Famous
First Words: Careful, it's going to
get cheesy... --Mac
and Cheese Day Website
It
is International Nude Day. A flying saucer results when a nudist
spills coffee. / Never cook bacon when you're naked.
..........Way
down yonder in the Indian Nation.........Woody Guthrie …..Oklahoma
Hills
Peace
is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison
and conciliation of differences. --Mikhail Gorbachev
It
is a cloudy Friday morning. The sky is lush and textured and
beautiful; the topmost layer is blue, blue sky which is nearly all
covered with cumulus bubbling up and catching a top glow from the
rising sun. I can see this here and there where breaks in the lower
level of smeared moisture allow; and below some gray wisps float
unattached. The world smells of damp soil and soggy foliage and wet
pavement. Each tree leaf sports a diamond water drop dangling from
its point. Puck would not even venture out, doing his business and
asking to go back inside. So the rabbit and I converse; we don't
generally get to do with with Puck around cleansing the backyard of
local wildlife. We listen to the birdsong, the rabbit and I; it is
spirited and varied but still in the little woods across the street
or down the block, not at the feeders. The only birds I see are
flying high in a manner that suggest they have business somewhere
soon. I breathe in the greenness and the moisture and let it out
slowly. It is only thoughts of you and sweet, creamy coffee that
pull me back inside to sit down and send this to you.
Hope
your weekend is dressed to the nines, ePistliers
A
naked person fears no pickpocket. / Always swim naked, sharks hate to
peel their food.
..........Gettin'
out of that old dust bowl.........Woody Guthrie …..Do Re Mi
Trivia
Questions:
^
What was the Bastille, anyway?
^^
Who stormed it?
^^^
Why?
^^^^
How many prisoners were in the Bastille at the time?
^^^^^
Did anyone die during the action?
May
Peace Prevail on Earth of the Week: Möge frieden auf erden
sein - German
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
100%
of library computer systems are designed to ensure all the items a
patron has placed on hold come in on the same day.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Bare
butts are cool. / Anne is a strict nudist; she won't even put
dressing on her salad.
..........This
world was lucky to see him born.........Woody Guthrie …..Dear Mrs.
Roosevelt
Moonbeam:
Trust in God – she will provide.
--Emmeline Pankhurst
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Muraho – Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
Week
of the Week:
National Ventriloquism Week (July
12-15) – You know,
not everyone appreciates ventriloquism; for instance my urologist.
Admit
it, a harp is a nude piano. / A Buddhist Nudist practices yoga bare.
..........Stick
some bubble gum in my mouth.........Woody Guthrie …..Mail Myself
to You
^
The Bastille was a fortress built in the late 1300s to protect
Paris during the Hundred Years' War. By the late 1700s, the Bastille
was mostly used as a state prison by King Louis XVI.
Almanac:
It is Friday, July 14, 2017. The moon will be last quarter on Sunday
and is in Aries. It is International Nude
Day, National Macaroni & Cheese Day, Robin Hood Days, Shark
Awareness Day, and Bastille Day in France, Guiana, Polynesia,
Guadel, and Martinique. In Iran it is Appointment of the Prophet and
in Iraq it is Republic Day. Senegal celebrates African Community
Day. Because it is the second Friday in July it is also Collector
Car Appreciation Day and National Motorcycle Day.
Among
those born on this day were Andrea del Sarto (1486), James Abbott
McNeill Whistler (1834), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), Gustav Klimt
(1862), Owen Ister (1869), Ossip Zadkine (1890), Irving Stone (1903),
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912), Gerald Ford (1913), Frances Lear
(1923), Harry Dean Stanton (1926), John Chancellor (1927), Polly
Bergen (19320), Roosevelt Grier (1932), Chris Cross (1952), and
Princess Victoria (1977).
On
July fourteenth the citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison
(1789), opium was exempted from federal tariff duty (1832), postage
stamps began provisionally used (NYC, 1845), machine made ice was
first demonstrated (1850), the first Industrial Exposition opened
(NYC, 1853), Goddard patented his first liquid fueled rocket design
(1914), the first commercial air flight landed in Hawaii (1927),
Citation became the first horse to win a million dollars (1951),
Greyhound bought Trailways for $80 million, and Steve Miller received
a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame (1987).
Night
Sky, 7/14: Mercury is having a poor
apparition low in evening twilight this month. But it's bright enough
(magnitude –0.2 this evening) that you can pick it up anyway if the
air is good and clear. One hour after sunset, as twilight is fading
deeper and the stars are coming out, you'll find the two brightest
stars of summer, Vega and Arcturus, high overhead equally far from
the zenith: Vega toward the east, and Arcturus toward the southwest
(depending on your location).
This
Week: Saturday, July 15 – Be a
Dork Day & National Give Something Away Day
Night
Sky, 7/15: The tail of Scorpius is low in the
south after darkness is complete ... the farther south, the higher.
Look for the two stars especially close together in the tail. These
are Lambda and fainter Upsilon Scorpii, known as the Cat's Eyes.
They're canted at an angle; the cat is tilting his head and winking.
Sunday,
July 16 – National Ice Cream Day & Hot Dog Night
Night
Sky, 7/16: Venus
shines brightly in the east before and during dawn. Aldebaran, much
fainter, is about 5° below Venus. Mars
is lost behind the glare of the Sun.
Monday,
July 17 – Global Hug Your Kid Day & Wrong Way Corrigan
Day
Night
Sky, 7/17: Jupiter (in Virgo) shines showily
in the southwest to west during evening. Spica glitters 10° left of
it. Uranus (in Pisces) and Neptune (in Aquarius) await high in the
southeastern side of the sky before the beginning of dawn.
Tuesday,
July 18 – Nelson Mandela International Day & National
Caviar Day
Wednesday,
July 19 – National Hot Dog Day & Take Your Poet to Work
Day
Night
Sky, 7/19: Saturn glows steadily in the south
during and after dusk. Fiery Antares, less bright, twinkles to
Saturn's right or lower right. Delta Scorpii, the third brightest
object in the area, catches the eye half as far to the upper right of
Antares.
Thursday,
July 20 – Moon Day & World Jump Day
..........Your
poll tax and Jim Crow and greed has got to go.........Woody Guthrie
…..All You Fascists
^^
The revolutionaries who stormed the Bastille were mostly
craftsmen and store owners who lived in Paris. They were members of a
French social class called the Third Estate. There were around 1000
men who participated in the attack.
Funniest
thing I read of the Week:
---submitted by rhb of ks
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
ConGregate 4 / DeepSouthCon 55: July 14-16, High Point, North
Carolina. http://www.con-gregate.com/
Moonbeam:
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such
as have been adopted by men in every revolution. --Emmeline
Pankhurst
Stale
Late Night Snacks: New documents reveal that
when Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear, the woman he sent it to was a
cleaner, not a prostitute as previously thought. You know, because
otherwise it would have been weird. --Jimmy Fallon / Apparently
Drumpf was unsure about the guy he was choosing for vice president
all the way down to the wire. They say he wanted to dump Gov. Mike
Pence at midnight the night before the announcement — which would
have made him a Pence dispenser. --Jimmy Kimmel / The Republican
National Convention is next week. Quick programming note — the
"Late Show" will be live every single night. So tune in for
a mockery of our political system — and then watch the "Late
Show!" --Stephen Colbert / In California, a man playing Pokémon
Go was stabbed. The man said, "It was terrifying, my lack of a
life flashed before my eyes." --Conan O'Brien / Today was
National Hotdog Day and to celebrate, Donald Drumpf spent a few hours
on the rollers at 7-Eleven to work on his color. --Seth Meyers /
Donald Drumpf has selected mega-star Scott Baio to speak at the
convention. I will give you a minute to Google who that is. To tell
you how irrelevant Scott Baio is, I had to have his name phonetically
spelled in the teleprompter because it looks like "by-o."
--James Corden --All late night snacks are
left over from a year ago.
Diversity
drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn
limit what problems we can solve. --Telle Whitney
Sign
in the office of a clothing optional resort: Clothed for the Winter.
/ No, no, I said a Buddhist colony.
..........But
in my life of peace your dark illusions fall.........Woody Guthrie
…..Peace Call
^^^
The Third Estate had recently made demands of the king and had
demanded that the commoners have more of a say in government. They
were worried that he was preparing the French army for an attack. In
order to arm themselves, they first took over the Hotel des Invalides
in Paris where they were able to get muskets. However, they didn't
have gun powder.
Worthless
Fact of the Week:
The first stamp issues by NY Post Office is called the New York
Postmaster's Provisional. It sold for 5 cents. It featured a
picture of George Washington.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Postmaster's_Provisional
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Evil Queens are just Disney Princesses who worked in Customer Service
too long. --Submitted by ss of ks
Weird
Word of the Week:
Piepowder - “Tolkienesque” Dustyfoot. From the original
Anglo-French pied-poudreux, dusty feet.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-pie1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Dissolve a wart. Make a paste from Tang and water, apply to the wart
and cover with a Band-Aid bandage to hold it in place. Repeat daily
until the wart disappears. The asorbic acid can kill wart-producing
virus, and together with the citric acid in the Tang will slowly
dissolve it. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tang.html
Nudists
are people who wear one-button suits. / The elephant sneered at the
nudist and asked, “Can you breathe through that?”
...........He
loved you in the sand hills before your great fame.........Woody
Guthrie …..Belle Starr
^^^^
There were only seven prisoners in the Bastille at the time.
They were set free after the attack. Four of them were convicted
forgers.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week:
Lonely – without companions; solitary. Coriolanus
Act IV Scene I – Coriolanus: ...though I go alone, like to a lonely
dragon, that his fen makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen –
your son.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read: Man
on train: Kansas, eh? I'm afraid of tornadoes. How do the warning
sirens work? Me: A better gauge is to watch a local on their front
porch. If they set down their beer, it's time to go to the basement.
--submitted by mj of ks
Amazing
Thing on the Internet of the Week:
Monterrey Bay Aquarium – Sea Otter Cam. The
southern
sea otters in our Sea
Otters exhibit love to play with toys, lounge in ice buckets or
just snooze. We feed them four times a day, often putting the food in
toys to stimulate the otters' natural behavior of pounding and
working to get food out of shells.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-and-experiences/live-web-cams/sea-otter-cam
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck posing in profile for the case Dreadlocks
for Dandy
Dinmont.
The
best reason for going to work naked is your boss is always yelling,
“I wanna see your ass in here by 6 am”. / If a turtle doesn't
have a shell, is he homeless or naked? --George Carlin
..........There's
a great and peaceful river in a land that's fair to see.........Woody
Guthrie …..Roll, Columbia, Roll
^^^^^
Ninety-eight attackers and one defender died in the fighting.
Month
of the Week:
July is the month of the Tour de France --A
large black dog crossing the road in front of Tour de France riders
has caused a crash in Friday’s stage of the race. And somewhere a
French cat is sitting in the sun smirking and thinking “chien fou.”
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Tax
all the churches to pay for universal healthcare. It's what God
would have wanted. --Submitted by fb of az
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State:
Florida: Caladesi
Island State Park --As
one of the few completely natural islands along Florida´s Gulf
Coast, Caladesi´s white sand beaches were rated America's Best Beach
in 2008. Beach lovers can enjoy swimming, sunbathing and beach
combing. Saltwater anglers can cast a line from their boats or surf
fish. Nature enthusiasts can spot wildlife while hiking the three
mile nature trail through the island’s interior or paddling a three
mile kayak trail through the mangroves and bay. Picnic tables and
shelters are located near the beach, and picnic pavilions can be
reserved for a fee.
Images
Today's
Peace of History, July
14, 1955: The
Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 became law, the first in a series
of laws that ultimately became the Clean Air Act in 1963.
"It's just too hot to wear clothes today," said Jack as he stepped out of the shower. “Honey, what do you think the neighbors would think if I mowed the lawn like this?" "Probably that I married you for your money," she replied.
..........And
the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling.........Woody
Guthrie …..This Land Is Your Land
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle July 14, 2017. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
blab, blab, blab. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct.
Lawrence, KS 66046
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Have
you ever noticed that all the instruments searching for intelligent
life are pointed away from earth.
Moonbeam:
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can
help free the other half. --Emmeline
Pankhurst
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 7/13/17: $777,410,282,930.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 7/6/17: $776,751,661,012.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 7/13/17:
$820,652,840,583.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 7/6/17:
$820,633,591,704.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 7/13/17: $15,863,602,511.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 7/6/17: $15,762,373,063.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 7/13/17:
$154,462,425,235.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 7/6/17:
$153,899,168,149.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 7/13/17:
$1,773,297,286,080.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 7/6/17:
$1,771,921,830,147.
Unity
is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means
to promote it. --Sri Sathya Sal Baba
..........Goodbye
to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita.........Woody Guthrie …..Deportee
aka Plane Wreck at Los Gatos
How can you identify Ronald McDonald at a nudist colony? He's the one with the sesame seed buns.
Famous
Last Words: This is John
Chancellor, somewhere in custody. --after his
arrest at the Republican National Convention (1964) for refusing to
cede his spot on the floor to “Goldwater Girls”.
May
Peace be your quilt
And
Joy be your blanket
prairie
mama
christine
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Laugh:
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