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

Posted on 09/03/2003 2:26:08 AM PDT by Radix

 
 
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Pancakes on Wednesdays
The history of pancakes, and more....

Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday September 3, 2003


Here is an amalgamation of trivial facts and seemingly useless data.

Do not forget to hit the hyperlinks.

We have links, lots of them.

Look it up!

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.


It is bearly possible that the pancakes will have maple syrup near by.

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.


Happy Birthday

Ferdinand Porsche 1875

Porsche also puts out a terrific line of pancakes!

This is a different 911.

I am an excellent driver.


Alan Ladd 1913

50 years later, it is still a classic. It goes well with Pancakes.


Pancakes save lives.

Valerie Perrine 1943

I reccomend mouth to mouth resucitation, and a vigourous chest massage.


We are counting cards.

George Biondo (Steppenwolf) 1945

Ahhhwwwwwoooooo, pancakes in the woods..


Donald Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad) 1948

I am your pancake captain.


Jennifer Paige 1973

After the coming formal name change, I will be known as Jennifer Pancakes.

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


If you want pancakes done right, do it the Army way!

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

It seemed that the pancakes would never be finished. Thus the incompletion of the relationship between the 2 Countries is symbolically displayed.


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!


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

“Without struggle, there is no progress.”...Frederick Douglas


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.


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.

These guys went home, slept, woke up, had pancakes, and then caused the death of millions!


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.

The official breakfast of the Penguins is of course, pancakes.


Can you see the "100" in the image?  

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

About a hundred pancakes.


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.


German Pancakes.

Zee German pancakes are the superior product.


a branch of mathematics concerned with those properties of geometric configurations (as point sets) which are unaltered by elastic deformations (as a stretching or a twisting) that are homeomorphisms

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


Pancakes without spatulas is like very messy.....


Pancakes Wednesdays
Definitely
 

 


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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Would you please repost these on Sunday's thread!

Will do!

241 posted on 09/03/2003 4:02:07 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (The labor movement: Brought to you by Christianity, hijacked by Socialism.)
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To: HiJinx; Old Sarge
Thud!! Picking self up off of floor. WOW! That should keep anybody's sweet teeth satisfied!! Wow again!
242 posted on 09/03/2003 4:03:59 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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To: LindaSOG

Hubba-Hubba????

 


243 posted on 09/03/2003 4:04:30 PM PDT by tomkow6 (hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies........)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Thud!! Picking self up off of floor. WOW! That should keep anybody's sweet teeth satisfied!!

LOL First time I read that as "set" instead of "self." I thought you'd dropped your dentures! (Chocolate can do that to some people you know. And after hearing all that the kids have said 'bout you....) ;)
244 posted on 09/03/2003 4:08:07 PM PDT by Fawnn (I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
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To: tomkow6; LindaSOG
Hubba-Hubba????

Absolutely! I'm sure Linda will agree that that's a mighty fine lookin' string o' fish. ;)
245 posted on 09/03/2003 4:10:07 PM PDT by Fawnn (I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
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To: Fawnn
NOT the stringer of fish........the handsome, intelligent, distinguished person holding the stringer!!!!!
246 posted on 09/03/2003 4:14:27 PM PDT by tomkow6 (hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies........)
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To: HiJinx
Positively decadent! Nummers!
247 posted on 09/03/2003 4:14:27 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Serving You... on Operation Noble Eagle!)
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To: tomkow6
what?
248 posted on 09/03/2003 4:14:46 PM PDT by tomkow6 (hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies........)
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To: tomkow6
what?
249 posted on 09/03/2003 4:14:47 PM PDT by tomkow6 (hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies........)
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To: tomkow6
250
250 posted on 09/03/2003 4:15:04 PM PDT by tomkow6 (hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies........)
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To: Radix; All




A good evening to my fellow Canteeners,
our Military, Veterans, Allies and your families




THANK YOU to our TROOPS who have served and are serving this great country of ours,
the
UNITED STATES of AMERICA
LAND OF THE FREE and HOME OF THE BRAVE

Though you may be tired and weary
Be light of heart and mind
For yours is a noble endeavor
And we SALUTE all of you
Pray for your safety, for courage and strength
That you may endure the challenges ahead
May the sun shine on you
May the angels sing your praise
And may the Good Lord keep you all safe
We hold you dear to our hearts
Though we may not know your names
Know that we do care and lift you up in our thoughts
And will forever be grateful for your sacrifices
True WARRIORS, one and all


LaDivaLoca





251 posted on 09/03/2003 4:15:08 PM PDT by LaDivaLoca (the humidity today is curling my hair - I'm now sporting the Medusa look! Chic!)
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To: Old Sarge
Mine?
252 posted on 09/03/2003 4:16:26 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Serving You... on Operation Noble Eagle!)
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To: LaDivaLoca

That's about the ONLY thing pancakes are good for.....attracting BUGS!

253 posted on 09/03/2003 4:17:10 PM PDT by tomkow6 (hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies........)
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To: tomkow6
TAKE COVER, BRATT!


254 posted on 09/03/2003 4:17:46 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Serving You... on Operation Noble Eagle!)
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To: Fawnn
LOL!! Did you SEE that chocolate apple? Still cracking up. Another example of how poorly our eyes "read". Our ears are much better. Teeth securely in mouth. d:o)
255 posted on 09/03/2003 4:19:42 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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To: Old Sarge

I'm ready!

256 posted on 09/03/2003 4:20:36 PM PDT by tomkow6 (hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies..........hobbies........)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn
Well, I don't have snail mail addresses (And I'm Not Asking for Them!) for you two, so you're going to have to find that goody the same way I did...

Do a Google Image Search for "Big Chocolate" and look for the Big Apple. Or, check out the URL for the image! But, 2 pounds of chocolate will definitely require a coupla extra laps in the pool unless you share it with a FRiend! :-)

I'm outta here for awhile...time to head home and do the Dad/Husband thing!
257 posted on 09/03/2003 4:20:55 PM PDT by HiJinx (The Right person, in the Right place, at the Right time...to do His work)
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To: tomkow6
NOT the stringer of fish........the handsome, intelligent, distinguished person holding the stringer!!!!!

Are you sure you're up to this de-bait? ;)
258 posted on 09/03/2003 4:21:17 PM PDT by Fawnn (I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
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To: LindaSOG
Huuuuuuuba HUUUUUUUBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
259 posted on 09/03/2003 4:22:56 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Did you SEE that chocolate apple?

Yes!!! (I'm still drooling. I want one ... or two!!! ... or more!!! LOL)

Teeth securely in mouth.

LOL That's good to "hear." ;)
260 posted on 09/03/2003 4:23:31 PM PDT by Fawnn (I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
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