Famous
First Words: Kon'nichiwa ..Hello, it's Japanese Culture Day.
Happy
Sandwich Day! Customer: I refuse to eat this sandwich. Will you get
the manager. Waiter: That's no use; he won't eat it either. / You
can't swim here, this beach is patrolled by a sand-witch.
..........You
can run but you cannot hide, this is widely known.........James
Taylor …..Shower the People
Understanding
comes through communication, and through communication we find the
way to peace. --Ralph C Smedley
It
is a cold (38°F) Friday morning. The sun is just rising; it tries
hard to define outline and reveal color but it is slow, perhaps
because of the chill. A stiff breeze from the north insists we
notice the cold and find breaks between sleeve and glove, between
collar and hat to blow its insistence home. Children are gathered at
the intersection waiting for the last school bus of the week. They
laugh and talk but can barely be seen though the dawn darkness. Puck
barks at the noise and refuses to remember that he has stopped many
mornings and enjoyed s few pats from them. A different school bus
comes by; it is small and has many lights, red lights, white lights,
a strobe on top. The grinding of its motor affronts the senses but it
is soon gone and quiet reigns again...no bird song, no scent of tea
roses, and no color. Puck decides the children have taken up enough
of his time and he quickly checks the perimeter before we retreat to
warmth and the smell of coffee and the taste of chocolate with it.
Best of all I get to connect with you.
Hope
your weekend is a triple decker, ePistliers.
Sharon
the Shark was feasting on peanut butter & jellyfish sandwiches. /
A ham and cheese sandwich walks into a bar and orders a beer. The
bartenders says, “Hey, we don't serve food here.”
..........Water
or wine, don't make me choose.........Carly Simon …..That's The
Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
Trivia
Questions: So, what do you remember about the 1964 election?
^
Who was Lyndon Johnson's running mate?
^^
Who was Barry Goldwater's running mate?
^^^
How many states did each or either candidate carry?
^^^^
How did the electoral college votes work out?
^^^^^
There are 9 states in which this was the last Democratic presidential
victory. How many can you name?
Quote
of the Week:
“It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to
strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the
warnings of Mother Earth.” -- Dennis Banks ~~A sad farewell to a
great man.
First
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Housework is loyal, it will always be there.
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
34%
of librarians who have to pay for conference attendance on their own
do so using only their swear jar.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Trump
Sandwich: White Bread *Full of Baloney *with Russian Dressing *and a
small Pickle. / Some friends were discussing the best way to toast a
sandwich. I played Breville's Advocate.
..........Been
walking my mind to an easy time.........James Taylor …..Fire and
Rain
Moonbeam:
Autumn...the year's last, liveliest smile. --William Cullen Bryant
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Lumela – Lozi (Niger, Congo)
Week
of the Week: National Fig Week (November
1-7) – The only snack in the Physics building vending machine was
fig Newtons.
Why
do people say they're having a tuna fish sandwich. No one ever says
they're having a chicken bird sandwich. / He's a few sandwiches short
of a picnic.
..........I'm
no prophet and I don't know nature's ways.........Carly Simon
…..Anticipation
^
Hubert Humphrey ran with LBJ.
Almanac:
It is Friday, November 3, 2017. The moon is full (Beaver) today and
is in Taurus. It is Cliché
Day, Public Television Day, Sadie Hawkins Day, Sandwich Day, and
Stout Day. In Japan it is Culture Day and Panama celebrates
Independence Day (1903). In Texas it is Father of Texas Day (1793).
Worldwide it is World Community Day, a day to pray for peace since
1945. ~~My primary calendar source is
https://www.brownielocks.com/november.html
. There is a note there saying the Punkin' Chunkin' for 2017 has
been cancelled for legal reasons. ~~ I can't imagine what they might
be. Injunctions from AETV (Animals for the Ethical Treatment of
Vegetables)? Vegans who see it waste of natural resources or
felonous playing with your food?
Among
those born on this day were John Montague (Earl of Sandwich, 1718),
Stephen Fuller Austin (1793), William Cullen Bryant (1794), Karl
Baedeker (1801), André Malraux (1901), Russell B Long (1918),
Charles Bronson (1922), Ken Berry (1930), Michael Dukakis (1933),
Lulu (1948), Roseanne Barr (1952), and Dennis Miller (1953).
On
November third the Great
Patent was granted to Plymouth Colony
(1620), Spain "acquired" Louisiana (1762), Washington
disbanded the Continental Army (1783), John Menard became the first
black man elected to Congress (1868), Grant was elected president
(1868), McKinley was elected president (1896), the first national
automobile show opened (NYC, 1900), the British "acquired"
Qatar (1916), the Bank of Italy became the Bank of America (1930),
Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas (1952), LBJ soundly defeated
Barry Goldwater (1964), Allende was inaugurated president in Chile
(1970), Carly Simon married James Taylor (1972), the secret Iran arms
deal story broke (1986), and Bill Clinton was elected president
(1992).
Night
Sky, 11/3: Full
Moon tonight (exactly full at 1:23 am). The full Moon of November
always rides very high in the middle of the night, almost as high as
the full Moon of December.
This
Week: Saturday, November 4 –
National Candy Day & Use Your Common Sense Day
Night
Sky, 11/4: Look
lower left of the bright Moon this evening for Aldebaran. Above
Aldebaran are the Pleiades, perhaps not so easy to spot in the
moonlight. Bring binoculars. The
bright star much farther to the left is Capella. Standard time
returns at 2 am Sunday morning for most of North America. Clocks fall
back an hour.
Sunday,
November 5 – Zero Tasking Day
Daylight
Savings Time ends at 2 am. Fall back one hour.
Monday,
November 6 – Job Action Day & Saxophone Day
Tuesday,
November 7 – Election Day & International Merlot Day
(wonder if they're related)
Night
Sky, 11/7: Vega
is the brightest star in the west on November evenings. Its little
constellation Lyra extends to its left, pointing in the direction of
Altair, the brightest star in the southwest. Three of Lyra's leading
stars, after Vega, are interesting doubles. Barely above Vega is
4th-magnitude Epsilon Lyrae, the Double-Double
Wednesday,
November 8 – Abet and Aid Punsters Day & Dunce Day
Night
Sky, 11/8: The
Big Dipper lies down horizontal low in the north-northwest after
dark. How low? The farther south you are, the lower. Seen from 40°
north (New York, Denver) even its bottom stars twinkle nearly ten
degrees high. But at Miami (26° N) the entire Dipper skims along out
of sight just below the northern horizon.
Thursday,
November 9 – World Freedom Day
..........Deep
greens and blues are the colors I choose.........James Taylor
…..Sweet Baby James
^^
Goldwater ran with William E Miller.
Funniest
quote I read of the Week: Writing is not necessarily something
to be ashamed of , but do it in private and wash your hands
afterwards. --Robert Heinlein
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
World Fantasy Convention, November 2-5, San Antonia, TX. “Secret
Histories” http://wfc2017.org/wfc2017/
Moonbeam:
I hate that word 'housewife'. I prefer to be called domestic
goddess. --Roseanne Barr
Late
Night Snacks: Starbucks has launched a
limited-edition Halloween-themed drink called the Zombie Frappuccino.
The way it works is, it has no caffeine. --Seth Meyers / A Japanese
company created a $150 noise-canceling ramen fork to cover up
slurping noises. So, if you’ve got 150 bucks to spend on a fork —
why are you eating ramen? --Jimmy Fallon / There is a major scandal
in the world of the Iditarod. It turns out some of the dogs in the
race are on drugs. Dogs belonging to the four-time musher tested
positive for a banned substance. Officials became suspicious when one
of the dogs stood on its hind legs and lifted the sled over its head
in celebration. --Jimmy Kimmel / I don’t know if you’re paying
attention, but internal strife is tearing the Republican Party apart
at the seams. It’s like a new Civil War, only neither side is
trying to help black people. --Stephen Colbert / During last night's
11-inning World Series game, a Dodgers fan got arrested after he
jumped into one of the bullpens. Afterwards, the Dodgers admitted if
the game had gone one more inning they would have needed him to
pitch. --Conan 'Brien / Amazon is introducing a new service called
Amazon Key, which will allow delivery men to open your front door and
put packages directly inside your house. I don't have a joke here. I
just wanted to tell you how you’re going to be murdered. Sleep
tight, folks. --James Corden
Peace:
it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or
hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be
calm in your heart.
..........I
had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee........Carly Simon
…..You're So Vain
^^^
LBJ Carried 44 states and DC; Goldwater had 6: Arizona, Louisiana,
Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Worthless
Fact of the Week:
The first American National Automobile Show featured an innovative
assortment of electric, steam, and “internal explosion” engine
vehicles.160 different models were shown.
http://www.neautomuseum.org/blog/1st-u-s-auto-show-opened-in-new-york-city-115-years-ago/
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Fox: New Evidence Hillary Killed Lincoln. This
is the crime Mueller should be investigating.
--Sean Hannity Borowitz
in the New Yorker
Weird
Word of the Week:
Hodmandod – a snail.
The
earliest source is an Elizabethan riddle.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-hod2.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Repel moles, gophers, or groundhogs. Pour used Tidy Cats into the
mole, gopher, or groundhog tunnels. The creatures smell the scent of
their natural enemy and quickly tunnel elsewhere.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tidycats.html
At
work people have begun to name items in the staff room fridge. Today
I had a meatball sandwich named Kevin. / Knock Knock! Who's there?
Gorilla? Gorilla who? Gorilla me a cheese sandwich.
...........And
I thank my lucky stars that you are who you are.........James Taylor
…..Your Smiling Face
^^^^
LBJ received 486 electoral votes while Goldwater got 52.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Ode - a
lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject. Love's
Labour's Lost,
Act IV, Scene III Dumain: Once more I'll read the ode that I have
writ.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You're a ghost driving a
meat coated skeleton made from stardust, what do you have to be
scared of? --Submitted by cj of ks
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck pointing out an empty plate in the case of
the Voracious Volpino.
One
day Mike and a handful of other termites happened upon a turkey
sandwich...after that it was pretty hard to go back to wood. / I
tried to write a pun about bread, but it was really stale.
..........How
to turn down the noise in my mind........Carly Simon …..Haven't
Got Time For The Pain
^^^^^
The following states have not gone democratic since LBJ: Alaska,
Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, North & South Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah,
and Wyoming.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Reading won't solve your problems, But then again, neither will
housework.
Month
of the Week:
November is National Memoir Month – Thanks,
Obama
by
David Litt, speech and joke writer, is
his memoir, a
heartfelt ode to an America on the wane, a nation we trusted to slide
glacially in the right direction, except that all the while,
unbeknownst to us, the glacier was melting.
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State:
Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Camdenton, Missouri. The
park is a geologic wonderland with sinkholes, caves, a huge natural
bridge,
sheer bluffs and Missouri’s 12th
largest spring
https://mostateparks.com/park/ha-ha-tonka-state-park
Today's
Peace of History, November
3, 1972: Five hundred protesters from
the "Trail of Broken Treaties," a Native American march,
occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices (part of the Department
of Interior) in Washington, D.C., for six days.
Elves
make sandwiches with short bread. / It's ever the sandwich makers
paradox – the Brie or not to Brie. / Are jellyfish sad that there
are no peanut butter fish?
..........Walk
on down, walk on down, walk on down.........James Taylor …..Country
Road
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle November 3, 2017. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Generic Tag Line. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct.
Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam:
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. -- André
Malraux
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 11/2/17: $788,161,985,599.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 10/26/17: $787,484,742,709.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 11/2/17:
$820,967,072,388.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 10/26/17:
$820,947,278,238.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 11/2/17:
$1,795,750,649,458.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 10/26/17:
$1,794,336,290,606.
The
secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of
understanding each one by his own individuality. --Friedrich Ludwig
Jahn
..........There's
some kind of magic inside you........Carly Simon …..Nobody Does It
Better
In
case of a Taco Emergency call 9 Juan Juan. / I ran out of pita bread
so I used Indian bread instead; she was naan the wiser.
Famous
Last Words: So long, and thanks for all the fish. --The
dolphins Douglas Adams
May
Peace be your bread
And
Joy your meat in the middle
prairie
mama
christine
Last
Laugh:
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