Famous
First Words: We,
the people of Hawaii, grateful for Divine Guidance... Constitution
of the State of Hawaii
Welcome
to Girl Scout World Thinking Day:
A renowned philosopher was held in high regard by
his driver, who listened in awe as his boss lectured and answered
difficult questions about the nature of things and the meaning of
life. Then, one day, the driver approached the philosopher and asked
if he was willing to switch roles for just one evening. The
philosopher agreed, and, for a while, the driver handled himself
remarkably well. However, when the time came for questions, someone
at the back of the room asked him, "Is the epistemological
meta-narrative that you seem to espouse compatible with a
teleological account of the universe?" "That's an extremely
simple question," he replied. "So simple, in fact, that
even my driver could answer it."
..........Some
dance to remember, some dance to forget..........The Eagles …..Hotel
California
Peace
is a star trying to shine. Peace is a shadow trying not to hide.
It
is a cold (31°F) Friday morning. The pale blue day is liberally
littered with puffy white clouds that are almost but not quite like
buttermilk skies. While there is little breeze to insinuate the cold
into the clothing, still the nose gets frosty and the little dog
slides on ice patches. In a tree at the end of the cul-de-sac sits a
hawk whose silence greets us warmly. Other birds are flitting about
making noises and discussing their plans for the day, but the hawk
sits without sound or movement. Snow still covers most of the
sidewalk but the street is clear and we wind our way along it,
smelling every tuft of exposed grass or bit of bare cement. We see no
people or other dogs on our walk, only snow covered yards and frozen
pavement. So we return to warmth and the smell of fresh coffee and
the sound of the furnace fan. Puck drinks his bowl of milk and
settles into an early morning nap dreaming, no doubt, of squirrels
in a white yard. I fix a cup of decaf – heavily creamed and
artificially sweetened – and sit down to think about you.
Hope
your weekend is filled with thoughtless fun, ePistliers
Try
this: Think about Zen, think about thinking nothing.
A
physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on a desert
island. They’re hungry. Like, desert island hungry. And then a can
of soup washes ashore. Progresso Reduced Sodium Chicken Noodle, let’s
say. Which is perfect, because the physicist can’t have much salt,
and the chemist doesn’t eat red meat. But, famished as they are,
our three professionals have no way to open the can. So they put
their brains to the problem. The physicist says “We could drop it
from the top of that tree over there until it breaks open.” And the
chemist says “We could build a fire and sit the can in the flames
until it bursts open.” Those two squabble a bit, until the
economist says “No, no, no. Come on, guys, you’d lose most of the
soup. Let’s just assume a can opener.”
..........It's
happening again..........The Eagles …..Wasted Time
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday to Woolworth's !
^
Where did the first Woolworth's open?
^^
Which Woolworth's is credited with the birth of the lunch counter
sit-in movement?
^^^
Know what the F.W. of F.W. Woolworth Co. stands for?
^^^^
How many Woolworth's are still open in the US?
^^^^^
By what name is F. W. Woolworth Co. now known?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: How does a
Flat Earther
travel the world? On a plane.
Real
Housewives of Oz Quote of the Week:
Great, the sun is out. Now I can get sunburn and frostbite at the
same time.
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
48% of libraries are haunted by the ghost of at least one former
director. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
You've
heard of the Platonic kiss. The Godelian Kiss takes an
extraordinarily long time, yet leaves you unable to decide whether
you've been kissed or not. The Hegelian Kiss incorporates its own
antikiss, forming a synthekiss.
..........Tell
me your secrets, I'll tell you mine..........The Eagles …..Victim
of Love
Moonbeam:
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are
hardly any women. --Joanna Russ
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Haminat –
Serrano (Ut0Aztecan)
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I
dusted once. It came back. I'm not falling for that again.
--Submitted by ra of ks
Week
of the Week: National Condom Week
(2/14-21) –Cover your stump before you hump / No Balloon, No Party
/ Don't Be Silly, Protect Your Willy / Don't be a prick, cover your
dick or Don't be a dick, cover your prick / You can't go wrong if you
shield your dong ~~That was fun
Logic
– to the layman “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the
few”...To the philosopher “involves upside down As and reversed
Es. / Absurd – to the layman “silly” … To the philosopher
“very silly”.
..........They
threw outrageous parties, they paid heavenly bills..........The
Eagles …..Life In the Fast Lane
^
The first Woolworth store was opened 1878, as
"Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" in Utica, New York.
Almanac:
It is Friday, February 22, 2019. The moon was full (Snow) last
Tuesday (2/19) and is currently in Libra. It is Be
Humble Day, National Margarita Day, Woolworth's Day, World Thinking
Day, and George Washington's Birthday. In the British
Commonwealth it is Girl Guides Thinking Day (1857). Egypt and Syria
celebrate Unity Day (1958) and India celebrates Mothers Day. México
commemorates National Mourning Day (Francisco I Madero-1913). In St
Lucia it is Independence Day (1979) and in the Virgin Island it is
Donkey Races Day.
Among
those born on this day were Anthony Van Dyck
(1599), George Washington (1732), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788),
Frederic Chopin (1810), James Lowell (1819), Heinrich Hertz (1857),
Mary Ellen Chase (1887), Chico Marx (1891), Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892), Luis Brunel (1900), Robert Young (1907), Sheldon Leonard
(1907), John Mills (1908), Charles O Finley (1918), Edward Kennedy
(1932), Joanna Russ (1937), and Kyle MacLachlan (1958).
On
Febraury twenty-second Spain sold east Florida to the USA (1821), the
Republican Party held it's frist convention (Pittsburgh, 1854), the
Prohibition Party held its first convention (Columbus, OH 1872), The
Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo, 1878), the first Woolworth's
opened (1879), the Union Labor Party was organized (Cincinnati,
1887), Lady Windermere's Fan
premiered (1892), both Dakotas plus Montana and Washington were
admitted to the union (1889), Hawaii became a territory (1900), Wilt
Chamberlain set NBA record with 34 free throw attempts (1962),
MacBird
premiered (1967), Nixon met Premier Chou En-Lai in China (1972), and
the Eagles released Hotel California (1977).
Night
Sky, 2/22: Winter
still has a month to go, but a preview of spring stars awaits if you
step outside after about 11 pm. By then the waning gibbous Moon will
be up in the east tonight. Look for Spica to its lower right by about
7° (less than a fist at arm's length). Four times farther to the
Moon's upper left shines brighter Arcturus, pale yellow-orange.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week:
Max, the Snow Angel,
This
Week: Saturday, February 23 –
International Tongue Twister Day & National Dog Biscuit Day
Sunday,
February 24
– Single Tasking Day & Open That Bottle Night
Night
Sky, 2/24: An
easier Sirius sight: Using binoculars, examine the spot 4° south of
Sirius (directly below it around 8 or 9 pm. now). Four degrees is
somewhat less than the width of a typical binocular's field of view.
Can you see a little patch of speckly gray haze? That's the open star
cluster M41, about 2,200 light-years away. Sirius, by comparison, is
only 8.6 light-years away.
Monday,
February 25 – Museum Advocacy
Day & National Cupcake Day
Tuesday,
February 26 – National Personal Chef's Day & For Pete's
Sake Day & Spay Day USA
Wednesday,
February 27 – Inconvenience
Yourself Day & World Retrospective Day
Night
Sky, 2/27:
These
moonless evenings of late winter are an ideal time to look for the
zodiacal
light
if
you live in the mid-northern latitudes. Why? This is the time of year
when the ecliptic tilts most steeply upward from the western horizon
at nightfall. From
a clear, clean, dark location, look west at the very end of twilight
for a vague but huge, tall pyramid of pearly light. It's tilted to
the left, aligning along the constellations of the zodiac. What
you're seeing is sunlit interplanetary dust orbiting the Sun near the
ecliptic plane. Believe it or not, seen from interstellar distances
this would be the solar system's most prominent feature after the Sun
itself; it's very
big,
making up for its dim surface brightness.
Thursday,
February 28 – Floral Design Day
& National Chili Day & National Tooth Fairy Day
No
one ever wanted to play golf with Kant since he was such a stickler
about following the rules. He claimed that it was Imperative to do
so. Kropotkin,
on the other hand, never adhered to any rule. Stories abound about
how he teed off from the seventh green, taking aim toward the
fourteenth hole. Most golfers considered Kropotkin positively
dangerous. One had to wait endlessly in the clubhouse
for Zeno to get started; it seemed like he could never reach the
first hole.
..........Someone
should send you a rose..........The Eagles …..Pretty Maids All In
a Row
^^
The
Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in
Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth
department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in
the Southern United States.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Did you hear about the
mathematician who's afraid of negative numbers? He will stop at
nothing to avoid them.
Moonbeam:
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one
else can see. --Arthur Schopenhauer
Late
Night Snacks of the Week: What the hell, he’s
back to Crooked Hillary and Russia hoax? Oh wait, oh no – did
someone reset Donald Drumpf to factory settings? --Stephen Colbert /
Wait, you’re declaring a national emergency? This is like one of
those news stories where a crazy guy calls 911 because McDonald’s
ran out of nuggets. There’s nothing wrong with McDonald’s –
you’re the problem. --Seth Meyers / Most people thought the big
Drumpf tax cut was going cut their taxes, it turns out that the
reason it was called the Drumpf tax cuts is because it only cut taxes
for Drumpf, specifically. --Jimmy Kimmel / Now we’re doing ‘finish
the wall’? I don’t know how much actual work they’re doing on
the border, but I guess in Drumpf’s chant world, they’re making a
lot of progress. --Trevor Noah
Not
So Late Night Snacks: How low can you go? The
president is going to save face. He's going to save face by totally
caving on the wall by declaring a national emergency. If you have an
emergency, building a big, long cement wall is the slowest way to
solve it. Right? If you need border security, let's just send all
those unvaccinated kids from Washington down there. --Peter Sagal
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
Peace
is something that unites us together. Peace is happiness that we
hold I our hearts forever.
Solipsism
Warning Label: The consumer should be aware that he or she may be the
only entity in the universe, and therefore that any perceived defects
in product quality are the consumer's own fault. / Epistemological
Denotation Warning Label: The consumer must understand that due to
the a-priori impossibility of assuring a shared denotation amongst
independent agents, none of the advertising material, product
literature, instructions, or safety warnings (including this one),
associated with this product may contain what the consumer perceives
to be factual information.
..........It's
those restless hearts that never mend..........The Eagles …..New
Kid In Town
^^^
Frank Winfield Woolworth, a brash, anglophile
American claimed he could trace his family roots back to Wooley in
Cambridgeshire.
Worthless
Fact of the Week:
The
Greenback Labor Party was formed in the years following the American
Civil War. During the Civil War, the federal government issued
"greenback" paper money to keep a sufficient amount of
currency in circulation. Because this type of money was not backed by
gold or silver, inflation resulted and the greenbacks declined in
value. By the end of the Civil War, a one-dollar greenback had
decreased in value to only forty-six cents.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/wd40.html
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: We
should legalize cannabis in all 50 states, use the taxes to repair
roads & highways & call it Operation Pothole. –Billy
Murray --Submitted by sd of ks
Weird
Word of the Week:
Verecund – modest, bashful, or shy...From 1916 -
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ver1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products: Clean sap from gardening equipment –
Spray with WD-40, wait, and wipe clean.
Existentialist
Tobacco Products Label: Warning! this product has been found to cause
cancer and emphysema, and to lead to increased likelihood of strokes
and heart disease. However, as the Universe is a soulless waste
inhabited by unthinking machines it doesn't matter in the least
whether you smoke or not. Go ahead, light up, it's all the same to me
if you live or die.
...........Sometimes
you need a friend..........The Eagles …..Try And Love Again
^^^^
On
July 17, 1997, Woolworth's closed its remaining department stores in
the US and changed its corporate name to Venator.
Retail chains using the Woolworth name survive in
Austria, Germany, Mexico, and, until early 2009, the United Kingdom.
Nameless
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I had
a hen who could count her own eggs. She was a mathemachicken.
--Submitted by fb of ks
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Con Nooga 2019 (2/22-24, Chattanooga) Over 160,000 square feet of
Fandom Fun. http://www.connooga.com/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
32nd
Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Computer Simulations
Studies in Condensed Matter Physics/ )2/18-22, Athen, GA)
https://www.csp.uga.edu/Workshop/2019
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck deeply thinking about the case of the
Bashful Basenji.
Dean,
to the physics department. "Why do I always have to give you
guys so much money, for laboratories and expensive equipment and
stuff. Why couldn't you be like the math department - all they need
is money for pencils, paper and waste-paper baskets. Or even better,
like the philosophy department. All they need are pencils and paper."
..........Don't
know what a slide rule is for..........Simon & Garfunkle
…..Wonderful World
^^^^^
By 2001, the company focused exclusively on the
sporting goods market, changing its name to the present Foot Locker,
Inc.
Month
of the Week: February is National Time
Management Month --The
first-grader asked his mother why Daddy brought home a briefcase full
of papers every evening. She explained, “It’s because Daddy has
so much to do he can’t finish at the office and has to work
nights.” “Well, then,” said the child, “why don’t they just
put him in a slower group?” --Edwin Bliss
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: This
area has gone 27,843,723,145 day without a velociraptor attack.
Grammar
Joke of the Week: What’s
the difference between a cat and a comma? One has claws at the end of
its paws, and the other is a pause at the end of a clause.
Today's
Peace of History, February
22, 1974: Farmer
Sam Lovejoy toppled the weather tower for a proposed nuclear power
plant in Montague, Massachusetts. This was the first act of civil
disobedience against the dangers of nuclear power in the U.S. Lovejoy
turned himself in to the police, was tried but not convicted.
Excerpts
from Satre's early diaries concerning his attempts to write a
cookbook: Spoke with Camus today about my cookbook. Though he has
never actually eaten, he gave me much encouragement. I rushed home
immediately to begin work. How excited I am! I have begun my formula
for a Denver omelet. / Still working on the omelet. There have been
stumbling blocks. I keep creating omelets one after another, like
soldiers marching into the sea, but each one seems empty, hollow,
like stone. I want to create an omelet that expresses the
meaninglessness of existence, and instead they taste like cheese. I
look at them on the plate, but they do not look back. Tried eating
them with the lights off. It did not help. Malraux suggested paprika.
..........Say
the word I'm thinking of..........The Beatles …..The Word
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle, Epistologic ePistle February 22, 2019. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Deep peace and shallow laughs. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith.
2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Librarian's Motto: Do not ever underestimate my ability to find shit
out. --Submitted by dr of oh
Moonbeam:
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my
foes, and oh, my friends-- it gives a lovely light. --Edna St.
Vincent Millay
Cost
of War:
As
of 2/21/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,900,474,250,002.
As
of 2/14/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,898,513,591,998.
As
of 2/21/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $880,506,830,733.
As
of 2/14/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $879,174,351,460.
As
of 2/21/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $656,579,818,438.
As
of 2/14/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $654,904,001,279.
As
of 2/21/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $304,859,031,863.
As
of 2/14/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $304,478,425,396.
As
of 2/21/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,742,420,517,663.
As
of 2/14/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,737,072,192,113.
Peace
is like a hand reaching out to touch. Peace is like a warm hug
showing you love so much.
http://corlett.blogspot.com/2004/09/childrens-peace-quotes.html
..........You
call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye..........The Eagles …..The
Last Resort
Post-modernism:
You may have two degrees, but I read an article once on Wikipedia. /
Post-modern Knitting: Appropriate one, deconstruct one, pass
appropriation over...
Famous
Last Words: ...a very good woman! --Oscar Wilde Lady
Windermere's Fan
May
Peace dominate your thoughts
And
Joy pervade your life
prairie
mama
christine
Last
Laugh:
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