Welcome
to Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day! HOW
TO OBSERVE:
*Act
like a time traveler. *Choose your time period and decide whether you
are traveling to the past or the future. *Be overly shocked when
someone says, “I’d kill for a double mocha latte right now,” or
“That car is the bomb.” *Misuse technology. When someone offers
you earbuds to listen to a new song, sniff them to see if they smell
good. *Use #PretendToBeATimeTraveler to share on social media.
..........I
don't own the clothes I'm wearing.........Gregg Allman …..Midnight
Rider
Non-violence
and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. --Mahatma
Gandhi
It
is a cold (23°F) Friday morning. The sky is covered with thick,
lumpy clouds but there are cracks where the sky above can be seen
when the rising sun illuminates. The weather accents the browning of
grass and bushes and ornamental grasses blowing in a light breeze
that drives the cold past gloves and scarves and coat sleeves. No
birds are yet at the feeders so a lone squirrel is the focus of
Puck's attention and angry barking. The hum of distant machinery is
enhanced by local residents driving off to work or play – somewhere
warm, I hope. I huddle by the storage shed door to block the west
wind and watch the squirrel deftly skip the fences and disappear.
The barking stops, the shout of a child on the way to school rings
through the air and Puck and I return to warmth and yellow light and
the smell of brewing coffee and floral incense. Puck accepts a treat
and settles onto his pillow while I shed layers and layers and layers
before I can sit down the drink the coffee and tell the tale to you.
ePistliers,
I hope your weekend was...have is...will hasen...be great.
I
heard a really funny time travel joke tomorrow. / What if the CIA
invented dinosaurs to keep us from traveling back in time?
..........No,
I'm no stranger to the streets.........Gregg Allman …..I'm No
Angel
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday to Gentlemen Prefer Blonds
^
Any idea which or whose book the play is based on?
^^
Who wrote the music?
^^^
Do you remember the name of the principal blonde or where she was
from?
^^^^
Know what blonde played the blonde?
^^^^^
More or less, how long did the original production last?
First
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Kim Jong Un fears that GOP
Tax Bill Makes His Plan to Destroy the US Redundant. --Bororwitz
Report –Not The News
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
90%
of libraries don’t have an Elf on the shelf because staff are
already experts at giving silent, judging stares.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
The
Local Time Travel Club Raffle Prize is two tickets to the 1966 World
Cup Final. / What
do you call a dumb time machine? A RETARDIS.
..........One
more hour is one more eternity.........Gregg Allman …..Night Games
Moonbeam:
~~I looked up quotes from Gemma
Frisius
(!!Happy Birthday, Gem) and found this picture which looks to me very
much like Gallifrian the mother tongue of Dr. Who – universe
renowned time traveler. ????
Something
to Think About of the Week: Using
the toilet on the airplane means I'm certified to teach yoga now.
Big
Hello: परनाम
pǝrna:m
– Magahi (East India)
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Activist
Sign: If I Can't Even Afford Ramen, I'll Eat The Rich. --Sumbitted by
rhb of ks
Week
of the Week: Holiday Cookie Swap
(December 4-8) –Holiday cookie swap, my ass. I'd rather have a
cocktail swap. Same calories, cleaner kitchen!
The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father. Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later additions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs. --Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
..........I
know that time is gonna take its toll.........Gregg Allman …..The
Dark End of the Street
^
Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes:
The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady
is a comic novel written by Anita Loos, first published in 1925. The
book was written by Joseph Fields & Anita Loos
~~It is a very funny book, I recommend it.
Almanac:
It is Friday, December 8, 2017. The moon will be last quarter on
Sunday and is in Virgo. It is Bodhi Day and Pretend
To Be A Time Traveler Day. On Guam it is Lady of Camarin Day and in
Japan it is Enlightenment of the Buddha Day. Spain, Panamá, and the
Canal Zone celebrate Mother's Day; Spain also commemorates School
Reunion Day and Uruguay has declared this Beaches Day or Family Day .
Finally, because it is the second Friday it is Official Lost &
Found Day.
Among
those born on this day were Horace (65 BCE), Gemma Frisius (1508),
Christina (1626), Eli Whitney (1765), John Fawcett (1789),
Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832), William Durant (1861), Paul Klee
(1879), Diego Rivera (1886), James Thurber (1894), Lee J Cobb (1911),
Lucian Freud (1922), Sammy Davis Jr (1925), Jimmy Smith (1925),
Maximilian Schell (1930), Mario Savio (1942), Bobby Elliot (Hollies,
1942), Jim Morrison (1943), Gregg Allman (1947), Sam Kinison (1952),
Kim Basinger (1953), and Sinead O'Connor (1966).
On
December eighth Cook sailed away from the Society Island (1777),
Beethoven's 7th Symphony premiered (1813), Berlioz's La
Damnation de Faust premiered
(1846), Verdi's Luisa Miller
premiered
(1849), Vatican I opened (1869), the Jesse James gang robbed a train
in Muncie, Kansas (1874), the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
formed by 26 craft unions (1886), Holmes joined the Supreme Count
(1902), the bird banding society was founded (1909), Sibelius' 5th
Synphony
premiered (1915), Cole Porter's NYCers
premiered (1930), coaxial cable was patented (1931), the NAACP filed
a suit to equalize the salaries of black and whtie teachers (1936),
Jordan annexed Arabic Palestine (1948), Styne's Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes
premiered (1949), I Love Lucy
revealed Lucy's pregnancy (1952), Beatles Magical
Mystery Tour
was released (1967), and the Irish Republican Socialist Party was
formed (1974).
Night
Sky, 12/8:
Bright
Vega still shines well up in the west-northwest after dark at this
time of year. The brightest star above it is Deneb, the head of the
big Northern Cross, which is formed by the brightest stars of Cygnus.
At nightfall the shaft of the cross extends lower left from Deneb. By
about 11 pm, the cross plants itself more or less upright on the
northwest horizon.
Third
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Well,
if they can put a man on the moon, why not all of them? --Szubmitted
by mj of ks
This
Week: Saturday, December 9 –
International Anti-Corruption Day & Weary Willie Day
Sunday,
December 10 – Dewey Decimal System Day & Human Rights
Day
Night
Sky, 12/10:
The
W pattern of Cassiopeia stands on end in early evening, very high
toward the northeast. The bottom star of the W is Epsilon (ε)
Cassiopeiae. That's your starting point for hunting down the
little-known star cluster Collinder 463, sparse and loose but visible
in binoculars. It's 8° to Epsilon's north (the direction toward
Polaris), and is surrounded by a nice quadrilateral of 4th- and
5th-magnitude stars about 3° wide.
Monday,
December 11 – Green Monday & Nobel Prize Day & Jane
Addams Day
Tuesday,
December 12 – National Ding-a-ling Day & National Lost
Day
Night
Sky, 12/12:
Mercury and Saturn are disappearing deep down in the afterglow of
sunset. Uranus (magnitude 5.7, in Pisces) and Neptune (magnitude
7.9, in Aquarius) are well placed in the southeast and south,
respectively, in early evening
Wednesday,
December 13 – National Day of the Horse
Thursday,
December 14 – Money Day & Yoga Day
Night
Sky, 12/14:
Venus is getting lost very deep in the glare of sunrise. Mars and
Jupiter (magnitudes +1.7, and –1.7, respectively) rise well before
dawn in the east-southeast. First up is Mars, accompanied by Spica to
its right or upper right. Bright Jupiter rises about an hour after
Mars, still well before dawn begins.
..........And
I'm through the rains.........Gregg Allman …..Queen of Hearts
'Nother
Funniest thing I read of the Week: I can't believe that out of
ten thousand sperm, you were the quickest. --Steven Pearl
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Anglicon 2017: The Day of the Doctors. Special Guests – Peter
Davison, (5th)
and Sylvester McCoy (7th)
doctor. (Seattle, WA, Dec 8-10, Airport Hilton)
https://anglicon.org/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
Green Chemistry New Zealand (Dec 8-9) ...advance
society in ways that are benign to the environment and sustainable
for the foreseeable future.
http://www.greenchemistry.science.auckland.ac.nz/
Late
Night Snack: Jerry
Springer says he won’t run for governor of Ohio next year. You know
politics has gotten messy when Jerry Springer’s like, “I can’t
be associated with this.” --Jimmy Fallon / An Ohio-based company
made a cup holder for dip that attaches to a dashboard so you can eat
chips and dip while you drive. I don’t have a joke about this, I
just wanted to remind you we’re still the greatest country in the
world. --Conan O'Brien / Anyone here have plans to travel over the
holidays? Well, you might have to check your flights because American
Airlines just experienced a computer glitch that has allowed all
their pilots to take vacation at the same time, meaning that
thousands of flights in December have no one to fly them. This is all
part of American Airlines’ new campaign to make the rest of their
services seem less awful. “Okay, fine. I’ll pay extra for my
bags, but only if I get a pilot.” --James Corden / And on top of
all this, 75-year-old Garrison Keillor, the guy from "A Prairie
Home Companion," was fired today from Minnesota Public Radio.
Can you imagine being fired from Minnesota Public Radio? It's like
having your library card revoked. --Jimmy Kimmel / A couple in
Arkansas recently named their baby Olivia Garten in honor of the
restaurant chain Olive Garden. Olivia is joined at home by her older
brother, Fred Lobster. --Seth Meyers / Donald Trump weighed in on
the Lauer story tweeting, "Wow." Wait a minute. Wow? I'm
still not used to a president typing the word "Wow." That's
like if the first draft of the Gettysburg address was "Holy
guacamole, this war sucks. Wow." --Stephen Colbert
Moonbeam:
Life
becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or
enemies. --Queen Christina
No
So Late Night Snack: How is this whole job
creator myth still going ... trickle down ... it's just the rich
peeing on us. --Hari Kondabolu Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
Non-violence
is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.
--Betty Williams
I
bumped into an old friend of mine from the Local Time Travel Club.
We go back years. / There was a knock on the door. A battered
looking future-me stood there. “Next time I knock,” she gasped,
“don't answer”.
..........Don't
worry about me, just let me go.........Gregg Allman …..I Love the
Life I Live
^^^
Lorelei Lee was the blonde; she was from Little Rock, Arkansas.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: Muncie
is a neighborhood in Kansas City, KS on the north bank of the Kansas
River. Rail lines run through it. The area derives its name from the
Munsee which was part of the Algonquian speaking Delaware nation.
~~Muncie was one of the elementary schools that fed into Turner High
School from which I graduated. It is possible that the James Gang
robbing a train there is the most exciting thing that ever happened
in Muncie.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Maloik – there's that devil-horn thing metal fans do with their
hands. Apparently, it is called the maloik. From the Italian for
evil eye (In the middle ages it was called cuckold)
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-mal4.htm
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Breaking
News...Brain-eating zombies invade Washington, D.C., Die of
Starvation --Submitted by gd of nw
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Make an ice pack. Fill a Trojan Condom with water, like a water
balloon, tie a knot in the open end, and place in the freezer to
create an emergency ice pack.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/trojan.html
~~If you have to take the time to freeze it, you could use a real ice
pack.
The
farmer found an old contraption in the old barn and discovered it
would take her back to a time when the fields were overrun with
herbs. She started transporting them to now and selling them at the
farmers market. She called it her Thyme Machine. / He got rich
selling time travel sickness pills at a Dr. Who convention.
...........Somehow
you're still on the run.........Gregg Allman …..Just Another Rider
^^^^
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes introduced Carol Channing to
Broadway.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Premeditated – planned in
advance. King Henry VI, Part I,
Act III Scene I Bishop of Winchester: Comest thou with deep
premeditated lines, with written pamphlets studiously devised...
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You can safely assume that
you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do. --Anne Lamott
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's cub detective Cooper watching the gate (Detective emeritus
Pepper in the back - not so much) in the Case of the Tiny Titan
Terrier.
Time
Traveler Frequently Asked Questions: I'm tempted to take up time
travel. Is there any future in it? / I invented time travel 30 years
before I invented time travel.
..........Love
the way you soothe me.........Gregg Allman …..Move Me
^^^^^
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes opened in 1949 ran 740 performances and
closed in 1951.
Month
of the Week: December is Bingo's
Birthday Month - Pat
and Kim were playing *Bingo*. Pat kept looking over Kim's shoulder
saying, you’ve got that number mark it off, you’ve got that
number mark it off. After putting up with this for some time Kim got
annoyed and said, “why don’t you do your own sheet?” Pat
replied “I can’t it’s full”
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Dear Santa. I'm writing to tell you I've been naughty and it was
worth it, you fat, judgmental bastard. --sumbitted by sd of ks
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State:
Patterson Falls, NJ: From
above, higher than the spires, higher even than the office towers…the
river comes pouring in above the city and crashes from the edge of
the gorge in a recoil of spray and rainbow mists —
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/travel/discovering-paterson-new-jersey.html
Today's
Peace of History, December
8, 1961: The people of France voted to
grant Algeria its independence in a referendum. This followed more
than 130 years of French colonial control of the north African
country. The result was a clear majority for self-determination, with
75% voting in favor.
I
used to be addicted to time travel; but that's all in the past now. /
A time traveler walks into a bar. He enjoys his food so much he goes
back four seconds.
..........Georgia
aint no paradise but a place I just call home.........Gregg Allman
…..Multi-Colored Lady
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle December 8, 2017. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace now and in the future. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800
Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam:
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. --Will
Durant
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 12/7/17: $791,521,130,892.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 11/30/17: $790,845,079,828.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 12/7/17:
$821,065,247,269.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 11/30/17:
$821,045,488,004.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 12/7/17:
$1,802,765,711,291.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 11/30/17:
$1,801,353,896,904.
Non-violence
is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to
bed at night. --Coretta Scott King
..........Where
the willow don't bend.........Gregg Allman …..Going Going Gone
Someone
drove by me in a convertible while listening to an audiobook; so now
at parties I can brag that I've read 1/65th of the Time
Traveler's Wife. / What do we want? Time Travel When do we want
it? It's Irrelevant. / Is Day Light Savings Time time travel?
Famous
Last Words: Love is all you need. --Final song on the Magical
Mystery Tour Album
May
Peace keep your clock
And
Joy mark your days
prairie
mama
christine
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