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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: Radix
Hello!
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:32:14 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: Fawnn
BRATTFAWNN!! again....
402
posted on
09/10/2003 7:33:16 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: Radix
Fly the FRiendly skies of 400!
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:33:22 PM PDT
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Radix
(How do you like me now?)
To: Fawnn
I'm watching this kitchen design show on hgtv at the momentI'm taking a break from tearing out baseboards cuz TEXASCOWBOY HASN'T SHOWN UP TO HELP!!!!!
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:34:53 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: Fawnn
I am not a Brat Fawn!
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:34:53 PM PDT
by
Radix
(I am not even a Patriots fawn anymore after last Sunday!)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
DID YOU REMEMBER TO EAT TODAY? Now it's dinner time! Surely the "boss" gave you a few minutes to eat.
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:37:21 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: tomkow6
Tom! Your snoring is really messin' up the acoustics in here! Makes trying to listen to 'Cowboy's fine music a real challenge.
Somebody slip some of these on his schnozz (sp?) while he's not looking! (He's seldom "looking" when asleep, you know, so there's little risk that he'll bite!)
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:38:09 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(I'm proud to declare that my country has a LEADER!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
BRATTFAWNN!! again....
Wish I were that lucky in all things. ;)
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:39:19 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(I'm proud to declare that my country has a LEADER!)
To: Fawnn
"Who'll get there first!!!???" And what will they get if they do??!
I'm all excited, but I don't know what for!
To: Fawnn
BRATTFawn!
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:45:41 PM PDT
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tomkow6
(.........Pet Parade!.........Pet Parade!.........Pet Parade!.........Pet Parade!.........Pet Parade!)
To: Radix; Brad's Gramma
I am not a Brat Fawn!
We've gotta do what we're good at, I guess. (And I'm much better at bombarding this place with posts -- and being a brat, which is one of the more polite ways I've been described -- than I am at tearing off baseboards, so Gramma's out of luck. ... Actually, I tried working with her, but then she told me that a broken fingernail doesn't qualify as a workman's comp claim and, I mean, who could work under those terms!?)
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:45:53 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(I'm proud to declare that my country has a LEADER!)
To: tomkow6
You're supposed to be sleeping!
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:46:40 PM PDT
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Fawnn
(I'm proud to declare that my country has a LEADER!)
To: Fawnn
Oh for Pete's sake.
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:46:53 PM PDT
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Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: Fawnn
Oh,.............Sorry!
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:47:12 PM PDT
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tomkow6
(.........Pet Parade!.........Pet Parade!.........Pet Parade!.........Pet Parade!.........Pet Parade!)
To: tomkow6
Pet Parade?????? Okey Dokey!
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:52:22 PM PDT
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Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: tomkow6
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posted on
09/10/2003 7:53:17 PM PDT
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Brad’s Gramma
(Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
To: tomkow6
Aren't you supposed to be in bed?
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posted on
09/10/2003 8:07:38 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: tomkow6
Aren't you supposed to be in bed?
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posted on
09/10/2003 8:07:39 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Radix; tomkow6; SouthernHawk; Bethbg79; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; Valin; ...
Don't shoot! I surrender! Buck Rogers arrests a trespasser on the lawn of the minor-league Daytona Cubs' front office in Daytona Beach, Fla.
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posted on
09/10/2003 8:09:44 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
(God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
To: Brad's Gramma; All
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