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

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

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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

 

[TEXOKIE]

AHHHHHHH What a great lookin plane!! The possibilities are mounting up here....any other suggestions? Ms kathy, what is at the Canteen's disposal?

[Soaring Feather]

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

Tex, met the flight crew!!

[M0sby]

Thanks for the messages... I have the camera READY (I think)!
He does look A LOT LIKE HIS DAD! So does the next one... but a little more like me!!!
You all are really doing the CANTEEN JOB as described today, aren't ya? Comforting, sappy, sniffly... wives of the military...
WELL, THANK GOODNESS!
I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!

[HiJinx]

4-5 days...I've never been told that...but our repainting has always been done before moving in or after moving out.

Are they removing the popcorn texturing from the ceiling? That's a very messy job, and they probably don't want you in the area. That lets them move or cover furniture and get it all done rather than doing just one room at a time.

(My expert daughter-in-law tells me a lot depends on who you use...a professional is going to do one room at a time so they can clear it out entirely while scraping.)

[TEXOKIE]

Finest flight crew yet!! lol

[Soaring Feather]

Hey Tex, have you seen our cook??
Ain't she a beaut!!

[Fawnn]

...her gramma is unable to watch her for very long because of medical problems....

I'm one of those types of Grammas. I use my disadvantages to my grandchildren's advantage whenever possible. I don't even have to say the "I don't have the energy to get to spend much time with them" stuff anymore. My daughter knows the look. Guilt my daughter into the "fast and efficient isn't always the best route" stuff like I did today with the electric broom. ;)

[Fawnn]

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

Okay: Who's our animation expert? Gramma wants live ammo!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yeah, the popcorn's coming down and I do NOT want to be in here for that. I'm going to be across the street, easily accessible.

The thing that gets to me is someone ELSE having free run of the house for 4-5 days. I DO understand their not wanting us underfoot...it's the getting booted out that isn't setting right with me.

This is the FIRST TIME we've had someone else do this for us. Gramps decided that since we're doing the one part, let's go for broke.

Ha! LITERALLY!

[txradioguy]

Good morning/evening everyone. Hope allis well in the states. Starting to actually have tolerable tempratures here. This morning could actually be described as "mild". We're getting ready for our own 9/11 remembrabce ceremony here. I'm going to be part of it and of course do a story on it. Kathy In Alaska is helping me prepare something to post on here on 9/11. I hope everyone will like it. Talk to everyone soon.

[txradioguy]

Good morning/evening everyone. Hope all is well in the states. Starting to actually have tolerable tempratures here. This morning could actually be described as "mild". We're getting ready for our own 9/11 remembrabce ceremony here. I'm going to be part of it and of course do a story on it. Kathy In Alaska is helping me prepare something to post on here on 9/11. I hope everyone will like it. Talk to everyone soon.

[M0sby]

SO adorable!!!
SO little!
Where does the time go?

[TEXOKIE]

LOLOL!!....wonder what she's cookin?

[HiJinx]

Hi, Tex! Good to hear from you, can't wait for your tribute.

Take care, brother!

[Soaring Feather]

This are friends of Tomkows
Tex, what are you doing??
Gabbing or looking for transportation???

Will you get the girls to sign this book before we take off. It's the pilots log!

[HiJinx]

Well, secure your valuables and ask if you may be allowed to 'wander' over and check out the work. You know, just curiousity!

[TEXOKIE]

Good to see you txradioguy! Looking forward to your 9/11 tribute. Hope things are going well. Glad things are cooling down for you.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Gramma wants live ammo!!!

Got THAT right! Live, shoot 'em up ammo!

[HiJinx]

Well, the electric broom ploy was brilliant. You worked it into a win-win-win situation.

[Fawnn]

I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!

I'm honored that you share your life with me! (And I'm glad that I'm able to be here!)

I've saved this sappy plague from the 70's that says: "Do not mourn what cannot be; celebrate rather what is." Perhaps that's appropriate now: Acknowledge that you miss your husband and wish he could be there with you and your son tomorrow, but please don't let that stop you from celebrating the moment. Make some memories to share with "dad." And, as HiJinx said: Those pictures you take tomorrow will serve many purposes! ;)