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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.

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”.


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: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Great morning, thanks to you and the Canteen! Hope your day goes fine!
21 posted on 09/10/2003 4:04:30 AM PDT by SouthernHawk
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Good morning, Tonk. How's it going?
22 posted on 09/10/2003 4:05:08 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; bentfeather; beachn4fun; Ragtime Cowgirl; ...
From the men in the Military and the Canteen


23 posted on 09/10/2003 4:08:50 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Good Evening Ladies)
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To: tomkow6
Good Morning Tomkow! That's a great "Feeble Attempt"!

Watch out for the FULL MOON tonight! LOL!

24 posted on 09/10/2003 4:10:41 AM PDT by SouthernHawk
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To: All
Good Morning everybody! Good Morning troops! Here is my humor attempt for the day.

Juggler, driving to his next performance, was stopped by the police. "What are those knives doing in your car?" asked the officer.

"I juggle them in my act."

"Oh yeah?" says the cop. "Let's see you do it." So the juggler starts tossing and juggling the knives.

A guy driving by sees this and says, "Wow, am I glad I quit drinking. Look at the test they're making you do now!"
25 posted on 09/10/2003 4:13:18 AM PDT by minor49er (A dream with a cat in it, is a sweet dream!)
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To: MeeknMing
Good Morning Meek! I saw geese flying south yesterday and it made me think of you. Hang in there, the cooler weather won't be too far away!
26 posted on 09/10/2003 4:13:33 AM PDT by SouthernHawk
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To: All

27 posted on 09/10/2003 4:15:07 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Have you said Thank You to a service man or woman today?)
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To: SouthernHawk
Good Morning Southern Hawk!
Have a great day!
28 posted on 09/10/2003 4:15:28 AM PDT by minor49er (A dream with a cat in it, is a sweet dream!)
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To: minor49er
Good Morning!
I hope you are enjoying being back in school and you are learning a lot.
Thank You for taking time before school to help
our troops get some laughs with your humor posts.
29 posted on 09/10/2003 4:18:09 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Have you said Thank You to a service man or woman today?)
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To: SouthernHawk
"Watch out for the FULL MOON tonight!"

ROFLMAO!!!!!
30 posted on 09/10/2003 4:19:36 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (WOO HOO it's Pancakes on Wednesday!)
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To: E.G.C.
Good Morning E.G.C.
I'm doing great and hope you are also!
31 posted on 09/10/2003 4:20:54 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (WOO HOO it's Pancakes on Wednesday!)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; TEXOKIE; All
CLICK HERE for Pro-Coalition News Links and Articles,
Compiled and Updated almost daily by FReeper Ragtime Cowgirl


Thank You Ragtime Cowgirl

CLICK HERE for Troop Prayer Thread 7

Thank You TEXOKIE
32 posted on 09/10/2003 4:24:20 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (God Bless and Protect our military and our allies military.)
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To: bentfeather


 Little Blonde FReeper !!

She was so blonde...

She got stabbed in a shoot-out.

She told me to meet her at the corner of 'walk' and 'don't walk'.

She tried to put M&Ms in alphabetical order.

She tried to drown a fish.

She thought a quarterback was a refund.

She got locked in a grocery store and starved to death.

If you gave her a penny for intelligence, you'd get change back.

They had to burn the school down to get her out of third grade.

33 posted on 09/10/2003 4:26:14 AM PDT by tomkow6 (.........This Tag Line is expressly here for the purpose of having RADIX "borrow" it!)
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To: minor49er
LOL ! ! ! You have been back to school for less then a week and you're already learning things like "don't drink and drive"! Good Morning Minor.

Have a great day!

34 posted on 09/10/2003 4:27:05 AM PDT by SouthernHawk
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; tomkow6
LOL ! !(I thought of that when I read his "my kitty cat" is telling me it's time to go to bed!)

Sweet Dreams!
36 posted on 09/10/2003 4:29:58 AM PDT by SouthernHawk
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To: SouthernHawk
 
Recently a routine police patrol parked outside a local neighborhood bar. Late in the evening the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes with the officer quietly observing.
 
After what seemed an eternity and trying his keys on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his own car which he fell into. He was there for a few minutes as a number of other patrons left the bar and drove off. Finally he started the car, switched the wipers on and off (it was a dry night), flicked the hazard flasher on and off, tooted the
horn and then switched on the lights. He moved the vehicle forward a few inches, reversed a little and then remained stationary for a few more minutes as more patrons left in their vehicles. At last he pulled out of the parking lot and started to drive slowly down the street.
 
The police officer, having patiently waited all this time, now started up his patrol car, put on the flashing lights, promptly pulled the man over and carried out a breathalyzer test. To his amazement the breathalyzer indicated no evidence of the man having consumed alcohol at all! Dumbfounded, the officer said "I'll have to ask you to accompany me
to the Police station. This breathalyzer equipment must be broken." "I doubt it," said the man, "tonight I'm the designated decoy."

37 posted on 09/10/2003 4:30:49 AM PDT by tomkow6 (.........This Tag Line is expressly here for the purpose of having RADIX "borrow" it!)
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To: SouthernHawk
So, you don't think my FatCat talkes to me??????
38 posted on 09/10/2003 4:31:59 AM PDT by tomkow6 (.........This Tag Line is expressly here for the purpose of having RADIX "borrow" it!)
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To: LindaSOG
Good Morning Linda! Hope that your day is not going the way that cat's day has been!!!! LOL

Have a really great day!
39 posted on 09/10/2003 4:33:18 AM PDT by SouthernHawk (Don't worry, Be happy (when your ripping somebody's face off) , Smile, you're a Goddess! !)
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