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.

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

 

[MeekOneGOP]

"Lyle Lovett has the oddest hair. I wonder if he works at it."

I certainly would bet that he MUST, LOL !

If you didn't see it already, see my #218 ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/979373/posts?page=218#218

[Wild Thing]

Hi Tonkin,
Thank you for the flowers from the men in the military and the Canteen.
They are beautiful!

Thanks too for the Post Office.

[Pippin]

Funky Chicken!?

[Wild Thing]

Hi sis I love your lunch hour break ! The best!

Good to see you!

Wild Thing

[E.G.C.]

Good afternoon, Wild Thing. How's it going?

Microsoft's newsest update for Widnows is an updated version of MS(03-026) which as I'm sure many of you know addresses events related to the big worm. (I forget what the name of it is.) But, in any event I just downloaded the patch from Microsoft. Norton is in the process of updating their virus definitions.

Be sure to update all of your important stuff for your computer so you can continue to use it to participate on this message board.

[Wild Thing]

Hi there Bentfeather, how is the Canteen Poet and blonde buddy today? Great to see you.

I am still reading the first 50 posts so far. haha

Have a great day.

Wild Thing

[Wild Thing]

Hi E.G.C. thank you for the adivce I sure will. I always forget to do this stuff . So a big thank you.

I am doing great and am glad to see you.

Wild Thing

[Wild Thing]

LOL Hi Pippin, yes chicken for the eggs for the Pancakes. hahaha

Good to see you this fine day.

Wild Thing

[Pippin]

Good to see you too! :O)

[Wild Thing]

Hi Ma!

Guess what I found. NO you don't have to guess really I will show you. heheh

I have been so good it is making me sick I think LOL

This is from all of us kids. {{giggle}}
Now on this one don't get TOO carried away with it OK?

Because THIS is how we kids feel you see ! heheh

[Wild Thing]

OH wow I got #250.

Hi TROOPS! You got it with me!

Feel the LOVE !

Wild Thing

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL !

[blackie]

Hi Mojo, life is good ~ I'll leave the cloud walking to you ~ I like my feet on old terra firma. :):)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Love Credence!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, WT. Pretty flowers!

[blackie]

Good on ya, Wild Thing! :-/

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning Pippin, or afternoon.

[Kathy in Alaska]

CHECKING TAXIWAY — U.S. Air Force Maj. Grant "Doctor" Bucks, 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron pilot, checks the taxiway for inbound traffic before a combat air support mission over Iraq at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar on 26 August 03. The 494th deployed here from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England in July in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Lee A Osberry Jr.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Coast Guard rescues Savannah fisherman

JACKSONVILLE, Fl. -- The crew of an Air Station Savannah HH-65 Dolphin helicopter rescued a Savannah fisherman about 8:50 p.m. tonight after he fell overboard from the 85-foot fishing vessel Drag On about 55 miles south of Savannah, Ga. in Ossabaw Sound.

Capt. Chuck Clayton, 48, of Savannah was working on deck of the fishing vessel Drag On tonight when he fell overboard. It is unknown why or how Mr. Clayton fell off the vessel.

The crewman on board the Drag On, who was working below decks came up and discovered Mr. Clayton was missing. The crewmember notified the Coast Guard about 8:30 p.m. and then stopped the fishing vessel that had been traveling at 10 knots. The Air Station Savannah helicopter, which was already airborne on a training mission, was diverted to the area, located Mr. Clayton eight miles away from the Drag On and safely hoisted him about 8:50 p.m. tonight.

Mr. Clayton was reported to be in good condition despite being tired from swimming. He was transferred to a Coast Guard Station Tybee Island rescue boat for further transferred back to the fishing vessel Drag On about 9 p.m. tonight

-USG-

The U.S. Coast Guard is a military, maritime, multi-mission service within the Department of Homeland Security dedicated to protecting the safety and security of America.

[TexasCowboy]

HAPPY LUNCH BREAK TO ALL!

MoJo, you been putting out some music today, gal!!

I'll contribute before I go back to work.

Here's one of my all time favorite voices in Country and Western music.
I've had this one ordered for awhile.

CAL SMITH!