Famous First
Words: Your
Passion. Our Purpose. --Southern
California Golf Association Website
10 ways to
celebrate Talk In An Elevator Day!
Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead with your palm muttering,
"Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!"
..........The
light of love comes stealing.........Sigmund Romberg .....Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
Love loves
to love. It's nothing personal. --Mooji
It is a beautiful Friday
morning. The 66°F is perfect for walking
or sitting in the backyard. The sky which
is overcast and white with only jet trails leaving tatters across its seemingly
seamless roof. Birds are up early and in
great numbers to greet this lovely scene and only temporarily silenced by the
trash truck making its rounds. The world
smells deliciously of damp soil and wet grass squishes underfoot. People are up and about walking dogs and jogging. Puck can't find any problems and so he sits
on the deck landing watching the day roll on.
I have brought my decaf to the outside so I can stand at the fence and
watch other people rushing off to work while I sip sweetened tartness and take
deep breaths of humidity (95%). It is
only the delightful thought of writing to you that brings me back inside at
all.
May your weekend only go
up, ePistliers.
Peek into
your purse or briefcase and ask, "Got enough air in there?". / Stand
facing the wall and count slowly.
..........You
who have dreams.........Sigmund Romberg
.....Stout Hearted Men
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday Olympic
National Park
^ Where is Olympic
National Park located anyway?
^^ Olympic lies around the
beautiful calm waters of which lake?
^^^ Hood Canal is the
longest what in the United States?
^^^^ Which Olympic Park
beach is known for the fabulous ocean view and spectacular sunsets?
^^^^^
Sol Duc offers the visitor what relaxing activity?
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 27% of librarians fix their own work
computers and don't tell library IT. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Moonbeam:
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. --Don Marquis
Offer name
tags to everyone getting on the elevator. / Make race car noises when anyone
gets on or off.
..........Now
I ain't callin' this life perfect.........Sigmund Romberg .....Lordy, What a Sweet World
Something to
Think About of the Week:
The place you are looking for is the place from which you are looking. --Mooji
Big Hello: Mandi - Friulian
(northern Italy)
Lawrence March
for Justice: Click Here for pictures of the Black
Lives Matter's March for Justice held July 22nd in Lawrence, KS.
Week of the Week: National
Moth Week (July 23-31) --The moth ate a hole in the carpet so he could see the
floor show. / What do you call a moth that won't leave you alone? Moth-erly.
Quote of the
Week: Fear
doesn't make us safer. It makes us
weaker. --Justin Trudeau
Greet
everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you
Madam Secretary. / Talk to your invisible dog: "Sit, boy, Good dog".
.......... Lightly
granted by Allah..........Sigmund Romberg
.....One Flower Grows Alone
^ Olympic National Park is
on Washington's Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest. The park sprawls
across several different ecosystems, from the dramatic peaks of the Olympic
Mountains to old-growth forests.
Almanac:
It is Friday, July 29, 2016. The moon
will be new on Tuesday and is in Gemini.
It is Lasagna Day, National Chicken Wing Day, Rain Day, and System
Administrator Appreciation Day. In
Gilroy, CA it is the weekend of the
Garlic Festival and in Norway it is Olsok Eve Festival (1030). Because it is the fourth Friday it is also National
Talk in An Elevator Day.
Among those born on this
day were Alexis de Tocqaueville (1805), Alica Roosevelt (1861), Rasputin
(1871), Don Marquis III (1878), Benito Mussolini (1883), Sigmund Romberg
(1887), William Powell (1892), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Clara Bow (1905), Dag
Hammarskjold (1905), Professor Irwin Corey (1914), Richard Egan (1921), Mikis
Theodorakis (1925), Nancy Kassebaum (1932), Elizabeth Dole (1936), and Peter
Jennings (1938).
On Friday, July
twenty-ninth the Spanish Armada sank (1588), the first sugar plantation in
Hawaii began operations (1935), the Southern California Golf Association formed
(1899), the first transcontinental phone link was made (NYC to SF, 1914),
Disney's Steamboat Willie was released (1928), Olympic National Park was
established (1938), the 14th modern Olympic games opened (London, 1948), the
International Atomic Energy Agency was established (UN, 1957), Jack Paar's Tonight
show premiered (1957), the Space Act and NASA were signed into law (1958), Help
staring the Beatles premiered (1965), the Greeks chose a republic over a
monarchy (1973), Pioneer 11 transmitted images of Saturn and its rings (1978),
Bonnie Prince Charlie married lady Diana (1981), and the last Playboy Club in
the US closed (1988).
Tonight's Sky,
July 29: The
Delta Aquarid Meteor shower offers slow and bright meteors, worth waiting for a
glimpse of one or two. The waning Crescent Moon will offer dark skies for
better viewing. August Planets: Morning:
Uranus and Neptune / Dusk: Mercury and Venus /
Evening: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.
This Week: Saturday, July 30 - Friendship Day, National
Dance Day & Father-in-Law Day.
Tonight's Sky, July 30: Due east at 11:30 pm is the Great Square of
Pegasus, about one third of the way up into the sky.
Sunday, July 31
- Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day and World Ranger Day
Monday, August 1
- Lughnasa, Rounds Resounding Day and Spider-Man Day
Tonight's Sky, August 1:
Looking at the handle of the Big Dipper high in the northwest, follow its curve
or “arc” to the bright star Arcturus high in the west
Tuesday, August 2
- National Coloring Book Day and National Night Out
Wednesday, August 3
- Watermelon Day
Thursday, August 4
- Coast Guard Day, India Pale Ale Day, and Social Security Day
Night Sky,
August 4: The new crescent moon is near Mercury and Venus, and also the
bright star Regulus.
Announce the
obvious: 5th Floor. Man in a blue suit getting off. Woman in a straw hat entering. / Meow
occasionally.
..........wants
to be free..........Sigmund Romberg .....The Fireman's Bride
^^ Lake Crescent is a
deep, glacially carved lake with pristine waters in the middle of Olympic Park.
Funniest thing I read of the Week: Considering we've produced things like Donald
Trump and the Kardashians, I'm a little surprised other countries haven't built
a wall around us already. --Submitted
by pm of ks
Moonbeam: If you decide you don't
have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college. --Isidor Isaac Rabi
Peace Joke of
the Week:
Late
Night Snacks: The
Republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood. The Democrats want to stop
Donald Drumpf from preventing access to birth control. They compromised, and
now, Planned Parenthood will hand out pictures of Donald Drumpf as birth
control. --Jimmy Fallon / Last night was night three of the Republican
Convention, and if you thought the first two nights were exciting — then you
really need to get out more. --James Corden / President Obama said to drink
water, stay out of the sun, and check on your neighbors. Can you imagine
checking on your neighbors in Los Angeles? And Donald Drumpf tweeting, “The sun
is the worst. Hot, lazy, stupid, the sun is a big fat loser.” --Jimmy Kimmel / Verizon has purchased Yahoo and plans to
merge it with AOL. Verizon said its goal is to become the RC Cola of the
internet. --Conan O'Brien / It
takes a lot of balls to call your opponents divisive when your own party is
tearing itself in half because they nominated a sociopathic 70 year old
toddler. --Samantha Bee / Ivanka Drumpf introduced her father
tonight says he is color blind and gender neutral — which means that Drumpf
cannot use the bathroom anywhere. --Seth Meyers / What I don't understand is,
yeah, we knew but there was supposed to be a floor fight. Bikers chain-whipping
the Rules Committee. Ted Cruz trying to cut out Reince Priebus' eyeball with a
broken bottle. We were promised excitement! But none of that happened. They
voted. He got it. That's it. --Stephen Colbert
Throw
everything away, forget about it all.
--Mooji
If the
elevator is full, you can moan, "Oh, not now, not motion sickness". /
If the elevator is silent ask, "Whose beeper is that?"
..........Avenge
the patriotic gore..........Sigmund Romberg
.....My Maryland
^^^ Hood Canal is the
longest fjord in the US and one of the 4 main basins of Puget Sound.
Worthless Facts
of the Week: Pioneer
11 discovered around Saturn two new moons (almost smacking into one of them in
September 1979) and a new "F" ring. The spacecraft also discovered
and charted the magnetosphere, magnetic field, and mapped the general structure
of Saturn's interior. Images at: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2483.html
Weird Word of
the Week:
Rhopalic - text in which each word contains one more letter or syllable than
the one preceding it. "I do not
know where family doctors..." http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-rho1.htm
Next Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: The only way Trump is making America great
again is by inspiring Jon Stewart to come back to TV. --Sumbitted by pt of ks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNiqpBNE9ik
Wacky Uses for
Common Products:
Relieve a cough. Mix 3 to 4 tablespoons
lemon juice, one cup honey, and one half-cup Star Olive Oil. Heat for five minutes. Then stir vigorously for two minutes. Take one teaspoon every 2 hours. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/star.html
Make small
bets with other passengers like how many times you can flip a coin between
floors. / Start a sing-a-long.
...........When
all that's within me feels dry.........Sigmund Romberg .....The Desert Song
^^^^ Kalaloch Beach,
located 35 miles south of Forks, Washington, is a wide and sandy stretch along
the Pacific coastline. Kalaloch Beach, which means "good place to
land", is one of the most visited areas of Olympic National Park. It is a
safe haven for thousands of sea creatures.
Sunsets on the beach are a park must see.
Word Shakespeare
Made Up of the Week:
Birthplace - the place where a person was born.
Coriolanus Act IV Scene IV: (Coriolanus)
Third Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week:
People think I'm crazy because I talk to my dogs. What am I supposed to do? Just ignore them
when they ask me a question? --Submitted by sd of ks
Fake Animal Fact
of the Week: Bees
speak with a lisp. https://fakeanimalfacts.wordpress.com/page/2/
Puck the Brave Episode of the
Week: Here's
our fearless Puck posing as one of the NY City Library Lions in the case of
Tevye's Tibetan Mastiffs. Check it out they look like lions. 
Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them. / Clutch a baby blanket and ask each passenger, "Are you my mother?"
..........Bound
for trouble from the start.........Sigmund Romberg .....Lover Come Back
^^^^^ Sol Duc Hot Springs
offers three mineral hot spring soaking pools and one freshwater swimming pool.
Temperatures vary between the pools, allowing you to find the perfect one to
relax and soak in.
Month of the
Week: August is Happiness Happens Month -- When I see
ads on TV with smiling, happy housewives using a new cleaning product, the only
thing I want to buy are the meds they must be on.
Science Fiction
Convention of the Week:
Tatsu-Con (Buffalo, NY) - 3 day anime & gaming convention where fans
unite to explore their creativity and imagination. http://www.tatsu-con.com/
Famous Kansans: Candy Loving, Playboy playmate (1/79) was born in
Oswego in 1956. http://autoculture.org/?p=2618
Today's Peace of
History,
July 29, 1972: The US Supreme Court ruled the death penalty to be cruel and
unusual punishment.
Say
"Ding" at each floor. / Draw a little square on the floor and
announce that it is your personal space.
..........Ein
zwei drei vier..........Sigmund Romberg
.....The Drinking Song (from The Student Prince)
Masthead of the Week: fRiday ePistle July 29, 2016. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ The
Peaceful Side of Humor. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam: When you IQ rises to 28,
sell. --Prof. Irwin Corey
Cost of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 7/28/16: $743,739,755,410
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 7/21/16: $743,065,081,716
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 7/28/16: $819,668,778,337.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 7/21/16: $819,649,059,944.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 7/28/16: $10,688,479,612.
Tax dollars spent on
Daesh conflict as of 7/21/16: $10,584,763,954.
Tax dollars spent on the
Pentagon Slush Fund as of 7/28/16: $125,667,069,411.
Tax dollars spent on the
Pentagon Slush Fund as of 7/21/16: $125,089,981,013.
Tax dollars spent on all
wars since 2001 as of 7/28/16: $1,702,980,921,578.
Tax dollars spent on all
wars since 2001 as of 7/21/16: $1,701,571,828,579.
You already
are the peace you are looking for. Be
still and know that. --Mooji
..........Yet
I keep on longing..........Sigmund Romberg
.....One Alone
Make
explosion noises when anyone presses a button. / Announce in a demonic voice: I
must find a more suitable host body.
Famous Last
Words: It is
that decadence that produced the Kardashians and this year's Hugo awards. --Christine Smith Fear in the Time of the
2016 US Presidential Election
May Peace push
your buttons
And Joy carry
you up
prairie mama
christine
Absolutely the final Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: Ban
Pre-Shredded Cheese Make America Grate
Again.
