USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 10 September 2003

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[Radix]

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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

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[Fawnn]

1846 Elias Howe patents the sewing machine

(I have it on good authority that Gramma's still using her autographed copy!!! Second one off the production line. She lowered the value when she tried to embroider the engraved nameplate though.)

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, darkwing!! It's great to see you! We've missed you!! (Well, I've missed you! I haven't seen you in forever!! I apologize if you've been back and I haven't been here!) Anyways, LET'S BE DANGEROUS!!! *HUGS* Have a fabulous day!

[MoJo2001]

Fabulous thread, Radix! Thank you for all you do for the Canteen and our brave heroes!! What would the world be like without "Pancakes On Wednesday"?

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Aeronaut!! Thanks to you and Otto for the flyover! I hope you are having a fabulous day! *HUGS*

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Bro!! How are you?? I hope you have a fabulous day at work!! *HUGS* (Heads High!)

[Aeronaut]

Hiya MoJo. I am having a good day, I hope you are, too.

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, E.G.C! HOw is the weather in your area?? I hope you have a wonderful day today!! *HUGS*

[MoJo2001]

I am having a wonderful day! Thank you so much!! It's a beautiful day! It's a wonderful day to be alive! Why? Cause I woke up today! Isn't that a good enough reason? LOL!

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Valin! Thank you for the history! *HUGS* Have a wonderful day! Actually, have a wonderful day and double that!!

[MoJo2001]

*HUGS* to my favorite Hawks. (Actually, I have to share you both with all the troops and the Canteen. Oh well! Hehehe!) Anyways, I hope you both are having a wonderful day times 100. It's a grand day! Woohoo!

[MeekOneGOP]

... the cooler weather won't be too far away!

Yep ! In fact, it's supposed to rain tomorrow and Friday. We're supposed to see 87 tomorrow and only 82 Friday for high temps. I look forward to it cooling down too !

Thanks ! ...

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Mr.Tonkin!! How are you today?? HOw's Mr.Goat?? Oh did I mention that he will have new ownership this afternoon?? I'm sure he'll be happier with someone that will feed him all the dog food he wants!! Hehehe! *HUGS* Thank you for all you do for our troops, America, and the Canteen!! *HUGS*

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Meekie! How are you today?? I hope you are having a great day! I'm sorry to hear that the Texas Demons still haven't figured out that it isn't all about them!! Figures, huh?? *HUGS*

[Valin]

Well I wasn't going too, but now I guess I have no choice.

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, minor! By the time you read this, you will already returned home from a fun filled day of educational purpose. (Or at least that's what my dad used to call it!) Anyways, I hope you study hard and get top grades. Why?? You will have to take care of all of us in the Canteen. So? Study hard and GET A GREAT JOB!! Mr.Tonkin and Tomkow will cost a lot. Ms. Feather's limo isn't cheap. Someone has to put gas in the thing when she needs to jet to her book signings. Ma needs stuff that is required for someone in the geriatrics ward of the looney bin. Hehehe!

[MoJo2001]

Well, I guess if you are being forced to have a fabulous day..That's Okay!!

[MoJo2001]

Wow! Your Canteen banners are really cool! Thank you so much for all your hard work! Fabulous!!

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Diva! How are you today?? I hope you are having a wonderful day! Why? Cause I said to! That's all you need! Hehehe! *HUGS*

[E.G.C.]

Uh, well. We're watching for thunderstorms and severe weather today and heay rain tommorow. But right now it's nice and sunny today. How about you?:-D

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Goddess!! Did you get any sleep? Oh! You are a Goddess!! Sorry for asking! You make Superman look like a manchild in diapers and tights with a cape! YOU GO GODDESS!! Have a wonderful day at work!! *HUGS*