USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 08 October 2003

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[Radix]

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday October 8, 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.

THAUMATURGY

The performance of miracles; magic.

Of all the words in English that refer to the making of magic, this is perhaps the most resonant. It doesn’t have the negative associations of words such as sorcery or necromancy because it referred originally to the production of wonders for positive ends rather than any intent to cause someone harm. The origin is the Greek word thaumatourgos, miracle working (from thauma, marvel, plus ergos, work). Though it’s not that common a word, it seems to have generated a surprisingly large set of derivatives since it first appeared in English in 1727. There are several words for a practitioner of thaumaturgy, including thaumaturge and thaumaturgist; another is thaumaturgus, which has been given to a number of Christian saints and others who are said to have performed wonders. The verb is thaumaturgise. The thaumatrope was a Victorian toy, a card with two different pictures on its back and front that magically combined into one when the card was rapidly spun. And aficionados of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels will know that the wizards of Unseen University invented a device with which to measure the intensity of a magic field—what would you call that but a thaumometer?

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Happy Birthday

Eddie Rickenbacker 1890

I am an excellent Aviator.

LOST AT SEA - THE RESCUE OF EDDIE RICKENBACKER

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Happy Birthday

Juan Peron 1895

"..the greatest Latin American leader of the 20th century,"

Don't cry for me Argentina.

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Fractals are those intriguing shapes that are characterized by self-similarity and based on mathematics.

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Happy Birthday

Paul Hogan 1939

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Blueberry Whole-Wheat Pancakes with Blueberry Syrup.

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Happy Birthday

David Carradine 1940

Oh oh, oh oh, David Carradine has two birthdays, oh oh.

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Happy Birthday

Chevy Chase 1943

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The Doppler Effect

A common example of the Doppler effect is listening to a speedy train or car honking its horn at you. While i'ts driving towards you, the tone seems higher and higher than its true tone. Only when it's right next to you can its true tone be heard. And as it moves farther away, the tone gets lower and lower. This is because as the train/car moves toward you, it is moving with the sound waves and compresses the waves. As it moves farther away from you, the waves are decompressed and the tone is lower.

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Happy Birthday

Sigourney Weaver 1949

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Would you like some salt with your pancakes?

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Happy Birthday

Matt Damon 1970

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About a hundred dollars

Silver dollar pancakes

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the World Trade Center

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We are counting cards.

On this day:

1987 - Chuck Berry was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1987 - The Chuck Berry biographical film "Hail, Hail Rock & Roll" premiered.

"Perhaps the most influential performer in the history of rock 'n' roll,"

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1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago broke out destroying about 17,450 buildings.

 About 250 people were killed and 90,000 were left homeless.

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1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.

8 October 1915 : Enemy counter-attack

Noon German artillery opened a bombardment on the whole front between the Canal and Lens, increasing in intensity at 3.00pm. At around 4.00pm, their infantry attacked, between the Double Crassier and the Chalk Pit. On the Allied right, the shelling failed to sufficiently damage French wire, and the attack was halted with heavy loss. At the same hour, enemy bombers attacked from the Quarries and Fosse 8 against the forward British positions in Quarry Trench and Big Willie.

On the left of the Loos attack, the attack fell against the 2/Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1/Gloucesters and 1/9th King's of 1st Division, between the Loos-Puits 14 bis track, and North of the Chalk Pit. Despite heavy shellfire casualties among the defenders, British machine-guns destroyed the attack within 40 yards of the front line. On the Hohenzollern Redoubt front, the 2/Coldstream Guards repelled all attacks, as they were by now armed with many Mills bombs. The 3/Grebnadier Guards were pushed back some way, but eventually formed a block and then counterattacked (supported by two companies of the 1/Scots Guards and the bombers of the Irish Guards) recovered the lost trenches and caused heavy loss to the enemy.

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I am an excellent driver

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1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.

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1956 - Donald James Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.

We are counting baserunners.

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1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Copycat: Life imitates art in the window of the Guardian Angel Cat Club Adoption Center in Hot Springs, Ark.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Explanation given to momma cat and run-a-muck for your all day absence?"

They know.
The day I got them was on the way home from the base.
So they know what my uniform means.
They really are very smart!

[Kathy in Alaska]

103 candles: Elva Chilcott can't wait to celebrate her 103rd birthday at the Armstrong County Health Center in Kittanning, Pa., right, Elva? ... Elva?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Nary a ripple: A kayaker skims the glass-like surface of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Mont.

[tomkow6]

FINAL

CUBS 12

Marlins 3

[Kathy in Alaska]

Dude, where's my board?! A wave spawned by Hurricane Kate catapults a surfer at Nags Head Town Hall beach on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

[Soaring Feather]

Good night TROOPS, CANTEEN CREW.
Going to turn in early tonight.
Bless you all and sweet dreams.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Yippee!! The cubbies win!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night, ms feather!! Hope you are feeling better today.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Aww! How clever of you. All spaghetti still in place? I'm off for home with a stop at Costco.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Oh, your daughter's teacher is so wrong. There ought to be a law, really.

Here are some good recent basics, and a few classics. The Worldmag article's a good, with info on the looting and the civilian casualties.

The Barry Farber essay is just wonderful, and it irks the critics. (^;

The "Cruelest Cover up", silences the critics as well. What the press knows about Saddam's brutality. If the world knew, they'd be cheering our troops as noble liberators.

The Wolfowitz briefing is a good overall picture of what we accomplished ~ 9/11.

Tell this teacher to refer to the DoD, CENTCOM and CPA briefings for the most accurate and trustworthy news - THE primary sources. Our military knows the importance of honest, clear communications - and they know words can kill.

Our educators and press have yet to learn.

Finally, if you have time, check my homepage: links and sources:

8 Beyond the nightly news [20 questions re. Iraq. Excellent!] ~ WORLDmag.com | 10/11/03 issue | Mindy Belz

8 Proud to Have Liberated Iraq ["I have never been prouder to be an American"] ~ Barry Farber

8 THE CRUELEST COVER-UP ~  [Tales of Saddam's Brutality] ~ White House  | Various

8 "Will of the (Iraqi) people!"  ~ [To the press, Chirac, Anan, DNC ~ it's NOT your country. Iraq belongs to Saddam's survivors]

8 The homecoming [excellent] ~ The Independent | 9/18/03 | Johann Hari

8 What Iraqis Really Think  [Important. First serious int'l survey of the Iraqi people] ~ Wall Street Journal via Frontpagemag.com  | 9/10/03 | Karl Zinsmeister 

8 Prepared Statement for the Senate Armed Services Committee: Helping Win the War on Terror  ~ DoD | 9/9/03 | PAUL WOLFOWITZ

8 It Ain't Necessarily So. [Army Spec Ops letter from Iraq - a must read!]

8 Results in Iraq: 100 Days Toward Security and Freedom ~ White House

http://www.freerepublic.com/~ragtimecowgirl/

Thank you for taking such time and care with your daughter's education!

Thanks for the ping, Diva!

[Fawnn]

Awwwwwwww LOL; thanks. ;)

[Fawnn]

LaDivaLoca!!! #200!!!

[Fawnn]

Bethbg79!!! #250!!!

[FlyVet]

Oh, there you go again with the Big Stack. Thank you K!

[HiJinx]

What an exciting time, indeed...and your timing is impeccable...

We've just finished getting ready for her parents to show up, they live 3 hours away...and are due in any minute now.

The contractions are every five minutes now for right at an hour...that's her clue to go to the hospital.

We'll check back in later!!!

[SevenofNine]

OHH Rack thatt Hijinx

Well latest from Hareetz wire IDF just busted two more Hezollah dude try cross the Israel border

HiJinx if you get TV Land they showing Sanford and Sons on weekdays hour

WAR AUNT ESTHER

Watch it SUCKA

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Offering my prayers!
WOO HOO
Another new baby about to be born!

[HiJinx]

Well, some of the signs are there and some aren't. She called the doc, who told her to go on in.

The youngest son and I are waiting for a call to join them.

Thanks for the prayers, they mean so much Tonk.

[Kathy in Alaska]

1935 Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet)