Famous
First Words: This
is a day where people let out their frustrations all around the
world.
--International Moment of Frustration Scream Day Website
Whale,
Hello, There ! Welcome to Great Books Week (10/7-13): Tristram
Shandy - Tristram's
conception, birth, christening and childhood accidents take up six of
the nine volumes.
In
every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star. --The
Great God Pan by
Arthur Machen
..........To
set the air with music bravely ringing.........Luciano Pavarotti
…..Funiculì Funiculà
A
dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is
reality. --John Lennon
It
is a wet Friday morning. Moisture seems piled in the air, sitting
atop moisture in the ground, in the grass, everywhere. There is no
birdsong, no wind whipped branches, and very little light. 46°F
temperature requires a jacket and a hat, but I have not dug mine out
of packing. Puck pretends not to notice the mist and we walk almost
normally except, there are neither rabbits nor squirrels to threaten
or chase. The flock of dozens of birds flies over headed east,
silently. The noise is cars slamming doors and gunning
motors...typical morning sounds. When we come in Puck shakes and then
dries himself on the carpet, scooting in long, sweeping glides across
the dry fabric. Now the room smells of brewing coffee and wet dog. I
doctor up my cup with sweetener and milk and take my first, long,
slow, delicious drink. Now I sit at my computer, look out at the
water dripping past my window and writing to you. Great morning, so
far.
Hope
your weekend becomes a classic, ePistlers.
Pride
and Prejudice - I had a will of iron 'til you Bennet. / Fitzwilliam
Darcy – raising women's unrealistic expectations since 1813.
Ask
no questions, and you'll be told no lies. --Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
..........é
una notte di luna.........Luciano
Pavarotti …..Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen
Trivia
Questions: Welcome to World Egg Day
^
About how many eggs did the US produce in, say, 2005?
^^
Care to guess what percentage of the chicken eggs produced that are
sold in the shell?
^^^
How many eggs does the average hen lay in a year?
^^^^
What is the annual per capita consumption of eggs in the US?
^^^^^
How come some eggs are white and some are brown?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: Yes, reason
has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took
dietary advice from a talking snake. --Jon Stewart
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
32%
of librarians are named after a parent's favorite literary character.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - I saw they came out
with a new version of 'Huckleberry Finn' where they take out all of
the n-words and replace it with the word 'slave.' So now Huck's
friend will be known as Slave Jim in the book. Uh, why not just call
him Jim?
We
have come to mistake information for knowledge. --The
Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjöö
..........ed
olezzava la terra.........Luciano Pavarotti …..E Lucevan Le Stelle
Moonbeam:
Fear and God do not occupy the same space. --Dick Gregory
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: sat srī
akāl - Punjabi https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: No,
it's not football – I'm working on my Fantasy Congress.
--Sumbitted by rhb of ks
Week
of the Week: National Carry a Tune Week
(10/7-13) –The first time I sang in the church choir, 200 people
changed their religion.
Anna
Karenina - Tolstoy “...to make a short story long” / It would
have been a better novel if he had not killed off Anna but had her
turn to Vronsky and say, “Who's on first?”
Dammit,
Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me. --The
Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
..........Che
bella cosa na jurnata 'e sole.........Luciano Pavarotti …..O Sole
Mio
^
The
US produced 90 billion eggs in 2005, up from 68.1 billion in 1990.
~~My guess is that hens actually produced them, not the US.
Almanac:
It is Friday, October 12, 2018. The moon was new last Tuesday and is
in Sagittarius. It is Columbus Day and International
Moment of Frustration Scream Day. In Equatorial
Guinea they celebrate Independence Day (1968) while in Mexico and
Latin America it is Dia de la Raza/Day of the Race. Spain has a
National Day and the Sudan commemorates Republican Anniversary Day.
Finally, because it is the second Friday it is World Egg Day.
Among
those born on this day were Edward VI of
England (1537), Elmer Sperry (1860), Dick Gregory (1932), Luciano
Pavarotti (1935), and Kirk Cameron (1970).
On October twelfth Columbus arrived in the Bahamas (1492), Macintosh began selling raincoats (1823), Theodore Roosevelt critized US citzens with dual nationalities (1915), Man O'War won his last race (1920), Alcatraz unofficially became a federal prison (1933), Casey Stengel became manager of the Yankees (1948), Khrushchev pounded his shoe on the podium at the UN (1962), and The International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War received the Nobel Peace Prize (1985).
On October twelfth Columbus arrived in the Bahamas (1492), Macintosh began selling raincoats (1823), Theodore Roosevelt critized US citzens with dual nationalities (1915), Man O'War won his last race (1920), Alcatraz unofficially became a federal prison (1933), Casey Stengel became manager of the Yankees (1948), Khrushchev pounded his shoe on the podium at the UN (1962), and The International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War received the Nobel Peace Prize (1985).
Night
Sky, 10/12:
Looking
lower left of the crescent Moon in twilight, can you spot orange
Antares? For North Americans it's about 8° from the Moon, a little
less than a fist at arm's length. Off to the right of Antares shines
brighter Jupiter.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week: A boy and his dog
sharing a lap
This
Week: Saturday, October 13 –
International African Penguin Awareness Day & National Chess Day
Night
Sky, 10/13: The
Moon hangs in the southwest after sunset. How early in the fading
light can you spot Saturn, about 14° to the Moon's left?
Sunday,
October 14 – Be Bald and Be Free Day & Pickle Day
Monday,
October 15 – Blind Americans Equality Day &
International Day of Rural Women
Tuesday,
October 16 – National Feral Cat Day & Dictionary Day &
Global Cat Day
Night
Sky, 10/16: Mars shine highest in the south
soon after dark and sets around 1 am. Saturn glows pale yellow in the
south-southwest in late dusk. Uranus is near the Aries-Pisces border.
Neptune, in Aquarius, is well up in the east.
Wednesday,
October 17 – Black Poetry Day & Mulligan Day &
National Pasta Day
Thursday,
October 18 – Conflict Resolution Day & Meatloaf
Appreciation Day
Mrs
Dalloway: -“Never,
under any circumstances, let the Virginian Wolfsnake near a
typewriter.” / Portland (It didn't say which one) has doggy daycare
called the Virginia Woof Inn
Reserving
judgments is a matter of infinite hope. --The Great Gatsby by
F Scott Fitzgerald
..........Is
there a time for different colors.........Luciano Pavarotti …..Miss
Sarajevo
^^
About
2/3 of the chicken eggs produced in the US each year are sold in the
shell. The other 1/3 are broken out of their shells,so they can be
made into liquid, frozen, dried and specialty egg products.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: It's a shame nothing is
made in the USA anymore. I bought a tv and it said “built in
Antenna”. I don't even know where that is. --Submitted by jd of
ks
Moonbeam:
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. --Dick Gregory
Late
Night Snacks: Honesty wins, but lying will get
you the electoral college. --Stephen Colbert / Nikki Haley wants to
spend time away from the Trump family. --Jimmy Kimmel / If ever a
trap was tailor-made for Trump, it's a perjury trap. --Seth Meyers /
“Everyone remembers Churchill’s famous speech: we shall ignore
Nazis on the beach, we shall ignore Nazis on the landing ground.
--Samatha Bee / “While Kavanaugh was being sworn in there were lots
of angry protesters outside. It got even worse when Kavanaugh stepped
onto the balcony and threw beads at the crowd.” — Jimmy Fallon
Not
So Late Night Snacks: Who will be the next
person to send a message to everyone in America and what will it
say?(Peter Sagal) Peter Grosz: Paula Poundstone -- Help me. I've
been taken hostage by my cats. Roxane Roberts: Melania Trump -- My
husband is the greatest thing to happen to this country since pumpkin
spice. Paula Poundstone: Vladimir Putin -- Hello, I have access to
you. Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me 10/6/18
Declare
it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have
peace...we just need to declare it. --John Lennon
Ulysses
- Even
fans of the book, though, will admit that it is almost completely
unreadable without outside help. It
isn’t
The Greatest Novel Ever Written because it fails to do what even most
third rate works are capable of doing: communicating its meaning.
I
always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case. --Nate
the Great
by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
..........Palesatemi
il destino.........Luciano Pavarotti …..Tra Voi, Belle
^^^
A
hen lays an average of 266 eggs per year. The record is 371 eggs in
one year.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: As a manager Casey Stengel had a win/loss %
of .506...winning 1,905 and losing 1,842.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Anxiety is literally just conspiracy theories about yourself.
--Submitted by ma of va
Weird
Word of the Week:
Denglisch or Denglish - It’s
open to debate whether this is really an English word, though it has
been seen in a number of English-language publications in recent
months, because it was actually coined in German. Its first letter
comes from Deutsch, the German for German, plus Englisch, the German
for English (it is sometimes anglicised to Denglish). It refers to
the hybrid German-English fashionable speech of younger Germans,
heavily influenced in particular by American English.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-den1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Prevent hair-coloring from dying your skin. Rub Vaseline Petroleum
Jelly along hairline before coloring hair.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/vaseline.html
To
Kill A Mockingbird - The cat returned her copy of To Kill A
Mockingbird to the library complaining that it didn't help at all. /
If you mix literature and alcohol you get Tequila Mockingbird
When
all t'world goes one road, I go t'other. --All Creatures Great
and Small by James Herriot
...........Tu
pure, o principessa.........Luciano Pavarotti …..Nessun Dorma
^^^^
US
per capital consumption of eggs in 2003 was the equivalent of 254
eggs, an increase of 19 eggs per person from 1990.
This is about 85% of the total eggs produced.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
CinCityCon (10/12-14, Cincinnati, OH) -a friendlier convention
~~friendlier than what, they do not say. A Gaming Convention.
https://cincitycon.com/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
3rd
International Conference on Mechatronics and Electrical Systems
(10/12-14, Bangkok, Thailand) Click
here for details
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer. --Dick
Francis
Grammar
Joke of the Week: The
subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck consulting with his favorite self in the
case of the Self-centered Serengeti.
20,000
Leagues Under the Sea - One of the deepest books I've ever read. /
Why did the giant squid cross the road? To get the other tide.
“Myths
and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension
they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the
narrow confines of most men's reality. The
Great White Shark by Hunter S Thompson
..........que
de félicité..........Luciano Pavarotti …..Salut, Demeure
^^^^^
The
breed of hen determines the color of the shell. Breeds with white
feathers and ear lobes lay white eggs; breeds with red feathers and
ear lobes lay brown eggs.
Month
of the Week: October is Hog Out Month
(aka Go Hog Wild Month) –Hogs write top secret messages in
invisible oink. / When Babe got sick they took him to the hospital in
a hambulance.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Today
Mike Pompeo criticized Iran for spending money on their military and
not on their own people. And then my irony meter broke. --Submitted
by rhb of ks
Today's
Peace of History, October
12, 1945:
Pfc. Desmond Doss became the first conscientious objector ever to be
awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Doss, a Seventh Day
Adventist, enlisted in 1942 but refused to carry a rifle or train on
Saturdays. On the island of Okinawa, under heavy Japanese fire, he
saved the lives of 75 sick and wounded soldiers by lowering them, one
by one, down a 400-foot cliff. The guest house at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center is Doss Memorial Hall in his honor. The movie Hacksaw
Ridge
is about him.
Paradise
Lost - Never invite John Milton to play D&D. Whenever he's
around there a pair of dice lost. / Social Activists in Hell are
pressuring Satan to resign; he's accused of Hades Speech.
Human
nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no
restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its
bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and
its very self.” --The
Great Wall of China by
Franz Kafka
..........Désormais
me rend un héros.........Luciano Pavarotti …..La Fille Du
Regiment
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle October 12, 2018, Classis ePistle. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace, Laughs, and Culture. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800
Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam:
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a
duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. --Dick Gregory
Cost
of War:
As
of 10/11/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,862,951,796,301.
As
of 10/4/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,860,992,235,435.
As
of 10/11/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $855,006,129,174.
As
of 10/4/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $853,674,274,500.
As
of 10/11/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $624,522,286,618.
As
of 10/4/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $622,847,586,378.
As
of 10/11/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $297,573,205,512.
As
of 10/4/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $297,192,610,678.
As
of 10/11/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,640,054,486,789.
As
of 10/4/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,634,707,249,720.
Peace
is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you
do, something you are, and something you give away. --John Lennon
..........Caro
mio ben..........Luciano Pavarotti …..Caro Mio Ben
"Roland,
what's America to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the
the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the
grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the
people.” --The
Great American Novel
by Philip Roth
Shakespeare
- Comparing your relationship to Romeo and Juliet to express how in
love your are is kind of like using Hamlet to demonstrate how close
and well-adjusted your family life is. / I've long asserted that
Ophelia's suicide could have been prevented if anyone, ever, had told
Hamlet to shut up.
Famous
Last Words: ...and maintain
their true religion. --Dying words of Edward
VI England.
May
Peace be your shell
And
Joy be your yolk
prairie
mama
christine
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