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.

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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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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[Fawnn]

It's official!!! I've joined the ranks of those who need a life!!! ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Ma never tells. LOL!!

[StarCMC]

Hey Texas! After last night I have been singing the "War of 1812" all day in my head. I remember my brother (not kjfine, my other one!) and I working SO HARD to memorize all the words to that song. We just loved it! Thanks for the memories!! :o)

[StarCMC]

OOOPS! I think that should have been 1814...YEAH - I rememberized it real good! ARGH!

[blackie]

Amen Brother ... !! :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Glad to see you, Meg!

[Fawnn]

We filled his mouth with cannonballs and powdered his behind....

...then 'Cowboy dug in with his spurs, and durn!, those suckers hurt! ;)

[blackie]

BTW, congratulations on twenty ~ good job!

[StarCMC]

And a little humor from the Reader's Digest (can you tell I like that rag?)...

CARTOON QUIPS

Son to father: "Can you help me with my ethics homework, or would that be missing the point?"

One dog to another: "What if the hand that feeds us is surprisingly tasty?"

[Fawnn]

And a little humor from the Reader's Digest (can you tell I like that rag?)...

My dream job would be editing a collection of The Best of Reader's Digest Humor!

[Radix]

 

US soldiers on patrol near the Iraqi city of Arbil.

 

Following a relaxing picnic, the guys decided that a bit of blueberry picking would be in order.

 

 

 

A British soldier patrols the Five Mile working class neighborhood in southern Iraq's capital Basra.

 

The National Enquirer reports that Troops have found the ancient land of Lilliput, which was made famous by Jonathan Swift in the historical tale of Gulliver and his travels..

 

 

 

Iraq in Arab League; Graphic defines the Arab League and lists members.

 

This is a huge diplomatic victory for the USA and the future of Iraq and the coalition.

 

 

 

 Members of Britain's 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets prepare for their departure to Iraq at Weeton Barracks in Lancashire, northern England, September 10, 2003. Some 600 troops from the Royal Green Jackets are due to leave the UK for the city of Basra in southern Iraq on September 11, 2003 to add to the 10,000 British troops that are currently deployed in Iraq.

 

The Monty Python troupe has gotten together in order to produce new shows for entertaining the troops of the coaliton.

 

 

 

President Bush meets with Kuwait's new Prime Minister Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, left, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003. Thousands of American troops remain based in the key Persian Gulf ally as part of the ongoing Iraq campaign.

 

The leader of the free world listens as he is told about the "traditional hands to shadow creatures" which were always the greatest contribution of the Middle East peoples until the discovery of the oil fields. The example being shown here is of a barking dog.

 

 

 

A U.S. soldier of the 1st Battalion (22nd regiment) of the 4th infantry division guards a street during a search operation in Tikrit.

 

The penalties for jay walking in Tikrit have become extremely serious.

 

[Fawnn]

This is from memory, but years ago they ran one of my favorite stories: Written by a lady who was visiting the hospital with a friend. They were on the elevator when a guy in a white uniform got on, wheeling this huge contraption with dials, hoses, and buttons. The friend said to the guy, "Boy, I'd hate to be hooked up to that thing!" "So would I," the man in the white uniform replied. "It's a floor polisher!" ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

I actually earned my star and jelly donut!! I'll try again tonight.

[StarCMC]

More humor...also from Reader's Digest.

There is a folk belief that if you bury a statue of St. Joseph on a piece of property, it will be sold more quickly. When I was getting ready to move, I took the St. Joseph from my Nativity scene and buried it near my front door. A few days later a woman mad an offer. Since she had to sell her home, I suggested she enlist the help of the saint as well.

After a month of burying the statue all over her lawn she had no nibbles, and, in disgust, threw the statue out with her trash.

A week later she opened her local paper and read: "Town Sells Landfill to Private Developer."

[StarCMC]

then 'Cowboy dug in with his spurs, and durn!, those suckers hurt! ;)

LOL!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oops! I just read your tagline. What do I have to give back? How about a bribe?

[Kathy in Alaska]

[StarCMC]

Hee hee! I love it!!

[StarCMC]

Does anyone out there know the current time in Iraq? I am thinking it is about 1 AM???

[Fawnn]

We have a winner!!!

According to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=27 , it's 1:03 a.m. in Baghdad.