Famous
First Words: Hello, Howard... Lawrence & Lee Inherit
the Wind
Happy
Birthday to Webster's Dictionary: What do you call a dictionary on
drugs? High Definition / The new online dictionary of metaphysics can
tell you when you are mispronouncing a word in your head and correct
it for you.
..........Tis
a rhyme for your lips and a song for your heart.........Patti LuPone
…..Look to the Rainbow
Education
is the vaccine for violence. --Edward James Olmos
It
is a chilly (49°F) Friday morning. The sky is solid cloud to the
east and south and largely, simply blue to the west and north. The
clouds come in all forms – a thin streaky layer enlightened by the
unseen rising sun way up – with pretty puffs floating beneath. To
the south is a thicker layer onto which wind has painted clouds
curling and writhing like waves driven to shore by a storm. The same
breeze blows my sweater and the tree limbs in their new spring togas
and the dandelions waving above lawns. It kisses my cheek and runs
off to play with some other toy it finds. Puck paces the perimeter
until he finds a rabbit waiting patiently in the neighbors yard and
summons the other dogs to come out and intimate the fat little bunny
who sits there unmoved and unmoving. Bird song is everywhere except
the backyard; event he squeaky newly hatched sparrows in the
birdhouse are quiet this morning. School does not meet today and so
there are no children waiting at the corner, no laughter or muffled
conversation, only the whooo of the mourning dove. A attempted
murder (2) crows fly overhead going directly east; they fly silently.
The world is so green everywhere and dotted with blues and reds and
yellows and whites. It's just so...so...spring. But the cool of the
morning begins to seep into my clothing and I gather my dog and we
return to the warmth and the smell of brewing coffee and the white
noise of furnaces and computers. I sit now, sweetened, creamed decaf
in my mouth and nose and thoughts of you on my mind. Sigh, what a
morning and it isn't even 8 yet.
Hope
your weekend defines wild, ePistliers.
Finally
found love...page 90 in the dictionary. / Sally went crazy looking
for the meaning of life in a dictionary.
..........You
say yes and I say no..........The Cure …..Hello, Good-bye
Trivia
Questions: Rome turns 2,770 years old today.
^
What is the story of the founding of the city anyway?
^^
Know the population of modern Rome, more or less?
^^^
What Acronym left over from Empire days is still seen all over the
city?
^^^^
What construction material was invented by the ancient Romans?
^^^^^
Any idea when Rome became the capital of Italy?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
By the time of their retirement, a librarian will have spent 12.6
years of their life waiting for the Inter-library Loan Site to load.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
~~So we don't call it OCLC anymore?
Moonbeam:
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or
registering wrongs. --Charlotte Bronte
If
you look up the word “expert” in the dictionary, you will find a
definition of the word “expert”. / Have you ever laughed at a
joke and then looked up the words later in Urban Dictionary?
..........Pop
before the war, lunch before the score.........Iggy Pop
…..Blah-Blah-Blah
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Every day we can resurrect ourselves and come closer to understanding
our true nature. Every mistake and every triumph can be a
resurrection and renewal, a step toward the complete freedom. More
Big
Hello: Chôm rab suôr – Khmer (Cambodia)
Week
of the Week:
Coin Week (April 16-22) –After
months of working overtime at the Royal Mint, coin makers went on
strike to make less money. / How did the penguins make the decision?
flipper coin. http://www.spectrumfantasticartlive.com/
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week: Spectrum Fantastic Art Live
(April 21-23, Kansas City Convention Center) A few hundred of today's
brightest artist stars will fill SFAL's exhibitor booth and artist
table areas.
cashew
(n.) The sound of a nut sneezing. / poor (adj.) When
you have too much month at the end of your money.
..........Slippin'
through the so and so's..........Iggy Pop …..Moonlight Lady
^
Rome was founded by Romulus. Roman legend says
that Romulus had a twin brother called Remus. As babies they were
abandoned in the area which later became Rome. A she-wolf found and
raised them, but when they grew up Romulus fought and killed Remus
and became the first ruler of Rome!
Almanac:
It is Friday, April 21, 2017. The moon was last quarter last
Wednesday and is in Pisces. It is Bulldogs Are
Beautiful Day, Kindergarten Day, LGBT National Day of Silence,
National Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day, National Day of Silence,
National Surprise Drug Test Day, and the Queen's actual birthday. In
both
Belize
and Hong Kong they celebrate the Queen's Birthday. In Indonesia it
is Kartini
Day and in Texas it is San Jacinto Day (1836).
Among
those born on this day were Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Arcangelo
Crivelli (1546), John A van Riebeeck (1619), Johann Philipp Kafer
(1673), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Friedrich Froebel (1782),
Charlotte Bronte (1816), Fredrick Bajer (1837), Max Weber (1864), Leo
Blech and Vojtech Rihovsky (1871), Pat Brown (1905),
Marcel
Camus (1912), Choh Hao Li (1913), Anthony Quinn and Andor Kovach
(1915), Daniel Melnick (1924), Don Tyson (1930), Elaine May (1932),
Charles Grodin (1935), John McCabe (1939), Iggy Pop (James Newell
Osterberg, 1947), Patti LuPone (1949), Tony Danza (1951), Andie
MacDowell (Rosalie Anderson, 1958), Robert Smith (Cure, 1959), Sergei
Zalyotin (1962), and Tia Jackson (1972).
On
April twenty-first Rome was founded (753 BCE), The Treaty of Saint
Maartens Dike was signed (1420), the Maryland Toleration Act allowed
freedom of all worship (1649), John Adams was sworn in as the first
US vice president (1789), Grillparzer's Sappho
premiered (1818), Webster published his first dictionary (1828), the
first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River was completed
(Rock Island to Davenport, 1856), the US Mint in Denver was
established (1862), the first buffalo was born in Golden Gate Park
(1892), Black longshoremen struck for higher wages (St. Louis, 1892),
Shaw's Arms & the Man
premiered (1894), Ty Cobb played his first pro game (1904), the
zipper was patented (1913), Bulgaria outlawed all political parties
(1935), the first Polaroid camera was sold in the US (1948), Inherit
the Wind
premiered (1955), Heartbreak Hotel
became
number one (1956), Brasilia became the capital of Brazil (1960), the
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 was launhed (Copernicus, 1972),
the 1 pound coin was introduced inthe UK (1983), Geraldo Rivera
opened Al Capone's empty vault (1986), Beijing's Tiananmen Square
demonstration began (1989), Brazil voted out the monarchy (1993), and
the ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry were launched into
orbit (1997).
Night
Sky 4/21: The weak Lyrid meteor
shower should peak in the hours before Saturday's dawn. The Moon will
be only a waning crescent.
This
Week: Saturday, April 22 –
National Earth Day & National Jelly Bean Day
Night
Sky, 4/22: Look high in the west for Pollux and Castor lined
up almost horizontally (depending on your latitude). These two stars,
the heads of the Gemini twins, form the top of the enormous Arch of
Spring.
Sunday,
April 23 – Talk Like Shakespeare Day & National Take A
Chance Day
Monday,
April 24 – National Pigs In A Blanket Day
Night
Sky, 4/24: Right after dark, the Sickle of Leo stands vertical
high due south. Its bottom star is Regulus, Leo's brightest.
Tuesday,
April 25 – Red Hat Society Day & World Penguin Day
Night
Sky, 4/25: The spring constellation Corvus, the Crow, perches
in the southeast these evenings, about a fist and a half at arm's
length to the right of Spica. But above Spica this year is brilliant
Jupiter, hogging the show.
Wednesday,
April 26 – National Help A Horse Day &
National Pretzel Day
Thursday,
April 27 – Denim Day & Poem In Your Pocket Day
Housework
only comes before quilting in the dictionary. / I wish I could
download dictionaries to my brain.
..........Spinning
on the dizzy edge.........The Cure …..Just Like Heaven
^^
The population of the city of Rome is around
2.7 million. The entire metropolitan area of Rome has an estimated
3.7 million people.
Funniest
thing I read of the Week: United Airlines – We put the
Hospital in Hospitality. --submitted by mja of ks
Moonbeam:
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for
it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.
--Friedrich Froebel
Late
Night Snacks: This weekend is Easter, where
Christians celebrate the return of Jesus. Unfortunately, this year
Jesus can’t return because he’s Middle Eastern and been detained
at the airport. --Conan O'Brien / Before he was press secretary,
Sean Spicer actually played the Easter bunny at the egg roll during
the Bush administration. Which means this week, for the first time
maybe in history, we got to see the Easter bunny apologize for
comments about the Holocaust. --Jimmy Kimmel / And there's
speculation that President Drumpf could cancel the annual White House
Easter Egg Roll. Then he said, "Actually, I'm canceling ALL egg
rolls, just to get back at JYNA." --Jimmy Fallon / One kid
looking for eggs turned up Obama’s birth certificate. --David
Letterman
One
child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.
--Malala Yousafzai
Chairdrobe
(n.) The art of piling clothes on a chair to be used in place
of a closet or dresser; see also floordrobe. / Synonym (n.) A
word used in place of the one you can't spell.
..........up
three flights of stairs..........Iggy Pop …..Waiting for the Man
^^^
SPQR stands for "Senatus Populusque
Romanus" and means "The senate and the people of Rome."
The symbol is still seen all over the city today.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: The Mystery of Al Capone's
Vaults was an infamous two-hour live American television special that
was broadcast one-time only in syndication on April 21, 1986. Hosted
by TV personality Geraldo Rivera, the special centered on the opening
of a secret vault in the Lexington Hotel once owned by noted crime
lord Al Capone, which turned out to be empty except for debris. The
Mystery Of Al Capone's Vault is available in its entirety on
Geraldo's website.
Weird
Word of the Week:
eleemosynary – pertaining to alms or almsgiving. From Greek eleos
– pity. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ele1.htm
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Libraries will get
you through times of no money better than money will get your through
times of no libraries. --Anne Herbert --submitted by fb of az
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Fight bad breath. Put a teaspoon of Tang powered drink mix in your
mouth, swish around, and swallow. The citric acid in Tang stimulates
saliva production and impedes the odor-producing enzymes in your
mouth. The orange taste of the Tang also freshens your breath.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tang.html
...........A
single note rings on and on and on...........The Cure …..All Cats
Are Grey
^^^^
Concrete was a Roman invention used on many
structures such as the Pantheon, the Colosseum, and the Roman Forum,
which are still standing today thanks to the development of Roman
cement and concrete.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Green-eyed – jealous or
envious. The Merchant of Venice
Act III Scene II Portia: ...and shuddering fear, and green-eyed
jealousy! O love...
Amazing
Thing on the Internet of the Week:
I searched “most amazing dictionary online” for this section and
I got 53,000,000 results, 52,999.997 of which were definitions of the
word amazing. So instead – Meet the Winners of the Most Beautiful
Bulldog Contest (2014) – a site on which even bulldogs look cute,
but none of them look happy.
http://time.com/71753/meet-the-winners-of-the-most-beautiful-bulldog-contest/
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
I'm not much on seizing the day. I just kinda poke it with a stick.
--Submitted by bd of ny
Strangest
Thing on the Internet of the Week: Tuesday (4/18) would
have been CJ Brune's 71st birthday. Bill mentioned it on
facebook and there was a lot of response. Facebook, on the other
hand, sent me a note saying: It's Caroljean Brune's birthday, help
her have a great day! It gave no suggestions about how to do that.
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck stopping to almost smell the flowers in the
case of the Downward Facing Doberman.
Santa
noted your facebook entries and this year you are getting a
dictionary for Christmas. / I can't find this word in the dictionary
because I don't know who it spell it. I don't know how to spell it
because I can't find it in the dictionary.
..........Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowl.....Iggy
Pop …...Howl
Month
of the Week:
April
is Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month. Here's a little something about
tomato pickers in Florida - sorry it's not funny.
http://www.ciw-online.org/
Famous
Kansans:
Mary
Ann Summers, traveler on a "three-hour tour" that was lost
at sea on Gilligan's Island, was from Winfield, Kansas.
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0005015/
Today's
Peace of History: Today's Peace of History,
April 21, 1989: Six days after the death of Hu Yaobang, the deposed
reform-minded leader of the Chinese Communist Party, some 100,000
students from more than 40 universities gathered at Beijing's
Tiananmen Square to commemorate Hu prior to his funeral.
There's
a new dictionary for people not yet fluent in shit. / I just hate it
when I look up a word and then don't know the meaning of any of the
words in the definition.
..........Visiting
time is over.........The Cure …..The Walk
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle April 21, 2017, ePistle (n.)
lEtter. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace
and Humor.
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS
66046
Moonbeam:
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is
its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could
collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause
of peace. --Fredrik Bajer
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 4/20/17: $769,314,888,731.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 4/13/17: $768,727,425,611.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 4/20/17:
$820,416,243,607.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 4/13/17:
$820,399,073,652.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 4/20/17: $14,619,330,964.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 4/13/17: $14,529,056,221.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 4/20/17:
$147,539,068,062.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 4/13/17:
$147,036,783,310.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 4/20/17:
$1,756,391,059,196.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 4/13/17:
$1,755,164,346,292.
With
guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism
–Malala Yousafzais
..........They
need to escape and so do I.........Patti LuPone …..Rainbow High
My
dictionary says that the thesaurus died out 65 million years ago. /
This thesaurus is so bad that the only alternative word for
"terrible" was "terrible".
Famous
Last Words: Sie ist zurьckgekehret
zu den Ihren! --Grillparzer's Sappho
May
Peace (calm, tranquility, composure, ease, contentment) be yours
And
Joy (pleasure, happiness, delight, glee) be with you also.
prairie
mama
christine
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