USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 03 September 2003

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday September 3, 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.

SNOLLYGOSTER

A shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician.

This is another of that set of extroverted and fanciful words that originated in the fast-expanding United States of the nineteenth century (I see a snollygoster as a outsized individual with a carpetbag, flowered waistcoat, expansive demeanour and a large cigar). These days it’s hardly heard. Its last burst of public notice came when President Truman used it in 1952, and defined it, either in ignorance or impishness, as “a man born out of wedlock”. Many people put him right, some quoting this definition from the Columbus Dispatch of October 1895, with its splendid last phrase in the spirit of the original: “A Georgia editor kindly explains that ‘a snollygoster is a fellow who wants office, regardless of party, platform or principles, and who, whenever he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknophical assumnacy’.” But an American dictionary fifty years earlier had defined it simply as a shyster. The origin is unknown, though the Oxford English Dictionary suggests it may be linked to snallygoster, which some suppose to derive from the German schnelle Geister, literally a fast-moving ghost, and which was a mythical monster of vast size—half reptile, half bird—supposedly found in Maryland, and which was invented to terrify ex-slaves out of voting.

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THE MAPLE SYRUP SONG

(to the tune of Miss Mary Mack)

Oh, first you tap, tap, tap,
To get the sap, sap, sap
Then pour the buckets, buckets, buckets,
Into the vat, vat, vat.

Oh, stoke the fire, fire, fire,
Until it's hot, hot, hot,
And then you boil it, boil it, boil it,
Don't let it stop, stop, stop.

The steam goes up, up, up,
The sap boils down, down, down,
Until it turns, turns, turns,
A nice amber brown, brown, brown.

It smells so good, good, good,
It tastes so great, great, great,
So pile those pancakes, pancakes, pancakes,
High on my plate, plate, plate.

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Happy Birthday

Ferdinand Porsche 1875

I am an excellent driver.

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Alan Ladd 1913

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Valerie Perrine 1943

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George Biondo (Steppenwolf) 1945

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Donald Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad) 1948

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Jennifer Paige 1973

See ya blowin' me a kiss
It doesn't take a scientist
To understand what's going on baby
If you see something in my eye
Let's not over analyze
Don't go too deep with it baby
So let it be what it'll be
Don't make a fuss and get crazy over you and me
Here's what I do, I play it loose
Not like we have a date with destiny

(CHORUS)
It's just a little crush
Not like I faint everytime we touch
It's just some little thing
Not like everything I do depends on you
Sha la la la, sha la la la
Sha la la la, sha la la la

It's raising my adrenaline
You're bangin' on a heart of tin
Please don't make too much of it baby
Say the word forevermore
That's not what I'm looking for
All I can commit to is maybe
So let it be what it'll be
Don't make a fuss and get crazy over you and me
Here's what I do, I play it loose
Not like we have a date with destiny

CHORUS

Vanilla skies, white picket fences in your eyes
A vision of you and me

CHORUS

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1783 - The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris.

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to a strange place.

An amazing country where everyone is flatter than a pancake.
It is a land that exists in only two dimensions!

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1838 - Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Matryland on his way to freedom from being a slave.

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Russian Pancakes

Ingredients
2 cups milk
1 tbsp. sugar
1 package active dry yeast
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tbsp. melted butter or margarine
3 eggs, separated
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
Caviar
Smoked salmon
Minced onion
Sour cream

Method

Scald milk, pour into a large bowl. When lukewarm, add sugar and yeast, mixing well to dissolve yeast. Stir in 1 cup all-purpose flour; cover bowl and set in warm place until "sponge" doubles in volume (about 1-1/2). Combine butter, egg yolks and salt. Stir down the sponge and add butter-egg mixture, along with buckwheat flour and 1 cup all-purpose flour. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry, then gently fold into batter. Cook batter, one tablespoonful per blini, on a hot buttered griddle or skillet. Flip blini to brown second side after batter appears set on top. Cover blini with a towel and hold in 200° oven until serving. Accompany blini with caviar, smoked salmon, minced onion, sour cream - creative self-service.

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1939 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.

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1999 - Mario Lemieux's ownership group officially took over the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins. Lemieux became the first player in the modern era of sports to buy the team he had once played for.

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Miranda eats 1 pancake. Gina eats 1 pancake. How many do they eat all together?

About a hundred pancakes.

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Three pancakes.

You have a hat in which there are three pancakes: One is golden on both sides, one is brown on both sides, and one is golden on one side and brown on the other. You withdraw one pancake, look at one side, and see that it is brown. What is the probability that the other side is brown?  

A) The chance is two out of three. The pancake you withdraw had to be one of only two of them: the brown/brown one or the brown/golden one. And of the three brown sides you could be seeing, two of them also have brown on the other side.  

B) Only two pancakes have brown sides, and one of them has brown on only one side. There is a 50% chance that you are looking at the one with brown on both sides.

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German Pancakes.

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The Möbius stip is the simplest geometric shape which has only one surface and only one edge. It can be created by taking a strip of paper, giving it a half twist along its long axis, and then joining the two narrow ends together.   The Möbius strip in 3 dimensions can be represented parameterically f(s,t) as follows

   

where s ranges from 0 to 2*pi and t ranges typically from -0.4 to 0.4

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh my gosh! It never stops for you this year. Have you given up on grass for the summer? We are still 2+ inches short so far for this year. I don't think even the hay baler will help with that much rain. Hard to cut under water. Maybe this pump will help.

[stand watie]

according to the Manassas weather station, we are expected to receive 10-12 inches more rain between now & saturday. and YEP, i'm through planting grass for the year.

free dixie,sw

[Brad’s Gramma]

Good Morning to all. My internet time is SHORT....the painters should be here mighty soon to give me the estimate. So......y'all beHAVE.

Pippin! SO nice to have you here on a regular basis!

[Kathy in Alaska]

10-12" in 4 days? Wow! I hope your house is on high enough ground to handle that much water.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Did Brad get off to school ok with properly shortened shorts?

[Pippin]

Hi, BG!

I ALWAYS behave! ;o)

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'm still here, no knock on the door from the painter.

I FIXED THE SHORTS AND SHE KNEW IT AND HERE THEY LIE.

Sheesh.

I get to pick him up today...YIPPEEEEEEEEEE...he was NOT excited about starting up again. A sign of getting old.

Sigh.

[Kathy in Alaska]

***HUGS*** If I can just get by Mondays and Tuesdays, the rest of the week is usually better. People insist on getting paid on time, no matter what kind of problems we have. Thanks for the ***HUGS***

Thanks for patrolling each day.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I ALWAYS behave! ;o)

You don't REALLY want me to comment on that, do you? I've known you FAR too long. HARDEEEEEEEEEE HAR HAR!!!!! Oh! Ok.

[Pippin]

PHEW! That was easy! :O)

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

Well just saw Johnny Depp aka 21th Jump Street fame and Edward Swirohands fame run smack chat on US Miltary and Dubya report from Page Six.com he call US broken country

AH JOHNNY maybe you been hang out with Euros way too long dude

One thing for sure if you call country broke check out your adopted hometown Paris with 10,000 elderly DEAD DUDE

SHUT UP


Also report off Interfax wire update Southern Russia bombing report that FSB errr I mean KGB said it is Chechen handiwork

YOU THINK DUDE

[Brad’s Gramma]

Sooooooooooooo........................uh..........uh........you sorta didn't see ALL of the message I take it? Whoops. :-)

[Pippin]

LOL!

I forgot to decode it!

Can't pull the wool over your eyes, can I, LOL!

[Brad’s Gramma]

HUBBA! HUBBA! HUBBA!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Johnny Depp is a real loser. I hope lots of people chose to never see any movie he's in. Stay the heck in Paris and hang out with lots of losers. Why is blowing up innocent people so popular with the sickos? Thanks, Seven, for the updates.

[Pippin]

AHEM!

I saw him first!

HUBBA! HUBBA!

HEE! HEE!

And you have mail!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"GRAND DAY, except that i'm PEELING all over.
the tan i was working on is coming off in pieces."

Have you tried the rent to own tan, instead of just the summer rental? LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

TROOP SUPPORT — U.S. Army Lt David Piersma, 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, tracks troop movements from the Tactical Combat Center located in the desert northeast of Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Tactical Combat Center provides essential support to soldiers pushing forward in a search for illegal weapons, Aug. 26, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Derek Gaines

[Kathy in Alaska]

NEW YORK, NY, Aug. 28--Boatswain's Mate First Class William Lappin, 29, from Portland, Me, performs small boat operations while the Coast Guard Cutter Bainbridge Island, homeported in Sandy Hook, NJ., stands watch over the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor Aug. 28, 2003. USCG photo by PA3 Mike Lutz

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Hope you are having a great evening "across the pond."