Friday, October 27, 2017

eBon ePistle

Famous First Words: To the people of the state of New York... Federalist Papers #1
Today is Black Cat Day!! Halloween cat food is priced purr can. / If you cross a black cat and a white oak you get a black and white catalog.
You may be a witch if ... you haven't used your broom for sweeping in years.
..........Then all the colors will bleed into one.........U2 …..I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls. --Malala Yousafzal
It is a chilly Friday morning. 38°F is insisted upon by a light breeze, possibly from the west. It has set me to wondering where I left my gloves last spring. A thick cloud cover varies in color but is universal in muting the sky so that the world is lighting up very slowly; it picks up highlights and creates shadows revealing the still green grass and the red, red maples, and the yellow oaks. The ash tree's squirrel nest adds interest among the now are limbs. Distant motors grind and no birdsong softens them; the fountain is hibernating for the winter. Puck is silent has he stalks the perimeter and patrols under the deck; but he growls a little at whatever it is that lives under the storage shed; I think it is the opossum, but I'm not sure. I take a few deep breaths but there is no smell in the air; cold weather has swallowed all the aromas. We return to our rooms. Puck is as anxious as I to find warmth (he has a wardrobe of coats and will be reminded of that soon). Our rooms smell of coffee and living. Puck drinks a ramekin of half and half and I drank a cup of decaf carefully modified with artificial sugar and more half and half. Delicious. But that's not the best part, the best part is writing to you.
Hope you weekend oozes with luck, ePistliers.
The police picked up my black cat; claimed she was the purrpatrator of felonies. / For Halloween, Black Cats prefer Mice Crispy Treats.
Witches do it in circles.
..........no reason to get excited, the thief, he kindly spoke.........U2 …..All Along the Watchtower
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday Water Skis !
^ Any idea, in what year water skiing was invented?
^^ Is water skiing an Olympic sport?
^^^ Safety requires at least how many people in the tow boat?
^^^^ Care to guess the record number of skiers towed by a single boat?
^^^^^ What events are included in water skiing tournaments?
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: ...I know it's true because my gut tells me it's true. I'm curious, where do you stick your head to listen to your gut. --Dilbert by Scott Adams 10/20/17
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 28% of librarians wish Library Police were a thing so they could humorously say "Book him" more frequently. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
That whole “black cats are unlucky” malarkey was a rumor started by mice. / Janet's cat ran up a huge phone bill calling his cousin purrson to persian.
You may be a witch if ... you're happy with who you are and give not a rat's fart what others think.
..........When an honest man sees an honest wage.........U2 …..Van Diemen's Land
Moonbeam: Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. --Emily Post
Something to Think About of the Week: A group of bats, hanging from the ceiling of a cave, discover a single bat STANDING upright below them on the floor of the cave. Surprised by this unusual behavior, they ask, "What's wrong with you? What are you doing down there?" The standing bat answers, "Yoga!"
Big Hello: Moin – Low Saxon (Germany & Denmark)
Week of the Week: International Magic Week (October 25-31) - How many magicians does it take to screw in a light bulb? One hundred – one to actually do it, four to tell him his flashed, and 95 to claim they’ve developed a better handling.

Caution: Don't practice your spells in front of the mirror.
..........in the locust wind comes a rattle and hum.........U2 …..Bullet the Blue Sky
^ Ralph Samuelson of Lake City, Minnesota is credited with inventing the sport of water skiing. In 1922, Samuelson attached a set of makeshift skis to his feet (constructed of boards) and held on to a clothesline as a boat pulled hum. He discovered that shifting his body weight to the rear with his makeshift skis pointed up resulted in a stable, balanced formation, and thus began the sport of water skiing.
Almanac: It is Friday, October 27, 2017. The moon is first quarter tonight and is in Aquarius. The United Nations has declared this World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (UNESCO). It is Black Cat Day, Cranky Co-workers Day, and Navy Day. St Vincent Islands celebrate Statehood Day (1969). Because it is the last Friday it is also Frankenstein Friday, International Bandanna Day, National Breadstix (Bread Sticks) Day, and Francis E Willard Day, aka Temperance Day.
Among those born on this day were James Cook (1728), Niccolo Paganini (1782), Issac Merrit Singer (1811), Klas Arnoldson (1844), Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Emily Post (1872), Jack Carson (1910), Dylan Thomas (1914), Nanette Fabray (1920), Roy Lichtenstein (1923), Ruby Dee (1923), Sylvia Plath (1932), John Cleese (1929), Terry J Hart (1946), and Marla Maples (1963).
On October twenty-seventh the US Navy was established (1775), the first Federalist letter appeared in a NY newspaper (1787), the first Macys store opened (NYC, 1858), the US annexed west Florida from Spain (1810), Boss Tweed was arrested for corruption (1871), Night on Bald Mountain debuted (1886), Variety first used the word jazz in print (1916), the world's first subway opened (NYC, 1904), water skis were patented (1925), DuPont introduced "nylon" (1938), You Bet Your Life premiered on radio (1947), B O Davis, Jr became the first black USAF general (1954), the American Basketball League began play (1961), Nader's Raiders formed (1969), Begin & Sadat won the Nobel Peace prize (1978), and U2 opened their Rattle and Hum tour (1988).
Night Sky, 10/27: First-quarter Moon (exactly first-quarter at 6:22 p.m. EDT). At nightfall, you'll find Altair shining about 30° (three fists at arm's length) to the Moon's upper right. Much closer to the Moon's upper right, by only about 6°, are 3rd-magnitude Alpha and Beta Capricorni. Alpha is the upper one. Can you resolve Alpha into a tiny twin pair with your unaided eyes? Binoculars make it easy — and should also resolve Beta, another wide double, although its components are somewhat closer and very unequal.
This Week: Saturday, October 28 – Champagne Day & Make a Difference Day
Night Sky, 10/28: Draw a line from Altair very high in the southwest after dark, to the right to brighter Vega, very high in the west. Continue the line half as far onward, and you hit the Lozenge: the pointy-nosed head of Draco, the Dragon. Its brightest star is orange Eltanin, the tip of the Dragon's nose, which points toward Vega.
Sunday, October 29 – Internet Day & National Cat Day & Visit a Cemetery Day
Monday, October 30 – Create a Great Funeral Day & Haunted Refrigerator Night
Night Sky, 10/30: Venus rises around the beginning of dawn and shines very low due east as dawn brightens. Mars is higher in the dawn to the upper right of Venus.
Tuesday, October 31 – Beggars' Night & National UNICEF Day & Samhain & World Cities Day
Wednesday, November 1 – Hockey Mask Day & Extra Mile Day & National Authors Day
Night Sky, 11/1: Saturn glows low in the southwest at dusk. Uranus and Neptune are well up after dark in the east and southeast.
Thursday, November 2 – Cookie Monster's Birthday & National Men Make Dinner Day
Jack's black cat, FreeDa, hates their neighbor Jane who has a poodle named Scare D Cat. / Catastrophe: an award given for the black cat with the nicest buns.
You may be a witch if ... if your inner goddess is not amused by halloween.
..........No man is my enemy.........U2 …..Love Rescue Me
^^ Water skiing was added as an Olympic sport in 1972, drawing even more recognition and authenticity to it.
Next Funniest thing I read of the Week: Don't be ashamed of who you are. That's your parents job.
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: VCON 2017 (Vancouver, BC, October 27 – 29). Featuring 41½ guests of honour. http://vcon.ca/
Moonbeam: But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. --Sylvia Plath who died at age 31.
Late Night Snacks: Only Kimmel was live last week: Went to see Bruce Springsteen last night on Broadway. And you're not going to believe this, he was great. Turns out he's really great. Bruce almost restored my faith in America last night. And then the president tweeted and it was gone again. --Jimmy Kimmel
Late Night Snacks for October 27, 2015: Carson's strongest support comes from evangelical Christians, a group that Donald Trump has had real trouble with, evidently. People who read the Bible just don't want to follow someone who looks that much like a golden calf. --Stephen Colbert / Both the World Series and the new NBA season started tonight. Or as most people put it, "Damn, there's no football on." --Jimmy Fallon / Some candidates, like Democratic candidate Martin O'Malley, are having trouble getting celebrities on their bandwagon. We here at "The Late Late Show" are open to supporting you, Martin O'Malley, but first we have a couple questions. Question 1: Who are you? Question 2 . . . That is really the only question we have. --James Corden / Russia is making plans to send four monkeys to Mars. Not as preparation for a human mission — but because the monkeys criticized Vladimir Putin. --Conan O'Brien / The U.S. Air Force announced today their new model of stealth bomber will cost half a billion dollars each. And, even worse, it uses a different charger than the old model. --Seth Meyers
Not So Late Night Snacks: People are trying to catch him in the act of lying like he's going to feel any shame ... he lives in a world where truth and falsehood don't exist. He does not care; it's like you're trying to play a game of epistemological lasar tag with a guy who doesn't know or care what any of those words mean. --Adam Burke Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me
If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children. --Mahatma Gandhi
If you cross a black alley cat with a chicken you get a peeping tom. / Beware of black cats; they may try to snuggle you to death.
What matters in not the length of the wand but the magic in the stick.
..........Like a town needs a name.........U2 …..Hawkmoon 269
^^^ A boat should only tow a water skier if there are at least two people inside it – the captain and one other passenger. The captain must observe his or her surroundings, while the second passenger is responsible for observing the water skier. Operating a tow boat without a passenger watching over the water skier is a serious mistake that greatly increases the risk of an accident-related injury.
Worthless Fact of the Week: Macy's was founded by Rowland Hussey Macy, who opened teh original Macy's store in downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1851 to serve the mill industry employees of the area. The first New York City store openeed on the corner of 14th Street and 6th Avenue in New York City in 1858.
Wicked Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Global Warming is a hoax. Seas are rising because Jesus weeps every time a dollar that could have bought a bomb buys a child healthcare. --Submitted by pl of hi
Weird Word of the Week: Gaberlunzie /ɡǣbǝ'ɭ˄nzi / A good Scots word this, of the medieval period, meaning a beggar, though sadly nobody has much idea where it comes from. The first part looks as though it might have something to do with gaberdine, originally a garment worn by a pilgrim. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-gab1.htm
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Provide traction on snow-covered driveways and sidewalks. Sprinkle unused Tidy Cats on the snow-covered walk or drive. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tidycats.html

You may be a witch if ... you prefer driving a stick.
...........A shot rings out in the Memphis sky.........U2 …..Pride (In the Name of Love)
^^^^ The World Record For the Most Water Skiers Towed By a Single Boat is 145. It’s pretty impressive when two or more water skiers are towed by the same boat, but Tasmania’s Horsehead Water Ski Resort took took this to a whole new level by towing a record-setting 145 skiers in 2010. The previous world record was just 100 skiers, set 24 years prior. The boat used in this record-setting event was a 3,000-horsepower World Heritage Cruises’ catamaran Eagle.
Word Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Obsequiously – obediently or attentive to a servile degree. Richard III Act I Scene II, Lady Anne: whilst I awhile obsequiously lament the untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
Puck the Brave Episode of the Week: Here's our fearless Puck preparing his holiday wardrobe in the case of the Ghostly Gordon.
If a black cat crosses your path, it means the cat has somewhere to go. / How do you know if your cat has been using your computer? ...the mouse has teeth marks on it.
Sure, you can pray for me, and I'll dance naked in the woods for you.
..........Sixty-six, a highway speaks.........U2 …..Heartland
^^^^^ Practically all major water skiing tournaments are centered around 3 main events: slalom, jumping, and trick riding. In slalom, skiers must maneuver around a series of staggered buoys without hitting them. In jumping, skiers are pulled from an angle over a large ramp, at which point they must thrust themselves into the air. In trick riding, skiers are given the freedom to perform their own twists, turns, flip and tricks in hopes of capturing the judges’ attention.
Month of the Week: October is Positive Attitude Month – A positive attitude may not solve all your problems...but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Most Beautiful Thing in the State: Natchez Trace Parkway – Cypress Swamp Trail, Canton, MS. ...offers the chance to see wildlife and is good for all skill levels. The trail is primarily used for hiking and is best used from September until February. Dogs are also able to use this trail. https://www.natcheztracetravel.com/natchez-trace-mississippi/canton-jackson-ms/171-cypress-swamp.html
Today's Peace of History, October 27, 1969: Ralph Nader set up a consumer organization with young lawyers and researchers (often called "Nader's Raiders") who produced systematic exposés of industrial hazards, pollution, unsafe products, and governmental neglect of consumer safety laws
Black cats were created to give everyone the opportunity to be owned by a mini-panther. / Black cats wear hairy coats fur protection.
You may be a witch if ... if you'd rather fly around with a stick between your legs than walk the earth with one up you ass.
..........See them bright and shiny things.........U2 …..Silver and Gold
Masthead of the Week: fRiday ePistle XXX XX, 2017. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Feline Fun and Peace. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam: I've always modeled myself after Ginger. --Marla Maples ~~I attempted to find a quote by MsMaples that was about something besides herself. I found one it was about her daughter.
Cost of War:
Tax dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 10/26/17: $787,484,742,709.
Tax dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 10/19/17: $786,816,346,597.
Tax dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 10/26/17: $820,947,278,238.
Tax dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 10/19/17: $820,927,744,460.
Tax dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 10/26/17: $1,794,336,290,606.
Tax dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 10/19/17: $1,792,940,430,198.
I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. --Sadako Sasaki
….......I was under the waves before love rescued me.........U2 …..When Love Comes to Town
Dance like the maiden; laugh like the mother; think like the crone.
Good morning, human, I see my assassins have failed. / Stereotyping is wrong! Hug a black cat today!
Famous Last Words: Best witches!
May Peace fills your bowl
And Joy makes you purr
prairie mama
christine



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