Famous
First Words: The states Parties to this Constitution
declare... Constitution of the World Health Organization
April
is Holy Humor Month. A young lady came home from a date rather sad.
She told her mother, "Anthony proposed to me an hour ago."
"Then why are you so sad?" her mother asked. "Because
he also told me he is an atheist. Mom, he doesn't even believe
there's a Hell." Her mother replied, "Marry him anyway.
Between the two of us, we'll show him how wrong he is."
….......Did
you notice, the dawn.........Ian Janis …..Nature's At Peace
Establishing
lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep
us out of war. --Maria Montessori
It
is a chilly (34°F) Friday morning. The sky to the west is
absolutely clear of cloud or jet trail. To the east there are
strings of thin white but they cannot shade the rising sun which is
almost gleeful in it streaming. Bird song is everywhere and contains
new lilts among the familiar strains. The sidewalks are filled with
students gathering for the bus and citizens walking their dogs and
those two little boys who ride bikes to school. This gives Puck a
lot to bark about. Color continues to grow in yards and in the little
wood across the street. White lilacs are blooming in the neighbors
yard behind our own and white blossoms cover the “redbud” in our
yard in solidarity; but it is the ever greener grass everywhere some
snipped short and others tall enough to tickle Puck's belly. But the
still damp soil and the wet foliage carry no smell of spring, no
aroma of past rain or future fruit. So we retreat to our rooms and
aromas of brewing coffee. Ah, that sweet, brown liquid that perks up
even a morning that needs do perking up at all. Welcome to
Friday....
Hope
your weekend is heaven sent, ePistliers.
A
girl passed an old man's house on the way to Sunday School. One day
the old man said, "Why do you always go to Sunday school? All
they tell you is ridiculous fairy tales!" So the little girl
replied, "Like what?" "Well," the old man said,
"like that story about Jonah and the giant fish. Do you really
believe that that could happen?" "I don't know, but when
I get to heaven I'll ask him." The old man said, "Well,
what if Jonah's not there?" "Then you can ask him."
the little girl replied.
..........Near
to the moon at night.........Billie Holiday …..East of the Sun
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday, ancestor of Mississippi.
^
What international act allowed for the creation of the Territory of
Mississippi.
^^
Which US state claimed the Mississippi Territory?
^^^
What became the border between Georgia and the Mississippi Territory?
^^^^
What international act allowed the territory to extend southward to
the gulf?
^^^^^
When did Mississippi become a state?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
Why
the fan is on at the ref desk: -40% cooling breeze; -40% white
noise; -20% to blow smells away from the desk
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Moonbeam:
The better friends you are, the straighter you can talk, but while
you are only on nodding terms, be slow to scold. --Francis Xavier
Three
women were sitting at a kitchen table drinking coffee and began
bragging about their children. The first one said, My son is a
priest. When people see him they say “Good morning, Father!"
The second woman said, “My son is a cardinal. When people see him
they say, 'Good morning, Your Eminence.'” The third mother said,
“My son is seven feet tall and weighs over 800 pounds. When people
see him they say, OH MY GOD!'”
..........Thought
I saw you dancing on the tables late last night.........Ian Janis
…..Hopper Painting
Something
to Think About of the Week: “Lent
can be a time of lone introspection, but there is also tremendous
power in joining together in community to examine our lives and
consider what we can do to become reconciled to God, to one another
and to Creation,” said Sean McConnell
Big
Hello: Namaskār – Kashmiri (Hindus)
Week
of the Week: Laugh at Work Week (April
1-7) – An organization is like a tree full of monkeys, all on
different limbs at different levels. The monkeys on top look down and
see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up
and see nothing but assholes.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Wizard World ComiCon (St. Louis, April 7-9) http://wizardworld.com/
A
man was having difficulties trying to train a dog he had just bought.
One day he was talking about this to his next door neighbor who
happened to be an evangelist. The man complained, This dog of mine is
so disobedient. I cant train him! The evangelist replied, Why don't
you let me have your dog for a few days? I have a couple dogs and
they pay attention to me. Okay, take my dog for a week and see what
you can do. A week later the man goes back to his evangelist neighbor
and asked, Hows it going with my dog? The evangelist said, "Great!
Here he is! Talk to him." The man said Sit and his dog sat. Then
the man said "Roll over" and his dog rolled over. Finally
the man said "Heel!" The dog put its paws on the owners
head and barked, "Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof!"
..........Way
up in the blue.........Billie Holiday …..Moonglow
^
In the Treaty of Madrid, Spain ceded disputed lands east of the
Mississippi River to the US.
Almanac:
It is Friday, April 7, 2017. The moon will be full (Pink) next
Tuesday and it is in Virgo. The United Nations has declared this
International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in
Rwanda (A/RES/58/234) and World Health Day (WHO) (WHA/A.2/Res.35).
It is also Cereal Day, National Be Heard Day, National Crown Roast of
Pork Day, and Unique Names Day. In China it is Ching Ming when
families gather at graves of ancestors. In Haiti they celebrate
World Health Day (1948) and in Yugoslavia it is Republic Day (1963).
Finally, in Massachusetts it is Student Government Day.
Among
those born on this day were Francis Xavier (1506),
Gerard Dou (1613), Ferdinand van Kessel (1648), Michel Adanson
(1727), William Wordsworth (1770), William Rufus DeVane Ding
(Democrat, 1786), Flora Tristan (1803), Jozef Neuhuys (1841), WK
Kellogg (1860), Irene Castle & Allan Dulles (1893), Walter
Winchell (1897), Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan, 1915), Terrance
Edward Armstrong & Ravi Shankar (1920), James Garner (Scott
Bumgarner, 1928), Donald Barthelme (1931), Jerry Brown Jr (Edmund G,
1938), Francis Ford Coppola (1939), Mick Abrahams (1943), Spencer
Dryden (1943), Bill Kreutzmann (1946), John Oates (1949), Janis Ian
(Janis Eddy Fink, 1951), Jackie Chan (1954), and Peggy Clasen (1969).
On
April seventh Prague University was formed
(1348), Cape Town was settled (1652), a slave revolt took place in
NYC (1712), Bach's St John's Passion
premiered (1724), the Territory of Mississippi was organized (1798),
Beethoven conducted the premier of his Eroica
(1805), Walker invented wooden matches (1827), Nebraska introduced
the 8 hour work day (1891), Seals Stadium opened in San Francisco
(1931), Italy annexed Albania (1939), Booker T Washington became the
first black person on a US postage stamp (1940), the World Health
Organization was established by the UN (1948), the American Bowling
Congress began hosting masters tournaments (1951), Dag Hammarskjold
was elected 2nd General-Secretary of the UN (1953), New York's
electric trollies were retired (1957), Oklahoma ended prohibition
(1959), Effects of Gamma Rays on
Man-in-the-moon Marigolds
premiered (1970), the US broke relations with Iran (1980), Russian
began recalling troops from Afghanistan (1988), and the Vatican
finally acknowledged the Holocaust (1994).
Night
Sky, 4/7:
The Moon forms a huge, nearly vertical line with Procyon and Sirius
below it in early and mid-evening.
This
Week: Saturday, April 8 – Draw
A Bird Day & Slow Art Day
Night
Sky, 4/8:
Jupiter is in the opposite direction from the Sun as seen from Earth.
It climbs into grand view in the southeast through the evening, with
slightly bluer Spica below it.
Sunday,
April 9 – Jumbo Day & National Cherish an Antique Day
Night
Sky, 4/9: Vega, the bright "Summer Star," rises in
the northeast not long after dark now.
Monday,
April 10 – National Sibling Day & Safety Pin Day
Night
Sky, 4/10: Saturn can be seen in the south in the morning and
Neptune and Venus can be seen in the east before sunrise.
Tuesday,
April 11 – Barbershop Quartet Day & National Pet Day
Night
Sky, 4/11: Mercury and Mars can be seen in the west in the
evening. Jupiter is southeast in the evening and west in the
morning.
Wednesday,
April 12 – International Day of Human Space Flight &
National Bookmobile Day
Thursday,
April 13 – Scrabble Day & Celebrate Teen Literature Day
An
Illinois man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation
in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet
him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send
his wife a quick e-mail. Unable to find the scrap of paper on which
he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from
memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter, and his note was
directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife, whose husband had
passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her
e-mail, she let out a piercing scream and fell to the floor in a dead
faint. Her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the
screen: "Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything prepared
for your arrival tomorrow. PS. Sure is hot down here!"
..........I
wish you roses in the spring..........Janis Ian …..Joy
^^
The state of Georgia maintained a claim over almost the entire area
of what is now Alabama and Mississippi. It surrendered claim in 1802
following the Yazoo Land Scandal.
Funniest
thing I read of the Week: I wish I could help you, Sarah, but
I'm a family doctor and you're an orphan. --Submitted by hj of wa
Moonbeam:
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
--William Wordsworth
Late
Night Snacks: Vice President Mike Pence today
cast a tie-breaking vote to eliminate a rule that blocks states from
defunding Planned Parenthood, because Mike Pence only approves of one
type of birth control — his personality. --Seth Meyers / Ivanka
Drumpf and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited the National Air
and Space museum. Ivanka spoke to employees while Betsy played with
the snow globes in the gift shop. --Jimmy Fallon / Here we go,
America! Drumpf won’t throw out the first pitch. What else? He
won’t go to the Correspondents’ Dinner. He won’t release his
tax returns. He won’t put his business in a blind trust. He doesn’t
want to live in D.C. What presidential tradition will Drumpf abandon
next? This Thanksgiving, those turkeys better run. --Stephen Colbert
/ It’s come out that Russia probably tried to meddle with our
election and may have tried to undermine the presidential campaign of
Marco Rubio. In other words, Russia stepped back and did nothing.
--Conan O'Brien / A Gallup poll has just been released that shows
that Donald Drumpf’s approval rating has fallen to a historic
first-year low of 35 percent. Or as Kellyanne Conway calls it, just
one more example of Drumpf beating Obama. --James Corden
Education
is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. --Nelson
Mandela
A
minister parked his car in a no-parking zone because he was short on
time and couldn't find a space with a meter. So he put a note under
the windshield wiper that read: "I have circled this block ten
times. If I don't park here, I'll miss my appointment. FORGIVE US OUR
TRESPASSES." When he returned, he found a citation from a police
officer along with this note. "I've circled this block for ten
years. If I don't give you a ticket, I'll lose my job. LEAD US NOT
INTO TEMPTATION.
..........She's
got them bad, she feels so sad.........Billie Holiday …..Lady
Sings the Blues
^^^
The final boundary between Georgia and Mississippi Territory was
defined to follow the Chattahoochee River north from the border with
Spanish Florida. Just because nothing is that simple ...until it
turned northeast, and then to follow a straight line north to the
35th parallel. The northern border was the state of
Tennessee.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: Seals Stadium was a minor
league baseball park opened in the Mission District of San Francisco
in 1931. It was the longtime home of the San Fran Seals (1931–57)
and the Mission Reds (1931–37), both of the Pacific Coast League.
It was later home for the Major League San Francisco Giants for their
first two seasons in the city, 1958 and 1959. Less than three decades
old, the stadium was demolished in late 1959 after the completion of
the baseball season
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Friends don't let friends go to just any old seder www.hawkseder.com
Weird
Word of the Week:
Chalazion – a common lipogranulomatous inflammation of the
sebaceous glands of the eyelids.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cha3.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Clean your dishwasher. Fill the soap receptacle dish with Tang
powder and run the dishwasher through its regular cycle without any
dishes or detergent. The citric acid in Tang removes grunge and soap
scum from the pipes and tubes inside of a dishwasher.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tang.html
A
pastor and a NYC cab driver happened to die at the exact same time
and stood in line next to each other at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter
motioned the cab driver to come forward first and reviewed his life.
The cab driver was given a nice robe to wear and then a video screen
showed a huge mansion that he would be living in. The pastor said to
himself, "If that shabby cabby is getting those fine things,
then I must be getting something really great!" But after St.
Peter reviewed the life of the pastor, the video screen showed a
small shack that would be the pastors heavenly home. Dumbfounded, the
pastor asked St. Peter, "How come that cab driver gets a
beautiful robe and mansion while I'm stuck with that small shack?"
St. Peter answered, "That's simple. Your sermons put people to
sleep. The cabby's driving put people on their knees praying."
...........Every
time I hear a raindrop fall.........Ian Janis …..Time On My Hand
^^^^
In 1812, declaring that it had been included in the
Louisiana Purchase (1803), the US annexed the Mobile District of West
Florida, between the Perdido River and the Pearl River. This
extended the Mississippi Territory south to the Gulf of Mexico.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Gloomy - dismal, murky,
Stygian. King Henry VI, Part I Act
V Scene IV Joan La Pucelle: But darkness and the gloomy shade of
death environ you...
Amazing
Thing on the Internet of the Week:
Happy Cereal Day! 10 Creative things to do with cereal boxes.
http://www.hellowonderful.co/post/10-CREATIVE-CEREAL-BOX-PROJECTS
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck in the Gray Zone in the case of the Grounded
Gray Wolf.
A
pastors son who had just gotten his driving permit asked his father
about using the family car. His father answered, "Son, I'll make
a deal with you. You bring your grades up, study your Bible more, and
get your haircut. Then we will talk about it." Two months later
the boy approached his father again about using the car. His father
said, "Son, I'm real proud of you. You have brought your grades
up and studied your Bible diligently. But why haven't you gotten your
hair cut?" The young man replied, "Samson had long hair.
Even Jesus had long hair." His father said, "Yes, son and
they walked everywhere they went!"
..........Pennies
in a stream.........Billie Holiday …..Moonlight in Vermont
^^^^^
On Dec. 10, 1817, the western portion of Mississippi
Territory became the State of Mississippi, the 20th state of the
Union. Natchez, long established as a major river port, was the first
state capital.
Month
of the Week: April is Frog Month.
Famous
Kansans:
Jonathan Beauregard Quick (Jack B. Quick), boy genius, who lives in
Queerwater Creek, KS. American's Best Comics. He first appeared in
print in 1999.
http://biazedredd.blogspot.com/2009/05/jack-b-quick.html?m=0
Today's
Peace of History: April 7, 1979: In Australia,
the world's largest exporter of uranium, thousands protested against
the nuclear industry
Three
pastors met privately to share their major weaknesses and to pray for
one another. The first pastor confessed that he had a serious lust
problem and many times found himself in compromising situations. The
second pastor, encouraged by this display of candor, admitted that he
had stolen money from the church and needed help in managing his
finances. The third pastor then said, "My weakness is gossip and
I can hardly wait to get out of here!"
..........So
good-bye.........Ian Janis …..Sea and Sand
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle April 7, 2017, eXegetic ePistle Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
News,
smooze
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS
66046
Moonbeam:
I'm just a guy who plays drums.
--Bill Kreutzmann.
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 4/6/17: $767,985,267,904.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 3/30/17: $767,301,445,346.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 4/6/17:
$820,377,382,777.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 3/30/17:
$820,357,397,614.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 4/6/17: $14,414,969,179.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 3/30/17: $14,309,884,462.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 4/6/17:
$146,401,959,300.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 3/30/17:
$145,817,243,412.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 4/6/17:
$1,753,614,263,272.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 3/30/17:
$1,752,186,318,007.
Education
breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
-Confucius
..........So
good-bye.........Ian Janis …..Sea and Sand
An
old dying priest sent messages for his IRS agent and his lawyer, both
church members, to come to his home. When they arrived, they were
ushered up to his bedroom. As they entered the room, the priest held
out his hands and motioned for them to sit on each side of the bed.
The priest grasped their hands, sighed contentedly, smiled and stared
at the ceiling. For a time, no one said anything. Both the IRS agent
and the attorney were touched and flattered that the old priest would
ask them to be with him during his final moment. They were also
puzzled because the priest had never given any indication that he
particularly liked either one of them. Finally the lawyer asked,
"Father, why did you ask the two of us to come?" The old
priest mustered up some strength, then said weakly, "Jesus died
between two thieves, and that's how I want to go, too."
….......On
April days that would not dance away..........Billie Holiday …..I
Wished on the Moon
Famous
Last Words: Ich will dich preisen ewiglich! (I shall praise
you eternally) --St. John's Passion (Bach)
May
your peace be heavenly
And
your joy be divine
prairie
mama
christine
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