Famous
First Words:
What do you want? --Henrik Ibsen Ghosts
May
16-20 is National Bike to Work Week: Studies have shown that riding a bicycle
everyday makes you more awesome than the general population.
..........What
do you see when you turn out the light.........Joe Cocker .....With a Little
Help From My Friends
Even if
a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. --Hans Urs von Balthasar
It is a damp Friday morning.
The 55°F is lovely especially with little
wind to make it angry. The birds have long
ago ended their jubilance for morning song and settled into a rainy day soundtrack.
Rabbits are everywhere, to the delight of
Puck and the deafening of every other creature with ears. All of Puck's barking cannot keep the rabbits from
enjoying the garden of the lady next door. The world's background color has changed from brown
to green but the flicks and flags of top color now includes so many yellows and
reds and pinks. The scent of honeysuckle
momentarily replaces the aroma of damp soil and pavement. The little unseen dog, behind the privacy fence,
makes his morning rabbit purge with such uproar that Pepper and Penny come out into
the yard barking and puffing. I decide it
is time to retreat to quiet and to rich creamy moose munch and, of course, to you.
Hope your weekend is
an upshift, ePistliers.
I don't
know if it's illegal to be as sexy as me and ride a bike at the same time but
whatever, I live dangerously. / It's
really easy for me to ride a bike to work, I'm retired.
..........Truer
than the red, white, and blue.........Cowsills .....Love, American Style
Epistle At Home: The ePistle has found a new online
home. http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ The two great things about this blog site is
that it accepts my formatting and I don't have to reformat the letter after I
copy it. AND It will accept a bunch of entries so more than one ePistle will be
available.
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday, Ronnie.
^
With what derogatory term did Reagan's vice president, G.H.W. Bush, describe
Reagan's economic proposals?
^^
How much did the national debt increase under Reagan?
^^^
How many children did Reagan have?
^^^^
Who was the gunman that hit but did not serious wound Regan in 1981?
^^^^^ How many
individuals from the Reagan administration were indicted?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week: Simply by removing all the books from their trunk the
average librarian would improve their car's fuel efficiency 47%. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
Moonbeam: Behind every great
fortune there is a crime. --Honoré de
Balzac
I cycle
therefore I am. / Fred's bicycle is so old Yoda used it when he was a kid. / An
enscarfment is a food break by a cliff.
..........There
are concrete mountains in the city...........Joe Cocker .....Delta Lady
Something
to Think about This Week:
Circles are a symbol of wholeness, circles flow and have no hard edges or
angels, and circles help focus us inward.
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The Big Hello: Mɔkɔm (Nigeria)
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Week of the
Week: National Transportation Week (May 15-21) --Cassie
was taking two of her grandsons on their very first train ride from Dayton,
Ohio to Washington, DC. A vendor came
down the corridor selling Pop Rocks, something neither had ever seen before. Cassie bought each one a bag. The first one eagerly tore open the bag and
popped one into his mouth just as the train went into a tunnel. When the train emerged from the tunnel, he
looked across to his brother and said: "I wouldn't eat that if I were
you." "Why not?" replied
the curious brother. "I took one
bite and went blind for half a minute."
Quote of
the Week:
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable
and that life has order and direction.
--Bill Watterson Calvin & Hobbes
What do
you call an artist who sculpts with bicycle parts? Cycleangelo / What do you
call a bicycle built by a chemist? Bikecarbonate of soda.
..........Flowers
in her hair, flowers everywhere.........Cowsills .....The Rain, the Park, and
Other Things
^ Papa Bush called
Reagan's economic plans, "voodoo economics".
Almanac: It is Friday, May
20, 2016. The moon will be full (flower)
tomorrow and is in Scorpio. The United
Nations has declared this Vesak, the Day of the Full Moon. It is also Eliza
Doolittle Day and Weights & Measures Day.
In addition it is Botev Day in Bulgaria, Constitution Day in Cameroon
and both Cuba (1902) and Saudi Arabia (2917) celebrate Independence Day. Massachusetts commemorates Lafayette and in
Zaire it is Revolution Day. Because it
is the third Friday we also celebrate Endangered Species Day, International
Virtual Assistants Day, NASCAR Day, National Bike to Work Day, National Defense
Transportation Day and National Pizza Party Day.
Among
those born on this day were Henry Percy (Harry Hotspur, 1364), Melchior
Bischoff (1547), Paulo Bellasio (1554), Jacob Jordaens (1593), Hans Gram
(1754), William Thornton (1759), Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison (1768), William
Congreve (1772), Honoré de Balzac (1799), John Stuart Mill (1806), William
George Fargo (1818), Frédéric Passy (1822), Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825),
Henri E Cross (Delacroix, 1856), John Owen Jones (1876), Sigrid Undset (1882),
Paul Arntzenius (1883), James Maitland Stewart (Jimmy, 1908), Gardner F Fox
(1911), William Hewlett (1913), Moshe Dayan (1915), George Gobel (1919), David
Frederick Barlow (1927), Danny Aiello (1933), Shorty Long (1940), Joe Cocker
(1944), Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov (1945), Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre,
1946), Dave Thomas (1949), James Henderson (1954), Ronald Prescot Reagan
(1958), and Susan Cowsill (1960).
On May twentieth shoes were first made
for left and right feet (1310), Vasco da Gama arrived in Calcutta (1498), the
first public school opened in the new world (1639), Elias Neau formed a school
for slaves in New York (1704), the daily railroad timetable was first published
in the newspaper (1830), the cornerstone for the University of Washington was
laid in Seattle (1861), the Homestead Act
was passed (1862), the foundation for the Royal Albert Hall was laid (1867),
Levi Strauss first marketed his blue jeans ($13.50/dozen, 1874), the
International Bureau of Weights & Measures was established by treaty
(1875), Ibsen's Ghosts (Gengangere) premiered (1882), the clothes
dryer was patented (1892), the Saturday Evening Post featured its first
Norman Rockwell painting (1916), the University of California dedicated $1,500
to research on prevention and cure of athlete's foot (1930), Amelia Earhart
left Newfoundland on her solo flight across the Atlantic (1932), the helicopter
was unveiled (1940), the US Communist Party dissolved (1944),
Japanese-Americans regained their citizenship (1959), mobs attacked Freedom
Riders in Montgomery, LA (1961), Criss quit Kiss (1980), Toonces the Cat
debuted on SNL (1989), the Hubble
telescope sent its first photographs from space (1990), the final episode of Cheers
aired (1993), and CBS fired Connie Chung (1995).
This Week: Saturday, May
21 - Do Dah Day and National Wait Staff Day
Night Sky, May 21 - Full Moon. Since this is the 3rd of 4 full moons in this
quarter (season), it is known as a blue moon. This rare calendar event only
happens once every 2.7 years, giving rise to the term, “once in a blue moon.”
Since full moons occur every 29.53 days, occasionally a season will
contain 4 full moons. Mars
will appear to blaze almost directly below the moon.
Sunday, May 22 - Harvey Milk Day
and World Goth Day
Night
Sky, May 22 – Mars is at
opposition to the sun. It will rise at sunset, peak in the south at midnight,
and set at sunup on the 23rd
Monday, May 23 - World Turtle
Day ~~We have a new turtle household
member
Tuesday, May 24 - Brothers Day and
International Tiara Day
Wednesday, May 25 - Cookie Monster's
Birthday and Nerd Pride Day
Thursday, May 26 - Eat More Fruits
and Vegetables Day and Red Nose Day
Jack
and Jill have just climbed Le Alp de Huez on a tandem: "Phew that was a
tough climb" said Jack "Thought I was going to bonk". "Yeah
good job I kept the brakes on" said Jill "or we'd have slid all the
way back down!"
..........This
lovely planet caught my eye..........Joe Cocker .....Space Captain
^^ Under Reagan, the national
debt almost tripled, from $907 billion in 1980 to $2.6 trillion in 1988.
Moonbeam: In all intellectual
debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm and wrong in what
they deny. --John Stuart Mill
Late Night
Snacks:
British researchers are warning that one-fifth of the world's
plant species are at risk of extinction. Even worse, kale is expected to
survive. --Jimmy Fallon / Google has created several new emojis aimed at
empowering women. So congratulations women, you asked for equal pay and you got
five new emojis. --Conan O'Brien / "60 Minutes" correspondent Morley
Safer will formally retire this week after 46 seasons with the show. Safer made
his name as a young reporter covering the landmark case of "Asteroid v.
Dinosaurs." --Seth Meyers / A baby was born in India to what is believed
to be the world's oldest mother. She's 72 years old, and her husband is 79
years old. They said they've wanted a baby for many years but they wanted to
all be in diapers at the same time. --Jimmy Kimmel / This weekend, Ozzy and
Sharon Osbourne said that they're getting a divorce. Ozzy announced the
separation by biting the head off their lawyer. It's sad news. They were
married for 33 years, six of which Ozzy remembers. --Stephen Colbert / I'm sorry, but saying
Donald Trump could be a capable leader is not very reassuring. If you are about
to have an operation and they tell you that your doctor could be a capable
surgeon, you would be like, “You know what? It was a minor heart attack. I'm
good. Don't worry.” --James Corden / Last week we bade a tearful farewell to
doughy dominionist and dog whistler Ted Cruz.
--Samantha Bee
Be a
hero for a better world ... Every act of kindness makes a difference!
My
granny started cycling at 97 years old. She has been doing ten miles per day -
and now we don't know where the heck she is!
..........Isn't
it groovy in a daydream? Dreamin' today.........Cowsills .....We Can Fly
^^^ Ronnie had five
children: Maureen,
Christine, Michael, Patti, and Ron.
Worthless
Fact of the Week:
The first Rockwell illustration on a Saturday Evening Post cover was titled Boy
With Baby Carriage. Click here to see it.
Weird Word
of the Week:
Infandous - unspeakable or too odious to be expressed or mentioned. ~~Unfortunately, nothing was too infandous to
be a subject of this year's Republican debates~~ http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-inf2.htm
Wacky Uses
for Common Products:
Remove the glue left behind by a bumper sticker. Rub the glue with a soft, clean cloth soaked
in Smirnoff Vodka. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/smirnoff.html
Where's
your bicycle Vicar" I said, (because it was the first time I had seen him
walking in 10 years!). "Don't know, I think it might have been stolen, but
I will get it back on Sunday" he replied. "At my next sermon I will
go through the ten commandments. When I get to 'thou shalt not steal' God will
sort it out, I've got faith" The following week, sure enough he was riding
the bike again. So I asked him if the ten commandments thing had worked as
planned: "I got as far as thou shall not commit adultery.......then I
suddenly remembered where I left the bike...
...........Three
o'clock and I'm dreaming...........Joe Cocker .....High Time We Went
^^^^John Hinckley
opened fire on Reagan and his entourage as they left a Washington hotel.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week: Intergalactic Expo ...
Celebrating out-of-this-world fan favorites Star Wars, Star Trek,
Firefly, Farscape, and Doctor Who. May
22nd at the West Sacramento Civic Center. West Sacrament, CA.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Addiction - enthusiastic
devotion to a specific thing or activity.
Othello Act 2: Scene II (Herald)
Three
cyclist's went for a meal. When the waiter appeared with the bill, the first
cyclist said "The meals on me lads, I’ll pay": The headlines the
following day read "cycling ventriloquist found dead in a ditch".
..........Or
a honey lovin' mama bear.........Cowsills .....Indian Lake
^^^^^ By the end
of his term, 138 Reagan
administration officials had been convicted, indicted, or had been the subject
of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations
Month of
the Week: May is National Egg Month --Bacon and Eggs walk into a bar. The bartender looks them up and down and
says, "We don't serve breakfast here".
Famous
Kansans:
Clyde Tombaugh was raised in Burdett.
Tombaugh discovered Pluto. http://www.space.com/19824-clyde-tombaugh.html
This Week's
Peace of History,
May 20, 1971: A delegation of pacifists from the US traveled to Cuba to
exchange children's art.
A tired
cyclist stuck his thumb out for a lift: After 3 hours, hadn't got anyone to
stop. Finally, a guy in a sports car pulled over and offered him a ride. But
the bike wouldn't fit in the car. The driver got some rope out of the trunk and
tied it to his bumper. He tied the other end to the bike and told the rider:
"If I go too fast, ring your bell and I'll slow down." Everything
went well until another sports car blew past them. The driver forgot all about
the cyclist and put his foot down. A short distance down the road, they
hammered through a speed trap. The cop with the radar gun and radioed ahead
that he had 2 sports cars heading his way at over 150 mph. He then relayed,
"and you're not going to believe this, but there's a cyclist behind them ringing
his bell to pass!".
..........She's
hard to call your own..........Joe Cocker .....The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week:
Week of the
Week Too:
National Heritage
Breeds Week
--One beautiful autumn day, a Park Ranger discovered a man
sitting in the woods chewing away on a dead Bald Eagle. "Hey mister, the
Bald Eagle is a protected species, and killing one is punishable offence",
said the Park Ranger. The man was
swiftly arrested, and ushered before the judge.
In court, he pleaded innocent to the charges against him, claiming that
if he didn't eat the bald eagle, he may not find any more food for many
days. "I was so hungry" complained
the defensive camper, "the Bald Eagle was the only food I could
find!" To everyone's amazement, the
judge ruled in his favor. In the judge's
closing statement he asked the man, "I would like you to tell me something
before I let you go. I have never eaten a bald eagle nor ever plan on it. But
I'd like to know: What did it taste like?"
The man answered, "Well, it tasted like a cross between a Whooping
Crane and a Spotted Owl."
Cost of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 5/19/16: $737,012,219,977.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 5/12/16: $736,343,240,303.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 5/19/16: $819,472,157,518.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 5/12/16: $819,452,605,016.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 5/19/16: $9,654,461,708.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 5/12/16: $9,551,639,559.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 5/19/16: $119,913,597,604.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 5/12/16: $119,341,493,067.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 5/19/16: $1,688,931,333,101.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 5/12/16: $1,687,534,298,436.
Who is
wise? One who learns from all people.
..........Come
on, let me show you the way.........Cowsills .....The Path of Love
Encyclopedia
: n. a fetish for very small bicycles. / Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not
regret it if you live. --Mark Twain
Famous Last
Words:
...granting preemption rights. --Homestead Act 1862
May Peace set our cadence
And Joy surround your jaunt
prairie mama
christine
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