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

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[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.

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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 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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[Radix]

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[Aeronaut]

Good morning Radix.

[RaceBannon]

Who-Whooooo!!

Lest we forget!!

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Radix.

And a very pleasant good morning to all of our military personal and allies at home and abroad.Thank you so very much for all you're doing for this great country.

Hope everyone enjoy those pancakes and has a great Wednesday.:-D

[E.G.C.]

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[tomkow6]

SALUTE!

 

 

[tomkow6]

Good morning, MR. RADIX! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!!

[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

A Sunday School teacher asked her class why Joseph and
Mary took Jesus with them to Jerusalem. A small child
replied, "They couldn't get a baby-sitter."

[tomkow6]

 

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[tomkow6]

[Soaring Feather]

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning Aeronaut.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Wednesday !!

Have a cup while you FReep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of today's
Pancakes on Wednesday thread

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Important Announcement About the
Thursday 9/11/2003 Thread

After a discussion with some Canteen members
a decision about the thread on 9/11/2003 has been reached.

There will be a Sports Thread on Thursday 9/11/2003.
HOWEVER there will also be posts regarding 9/11/2001.
The Canteen "staff" feels it is important to keep
the Canteen doors "open" on this day for our military guests.
And for those who may seek a "safe" environment from the painful reminders of 9/11.
Again, posts about 9/11 are Welcome on the Sports Thread.
Also Welcome are posts that are of a light hearted nature.

It is important that we keep in mind the mission of the Canteen everyday.

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Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.
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[SouthernHawk]

Good Morning Radix! Thanks for great “road trip”! Good morning to our military and good morning to the entire Canteen crew.

Warm up exercise for today . . . . .

WHO’S YO’ DADDY?

One day a man came home from work earlier than usual and caught his wife in bed with his best friend. Enraged, the husband grabbed a gun and shot his friend to death. His wife said, "Y'know, if you go on like this, you're going to lose all your friends."

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

[SouthernHawk]

Good Morning Aeronaut! Thanks for your dedicated fly-overs!

Here's hoping your day is "VMC conditions with no traffic in your area"!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Good Morning Brother!

[SouthernHawk]

Good Morning Race! Great cartoon. It pretty well sums up the whole "communication" issue! LOL!!