stop by and check us out wind up returning.”

One person Layton said she’s thankful to see return is Pat Mallard. Mallard, whose husband is stationed aboard Kennedy, said she regularly takes advantage of the services USO provides.

“I go to the USO because they get all the scoop about things going on around town, and they give away a lot of free tickets to events,” said Mallard.

According to Mallard, she and her husband used computers at the USO before they got one of their own.

Airman John Hillerman said he has taken advantage of the many services offered by the USO, since he checked aboard Kennedy more than three years ago. He usually stops in three to four days a week to use the kitchen facilities and do some volunteer work.

“I like to buy groceries then head over to the USO and cook a little dinner for myself,” said Hillerman. “It gives me a chance to get away from the ship for a while. You can do almost anything over there. For me, it’s the next best thing to being home.”

For related news, visit the USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) Navy NewsStand page at www.news.navy.mil/local/cv67.

[Radix]

Will there be dare devils at the Canteen Circus on Saturday?

 

Daredevil will be there.

 

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

The untalented are just grateful to the talented for what is presented. I'm enjoying it all.

[Soaring Feather]

 

Now Hear This!
The Circus is coming to the Canteen!
Another WHOO HOO moment worthy of remembering!

 

Happy Pancake Wednesday!

 

 

Bentfeather

 

 

[minor49er]

I don't think I'm going to be able to help at the circus on saturday.
I got into some really big trouble just now.
I told my dad that I posted pictures on the canteen, and he asked how so I told him what Beach told me.
And he got really really mad. I'm lucky he didn't revoke my internet priveleges.
He said that posting pictures beach's way, is stealing because you are claiming the picture as your own, while letting someone else foot the bill.
So he decided that as punishment, he is going to:
a. give me my own website
b. I will have 10 minutes at which I am banned from the interent. But he can choose when they are, and he can break them up into chunks.
He says that a is punishment, because it will teach me how hard it is to maintain a webpage. And he says that I have to figure everything out on my own. So I will work on figuring everything out, but I don't know if I'll figure it out before saturday.
I will try.
And I think he's not mad any more, or if he is, then he's let off some steam. Which is good.

[Kathy in Alaska]

The Devil returned and said, "I'm sorry Lord, I can't talk right now. Them damn Texans done put out the fire and are trying to install air conditioning."

ROTFLMAO! Good for email to some Texans. Thanks, beachn.

[minor49er]

A may be a sweethart, but I'm evil. (see tomkow's post. I think the number was somewhere in the 170's)
P.S. I watch my brother practice, because it gives me a chance to read. I help make dinner cuz I have to. I called off the PETA patrol because I decided that Tex and Mayor are just so much fun to have around, that it would be a shame to let them get arrested.

[minor49er]

A=I

[StarCMC]

We've been talking about heading west for a ride -- Colorado and westward. Long way from St. Louis!!

[minor49er]

Good night everybody!
Time for this freeper to head off to bead.

[minor49er]

bead=bed

[StarCMC]

Last year we rode the Dragon in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Something like 413 turns in 13 miles. (Anyone who knows actual numbers feel free to correct me.) This is one beautiful country God gave us!