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

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[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

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh no, JInxie!

[Fawnn]

I thought you were in bed! ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

BRATTFEATHER!!

[Soaring Feather]

BRATTFEATHER!!
Who me??
ROTFLMHO!

[Soaring Feather]

I could not resist pulling a Tomkow!

[Kathy in Alaska]

You were supposed to be in bed! Now I have to watch out for you and tomkow and tonkin lurking away, AFTER you have said good night.

[Soaring Feather]

You were supposed to be in bed! Now I have to watch out for you and tomkow and tonkin lurking away, AFTER you have said good night.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of Thursday's
Sports Day Thread

[Brad’s Gramma]

I stole the pink tiger and stuck it on Logan's thread....

NOW I'M LEAVING......for awhile.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I tried to tell you good night once, but BRATTFEATHER appeared. God bless you good for all you do for our troops' Canteen. Sweet dreams.

[Brad’s Gramma]

The ONLY WAY I'm gonna get anything done is turn this stupid thing off. For PETE'S SAKE!

GOODNIGHT everyone! God bless you all.

TROOPS!!!! We Love You!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Man, did you find some funny cartoons tonight!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sleep well, you two. God bless you good for your support of our troops, and for helping to make the Canteen a happenin' place for them to hang.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Man, fatima, I'm late catching up tonight. Are you still on vacation? Hi to Karen and hi to Jim. Prayers for all our troops, no matter what they are doing.

[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

 

Time for bed. God Bless all our troops, their families, our veterans and our Israeli, British, Australian, Polish, and Italian allies. We pray for your safe and soon return. Thank you for doing the jobs you do to keep this UNITED STATES OF AMERICA safe. We love you all.

 

 

Thank you to all who enter the Canteen. Salute!

 

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are, God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

 

 

Wherever you are, God is, and all is well! Amen.

 

[MeekOneGOP]

I think I'd be getting out of the water.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Prayers for you and your family, darkwing.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Yikes!! What big teeth you have!

[beachn4fun]

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.

Minor, I disagree with your dad. When I post a graphic it has a link that takes a person to the originals source. No where do I claim or put my name to the picture. He would be correct if I changed the URL on the picture and put my URL in it's place. And, then only if the picture is copyrighted. I know you can't argue with your dad, but you may want to try to explain to him why it is not stealing and there is no bill. You can ask others at the Canteen if you want.

[blackie]

Let me know if you decide to do it, you're always welcome here.

Be Well ~ Be Armed ~ Be Safe ~ Molon Labe!