Famous
First Words: Penso che un sogno cosi... lyric Nel Blue
Dipinto Di Blue aka Volare ..the first Song of the Year Grammy given
May 4, 1958
May
is Older Americans Month! When I went looking for jokes about
getting old, a pop-up reminded me that negative stereotypes about
aging and older people perpetuates discrimination (in the workplace
and other places) ...it would be more powerful if I could read it
without putting on my other glasses.
..........The
star of daylight in the sky.........Roberta Peters …..Olympia's
Aria Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Get
out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe
peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like. --John Lennon
It
is a clear Friday morning. The temperature is a comfortable 56°F.
Green has broken out all over – the lilac bush is a hunter green
and lavender and sends the occasional wafts of floral scent across
the yard on a breeze that kisses the check and nose now and then
–the red buds are morphing through purple to lime -the grass is
thick and new and a deep forest color. A dozen bird choirs fill the
air with song and conversation and hints of cardinal red or shadow
gray swooping towards the lilac bush or the now all green flowering
pear. The sky is absolutely clear and blue; it's graced only only
the rising sun too bright to see and the cold, waning moon at its
zenith in the south … O, and birds swooping and flying. Puck and
Cooper and Cy exchange morning greetings and go about their
individual business – Cooper meditating, Cy chewing, and Puck
looking for something to bark at. A quarrel of sparrows begin an
argument and even the sound of distant machinery is lost. But I have
not yet had my coffee and so we retreat. And now I sit mouth happy
with memories and anticipation of sweet, creamy liquid and a brain
full of thoughts of you. Couldn't be better...
It's
May! It's May! The Lusty Month of May, hope your weekend is age
appropriate, ePistliers.
It's
no good you telling me to act my age; I've never been this age before
and don't know how to act. / I'm getting so old that my friends in
heaven have figured I didn't make.
..........Der
Hölle Rache kockt in meinem Herzen.........Roberta Peters …..Queen
of the Night Aria The Magic Flute
Trivia
Questions: It is the International Day of Respect for Chickens
Day !
^
Care to guess about how many chickens there are world wide?
^^
What is the proper nomenclature for chickens by sex, age, etc.
^^^
Know anything at all about the “rooster dance” mating ritual?
^^^^
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
^^^^^
Care to guess how many breeds of chickens there are?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: What's the difference between a
trump doctor and a trump lawyer? One drinks a fifth and the other
pleads the fifth. --Submitted by am of va
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
Current
exchange rate for taking a colleague's shift at the ref desk is one
week unlimited use of their book cart.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
63
was a big birthday for me. It dropped me from second to third “Page
Down” on the birth year menu. / Depends has just come out with
adult diaper thongs for the baby boomers.
..........le
delizie dell'amor.........Roberta Peters …..Sweet Name (Gilda)
Rigoletto
Moonbeam:
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
--Horace Mann
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Oraire ota
– Nkore (Uganda)
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Thank
God, winter is finally over and we can kick back and enjoy tornado
season. --Submitted by nm of ks
Week
of the Week: Choose Privacy Week (May
1-7) – The Privacy Commissioner took down a bunch of websites for
collecting too much information. That's the way the cookie crumbles.
/ How many privacy consultants does it take to change a light bulb?
How many can you afford.
How
long to do have to live to become “vintage”? / Older American
Multi-tasking: I can laugh, cough, sneeze, and pee all at the same
time.
..........it
is with Lucifer himself she has a pact.........Roberta Peters
…..Oscar Un Ballo in Maschera
^
With
25 billion chickens in the world, there are more of them than any
other bird species.
Almanac:
It is Friday, May 4, 2018. The moon was full (Pink) last Tuesday and
is in Capricorn. It is Bird Day, Intergalactic Star
Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You!), International Firefighters
Day, International Respect for Chickens Day, International Sauvignon
Blanc Day, National Life Insurance Day, Petite and Proud Day, and
World Give Day. In Tonga it is the Crown Prince's Birthday and in
the US it is Student Memorial Day (1970). Because it is Friday it is
McDonogh Day (1850) in New Orleans. Because it is first Friday it is
also International Space Day, School Lunch Hero Day, and Tuba Day.
~~I hate it when May 4 falls the 3rd
Friday.
Among
those born on this day were Abd-Allah Ausari (1006), Horace Mann
(1796), Joseph Whitaker (1820), Thomas Huxley (1825), Edmund Turpin
(1835), Aleksandr Kerenski (1881), Abdel Kassem (1914), Dennis Weaver
(1924), Audrey Hepburn (Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston,
1929), Roberta Peters (1930), and Robert Raymond Tway (1959).
On
May fourth the American Academy of Arts & Sciences was founded
(1780), the Bourbon reign was restored in France (1914), San
Francisco had its first major fire (1851), Woodward's Gardens opened
(1866), the Royal Canadian Navy was created (1910), Tel Aviv was
founded (1910), Tel Aviv was sacked (1917), the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts & Sciences was formed (1927), food was rationed in
the US (1942), the first Grammy Awards were presented (Perry Como &
Ella Fitzgerald , 1959), The Fantasticks opened off Broadway (1960),
Another
World and
As
the World Turns premiered
on TV (1964), and Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime
minister of Great Britian (1979).
Night
Sky, 5/4:
Jupiter's
Great Red Spot crosses the planet's central meridian around 11:56 pm
Eastern Daylight Time. The Eta Aquariid meteor shower should be
active before the first light of dawn Sunday morning.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
DemiCon 29: Down the Rabbit Hole (Des Moines, IA, May 4-6)
https://demicon.org/demicon29/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
International Conference on Geology & Earth Science (Rome, Italy,
May 2-4) –Groundwater and Hydrogeology …
https://geoscience.madridge.com/
This
Week: Saturday, May 5 – Cinco
de Mayo & Free Comic Book Day & Cartoonists Day
Sunday,
May 6 – No Homework Day & Blessing of the Bikes &
World Laughter Day
Night
Sky, 5/6: Summer is seven weeks away, but the
Summer Triangle is beginning to make its appearance in the east. The
first in view is Vega. It's already shining low in the northeast as
twilight fades away. Next up is Deneb, lower left of Vega by two or
three fists at arm's length. Deneb takes about an hour to appear
after Vega does, depending on your latitude. The third is Altair,
which shows up far to their lower right by midnight.
Monday,
May 7 – National Barrier Awareness Day & Melanoma Monday
Tuesday,
May 8 – National Teacher Day & No Socks Day
Night
Sky, 5/8: Arcturus
is the brightest star high in the east these evenings. Spica shines
about three fists at arm's length to its lower right. To the right of
Spica by half that distance is the distinctive four-star
constellation of Corvus, the Crow. Far below Arcturus and Spica,
Jupiter glares.
Wednesday,
May 9 – Donate a Day's Wages to Charity Day &
Receptionists Day & National Sleepover Night
Thursday,
May 10 – World Migratory Bird Day & Eat What You Want
Day
A
barrel of monkeys can't hold a candle to Twister night at the
Senior's Club. / I'm so old I go to Antique Shops just to visit my
old furniture.
..........Should
I or shouldn't I.........Roberta Peters …..La Ci Darem La Mano
(Zerlina) Don Giovanni
^^
Baby chickens are chicks. Female chickens are pullets until they’re
old enough to lay eggs then become hens. Male chickens are called
roosters, cocks or cockerels, depending on the country you’re in.
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I hope to arrive to my
death, late, in love, and a little drunk. --Atticus --Submitted by
nm of ks
Moonbeam:
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis
by an ugly fact. --Thomas Huxley
Late
Night Snacks: Bill Cosby, one of the most
beloved and successful TV stars of all-time, was convicted on three
counts of indecent assault today. He could very well spend the rest
of his life eating pudding in prison. --Jimmy Kimmel / It was
reported that disgraced CBS anchor Charlie Rose is developing a show
where he'll interview other men brought down by the #MeToo movement,
which brings us to a new segment called "Just, No." No. No!
NO! --Seth Meyers / Subway just announced they are closing 500
restaurants. People were stunned. They were like, "Subway
considers itself a restaurant?" --Jimmy Fallon / Body language
experts say all the touching between Presidents Drumpf and Macron was
an exercise in primate-like male dominance. And here's the good news
for Americans — apparently our baboon won. --Conan O'Brien / Merci
monsieur and Madame. Bienvenue and ratatouille. I have broken out my
French accent, because tonight, Donald Drumpf is hosting a
ménage-a-France with French president and homewrecking masseur,
Emmanuel Macron. It is trump's first state dinner, and in a major
departure from tradition, Drumpf will not invite Democrats or the
media. None of those people are invited. If he doesn't like you, you
won't be there. Better luck next time, vegetables. --Stephen Colbert
/ Yesterday, at Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York, former
White House press secretary Sean Spicer unveiled a wax figure of
first lady Melania Drumpf to join the existing one of her husband.
Those wax figures look so realistic. They actually have more
chemistry than the real couple. --James Corden
Not
So Late Night Snacks: Dr. Ronny Jackson. What
we found out about him as people came forward to speak to the Senate
was that apparently he used to provide people around the White House
and anybody who asked with lots of pills. He was known as, quote,
"the candy man," Yeah, you remember him from the back room
at CBGB's, you remember him. Candy man in general is a bad nickname
for anyone unless your name is either Willy Wonka or Jerry Candyman
–Peter Sagal Wait, Wait, Don't Tell
Me
Woodstock
was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about
spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other,
living in peace and harmony. --Richie Havens
Last
birthday I got a card that was signed with I'm not making any
age-related jokes because I genuinely feel bad about how old you are.
/ One day you're fine the next day your skin is relaxed fit.
..........How
sweet the air is here.........Roberta Peters …..Salome Salome
^^^
Roosters
perform a little dance called ‘tidbitting’ in which they make
sounds (food calls) and move their head up and down, picking up and
dropping a bit of food. Researchers have found that females prefer
males that often perform tidbitting and have larger, brighter combs
on top of their heads.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: By
the end of WWII, restrictions on processed foods and other goods like
gasoline and fuel oil were lifted, but the rationing of sugar
remained in effect until 1947.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I read of the Week: Being a star has made it
possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro
could never hope to go and get insulted. --Sammy Davis, Jr.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Immenskioff – a fur-lined overcoat.
The
large side-pocket of the “immensikoff” gaped invitingly, and,
though outside overcoat-pockets were barren vessels as a rule, this
was so very easy that nothing could be lost by trial.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-imm1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Make your own automatic dishwasher soap. Use equal parts 20 Mule
Team Borax and washing soda.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/20muleteam.html
I
think it would be interesting if old people got Anti-Alzheimer's
Disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost
memories. --George Carlin / Remember, you're only as only as you
remember you are.
...........I
have hardly breath to breathe.........Roberta Peters …..Rosina
Barber of Seville
^^^^
And
which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, all vertebrates have
eggs, but the hardshelled variety first
appeared
among
reptiles.
Final
Word Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Grovel – lie or move
abjectly, kneel, cringe King Henry VI, Part II
Act 1, Scene IV Bolingbroke: Mother Jourdain, be you prostrate
and grovel on the earth;
Science
Experiment You Can Do At Home of the Week:
How to get an egg in a bottle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R215vLf29w
'Nother
Funniest Thing I read of the Week: Sign
in AZ: Give me -Your Poor – Your Tired – Your Huddle Masses
...And we'll have a Teacher's Meeting --submitted by rhb of ks
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck, sporting half of his spring hair do,
ignoring the camera to keep his eye on his client in the case of the
Shorn Shiba.
Why
is it that when you finally get your head together, you body starts
falling apart. / Being old leads to awkward moments when you're not
sure if you actually have free time or you're just forgetting
everything.
..........I
dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls.........Roberta Peters …..Gipsy
Girl's Dream The Bohemian Girl
^^^^^
There are 75 plus breeds of chickens –
https://www.starmilling.com/poultry-chicken-breeds.php
Month
of the Week: May in Golf Month --After
a particularly poor round, a golfer spotted a lake as he walked
despondently up the 18th. He looked at his caddie and said, “I’ve
played so badly all day, I think I’m going to drown myself in that
lake.” The caddie, quick as a flash, replied, “I’m not sure
you could keep your head down that long.”
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: There
are people out there training for marathons...and here I am, on the
couch, trying to lasso the remote with my phone charger.
Most
Beautiful Thing in Washington, DC:
Meridian Hill Park … One
of the nicest and least appreciated parks in D.C. is a place
officially called Meridian
Hill Park
but
known to everyone as Malcolm
X Park.
Its 12 acres sit on a hill overlooking downtown and the monuments.
John Quincy Adams lived in a mansion here after leaving the White
House. Today, there are spooky statues and cascading pools of water,
more reminiscent of a neglected European chateau garden than a
National Park Service tract. Visit late on a Sunday afternoon to
dance to the sounds of the ad hoc drum circle that has been forming
weekly since the 1950s.
~~We have run out of states and will now go through territories.
Today's
Peace of History, May
4, 1970: Ohio
National Guard troops opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent
State University, killing four students and wounding nine others, one
permanently disabled. There were major campus protests around the
country with students occupying university buildings to organize and
to discuss the war and other issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRE9vMBBe10:
Don't
let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. / If things
get better with age then I must be getting close to freakin'
magnificent.
..........Ah!
Je ris de me voir.........Roberta Peters …..Marguerite's Aria aka
The Jewel Song Faust
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle May 4, 2018, Mellowed ePistle. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Generic Tag Line. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct.
Lawrence, KS 66046
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Two
people you should never trust: A religious leader who tells you how
to vote and a politician who tells you how to pray. --Submitted by
sd of ks
Moonbeam:
A teacher who is attempting to teach without
inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
--Horace Mann
Cost
of War:
As
of 5/3/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,817,484,214,756.
As
of 4/24/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,815,525,306,556.
As
of 5/3/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $822,774,407,167.
As
of 4/24/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $824,105,866,499.
As
of 5/3/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $585,676,029,471.
As
of 4/24/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $584,001,998,869.
As
of 5/3/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $288,744,571,556.
As
of 4/24/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $288,364,070,304.
As
of 5/3/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,516,011,589,060.
As
of 4/24/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,510,666,379,982.
Gonna
make love the bottom line; gonna find peace in our time. --Eddie
Money
..........Good
luck attend you.........Roberta Peters …..Madame Butterfly Madama
Butterfly
God
grant me the senility to forget those people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into those I do like, and the eyesight to
tell the difference. Amen
Famous
Last Words: And ever blind? You are sure ? --The Princess &
the Butterfly or The Fantasticks --Arthur Wing Pinero
May
Peace be your hearing aid
And
Joy your walking stick
prairie
mama
christine
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