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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: TexasCowboy
Well, bummer. But thanks anyway.

I have the album, but the turntable isn't close enough to the 'puter for me to run cables to transfer it to CD (without risking strangling myself when I do the predictable forgetting I've got cables strung when I get up and walk across the room) -- and I don't have the space near the turntable to keep the albums, so....

Ah well,...
461 posted on 08/27/2003 9:17:26 PM PDT by Fawnn (Watch this space.... On second thought: Watch THAT space!)
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To: TexasCowboy
dygd's!!!

Here's hoping your "friend" doesn't spring a leak!!! ;)
462 posted on 08/27/2003 9:18:31 PM PDT by Fawnn (Watch this space.... On second thought: Watch THAT space!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
As a sailor, a salesman and an ex-cab driver I'd like to vouche for Texas Cowboy.

Alrighty then! WHERE DO I GO WITH THAT BIT OF INFO?????? HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

463 posted on 08/27/2003 9:19:12 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
LOL!!!

(I spent lots of years in sales, too. Never sailed or drove a cab though.) ;)
464 posted on 08/27/2003 9:20:06 PM PDT by Fawnn (Watch this space.... On second thought: Watch THAT space!)
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To: Fawnn; TexasCowboy
Do you like spicy? As in crushed red pepper or cayenne pepper? If so, I can get you a low-fat recipe for saltines that'll knock yer socks off!!

(It comes from my bro-in-law in Texas)
465 posted on 08/27/2003 9:21:15 PM PDT by HiJinx (The Right person, at the Right place, at the Right time...)
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To: Brad's Gramma
"WHERE DO I GO WITH THAT BIT OF INFO??????"

We could discuss it at this bridge that I am selling in NY.
466 posted on 08/27/2003 9:22:22 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (No overnight Tagline parking)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
I happen to have a nice piece of swamp land for sale in Arizona, too! Isn't this all such a wonderful coincidence?
467 posted on 08/27/2003 9:23:33 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
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To: HiJinx
"Do you like spicy?
As in crushed red pepper or cayenne pepper?
If so, I can get you a low-fat recipe for saltines that'll knock yer socks off!!"

Does it count if you still have your shoes on?
468 posted on 08/27/2003 9:24:36 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (No overnight Tagline parking)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
A Sailor and a Marine........riiiiight! LOL!!
469 posted on 08/27/2003 9:25:55 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Military Who Protect Her)
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To: Brad's Gramma; HiJinx
"I happen to have a nice piece of swamp land for sale in Arizona, too!"

Lookie HiJinx! Here's your chance to get the pot at the end of the Rainbow!
470 posted on 08/27/2003 9:26:57 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (No overnight Tagline parking)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; HiJinx
Whoo HOOOOOOOOOOO

Does this mean I have a potential BUYER?
471 posted on 08/27/2003 9:28:56 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
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To: HiJinx
Do you like spicy? As in crushed red pepper or cayenne pepper? If so, I can get you a low-fat recipe for saltines that'll knock yer socks off!!

I'd love the recipe. I'm from the midwest, so never really gotten into lotsa spicy. (I've been using A LOT OF this salt-free chili powder blend I got from www.thespicehouse.com though. Using it instead of cayenne 'cause it's not quite as hot. Conquistador Blend. Mixture of ancho, Anaheim, New Mexican chiles. Used that in the bourbon glaze I made for my grilled ground sirloin earlier. ... Besides, if I make 'em per the recipe and they're too spicy, we've already established I know how to use cream cheese.) ;)
472 posted on 08/27/2003 9:32:06 PM PDT by Fawnn (Watch this space.... On second thought: Watch THAT space!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; Brad's Gramma; Fawnn; HiJinx; All

473 posted on 08/27/2003 9:33:25 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (No overnight Tagline parking)
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To: Brad's Gramma; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
LOL!!! You two could form a partnership! ;)
474 posted on 08/27/2003 9:34:47 PM PDT by Fawnn (Watch this space.... On second thought: Watch THAT space!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Old Sarge
I already 'own' a half-acre of swamp in Woodcutter's Canyon. It leads to a small pond that is stocked with trout every winter. If you sit quietly enough, you'll see great blue herons fishing on the far bank.

Woodcutter's Pond is one of many bodies of water on Fort Huachuca.

475 posted on 08/27/2003 9:35:55 PM PDT by HiJinx (The Right person, at the Right place, at the Right time...)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! (You're on a roll tonight!)
476 posted on 08/27/2003 9:35:57 PM PDT by Fawnn (Watch this space.... On second thought: Watch THAT space!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
No, shoes won't stop the sock-blowin' action!
477 posted on 08/27/2003 9:36:28 PM PDT by HiJinx (The Right person, at the Right place, at the Right time...)
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478 posted on 08/27/2003 9:39:27 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Eating pancakes have strange effects on my posts)
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To: HiJinx
It leads to a small pond that is stocked with trout every winter.

Where do the trout go every summer? (Or does that mean they "plant" the trout there in the winter or something?)
479 posted on 08/27/2003 9:39:49 PM PDT by Fawnn (Watch this space.... On second thought: Watch THAT space!)
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To: HiJinx; Fawnn; Kathy in Alaska; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Brad's Gramma; fatima; *all

 


~The MidNight Hour~ Good Night Troops~

 

It Feels Like Rain Aaron Neville

~ Dream a Little~ Love Someone a Lot~
Aaron Neville and It Feels Like Rain
Touch ms feather's hair for the song.

Until tomorrow, save the last dance for me!

Barry White Can't Get Enough
~Touch the Butterflies and dolls for the music~

Just The Way You Are by Barry WhiteFrankie Laine That's  My desireCan't Get Enough Of Your Love by Barry White

Touch the Butterflies for the music!

 

 


Bentfeather

 

 


480 posted on 08/27/2003 9:41:30 PM PDT by Soaring Feather (Good nite Troops~ Canteen Crew~ Little Blonde FReeper is hitting the feathers.)
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