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

Definitely

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Excellent change of pace for when the Kids get rowdy.

[SevenofNine]

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

[MoJo2001]

All I heard was "Blah! Blah! Blah!".

You were saying? Hehe!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Pancake morning, Tom! Good Pancake morning, Patriotic Pattie!

[stand watie]

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

[MoJo2001]

Is Sweden an ally in the War Against Terror?

GO IDF!! WOOHOO!! SMACKDOWN IS AN EXCELLENT WORD! BOO YA IDF!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Meekie, for my cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows this morning. Cooler weather is definitely on its way.

[MoJo2001]

LOL! That's what the Hubby thinks. He feels sorry for anyone not born in Texas. WHATEVER! LOL! Just kidding!

[MoJo2001]

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!
 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good almost still morning, ms feather.

[stand watie]

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

[Soaring Feather]

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

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks !!

Lyle Lovett ...

[MoJo2001]

Yikes!

[MoJo2001]

What is up with that hair of his?? LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

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?

[SouthernHawk]

Sunshine Bump!

[MoJo2001]

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

 

[MoJo2001]

Thank you so much Diva for putting your beautiful tribute to Barbara Olson up all of us to see!! *HuGS*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh my, SUN two days in a row! Did you get the 10-12" of rain last week?