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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

Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday September 10, 2003


Here is an amalgamation of trivial facts and seemingly useless data.

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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”.


Happy Birthday

Ian Fleming 1888

007's here to see you, sir.


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


Happy Birthday

Arnold Daniel Palmer 1929

I am an excellent driver!

Fore!


Spinach? We don't need no stinkin' spinach!

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.


There will be a full moon tonight 10 September 2003

Tradition says that the moon is made up of pancakes.


Happy Birthday

Roger Maris 1934

We are counting cards!

Go Yankees!

Go Indians!


Would you like some Geometry with your pancakes?

Happy Birthday

Jose Feliciano 1945

I have never seen a web site, but I have eaten pancakes....


Happy Birthday

Amy Irving 1953

OK, don't tell Bo, but I think that Amy Irving is a Babe!


Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the lunar surface

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.


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.

About a hundred dollars


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?


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

Spinach? We don't eat no stinkin' spinach!


Spinach Pancakes

Yum! Got any Green Eggs and Ham?


The area of a triangle is calculated using the formula:


Have pan - make pancakes!


Pancakes in a Can!

Pancakes Wednesdays
Definitely
 

 


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To: blackie

181 posted on 09/10/2003 9:18:26 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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To: MoJo2001
true story.

my source is a un-published letter from Robert Potter (TX Secretary of War) to his wife Harriett, which is in the collection of the Morris County Historical Collection at the Daingerfield (TX) Public Library.

Potter's letter mentioned the names of several prominent Texicans (Houston, Potter, Lamar,DeLorenzo, et.al.), who favored that spelling.

FYI, Harriett Potter & her husband were BOTH "characters". she kept a MOUNTAIN LION for a PET,was married at least 6 times (POSSIBLY 8), practiced "injun magic" (the local indians were "scared to death of her") & frequently slept in a cypress tree on the banks of Caddo Lake.

for a fascinating & "lightly fictionalized account" of her life, read: LOVE IS A WILD ASSAULT, by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland, published 1959 & STILL in print.

you will NOT be able to put it down.

free dixie,sw

182 posted on 09/10/2003 9:24:12 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SevenofNine
Go IDF!

Hello, Sweden. Welcome to the real world.

183 posted on 09/10/2003 9:24:57 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
NOPE. only 8.

free dixie,sw

184 posted on 09/10/2003 9:26:41 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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LUNCH HOUR BREAK!

What's Up Doc?
Shaq and Fu-Schnickens


 

[Chorus]
Can we rock?
Yeah, what's up doc?
Can we rock?
What's up doc?

[Moc]
Cha cha cha cha cha
What's up pa, yo who poop?
Your ma dukes or pa dukes?
There's two scoops a raisin in the sun
Brothers try to rally up, then dilly dally for some room
Bird peckin', doulbe deckin', rubber neckin' in my tomb
Check it out yo, I smile like Groucho Marx
I make a joke, hokey pokey, and slide by like egg yolk
Play me like a punk like Penguin and the Joker
Snoopin' in my biz like Tom and Roxie Roker
So bust the freaky freaky freaky ways
The brothers with the Asian guise making G's
And now we're sellin' records overseas
Holy smokes, oops, your whole plan goofed up
Now you get kicks, 'nough licks, plus cuffed up
'cause you can catch a quick drop for tryin' to take the Schnicks' props
So tick tock around the clock and shock while we lick shots
(Boom!) for goodness sakes the stakes are high
I'm out (you out?)
ABC-ya, bye

[Chorus]

[Chip]
I thought I saw a putty cat, I did
I did the humpty dumpty bashful grumpy quaker nabisco crisco kid
'cause my style's figaro figaro figaro figaro like Pinochio's
Big Digital Underground humpty dumpty camel hump nose
So play dosey doe, sufferin' sucotash my mistletoe is gone
Snow White is after my seven dwarves, my styles, and after me Lucky Charms
So leapin' leprechauns, be glad I'm pushin' my pedal to the metal
I'm rugged and rough for Cocoa Puffs, and yes, I love my Fruity Pebbles
So howdy, my partner, I starts to get meaner
So ask Bob for hope, nope, not Mr. Bob Dobailina
Oh were has my mic gone? Tell me, have you seen her?
I stretch like a (HELLO?) and gets plump like a weiner
Or a sasuage, but of course it's, time for Chip to wreck it
But before my intro I gots to check it
So who is the nicest in your neighborhood?
Lyrics are merry, merry, quite contrary, and Captain Crunch berry good
So rah rah, sis boom bah
Chip Fu is coming again, give thanks and praises to jah
My lyrics are smooth like the head on Terry Savalas
My tounge starts to quicken like Speedy Gonzales
Take up your pen, your pad, your lyrical bag and run go whole a fresh
Touche pussy cat, put down that mic 'cause you can't rap
'cause I'm dip-dip-divin', so socializin'
Clean out your ears, yes, and open up your eyes and
I kick like Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme
So dunna nana nana nana nana nana, Batman!
I hip-hop, hop-hop
Don't-don't, stop-stop
I'm harder than a Flinstone and much bigger than a Chub Rock
Our types of lyrical styles? yes the Schnickens can pick 'em
I burp, stick 'em, ha ha ha, stick 'em

[Chorus]

[Poc]
Rippin' the program, slow man, hot damn
I grand slam, swingin' things again and again (whoo)
Golly ha-chooey, macho like Roscoe
Randy Savage manwitch, swingin' the ding-a-ling with damage
Pauish not antoinish nor monetego
Spanish like que for the nine two lingo
Next, a new hex, commentators stand aside
Stringin' emcees like a bikini or panty line (ha ha)
Nut you might bust, but you can't even come right
Spite the strokin' or hopin' or pullin' a peace pipe
Huff and puff so what the (Oh my!) is happening?
On the lyrical, miracle, spirutal
but everybody's rockin'
Flip a new hit, catch wreck to the nine ship
Equipped, never slip with tounge twister
All my styles that's buckwild
No fake rap, I push pounds
I flip mad scripts and hips, I hit
So bring the goya oh boy-ah, as I say hasta manana
Soft and chewy Honky Kong fooey, reggae not rasta tough stuff
Can I rock?

[Chorus]

[Shaq]
I'm the hooper, the hyper
Protected by Viper
When I rock the hoop yo, you'd better decipher
In other words you'd better make a funky decision (whoo)
'cause I'm a be a Shaq knife, and cut you with precision
Forget Tony Danza, I'm the boss
When it comes to money, I'm like Dick Butkas
Now who's the first pick? me, word is born and
Not a Christean Laettner, not Alonzo Mourning
That's okay, not being bragadocious
Supercalifragelistic, Shaq is alidocious
Peace, I gotta go, I ain't no joke
Now I slam it (what?) jam it (unh)
And make sure it's broke

[Chorus]

Rap Music Alert!

MoJo's dad first heard this song and shook his head!
"I can't believe people make money talking fast and saying nothing"
Welcome to Rap Music Dad!

185 posted on 09/10/2003 9:27:29 AM PDT by MoJo2001 (Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
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To: stand watie
Wow! It's still in print. I'll have to check Amazon and see if it's over there! Probably!!
186 posted on 09/10/2003 9:28:58 AM PDT by MoJo2001 (Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
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To: MoJo2001
i second the motion!

free dixie,sw

187 posted on 09/10/2003 9:28:58 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: bentfeather
We miss you, Barbara!

Thank you, ms feather, for the beautiful tribute to lovely lady.


188 posted on 09/10/2003 9:29:51 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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To: bentfeather
Awesome!
189 posted on 09/10/2003 9:31:19 AM PDT by SouthernHawk (If we could harness MoJo's energy, there wouldn't ever be a black out again! LOL!)
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To: SouthernHawk
"Y'know, if you go on like this, you're going to lose all your friends."

ROTFLMAO!! Good warm up exercise, SH. Off to email.

190 posted on 09/10/2003 9:31:44 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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To: MoJo2001
check out:

http://book.realbuy.ws/0940672588.html

LIAWA is a TEXAS CLASSIC!

free dixie,sw

191 posted on 09/10/2003 9:32:16 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
We're watching for the potential of severe weather today and heavy rain tommorow. It's nice and sunny right now:-D
192 posted on 09/10/2003 9:33:23 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Kathy in Alaska; yall

One of America's great one passes. Rest in peace, Edward Teller ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/979295/posts?page=69#69

'Father of the H-bomb' dies

Excerpt:

SAN FRANCISCO - Edward Teller, a member of the Manhattan Project that created the first atomic bomb and who later emerged as the foremost champion of the vastly more destructive hydrogen bomb, has died. He was 95.

Teller, dubbed the "father of the H-bomb" and a key advocate of the anti-missile shield known as "Star Wars," died Tuesday at his home on the Stanford University campus.

*
AP
Edward Teller in 1958.
Teller was a tireless advocate of a vigorous United States defense policy during and after the Cold War, urging development of advanced weapons as way to deter war.

"The second half of the century has been incomparably more peaceful than the first, simply by putting power into the hands of those people who wanted peace," he told a forum on the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks on Japan.

Teller's staunch support for defense stemmed in part from two events that shaped his view of world affairs -- the 1919 communist revolution in his native Hungary and the rise of Nazism while he lived in Germany in the early 1930s.

Witty and personable, with a passion for playing the piano, Teller nevertheless was a persuasive Cold Warrior who influenced presidents of both parties.

In 1939, he was one of three scientists who encouraged Albert Einstein to alert President Franklin Roosevelt that the power of nuclear fission -- the splitting of an atom's nucleus -- could be tapped to create a devastating new weapon.

He would later quip that he often believed the only reason he became a part of the trio was "because I was the only one who knew how to drive and had a car to get us there."

< snip >

In Teller's autobiography "Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics," Teller said he was often asked whether he regretted having worked on the atomic and hydrogen bombs.

"My answer is no. I deeply regret the deaths and injuries that resulted from the atomic bombings, but my best explanation of why I do not regret working on weapons is a question: What if we hadn't?"


193 posted on 09/10/2003 9:33:59 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; TexasCowboy; Fawnn; Brad's Gramma; All

LUNCH HOUR BREAK!

Gone Country
Alan Jackson


 

She's been playing in a room on a strip
For ten years in Vegas
Every night she looks in the mirror
But she only ages
She's been reading about Nashville and all
The records that everybody's buying
Says 'I'm a simple girl myself
Grew up on Long Island'
So she packs her bags to try to her hand
Says this might be my last chance

She's gone country, look at then boots
She's gone country, but to her roots
She's gone country, a new kind of suit
She's gone country, here she comes

Well the folk scene is dead
But he's holding out in the village
He's been writing songs speaking out
Against wealth and privilege
He says 'I dont believe in money
But a man could make him a killin'
Cause some of that stuff dont sound
Much different than Dylan
I hear down there it's changed you see
They're not as backwards as they used to be

He's gone country, look at then boots
He's gone country, but to her roots
He's gone country, a new kind of suit
He's gone country, here he comes

He commutes to LA
But he's got a house in the valley
But the bills are piling up
And the pop scene just aint on the rally
He says 'Honey I'm a serious composer
Schooled in voice and composition
But with the crime and the smog these days
This aint no place for children
Lord it sounds so easy it shouldnt take long
Be back in the money in no time at all'

He's gone country, look at then boots
He's gone country, but to her roots
He's gone country, a new kind of suit
He's gone country, here he comes
Yeah he's gone country, a new kind of walk
He's gone country, a new kind of talk
He's gone country, look at them boots
He's gone country, oh back to his roots

He's gone country
He's gone country
Everybody's gone country
Yeah we've gone country
The whole world's gone country

This is more to Ma's liking!! Hit It Ma!

194 posted on 09/10/2003 9:34:42 AM PDT by MoJo2001 (Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
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To: stand watie
Thank you very much for the link!
195 posted on 09/10/2003 9:35:31 AM PDT by MoJo2001 (Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
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To: MeeknMing
Lyle Lovett has the oddest hair. I wonder if he works at it.
196 posted on 09/10/2003 9:36:49 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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To: MoJo2001
Thanks, Kiddo, for the "breakfast" music.
197 posted on 09/10/2003 9:37:32 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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To: All

France and Germany seek full UN control over Iraq  ^


BARF! BARF! BARF! BARF!

I'd like to tell France and Germany (from the bottom of my heart):

STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DOESN'T SHINE!

Sincererly,

MoJo

198 posted on 09/10/2003 9:37:56 AM PDT by MoJo2001 (Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Breakfast music for you. Lunch Music for others! Dinner music for some! Sleepy music for others!! Hehehe!
199 posted on 09/10/2003 9:38:38 AM PDT by MoJo2001 (Thank you to our troops!!! The Lunch Hour Break Has Begun!)
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To: MoJo2001
Yes, AJ, is Ma's speed. Sing it, Alan! Thanks, Kiddo!
200 posted on 09/10/2003 9:38:40 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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