Famous
First Words: One ringy, dingy... Ernestine the Operator
(Lily Tomlin)
Happy
Birthday, Lily !! The trouble with the rat race is that even if you
win, you're still a rat. --Lily Tomlin / If you read a lot of books
you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're
not considered well viewed. --Lily Tomlin
..........Poor
me another cup of coffee.........Conway Twitty …..Truck Drivin'
Man
The
only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is
negotiations. --Golda Meir
It
is a very sad Friday morning. Last night Pax ran out of the yard
while I had to gate open to let Puck in and he ran across the street
to terrorize a small woman with a tiny dog. Puck and I came after
but because I had no leash, I was unable to walk him back home and he
ran out into the street into a car and died. We are all devastated.
Goodbye, friend, this ePistle is for you.
Hope
your weekend gives reality a run for its money, ePistliers.
I
always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been
more specific. --Lily Tomlin / I can handle reality in small doses,
but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining. --Lily Tomlin
..........Straight
through Sunday blues.........Gloria Estefan …..Good Morning,
Heartache
Trivia
Questions: Happy Dolphin Day ! … Actually, it's Int'l Day of
Awareness for the Dolphins of Taiji
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How long do dolphins live – more or less?
^^
How do dolphins sleep?
^^^
Which land mammals are closest to the dolphin?
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How deep can dolphin swim?
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How many kinds of dolphins are there, anyway?
Senior
Moment of the Week: The upside of being a septuagenarian, you
can now safely drink, smoke, etc since you're too old to die young.
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
Library books are so dirty that 65% of library staff wash their hands
before using the restroom.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
The
road to success is always under construction. --Lily Tomlin / For
fast acting relief try slowing down. --Lily Tomlin
..........Yet
why am I so blind.........Bee Gees …..Holiday
Moonbeam:
Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in
your own lives and conversation. --Lydia Sigourney
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Bueno diyas – Ladino ~~I have the characters to
spell this in the original language but they arranged themselves and
I couldn't make them go into the pattern I was seeing. It was weird,
to say the least. I even tried putting a couple of spaces between
each character, but the computer rearranged them anyway.
Week
of the Week: International Enthusiasm
Week (September 1-7) --ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable
by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications
of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it
"entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off—to
Missolonghi. --Ambrose Bierce
Reality
is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. --Lily
Tomlin / What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come
down where you can find it. --Lily Tomlin
..........
And all of those beauties in Arkansas.........Conway Twitty
…..Southern Comfort
^
The maximum lifespan of bottlenose dolphins is between 40-50 years.
Almanac:
It is Friday, September 1, 2017. The moon was first quarter last
Wednesday and is in Capricorn. It is Building &
Code Staff Appreciation Day, Calendar Adjustment Day, Chicken Boy's
Day, Emma M. Nutt Day, International Day of Awareness for the
Dolphins of Taiji, National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day, Random Acts of
Kindness Day or Be Kind Day, and Save Japan's Dolphins Day. In
Brunei they celebrate the Revelation of the Koran. In both Lybia and
Egypt it is Revolution Day (1969). Mexico commemorates the
Presidental Message Day/Opening of congress. In Michigan it is
Mackinac Bridge Walk Day and in Puerto Rico it is Labor Day (1894)
Among
those born on this day were Lydia Sigourney
(1791), Elizabeth Harrison (1849), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854),
Roger David Casement (1864), Gentle Jim Corbett (1866), Edgar Rice
Burroughs (1875), Walter Reuther (1907), Melvin Laird (1922),
Vittorio Gassman (1922), Yvonne De Carlo (1922), Rocky Marciano
(1923), Ann Richard (1933), Conway Twitty (1933), George Maharis
(1938), Lily Tomlin (1939), Barry Gibb (1946), and Gloria Estefan
(1957).
On
September first the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was founded
(1772), Aaron Burr was acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an
empire (1907), the first pullman sleeper car went into service
(1859), solar flares were first observed (1859), Lister performed the
first antiseptic surgery (1965), Emma Nutt was hired as the first
female telephone operator (1878), St. Petersburg became Petrograd
(1914), the Keating-Owen Act banned child labor from interstate
commerce (1916), Black holes were first treated in the literature
(1939), the UN's World Health Organization formed (1948), Pirate
Radio Marina began transmitting (1968), Earth's population hit 3
billion (1962), Qatar gained independence from Britain (1971), Bobby
Fischer beat Boris Spassky for the world chess title (1972), the
court ordered Clayton Moore to stop wearing his Lone Ranger mask
(1979), and Pioneer flew by Saturn (1979).
Night
Sky, 9/1: At nightfall, the waxing gibbous Moon is about
equally distant from Saturn, well off to its right, and Altair, high
to its upper left.
This
Week:
Saturday,
September 2 – Bacon Day & National Tailgating Day
Night
Sky, 9/2: A dawn challenge: As morning twilight brightens use
binoculars to look for the triangle of Mars, Regulus, and Mercury
very low in the east, far beneath Venus
Sunday,
September 3 – Bowling League Day
Night
Sky, 9/3: As twilight fades away into night, look far above
the Moon for Altair. Much closer above the Moon (more or less),
binoculars will show the wide double stars Alpha and Beta Capricorni.
Alpha is the yellow-orange pair on top. The Beta pair is more unequal
and probably harder to resolve.
Monday,
September 4 – Labor Day & Day of the Great Bathtub Race
Tuesday,
September 5 – Be Late For Something Day
Wednesday,
September 6 – Lighthouse Day (The first lighthouse in north
America began operation (Boston, 1716.)
Thursday,
September 7 – Neither Snow nor Rain Day & Grandma Moses
Day
Wouldn't
it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world
would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas. --Lily Tomlin / The
best mind-altering drug is the truth. --Lily Tomlin
..........Feel
the city breakin' and everybody shakin'.........Bee Gees …..Stayin'
Alive
^^
Dolphins have to be conscious to breath so they can't go into a full,
deep sleep (they would suffocate). Dolphins let one half of their
brain sleep at a time.
Funniest
thing I read of the Week: T-Shirt: The universe is made up of
protons, neutrons, electrons, and morons.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
North American Discworld Convention 2017 (New Orleans, September 1-4)
For fans of the late Terry Pratchett...this year's theme is all
about the witches of Discworld. https://nadwcon2017.org/
Moonbeam:
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built
on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. --Elizabeth
Harrison
Fat
Laden-ed Late Night Snacks: According to a new
poll, only 19% of New Jersey residents approve of their governor,
Chris Christie. And they're all restaurant owners. –Conan O'Brien
/ Governor Chris Christie is in trouble because his staff shut down
part of the George Washington Bridge to get back at a political
rival. Yesterday, Christie gave a 107-minute press conference to
address the scandal. The last time Christie talked for 107 minutes,
he was ordering at IHOP. –Jimmy Fallon / Republican presidential
hopeful Chris Christie said this weekend that he would rather jump
off the Brooklyn Bridge than be in Congress. And just to be safe,
Mayor de Blasio issued a tsunami warning for Lower Manhattan. –Seth
Meyers / Chris Christie, there's 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag,.
--Jon Stewart / Governor Christie was asked, 'Do you think this will
hurt your chances of being president of the United States. And he
said, 'Hey, we'll close that bridge when we come to it.' –David
Letterman / If I was Chris Christie and everyone was focused on my
weight, I'd pick an even fatter running mate – someone huge, like
600 pounds. –Jimmy Kimmel / "Turns out that the lane closures
were meant to make life hell as payback to the mayor of Fort Lee, NJ,
for not endorsing Christie for re-election. No word yet on what the
rest of New Jersey is payback for." -Stephen Colbert / "Trusting
the government to monitor your calls without listening – it's kind
of like trusting Chris Christie to pick up the McDonalds and not eat
the fries on the way home." –Bill Maher / "Prince Harry
this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris
Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House
of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.'" –Amy
Poehler
Not
So Late Night Snacks: I've been thinkin' that the Republican
Revolution is just Lincoln rolling over in his grave. --Roy
Zimmerman There
Goes The Sun
Peace
we want because there is another war to fight against poverty,
disease, and ignorance. We have promises to keep to our people of
work, food., clothing, and shelter, health and education. --Indira
Gandhi
Why
isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? --Lily Tomlin /
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating
itself. --Lily Tomlin
..........Be
careful what you say or do.........Gloria Estefan …..What Goes
Around
^^^
The closest land relatives to dolphins are thought to be cows, pigs,
and deer.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: Ann Richards, in the keynote
address at the 1988 National Democratic Convention, took a jab at
George Bush, then vice president, saying "Poor George, he can't
help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." The
remark was widely repeated in the press coverage of the event.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Zoilism – an enthusiastic devotion to something. A correspondent
identified only as J Hooker wrote a disgusted letter to the Lady’s
Newspaper
of London in January 1863 about slovenly and unhygienic rural
servants in France: If
I were to do more than hint at their hydrophobic habits, their
pulicidal, pulicivorous, and even phtheirophagous propensities, I
should call down, not undeservedly, the Zoilism of our
correspondents. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-zoi1.htm
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Do unto others 20% better
than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective
error. --Linus Pauling
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Repel squirrels and chipmunks from flower beds. Sprinkle one
tablespoon of used Tidy Cats cat box filler (yes, used) on the ground
around the base of each flower.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tidycats.html
There
is so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin if
becoming an endangered synthetic. --Lily Tomlin / I may be
schizophrenic, but I'll always have each other. --Lily Tomlin
...........She's
a part of a colorful time.........Jefferson Airplane …..Plastic
Fantastic Lover
^^^^
Dolphins can swim up to 650 feet below the surface of the ocean.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Metamorphose – change or
cause to change in form or nature. Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Act I Scene I Proteus: Thou, Julia, thou has metamorphosed me, made
me neglect my studies, lose my time...
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
A giant hoax dreamed up by scientists continues to pummel
Houston. --Sumbitted by fb of az
YouTube
of the Week: Here are four flood songs to listen to while you
watch video of people and animals being rescued from Harvey. Texas
Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughn / Mighty
Day by the Chad Mitchell Trio / Muddy
Waters Blues with Paul Rodgers / Bessie Smith Backwater
Blues
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck sniffing out clues on every inch of floor in
the case of the Dirty
Dogo.
Man
invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. --Lily
Tomlin / If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
--Lily Tomlin
..........But
the band kept a playin' and shakin' my bed.........Conway Twitty
…..Honky Tonk Song
^^^^^
There are 20 extant species of dolphins.
Month
of the Week: September is Be Kind to
Editors and Writers Month - There was once a young man who, in his
youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to
define "Great" he said, "I want to write stuff that
the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly
emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain
and anger!" He now works for Microsoft, writing error
messages. ~~Dilbert has introduced a tech writer characters.
I love her. He wrote a 700 page warning label.
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State: The website
suggests that Cimarron National Grassland is the most beautiful spot
in Kansas...and...it's very western Kansas looking. But the tall
grass prairies in the flint hills strike me as more pleasing to the
eye both looking out over the landscape and looking up close at the
grass itself with its curling leaves and bent stems. I couldn't find
a picture that showed those wonderful curly leaves. If you have one,
please send it to me.
Today's
Peace of History, September
1, 1997: Kurdish and British activists
blockaded an arms trade exhibition outside London.
No
matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. --Lily
Tomlin / Why is it when we talk to God we're praying – but when God
talks to us, we're schizophrenic? --Lily Tomlin
..........Just
keep going from place to place.........Bee Gees …..Second Hand
People
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle September 1, 2017. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Random
Writes of Peace and Silliness.
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS
66046
Moonbeam:
I write to escape; to escape poverty. --Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 8/31/17: $782,097,425,861
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 8/24/17: $781,433,751,907
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 8/31/17:
$820,789,828,007.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 8/24/17:
$820,770,432,173.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 8/31/17: $16,583,997,706.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 8/24/17: $16,481,992,468.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 8/31/17:
$158,470,869,414
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 8/24/17:
$157,903,302,729
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 8/31/17:
$1,783,085,675,293.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 8/24/17:
$1,781,699,733,340.
Everything
I have ever written or hoped to write is dedicated to our hope of
peace and dignity and freedom in the world. --Margaret Walker
..........Cause
you and I are dangerous.........Gloria Estefan …..Cuts Both Ways
Reality
is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. --Lily Tomlin /
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. --Lily Tomlin
Famous
Last Words: ...state, territory or district of manufacture or
production. Section 6: Keating-Owen Act
May
Neither Peace nor Joy be random acts
May
they be with you constantly
prairie
mama
christine
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