Famous
First Words: We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent
States... Confederate States of America – Constitution for
the Provisional Government
Happy
Opera Day ! Handel shopped at Good Will because he was baroque as
hell. / No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing
when they are feeling sensible. --W H Auden
..........The
day has begun........Backstreet Boys …..One In A Million
Peace
is a family who loves and cares, Peace is smiles and smiles
everywhere.
Sorry!
It is an absurdly cold morning (now up to 13°F.
That -11C) Because the streets have been icy, I tried to go to the
store early. The car started right up (After having been in the shop
lately for not starting right up) and I drove through the bank window
and parked at the filling station to put gas in and it wouldn't start
up again. It was 8 degrees at that time. I called Advance Auto Parts
and they didn't have anyway to bring me a new one but suggested Jiffy
Lube across the street. They sent a guy over to jump start me so I
could drive over there and get a new battery. But it wouldn't even
start up with a jump, so he took me inside jiffy lube and found a
battery and put it on. I am still trying to lower my blood pressure
and my anxiety level. Ommmmmmmmmm. What an opera plot. But the
sun is bright off the dusting of snow on the ground and rooftops so
that from the warmth of my desk chair with the taste of coffee on my
tongue, maybe I will recover.
Hope
your weekend hits the high notes, ePistliers.
The
difference between an opera diva and a pit bull is jewelry. / Of all
the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. --Moliere
..........So
have I lost my mind........Backstreet Boys …..That's The Way I
Like It
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday to The Company Mouse !!
^
Where was Walt Disney born and raised?
^^
Any idea where Disney started his art education?
^^^
What did Walt do during WWI?
^^^^
In what city did Disney open his first studio, Laugh-O-Grams?
^^^^^
More or less, what was the net worth of the Walt Disney Company in
2018?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: He
was experimenting with splicing genetic material from rams into eggs
of bees. With global warming, certain species of flowering plants
flourish while others perish. The idea was to give bees the ability
to digest leaves and grass to make honey and thereby reduce their
need to be reliant on nectar and pollen from flowers. The first gene
splicing was a disaster; the bee's digestive system became
dysfunctional. The second attempt disrupted the honey production with
lactose contaminant. The bee grew tiny horns in the third! He then
tried DNA from a sheep and Eureka! Yes indeed. It worked because he
made the Fourth Bee with Ewe.
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
29% of libraries have a coded phrase used only to announce cake in
the break room. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
How
many tenors does it take to change a light bulb? 6 – one to change
the bulb and five to say, “It's too high for him”. / I have
attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years
now. --Mark Twain
..........Something's
just not right........Backstreet Boys …..No One Else Comes Close
Moonbeam:
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is
unaware. --Martin Buber
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Halò – Scottish Gaelic
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Alligator saw its shadow, 6 more weeks of Mardi Gras.
Week
of the Week: Children's Authors &
Illustrators Week (2/3-9) –Children's Books that didn't make it to
print: The Littlest Pawn: A Custody Battle / Why You Are Up For
Adoption / How Buddy-Wuddy Got Hepatitis B
Toscanini
in one of his rages is reputed to have grabbed a soprano's amble
bosom and yelled, “If only these were brains”. / Opera in English
is about as sensible as a baseball in Italian. --H. L. Mencken
..........You
don't play after dark........Backstreet Boys …..What Makes You
Different
^
Born in Chicago, Walt Disney and his family moved to
Kansas City when he was nine years old. They lived at 3028
Bellefontaine. Street
View
Almanac:
It is Friday, February 8, 2019. The moon will be first quarter next
Tuesday (12th) and is in Aries. It is Boy
Scout Anniversary Day (1910), Kite Flying Day, Laugh and Get Rich
Day, Opera Day, and National Stop Bullying Day.
Among
those born on this day were Robert
Burton (1577), Samuel Butler (1612), John Ruskin (1819), Jules Verne
(1828), Martin Buber (1878), Charles Ruggles (1886), Lana Turner
(1920), Audrey Meadows (1924), Jack Lemmon (1925), James Dean (1931),
Ted Koppel (1940), Robert Klein (1942), Jim Capaldi (1944), Ted
Turner (1950), Mary Steenburgen (1953), and John Grisham (1955).
On
February eigthth The
University of Leiden opened (1575), William and Mary College was
chartered (1693), Goethes' Stella
premiered (1776), the CSA (Confederate States of America) were
organized (1861), the first US Ski Club was founded (Aurora Ski Club
of Red Wing MN, 1887), Birth
of a Nation
opened (1915), the Walt Disney Studios formed (1926), the first NFL
draft took place (1935), Bartoks Third
Concert for Piano premiered
(1946), Bulganin replaced Malenkov as premier of the USSR (1955), the
last edition of the Saturday
Evening Post
was published (1969), and Stan Lee created a Backstreet Boys comic
book (2000).
Night
Sky, 2/8: The
waxing crescent Moon shines in the west-southwest at nightfall. Above
it by about two fists at arm's length is Mars, diminished far into
the distance since its grand display last summer.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week:
Max the navigator studying maps with Barney's cousin, Google.
This
Week: Saturday, February 9 –
National Pizza Day & Read in the Bathtub Day
Night
Sky, 2/9: Under
the feet of Orion hides Lepus the Hare. He's a crouching bunny, with
his nose pointing lower right, his faint ears extending up toward
Rigel (Orion's western foot), and his body bunched to the left.
Sunday,
February 10 – Autism Sunday & World Marriage Day
Monday,
February 11 – Be Electrific Day & International Day of
Women and Girls in Science
Night
Sky, 2/11: Sirius
the Dog Star blazes high in the south-southeast after dinnertime, the
brightest star of Canis Major. In a dark sky with lots of stars
visible, the constellation's points can be connected to form a
convincing dog profile. He's currently standing on his hind legs;
Sirius is on his chest.
Tuesday,
February 12 – Darwin Day & Extraterrestrial Culture Day
& NAACP Day
Wednesday,
February 13 – Galentine's Day & Get a Different Name Day
Thursday,
February 14 – League of Women Voters Day & Library
Lovers Day & St. Valentine's Day
Wagner's
Ring Cycle debuted in August of 1876 and will wind up sometime next
month. / In opera, there is always too much singing. --Claude
Debussy
..........You
never know if it's gonna last.........Backstreet Boys …..Rebel
^^
Walt attended Saturday courses at the KC Art
Institute and also took a correspondence course in cartooning.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Can we all just mail legos
to the White House so the child can build his wall. --Submitted by
pl of hi
Moonbeam:
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful
existence. --Jules Verne
Late
Night Snacks: Of course Roger Stones loves the
Godfather; he
thinks he's Robert Duvall but he's actually the horse. --Samantha
Bee / Remember, Drumpf brags that he only hires the best people,
calls the Russian investigation a hoax, calls CNN fake news, and his
government shutdown left FBI agents without pay. So it was especially
ironic when one of Trump’s closest associates was arrested by
unpaid FBI agents working for the special counsel on the Russia
investigation, and the whole thing was caught on tape by CNN. The
only way that could’ve been more humiliating for Trump, is if
Robert Mueller celebrated by eating a Happy Meal at McDonald’s on a
date with Stormy Daniels. --Seth Meyers / Howard Schultz: What’s a
centrist independent? It’s the politically correct term for most
obnoxious guy at the dinner party. --Stephen Colbert / The idea is to
declare an emergency for his proposed border wall and then take money
earmarked for real emergencies, like floods and hurricanes, and then
use it for a wall that won’t do anything instead. Sometimes I’m
amazed that he only bankrupted three casinos. --Jimmy Kimmel
Not
So Late Night Snacks:
This
week, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz appeared on every network,
including NPR, to announce his third-party run for president in 2020.
More people interviewed him on national TV about running for
president than would ever vote for him for president. But, you know,
his pitch makes sense. He'll run the country the same way he ran his
company. For example, he'll build another White House directly across
the street from the perfectly fine White House... --Peter Sagal
Wait,
Wait Don't Tell Me
Peace
is like loving hearts that come together, peace is like a key to a
world without war.
Opera
is when a tenor and a soprano want to make love and are prevented
from doing so by a baritone. --George Bernard Shaw / Much later in
life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world.
She stayed out of it. --George Burns
..........How
did we get here.........Backstreet Boys …..Lost In Space
^^^
Disney attempted to join the United States Army to
fight against the Germans, but he was rejected for being too young.
After forging the date of birth on his birth certificate, he joined
the Red Cross in September 1918 as an ambulance driver. He was
shipped to France but arrived in November, after the armistice.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: The first player ever
drafted, (1935) Jay Berwanger, who had previously been awarded the
initial Heisman Trophy, never played in the NFL. His rights were
traded by the Philadelphia Eagles to the Chicago Bears, as the Eagles
felt they would be unable to meet Berwanger's reported demand of
$1000 per game.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If
you have the oil, we have the democracy.
Weird
Word of the Week: Thrasonical – braggadocios ..dates from
Terence's play Eunuchus (The Eunuch) 161 BCE.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-thr1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products: Thread electrical wire through
conduits. Spray WD-40 on the electrical wire to help it glide through
winding conduits. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/wd40.html
My
neighbors listen to a lot of opera, whether they want to or not. /
Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward
for the incurables. --Franz Schalk
...........You're
a genie in disguise.........Backstreet Boys …..Betcha By Golly Wow
^^^^
Laugh-O-gram
Studio was a short-lived film studio located on
the second floor of the McConahay Building at 1127 East 31st in
Kansas City, Missouri.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: How
can the cemetery raise it's funeral prices and blame it on the cost
of living.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week: Farpoint
Con (2/8-10, Baltimore, MD) Our focus is on Fandom and all who
comprise it. http://www.farpointcon.com/who-we-are/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week: Tennessee Rheumatology Society
Meeting (2/8-9, Franklin, TN) ...to
increase and propagate the understanding of rheumatic diseases among
physicians engaged in the ongoing practice...
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck rooting for KU, apparently, in the super
bowl in the case of the Mixed Up Miniboz.
The
contralto with the extensive lower range was know as the Deep C Diva.
/ Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back
and, instead of bleeding, he sings. --Robert Benchley
..........I
got mixed emotions........Backstreet Boys ….Don't Go Breaking My
Heart
^^^^^
In 2018, the Walt Disney Company held assets worth a
total of over 98 billion US dollars.
Month
of the Week: February is National
Weddings Month --Did you hear about the two cell phones who got
married? The reception was terrific. / Ladies and gentlemen, it's
been a very emotional wedding. Even the cake is in tiers.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I'm
going to retire and live off my savings. What I'll do the second
day, I have no idea. --Submitted by ksz of ks
Grammar
Joke of the Week: Never date an apostrophe; they're too
possessive.
Today's
Peace of History: February 8, 1964: Rep
Martha Griffiths injected civil rights protection for women into the
1964 Civil Rights Act.
Opera
Advice: Love big, sing loud, die long. / The opera is like a husband
with a foreign title – expensive to support, hard to understand,
and therefore a supreme social challenge. --Cleveland Amory
..........But
we are two worlds apart.........Backstreet Boys …..I Want It That
Way
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday February 8, 2019, Falsetto ePistle. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Grand opera, peace, and a few laughs. Exclusive editor: Christine
Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam:
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. --Samuel Butler
Cost
of War:
As
of 2/7/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,896,539,185,415.
As
of 1/31/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,894,554,985,139.
As
of 2/7/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $877,832,515,997.
As
of 1/31/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $876,483,899,079.
As
of 2/7/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $653,218,080,859.
As
of 1/31/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $651,522,525,622.
As
of 2/7/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $304,095,031,218.
As
of 1/31/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $303,709,646,578.
As
of 2/7/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,731,685,589,741.
As
of 1/31/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,726,271,643,354.
Peace
is pure kindness and being nice, peace is friendliness and a sign of
love. http://corlett.blogspot.com/2004/09/childrens-peace-quotes.html
..........No
matter what you've gone through........Backstreet Boys …..Movin'
On
Marriage
is like singing opera, it looks easy until you try it. / Parsifal -
the kind of opera that starts at 6 o'clock and after it has been
going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20. --David
Randolph
Famous
Last Words: ...fourth year of our reign --William and Mary
College Royal Charter ...signed by Mary II, Queen of England
May
Peace write your score
And
Joy your libretto
prairie
mama
christine
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