Famous
First Words: To provide Federal Government aid...
Servicemen's Readjustment Act aka GI Bill of Rights
It's
World Cup Time again. -- When footballers get too hot they stand by
their fans. / Grasshoppers don't generally watch football, they
prefer cricket.
..........We
got the bubble headed bleached blonde comes on at five.....Don Henley
…..Dirty Laundry
To
replace the old paradigm of war with a new paradigm of waging peace,
we must be pioneers who can push the boundaries of human
understanding. We must be doctors who can cure the virus of violence.
We must be soldiers of peace who can do more than preach to the
choir. And we must be artists who will make the world our
masterpiece. --Paul
Chappell
In
world football an early bath is an amusing way of saying a RED CARD,
because you are sent back to the Locker Room before the other
players.
It
is a cool (67°F) Friday morning. The sky is almost completely
covered with cloudsw that look like rain without looking threatening.
Big puffy globs hurrying to the southwest. Here and there a patch
of blue sky can be seen and the brilliant reflection of sun through
the hole. The breeze tickles the cheek and spreads the scents of
summer – floral mostly and damp soil and dogs. The birds are
enjoying the cool temperatures and singing in large choirs that
spread from the tree next to me to the little wood across the street
and rooftops up and down the blocks, cheeping and hooting and actual
song. Puck sits like a mini sheep dog watching the neighborhood for
squirrels and bicycles. Cy and Cooper are lounging near the fence
content to let Puck do the guarding duties. They are all three
listening to the birdsong without joining in. The sheer beauty of
the morning makes me reluctant to return to the indoors. I stay
breathing in early summer but thinking about coffee. So here I am
mouth full of sweet tartness and thoughts of you in my head. Hope
your morning is a wonderful.
Hope
your weekend is more exciting than a World Cup game, ePistliers.
At
the very first World Cup in 1930 the ball quit mid-games because it
was so tired of being kicked around. / Nigeria was ranked so low, the
manager gave pencils and paper to all the players hoping for a draw.
..........You
keep telling yourself you can take it.....Don Henley …..You're Not
Drinking Enough
Trivia
Questions: Happy Re-Birthday, Arkansas !
^
In what year, more or less, did Arkansas join the union for the first
time?
^^
Can you name any of the notable things about Hot Springs?
^^^
Arkansas calls itself the Natural State. Know why?
^^^^
Know which Arkansas city offers one the the nation's largest
municipal parks?
^^^^^
And if you want to picket Walmart Headquarters to which Arkansas city
would you travel?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: There is No
King James Version of the Constitution.
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
Library
staff spending makes up 63% of income at library book sales
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
During
the 1938 World Cup in France what did they call the one who's inside
the goalpost stopping the ball from rolling away? Annette / Charlie
played goalkeeper for so long he didn't stop even after he died.
They called him ghoulkeeper.
..........But
I think it's about forgiveness.....Don Henley …..Heart of the
Matter
Moonbeam:
Operationally,
God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile
of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.
--Julian
Huxley
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Goddag –
Norwegian https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Oh
what, so Sleeping Beauty can sleep for days and years and she's a
“beautiful princess,” but when I do the same thing I'm
“clinically depressed?”
Week
of the Week: Old Time Fiddlers Week
(June 14-23) --Okay,
I just thought of one. This classically trained violinist tries to
play a fiddle song and...hey! What'd I say? Why are so many people
upset?
In
1974 when it rained so hard the pitch was covered in water, the
German manager sent in his subs. / Cinderella tried out for the
French team but she didn't make the cut. She kept running away from
the ball.
..........They're
pickin' up the prisoners and puttin' 'em in a pen.....Don Henley
…..All She Wants to Do Is Dance
^
Arkansas became the 25th state (13th slave
state) on June 15, 1836.
Almanac:
It is Friday, June 22, 2018. The moon was first quarter on Wednesday
and is in Scorpio. It is National Chocolate Eclair Day, Stupid Guy
Thing Day, Take Your Dog to Work Day, Ugliest Dog Day, and ARRL
(American Radio Relay League) Field Day (23-24). In El Salvador it
is School Teacher's Day aka Dia del Maestro. Haiti celebrates
Sovereignty Day aka President's Day. In the Virgin Islands it is
Organic Act Day (1954) and Yemen PDR commemorates Corrective Move
Day.
Among
those born on the day were George Vancouver (1757), H. Rider Haggard
(1856), Puccini (1858), Julian Huxley (1887), Erich Maria Remarque
(1898), John Dillinger (1903), Billy Wilder (1903), Anne Morrow
Lindbergh (1907), Gower Champion (1921), Bill Blass (1922), Orson
Bean (1928), Dianne Feinstein (1933), Kris Kristofferson (1936), Don
Henley (1947), Todd Rundgren (1948), Meryl Streep (1949), and Freddie
Prinze (1954).
On
June twenty-second the First Council of Ephesus opened (3rd
ecumenical council, 431), Bilbo Baggins returned home (1342), Henry
Hudson was set adrift (1611), slavery was outlawed in England (1772),
Zebulon reached Pike's peak (1808), the doughnut was created (1847),
Arkansas reentered the union (1868), congress created the Department
of Justice (1870), George V was crowned king of England (1911), and
FDR signed the GI Bill of Rights (aka Servicemen's Readjustment Act),
1944.
Night
Sky, 6/22: The
waxing gibbous moon this evening shines with bright Jupiter to its
lower left and fainter spica to its lower right.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
PortConMaine (June 21-24, Portland, ME)
Maine's
first, longest running, and largest convention celebrating the
hobbies that enrich our lives.
http://portconmaine.com/site/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
Low-dimensional topology and its interactions with symplectic
geometry. (June 20-22, Princeton, NH) The
first Summer 2018 Geometry/Topology RTG mini-conference
https://web.math.princeton.edu/~petero/RTG/MiniConf1.html
This
Week: Saturday, June 23 – Pink
Flamingo Day & Great American Backyard Camp-out Night
Sunday,
June 24 – International Fairy Day aka Faerie Day &
Stonewall National Monument Day
Night
Sky, 6/24: If
you have a good view of the west-northwest horizon (from mid-northern
latitudes), mark precisely where the Sun sets. In a few days you
should be able to detect that it's again starting to set a little
south of that point.
Monday,
June 25 – Global Beatles Day & Day of the Seafarer &
National Catfish Day
Tuesday,
June 26 – National Canoe Day & National Columnists Day
Night
Sky, 6/26: This
is the time of year the two brightest stars of summer, Arcturus and
Vega, are about equally high overhead soon after dark: Arcturus
toward the southwest, Vega toward the east.
Wednesday,
June 27 – Industrial Workers of the World Day
Thursday,
June 28 – National Hand Shake Day & International Body
Piercing Day
During
the 1950 World Cup in Brazil the manager of the English team caught
two fans climbing over the stadium wall. He was angry with them and
grabbed them by their coat collars and demanded they go back in and
watch the game until it finished. (England lost 0-1 to the US). /
The most popular beverage at the World Cup is Penal-tea!
..........Government
conspiracy; cover-ups and lies.....Don Henley …..They're Not Here
and They're Not Coming
^^
1) It has a hot springs. Since
the 1830s the area now known as 2) Hot
Springs National Park
has bathed 3) notables as diverse as Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, and Al Capone.
The park is entirely surrounded by the city of Hot Springs, the 4)
boyhood home of President Bill
Clinton.
'Norther
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Have ye ever listened to
some folks for a minute and thought...their cornbread ain't done in
the middle.
Moonbeam:
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs
in a museum. --Erich Maria Remarque
Late
Night Snacks: President Trump said Russia should not be
punished for seizing parts of Ukraine because they speak Russian
there. Which explains why today, Mexico announced plans to take back
California. --Conan O'Brien / 72 years ago today in the borough of
Queens, in the state of New York, a pumpkin got trapped in a tanning
bed. And Donald J. Trump was born. --Jimmy Kimmel / In November,
people in California will vote on whether they want to break the
state up in to three smaller states. The states would be Northern
California, Southern California, and Kardashistan. --Jimmy Fallon /
Some meteorologists are worried that London could be so hot this
summer that Leonardo DiCaprio will try to have sex with it. That's
how hot it is. --James Corden / The Cheesecake Factory has been
fined $4.6 million for wage violations with their janitorial staff.
And now to save money they have to remove the last 40 pages of their
menu. --Seth Meyers / There is huge news in the Mueller
investigation. Sources say that ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is
likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors. Yes, Michael Cohen is
going to sing like a canary — which is ironic because it's Trump
that looks like one. --Stephen Colbert
Not
So Late Night Snacks: Peter Sagal: Trump's aides jokingly call
his habit of tearing up all these papers after he's read them - they
call it, quote, Trump's filing system. Because that sounds a lot
cuter than calling it, quote, "destroying evidence." Roy
Blunt, Jr: If he didn't tear them up, how would he know that he's
read them? Sagal: This is, - by the way, this is a Trump habit left
over from the days when he needed all those torn-up paper scraps to
line Steve Bannon's cage. Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
Love
is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to
the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action.
Love is the talisman of human weal and woe –the open sesame to
every soul. --Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
In
1962 when the games were in Chili, the Czechoslovakian team visited
an orphanage. It was heart-breaking to see their sad faces with no
hope, “ said João, age 6. / What do you call a player in the
knockout stages of the World Cup? A referee
..........Dust
devils whirlin' on the first day of July.....Don Henley …..Praying
for Rain
^^^
Naturally, Arkansas contains over 600,000 acres of lakes and 9,700
miles of streams and rivers. The state contains six national park
sites, two-and-a half million acres of national forests, seven
national scenic byways, three state scenic byways, and 50 state
parks.
Worthless
Facts of the Week: If you’ve enjoyed a
doughnut at the Summit House atop Pikes Peak, then you’ve
accomplished two things the great Zebulon Pike never did. He never
reached the top of his mountain, and the doughnut was invented in
1847, 34 years after Pike’s death.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The
scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are
composed entirely of lost airline luggage. – Mark Russell
Weird
Word of the Week:
Orismology – the science of defining technical terms or
terminology. The
first persons to use it were the pre-eminent experts on insects in
the early nineteenth century, William Kirby and William Spence. They
didn’t like the way that in terminology
a
Latin stem had been joined to a Greek suffix, so in their textbook in
1816 they created orismology
as
an alternative.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ori1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Repair stains, rings, and minor scratches in wood furniture. Cover
each scratch with a liberal coat of Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, let sit
for 24 hours, rub into wood, wipe away excess, and polish as usual.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/vaseline.html
What's
the difference between the US Soccer team and a teabag? The teabag
stays in the cup. / France is the best chance Africa has at winning
the world cup. (2018)
...........Because
love is mainly just memories.....Don Henley …..The Brand New
Tennessee Waltz
^^^^
Burns
Park is a 1,700-acre park in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The park
features two golf courses, Funland Amusement Park, sports facilities,
and a camping area.
Dead
Joke of the Week:
Zeuxis, a 5th-century BC Greek painter, is said to have died laughing
at the humorous way he painted the goddess Aphrodite – after the
old woman who commissioned it insisted on modeling for the portrait
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Now
that Canada has legalized marijuana the reasons to go to war with
them and lose become even more enticing. We could get both
healthcare and high.
Science
on the Internet of the Week:
Milk Art -
The
results are not only dramatic but are beautiful too -
http://www.sciencefun.org/kidszone/experiments/milk-art/
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Being neither mad nor English here's our fearless Puck out of the
Kansas noonday sun in the case of the Indoor Imo.
At
the 1978 World Cup in Argentina Poland was losing to Brazil when a
handful of Argentinean pesos were thrown onto the field. The police
and the referees are still not sure whether they were missiles or a
takeover bid. / The football fan bought his squeeze a goalie jersey
so he could tell people his girl was a keeper.
..........That
sweet, delicious, but not-so-original sin.....Don Henley …..The
Genie
^^^^^
Sam
Walton founded his Wal-Mart stores in Bentonville. Click
Here
for a map.
Month
of the Week: June is Zoo and Aquarium
Month – You don't see many reindeer in zoos, do you? No, generally
they can't afford the admission. / You're just telling this bad fish
joke for halibut.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Interesting. The anti-science, anti-education administration wants a
Space Force. How are they going to get there. Thoughts and prayers?
--Rex A Jones --Submitted by sd of ks
Most
Beautiful Thing in American Samoa:
Two Dollar Beach -
This
well-maintained strip of white sand sits beside calm, shallow water
that's great for snorkeling. There's a small rocky island just
offshore for exploring. (Head's Up – it's $5 now)
http://twodollarbeach.com/
Today's
Peace of History, June 22, 1987:
At least 8000 peace protesters formed a 10-mile human chain around
the US air base on Okinawa, an island that is part of Japan.
Subsequent demonstrations and negotiations between the U.S. and Japan
have led to the prospective closing of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma
Air Station.
I
was so excited about going to Russia for this year's cup that I left
two tickets on the dashboard of my car while I was shopping. When I
got back someone had broken the window and left two more. / The
difference between Portugal and an albatross is that the albatross
has two good wings.
..........When
a stranger appears in a cloud of smoke.....Don Henley …..Garden of
Allah
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle June 22, 2018, Early Bath ePistle. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace, Laughs and Football. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800
Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam:
I do not believe in violence; it is the last resort of fools. --H.
Rider Haggard
Cost
of War:
As
of 6/21/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,831,339,312,357.
As
of 6/14/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,829,362,609,200.
As
of 6/21/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $833,522,015,596.
As
of 6/14/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $832,178,550,931.
As
of 6/21/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $597,513,465,142.
As
of 6/14/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $595,824,571,739.
As
of 6/21/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $291,434,892,907.
As
of 6/14/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $291,051,058,248.
As
of 6/21/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,553,810,637,675.
As
of 6/14/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,548,417,643,042.
As
they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How
worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came. --Ed
Asner
..........And
let me take a long last look before we say goodbye.....Don Henley
…..End of the Innocence
God
and the devil were having an argument, and Satan proposed a football
game between heaven and hell to resolve the dispute. God, in his
eternal goodness, pointed out that it wouldn’t be a fair match
because all the ‘good’ players go to heaven. The devil smiled,
replying, “Yes, but we’ve got all the refs.” / You're right –
that World Cup game you watched as an impressionable youth really was
“the best” ever.
Famous
Last Words: “Thank goodness!” said Bilbo laughing, and
handed him the tobacco-jar. The Hobbit
May
Peace be your cross
And
Joy your trap
prairie
mama
christine
Last
Laugh:
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