Famous
First Words: Midway upon the journey of our life... Dante
Alighieri The Divine Comedy
It
is Have Fun At Work Day! You don't have to be crazy to work here;
we'll train you. / A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
..........We
think we know what we're doing..........Cyndi Lauper …..Money
Changes Everything
When
you feel angry, count to ten before saying anything. Then, ask
yourself what response will be best for the greater good. From 20
ways to promote peace in our world
It
is a breezy (10-20 mph) Friday morning. The sky is absolutely empty
of anything but blue. There are no clouds, no jet trails, no planes,
nor birds. The silent wind creates a soundtrack with whipping willow
branches and rocking bird feeders and whirring roof turbines. Puck
checks the yard for squirrels but they are still abed and he only has
the other dogs to share with. I hover by the storage shed hoping to
cut the sharp northern wind but it not long before even Puck is ready
for the warm indoors and so we come in to brewing coffee and a
humming furnace. I glance out of my south window towards the rising
sun and see a hint of yellow around the horizon; it cheers the heart
that a sunny day has returned after so long an absence. And so with
a warmer heart and a steamy warm cup of Northwest Blend, I sit down
to say good morning, it's a beautiful day.
Hope
you're weekend is fun away everywhere, ePistliers.
Oh,
you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for
that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar. --Drew Carey
/ My resume is a list of things I hope you never ask me to do.
Women's
March Signs: We are the Granddaughters of the Witches you Weren't
able to Burn
..........When
the working day is done.........Cyndi Lauper …..Girls Just Want To
Have Fun
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday to Laverne and Shirley.
^
Know the first and last names of actresses or characters?
^^
Remember the names of either of their goofy neighbors?
^^^
What city did they live in?
^^^^
Where did the girls work?
^^^^^
What was the opening rhyme the girls chanted?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
72% of patrons
seem sane until they ask the librarian a question.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Music
Video of the Week:
I'm Gonna Walk It With You...sung by a state house full of protesters
in Salt Lake City, Utah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW_3RndOM78
Moonbeam:
I knew who I was this morning but I've changed a few times since
then. --Lewis Carroll
May
you never run out of HR-approved ways to tell coworkers they're
stupid. / I'm great at multitasking. I can waste time, be
unproductive, and procrastinate all at once.
I
am a Snowflake and Together we are an Avalanche / Look at All the
Correctly Spelled Signs
..........U
were so fine.........Cyndi Lauper …..When You Were Mine
Something
to Think About of the Week:
It
may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to
God than religion. --Paul Davies
Big
Hello: Dia dhuit – Gaelic (Ireland)
Week
of the Week: National Handwriting
Analysis Week (January 22-28)--Why did your write this thank you
letter to Grandpa so large? Grandpa's very deaf. / I'm not slurring
my words, I'm talking in cursive.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week: HauNTcon – Nashville, TN
January 26-30. --featuring a seminar for Hauntrepreneurs® i.e.
people wanting to open their own haunted house attraction.
http://hauntcon.com/
You're
my favorite coworker and not just because I hate everyone else who
works here. / My memory has gotten so bad it has
actually caused me to lose my job. I’m still employed. I just can’t
remember where.
Viva
la Vulva / This is my Resisting
Bitch Face
..........Caught
up in circles confusion.........Cyndi Lauper …..Time After Time
^
Laverne Defazio was played by Penny Marshall and Shirley Feeney was
played by Cindy Williams
Almanac:
It is Friday, January 27, 2017. The moon was new on Wednesday and is
in Aquarius. The UN has declared this International
day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
It is Auschwitz Liberation Day, International Mobile Phone Recycling
Day, National Geographic Day, National Big Wig Day, National
Chocolate Cake Day, National pre-School Fitness Day, Thomas Crapper
Day, and Viet Nam Peace Day. In Mauritius it is Thaipoosam
Cavadee and in Vietnam it is Peace Day (1973).
Because it is the last Friday in January it is also Fun at Work Day.
Among
those born one this day were Jean-Francois de Troy (1679), Mozart
(1756), Friedrich von Schelling (1775), David Strauss (1808), Louis
Schubert (1828), Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson, 1832), Dmitri
Mendeleev (1834), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Samuel Gompers
(1850), Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859), Will Marion Cook (1969), Jerome
Kern (1885), Eduard Künneke (1885), William Randolph Hearst Jr.
(1908), Elmore James (1918), Skitch Henderson (1918), David Seville
(Ross Bagdasarian, 1919), Donna Reed (1921), Sabu (1924), Bobby Blue
Bland (1930), Mordecai Richler (1931), Troy Donahue (1936), Kim
Gardner (1938), Mairead Corrigan-Maguire (1945), Mikhail Baryshnikov
(1948), Brian Downey (1951), Mimi Rogers (1955), Keith Olbermann
(1959), and Bridget Fonda (1964).
On
January twenty-seventh Dante was exiled (1302), Pirate Henry Morgen
landed in Panama City (1671), Stanislas, last king of Poland,
abdicated (1736), the first state university in the US was chartered
(Athens, GA, 1785), Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp
(1880), the National Geogrpahic Society was orgnaized (1888), the
Social Democrat Party of American held its first convention (1900),
US marines occupied Haiti (1915), Lenin's body placed in Red Square
(1924), the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game (1927), the
first tape recorder was sold (1948), Laverne
& Shirley premiered
(1976), and Cyndi Lauper released Time
and Time
(1984), Catherine Roskam became the first US female Episcopal bishop
(1996).
Tonight's
Sky, January 27:
Zero-magnitude Capella high overhead, and equally bright Rigel in
Orion's foot, are at almost the same right ascension.
This
Week: Saturday, January 28 –
National Seed Swap Day & National Kazoo Day
Sunday,
January 29 – Curmudgeons Day & Freethinkers Day &
Thomas Paine Day
Tonight's
Sky, January 29: Sirius twinkles brightly after dinnertime
below Orion.
Monday,
January 30 – Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day & Inane
Answering Message Day
Tuesday,
January 31 – Appreciate Your Social Security Day &
Street Children Day
Tonight's
Sky, January 31:
After dark now the Great Square of Pegasus is sinking down in
the west, tipped onto one corner to the right or upper right of Venus
and Mars
Wednesday,
February 1 – Freedom Day & National Signing Day
Thursday,
February 2 – Imbolc & Groundhog Day & World Wetlands
Day
Tonight's
Sky, February 2:
The sky's biggest asterism (informal star pattern) — at
least the biggest that's widely recognized — is the Winter Hexagon.
It now fills the sky toward the east and south after dinnertime.
Super
Callous Fascist Racist Extra Braggadocious / Make Margaret Atwood
Fiction Again!
..........I'm
picking up good vibration.........Cyndi Lauper …..She Bop
^^
Lenny (Leonard Kosnowski, Michael McKean) and Squiggy (Andrew
Squiggman, David L Lander) lived in the same building as Laverne &
Shirley.
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: @RealDonaldTrump just set the world
record for the guy rejected by the most women in a single day in the
history of humanity. --submitted by sb of ar
My
Favorite Image from the Women's March on Topeka:
Moonbeam:
There's no talent, neither genius without hard work. --Dmitri
Mendeleev
Late
Night Snacks: I read about a man in Virginia
who paid the DMV his $3,000 fine in pennies. It took the workers 12
hours to count them all. And that line still moved faster than the
one you were in waiting in at the DMV. --Jimmy Fallon / According to
a new report, 67 percent of millennials use Netflix, which must
really tick off whoever owns the account they're using. --Seth
Meyers / Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is officially cutting
down. Apparently, the circus doesn't think it could compete against a
Drumpf presidency. --Stephen Colbert /Today at the Vatican, Arnold
Schwarzenegger met Pope Francis and tweeted that he is “a true
leader for the Church.” Then Pope Francis tweeted, “I couldn’t
understand a word that guy said.” --Conan O'Brien / According to a
report from the Brennan Center for Justice, the rate of voter fraud,
the real rate in U.S. elections, is between .00004% and .00009%. In
other words, about the same rate as the couples on “The Bachelor”
who get married. --Jimmy Kimmel
Speak
out against prejudice and discrimination when you see it. From 20
ways to promote peace in our world
Rest
assured that your recent accomplishments at work have gone largely
unnoticed. / Sorry for being late to work but I got stuck enjoying my
last few moments of not being at work.
What
do we Want? Evidence Based Science
When
do we Want It? After Peer Review
..........This
precious time when time is new.........Cyndi Lauper …..All Through
the Night
^^^
Laverne and Shirley lived in Milwaukee until the last season(s) when
they moved to California.
Worthless
Fact of the Week:
Henry Morgan was a privateer: a sort of legal pirate who had
permission from the English government to attack Spanish ships and
ports when England and Spain were at war, which was fairly common
during those years.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: New
Book: Men So Damaged Inside That They Can't Even Enjoy Being
President and the Women Who Hate Them. --Submitted by rhb of ks
Weird
Word of the Week:
Retronym – a neologism created for an existing object or concept
because the exact meaning of the original term used for it has become
ambiguous. Example guitar has become electric guitar and acoustic
guitar. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ret1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Make a glue dispenser. Fill a SueBee Honey bear with Elmer's
Glue-All and tint with food coloring to make colorful glues.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/suebee.html
If
you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if
he was any smarter. --John Gotti / I've been at work for less than
30 minutes and already I'm using the word “fuck” like a comma.
If
He Only Had A Brain / So bad, even introverts are here
...........I'm
searchin' the right track.........Cyndi Lauper …..Witness
^^^^
The girls worked for Shotz Brewery.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: equivocal – allowing the
possibility of several different meanings. All's Well That Ends
Well Act V Scene III King: As
thou art a knave, and no knave. What an equivocal companion is this!
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Next
week is still January? How many months does this month have?
--submitted by mgs of ks
Amazing
Thing on the Internet of the Week: The Windborne Singers – a
neo-Celtic quartet singing a madrigal-sh song in front of Trump
Tower...Song of the Lower Classes...the tyrants in their
towers of gold shall hear the people's cries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE3s2IwgcAE
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck enjoying a good laugh in the case of the
Daffy Dandie.
Son,
if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it.
Now quiet! They're about to announced the lottery numbers. --Homer
Simpson / He's so lazy, that if there were work in bed, he would
rather sleep on the floor. --Paddy o'Dea
Keep
Your Tiny Hands Off My Rights
..........The
gypsy told me that the first thing.........Cyndi Lauper …..I'll
Kiss You
Month
of the Week: January is Oatmeal Month
Famous
Kansans:
Michael Dorie, a mutant character in Marvel X-Men series, was born in
Picayune, KS. http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Michael_Dorie_(Earth-616)
Other
Amazing Thing on the Internet of the Week:
@altNatParkSer
The
Unofficial “Resistance” team of US National Park Service. Not
taxpayer subsidized! Come for rugged scenery, fossil beds, and 89
million acres of landscape. https://twitter.com/AltNatParkSer
“We will not go quietly into the night!”
Today's
Peace of History January
27, 1969: In
Detroit, African-American auto workers, known as the Eldon Avenue
Axle Plant Revolutionary Union Movement, led a wildcat strike against
racist practices and poor working conditions at the Chrysler plant.
I'd
rather you come into work and give your germs to me than have to do
your work. / After Tuesday even the calendar goes W T F / My favorite
co-worker is the coffee maker
He
Shall Overcomb and Underwhelm / Without Immigrants Trump Would Have
No Wives
..........He
goes to college and gathers knowledge.........Cyndi Lauper …..He's
So Unusual
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle January 27, 2017. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
No
news that's fit to print.
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS
66046
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: First
they came for the Latinos, Muslims, women, gays, poor people,
intellectyurals and scientists and then it was Wednesday. --Jonathan
Katz ...submitted by cok of ks
Moonbeam:
Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win
everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five
percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own
greatness or momentum or divinity. --Keith Olbermann
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 1/26/16: $761,262,978,097.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 1/19/16: $760,580,597,208.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 1/26/16:
$820,180,915,756.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 1/19/16:
$820,160,972,087.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 1/26/16: $13,381,779,203.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 1/19/16: $13,267,900,147.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 1/26/16:
$140,653,096,668.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 1/19/16:
$140,069,529,405.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 1/26/16:
$1,739,575,860,633.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 1/19/16:
$1,738,150,784,027.
Show
a child how to be kind to vulnerable people – the homeless, those
with physical or cognitive disabilities, older people, and anyone
else that appears different to the child. From 20
ways to promote peace in our world
..........I
will never ever ever ever do you wrong.........Cyndi Lauper …..Yeah,
Yeah
I
would tell you to go to hell but I work there and I don't want to see
you everyday. / I'm quitting to pursue my dream of not working here.
Famous
Last Words: We want to make it even more ferocious. --Neil
DeGrass Tyson National
Geographic Star Talk
May
Peace be your joule
And
Joy your newton
prairie
mama
christine
Last
Laugh:
