USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 17 September 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

Heidi.

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday September 17, 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.

“I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing in-decipherability, transcendentalises intercommunications’ incompre-hensibleness”

RHOPALIC       

Of text in which each word contains one more letter or syllable than the one preceding it.

This word derives from the Greek rhopalos, for a club or cudgel which, like most of its kind, is thicker towards one end than the other. Though the English word is first recorded only at the end of the seventeenth century, the technique is almost certainly much older. It is commonly applied to poetry whose words advance each time by one syllable, or sometimes one foot, but it can also apply to prose. The classic example of the latter form was created by Dmitri Borgmann: “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing in-decipherability, transcendentalises intercommunications’ incompre-hensibleness”, which manages the difficult feat of reaching a word of twenty letters. (David Crystal, who quotes this in his book Language Play, remarks: “It would be ultraconscientiousness to go further”. Even overintellectualisation, perhaps.) In poetry, such wordplay has also been described as snowball verse and wedge verse.

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Happy Birthday

J. (John) Marriott 1900

We are counting cards!

 

Hotels.

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Happy Birthday

Chaim Herzog (Israel) 1918

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Happy Birthday

Hank Williams Sr.1923

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Happy Birthday

Ken Kesey 1935

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Orlando Cepeda 1937

Who is on first base. That is the player's name. Who, yes Who is on first base.

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Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson 1951

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Buttermilk Chocolate Chip Pancakes. Nothing fancy here - just buttermilk pancakes with chocolate chips. While it might not be the most intricate recipe, it's delicious, especially, if you like chocolate (and who doesn't?).

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Rita Rudner 1956

"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."

I could use about a hundred dollars.

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1983 - Vanessa Williams, as Miss New York, became the first black woman to be crowned Miss America.

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A man went to the doctor with a really bad infection. The doctor informed him he had Aids with just about every kind of infection there is to go along with it. The patient asked the doc what they were going to do for him. The doc answered that he was going to put him on a diet. "A diet! What kind of diet?" questioned the patient. "Pizza & pancakes," answered the doc. "Pizza and pancakes! Will that help?" queried the patient. The doctor replied: "I don't know, but it's the only thing we know of that we can slide under the door to you."

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1778 - The United States signed its first treaty with a Native American tribe, the Delaware Nation.

Native American pancakes.

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Would you like some magic with your pancakes?

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1787 - The Constitution of the United States of America was signed by delegates at the Constitutional Convention. The U.S. Constitution is the oldest working Constitution in the world.

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1796 - U.S. President George Washington's Farewell Address was read before the U.S. Congress.

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Design your own pancake syrup, but keep it on the right.

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1862 - The Battle of Antietam took place during the American Civil War. More than 23,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing. The Rebel advance was ended with heavy losses to both armies.

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1920 - The American Professional Football Association was formed in Canton, OH. It was the precursor to the National Football League.

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I am an excellent Driver

It is shown how, within the framework of general relativity and without the introduction of wormholes, it is possible to modify a spacetime in a way that allows a spaceship to travel with an arbitrarily large speed. By a purely local expansion of spacetime behind the spaceship and an opposite contraction in front of it, motion faster than the speed of light as seen by observers outside the disturbed region is possible. The resulting distortion is reminiscent of the ``warp drive'' of science fiction. However, just as it happens with wormholes, exotic matter will be needed in order to generate a distortion of spacetime like the one discussed here.

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Design your own pancake syrup, but keep it on the right.

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1939 - The Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.

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Below is an animated proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. Starting with a right triangle and squares on each side, the middle size square is cut into congruent quadrilaterals (the cuts through the center and parallel to the sides of the biggest square). Then the quadrilaterals are hinged and rotated and shifted to the big square. Finally the smallest square is translated to cover the remaining middle part of the biggest square. A perfect fit! Thus the sum of the squares on the smaller two sides equals the square on the biggest side

 

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1983 - Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox broke Hank Aaron's major league record for games played when he started his 3,299th game.

Yaz is on first base. Yaz is the player's name.

His wife Sue gets every dollar of his pay check

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to a Junkyard.

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Banana Pancake Muffins

• 1/2 cup shortening

• 1 cup brown sugar

• 1 egg

• 1 banana -- diced

• 3 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 1/4 cups soy milk   

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
  
  2. In a large bowl, cream together shortening and sugar. Beat in egg. Blend until banana is completely mixed in, then add flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix batter with spoon. Stir in soy milk, then spoon into muffin pan. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
  
  3. Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of muffin comes out clean.

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Smart Pancake Maker

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[Wild Thing]

When Cats make pancakes

ROTFL

Wild Thing

[Kathy in Alaska]

Celebrity airman

9/17/2003 - LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- First Lt. Kristy Kuhlman, the Air Force's reigning female athlete of the year, autographs a Cheerios box at her desk at the Space and Missile Systems Center here. The box features Kuhlman, a contracting officer, and an armed forces athlete from each of the other four services. Commemorative boxes are sold in military commissaries worldwide. (U.S. Air Force photo by David C. Porter)

[Wild Thing]

Hi Bentfeather I have missed you.That is a beautiul graphic and poem !

Wild Thing

[Kathy in Alaska]

NOTEBOOKS FOR ALL — U.S. Army Spc. Marisol Rincon, supply clerk for Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), hands out new notebooks to the students of the Badoosh school in Iraq, Sept. 17, 2003. The 101st paid for the school's repair and refurbishment. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Joshua Hutcheson

[JustAmy]

Thank you for the beautiful picture, Tonk.



God Bless our Military!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Bethbg79]

Good evening Troops!!

Good evening Canteen crew!!

Thank you for protecting America!

[Saint Lucie]

did you cook that all by yourself?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Did Run-a-muck help you make breakfast? LOL!

[The Mayor]

Thanks, TM, for dropping by with coffee

You are always welcome.. and it is my pleasure : )

[Brad’s Gramma]

251?

[The Mayor]

yes 252?

[minor49er]

yes 253?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yes! 254!!

[Wild Thing]

MoJo you are amazing. Here you are posting great music with so much going on with hurricane Isabel. Thank you so much for all you do MoJo you're a good sis.

Now what trouble can we get into. heheh

Wild Thing

[Kathy in Alaska]

The Creation! That is quite the plan. LOL!

[minor49er]

Oh!!! Can help get into trouble??? Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[minor49er]

That's meant to be:
Can I help to get into trouble, etc.

[Kathy in Alaska]

did you cook that all by yourself?

LOL! But of course! One of the few things I can cook. I scramble better than sunny side up, but, hey..........

[LaDivaLoca]

Good evening everyone.