Famous
First Words: I'll never smile again... Frank Sinatra &
Tommy Dorsey's orchestra (The very first number one hit on
Billboard's very first Hit List, 1940)
Hippies:
the folks who think Truckin' should replace the national
anthem. / How can you tell a hippie has been at your house? He's
still there.
..........Slow
down, you move too fast.........Simon & Garfunkle …..Feelin'
Groovy
Never
be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not
lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole
world seems upset. --Francis de Sales
It
is a near perfect Friday morning. The 65°F temperature is on the
very pleasant side of chilly and the azure sky is flaked with puffs
in lazy patterns. There is the very slightest breeze that moves only
the smallest leaves on the thinnest limbs; but it misses the cheek
entirely. The sound of traffic rushing along is the dominant music
of the morning, with sporadic bird calls and a few dog barks thrown
in. There is a good deal of brown in lawns but bushes and trees are
still a thousand radiant shades of green. Cardinals add a pop of
color to the top of the tall tree in the little wood across the
street and in the nearby lilac bush. Cooper and Cy are having a
wrestling match on the deck with much more jumping and growling than
movement. Puck has declined to referee this morning and sitting in
eerie silence under a tree waiting for a squirrel. We stay quietly
breathing in the morning until the trash truck breaks the spell and
we return to our rooms. They smell and sound of laundry. I fix
myself a cup of decaf, creamy brown, lightly sweetened and sit among
the chaos that is a room in the midst of being packed. Puck sips up
the half and half I put in his bowl and hides in the closet to nap.
I sip the morning nectar and write to you. Doesn't get much better.
Hope
you have a righteous weekend, ePistliers.
So
this hippie got her dog really high. She says to the dog, “play
dead”. The dog answered, “Nah, play the Stones.” / What did
the hippie say to his hippie friend? I forgot.
..........Excuse
me while I kiss the sky.........Jimi Hendrix …..Purple Haze
Trivia
Questions: Blessed Lumberjack Day !
^
Where did the term lumberjack come from? (Oops, Grammar
Fault: From whence did the term lumberjack arise?)
^^
Any idea what a calk is?
^^^
How about slash?
^^^^
Know the musical name of the two-man cross-cut saw used by
lumberjacks in every media portrayal of them?
^^^^^
Which state hosts the annual Lumberjack World Championships?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: There is a
time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.
--Inspector Clouseau
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
Librarian-philosophers
still debate today which came first, the library's use of tiny
pencils or the tiny pockets in cardigans?
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
The
hippies missed the rescue ship because they were too far out. / How
did the hippie know she was too high? She was too phoned to stone
home.
..........One
pill makes you larger.........Jefferson Airplane …..White Rabbit
Moonbeam:
“All
generalizations are dangerous, even this one.” --Alexandre Dumas
fils
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Ƿes hāl
- Old Prussian https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I
went to a bar today and ordered a White Russian. They gave me a
picture of Trump. --Submitted by ra of ks
Week
of the Week: National Moth Week (July
21-29) --Moths fly to flames and lights because they are very slow
walkers. / The moth ate a hole in the carpet so he could see the
floor show.
How
do you get 20 hippies into a phone booth? Throw in a joint. How do
you get them out. Play Frank Sinatra. / What do you call it when a
hippie spills his weed on the floor? Drug abuse
..........Electrical
banana is bound to be the very next phase.........Donovan …..Mellow
Yellow
^
The
term "lumberjack" stems from Canada where previously a
timber worker was known as a logger. Both a lumberjack and logger are
forest workers who do not use power tools and historically used saws
and axes.
Almanac:
It is Friday, July 27, 2018. The moon is full (Buck) tonight and is
in Aquarius. It is Lumberjack Day, National Talk in
an Elevator Day, System Administrator Appreciation Day, Take Your
Houseplants for a Walk Day, Take Your Pants for a Walk Day, Walk on
Stilts Day, National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. In Puerto
Rico they celebrate Jose Celso Barbosa's Birthday (1857). This
weekend is the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, CA.
Among
those born on this day were Alexandre Dumas
fils (1824), Leo Durocher (1906), Kennan Wynn (1916), Norman Lear
(1922), Jerry Van Dyke (1931), and Bobby Gentry (1944).
On
July twenty-seventh the Bank of England was chartered (1586), the US
Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs (State Dept.
1789), the US mint in Charlotte, NC opened (1837), fire destroyed the
Charlotte mint (1844), Billboard
magazine started publishing their bestseller chart (1940), an
armistice "ended" the Korean War (1953), Martin Luther
King, Jr. was jailed in Albany, GA (1962), and TV
Guide
published its 2000th edition (1991).
Night
Sky, 7/27: Full
Moon is opposition Moon, so it shines with brilliant Mars, which is
just a day past its opposition.
Total
eclipse of the Moon, but not for the Americas! (or
Hawai`i). The best views will be from Europe, Africa, and much of
Asia.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Confluence: Parsec (Pittsburgh, 27-29) Writing workshop with David
D. Levine. http://parsec-sff.org/confluence/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
IPAM: Mean Field Games and Applications (7/18-29, UCLA)
www.ipam.ucla.edu/gss2018
This
Week: Saturday, July 28 –
National Dance Day & National Day of the Cowboy
Sunday,
July 29 – Rain Day
Monday,
July 30 – Friendship Day & National Chicken and Waffles
Day
Tuesday,
July 31 – Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day & Black
Women's Equal Pay Day
Wednesday,
August 1 – Mead
Day & Rounds Resounding Day & Lughnasa
Thursday,
August 2 - World Wide Web Day & World Scout Scarf Day &
Spider-Man Day
Why
do so many hippies live in Eugene, OR? There's no work there. / Old
hippies never die, they just go to pot.
..........Found
my way upstairs and had a smoke.........Beatles …..Day in the Life
^^
The spikes
worn on the bottom of lumberjack's boots are known as
calks.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Being in White House
“thoughts and prayers” widely misunderstood. Just means you're
on their radar. No one's actually thinking or praying...way too
busy. --Trudeau Doonesbury 7/22/18
Moonbeam:
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. --Leo
Durocher
Late
Night Snacks: Everyone's in a celebratory
mood. I'm not surprised. Happy holidays! It's Shark Week! Merry
Shark-mas! Or, for my Jewish shark viewers: Mazel-teeth! --Stephen
Colbert / A California town recently opened a drive-thru marijuana
dispensary, or as they're more commonly known, a Taco Bell. --Seth
Meyers / I went to church to kick things off because it's important
to remember what Shark Week's really about. Shark Week started in
1988, back when sharks were still carrying beepers. And 30 years
later, here we are. --Jimmy Kimmel / According to a new report,
young Republican staffers in Washington, DC, are having trouble
meeting people on dating apps because they're being harassed for
their political views. According to some Republican staffers, they
are getting harassed so much on dating apps they're now starting to
feel like every woman on every dating app. --James Corden / The big
story is that last night President Drumpf lashed out at Iran on
Twitter, and some people are afraid that he might start World War
III. In response, Americans were like, "Come on, man, at least
wait until Shark Week is over.” --Jimmy Fallon
Not
So Late Night Snacks: And this is the crazy
Trump said that he realized his mistake when he was reviewing the
transcript of the press conference. This is where we are as a nation
that it is easier to believe that the president is an operative for a
foreign government than to believe he read a 4 page document.
--Peter Segel Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me
How
beautiful it is to stay silent when someone expects you to be
enraged.
You
might be a hippie if you don't know the last name of the people you
consider family. / Hippies don't always do math, but when they do,
it's to buy weed.
..........We
are stardust, we are golden.........Joni Mitchell …..Woodstock.
^^^
Slash is a
term for the debris left over from felling and delimbing a tree.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: King's arrest was part of the Albany
Movement. King was sentenced to forty-five days
in jail or a $178 fine. He chose jail. Three days into his sentence,
Chief Pritchett discreetly arranged for King's fine to be paid and
ordered his release. "We had witnessed persons being kicked off
lunch counter stools during the sit-ins, ejected from churches during
the kneel-ins, and thrown into jail during the Freedom Rides. But for
the first time, we witnessed being kicked out of jail." During
this time, prominent evangelist Billy Graham, a close friend of
King's who privately advised the SCLC, bailed King out of jail.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: May
your coffee be strong and your Monday be short. --Submitted by bm of
ks
Weird
Word of the Week:
Therianthrope – a being that is part animal, part human.
Therianthropic – of a deity that is represented as combining animal
and human forms (Anubis, Ganesha).
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-the2.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products: Moisturize your face. Wash your
face thoroughly and, while still wet, rub in a small dab of Vaseline
Petroleum Jelly. Keep wetting face until the Vaseline is spread
evenly and does not appear greasy. Health spas use this secret
treatment.
Three
hippies are sitting around smoking a joint. One says, "I am
going to go take a bath." He goes upstairs to the bathroom,
fills up the bathtub, starts to get in the bathtub and then stops for
a second and thinks to himself, "Hmmmmm, am I getting in or am I
getting out?" So he sits there and thinks about it. The second
one says, "Well, he's been up there for awhile, I better go
check on him." When he gets halfway upstairs he stops for a
moment, and thinks to himself, "Am I going upstairs or am I
going downstairs?" He stays there and thinks about it. The third
guy says, "I hope I never get blasted as much as those two,
knock on wood!" So he knocks on the table and says, "Was
that the front door or the back door?"
...........And
feed them on your dreams.........Crosby, Stills, & Nash …..Teach
Your Children
^^^^
Swedish
fiddle is the very long cross cut saw that takes two. Singing while
working was a very popular part of the lumberjack's culture. These
songs were referred to as chanteys. The term Swedish is just a
reference to the high number of Scandinavian men engaged in this old
profession.
Pirate
Steven Brault Game of the Week:
Date: 7/20 Opponent: CIN HR: 0 BB: 0 SO: 3 GB: 2 FB: 3
http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/id/33870/steven-brault
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: All
you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is
sure. --Mark Twain
Best
Idea on the Internet of the Week:
If
you're tired of looking at pictures of Donald Drumpf, there's a
Chrome extension for that. Make
America Kittens Again
is
an extension you can add to your Google Chrome browser that
automatically detects images of Drumpf on the web and changes them to
photos of kittens. ~~Unfortunately, it doesn't work on Facebook.
But it is a fun app. It goes well with my John Oliver app that
changes the name Trump to Drumpf (his original German name).
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck showing off his profile in the case of the
Photogenic Pharaoh
Cat.
Why
are there no hippies on star ship enterprise? Because hippies do not
have jobs in the future either. / VW Bugs always remind me of peace,
love, and Nazis.
..........You
can make the mountains ring.........The Youngbloods …..Get
Together
^^^^^
Lumberjack World Championships are held in Hayward, Wisconsin. This
year they will be held from August 1st through the 3rd.
Month
of the Week: Watermelon – the three
in one treat – You eat. You drink. You wash your face.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Some
suggestions for Talk On An Elevator Day: I can't get over how
different you look in men's clothing / Mind if I practice my Tai Chi?
/ Meow, Meow
Grammar
Bar Jokes of the Week: An
oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
Today's
Peace of History, July 27, 1953: After
three years of bloody and frustrating war leading to stalemate, the
United States, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea
agreed to a truce, bringing the Korean War—and America's first
experiment with the Cold War concept of “limited war”—to an
end.
They
call it a roach clip because potholder was already taken. / Hippies:
the folks who are afraid of hormones in milk but takes acid from
strangers.
..........Be
sure to wear some flowers in your hair.........Led Zeppelin …..San
Francisco
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle July 27,
2018, Electric Kool-Aid ePistle. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace, Love, and Laughs. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800
Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam:
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the
exacerbation and constant repetition. --Norman Lear
Cost
of War:
As
of 7/26/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,841,248,260,983.
As
of 7/19/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,839,235,540,917.
As
of 7/26/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $840,256,161,754.
As
of 7/19/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $838,888,297,931.
As
of 7/26/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $605,979,259,730.
As
of 7/19/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $604,259,686,408.
As
of 7/26/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $293,358,940,697.
As
of 7/19/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $292,968,133,974.
As
of 7/26/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,580,843,422,378.
As
of 7/19/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,575,352,716,781
Let
me bring peace into moments of chaos. --Jonathan Lockwood Huie
..........all
the people living life in peace.........John Lennon & the Plastic
Ono Band …..Imagine
The
original flower children are so old they've begun to have hippie
replacements. / Hippies – those folks who want to start a
revolution by wearing balloon hats.
Famous
Last Words: les textes faisant également foi. --Korean
War Armistice
May
Peace grace your days
And
Joy paint your nights
prairie
mama
christine
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