Famous
First Words: Hoo-ray We're off!!! --First Mickey Mouse Comic
Strip
Happy
Blame Somebody Else Day ! Blaming all Muslims for terrorists is like
blaming all musicians for Nickleback.
..........I
hear the train a comin'..........Johnny Cash …..Folsom Prison
Blues
From
20 Ways to Promote Peace: Don't hide from life. Have faith that
there is still an abundance of good in this world.
It
is a cold (22°F) Friday
morning. The sky is hung with strands of cloud puffs strung together
by jet trails. They float slowly to the north and east. Towards the
west the strands have begun to meld into a single cloud cover. They
are gray and in some places thick masking the rising sun. Beneath
them a small flock of birds moves noiselessly against the force going
from north to southeast. No feeder birds are up yet nor
breakfasting; the dominate sounds are motors – cars taking people
off to work, buses taking children off to school, and garbage trucks
taking trash off. Even the jet liner overhead tows motor noises
after it. And Puck's conversation with the dog a block over doesn't
drown out the grinding of gears and firing of pistons. The breeze is
not strong but is insistence; the cold begins the creep into cracks
between glove and coat sleeve, between sock and pant leg. So with a
final lungful of brisk air, we return inside to floral incense and
brewing Moose Munch. And I sit down to write to you, what a morning.
Hope
your find worthy people to blame for your weekend, ePistliers.
Blame
Somebody Else Drinking Game: It's very simple Every time a
politician blames someone else for a mess he or she made, take a
snifter full of your strongest stuff. Good Luck (Or for a change of
pace play it with losing athletes, defense lawyers, or bankrupt
billionaires)
Dowd's
my name. Elwood P. Let me give you one of my cards. --Elwood P. Dowd
Harvey
..........Seek
not your fortune in a dark dreary mine..........Johnny Cash …..Dark
as a Dungeon
Trivia
Questions: On this anniversary of the crowning of Elizabeth
I...
^
Where was Elizabeth in the line of succession for Henry VIII's
throne?
^^
For what crime was Elizabeth tried and imprisoned during the reign of
Mary I?
^^^
Elizabeth I, like Nancy Reagan, included one of these in her
counsels?
^^^^
How many languages did Elizabeth speak?
^^^^^
What do you know about the Elizabethan Poor Laws?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
79% of librarians are not happy about a plan to make Encyclopedia
Brown more relevant by changing his name to Wikipedia Jones.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Moonbeam:
Charm is the true gift of the Fairies. --Charles Perrault
Team
Work: An excuse to blame someone else. / You can't blame gravity for
falling in love. --Albert Einstein
Well,
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to
state I finally won out over it. --Elwood P. Dowd Harvey
..........And
lose these New York blues..........Johnny Cash …..Orange Blossom
Special
Something
to Think About of the Week: A scientific
discovery is also a religious discovery...Our knowledge of God is
made larger with every discovery we make about the world. --Joseph H.
Taylor, Jr
Big
Hello: Ai - Inuktitut (Eastern Canada)
Week
of the Week: Cuckoo Dancing Week
(January 11-17)
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
MarsCon 2017 (January 13-15, Williamsburg, VA) ...Monty Python &
the Holy Grail / Nerdlesque / Doctor Who Tea Party...
http://www.marscon.net/wp/
The
secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures. / If you
reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not gale it for revealing
them to the trees. --Khalil Gibran
I
always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I'm with.
--Elwood P. Dowd Harvey
..........But
late at night, when the north wind blows..........Johnny Cash
…..Long Black Veil
^ Following the death of her father, Henry VIII, Elizabeth was third in line for the throne after her younger half-brother, Edward, and her older half-sister, Mary.
Almanac:
It is Friday, January 13, 2017. The moon was full (Wolf) yesterday
and is in Leo. It is Blame Somebody Else Day, Make
Your Dream Come True Day, National Sticker Day, Public Radio
Broadcasting Day, and Rubber Duckie Day. In Ghana it is Redemption
Day (1972) and in Togo it is Liberation Day (1963). Across the
courtry it is Stephen Foster Memorial Day.
Among
those born on this day were Jan Goyen (1596), Charles Perrault
(1628), Anton Fischer (1778), Horatio Alger Jr (1834), Wilhelm Wien
(1864), Alfred Fuller (1885), Ralph Edwards (1913), Robert Stack
(1919), Gwen Verdon (1925), Charles Nelson Riley (1931), Richard Moll
(1943), Joy Chant (1945), Brandon Tartikoff (1949), Fred White
(1955), Trevor Rabin (1955), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), and Patrick
Dempsey (1966).
On
January thirteenth Elizabeth I was crowned queen of England (1559),
Galileo Galilei discovered Callisto (1610), the first Colored
National Labor Union convention was held (1869), the National
Geographic Society was founded (1888), textile workers in Netherlands
struck (until 6/1, 1902), Deirdre
of the Sorrows
premiered (1910), the Mickey Mouse comic strip first appeared (1930),
Wham-O produced the first frisbee (1957), the Daily
Worker
ceased publication (1958), Wilt Chamberlain scored a record 73 points
in game vs Chicago (1962), Robert Weaver became the first black man
on a presidential cabinet (HUD, 1966), the Rolling Stones appeared on
the Ed
Sullivan Show
(1967), Johnny Cash recorded his concert at Folsom State Prison in
California (1968), and Caldwell became the first female conductor at
the Metropolitan Opera House (1976).
Tonight's
Sky:
Venus
sets around three and a half hours after the Sun.
This
Week: Saturday, January 14 –
Eagle Day & International Kite Day
Sunday,
January 15 – Annoy Squidward Day & World Religion Day
Tonight's
Sky, January 15:
Jupiter is behind the ¾ moon.
Monday,
January 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day & Appreciate a
Dragon Day
Tuesday,
January 17 – International Mentoring Day & Kid
Inventors' Day
Night's
Sky, January 17: A
half-hour before sunrise, Mercury, Saturn, and a handful of brighter
stars are fading in the twilight.
Wednesday,
January 18 – Pooh Day & Thesaurus Day
Thursday,
January 19 – Popcorn Day & Tin Can Day
Night
Sky, January 19: the waning gibbous Moon passes within 2° of
Jupiter.
..........The
newspapers called it a jailbreak plan..........Johnny Cash …..The
Wall
^^
In 1554, Elizabeth was tried and imprisoned on suspicion of
abetting Wyatt’s Rebellion, an uprising against Queen Mary I that
many believed to be motivated by the quest for Protestant liberation.
Funniest
thing I read of the Week: Laughter is the best medicine, but
your insurance only covers chuckles, snickers, and giggles.
Moonbeam:
No
period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four
years which have been spent within college walls. --Horatio Alger Jr.
Late
Night Snacks: A man in Vietnam was
hospitalized after doctors realized that he had a pair of scissors in
his digestive system that had been left there by a previous surgery
that he had 18 years ago. Amazingly, he rarely suffered any pain
over those 18 years. But from time to time he did get a bit snippy.
--James Corden / Bill and Hillary Clinton will attend Drumpf's
inauguration. I think that's very nice that she's being a gracious
loser. And if you count the popular vote, a gracious winner.
--Stephen Colbert / Due to slow sales, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been
given a 15 percent pay cut. Or as Cook is spinning it, he’s coming
out with a thinner more lightweight wallet. --Conan O'Brien / More
than 60 cities around the world celebrated the 16th annual No Pants
Subway Ride yesterday. Or as that one guy on your train calls it,
“Sunday.” --Seth Meyers /The big story right now is the new
report claiming that Russia has enough embarrassing material on
Donald Drumpf to blackmail him. On the other hand, so does anyone who
follows Drumpf on Twitter. --Jimmy Fallon / According to a new
study, the average cost of raising a child in America is now over
$200,000. The study was funded by Trojan condoms. --Conan O'Brien /
Congratulations are in order for the Clemson Tigers, who won the
college championship last night. They upset Alabama 35-31. Which was
also the blood-alcohol content of most Clemson fans after that game.
--Jimmy Kimmel
From
20 Ways to Promote Peace: Serve on committees and task forces that
work to make your neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces safer.
I
didn't say it was your fault; I said I was going to blame you. /
Everyone's quick to blame the alien. --Aeschylus
Years
ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world,
Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In
this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
--Elwood P. Dowd Harvey
..........In
the bread line of your dreams I lost my place..........Johnny Cash
…..Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart
^^^
The Queen kept a personal adviser named John Dee—a renowned
mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and professed alchemist—in
her regular company. Elizabeth relied on Dee’s counsel in the
scheduling of important events and, as one rumor suggests, in the
removal of a troublesome “death curse.”
Worthless
Fact of the Week:
The number of Frisbees sold each year is top-secret
information. However, estimates are that we buy more Frisbees each
year than footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Carrie Fisher's urn is
shaped like a Prozac Pill because even in death she's more iconic
than us all.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
(that's
45 letters, ePisliers) This is the real name of black lung aka
silicosis or pneumoconiosis.
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Relieve a cough due to a cold. Dissolve one tablespoon SueBee Honey
and one tablespoon ReaLemon in a small glass of warm water and sip
it. For a stronger solution, combine equal parts SueBee Honey and
ReaLemon, and take one teaspoon at bedtime. Both mixtures may help
loosen phlegm. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/suebee.html
When
in doubt, point your finger at the person sitting directly across
from you. / If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
--Marcelene Cox
You
see, science has overcome time and space. Well, Harvey has overcome
not only time and space, but any objections. --Elwood P. Dowd
Harvey
...........Made
a good run but I run too slow..........Johnny Cash …..Cocaine
Blues
^^^^
In addition to her native English, Queen Elizabeth I was known
to be fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, going so far as to
translate collections of lengthy texts into these languages. The
Queen is also believed to have spoken Spanish, Welsh, Irish, Flemish,
Greek, and the now nearly defunct tongue of Cornish.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week:
Dwindle - diminish
gradually in size, amount, or strength. King
Henry IV, Part 1, Act
III Scene III. Falstaff: do I not bate? Do I not dwindle? Why my
skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown.
Amazing
Thing on the Internet of the Week:
Explore the surface of mars. A 360°
panorama from the Mars Rover.
http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html
~~The caption says it is a panorama taken by Armstrong on the moon,
but clearly it's Rover and clearly its Mars.
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck looking sincere in the case of the Winking
Weiler.
To
err is human – and to blame it on a computer is even more so. / To
err is human. To blame someone else is politics. --Huber H.
Humphrey
Oh,
every day is a beautiful day. --Elwood P. Dowd Harvey
..........On
a Tuesday they caught me with a file..........Johnny Cash …..I Got
Stripes
^^^^^
The Elizabethan Poor Laws,
as codified in 1597–98, were administered through parish overseers,
who provided relief for the aged, sick, and infant poor,
as well as work for the able-bodied in workhouse
Month
of the Week:
January is Braille Literacy Month. --Here is a site that will
translate your name into Braille.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/braille.htm
--It's easy to master Braille, once you get the feel for it.
Third
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If I
died and went straight to hell, it would take me at least a week to
realize I wasn't at work anymore. --Submitted by llr of ks
Quote
of the Week: If your heart is breaking
make some art. --Carrie Fisher
Famous
Kansans:
That neighborhood terror, Dennis the Menace lived in that
neighborhood in Wichita.
https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/dennisthemenace/
Today's
Peace of History, January
13, 1958:
Linus Pauling presented to the United Nations, signed by over 11,000
scientists (including 36 Nobel laureates) from 49 countries. It
called for an end to nuclear weapons testing for its detrimental
health, especially genetic, and ecological effects, among other
reasons.
I
take medicine for a heart condition. My heart is healthy, I just
take it so I can slap stupid people and blame it on the side effects.
I've
never heard Harvey say a word against Akron. --Elwood P. Dowd
Harvey
..........Arms
reaching, smiling sweetly..........Johnny Cash …..Green, Green
Grass of Home
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle January 13, 2016,
ePistle dReizehn
/fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
No
news is good news.
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS
66046
Last
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Kids
today don't know how easy they have it. When I was young, I had to
walk 9 feet through shag carpet to change the TV channel.
--Submitted by bg of ks
Moonbeam:
Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what
happens. --Charles Nelson Reilly
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 1/12/16: $759,921,311,849.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 1/5/16: $759,222,373,664.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 1/12/16:
$820,141,703,771.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 1/5/16:
$820,121,276,938.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 1/12/16: $13,175,547,967.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 1/5/16: $13,068,123,110.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 1/12/16:
$139,505,589,607.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 1/5/16:
$138,907,853,400.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 1/12/16:
$1,736,773,766,817.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 1/5/16:
$1,735,314,157,933.
From
20 Ways to Promote Peace: Celebrate successes in the quest for peace
and nonviolence.
https://www.mentalhelp.net/blogs/twenty-ways-to-promote-peace-in-our-world/
..........Good-bye,
that's all she wrote..........Johnny Cash …..Jackson
There
is only so much insanity you can blame on the full moon. The rest is
just everyday bat crap crazy people being themselves.
Famous
Last Words: This is your life. --Ralph Edwards
May
Peace be your cause
And
Joy be your result
prairie
mama
christine
last
laugh:
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