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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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Comment #41 Removed by Moderator
To: LindaSOG
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posted on
08/27/2003 4:45:32 AM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........)
To: LindaSOG; kjfine
Hi, Kjfine! Welcome to the Canteen! Wanna buy a burka?
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posted on
08/27/2003 4:47:28 AM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........)
To: LindaSOG
Good Morning Goddess! I'd ask for a stack, but it just doesn't seem right, having a Goddess serving anybody!
Allow me to do a little something for somebody who does SO MUCH for the Canteen! LOL!! Have a great day Linda!
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posted on
08/27/2003 4:59:37 AM PDT
by
SouthernHawk
(People will follow your footsteps more readily than they will follow you advice.)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Consider the watch "Well Manned"! See you later !
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:02:23 AM PDT
by
SouthernHawk
(The safest place during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.)
To: LindaSOG
well, we need the rain here in Oklahoma.
A number of counties, including mine are under a burn ban and there's a Red Flag Alert for some counties not under a burn ban so we could sure use the rain even though it may occur during the Labor Day Holiday.:-D
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:07:34 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
To: tomkow6
Good Morning Tomkow! Hope that you have a great day!
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:09:01 AM PDT
by
SouthernHawk
(Money can't buy happiness. It just helps you look for it in more places.)
To: Kathy in Alaska; LadyHawk; SouthernHawk; tomkow6; Radix; LaDivaLoca; Valin; Bethbg79; bkwells; ...
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:10:48 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
(Look everyone....the burka is getting washed......)
To: beachn4fun
50?
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:11:36 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
(Look everyone....the burka is getting washed......)
To: beachn4fun
?
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:12:06 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
(Look everyone....the burka is getting washed......)
To: SouthernHawk
How 'bout a nice stack of WAFFELS?
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:13:06 AM PDT
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tomkow6
(........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........)
To: tomkow6
LOOKIE....LOOKIE....ISN'T THAT NIFTY? BEACHN GOT 50!!!! hey tomkow......feel the love?
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:14:02 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
(Look everyone....the burka is getting washed......)
Comment #53 Removed by Moderator
To: Radix
Morning Radix. Thanks for getting up early and fixing pancakes once again.
mmmmmmm......I love pancakes on Wednesday......even without the syrup......
Here's a little something for our military that are stationed in the desert. Hope this helps keep the sand out of your pancakes......
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:19:24 AM PDT
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beachn4fun
(................................................PANCAKES! Not just a word, A way of life!!!!........)
To: beachn4fun
Good Morning Beach! Hope you have a fantastic day!
(P.S. This tagline was custom built just for you!)
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:22:11 AM PDT
by
SouthernHawk
(Money can't buy happiness. It just helps you look for it in more places.)
To: Kathy in Alaska; LadyHawk; SouthernHawk; tomkow6; Radix; LaDivaLoca; Valin; Bethbg79; bkwells; ...
Ok.... here's my contribution to the
HOUR......
Texans in Heaven
Gabriel came to the Lord and said " I have to talk to you. We have some Texans up here in Heaven who are causing problems. They're swinging on the pearly gates, my horn is missing, barbeque sauce is all over their robes, their dogs are riding in the chariots, and they're wearing baseball caps and cowboy hats instead of their halos. They refuse to keep the stairway to Heaven clean. There are watermelon seeds and pig feet bones all over the place. Some of them are walking around with just one wing." The Lord said, "I made them special, Gabriel. Heaven is Home to all my children. If you really want to know about real problems, let's call the Devil." The Devil answered the phone, " Hello? Damn, hold on a minute." The Devil returned to the phone, "O.K., I'm back. What can I do for you?" The Lord replied, "I just want to know what kind of problems you're having down there." The Devil said, "Hold on again. I need to check on something." After about 5 minutes the Devil returned to the phone and said, "I'm back. Now what was the question?" The Lord said, "What kind of problems are you having down there?" The Devil said, "Man, I don't believe this....Hold on, Lord." This time the Devil was gone 15 minutes. 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."
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:25:55 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
(Management gratefully thanks Meekie for his contribution to the Humor Hour......)
To: LindaSOG
..."I wonder if I might prevail upon you to do something about that man who keeps pulling his pants down."...One "fix" coming up!!! I will ready soon! LOL!!!
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:29:52 AM PDT
by
SouthernHawk
(My family knows how dangerous my cooking is. Why else would grace last 45 minutes?)
To: SouthernHawk
Morning Mr. Hawk
Thank you...thank you very much.... for my designer tagline.....
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:31:51 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
(This tagline designed by southernhawk......)
To: LindaSOG
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:33:58 AM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........WAFFLES are up!........)
To: LindaSOG
That's my bro!! May God keep them all safe!
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:41:07 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)
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