Famous
First Words: What a dump... --Edward Albee, Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Welcome
to Silly Sayings Day!! Life is too short to be serious all the time.
So, if you can't laugh at yourself, call me...I'll laugh at you. /
Today, I will be as useless as the “G” in lasagna.
..........Rainbows
in the high desert air...........Paul Simon …...Hearts and Bones
Warding
off the Evil Eye on Friday the 13th – so the ePistle is
safe to read...
Peace
literacy should be taught in schools. The world would not be as
messy. --Rick Leib
It
is a near perfect Friday morning. The temperature is 60°F with a
slight breeze now and then. The sky is filled with flocks and herds
of fluffy clouds meandering slowly to the northeast. The stately
maples in the yard across the street are definitely showing red but
not loss of leaves. The feeders are empty but we hear a quarrel of
sparrows nearby discussing unseen their morning plans and high above
3 large, silent birds circle towards the west. Puck is sitting on
the highest deck surveying the neighborhood, watching for squirrels
and neighbor dogs. His silence is appreciated. The sound of distant
motors hum away, as always, but there are few cars in the immediate
area and the relative silence is appreciated. Everything beside the
stately maples is still green and lush and summery. It makes a
peaceful picture and a fine daybreak. But we return to our rooms
that smell of fresh coffee and toast; it's a friendly aroma of well
used kitchens and of living. The coffee – doctored, of course,
with 1/22 & fake sugar – is nearly hot and fills my
nose and mouth with creamy steam before the flavor arrives and my day
really begins. So glad you've joined me
Hope
your weekend gives Silliness a run for its money, ePistliers.
An
apple a day will keep anyone away, if thrown hard enough. / When
nothing goes right, try going left.
..........we
talked about some old times...........Paul Simon …...Still Crazy
After All These Years
Trivia
Questions: Happy English Language Day
^
Care to guess the oldest word in the English Language that is still
in use?
^^
What is the dot over the letter I called?
^^^
In what order should adjectives be listed before the noun?
^^^^
Any idea what word has taken over the longest word record from
antidisestablishmentarianism.
^^^^^What
is the name for the infinity sign?
First
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Auntie Em – Dorothy,
Dorothy! There's a twister comin'! Run to the store a get some paper
towels. --submitted by ma of md
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
24%
of libraries place discarded books into biohazard bags to keep
patrons from pulling them from the dumpster
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
I
wish more people were fluent in silence. / My mentor said follow your
dreams, so I went back to bed.
..........Long
past the midnight curfew...........Paul Simon …...Peace Like A
River
Moonbeam:
The press must speak out and, if the occasion
arises, raise bloody hell. --Herblock
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Second
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I
wouldn't do anything for a Klondike bar, but I'll do some sketchy
shit for some bacon. --submitted by lj of ks
Big
Hello: Hallo – Limburgish (germany)
Week
of the Week: School Lunch Week (October
9-13) – What did your plate just say to the cafeteria lady? “Lunch
is on me!”
I
love my pillow. It gives me a new and different hairstyle every day.
/ By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you blocked and deleted.
..........
Watch my number, I wonder how your engines feels...........Paul Simon
…...Baby Drive
^
Town is the oldest word in English.
Almanac:
It is Friday, October 13, 2017. The moon was last quarter yesterday
and is in Cancer. The United Nations has declared
this International Day of the Girl Child. In addition it is English
Language Day, International Day for Disaster Reduction, International
African Penguin Awareness Day, International Day for Failure,
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, National Chess Day (See also
9th), Navy
Birthday, Silly Sayings Day, and Simchat Torah. In Burundi it is
Hero of the Nation Day . Because it is the
second Friday it is also National Family
Bowling Day (or Kids Bowl Free Day).
Among
those born on this day were Horace Hayden
(1769), Lillie Langtry (1853), Conrad Richter (1890), Arna Bontemps
(1902), Herblock (Herbert L Block, 1909), Cornel Wilde (1915), Nipsey
Russell (1920), Yves Montand (1921), Frank Gilroy (1925), Lenny Bruce
(1925), Margaret Thatcher (1925), Paul Simon (1942), Lacy J Dalton
(1946), Leona Mitchell (1948), Sammy Hagar (1949), and Marie Osmond
(1959).
On
October thirteenth the Continental Congress ordered the construction
of a naval fleet (1775), the cornerstone for the white house was laid
(1892), B'nai B'rith was founded (NY, 1843), Texas ratified its state
constitution (1845), Kukla, Fran &
Ollie
premiered (1947), Bing
Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long
special (1957)
, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
opened on
Broadway (1962), the Voskhod I crew returned to Earth (1964), Angela
Davis was arrested in NYC (1970), Martin Luther King, Jr was
assassinated (1978), and Mubarak was elected president of Egypt
(1981).
Night
Sky, 10/13: Now
that we're in mid-October, Deneb has replaced Vega as the zenith star
soon after nightfall (for skywatchers at mid-northern latitudes) —
and, accordingly,
Capricornus has replaced Sagittarius as the most notable
constellation low in the south.
This
Week: Saturday, October 14 – Be
Bald and Be Free Day & I Love Yarn Day & World Standards Day
Night
Sky, 10/14: Early
on Sunday morning the 15th, the bright limb of the waning crescent
Moon occults Regulus for telescope users in much of North America.
The event happens during dawn for the East and earlier in darkness
farther west. The West Coast misses out.
Sunday,
October 15 – National Cake Decorating Day & National
Grouch Day
Monday,
October 16 – Dictionary Day & World Food Day
Tuesday,
October 17 – Black Poetry Day & Mulligan Day
Night
Sky, 10/17: Vega
is the brightest star in the west these evenings. Less high in the
southwest is Altair, not quite as bright. Just upper right of Altair,
by a finger-width at arm's length, is little orange Tarazed (Gamma
Aquilae). Straight down from Tarazed runs the stick-figure backbone
of Aquila, the Eagle.
Wednesday,
October 18 – International Necktie Day & National
Chocolate Cupcake Day
Thursday,
October 19 – Conflict Resolution Day & Evaluate Your
Life Day
Life
is a soup and all I have is a fork. / One day YouTube, Twitter &
Facebook will merge together and be called YouTwitFace.
..........She
said, ”a good day ain't got no rain”...........Paul Simon
…...Slip Slidin' Away
^^
The dot on the I is a tittle.
Next
Funniest thing I read of the Week: I got a job at Comcast and
completed training so I could fix my own cable because it was faster
than being on hold with customer service.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
The Continuum – Pirates, Rogues & Unlikely Heroes. (Romulus,
MI, October 13-15) http://continuumcon.org/
Moonbeam:
Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. --Lenny Bruce
Late
Night Snacks: Vice President Pence said in an
op-ed yesterday that the US will “lead in space again” under the
Trump administration. Space? It took him two weeks to figure out how
to get to Puerto Rico. --Seth Meyers / They found this tomb below
the St. Nicholas church in Antalya. They believe the body inside is
the fourth-century saint the church is named after, which makes
sense. One of the archaeologists said, “We will reach the ground
and maybe find the untouched body of St. Nicholas” – and thus the
most depressing animated Christmas special ever was born. --Jimmy
Kimmel / President Trump just overtook Pope Francis as the most
followed world leader on Twitter. I guess they could tell Trump
passed the Pope when a plume of orange smoke came out of the White
House. --Jimmy Fallon / In Pennsylvania, a pro-life congressman is
accused of asking his mistress to get an abortion so his wife
wouldn't find out about his affair. He defended himself saying, "Hey,
when I said I'm pro-life, I meant I'm pro-MY-life." --Conan
O'Brien / Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, it looks like Congress might
finally do something about gun control. Yesterday, congressional
Republicans signaled that they would be open to banning gun
conversion kits called “bump stocks,” which take advantage of a
semiautomatic gun’s natural recoil, allowing it to bounce back and
forth off a shooter’s trigger finger and unleash up to 100 rounds
in seven seconds. It’s great for hunting – if you’ve got seven
seconds to kill every animal in the forest. --Stephen Colbert
No
So Late Night Snacks: He (Trump) delivered aid with all
the charity and grace of the Phillie Phanatic with a t-shirt gun.
--Peter Sagal Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
Peace
is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a
time. --LBJ
When
life gives you a rainy day, play in the puddles. / I am not an early
bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.
..........And
everything looks worse in black and white..........Paul Simon
…..Kodachrome
^^^
Order of adjectives – 1) Opinion -lovely 2) size -big 3)
Physical quality -untidy 4) shape -round 5) Age – old 6) color
-pink 7) origin -Dutch 8) material -wooden 9) type -L-shaped 10)
purpose -cooking
Worthless
Fact of the Week: Juvenile
African penguins are slate blue on the upper surface, gradually
turning darker and developing the adult black-and-white facial
pattern in the second or third year. Penguins have small muscles at
the base of each feather for cooling.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Epizeuxis – repetition of a word for emphasis. Example: A horse, a
horse, my kingdom for a horse.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-epi1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Neutralize smells in a diaper pail. Pour a few cups of Tidy Cats into
the bottom of the plastic bag lining the diaper pail to absorb the
odors of the diapers. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tidycats.html
Sometimes
all you need is a billion dollars. / Dear Karma, I have a list of
people you missed.
...........People
talking without speaking...........Paul Simon …...Sounds of
Silence
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Noiseless – silent; quiet.
All's Well That Ends Well: Act V Scene III. King – For we
are old, and on our quick'st decrees the inaudible and noiseless foot
of Time steals ere we can effect them.
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State of the Week:
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan. Unlike
any other place on Lake Superior, Pictured Rocks offers the
opportunity to explore miles of pristine beaches, hike over 100 miles
of trails, and experience the serenity of the northern hardwood
forest.
http://www.munising.org/attractions/pictured-rocks/
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck comparing notes with cub Coop in the case
of the Gliding
Glechon.
If
we're not meant to have midnight snacks, why is there a light in the
fridge: / I never make the same mistake twice. I make it like 5 or 6
times, you know, just to be sure.
..........And
leave a spray of diamonds in its wake...........Paul Simon …...St
Judy's Comet
^^^^^
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
Month
of the Week: October is Health Literacy
Month –so, can you pronounce this word or define it for that
matter: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
pneu·mo·no·ul·tra·mi·cro·scop·ic·sil·i·co·vol·ca·no·co·ni·o·sis
\ˈn(y)ü-mə-(ˌ
)nō-ˌəl-trə-ˌmī-krə-ˈskäp-ik-ˈsil-i-(ˌ)kō-väl-ˈkā-nō-ˌkō-nē-ˈō-səs
\
...a pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or
quartz dust.
Amazing
Thing on the Internet of the Week:
Find a list of words that entered the language the year you were
born. It's called Time Travel from Merriam-Webster:
https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/entertainment/words-birth-year-merriam-webster-time-traveler
--Submitted by dg of oh
Today's
Peace of History, October
13, 1934: The
American Federation of Labor (AFL) voted to boycott all German-made
products as a protest against Nazi antagonism to organized labor
within Germany.
Latest
Country Hit: If I'd Shot You Sooner, I'd Be Out Of Jail By Now / They
say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. At this point, I
should be able to bench-press a buick.
..........And
ev'ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one man
band...........Paul Simon …...Homeward Bound
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle October 13, 2017. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
All This and Friday the 13th
Too!! Executive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence,
KS 66046
Moonbeam:
Pro and con are opposites, the fact is clearly seen. If progress
means to move forward, then what does congress mean? --Nipsey
Russell
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 10/12/17: $786,139,319,116.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 10/7/17: $785,460,042,709.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 10/12/17:
$820,907,957,349.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 10/7/17:
$820,888,104,671.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 10/12/17:
$1,791,526,571,941.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 10/7/17:
$1,790,108,222,907.
Note:
The following 2 catagories have been dropped from the
National Priorities website. They've added several more, but I don't
want to take them all up. So, we're back down to just 3 sets of
figures now.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 10/12/17: $17,100,842.016..
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 10/12/17:
$161,346,704,981.
Too
many people have accepted the normality of mass slaughter as a
necessary sacrifice to an amendment written when guns held 1 bullet.
--submitted by ab of kc
..........I'm
exhausted from loving so well...........Paul Simon …...Have A Good
Time
Anyone
can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. --Rose
Franken / If Dorothy can click her heels together and get to Kansas,
then why can't I click my flip flops and get to the beach?
Famous
Last Words: shall be made by the governor. --Constitution of
the State of Texas.
May
Peace tickle your fancy
And
Joy make you laugh out loud
prairie
mama
christine
Last
Laugh: still on point ~~I miss Herblock cartoons.
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