Famous
First Words: Veterans Crisis Line 1 800 273-8255 US
Department of Veteran Affairs website
It
is National Zookeeper Week !! You know why you don't see many
reindeer in the zoo? They can't afford the admission.
..........Then
the mist started, started to clear..........Cat Stevens …..Moonstone
Too
many pray for peace with their fists clenched.
It
is a warm Friday morning (81°F).
Puck and I have just returned from our morning constitutional which
was taken at the hour to avoid an even warmer later. The sky is
absolutely clear and ranges between light blue and white depending on
where you look. Not even jet trails are visible. The birds are out
in flocks. I have always thought that Pokemon names sound like bird
calls. Tur-eee, Tur-eee, Tur-eee. Peek-a chew, Peek-a chew. Birds
sang for us there and back again. Lots of traffic too hurrying off
to work, waving vaguely, thoughts already on the weekend, no doubt.
A southern breeze refreshes my face as it gusts by. Now, I adjust
the fan to blow on me as I sit down at the computer; and here I am
drinking creamy coffee and eating a slice of watermelon and thinking
about you. What a morning.
Hope
your weekend is so electrifying Tesla would be proud, ePistliers.
A
father and his small son were standing in front of the tiger's cage
at the zoo. Father was explaining how ferocious and strong tigers
are, and junior was taking it all in with a serious expression.
“Dad," the boy said finally, "if the tiger got out of his
cage and ate you up ..." "Yes, son?" the father said
expectantly. "What bus should I take home?" the boy
finished.
..........There
in the night what a wonderful scene..........Kay Starr …..Rock and
Roll Waltz
Trivia
Questions: Good Morning, Moon!
^
What was the name and/or number of the NASA mission that took
Armstrong to the moon?
^^
About how much processing power did the on board computer have?
^^^
Exactly how large was the one small step for man?
^^^^
Who was the second man on the moon?
^^^^^
What threw the module's landing site off by four miles?
May
Peace Prevail on Earth of the Week: Spanish - Que la paz
prevalezca en la tierra
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
During the summer 35% of librarians take up smoking just so they can
go outside regularly to defrost.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Zoo
Keeper:"I've lost one of my elephants" Other Zoo
Keeper:"Why don't you put an advert in the paper?" Zoo
Keeper: "Don't be silly, he can't read!"
..........The
morning lake drinks up the sky.........Cat Stevens …..Katmandu
Moonbeam:
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for
insight and understanding. --Marshal McLuhan
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Ko na mauri – Kiribati (Micronesia)
Week
of the Week: Everybody Deserves a
Massage Week (July 16-22) – Massage is the answer – who cares
what the question is.
What's
the difference between a Northern zoo and a Southern zoo? In a
Northern zoo you have the name of the
animal and the Latin name underneath. In a Southern zoo you have the name of the animal and a recipe underneath.
animal and the Latin name underneath. In a Southern zoo you have the name of the animal and a recipe underneath.
..........A
fool I'll always be.........Kay Starr
…..Foolin' Around
^
The moon landing was Apollo 11.
Almanac:
It is Friday, July 21, 2017. The moon will be new on Monday. It is
Legal Drinking Age Day and No Pet Store Puppies Day.
In Belgium it is Independence Day (1831) and Guam celebrates
Liberation Day (1944).
Among
those born on this day were Victor Schoelcher (1804), Paul Julius
Baron von Reuter (1816), Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856), Frances
Folsom Cleveland (1864), Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885), Ernest
Hemmingway (1899), Hart Crane (1899), Marshall McLuhan (1911), Isaac
Stern (1920), Kay Starr (1922), Don Knotts (1924), Cat Stevens
(1947), Robin Williams (1951), and Jon Lovitz (1957).
On
July twenty-first the English defeated the Spanish armada (1588),
Belgium gained independence from the Netherlands (1831), the first
Canadian railroad opened (1836), Jesse James robbed his first train
(1873), the National Federation of Afro-American Women & the
Colored Women's League merged to form National Association of Colored
Women (1896), Spain ceded Guam to the US (1898), Jenatzy set a world
auto speed reocrd at 65.79 MPH (1904), the US Veterans Administration
was established (1930), the Soviet Union annexed Estonia, Latvia, and
Lithuania (1940), the senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty
(1946), Althea Gibson became the first black to win a major US tennis
tournament (1957), Gus Grissom was launched in the Mercury 4 (1961),
Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon (1969), Billy Martin was fired
as the Texas Rangers manager (1975), the national Women's Hall of
Fame was dedicated (Seneca Falls, NY, 1979), and Pink Floyd performed
"The Wall" where the Berlin Wall had once stood (1990).
Night
Sky, 7/21: Starry Scorpius is sometimes
called "the Orion of Summer" for its brightness and its
prominent red supergiant (Antares in the case of Scorpius, Betelgeuse
for Orion). But Scorpius is a lot lower in the south than Orion for
those of us at mid-northern latitudes. That means Scorpius has only
one really good evening month, July.
This
Week: Saturday, July 22 –
National Day of the Cowboy & Casual Pi Day
Sunday,
July 23 – Hot Enough For Ya Day & Gorgeous Grandma Day
Night
Sky, 7/23: We're only a third of the way through
summer, but already W-shaped Cassiopeia, a constellation better known
for fall and winter evenings, is climbing up in the north-northeast
as evening grows late. And the Great Square of Pegasus, emblem of
fall, comes up to balance on one corner just over the eastern
horizon.
Monday,
July 24 – Cousins Day & Tell An Old Joke Day
Tuesday,
July 25 – Hire a Veteran Day & Red Shoe Day
Night
Sky, 7/25:With the advance of summer, the Sagittarius
Teapot, in the south after dark now, is starting to tilt and pour
from its spout to the right. The Teapot will tilt farther and farther
for the rest of the summer.
Wednesday,
July 26 – Bagelfest Day & One Voice Day
Night
Sky, 7/26: The first "star" you're likely to
see coming out after sunset this month is bright Jupiter, in the
southwest. Once you find it, examine the sky 30° above it (three
fists at arm's length) for Arcturus, two magnitudes fainter.
Thursday,
July 27 – National Chili Dog Day & Take Your Houseplant
for a Walk Day
A
Scotsman paying his first visit to a zoo stopped by one of the cages
"An' whut animal would that be ?" he asked the keeper.
"Thats a moose from Canada", came the reply. "A
moose!!", exclaimed the Scotsman. "Hoots, mon, if that's a
moose then they must ha' rats the size of elephants over there !"
..........wine
for the women who made the rain come.........Cat Stevens …..Tea
for the Tillerman
^^
The Apollo 11 computers had less processing power than a cellphone.
Funniest
thing I read of the Week: The KKK: Helping white men with
small penises feel powerful since 1865! --submitted by jp
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week: Camp NeCon – Northeastern
Writer's Conference (July 20-23, St. Paul, MN) http://campnecon.com/
Moonbeam:
One must be drenched in words,
literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into
the proper pattern at the right moment. --Hart Crane
Late
Night Snacks: One thing President Drumpf
definitely did watch was his son Junior's interview with Sean Hannity
last night on Fox News. Drumpf said his son was "open,
transparent, and innocent." That's three lies in four words.
That's a new record! --Jimmy Kimmel / Republican House Speaker Paul
Ryan is calling for stronger sanctions against Russia for its
election meddling. Ryan said, “We must keep Russia out of our
elections until we need them again in 2018.” --Conan O'Brien / So
at this point, I would like to issue a formal apology. I'd like to
apologize to Eric Trump. We always thought you were the dumb one, and
we were wrong. --Stephjen Colbert
Not
So Late Night Snacks: This
week Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, said that he would like to
bring back the anti-drug program, D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance
Education) There is just something about Jeff Sessions; he loves
organizations that are primarily known by their initials. --Peter
Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
You
cannot find peace by avoiding life. --Virginia Woolf
A
real life story. I was at the zoo with my young son. We were
outside the lion's den. The female lion was lying on a bed looking
incredibly bored. The male lion was pacing the cage, roaring now and
again. It was nearly feeding time and he would go to the little
window into the interior of the building and roar for them to hurry
up and then he would pace some more. Needless to say, a crowd
gathered watching his stomp and roar. Finally, a tub of small chunks
of raw meat was shoved through the feeding window. The female lion
stood up, walked over to the male lion, raised her paw and swatted
him across the ear. The male lion went over and sat on the bed while
the female lion ate lunch. The crowd loved it.
..........But
my heart seems to know where I belong.........Kay
Starr …..I've Change My Mind a Thousand Times
^^^
The "one small step for man" wasn't actually that small.
Armstrong set the ship down so gently that its shock absorbers didn't
compress. He had to hop 3.5 feet from the Eagle's ladder to the
surface.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: The James gang robbed No 2. Rock Island
passenger train at about 8:30 pm. They stole cash from the express
messenger and relieved the passengers of their watches, cash and
jewelry. It was one of the first recorded train robberies west of the
Mississippi and expanded Jesse James and his gang's operations from
his specialty of bank holdups to train robbery.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I hope that when I
inevitably choke to death on gummy bears, people will just say I was
“killed by bears” and leave it at that.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Rannygazoo – a century-old term, now rare, for a deceptive story of
scheme. I’ll
hang around for a while just in case friend Pilbeam starts any
rannygazoo.
Bill
the Conqueror,
by P G Wodehouse, 1924.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ran2.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Make tangy snow cones. Fill a bowel with newly fallen snow, sprinkle
Tang (Just the powder) on top of it and dig in with a spoon.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tang.html
A
kangaroo kept getting out of his enclosure at the zoo. Knowing that
he could hop high, the zoo officials put up a ten-foot fence. He was
out the next morning, just roaming around the zoo. A twenty-foot
fence was put up. Again he got out. When the fence was forty feet
high, a camel in the next enclosure asked the kangaroo, "How
high do you think they'll go?" The kangaroo said, "About a
thousand feet, unless somebody locks the gate at night!"
...........Did
it take long to find me? I asked the faithful light.........Cat
Stevens …..Moonshadow
^^^^
When Buzz Aldrin joined Armstrong on the surface, he had to make sure
not to lock the Eagle's door because there was no outer handle.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Lowering – moving in a
downward direction. Anthony and Cleopatra
Act I Scene II: Mark Antony: the
present pleasure, by revolution lowering, does become the opposite of
itself:
Amazing
Thing on the Internet of the Week:
A new report, titled Defenders of the Earth, released by Global
Witness, shows that nearly four people were murdered every week in
2016 “protecting their land and the natural world from industries
like mining, logging and agribusiness.” According
to the report, activists defending their land and the environment
face not only murder, but death threats, arrests, sexual assault and
aggressive legal tactics. Details
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck and his faithful companion Pax howling at
rabbits in the case of the Dogged Dogo
Argentio.
One
day the zookeeper noticed that the Orangutan was reading two books --
the Bible and Darwin's Origin of Species. In surprise he asked the
ape, "Why are you reading both those books"? "Well,"
said the Orangutan, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's
keeper or my keeper's brother."
..........they
called us birds of a feather.........Kay Starr
…..Second Fiddle
^^^^^
When Apollo 11's lunar lander, the Eagle, separated from the orbiter,
the cabin wasn't fully depressurized, resulting in a burst of gas
equivalent to popping a champagne cork. It threw the module's landing
four miles off-target.
Month
of the Week:
July is National Horseradish Month – A minister who was very fond
of pure, hot horseradish always kept a bottle of it on his dining
room table. Once, at dinner, he offered some to a guest, who took a
big spoonful. The guest let out a huge gasp. When he was finally able
to speak, he choked out, "I've heard many ministers preach
hellfire, but you are the first one I've met who passes out a sample
of it."
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State:
Georgia - Wormsloe Historic Site - A breathtaking avenue sheltered by
live oaks and Spanish moss leads to the tabby ruins of Wormsloe, the
colonial estate of Noble Jones (1702–1775).
https://www.yelp.com/biz/wormsloe-historic-site-savannah
Today's
Peace of History: July 21, 1954: Major world
powers, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland reached agreement on the terms
of a ceasefire in Indochina, ending nearly 8 years of war.
..........Cause
out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train.........Cat
Stevens …..Peace Train
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle July 21, 2017. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
No news. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct.
Lawrence, KS 66046
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Repeal And Replace Congress !!
Moonbeam:
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. --Ernest Hemingway
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 7/20/17: $778,080,229,526.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 7/13/17: $777,410,282,930.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 7/20/17:
$820,672,418,669.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 7/13/17:
$820,652,840,583.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 7/20/17: $15,966,545,081.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 7/13/17: $15,863,602,511.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 7/20/17:
$155,035,216,728
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 7/13/17:
$154,462,425,235.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 7/20/17:
$1,774,696,189,513.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 7/13/17:
$1,773,297,286,080.
Do
your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of
good put together that overwhelm the world.” --Desmond
Tutu
..........Please
don't ever go away.........Kay Starr
…..Bonaparte's Retreat
The
only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the
zookeeper. --Robert Brault / The zoo board didn't invite the giraffe
to the opening ceremonies because he is such a pain in the neck.
Famous
Last Words: ...all in all you were all just bricks in the
wall. --Pink Floyd
May
Peace be your Extended Module
And
Joy your Roving Vehicle
prairie
mama
christine
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