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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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For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. |
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Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! |
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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.
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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 Annes churchyard, Soho). This weeks 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 Giffords 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 subjects 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 shoemakers 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. |
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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 |
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Great morning, thanks to you and the Canteen! Hope your day goes fine!
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Good morning, Tonk. How's it going?
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posted on
09/10/2003 4:05:08 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
To: Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; bentfeather; beachn4fun; Ragtime Cowgirl; ...
From the men in the Military and the Canteen
To: tomkow6
Good Morning Tomkow! That's a great "Feeble Attempt"!
Watch out for the FULL MOON tonight! LOL!
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!"
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posted on
09/10/2003 4:13:18 AM PDT
by
minor49er
(A dream with a cat in it, is a sweet dream!)
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!
To: All
To: SouthernHawk
Good Morning Southern Hawk!
Have a great day!
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posted on
09/10/2003 4:15:28 AM PDT
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minor49er
(A dream with a cat in it, is a sweet dream!)
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.
To: SouthernHawk
"Watch out for the FULL MOON tonight!"
ROFLMAO!!!!!
To: E.G.C.
Good Morning E.G.C.
I'm doing great and hope you are also!
To: Ragtime Cowgirl; TEXOKIE; All
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.
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09/10/2003 4:26:14 AM PDT
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tomkow6
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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!
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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!
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."
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posted on
09/10/2003 4:30:49 AM PDT
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tomkow6
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To: SouthernHawk
So, you don't think my FatCat talkes to me??????
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posted on
09/10/2003 4:31:59 AM PDT
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tomkow6
(.........This Tag Line is expressly here for the purpose of having RADIX "borrow" it!)
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!
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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! !)
To: All
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posted on
09/10/2003 4:35:47 AM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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