Famous
First Words: It's been a hard day's night.... The Beatles
...the song
It's
National Psychic Week (August 7-11) – I almost dated a psychic once
but he dumped me before we met. / One afternoon a man was wandering
around a fairground and he happened to see a fortune-teller's tent.
Thinking that it would be a good laugh, the man went inside and sat
down. "Ah..." the woman said as she looked into the depths
of her crystal ball. "I see you are the father of two children."
"That's what you think," said the man scornfully. "I'm
the father of three children." The mysterious psychic grinned
and replied, "That's what you think!"
..........Another
runner in the night..........Manfred Mann …..Blinded By The Light
Peace
can become a lens through which we see the world. Be it. Live it.
Radiate it. Peace is an inside job. --Wayne Dyer
It
is a spectacular Friday morning. The sky itself defines blue – sky
blue, of course – and under it clouds of all sorts and sizes play;
some are misty and gray on the bottom and others are puffy and happy.
There is a slight breeze from the north that wafts about and makes
the tree leaves wiggle and giggle. The breeze is perfect for a
perfect 69°F temperature. Birds are out in flocks and quarrels
singing praises to the morning; they miss not a note while the trash
trucks grind by making that wasteful part of our lives disappear in a
clank of machinery. Puck paced the perimeter and is now settled on
the deck watching, ever watching. I do not smell anything; no
dampness or heat raise aroma from the ground or the pavement and the
tea roses are not a peak to spread their scents. The world is still
quite green and has not burnt to brown in the August heat. But
coffee calls me and we return to our rooms to the smell of brewing
coffee and laundry soap. And now, encouraged by a cup of lightly
sweetened, heavily creamed decaf, I get to write to you. What a
morning!
I
foresee fun in your weekend, ePistlers.
Note
on the door: Psychic fair closed due to unforeseen circumstances. /
Why did the psychic stare at the carton of orange juice? Because he
needed to concentrate.
..........got
a honey jar stuck on his nose..........Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
…..House at Pooh Corner
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday Packers !!
^
In 1996 Brett Favre set an NFL record when he threw how many
touchdown passes in the regular season. (Extra points if you know who
held the record he broke)
^^
Which packer was nicknamed the Minister of Defense?
^^^
Who were the founding fathers of the packers?
^^^^
The Packers were the first NFL team to have cheerleaders; what were
they called?
^^^^^
What was the score of the very first Super Bowl anyway?
Senior
Moment of the Week:
Why is it I can remember the lyrics to my favorite song in high
school 20 years later, but I can not remember why I came into the
kitchen.
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
25% of the time a librarian spends on committee meeting minutes is
spent deciding how best to abbreviate the word 'association'
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Eromancy
is divination using water vessels or air currents depending on who's
defining it. It has never been used as a verb before. ...aNother
fIrst fRom tHe fRiday ePistle...
Sign
on the Psychic's door: You don't need an appointment; I know you're
coming. / What's the difference between a psychic and a psycho? A
psychic projects their mind, a psycho loses it.
..........Don't
be afraid to live a little.........Iron Butterfly …..Soul
Experience
Moonbeam:
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the
reality is going to deal with you. --Alex Haley
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Rojbash – Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Week
of the Week: Assistance Dog Week
(August: 6-12) – Hiring a dog as your attorney will work well for
your insanity defense / Employee: "Is that a licensed dog?"
Handler: "No, she only has her learner's permit since she
forgets to use the clutch when shifting."
I'm
a skilled mind-reader. Right now, I know exactly what you're
thinking, “can not”. / Why did the psychic take his time
meditating before conducting a reading? He was psyching himself up.
..........We
could make those tires squeal.........Nitty Gritty Dirt Band …..One
Step Over the Line
^
In '96 Favre broke his own record with 39 TD passes. He threw 38 TD
passes in 1995.
Almanac:
It is Friday, August 11, 2017. The moon will be last quarter on
Monday. It is Ingersoll Day, Presidential Joke Day,
and Shop Online For Groceries Day. Chad celebrates Independence Day
(1960) and in the Yukon it is Klondike Gold Day. Because this is the
2nd weekend
in August it is also the Kool-Aid Days.
Among
those born on this date were Robert
G Ingersoll
(1833), Carrie J Bond (1862), Alexander Mosolov (1900), Alex Haley
(1921), Arlene Dahl (1924), Mike Douglas (1925), Claus Von Bulow
(1926), Alun Hoddinott (1929), Jerry Falwell (1933), Mike Hugg
(Manfred Man, 1942), Jeff Hanna (Dirt Band, 1947), Erik Brann (Iron
Butterfly, 1950), Steve Wozniak (1950), and Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea,
1953).
On
August eleventh the world's first roller rink opened (RI, 1866),
Mar's moon, Deimos, was discovered (1877), the Green Bay Packers
football club was founded (1919), the first federal prisoners arrived
at Alcatraz (1934), Hussein was proclaimed king of Jordan (1952), the
French made peace in Viet Nam (1954), Chad declared independence
(1960), A
Hard Day's Night
opened in NYC (1964), the Watts riots began (1965), the Beatles
launched Apple Records (1968), Bob Tway won the PGA championship
(1986), and Vorager 2 discovered 2 partial rings of Neptune (1989).
Night
Sky, 8/11:
The Perseid
meteor shower
should
be at its maximum late tonight and late tomorrow night. The nearly
last-quarter Moon will light the sky late at night. But the brightest
meteors will still shine through the moonlight, and there's a
prediction out that this year's underlying shower may be somewhat
richer than usual. You may see one every couple minutes on average,
depending on the brightness of your sky.
I
hope someone is as offended by this cartoon as I am by these two
idiots.
This
Week: Saturday, August 12 –
Sewing Machine Day, World Elephant Day , & National Garage Sale
Day
Night
Sky, 8/12: The Perseids continue. The
brightest star high in the southeast these evening is Altair, with
little orange Tarazed above it by a finger-width at arm's length. A
little more than a fist-width to Altair's left is delicate Delphinus,
the Dolphin, leaping leftward.
Sunday,
August 13 – National Left Hander's Day
Monday,
August 14 – International Rose
Day & National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Night
Sky, 8/14: The Big Dipper hangs
diagonally in the northwest after dusk. From its midpoint, look to
the right to find Polaris (not very bright) glimmering due north as
always.
Tuesday,
August 15 – National Relaxation Day & Best Friends Day
Wednesday,
August 16 – Wave at Surveillance Day & National Airborne
Day
Night
Sky, 8/16: The
W of Cassiopeia, tilted only a little, is nicely up in the northeast
these evenings. Its right-hand side is the brightest. Watch it rise
higher and tilt further through the night and through the next few
months.
Thursday,
August 17 – Black Cat Appreciation Day & National
Nonprofit Day
Madame
Salome was a fat psychic. They used to call here the four chin
teller. / What is the longest astrology reading in the world? I
don't know, but it's on a planetary scale.
..........But
that's an ancient point of view.........Iron Butterfly …..Free
^^
Reggie White was the minister of defense. Reggie was an ordained
Evangelical minister and a 13-time Pro Bowl selection. He played
eight seasons with the Eagles, six with the Packers then retired only
to come back one more season with the Carolina Panthers. He was
posthumously inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
Funniest
thing I read of the Week: I always wondered why somebody
didn't do something about that, then I realized I am somebody.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Only one convention on my list this for this weekend – Wizard World
Orlando (August 11-13). But it does feature – among many others –
Nichelle Nichols aka Uhura. And media guests from television and
film. http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/orlando
Moonbeam:
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to
be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. --Robert
J. Ingersoll
Late
Night Snacks: This past week, a signed sketch
of the Manhattan skyline drawn by Donald Drumpf in 2005 was bought at
auction for nearly $30,000. Bidding started at $9,000 and went all
the way up to $30,000. Making this Drumpf's only venture to ever turn
a profit. --James Corden / This morning, President Drumpf announced
a new immigration plan that will favor people who speak English.
Which is why tonight, he had to deport himself. "I am BIGLY,
BIGLY sad!" --Jimmy Fallon / Now, the bill sounds bad, but
they gave it a catchy name: the Reforming American Immigration for
Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. Yes, the RAISE Act. Much better
marketing than the original name: Reforming American Citizenship Is
Super Tough. --Stephen Colbert / He’s going to his Drumpf golf
resort in New Jersey. Some people are angry he’s taking vacation
for two weeks. I think it is a good thing. I mean, we’ll still have
a country for two more weeks. --Jimmy Kimmel / A new Quinnipiac
poll found that 33 percent of people approve of the job President
Drumpf is doing. Unfortunately, they're all under investigation.
--Seth Meyers
Not
So Late Night Snacks:
Trump
unleashed...dug
up the lawn, peed in the Lincoln bedroom, and a basset hound next
door just had puppies with really weird hair. --Peter Sagal Wait,
Wait Dont Tell Me
We're
trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like
people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people
aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have
violence. Not just war -- all forms of violence. --John Lennon
A
frog telephones the Psychic Hotline. His Personal Psychic Adviser
tells him, "You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who
will want to know everything about you." The frog is thrilled,
"This is great! Will I meet her at a party?" "No,"
says his adviser, "in her biology class."
..........Snappin'
her fingers and shufflin' her feet.........Manfred Mann …..Do Wah
Diddy Diddy
^^^
The Green Bay Packers were founded by Curly Lambeau and George
Whitney Calhoun. The Packers were a semi-professional team from
1919-1920.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: The Watts Rebellion took
place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16,
1965. It was blamed principally on police racism. It was the city's
worst unrest until the Rodney King unrest of 1992.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Roses are red / Tacos are enjoyable / Don't blame a Mexican because
you're unemployable. --submitted by fb of az
Weird
Word of the Week:
Urtication – flogging with nettles. Once advocated for erotic
stimulation...but not so much anymore.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-urt1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Create emergency traction for automobiles. Keep a bag of Tidy Cats
in your car trunk in case you get stuck in the ice or snow. When
poured under the tire, it provides excellent traction.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tidycats.html
Alice
goes to see a fortune teller, who tells her "Two men are madly
in love with you!" Alice asks "Who will be the lucky one?"
The fortune teller answers "Michael will marry you, and Shaun
will be the lucky one."
...........and
the world was just a spectrum of light.........Manfred Mann
…..Questions
^^^^
The Golden Girls led the Packers fans in cheers from 1961 to 1972.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Madcap – amusingly
eccentric, an eccentric person Love's Labour's Lost Act II,
Scene I Maria: That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord: not a
word with him but a jest.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
If life gives you birthdays, eat cake.
It
is the Weekend of Hobo Days in Britt, IA:
This
is the hobo recipe for Mulligan of Happiness: Take a large bowl, fill
it with sunshine. Add a bit of patience, faith, and kindness. Sift a
cup of romance with a teaspoon of sympathy, a teaspoon of
forgiveness, moisten with a teardrop, adding tolerance, friendship
along with ambition. Mix well with stardust, fold in imagination,
place in a heavenly blue pan, bake well with the light of God's
candle. Serve every day and it will bring you a mulligan of
Happiness. http://www.brittiowa.com/hobo/logo-symbols.htm
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck kick boxing into action in the case of the
Jindo's Jiu Jitsu.
Debbie
visited a psychic of some local repute. In a dark and gloomy room,
gazing at the tarot cards laid out before her, the tarot reader
delivered the bad news: "There's no easy way to say this, so
I'll just be blunt - prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband
will die a violent and horrible death this year." Visibly
shaken, Jennifer stared at the woman's lined face, then at the single
flickering candle, then down at her hands. She took a few deep
breaths to compose herself. She simply had to know. She met the tarot
reader's gaze, steadied her voice, and asked: "Will I get away
with it?"
..........But
it won't rain.........Nitty Gritty Dirt Band …..Brass Sky
^^^^^
The Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in the first
ever Super Bowl. They also won the next Super Bowl 33-14 against the
Oakland Raiders.
Month
of the Week: August is Crayon Collection
Month – I don't understand white crayons. Why are they here? What
do they want from us? / If I gave you a crayon, could you draw a
conclusion?
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Dear
Christians: Now would be a good time to come to your senses.
--Submitted by bd of ny
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State:
Illinois lists Blackjack Road as their most beautiful place but there
aren't a lot of pictures nor accounts of breath-taking scenes. I
found complaints about ruts in the road and motorcycle accidents.
Surely standing in Dune State Park looking out over Lake Michigan
would be prettier than road ruts.
http://www.motorcycleroads.us/roads/il_bjr.html
Today's
Peace of History: August 11, 1958: A drugstore
chain in Wichita, Kansas, agreed to serve all its customers after
weeks of sit-ins at Dockum’s lunch counter by local
African-Americans who wanted an end to segregation. On this day, as
several black Wichitans were sitting at the counter even though the
store refused to serve them, a white man around 40 walked in and
looked at them for several minutes. Then he looked at the store
manager and said, simply, “Serve them. I'm losing too much money.”
He was the owner, Robert Dockum. That day the lawyer for the local
NAACP branch called the company and was told by the a vice president
”he had instructed all of his managers, clerks, etc., to serve all
people without regard to race, creed or color,” statewide. This was
the first success of the sit-in movement which soon spread to
Oklahoma City and other towns in Kansas, but is often thought to have
started in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.
What
do you call a psychic that travels into space? An astrolonaut. / A
man walks into a bar and orders a pint of whiskey. The guy next to
him asks, "Are you that psychic?" Staring deeply into his
drink, the man replies, "Well, I do seem to have a strong
connection to spirits."
..........Everybody's
gonna jump for joy.........Manfred Mann …..Mighty Quinn
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle August 11, 2017. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Humor,
Peace & Love.
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS
66046
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If
Trump wants to destroy North Korea, he should buy it and turn it into
one of his casinos. --Tea Pain --Submitted by fb of az
Moonbeam:
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions. --Jerry
Falwell
Cost
of War: Tax dollars spent in Afghanistan: as
of 8/9/17: $780,080,140,911.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 8/3/17: $779,443,095,301.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 8/9/17:
$820,730,870,304.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 8/3/17:
$820,712,252,335.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 8/9/17: $16,273,956,956.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 8/3/17: $16,176,024,147.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 8/9/17:
$156,745,706,012
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 8/3/17:
$156,200,803,820
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 8/9/17:
$1,778,872,920,608.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 8/3/17:
$1,777,542,418,096.
To
control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
--Morihei Ueshiba
..........I
look for the sun.........Iron Butterfly …..In the Crowds
A
medium went into a store and said, "I'm a spiritual medium. I'd
like a new wardrobe." The shopkeeper hesitated a moment, sizing
the medium up, then said, "I'd say you're a spiritual large,
and, no, you need a BIGGER wardrobe."
Famous
Last Words: Great! (Nell) Hard Day's Night ...the
movie
May
Peace be your future
And
Joy your eternal present
prairie
mama
christine
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