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

 

[HiJinx]

We've had the walls done...what's the question?

[Soaring Feather]

Hey TEXOKIE, for Petes Sake!
Here, how's this for starters!

[M0sby]

Here's his little kid picture... compliments of Kathy..THANKS KATHY!!!

 

 

 

Thanks for indulging me...

[Fawnn]

I certainly hope you haven't left yet, 'cause until Linda can build you a fancy tank, I'm hoping this one'll do:

[Kathy in Alaska]

Always! Just you and me and HiJinx and M0sby and maybe Brad's Gramma are still up. How have you been faring weather wise?

[HiJinx]

Boy, do you have friends in high places...!

[Fawnn]

LOL!!! We did it again! (I need to learn to refresh and scroll down.) ;)

Gramma: I told you she'd build a better one!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

WHOOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!! WHAT a Sweetie!!! Almost a year!

I remember when my daughter brought Brad home...many years ago on an Easter Sunday. He had just started to crawl that day while they were over at their friend's house. She put him on the floor to show us. He crawled as far as the couch. His head hit the couch. Did he cry? No. He get right on "crawling"...picture the baby with the head smoooshed on the couch, arms and legs going, but getting asolutely no where. It was one of the FUNNIEST things I've ever seen.

I'm NOT biased of course.

[Fawnn]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww He's a cutie!!! Mini-HUBBA HUBBA ;)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Loooooong story short. Is it typical of a painting company to say we have to move OUT for 4-5 days? I DO understand the day that the scraping, etc. is being done. I wouldn't WANT to be in here.

4-5 days???? Is that "normal" for someone to tell ME I can't be in MY house????

[Kathy in Alaska]

HJ, you are doing the Grampa thing tonight? Such hard duty. Are you playing games on the floor at her eye level?

[Soaring Feather]

Well, there is always this!
Just dying for a pilot!!!

[TEXOKIE]

Hi Ms Feather! You want balloons again??? You are One Brave Dudette!

[Brad’s Gramma]

FAWNN! I'm MOST IMPRESSED!!!!!!!


WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

(anyway this begger can ask for live ammo coming out of it?) :-)

[TEXOKIE]

What a wonderful group! I see Ms Feather is still up too. She wants a balloon ride.

[TEXOKIE]

oops....re the weather...

Been raining off and on for last several days... Just enough to keep it cool!! I LOOOOOOOOVE THE FALL!!!!

[HiJinx]

Sort of...her gramma is unable to watch her for very long because of medical problems, so we watch her in the evenings when her mom has class at the local community college.

We've always been close with her family, and have always been considered an Aunt and Uncle (surrogate parents?) for the two kids. It was just natural for the grandbabies to become part of our family.

I treat her just like her Grampa does...we sit at the computer and look at all the pretty pictures...or play with the little musical toys...or crawl around the living room together...you know...whatever it takes to keep her happy!

[Soaring Feather]

Hey,Tex, look what we get to see from the balloons!!
WooHoo Time!

[TEXOKIE]

OMIGOSH!! That sounds so long!! Since we did the work ourselves, I dont know what's reasonable...we were sleeping in another part of the house. Hmmmmm sorry I cant help on this one.

[Fawnn]

I'm NOT biased of course.

Well, I AM biased....

Today the MBABGDITW2 (who'll be 2 in November) insisted on vacuuming the carpet. Of all days, I'd left the digi-8 at home. After watching her struggle with pushing the upright vacuum cleaner that was taller than she is around the room for awhile, my daughter said, "Okay, let mommy finish now." The poor MBABGDITW2 started crying. Big tears! Not a tantrum. She was hurt. She wanted to help. (My daughter said, "Remember that thing you told me awhile ago about 'a child's willingness to help is in inverse proportion to her ability to do the job'?" ... Not that I'd ever indulge any of my grandchildren, but I got a tissue for the MBABGDITW2 and suggested that my daughter get the electric broom. Youngest granddaughter then spent at least 20 minutes "sweeping" the floor! Then I took her outside so her mom could do the actual vacuuming.) ;)