Famous
First Words: Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry.....Pirates of
Penzance
Cheers
to a new year and another chance for us to get it right --Oprah
Winfrey/ If 2016 were a year, we could sue it for pain, suffering,
humiliation, and lost wages. / With the Jewish New
Year, we fast, we can’t turn on the lights, we confess our sins.
Happy New Year. What a party. A bunch of guilty hungry people sitting
in the dark. --Billy Crystal
..........You
cross your fingers and hold your heart.........Chorus …..Another
Openin' Another Show (Kiss Me Kate)
"Each
time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny
ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different
centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can
sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
--Robert Kennedy
I
am not well this morning. This is the third day that I have awaken
dizzy and lightly nauseous. Yesterday it went away mid morning; but
today it's back. I do not believe that I am seriously ill but it is
a drag and I am having trouble focusing on my usual greeting.
Happy
New Year, ePistliers !!
2016
– At last a reason to be glad for Alzheimer's Disease. / An
optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist
stays up to make sure the old year leaves. --Bill Vaughan
..........Mr
Fritz is full of Schlitz and full of play.........Bianca …..Always
True to You (in My Fashion)
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday to the American Meteorological
Society !
^
What is a black blizzard?
^^
Where is the windiest place on the planet?
^^^
Care to guess what the coldest temperature ever officially recorded
is?
^^^^
What weather phenomenon often follows a volcanic eruption?
^^^^^
Which is more deadly, summer heat or winter cold?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
77% of librarian Christmas cards are pictures of their pissed off
cats wearing Santa hats.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Moonbeam:
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
--Rudyard Kipling
Remember,
you can reset your resolutions on January 14th (Orthodox
New Year) and/or January 29th (Chinese New Year), after
that, nothing can help you. / Avoid noisy, expensive, over-hyped New
Year Eve parties by hanging out at our place wondering what you're
missing at those other parties.
..........We
next play Verona...........Chorus …...We Open in Venice
Something
to Think About of the Week: Thank you so much for being part
of my life this year. I wish you humor and peace through out the
next one.
Big
Hello: Tierva - Inari Saami (Urals)
Week
of the Week: It's About Time Week
(December 25-31) – I heard a really good time travel joke tomorrow.
/ For Christmas I got a device to fetch futuristic herbs; I call it
my Thyme Machine.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week: NewCon PDX – Anime
Convention in Portland, OR (Dec 30 – Jan 1)
New
Year's is a holiday created by calendar companies who don't want you
reusing last year's. / Who has time to party on New Year's Eve? It
takes me all evening to set my clocks ahead a year. --William Ader
..........
Just declaim a few lines from “Othella”.........First &
Second Gangster …..Brush Up Your Shakespeare
^
Dirt mixed with wind makes dust storms called black blizzards.
Almanac:
It is Friday, December 30, 2016. The moon was new on Wednesday and
is in Capricorn. It is Bacon Day, National
Bicarbonate of Soda Day, and Falling Needles Family Fest Day. There
is a bank holiday in Bolivia, Chile, and El Salvador. Iran
celebrates the birthday of Iman Reza. Because this is the last
business day of The Year it is also No Interruptions Day.
Among
those born on this day were Titus (39), Alessandro Piccinini (1566),
William Croft (1678), Heinrich Ebell (1775), Theodor Fontane (1819),
Rudyard Kipling (1865), Simon Guggenheim (1867), Alfred Einstein
(1880), Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904), Christine Auwen (1907), Bert Parks
(1914), Bo Diddley (Ellas Bates, 1928), Skeeter Davis (Mary Penick,
1931), Russ Tamblyn (1934), Sandy Koufax (1935), John Hartford
(1937), Del Shannon (Charles Westover, 1939), James Burrows (1940),
Michael Nesmith (1942), Davy Jones (1945), Jeff Lynne (1947), Matt
Lauer (1957), Tracy Ullman (1959), and Tiger Woods (1975).
On
December thirtith Dido
& Aeneas
premiered (1689), the first coffee plant was sown in Hawaii (1817),
the Gadsden Purchase was made (1854), the American Metrological
Society formed (1873), the
Pirates of Penzance
premiered (1879), Sun Yat-sen was elected the first president of the
Republic of China (1911), Wake
Up and Dream
premiered (1929), the United Auto Workers staged a sit-down strike at
Fisher Body (1936), California opened its first freeway (Arroyo Seco,
1940), Kiss
Me Kate
opened (1948), Skylab sent back the first space photos of comet
Kohoutek (1973), Gretaky set an NHL record 60 goals by the 39th game
of season (1981), and the Vatican recognized Israel (1993).
Tonight's
Sky:
Can you spot the fingernail-thin crescent Moon in twilight? It's less
than two days old as seen after sunset from North America. Look low
in the southwest 30 to 50 minutes after the Sun goes down. The Moon
is located about 30° (three fists at arm's length) to the lower
right of shiny Venus.
This
Week: Saturday, December 31 -
Make Up You Mind Day & National Champagne Day
Night
Sky, December 31: As twilight fades, catch the crescent Moon,
Venus, and Mars forming a diagonal, gently curving line in the
southwest. Left of the line twinkles Fomalhaut, 25 light-years away —
the same distance as Vega, the brightest star in the northwest.
Sunday,
January 1 – World Day of Peace & New Years Day
Monday,
January 2 – National Science Fiction Day & Pet Travel
and Safety Day
Tuesday,
January 3 – J.R.R. Tolkien Day
Night
Sky, January 3: Quadrantids Meteor Shower is an above average
shower, with up to 40 meteors per hour at its peak. It is thought to
be produced by dust grains left behind by an extinct comet known as
2003 EH1.
Wednesday,
January 4 – World Braille Day & Trivia Day
Night
Sky, January 4: Earth
at Perihelion
Thursday,
January 5 – Bird Day
Night
Sky, January 5: The Moon is first quarter in Aries.
Every
New Year's I have the same question: How did I get home? --Melanie
White / On New Years just remember, if your cup runneth over, you've
probably reached your limit. – Melanie White
..........My
purse has yet to know a silver lining.........Bianca …..Tom, Dick
or Harry
^^
From February 1912 to December 1913, scientists measured the
wind speed at Cape Denison, a rocky point at the head of
Commonwealth Bay in east Antarctica.
To this day it is recognized as the windiest sea level station on
Earth. The windiest hour was recorded on 6 July 1913 at 95mph
(153km/h).
Funniest
thing I read of the Week: I'm safe in the knowledge that I'll
never get sent to the nuthouse. My therapist says that I'd be a bad
influence on the rest of the patients.
Moonbeam:
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality. --Albert Einstein
Late
Night Snacks: Amazon's home assistance device,
"The echo," is already sold out until after the holidays.
In the meantime, if you want to yell at something to turn off the
lights or music in your house, just try your kids. --Jimmy Fallon /
According to a recent study, Pokémon go players have collectively
walked 5.7 billion miles while using the app. They've walked
everywhere except into a job interview. --Seth Meyers / A study has
confirmed that eating less increases your lifespan. The study goes on
to advise the residents of Wisconsin to get their affairs in order.
--Conan O'Brien
"Do
what you can, with what you have, where you are." --Theodore
Roosevelt
Youth
is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age
is when you're forced to. --Bill Vaughan / My New Years Resolution?
I'll probably keep it at 1280x1024 like always. Thanks for asking.
..........But
when the thermometer goes way up..........Paul and the Chorus …..Too
Darn Hot
^^^
The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at
ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C
(−128.6 °F; 184.0 K), which was at the Soviet Vostok
Station in Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.
Worthless
Fact of the Week:
The
1936–1937
Flint sit-down strike against General Motors (also known as the
General Motors sit-down strike, the great GM sit-down strike, and
other variants) changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from a
collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a
major labor union and led to the unionization of the domestic United
States automobile industry.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Before we discuss destroying the competition, screwing our customers,
and laughing all the way to the bank, let's begin this meeting with a
prayer. --submitted by ma of oh
Weird
Word of the Week:
Nudiustertian – the day before yesterday. Coined by Nathaniel
Ward, 1647. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-nug1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Soothe a sore throat. Take one teaspoon of SueBee Honey at bedtime,
letting it trickle down the throat.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/suebee.html
My
new years resolution is not to shovel snow. Since I'm gonna be in
Florida, I feel pretty good about it. --Grey Tamblyn / A new years
resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
...........In
love with the night mysterious..........Fred …..So in Love
^^^^
Lightning often follows a volcanic eruption.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Dishearten – discourage,
disappoint, dispirit. Henry V Act
IV Prologue Henry
V: ... yet, in reason, no man should possess him with any appearance
of fear, lest he, by showing it, should dishearten his army.
Amazing
Thing on the Internet of the Week:
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Michael Strauss, & Richard Gott talk about
their book Welcome
to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour...
https://www.c-span.org/video/?417035-1/astrophysicists-discuss-welcome-universe
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck as R2K9 chasing winter shadows in the case
of
My
grandparents had resolutions like donating more time & money to
charities. I've decided to make my own coffee once a week. --Erica
/ Let's put significant pressure on ourselves to have a fun New
Year's Eve.
..........Though
roosters they, I will not play the hen...........Lillie …...I Hate
Men
^^^^^
Winter cold kills more than twice as many Americans as summer heat
does.
Month
of the Week: January is National Soup
Month. --This soup is so salty, Lot's wife wouldn't eat it. / I
could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and burp a better argument than
that.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
I spend a majority of my time trying to avoid software updates.
--Bumper Sticker
Famous
Kansans:
It doesn't seem to be know where Marc Sappington, the Kansas City
Vampire, was born in 1978, but he did his vamping in Kansas City, KS.
Murderer and cannibal.
http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/S/SAPPINGTON_marc.php
Today's
Peace of History: President Richard Nixon
ordered an end to US bombing of North Vietnam. The most recent air
strikes had been retaliation for North Vietnam’s walking out of the
peace negotiations in Paris and pressure to force it to submit to US
Terms. (1972)
Wait
a second, there's ANOTHER year? I have to do this all over again???
--Jake Vig / It may be the anti-depressants, but I'm feeling somewhat
optimistic about 2017.
..........With
a hunny, nunny, nunny, and a hey, hey, hey...........Petruchio
…..I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle December 30, 2016, ePistle aNno. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
There
have been times in the last year when I have annoyed you, disturbed
you, irritated you, and bugged the hell out of you...Just want you to
know I plan to continue that in 2017.
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS
66046
Moonbeam:
It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless.
You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle...
--Tracey Ullman
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 12/29/16: $758,575,010,896.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 12/22/16: $757,911,706,567.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 12/29/16:
$820,102,356,559.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 12/22/16:
$820,082,971,307.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 12/29/16: $12,968,640,557.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 12/22/16: $12,866,674,477.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 12/29/16:
$138,354,316,814.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 12/22/16:
$137,786,957,012.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 12/29/16:
$1,733,962,361,874.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 12/22/16:
$1,732,577,065,446.
"A
man who stands for nothing, will fall for anything!" -- Malcolm
X
..........Were
thine the rhythm'd grace..........Petruchio …..Were Thine That
Special Face
Deer
readers, my gnu years resolution is to tell you a gazelleon times how
much I caribou you! Sorry. Bad puns. Alpaca bag and leave. --Greg
Tamblyn / With any luck the world will end in 2017 and I won't
be held accountable for my New Year's resolutions.
Famous
Last Words: There she is Miss America. --Bert Parks
May
Peace fill your calendar
And
Joy fill your days
prairie
mama
christine
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