Famous
First Words: Comfort ye my people --Handel's Messiah
The
UN has declared this World Meteorological Day ! If I'm on the course
and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play
through, let him. --Bob Hope / Electricity is really just organized
lightning. --George Carlin
You
can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish. / To write with a
broken pencil is pointless.
..........We
all have one thing in common.........Chaka Khan …..Life Is A Dance
50
Ways to Promote Peace, #17: When you see someone who is in trouble,
help them. http://uncustomary.org/50-ways-promote-peace/
It
is a cloudy Friday morning. The sky is full of lumpy gray bundles
with light – sometimes pink – shining in around the edges. A
breeze insists that we notice the 45°F temperature and acknowledge
that spring is still very young. Puck thinks there are squirrels
loose and is barking and running the fence and frantically searching
the tree limbs. Cooper and Cy are just watching in disbelief; none
of us can see the pests that haunt Puck. Except for Puck it is a
peaceful morning with minimal motor noise and birdsong every where.
The grass is finally beginning to green up and trees and bushes have
begun to spout knobs of various colors. The color brightens the
winter hues and shines hope onto the sleeping flora. A starling
trills in the tree warning his murmuration that dogs are loose in
this yard; a quarrel of sparrows in the same tree discuss the issue
and decide they don't care about dogs. I begin to feel the cold and
try to round up Puck from his imaginary squirrel frenzy. I have to
pick him up and carry him while the other dogs herd the two of us to
the gate. The house smells of brewing coffee and laundry soap; but
it is warm and there is no wind. Now, Puck is deep into his early
morning nap and I am sitting – taste of Moose Munch rolling down my
tongue – writing to you. It may be a little agitated but it is a
great day after all.
Hope
your weekend suits your clothes, ePistliers.
It's
so dry in Kansas the catfish are carrying canteens. / Kansas is so
dry pissing outdoors is called irrigation.
The
guy who fell onto an upholstery machine last week is now fully
recovered. / He had a photographic memory but it was never fully
developed.
..........Are
you willing to try.........Chaka Khan …..All Night's All Right
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday to the University of California !
^
In what city did the university first open?
^^
In about what year did Uof C admit women?
^^^
Any idea how many UofC campuses there are these days?
^^^^
More or less how many students does UofC accommodate?
^^^^^
Care to guess how many Nobel prizes faculty and researchers from UofC
have accumulated?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: Growing your own tomatoes is the
best way to devote 3 months of your life to saving $2.17.
Art
Moment of the Week:
We finally made it to the Picasso exhibit at the Nelson, Through
the eyes of Picasso ...
a special exhibit of Picasso's work and Picasso's indigenous art
collection. I expected to see African art...African art..Picasso
influenced by it. And that was certainly one of the many things
going on there. That's what I went to see and I saw that and loved
it. Some things I didn't expect – how much of it there was...lots
of African, Asian, etc. art...Lots of Picasso art...lots of it. I
didn't realize he had done so much sculpture. There are several
paintings on wood – one on a wooden cabinet door with a hinge still
attached. It was very well curated, easy to see, you could get close
enough to see, well lit, etc. Dallas said – these figures are all
women – then we came to the penis room – not all women. There
were also lots of pictures and quotes and general information as well
as artifact specific information. It was busy but not crowded and
the people were varied – several infants and toddlers, for
instance. It had a variety of Picasso styles and periods. It went
on and on and on. I had a very good time and recommend it for anyone
in the area. It's only there through April 8th.
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
75%
of library books on staying organized are currently shelved
incorrectly; other 25% are missing
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Why
does moisture destroy leather? When it's raining, cows don't go up
to the farmhouse yelling, “Let us in! We're all wearing leather!
We're going to ruin the whole outfit here!”. --Jerry Seinfeld / Why
don't sheep shrink when it rains?
No
matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery. / I
changed my iPod's name to Titanic. It's syncing now.
..........I
rang like a bell with your laughter.........Chaka Khan …..Fate
Moonbeam:
Life's
most important questions
are,
for the most part, nothing but probability problems.
--Pierre-Simon
Laplace
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Ciau –
Monégasque (Monaco, Italy, France)
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Week
of the Week: National Button Week (March
18-24) – Facebook needs these three buttons: Dislike / Who Cares /
You're An Idiot
There
were twin tornadoes playing Twister with barns, houses, tractors, and
silos as the categories. / It's been so hot here, farmers are
coating popcorn in the field with sunscreen.
With
her marriage, she got a new name and a dress. / Police were summoned
to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
..........Once
I was a sentimental thing.........Chaka Khan …..Spring Can Really
Hang You Up The Most
^
The University
of California was founded in 1868 and operated temporarily in Oakland
until opening its first campus in Berkeley in 1873.
Almanac:
It is Friday, March 23, 2018. The moon will be first quarter
tomorrow and is in Gemini. It is World
Meteorological Day, National Puppy Day, National Chia Day, National
Tamale Day, Near Miss Day, and OK Day. In Bolivia it is Memorial Day
and in Lithuana (1918) and the Sudan (1956) it is Independence Day.
Finally, Pakistan is celebrating Republic Day (1956).
Among
those born on this day were John Bartram (1699), Pierre-Simon Laplace
(1749), William Smith (1769), Schuyler Colfax (1823), Leon Minkus
(1826), Fannie Farmer (1857), Erich Fromm (1900), Akira Kurosawa
(1910), Werner von Braun (1912), Christopher Glenn (1938), Chaka Chan
(1953), Louie Anderson (1953), and Moses Malone (1954).
On
March twenty-third Halley's Comet was recorded for the 18th time
(1066), The Treaty of Konstanz was signed (1153), Handel's Messiah
premiered (1743), Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific (1806), "OK"
was first seen in print (1839), Otis installed his first elevator
(1857), the streetcar was patented (1858), the University of
California was founded (1868), the first jazz concert was held in
Carnegie Hall (1891), the Dixie Cup was invented (1912), Tennessee
outlawed the teaching of evolution (1925), a telephone was installed
in the White House (1929),Truth or
Consequences
first aired (1940), Oklahoma State beat North Carolina in the 8th
NCAA championship (1946), the UN World Meteorological Organization
was established (1950), and Reagan introduced his "Star Wars"
plan (SDI, 1983).
Night
Sky, 3/23:
The
moon joins the lineup of Betelgeuse, the Taurus horntips, and
Capella. Now
that it's spring, the signature fall-and-winter constellation
Cassiopeia is retreating downward after dark. But for skywatchers at
mid-northern latitudes Cassiopeia is circumpolar, never going away
completely. Look for it fairly low in the north-northwest these
evenings. It's still standing nearly on end.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
(Re)Generation Who 2018 (March 23-25, Baltimore, MD) ...an
awesome three-day Doctor Who Fan Convention
https://regenerationwho.com/about/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
The Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges Southwest Region
Conference. promotes
quality computer-oriented curricula, and the effective use of
computing, in institutions of higher learning which are typically
non-research in orientation.
http://www.ccsc.org/southwestern/index.php
This
Week: Saturday, March 24 – Take
Your Parents to the Playground Day & Be Mad Day
Night
Sky, 3/24: This
evening the Moon shines high above Orion, in the feet of Gemini below
Castor and Pollux.
Sunday,
March 25 – Pecan Day & Tolkien Reading Day &
Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day)
Monday,
March 26 – Live Long and Prosper Day & Purple Day
Night
Sky, 3/26:
Upper
right of the moon this evening, you'll find the Pleiades. Upper left
of
the Moon are Aldebaran and the Hyades.
Tuesday,
March 27 – Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day & Viagra
Day
Wednesday,
March 28 – Weed Appreciation Day & Whole Grain Sampling
Day
Night
Sky, 3/28: Castor
and Pollux shine together nearly overhead in the south after dark.
Pollux is slightly the brighter of these "twins." Draw a
line from Castor through Pollux, follow it farther out by a big 26°
(about 2½ fist-widths at arm's length), and you're at the dim head
of Hydra, the Sea Serpent
Thursday,
March 29 – National Vietnam War Veterans Day & Little
Red Wagon Day
It
is so hot when I turned on my lawn sprinkler all I got was steam. /
Apparently the best way to get through bad weather is to talk about
it incessantly.
A
dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail. / The
will is a dead giveaway.
..........Don't
be afraid, not tonight.........Chaka Khan …..So Not To Worry
^^
In
1871, the Board of Regents stated that women should be admitted on an
equal basis with men.
'Nother
Funniest thing I Read of the Week: March Madness...The only
place where you hear “Kansas is advancing.” --Bill Maher
Happy
National Puppy Day:
Moonbeam:
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
--Fannie Farmer
Late
Night Snacks: There are new developments in
the case of Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who may or definitely
did have sex with Donald Trump. She is trying to raise money to pay
her legal fees. She launched a fundraising page on a website called
CrowdJustice.com. So now you can give money to a porn star just like
the president of the United States. --Jimmy Kimmel / Today,
President Trump had a meeting with Bill Gates. At one point, both
looked at each other and went, “Wow, what a terrible haircut.”
Gates and Trump actually have a lot in common, because they’ve both
given away millions of dollars. Gates calls it philanthropy, while
Trump calls it hush money. --Jimmy Fallon / Special counsel Robert
Mueller subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents,
making it the first time Mueller demanded documents directly from
Trump’s businesses. You think Trump’s businesses keep records?
The Trump University textbooks were just Wikipedia pages printed out
and stapled together. --Seth Meyers / Elon Musk has announced that
his company SpaceX will be ready to fly an unmanned rocket to Mars
and back by 2019. And shortly thereafter, they’ll be able to send
people there to colonize the planet. You know, just in case
you-know-who is re-elected to the you-know-what. The name of the
rocket is the BFR, or the Big Falcon Rocket. And I’ve got to tell
you, it’s pretty mother-falcon impressive. When I saw it, I was
like, “What the falc? Are you falcon kidding me?” --James Corden
/ “60 Minutes” just interviewed Betsy DeVos and they’re about
to interview Stormy Daniels. That’s right, two women equally
qualified to be education secretary. --Conana O'Brien / This
past Saturday, Trump’s attorney, John Dowd, called for “the
immediate shutdown of the special counsel probe into Russian
interference in the 2016 election.” Dowd made the demand in an
email sent to a reporter that was written in purple Comic Sans.
Really! Sounds inappropriate until you remember that the Declaration
of Independence was originally written in Wingdings. --Stephen
Colbert
Not
So Late Night Snacks: Now, Secretary
Tillerson's successor is apparently going to be current CIA director
Mike Pompeo. And he's getting the job because - and this is true -
the president likes his "lively intelligence briefings."...
Mr. President, what's behind your ear? Why, it's a shiny threat
assessment. --Peter Sagal Wait, Wait,
Don't Tell Me
50
Ways to Promote Peace, #16: Make art installations with the word
“peace” or peace symbols.
The
coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. --Mark
Twain / Santa called. He wants his weather back.
A
thief who stole a calendar got twelve months. / I got some batteries
that were given out free of charge.
..........Everybody
had an answer.........Chaka Khan …..The Woman I Am
^^^
Nine
campuses enroll both undergraduate
and
graduate
students;
one campus, UC
San Francisco,
enrolls only graduate and professional students in the medical
and
health sciences. In addition, the UC
Hastings College of Law,
located in San Francisco, is legally affiliated with UC, but other
than sharing its name is entirely autonomous from the rest of the
system.
*Berkeley *San Diego *San Francisco *Los Angeles *Santa Barbara
*Irvine *Davis *Santa Cruz *Riverside *Merced
Worthless
Fact of the Week: In
1857 the first Otis passenger elevator was installed at 488 Broadway
in NYC. Soon after, the Otis elevator appeared in the Eiffel Tower
and the Empire State Building.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Carborexia – an extreme dark green attitude toward environmental
issues. What
do you think: Is carborexia a mental condition or a noble way of
living? --US
News & World Report,
21 Oct. 2008
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-car2.htm
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Vladimir Putin could stand
in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and he
wouldn't lose Donald Trump's vote.
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Shine china. Add one-half cup 20 Mule Team Borax to a sinkful of
warm water, rinse fine china, then rinse again in clean water.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/20muleteam.html
You
know it's been along winter when your leg hair has split ends. / Dear
Mother Nature, get back on your meds, pop open a bottle of wine, and
start thinking warm, happy thoughts.
This
girl today said she recognized me from the Vegetarians Club, but I'd
swear I've never met herbivore. / I know a guy who's addicted to
drinking brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time.
...........You
just might be the blessing.........Chaka Khan …..Pop My Clutch
^^^^
Governed
by a semi-autonomous Board
of Regents,
the University of California has 10 campuses, a combined student body
of 251,700 students, 21,200 faculty members, 144,000 staff members
and over 1.86 million living alumni as
of October 2016
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Unreal – so strange as to
appear imaginary. Macbeth Act
II Scene IV –Macbeth: Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery,
hence!
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I saw a MAGA Mom account
tweets the #NationalWalkoutDay was an attempt by the Left to organize
your children. Oh, sweetie. It's worse than that. Your children
are organizing the Left. --Submitted by sb of ar and abf of ks
Science
at Home on the Internet of the Week:
Make a Rainbow in A Glass (Density Demonstration)
https://www.thoughtco.com/rainbow-in-a-glass-density-demonstration-604258
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's Cooper, tail raised on high, loping along after a suspect in
case of the Trotting Toy
Fox.
Some
Pros of Global Warming: Helsinki – the new Riviera / Now golfers
only need a putter and a sand wedge.
..........You
can dance the dance 'til the mornin' comes.........Chaka Khan
…..Soul Talkin'
England
has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool. / Haunted French
pancakes give me the crepes.
Month
of the Week: March is Optimism Month –
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
--Will Rogers / Optimism is a Trump employee who irons five shirts on
a Sunday.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The
past tense of William Shakespeare is Wouldiwas Shookspeared
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State:
Lye Brook Falls, Vermont. This
is a great waterfall, easily one of Vermont's finest! The trail is
completely straightforward. 2.3 miles to the falls, gaining about
800-900 feet in elevation, then losing about 200' to the falls.
http://northeastwaterfalls.com/waterfall.php?num=212&p=1
Today's
Peace of History, March
23, 1984: One
thousand boats, known informally as the Auckland Harbour Peace
Squadron, demonstrated against arrival of the nuclear submarine, USS
Queenfish in New Zealand.
Some
Pros of Global Warming: No more paying for tattoos, melanoma is
free. / Furnaces convert easily into tornado shelters.
When
you get a bladder infection; urine trouble. / When chemists die, they
barium.
Today's
lexophile blurbs were submitted by bg of wi
..........Keeps
raining all the time.........Chaka Khan …..Stormy Weather
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle, March 23, 2018, Pluvial ePistle. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace, Love, and Sunshine. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800
Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam:
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. --Erich
Fromm
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If
more guns are the answer to gun violence are more donuts the cure for
the obesity epidemic? --Wiley Miller
Cost
of War: National Priorities is changing the
way it calculates war spending. The old dollars spent on all wars
has been changed to
Military
Costs of War since 2001: $2,805,744,496,905.
This
figure adds in odds and ends in other countries beside Iraq and
Afghanistan.
last
week this total was $1,822,450,651,441.
To
the military costs they have added
As
of 3/22/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $816,127,667,426
As
of 3/22/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $575,646,332,886.
As
of 3/22/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $286,465,130,841.
to
get a new
As
of 3/22/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,483,985,581,282.
~~These
do not add up exactly because beginning numbers change before I get
the end numbers recorded. But more or less. ~~I understand that not
all military money was being counted, but I still feel a little
confused. We'll see what happens.
50
Ways to Promote Peace, #15: Never honk you car horn unless you're
unsafe. (~~or the peace vigil which has a sign that says “Honk For
Peace”.
..........There's
nothing left to say.........Chaka Khan …..Caught In The Act
Acupuncture
is a jab well done. That's the point of it. / Those who get too big
for their britches will be totally exposed in the end.
‘The
Time To Act Is Now,’
Says Yellowing Climate Change Report Sitting In University Archives.
/ “You
may not care about climate change, but I know you care about winning,
which is why you’re not going to let climate change kick your ass
by flooding your winter wonderland. Come on President Trump, it’s
time for you to stand up and tell the world: “Nobody sinks your
properties but you.” --Trevor Noah
Famous
Last Words: for ever and ever. Amen --Handel's Messiah
May
Peace rain down on you
And
Joy flood your way
prairie
mama
christine
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