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]

Gosh, MoJo! I had trouble keeping Bobby and "Bob" straight! I'm doomed now!

{{giggle}}

Hi Fawnn great to see you.

Wild Thing

[Old Sarge]

SARGE IS STILL HERE...

...until he blows away.

Probably won't happen here at The Bunker in Kentucky, though.

We're watching the storm at this hour. Several state shave begged us for help; we've got civilian help going to North Carolina; Maryland and PA have asked for our search and rescue folks; and the MARS Radio network is watching the highlands for rainfall and wind damage.

The next three nights will be busy shifts for me. I'm pulling six straight nights to work through the weather event.

Keep safe, my FRiends in harm's way...

[Wild Thing]

Hi Minor nice to see you. I hope you had a good day at school today.

Wild Thing

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Beth!!

Hi Connor!!

[LaDivaLoca]

ROTFLOL!!! This video of the penguins never fail to make me really laugh!!!

[Saint Lucie]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Night Blessing for the Troops

Blessings on you this evening 
May the stars in heaven
light your way into the
Milky Way of dreams 

May your day tomorrow 
be filled with love 
laughter and joy... 

Taking away all heart ache 
left stinging... 
and unclouding your vision 
for clear sailing... 

bentfeather 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Soccer dolls: With only one umbrella between them, the Saginaw Barbies, a girls under-6 team in Saginaw Township, Mich., may have to be renamed the Betsy Wetsies.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Lucie, please thank your chef for me for the wonderful cake, and a patriotic one at that! And thank YOU for the loan of your chef.

[LaDivaLoca]

I heard the wonderful news! WooooooHooooooo!!! Please extend my heartfelt THANK YOU to your hubby for his service. God bless you and your family.

[LaDivaLoca]

The Paomnnehl Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid

LOL! I received the same thing in my email today.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, Sarge, for helping to keep Kentucky safe. And thanks too for keeping an eye on those in harm's way.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

030911-C-0368R-003. Naval Station, Great Lakes, Ill. (Sept. 11, 2003) -- Country musician Charlie Daniels dons a Navy ballcap and waves the National Ensign presented to him by Command Master Chief Michael Tsikours of Recruit Training Command following his performance for 11,000 recruits in training. Daniels performed as part of the Spirit of America tour, which brings entertainers to the troops worldwide. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Public Affairs Specialist 1st Class Paul Roszkowski. (RELEASED)

030911-C-0368R-002 Naval Station, Great Lakes, Ill. (Sept. 11, 2003) -- Country musician Charlie Daniels performs "The Devil went down to Georgia," for 11,000 recruits at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Daniels performed as part of the Spirit of America tour, which brings entertainers to the troops worldwide. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Public Affairs Specialist 1st Class Paul Roszkowski. (RELEASED)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night, Lucie. Thanks for helping support our troops.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Outstanding, EMB!! Our military has a really good supporter in Charlie Daniels.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

meow, meow, meow, meow, LOL

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yum, looks good (the cat can have the Friskies, though)!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hi CPT kj!! Hi Star!! Thank you for serving this great nation of ours. Prayers for your success and safety, kj.