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

 

[StarCMC]

Then every once in a while I can't remember where I put my car keys or my wallet or my glasses, etc.

Has a way of reminding you you're not Superman after all, eh? LOL!

[Soaring Feather]

WOW WOW Kathy that is so beautiful. Thanks so much. :-)

[Wild Thing]

Have you ever seen American Dreamer?

No I never saw that one I will try to see it. I like to see good things.Thank you.

{{hugz}}

Wild Thing

[Soaring Feather]

OLD SOFT ROCK!



Hey hey, Cowboy great tunes!!

Oh BTW they aren't that old! :-)

[Wild Thing]

400 !

You did it Fawnn !!

Congratulations ! Feel that LOVE !

Wild Thing

[Kathy in Alaska]

Old Soft Rock!! I was just humming away, and all of a sudden I realized I was singing, out loud, to Bad Bad LeRoy Brown. LOL! Good thing I'm alone. Good job, Cowboy!!

[Soaring Feather]

ALL I NEED IS THE AIR THAT I BREATHE


Wow Gramma, you know a good song when you hear!

[Wild Thing]

#407 ROTFLMAO

hahaha

Wild Thing

[Fawnn]

Do any of you remember who posted the soldier letter with the WMD - coffee fixin's/cup of coffee analogy? Have a link to it perhaps?

[Wild Thing]

I'm all excited, but I don't know what for!

ROTFLMAO

Hi TC !

Wild Thing

[Wild Thing]

No I don't ,sorry.

Wild Thing

[Kathy in Alaska]

I suspect it was on Ragtime Cowgirl's thread. Can it wait for me to search My Comments when I get home?

[Fawnn]

Sure. I'll make patience my virtue for tonight. Thanks!!!

[SevenofNine]

TOO FUNNY

AFP wire report that Brit scientists are saying MAN we keep our cats and dogs overweight

20 lbs overweight So Tomkow

Put the kitty on Weight Watchers

LOL!


Also serious news going down on Hareetz wire report that IDF doing smackdown on Gaza at this hour with busting Hamas dude connect to bombing yesterday

BTW the time Ariel Sharon arrived back in Israel Arafat Ramalah compound going be prison for him

NEXT STOP Exile or being whack

[Brad’s Gramma]

I TRIED to thank you, but the stupid mouse froze up again....so, let's try this again.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[StarCMC]

Hey all! How's is going tonight? I am wondering if you all know how I can get over to the Daily Prayer Thread. I can't seem to find it -- but then I'm not the best website navigator in the world. (Put me in a passenger seat with a map and even DH says I'm pretty darn good!!)

[Kathy in Alaska]

That is a really cool, and oh so clear, picture. Feels like you could reach out and touch it.

[StarCMC]

Of course, that's coming from someone of the gender that doesn't ask directions! LOL!!

[MoJo2001]

Hi Ma! You have email! Please answer it immediately! Thank you!

[Kathy in Alaska]

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