Famous
First Words: Mother
says that when I start talking I never know when to stop.
--Ring Lardner The Golden Honeymoon
Happy
Women in Construction Week (4-10)!! This arrogant young guy has
recently started work at a construction site and ever since he
started he's been bragging that he could outdo anyone based on his
superior strength. He's been making fun of one of the only woman on
the site in particular. Eventually, the woman has had enough and
says, "Tell you what - why don't you put your money where your
mouth is? I'll bet you a week's wages that I can take something over
to that other building in this wheelbarrow and you won't be able to
wheel it back." The young guy laughs confidently, "You're
on. Let's see what you've got." So the woman grabs the
wheelbarrow by the handles. Then, she nods to the young man and says
with a smile, "Alright. Get in."
..........That's
all he sees, he paints a tree.........John Cale …..The Trouble
With Classicists
50
Ways to Promote Peace, #23: Take a break from watching the news when
you need to
It
is a beautiful Friday morning. The sky is lightly smeared with thin
clouds and blown apart jet trails which do not hide the azure of the
space above. Below this willowy white, birds of all sizes and sounds
are busy. A crow without his murder mounts from tree to power line
to midair marking his route in heavy wing strokes and throaty cries.
A clan of robins claim two trees and discuss their morning before
ascending on the lawn and a quarrel of sparrows sing matins behind
me. The world is winter brown although here and there crocus and
daffodil leave search of light; still browns and golds dominate.
However, Cy's toys litter the backyard like brightly colored, oddly
shaped Easter eggs on the roll. Puck checks the perimeter and sits
staring at the world until he finds some small thing at which to
bark. It adds to the birdsong that comes now from every direction.
Cars drive by on their way to work, no doubt. The drivers often look
distracted and they are only a block from home. A light breeze wafts
by smelling of soil and dampness. It reminds us that the temperature
has not yet risen above freezing and my fingers insist I go in a wrap
them around a warm cup of coffee. And so we do. Puck drinks a small
bowl of milk and crashes. I sit holding my steaming cup of Moose
Munch letting it warm my hands and my nose, letting it coat my mouth
with sweet flavor, and letting it remind me of the ePistle and of
you.
Hope
your weekend leans left of plumb, ePistliers.
Last
night I watched a documentary about women steel workers during WWII.
It was riveting. / Know how lady construction workers party? They
raise the roof.
..........Dizzy
from turning their backs.........John Cale …..Russian Roulette
Trivia
Questions: Happy Middle Name Pride Day! Here are some middle
names – can you give the first and last?
^
A crook: Milhouse
^^
Second generation actor: William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus
^^^
British rocker: Hercules
^^^^
Jazz musician, composer, producer, actor: Delight
^^^^^
Friend: Bass
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: I
think, therefore, I've had my coffee. --Submitted by nm of ks
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
When
filling out your next job application, remember that owning 2 or more
cats for 3 or more years is equal to one year of supervisory
experience in a library
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Being
a female construction worker is a lot like Christmas...you end up
doing all the work and a guy in a suit gets all the credit.
..........I'll
be the wind, the rain, and the sunset.........Velvet Underground
…..I'll Be Your Mirror
Moonbeam:
Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want
their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of
the chimney. --Mickey Spillane
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week: Cleveland ConCoction 2018
...for
all things Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Gaming, Filk and fun! March 9-11 –
Cleveland, OH) http://www.clevelandconcoction.org/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week: Pacific Operational Science &
Technology Conference (March 5-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i) Transitioning
Technology into Capability with our Indo-Asia-Pacific Warfighters and
Partners... https://events.techconnect.org/POST/
Big
Hello: Gwe' – Mikmaq (Canada & the US)
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Week
of the Week: Professional Pet Sitter
Week (March 4-10) – I was sitting Katherine's dog but he would
chase anyone on a bike. It was awful. Eventually I called Kat and
she suggested I take his bike away.
Two
carpenters, Debra and Ellen, were working and Debra, up on a scaffold
accidentally cut off her ear. She
yelled down to Ellen…”Hey! look our for my ear I just cut off!”
In a little bit Ellen calls up to Debra, ” is this your ear?”
Debra looks down and says “Naw! Mine had a pencil behind it!”
..........Looked
in the mirror, nobody there.........John Cale …..Mothra
^
Richard Milhouse Nixon
Almanac:
It is Friday, March 9, 2018. The moon is last quarter today and is
in Sagittarius. It is Barbie Day, Get Over It Day,
Joe Franklin Day, Panic Day, and Shabbat Across America/Canada. New
Mexico celebrates Arbor Day. In Belize it is Baron Bliss Day and in
the Ukraine it is Taras Shevchenko (Ukrainian poet, 1814) Day.
Because it is the Friday of the first full week it is also Middle
Name Pride Day.
Among
those born on this day were Amerigo Vespucci (1454), David Fabricius
(1564), Jean-Baptiste Kléber
(1753), Ring Lardner (Ringgold, 1885), Vyacheslav Mikhailovich
Molotov (1890), Will Greer (1902), Mickey Spillane (Frank Morrison,
1918), Marie Cardinal (1929), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Glenda Jackson
(1936), John Cale (1942), Bobby Fischer (1943), Faith Daniels (1957),
and Barbie (1959).
On
March nineth, Sweden & Russia signed the Peace of Stolbowa
(1617), Napoleon married Josephine
(1796), Graham patented artifical teeth (1822), the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police were founded (1873), the Bolsheviks became The
Communist Party (1918), Italy annexed Fiume (1924), Josef Stalin was
buried (1953), the first Ford Mustang was produced (1964), and female
cadets were first accepted at West Point (1976).
Night
Sky, 3/9:
In
the early dawn of Saturday, the Moon forms a low, flat triangle with
Mars and Saturn
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
This
Week: Saturday, March 10 –
International Bagpipe Day & Land Line Telephone Day
Sunday,
March 11 – Johnny Appleseed Day & Check Your Batteries
Day & World Plumbing Day
Daylight
Savings Time begins.....Spring forward
Monday,
March 12 – Fill Our Staplers Day & Napping Day
Night
Sky, 3/12:
Bright Sirius stands due south on the meridian just after twilight
fades away into night. Sirius is the bottom star of the equilateral
Winter Triangle. The other two stars of the Triangle are orange
Betelgeuse to Sirius's upper right (Orion's shoulder) and Procyon to
Sirius's upper left.
Tuesday,
March 13 – Organize Your Home Office Day & National Open
An Umbrella Indoors Day
Wednesday,
March 14 – Pi Day & International Ask A Question Day
Thursday,
March 15 – Ides of March & World Consumer Rights Day &
True Confessions Day
Night
Sky, 3/15:
On
the traditional divide between the winter and spring sky lies the dim
constellation Cancer. It's between Gemini to its west and Leo to its
east. Cancer holds something unique: the Beehive Star Cluster, M44,
in its middle. The
Beehive shows dimly to the naked eye if you have little or no light
pollution. With binoculars it's easy, even under worse conditions.
Look for it a little less than halfway from Pollux in Gemini to
Regulus in Leo.
I
used to date a steam-roller driver. She was such a flatterer.
..........When
I'm rushing on my run.........Velvet Underground …..Heroin
^^
Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland
'Nother
Funniest thing I read of the Week:No one who has ever sat
through a faculty meeting wants to arm teachers. --Submitted by jm
of k
Moonbeam:
“I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on
something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made
preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.”
--Amerigo Vespucci
Late
Night Snacks: In a fashion show that took
place yesterday, Dolce & Gabbana sent their handbags down the
runway on drones instead of models. But first, each drone was forced
to lose 10 pounds. --Conan O'Brien / The big winner this year is
Norway. They won a record 39 medals, wow — or one for each person
who lives in Norway. --Jimmy Fallon / To celebrate last year’s NBA
championship, the Golden State Warriors are reportedly meeting with
local children in Washington, DC, instead of visiting President
Drumpf in the White House. When they heard that, every foreign
leader scheduled to meet with Drumpf was like, “Wait, you can do
that?” --James Corden / If there's one
takeaway from the last few weeks of politics, it's this: Don't F**k
with Teachers. They make no money, they get up at 6 am to drive
their 15 year-old cars to a cruddy buiding knee-deep in teenage
hormones. You can't scare them. The part of them that is capable of
fear was burned away years ago by terrible teachers' lounge coffee.
And all they want is health care, a livable wage and, just once, a
class that doesn't laugh the first time they hear the world "Uranus".
--Seth Meyers
Not
So Late Night Snacks: Hope Hicks, the press
aide, who Donald Trump reputedly thought of as a daughter, which
wouldn't be at all creepy if it wasn't him saying that...announced
she was leaving this week. It was a day after she admitted to a House
committee that she, quote, "told white lies for the president,"
you know, harmless things, like - things like, good job, Mr.
President. You look great, Mr. President. Oh, wow, Mr. President, I
guess you beat me in Candyland again. --Peter Sagal Wait,
Wait, Don't Tell Me
50
Ways to Promote Peace, #22: Stay abreast of current events
http://uncustomary.org/50-ways-promote-peace/
Jane
was a really lousy roofer. She kept eavesdropping.
..........holding
on to what you've got.........John Cale …..Scotland Yard
^^^
Elton Hercules John
Worthless
Facts of the Week: In
1918, when the Bolsheviks became the ruling party of Russia, they
changed their organization's name to the All-Russian Communist Party;
it was renamed the All-Union Communist Party in 1925 after the
founding of the USSR and finally to the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union in 1952.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Agnotology – the study of culturally induced ignorance. Agnotology
refocuses questions about “how we know” to include questions
about what we do not know, and why not. --Londa
Schiebinger, in the Proceedings
of the American Philosophical Society,
1 Sep. 2005. http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-agn1.htm
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Calvinist Dog Corrects
Owner: No one is a good boy! --submitted by mja of ks
Wacky
Uses for Common Products: Make a chocolate bowl. Simply
inflate the Trojan Condom to the size of grapefruit. Melt four
ounces of Hershey's Baking Chocolate, and one once Land O Lakes
Butter together and put in a bowl, dip the balloon in about half way,
swaying the balloon side to side and back and forth. Sit the balloon
on a piece of Cut-Rite Wax Paper, let dry, then use a pair of
scissors to snip a hole in the condom to slowly deflate. Peel off
the condom and you have a chocolate bowl to fill with sweets.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/trojan.html
~~And with that image in your mind, let me assure you that this is
the last of the condom make-dos.
...........Take
a drag or two.........Velvet Underground …..Run, Run, Run
^^^^
Quincy Delight Jones
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Tranquil – free from
disturbance, calm. Othello
Act III, Scene III Othello: O, now, for ever farewell the tranquil
mind! Farewell content!
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You know you're a bad
driver when Siri says, “In 400 feet, stop and let me out.”
Internet
Science of the Week: Fantastic Foamy Fountain aka Elephant
Toothpaste: https://sciencebob.com/fantastic-foamy-fountain/
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck before his spring haircut keeping an eye on
Cy in the case of the Constructive Continental.
Barbara
welds girders during skyscraper construction. She wears a pink
t-shirt that says: Welding is like Sewing with Fire.
..........The
empty voice that speaks.........John Cale …..Antarctica Starts
Here
^^^^^
Courtney Bass Cox
Month
of the Week: March is International
Ideas Month --I was having such trouble making up my mind, I finally
put lipstick on my forehead.
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State:
Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas. This
canyon is one of the most popular choices in the area for those
wishing to take a leisurely kayak, canoe, or raft downstream. The
tall cliffs reach up to 1,000 ft. (305m), creating a stark contrast
with the low rapids, and you can camp along your way as well.
Lots
of Pictures
Today's
Peace of History, March
9, 1839: The US Supreme Court, with
only one dissent, freed the slaves who had seized the Spanish slave
ship Amistad, ruling that they had been illegally forced into
slavery, and thus were free under American law.
Carrie
was sorry she named her construction company Tetris. Every time they
finished a section of the building, it disappeared.
..........of
rags and silks, a costume.........Velvet Underground …..All
Tomorrows Parties
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle March 22, 2018. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Constructionettes and Peace, What a Combination. Exclusive editor:
Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam:
If you haven't met God on earth, you won't find him in space. --Yuri
Gagarin
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Breaking: International Women's Day 2018 has been moved to Tuesday,
November 6th.
Please participate ay your local polling place.
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 3/8/18: $800,301,950,127.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 3/1/18: $799,587,029,407.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 3/8/18:
$821,321,877,425.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 3/1/18:
$821,300,983,335.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 3/8/18: 1,821,103,475,540.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 3/1/18: 1,819,610,288,920.
50
Ways to Promote Peace, #21: Spend time in nature.
..........Hey,
hey hey, bye, bye, bye.........Velvet Underground …..European Son
A
young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day a
construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty
lot. The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an
interest in all the activity going on next door and started talking
with the workers. She hung around and eventually the construction
crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a
kind of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them
while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to
do here and there to make her feel important. At the end of the
first week they even presented her with a pay envelope containing ten
dollars. The little girl took this home to her mother who suggested
that they take the pay she had received to the bank the next day to
start a savings account. When they got to the bank the teller was
equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had come by her
very own pay check at such a young age. The little girl proudly
replied, "I worked all last week with a construction crew
building a house." "My goodness gracious," said the
teller, "and will you be working on the house again this week,
too?" The little girl replied, "I will if those useless
losers at Home Depot ever deliver the damned drywall."
Famous
Last Words: Here
comes Mother, so I guess I better shut up.
--Ring Lardner The Golden Honeymoon
May
Peace build your walls
And
Joy raise your roof
prairie
mama
christine
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