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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 10 September 2003
Canteen FRiends ~ Radix
Posted on 09/10/2003 2:25:29 AM PDT by Radix
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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. ![Look it up!](http://bellsouthpwp.net/l/i/lindasog/Radix/radixionary.gif)
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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 Annes churchyard, Soho). This weeks 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 Giffords 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 subjects 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 shoemakers 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 ![007's here to see you, sir.](http://www.cinema-locandine.it/public/storiesulcinema/immagini/life_fleming.jpg)
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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. ![Sshhh... silent movie](http://www.fantafilm.it/attori/wray.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Arnold Daniel Palmer 1929 I am an excellent driver! ![Fore!](http://www.wellsgallery.com/glennharrington/arnoldpalmer.jpg)
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![Spinach? We don't need no stinkin' spinach!](/images/canteen/Canteen/popeye4.jpg) |
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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. ![](http://twotom.home.mindspring.com/kuralt.gif)
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There will be a full moon tonight 10 September 2003 ![Tradition says that the moon is made up of pancakes.](http://www.pachamama.org/updates/pm3-full-moon.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Roger Maris 1934 We are counting cards! ![Go Yankees!](http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/scientists/cards/maris.jpg)
![Go Indians!](http://www.scottsdalecards.com/maris64.jpg)
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Would you like some Geometry with your pancakes? |
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Happy Birthday Jose Feliciano 1945 ![I have never seen a web site, but I have eaten pancakes....](http://www.dominicantimes.com/photos/jose_feliciano.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Amy Irving 1953 ![OK, don't tell Bo, but I think that Amy Irving is a Babe!](http://www.themakeupgallery.info/character/yellow/farp1.jpg)
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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. ![](http://www.pbs.org/saf/1203/images03/pocahontas2.jpg)
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. ![](http://www.military.com/pics/MLfrankel.jpg)
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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. ![About a hundred dollars](http://www.wall.org/~aron/images/schematicgr.gif)
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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. ![East or West-which is best?](http://www.route40.net/images/map3.gif)
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1935 - "Popeye" was heard on NBC radio for the first time. ![Spinach? We don't eat no stinkin' spinach!](/images/canteen/Canteen/popeye1.jpg)
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Spinach Pancakes ![Yum! Got any Green Eggs and Ham?](http://www.britegg.co.uk/kidssection/kids_images/popeye.jpg)
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The area of a triangle is calculated using the formula: ![](http://www.tpub.com/doemathematics/mathematics_files/image830.jpg)
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![Have pan - make pancakes!](http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/0rec/06/06pancake3.jpg)
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![Pancakes in a Can!](/images/canteen/Canteen/popeye3.jpg) |
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Pancakes Wednesdays |
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: michaeldobbs
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To: SouthernHawk; MoJo2001
Excellent change of pace for when the Kids get rowdy.
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posted on
09/10/2003 8:58:11 AM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: tomkow6; Kathy in Alaska; All
Good morning Canteen members
Well breaking news off SKY news report that Sweden FM just got stab by some dude we dont' know if they caught the perp orrr how serious the injuries are
Also Hareetz wire is reporting that IDF lay smackdown on crib of one of Suicide bomber that kill 3 people in that Israel cafe late last night
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posted on
09/10/2003 8:59:24 AM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(Not everybody in it for truth, justice, and the American way=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: Kathy in Alaska
All I heard was "Blah! Blah! Blah!".
You were saying? Hehe!
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posted on
09/10/2003 8:59:59 AM PDT
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MoJo2001
(Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
To: tomkow6
Good Pancake morning, Tom! Good Pancake morning, Patriotic Pattie!
![](http://home.gci.net/~kar17/america/MickeyMouse-USA.jpg)
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:00:02 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: MoJo2001
i'm reminded of one of my grandfather's lines:
Sonny, NEVER ask a man if he's Texas-born.
if he is, he'll tell ya; if not there's no point in shaming him, for something he can't help.
free dixie,sw
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:01:14 AM PDT
by
stand watie
(Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
To: SevenofNine
Is Sweden an ally in the War Against Terror?
GO IDF!! WOOHOO!! SMACKDOWN IS AN EXCELLENT WORD! BOO YA IDF!
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:01:50 AM PDT
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MoJo2001
(Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
To: MeeknMing
Thanks, Meekie, for my cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows this morning. Cooler weather is definitely on its way.
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:02:59 AM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: stand watie
LOL! That's what the Hubby thinks. He feels sorry for anyone not born in Texas. WHATEVER! LOL! Just kidding!
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:03:11 AM PDT
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MoJo2001
(Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
LUNCH HOUR BREAK!
Dude Looks Like Lady
Aerosmith
(Chorus:
That, that dude looks like a lady
That, that dude looks like a lady
That, that dude looks like a lady
That, that dude looks like a lady
Cruise into a bar on hte shore
Her picture graced the grime on the door
She's a long lost love at first bite
Baby maybe you're wrong but you know it's all right
That's right
That, that
That, that
Backstage we're havin' the time
of our live until somebody say
Forgive me if I seem out of line
Then she whipped out her gun and tried to blow me away!
Chorus
Never judge a book by it's cover
or who you gonna love by your lover
Sayin' love put me wise to her love in disguise
She had the body of a Venus, Lord imagine my surprise.
Chorus
So baby let me follow you down (let me take a peek dear)
Baby let me follow you down (do me, do me, do me all night)
Baby let me follow you down (turn the other cheek dear)
Baby let me follow you down (do me, do me, do me, do me)
Oo, what a funky lady
Oo, she like it, like it, like it, like that.
Oo he was a lady!
Chorus
Chorus
Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
No! This song is not about Burka Man!
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:05:05 AM PDT
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MoJo2001
(Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
To: bentfeather
Good almost still morning, ms feather.![](http://www.mouse.webby.com/images/grhoghicd.gif)
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:05:11 AM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: MoJo2001
BTW, did you know the PERFERRED origional spelling was TEXICAN???
some of our founding fathers said that: "it rhymes with more things, for use in poetry".
other than MEXICAN, i can't think of any.can you????
free the southland,sw
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:07:41 AM PDT
by
stand watie
(Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
Beautiful Barbara Olson
Beautiful Barbra Olson two years ago you went to heaven The horror of that day I can not write, but Barbara dear heart, I miss you terribly!
Many candles were lit for you many tears were shed for you today my heart weeps for you today my heart weeps for your family, for the families whose members never came home.
Brave Lady Barbara, today you wear a crown of freedom and glory you walk on jeweled streets in rich sweet flower gardens You Barbara, know no pain.
You fought your good fight calling Ted from the plane you did walk the last mile with bravery and determination just as you walked through life.
Now dear heart your beautiful face will always be beautiful your laughter always like chimes We take peace in knowing you're safe and nothing will harm you again. You're safe in the arms of Jesus.
bentfeather a/k/a LMH Copyright © 2002 All Rights Reserved
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To: MoJo2001
Thanks !!Lyle Lovett ...
![](http://a220.g.akamaitech.net/7/220/34/d711b427c97934/tlc.discovery.com/convergence/humanface/photos/gallery/photo9_lg.jpg)
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:08:51 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
To: stand watie
Yikes!
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:09:19 AM PDT
by
MoJo2001
(Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
To: MeeknMing
What is up with that hair of his?? LOL!
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:09:53 AM PDT
by
MoJo2001
(Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
To: E.G.C.
![](http://home.gci.net/~kar17/icons/bttt-smilie.gif)
Good day to you, E! Half a dozen sprinkles yesterday. Otherwise, off and on sun. Fall is in the air. Cooler weather on the way for you yet?
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:14:20 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: MoJo2001
Sunshine Bump!
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:14:29 AM PDT
by
SouthernHawk
(If we could harness MoJo's energy, there wouldn't ever be a black out again! LOL!)
To: SouthernHawk; All
LUNCH HOUR BREAK!
Authority Song
John Cougar Mellencamp
They like to get you in a compromising position
They like to get you there and smile in your face
They think they're so cute when they got you in that condition
Well I think it's a total disgrace
CHORUS:
I fight authority, Authority always wins
I fight authority, Authority always wins
I been doing it since I was a young kid
I come out grinnin'
I fight authority, Authority always wins
So I call up my preacher
I say, "Give me strength for Round 5."
He said , "You don't need no strength, you need to grow up son."
I said, "Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying
"And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun."
CHORUS
Oh no oh no
I fight authority Authority always wins
CHORUS
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:16:07 AM PDT
by
MoJo2001
(Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
To: bentfeather
Thank you so much Diva for putting your beautiful tribute to Barbara Olson up all of us to see!! *HuGS*
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:16:47 AM PDT
by
MoJo2001
(Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
To: stand watie
Oh my, SUN two days in a row! Did you get the 10-12" of rain last week?
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posted on
09/10/2003 9:17:02 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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