USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 10 September 2003

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday September 10, 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.

ULTRACREPIDARIAN

Of somebody who gives opinions on matters beyond his knowledge.

Thursday 10 April 2003 was the 225th anniversary of the birth of the essayist William Hazlitt (a date commemorated by the unveiling of his restored memorial in St Anne’s churchyard, Soho). This week’s Weird Word is one he is first recorded as using.

He did so in a famous letter of 1819 to William Gifford, the editor of the Quarterly Review, a letter which has been described as “one of the finest works of invective in the language”. In one of his more moderate castigations, Hazlitt wrote: “You have been well called an Ultra-Crepidarian critic”. What Hazlitt thought of Gifford’s journal may be deduced from this passage in The Spirit of the Age (1825):

His Journal, then, is a depository for every species of political sophistry and personal calumny. There is no abuse or corruption that does not there find a Jesuitical palliation or a bare-faced vindication. There we meet the slime of hypocrisy, the varnish of courts, the cant of pedantry, the cobwebs of the law, the iron hand of power. Its object is as mischievous as the means by which it is pursued are odious.

You can see why Hazlitt described himself as “a good hater”.

Ultracrepidarian comes from a classical allusion. The Latin writer Pliny recorded that Apelles, the famous Greek painter who was a contemporary of Alexander the Great, would put his pictures where the public could see them and then stand out of sight so he could listen to their comments. A shoemaker once faulted the painter for a sandal with one loop too few, which Apelles corrected. The shoemaker, emboldened by this acceptance of his views, then criticised the subject’s leg. To this Apelles is reported as replying (no doubt with expletives deleted) that the shoemaker should not judge beyond his sandals, in other words that critics should only comment on matters they know something about. In modern English, we might say “the cobbler should stick to his last”, a proverb that comes from the same incident. (A last is a shoemaker’s pattern, ultimately from a Germanic root meaning to follow a track, hence footstep.)

What Pliny actually wrote was ne supra crepidam judicaret, where crepidam is a sandal or the sole of a shoe, but the idea has been expressed in several ways in Latin tags, such as Ne sutor ultra crepidam (sutor means “cobbler”, a word still known in Scotland in the spelling souter). The best-known version is the abbreviated tag ultra crepidam, “beyond the sole”, from which Hazlitt formed ultracrepidarian.

Crepidam derives from Greek krepis, a shoe; it has no link with words like decrepit or crepitation (which are from Latin crepare, to creak, rattle, or make a noise) or crepuscular (from the Latin word for twilight), though crepidarian is a very rare adjective meaning “pertaining to a shoemaker”.

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Happy Birthday

Ian Fleming 1888

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Happy Birthday

Fay Wray 1907

One of the films she did in those years( 1920's-1930's) assured her place as a screen icon and made her a figure in folklore and myth. King Kong, among the half-dozen most famous films ever produced.

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Happy Birthday

Arnold Daniel Palmer 1929

I am an excellent driver!

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Happy Birthday

Charles Kuralt 1934

Charles Osgood Memory 3: I remember eating a stack of 100 pancakes at an IHOP outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, with syrup made from clover and sausages made of moose. At least that's what the waitress, a cute little number with buck teeth and no hair, told me.

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There will be a full moon tonight 10 September 2003

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Happy Birthday

Roger Maris 1934

We are counting cards!

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Would you like some Geometry with your pancakes?

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Happy Birthday

Jose Feliciano 1945

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Happy Birthday

Amy Irving 1953

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the lunar surface

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On this day...

1608 - John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown, VA. colony council.

When the first 104 English colonists landed on Jamestown Island on May 14th, 1607, they imagined themselves the first civilized men in a wild and savage environment. In truth, the region of present-day Virginia in which the settlers arrived had long been home to some thirty Native American tribes, organized into what is known as the Powhatan Confederacy. The English traded with, learned from and waged war with the Powhatan. With the legendary Pocahontas as ambassador, these people played perhaps the most pivotal role in the fate of the first English settlement in America.

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1862 - Rabbi Jacob Frankel became the first Jewish Army chaplain.

CARDINAL NUMBERS

A cardinal number is one way to measure the size of a set. Here is the definition used in Zermelo Fraenkel set theory.

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1913 - The Lincoln Highway opened. It was the first paved coast-to-coast highway in the U.S.

I am an excellent driver.

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1935 - "Popeye" was heard on NBC radio for the first time.

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Spinach Pancakes

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The area of a triangle is calculated using the formula:

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Pancakes Wednesdays

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[MoJo2001]

What do you think about the new idiot that Yasser has put up there??

[Fawnn]

One of them suggested that those reporters that put our troops in harms way because this need to be first should be placed in Gitmo next to those other terrorists. He had a point!

Yes!!! One reporter's freedom of speech ends when it endangers even one of our brave soldiers, imo!!! Endanger my country or one of the brave souls defending her freedoms and you're aiding the enemy!

I liked the letter from Iraq the other day where the soldier said that they now have "second string" reporters running around Iraq trying to become famous. If GREAT pictures like this one....



...earned Pulitzer's, we'd have more accurate reporting -- out of Iraq and elsewhere! Enough with the "it takes reporting bad news to win the good awards" crap!

[Fawnn]

See what happens when I spend my time responding to you!!!??? You hog all the love! LOL

[Fawnn]

What do you think about the new idiot that Yasser has put up there??

Wish I'd have thought of this, but it reflects what I think:


"Ahmed reacts to the insertion of Yassir's hand."

"Borrowed" from this post.

[MoJo2001]

You know! I'm just sick to my stomach thinking that I prayed as a youngster for peace for these Palestinian terrorists. Fox News has it partially right when they call them "homicide bombers", but they need to call them what they truly are "genocide bombers".

Oh! Let's think about another thing. Israel always gets condemned by the United Nations. Think about this for a second. The current and last head of the United Nations was from the continent of Africa. Currently under Kofi Annan and his former boss, Africa has seen the mass killing of about 7 million people either at the hands of dictators, famines, or wars. Should Israel ever consult with such useless leadership? I think not! Should America? I think not!

[SouthernHawk]

Just got finished checking out your pictures! I sure hope that your plane is a little more structurally sound! LOL!

great pics.

[MoJo2001]

President BUsh is so great with kids. He needs to be to deal with Congress. LOL!

[Fawnn]

There was a thread yesterday about a recent Gallop poll that shows Americans are finally getting a clue about the UN. Far more people believe it hinders more than it helps! (I'm paraphrasing from memory; I didn't post to that thread so it'd take too much digging to find it. I'm anti-search at the moment -- LOL -- unless...)

...it's to remind everybody about this birthday all day:



Happy Birthday Google

[Fawnn]

President BUsh is so great with kids.

I'll take that as a request to post my "coloring project" proof of that again! LOL



I wish I'd have saved the source info for that picture of the baby "honking" W's nose. I love that one!

I didn't have time to "color" last night, and if I don't get some more sleep and then get busy soon, I won't have time tonight either. LOL (But I never claimed to be sensible.) ;)

[MoJo2001]

Diva, I hate polls! THey are so irrelevant. They take a poll of about 400 people and then tell the rest of us that is the current mood or feeling. While I believe that most Americans have little use for the United Nations, our government still does business with them.

Our troops are doing a fabulous job. Let the men take care of business and allow the children to squabble on the sidelines. That's exactly the situation now. Our troops are getting the job done and the pansies of the United Nations are squabbling on the sidelines.

[Fawnn]

Our troops are getting the job done and the pansies of the United Nations are squabbling on the sidelines.

Amen!

I'm also sooooooooooo tired that everytime one of the Brothers Grimm so-called "candidates" whine it gets reported as "news." Anybody can just rant. (You got proof of that in my e-mail yesterday. LOL) Complaining without offering solutions isn't productive, imo! I certainly haven't heard any sensible solutions coming from any of the pansies -- at the UN or from the non-military-supporting "twig" (not "branch") of this country!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good brunch time guys!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Duty ~ Honor ~ Country

Click above to visit "A Day in the Life of President Bush"

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are,God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

Bless This House

Bless this house O Lord we pray;
Make it safe by night and day;
Bless these walls so firm and stout,
Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall,
Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove
ever open to joy and love.


Bless these windows shining bright,
Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there,
with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within,
keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be
Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we
May dwell O Lord with thee.

(Click on praying hands above, or on banner at the top to hear the music)

[MoJo2001]

I'm just not amused by the United Nations. They are set up to provide stability. All I have seen in my years of existence is chaos, bloodshed, lack of control, and ineptness. We need their help why?

[MoJo2001]

Wow! Ma finally got out of bed! We are so honored to have you in here with us today. I'm so glad that you could make it. Hehehe!

[SouthernHawk]

HEY MOJO !

How are you doing?

Would you stop ^bouncing around _{for a} second?

How long have you had this HYPER-Sensitivity to SUGAR?

Will it wear off soon ??

LOL!!! * * * HUGS * * *

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning Troops, families, veterans, Israeli, British, Australian, Polish, and Italian allies (and everybody else, and all the ships at sea). Thank you for taking such good care of the USA.

Today in Anchorage, Alaska:

Sunrise 7:14am
Sunset 8:36pm

Hi 58°F
Lo 42°F

Times of clouds and sun

Actual yesterday in Anchorage:

Hi 57°F
Lo 49°F

State Hi 63°F Sleetmute
State Lo 19°F Anaktuvuk Pass

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Kiddo! It's Pancake Wednesday!