Famous
First Words: Whereas, on the twenty-second day... The
Emancipation Proclamation
Happy
Tolkien Week. No one ever talks about the bad hobbits, hobbits gone
wrong. For instance, the gangsta hobbit, Yola Swaggins, you may know
her from, Yola Swaggins and the
Fellowship of the Bling and
their hit song, This Day We Bite.
..........It's
rainin' but there ain't a cloud in the sky.........Bruce Springsteen
.....Waitin' on a Sunny Day
Darkness
must pass. A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine
out the clearer. --J.R.R. Tolkien
It is a crystal clear Friday
morning. The sky has only the half moon directly overhead to catch
the glitter of the rising sun. The 64°F
temperature is perfect for walking or standing or sitting. There are
no birds at the feeders but birdsong (with one lone cricket) fills
the air and makes a generally upbeat score for the day. Puck did not
bother to walk the perimeter but immediately took up watch on the
landing between decks. (Perhaps he has intelligence from the
neighborhood cats about a dog brutality protest.) The colors of the
world, still mostly summerish greens, almost glow in the clear, early
light. I breathe deep and sneeze deeply. The call of coffee is
strong and we return by separate paths to our rooms. Puck
immediately laid down to nap and I fixed myself a cup of hot, sweet,
creamy decaf. The smell of coffee clears the pollen from my nose and
I breathe in steam and air. Ah, and best of all, now it's time to
write to you.
May the stars shine upon
your weekend, ePistliers.
Why was
Lord of the Rings
made into a movie? The fans were Baggins for it..
/ Tolkien created an entire language for
Elves but names the mountain, Mt. Doom.
..........Heard
they crowded the floor.........Harry Connick, Jr. .....Don't Get
Around Much Anymore
Trivia
Questions: Today is Dogs in Politics Day. I'll name the dog -
you name the president.
^ Heidi, a Weimaraner
^^ Charlie (Welsh Terrier),
Pushinka, Shannon, Wolf, and Clipper
^^^Him and Her and Freckles,
beagles
^^^^ Millie, a Springer Spaniel
^^^^^Spot, a Springer Spaniel
born in the White House
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
3 in 4 librarian trivia teams are named "The Dewey Decimators".
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Disclaimer
of the Week: Actually not a disclaimer
at all. A bunch of my computer is new. At the moment I have only
Open Office Writer and not MS Word. At one time, OOW was doubling up
lines and they were printing over one another and stuff. If that
happens, let me know and I will do something about it. I'm hoping my
current spacing will take care of it.
Moonbeam:
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
--Euripides
How many
dwarves does it take to change a light bulb? As many as they can get
together on a moment’s notice. First they’ll make a song about
how great the old light-bulb was and how well their fathers made it,
and then they’ll make a new light bulb from scratch, sighing about
how much lore and skill they’ve forgotten. / How many dwarves does
it take to change a light bulb? 10 One to screw in the bulb and 9 to
stand on each other shoulders to reach it.
..........El
momento ya llegó de separarnos..........Julio Iglesias .....Vaya
Con Dios
Something
to Think About of the Week: We are made of star-stuff. Our
bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us
all. --Carl Sagan
Big Hello:
નમસ્તે aka
Namaste - Gujarati (India)
Week of the
Week: National Dog Week (September
18-24)
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Spa-Con - Meanwhile in Hot
Springs...Arkansas's newest comic
convention at Hot Springs Guest of Honor- Nichelle Nichols.
http://www.spa-con.org/
How many
hobbits does it take to change a light bulb? One, but he’ll invite
a few hundred cousins over for dinner to celebrate the new age of the
light. / Just because you're talkin' Elfish doesn't mean I know what
you're Tolkien about.
..........Been
talkin' to the shadows.........Ray Charles .....Black Coffee
^ Dwight Eisenhower’s dog,
Heidi, has the dubious distinction of being possibly the only
presidential dog banned from the White House. (We will set aside,
for now, the fact that Jimmy Carter’s daughter’s dog Grits and
Harry Truman’s dog Feller — both unsolicited gifts — were
rehomed.)
Almanac:
It is Friday September 23, 2016. The moon is last quarter today and
is in Cancer. It is Celebrate
Bi-Sexuality Day, Checkers Day (aka Dogs in Politics Day), Innergize
Day, and Restless Legs Awareness Day. In Puerto Rico it is Grito de
Lares Day (1868) while Saudi Arabia celebrates Unification Day (1932)
and in Wyoming it is Frontier Day.
Because it is the 4th
Friday it is also American
Indian Day (since 1916) and Love Note Day.
Among
those born on this day were Euripides
(484 BCE), Octavian (63 BCD), Ferdinand VI (1713), William McGuffey
(1800), Victoria Chaflin Woodhull (1838), Edgar Lee Master (1869),
John Lomax (1870), Walter Lippmann (1889), Mickey Rooney (1920), John
Coltrane (1926), Ray Charles (1930), Julio Iglesias (1943), Loren J.
Shriver (1944), Mary Kay Place (1947), Bruce Springsteen (1949),Patti
Weaver (1955) and Harry Connick Jr. (1967).
On
September twenty-third Harvard
held its first commencement (1642), Lewis & Clark returned to St.
Louis (1806), the first baseball team was organized (NY
Knickerbockers, 1845), the Emancipation
Proclaimation
was first published in newspapers (1862), Cheyenne, WY held it's
first Frontier Days Rodeo (1897), the University of Alberta opened
(1908), the first Keystone
Comedy
was released (1912), the Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd became Saudi
Arabia (1932), Richard Nixon made his "Checkers" speech
(1952), a new largest known prime was discovered (2^132,049-1, 1973),
Cheryl Ladd replaced Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's
Angels
(1977), and Sparky Anderson became the first manager to win 100 games
in both leagues (1984).
Tonight's
Sky:
The
Moon reaches last quarter today. Half of the side that faces Earth is
bathed in sunlight, while the other half is in darkness. When the
Moon is at last quarter it is leading Earth in our planet’s orbit
around the Sun.
September
planets: Dawn - Mercury,
Morning - Uranus,
Dusk - Venus, Evening
- Mars, Saturn,
& Neptune.
This Week:
Saturday, September 24 – Fish Amnesty
Day & National Museum Day
Sunday,
September 25 – Math Story Telling Day & World
Pharmacists Day
Tonight's
Sky, September 25: Tiny
Triangulum, the triangle, wedges between the prominent constellations
Andromeda and Aries. Its three brightest stars form an isosceles
triangle, which looks like a long wedge. Triangulum is low in the
east-northeast at nightfall
Monday,
September 26 – Johnny Appleseed Day & World
Contraception Day
Tuesday,
September 27 – Google's Birthday & World Tourism Day
Wednesday,
September 28 – Banned Websites Awareness Day & Fish Tank
Floor show Night
Night Sky,
September 28: The planet Mercury reaches greatest western
elongation of 17.9 degrees from the sun. Best viewed in the morning
sky
Thursday,
September 29 – International Coffee Day & VFW Day
My
teacher's name was Gandalf, needless to say he didn't let me pass. /
Why did Bilbo cross the road? To see
the chickens...one last time.
..........All
over dis worl', hanh..........Collected by John Lomax .....Jumpin'
Judy
^^ The Kennedy Family owned Tom
Kitten the cat; Robin the canary; Zsa Zsa the rabbit; Sardar the
horse; ponies named Macaroni, Tex, and Leprechaun; parakeets named
Bluebell and Marybelle; hamsters named Debbie and Billie; Charlie, a
Welsh terrier, plus dogs named Pushinka, Shannon, Wolf, and Clipper,
plus Pushinka and Charlie's pups: Blackie, Butterfly, Streaker, and
White Tips.
Funniest
thing I read of the Week:
Moonbeam:
He
was a wise man who originated the idea of God. --Euripides
Late
Night Snacks: A
new study finds that if you’re drunk around sober people, you’ll
think you’re less drunk than if you’re around other drunk people.
And if you’re drunk around sober people, chances are you’ve got a
problem. --Jimmy Fallon / A 100-year-old tortoise named Diego has now
fathered over 800 offspring. Which is why today, he was the first
tortoise in history to be drafted into the NBA. --Conan O'Brien /
This week a study was released by the World Health Organization
showing that the United States is the third most depressing country
in the world after India and China. When Americans heard the news
they were like, “Oh, we only got third?” --James Corden /
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson took out a full-page
ad in today’s New
York Times
asking to be included in the first debate. Green Party candidate Jill
Stein took a full-page ad out of The New York Times and folded it
into a neat little hat. --Seth Meyers / It has been a rough week for
Hillary Clinton. She has been dropping in the polls, and over the
weekend, even her immune system turned against her. No surprise —
all the white blood cells are voting for Trump. --Stephen Colbert
If more of
us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a
merrier world. --J.R.R. Tolkien
Sam opened
a drive-through restaurant in Hobbiton and became known as the Lord
of the Onion Rings. / Merry and Pippin developed a spicy recipe for
KFC and became known as the Lord of the Wings
..........Together
we could break this trap..........Bruce Springsteen .....Born to Run
^^^ After Lyndon B. Johnson moved
into the White House in December 1963, he had the White House
doghouse redesigned and enlarged to the point that the press corps
dubbed it “a palace.” Largely thanks to photographs in Life
magazine in 1964 — including a colorful cover portrait and an
unfortunate ear-pulling one inside — Johnson’s beagles, Him and
Her, became national celebrities.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: The
Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, initially the Kingdom of Hejaz and
Sultanate of Nejd, was a dual monarchy ruled by Ibn Saud following
the victory of the Saudi Sultanate of Nejd over the Hashemite Kingdom
of the Hejaz in 1925
Not
So Fun Fact of the Week: Since the nazi flag is illegal in
Germany, neo-nazis and racists have turned to flying the confederate
Flag.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Zorb - rolling down a slope inside a ten-foot plastic sphere...
(Apparently a New Zealand way of passing time...
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-zor1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Prevent perspiration stains on the inside of hat headband. Peal off
the adhesive strip of the the back of a Stayfree Maxi Pad, and stick
the maxi pad inside your hat along the headband that rests against
your forehead. The maxi pad will absorb perspiration. Replace the
maxi pad when necessary.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/stayfree.html
How many
elves does it take to change a light bulb? None. They’ll just sit
there in the dark, sadly singing about the beauty of the light that
was. / Why do Balrogs paint their feet yellow? So they can hide
upside down in a bowl of custard.
...........tomorrow
is the world of yesteryears..........Julio Iglesias .....Hey
^^^^ Mildred "Millie"
Kerr Bush was the pet English Springer Spaniel of Barbara and George
H. W. Bush.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Buzzer – a person or thing
that buzzes. Hamlet Act IV, Scene V (Claudius)
Amazing
Thing on the Internet of the Week: Here are pictures from
Hubble of the Orion Nebula nicknamed the Stellar Nursery. Click
Here
Puck the
Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck exhausted by the case of the Bored Borzoi.
Beards can
be red; a blade can glow blue; there's only one precious; and that
must be you. / Two elves walk into a bar. The hobbits laugh and walk
under it.
...........They
keep time by clapping their hands..........Ray Charles
.....Mississippi Mud
^^^^^ Spot Fetcher, a
brown-and-white English Springer spaniel, lived in the White House
with President George W. Bush and his wife Laura during Bush’s time
in office. Known affectionately as “Spotty” by his family, Spot
was friendly, affectionate, obedient, and eager to please his humans
in whatever way he could. Spot often accompanied President Bush into
the Oval Office during briefings and other important meetings.
Month of
the Week: September is National Honey
Month –Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
--Robert Green Ingersoll
Famous
Kansans:
Kari Wahlgren has provided the voices for over a hundred cartoons,
anime, and video games. She was born in Hoisington in 1977.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1312566/
Today's
Peace of History:
200,000 attended an anti-nuclear rally in New York City’s Battery
Park. It was the largest political protest of the late '70s in the
U.S., six months after the partial meltdown of the nuclear reactor at
Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.
So two
Nazgul walk into a bar and one says,
"Screeeeeechoooooooowwwwwwoooooo" The other says,"
heard that one already". / Ring Pick Up Lines: Your name must be
Balrog 'cause you're smoking hot.
..........We're
working over time...........Harry Connick Jr. .....The Happy Elf
Masthead of
the Week: fRiday
ePistle September 23, 2016. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
None of the news and
little else. Exclusive
editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam:
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. --Euripides
Cost of
War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 9/22/16: $749,131,500,887.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 9/15/16: $748,452,686,744.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 9/22/16:
$819,826,358,426.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 9/15/16:
$819,806,519,465.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 9/22/16: $11,517,206,089.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 9/15/16: $11,412,833,151.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 9/22/16:
$130,278,140,208.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 9/15/16:
$129,697,515,058.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 9/22/16:
$1,714,240,965,889.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 9/15/16:
$1,712,823,108,607.
It is
useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing. --J.R.R.
Tolkien
..........What
once was laughs is draggin' me now.........Bruce Springsteen
.....The Long Goodbye
Tolkien
Insult: You're a useless as a shoe shop in the shire / Lord of the
Rings Synopsis: A bunch of straight
men fight over jewelry.
Famous Last
Words: and of the
Independence of the United States the eighty seventh. --Emancipation
Proclamation
May Peace
guard your paths
And Joy
guide your steps
prairie
mama
christine
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