Famous
First Words: That's
one small step for man... --Neil Armstrong
Hooray,
It is Ugly Truck Day! Your truck is so ugly, your
mechanic will only change the oil over the phone.
..........Bueno
para gozar.........Carlos Santana …..Oye cómo va
How
do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? --Bill
Watterson Calvin & Hobbes
It
is a very pleasant Friday morning in Lawrence. The 74°F temperature
is lovely even without a breeze to rub it in my face. The sky has
only little wisps and smears floating happily against a clear blue
sky. The earth still looks and smells like drought with patches of
brown and green together and dust that whiffs bare earth and dryness.
Birdsong is all around as if the birds are singing to themselves as
they go about their day. Puck exchanges grouchy greetings with
Rigby, who lives across the street, and then sit quiet but alert
guarding the backyard. As I stand at the fence watching the unmoving
shadows shade the lawn, two hummingbirds dart towards me and even
stop to hover and look me in the eye before darting off. Pleasanter.
I finally turn to go inside but Puck is enjoying the morning too
much and stays behind to enjoy still more, still longer. Now I get
to drink this lovely sweetened, creamed, substitute coffee and think
about you. Pleasantest.
Hope
you have a beautiful weekend, ePistliers.
Nice
truck…did you lose a bet or something? / Your truck must have
fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
..........She's
tryin' to make a devil out of me.........Carlos Santana …..Black
Magic Woman
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday, Sir Hillary.
^
Where was Sir Edmund Hillary born?
^^
Care to guess how old Ed was when he first saw snow?
^^^
In what year did Hillary reach the summit of Mt. Everest?
^^^^
Know who stood on the summit with him?
^^^^^
How many of the 4 flags that flew on the summit that day can you
name?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: Every time a
Christian defends Trump an angel vomits. --Submitted by sb of ar
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
The
average librarian walks a 25 minute mile; it would be faster if they
didn't keep running into things while reading.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Your
truck is so ugly, the last guy who worked on it turned to stone. /
Your truck is so ugly when you parked it downtown you got a ticket
for littering.
..........Like
seven inches from the midday sun.........Carlos Santana …..Smooth
Moonbeam:
To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
--Petrarca
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Wes hāl –
Old English https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Don't
judge me until you've flown a mile on my broom. --Submitted by eg of
mt
Week
of the Week: National Baby Food Week
(July 18-21) –Why did the vampire baby give up baby food? He
wanted something he could sink his teeth into.
If
you park your truck in a field, does it start eating grass like some
kind of disgusting fat cow? / Her truck was so ugly that it took 12
hours for the body shop to come up with an estimate.
..........I
want to love you through and through, hey.........Carlos Santana
…..Stay In Love
^
Sir Edmund Hillary
was born in Auckland, on New Zealand's North Island. His Grandfather
Hillary had left England for India before settling in New Zealand.
Grandmother Hillary was an Irish governess who came to New Zealand
with a wealthy British family.
Almanac:
It is Friday July 20, 2018. The moon was first quarter yesterday and
is in Scorpio. It is Moon Day,
National
Lollipop Day, and Ugly Truck Contest Day. Columbia
(1819) and Tunisia (1956) celebrate Independence Day aka D¡a de la
Independencia.
Among
those born on this day were Petrarch (1304),
Theda Bara (1890), Edmund Hillary (1919), Nelson Doubleday (1933),
Diana Rigg (1938), Natalie Wood (1938), Judy Chicago (1939), and
Carlos Santana (1947).
On
July twentith Columbia declared its independence from Spain (1810),
British Columbia became the sixth Canadian province (1871), the
Legion of Merit Medal was authorized by congress (1942), Arthur
Murray Party premiered
(1950), Neil Armstrong walked on the moon (1969), and the 25th
Olympic Games opened in Atlanta, GA (1996).
Night
Sky, 7/20: The
waxing gibbous moon shines over Jupiter this evening.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Comic-Con 2018 International (July 19-22, San Diego) ...dedicated
to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related
popular artforms... https://www.comic-con.org/about
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium ANTS-XIII (7/16-20, Madison, WI)
the
premier international forum for new research in computational number
theory http://www.math.grinnell.edu/~paulhusj/ants2018/
This
Week: Saturday, July 21 –
Celebration of The Horse Day & No Pet Store Puppies Day
Sunday,
July 22 – Casual
Pi Day & Parents Day & Spoonerisms
Day
Night
Sky, 7/22: Uranus (magnitude 5.8, at the
Aries-Pisces border) and Neptune (magnitude 7.9, in Aquarius) are
nicely placed high on the southeastern side of the sky in the hour
before the beginning of dawn.
Monday,
July 23 – Hot Enough For Ya Day
Night
Sky, 7/23: Venus (magnitude –4.2, in Leo)
shines brightly in the west during twilight, though lower every week.
Mars rises in the southeast during twilight.
Tuesday,
July 24 – Cousins Day & National Tequila Day
Wednesday,
July 25 – Video Games Day & Red Shoe Day
Night
Sky, 7/25: Mercury, low in the afterglow of
sunset, fades this week from magnitude +0.4 to +1.1 while sinking
even lower.
Thursday,
July 26 – Aunts & Uncles Day & National Chili Dog
Day & One Voice Day
Mars,
Mars, Mars: The
best time to see Mars since 2003 is now! Watch for Mars as the
extremely bright red “star,” ascending in the east by mid-evening
and crossing the sky for the rest of the night. More
Info
Your
truck is so ugly, when you run a red light they turn off the cameras.
/ His truck is so ugly when he drove it on Halloween, demon set up
housekeeping under the hood.
..........Si
el mundo se va por..........Carlos Santana .....
Nave Espacial
^^
When Edmund was 16 he saw snow for the first time on a school trip to
Mt. Ruapchu.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Signs from the anti-trump
demonstration in London: This Is All Terribly Upsetting / Trump wears
poorly tailored suits
Moonbeam:
You shouldn't have to justify your work. --Judy Chicago
Late
Night Snacks: A Republican congressional
candidate sent out anti-Semitic messages in a robocall. Of course,
anti-Semites are now furious that robots are taking their jobs.
--Conan O'Brien / Republicans see these texts as proof of a vast
conspiracy within the FBI to stop Donald Drumpf from being elected
president. And here's how devious and how deep they went: In order to
keep it a secret, they let him get elected president. --Seth Meyers /
So our president, the orange guy, Drumpf, is in Belgium right now at
the NATO summit fighting over how many ways they will split the
check. --Jimmy Kimmel / Well, last week North Korea got a follow-up
visit from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And now we're getting
reports that Pompeo’s North Korea meeting went "as badly as it
could have gone." I'm not surprised, sometimes the second date
is rough. You go back to his place, you find out it’s full of
executed relatives or worse, Limp Bizkit CDs. --Stephen Colbert
Not
So Late Night Snacks: What good is NATO?
Trump went to the NATO Summit in Brussels with the enthusiam of a dog
going to the vet They got him on the plane by saying he was going to
the park and they convinced Melania to go along by saying they were
taking Trump to get neutered. --Peter Sagal Wait,
Wait, Don't Tell Me
“Grudges
are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness,
however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
--Criss Jami
Salomé
If
ugliness was fuel, your truck would have enough to go 100k miles,
then light itself on fire. / Her truck is so ugly the Hello Kitty
sticker refused to adhere to the bumper.
..........Clap
your hands, make a smile.........Carlos Santana .....Let
It Shine
^^^
Hillary made the summit at 11:30 am on May 29, 1953.
Worthless
Fact of the Week:
In 1996 Atlanta
became the fifth American city to host the Olympic
Games
and
the third to host the Summer
Olympics.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I
always wanted to be a Gregorian monk, but I never got the chants.
--Submitted by ma and sb
Weird
Word of the Week:
Spatchcock – to stuff things together inappropriately “With
25 countries and 455 million people to govern, it simply isn’t
enough to spatchcock together a bunch of rules at short notice.”
--Bob
Arnold USA http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-spa1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Remove a ring stuck on a finger. Coat finger with Vaseline Petroleum
Jelly and slide the ring off.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/vaseline.html
Your
truck is so ugly, the dealership paid you. / His truck is so ugly
the neighbors painted his garage windows black.
...........we
heal the people with music.........Carlos Santana …..Milargo
^^^^
Tenzing Norgay was the Sherpa climber that Hillary photographed on
the summit. Norgay was awarded the Star of Nepal and was Hillary's
friend until Norgay's death in 1986.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If
you give me a minute, I think I can make this worse.
Science
on the Internet of the Week:
The Micropolitan Museum of microscopic art forms. The Institute for
the Promotion of the Less than One Millimetre.
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/micropolitan/
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck applying camouflage in the case of the
Teenage
Mutant Ninja Poodle.
Your
truck is so ugly, the insurance company declared it a total loss the
day it came off the assembly line. / Your truck is so ugly children
dress up as it for Halloween.
..........And
I know just what I'm living for.........Carlos Santana …..When I
Look Into Your Eyes
^^^^^
Flags from Nepal, India, United Nations, and United Kingdom were
flown on the summit that day.
Month
of the Week: July is National Deli
Sandwich Month – A
man went into a deli shop and took a seat at the lunch counter. “Give
me a corned beef sandwich,” he ordered. “Corned
beef sandwich is not on the menu, but I can give you a sandwich with
corned beef in it, like our Midnight Special.” “What's a Midnight
Special?” “A triple decker with corned beef, tongue, bologna,
tomato, lettuce, onion, pickle and mayonnaise, on toasted raisin
bread.”
“Could you just place a piece of corned beef between two slices of
white bread and serve it to me on a plate?” “Why, sure!” Then,
turning to the sandwich man, he sang out: “One Midnight Special.
Make it one deck, hold the tongue, bologna, tomato, lettuce, onion,
pickle and mayonnaise, and make the raisin bread white, untoasted!”
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Breaking
News: Moscow makes bid to host 2020 GOP National Convention
--Sumbitted by ma of vw
World's
Wonderful Water Fall of the Week:
Dettifoss Falls in Jokulsargljufur National Park, Iceland.
Dettifoss
is regarded as Europe's most powerful waterfall and by looking at it
one can sense the forces that shaped the Asbyrgi canyon and
Hljodaklettar. The contrasts between power and peace are seldom more
obvious than in Holmatungur where crystal clear streams and fountains
run into the sizzling glacier river Jokulsa.
https://www.extremeiceland.is/en/attractions/jokulsargljufur-national-park
Today's
Peace of History, July
20, 1967: The
first Black Power conference was held in Newark, NJ, calling on black
people in the U.S. “to unite, to recognize their heritage and to
build a sense of community.”
Your
truck is so ugly, you’re only allowed to buy fuel when no one else
is at the gas station. / My truck is so ugly it gives Freddy Kruger
nightmares.
..........Hey
everybody, let's lend a hand.........Carlos Santana …..Peace On
Earth
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle July 20, 2018, ePistle Escalade. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace, Laughs, and ugly trucks. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith.
1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam:
It's not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. --Edmund Hillary
Cost
of War:
As
of 7/19/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,839,235,540,917.
As
of 7/12/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,837,257,955,665.
As
of 7/19/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $838,888,297,931.
As
of 7/12/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $837,544,175,807.
As
of 7/19/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $604,259,686,408.
As
of 7/12/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $602,569,626,806.
As
of 7/19/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $292,968,133,974.
As
of 7/12/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $292,583,989,612.
As
of 7/19/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,575,352,716,781.
As
of 7/12/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,569,956,418,052.
Peace
is always beautiful. --Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
..........my
house is dark, my pots are cold.........Carlos Santana .....Evil
Ways
Your
truck is so ugly, it made GM file bankruptcy.
Famous
Last Words: To put a little fun in your life, try dancing.
--Signoff Arthur Murray Party
May
Peace provide your power
And
Joy your guidance
prairie
mama
christine
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