# Contest: Identify this pancake

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 2, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167 "2006-06-02T17:36:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author: ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/41 "2006-06-02T20:54:06Z")

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That could very well be the legendary Paul Anka Pancake[sup]1[/sup].

[sup]1[/sup] I’m referencing a very funny episode of _ **Newhart** _.

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### Author: ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/42 "2006-06-02T20:57:59Z")

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> [@indecisive1](#):
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> BZZT! Is the family guy already historic? Man-o-man what is this world coming too?

Naw. I just think assigning that pancake to the historic category was a mistake.

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### Author: ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/43 "2006-06-02T21:04:30Z")

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> [@UncleBeer](#):
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> Naw. I just think assigning that pancake to the historic category was a mistake.

I’ll pass that on to the Pancake Man.

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### Author: ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/44 "2006-06-02T21:15:22Z")

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> [@indecisive1](#):
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> **Inigo!** forgive me, I have always loved you but I didn’t know why!
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> and BZZT (I think) I’ll be talking to the pancake man in about 30 minutes. I’ll find out for sure who the mistery pancake is. But I think I would remember the Edward G. R. guy.

Well spank my ass! That pancake is Edward G. Robinwhatever! The pancake man thinks I’m crazy now. He says: “You know… Little Mickey… Caesar…” I go “um, ok sure, honey I need you to make some more pancakes.”

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### Author: ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2006, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/45 "2006-06-03T08:03:26Z")

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_There’s_ Jimmy Hoffa!

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### Author: ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/46 "2006-06-03T20:14:13Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> I was going to guess Freud.
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> (You know what _that_ means, right? 😉 )

Sometimes a pancake is just a pancake. Or a cigar.  
😃

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### Author: ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/47 "2006-06-04T02:18:56Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> Sometimes a pancake is just a pancake. Or a cigar.  
> 😃

Mmmm. Smoking pancakes. Burny syrupy goodness.

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### Author: ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2006, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/48 "2006-06-04T04:19:10Z")

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At first glance, it looked like the Kool-Aid man to me…

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### Author: ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/49 "2006-06-05T14:18:07Z")

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More flapjacks! I’ve finally found my calling!

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### Author: ![TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/50 "2006-06-05T15:40:58Z")

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Was going to guess [Rollie Fingers](http://www.mlb.com/mlb/images/allstar2001/ucs/ph_ucs_rollie_fingers_215.jpg)

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### Author: ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/51 "2006-06-05T18:46:57Z")

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> [@Inigo Montoya](#):
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> More flapjacks! I’ve finally found my calling!

Ha! You really do have a knack for pancake identification. I’ll try to get him busy making your grand prize pancake this coming weekend. Maybe he’ll make a few extra that people can guess at.

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### Author: ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/52 "2006-06-07T14:16:39Z")

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> [@Kalhoun](#):
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> I think it’s Mumbles, from the Batman comics.

Wasn’t Mumbles from Dick Tracy?

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### Author: ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/53 "2006-06-07T18:43:12Z")

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I though it was Groucho Marx.

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### Author: ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/54 "2006-06-07T20:13:33Z")

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I couldn’t place the first one, but the second one reminded me of H. R. Pufnstuf.

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### Author: ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/55 "2006-06-08T07:02:58Z")

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Ed Asner!

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### Author: ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/56 "2006-06-08T17:00:26Z")

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Gee, and I was going to guess **goatse** for the first one …

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### Author: ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/57 "2006-06-08T17:07:17Z")

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> [@Daithi Lacha](#):
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> Gee, and I was going to guess **goatse** for the first one …

WTF???

looking at first picture… \* gasp \*

you know, if you turn that picture upside down…Oh my God! :eek:

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### Author: ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/58 "2006-06-08T20:40:27Z")

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> [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](#):
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> Was going to guess [Rollie Fingers](http://www.mlb.com/mlb/images/allstar2001/ucs/ph_ucs_rollie_fingers_215.jpg)

Wow, Rollie really looks stoned in that picture.

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### Author: ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-identify-this-pancake/359167/59 "2006-06-08T20:42:37Z")

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> [@Hoopy Frood](#):
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> Wasn’t Mumbles from Dick Tracy?

Damn. I think you’re right. Shame on me.

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