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

 

[Fawnn]

Well, thanks to you, this Auntie Fawnn now officially feels old(er). I had to get a magnifying glass and hold it to the screen to figure out WHAT I'm supposed to play. Imagine my surprise to discover it was HOW I'm supposed to play. Now I'm old and not allowed to have any fun at Gramma's or Ma's expense. ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dan Hartley, 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron military working dog handler, and military working dog, Cody, check for explosives on a vehicle at a Baghdad International Airport checkpoint. They are one of several military working dog teams here supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Hartley and Cody are both deployed from the 66th Security Forces Squadron at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Brian Ferguson

Canine Defenders Keep Warfighters Safe

By U.S. Air Force Capt. Miki Kristina Gilloon
447th Air Expeditionary Group

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 9, 2003 (AFPN) — A 12-inch-long mortar round lay partly hidden in the overgrowth near a checkpoint at Baghdad International Airport. It was found and safely destroyed thanks to the keen senses of a four-legged member of the 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron.

Rudy, one of several military working dogs deployed supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, alerted his handler, Staff Sgt. Albert Branch, of his find. Branch, deployed from the 60th Security Forces Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., recognized the instant change in his dog’s behavior.

“He moved side to side trying to locate the scent -- something he’s been trained to do,” Branch said. “He knew something was there, but he was trying to pinpoint exactly where it was.”

The mortar round, along with other dangerous items -- improvised explosive devices, rocket propelled grenades, and shell casings from small arms fire -- are routinely found by 447th ESFS military working dog teams. The dogs also support the U.S. Army’s 1st Armored Division by patrolling at and near the airport checkpoints.

“We’re helping them out by conducting explosives detection and making a physical presence at the gate,” said Staff Sgt. Michael Renner, 447th ESFS kennel master and handler. He is deployed from the 21st SFS at Peterson AFB, Colo.

The rest of the story

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Pancakes are people too ~ Just ask them - at least to another pancake"

LOL! GREAT Tagline!

[E.G.C.]

Good afternoon, Texas Cowboy. How's it going?

BTW that worm I was referring to is the MSBlaster worm. That's what this newest revision to MS(03-026) Addresses.

[TexasCowboy]

Hi, EGC!
I guess Norton's will pick that up, huh?
I have LiveUpdate so it should keep me protected, I think.......I hope!

[Aeronaut]

;-)

[Fawnn]

I just got the little message hoochie window that my Norton was automatically updated. ;)

[TexasCowboy]

I get one or two emails nearly every day that are infected.
Most of them are advertisements to make a certain part of my anatomy bigger and better.
I think my ex-wife sends those.

[Aeronaut]

Hi Kathy.

[MeekOneGOP]

MoJo2001, look out your front door!

Rut-Roh !! MoJo will be bouncing off the walls now ...

[Pippin]

Hi, Cobby!

[Pippin]

Hi, Kathy!

[Pippin]

Hi, Fawnn!

[SouthernHawk]

DING

You've got FReep Mail!

[blackie]

Cal Smith ~ another CW legend!

[TexasCowboy]

"Cal Smith ~ another CW legend!"

I sure hated to see him fade away.
I always loved his voice.
I've fed jukeboxes all over Texas and punched his numbers.

[Soaring Feather]

Received and returned. Ping

[blackie]

Do they still have jukeboxes ~ it's been a long (28 yr's next month) time since I've been a bar. :):)

[E.G.C.]

(LOL)!!!!!!:-D

[SouthernHawk]

Got it, Bounce!