Famous
First Words: The one common undertaking... Trygve Lie
Today
is Spunky Old Broads Day !! I was walking in the park recently and an
old man sitting on one of the benches whistled at me. So I stopped
and turned around to give him a piece of my mind when I realized he
was wheezing not whistling.
..........At
the break of day….......Kingston Trio …..Early in the Morning
Peace
is a puzzle missing a piece, that picture will form when our
differences cease.
It
is a cold (21°F) Friday morning. The sun is trying to warm the
earth as it lights the skies and then the tree tops and finally the
side of the house. There is little wind to shake the willow branches
or rattle the windows, but the grass crackles under foot and Puck
returns to the warmth quickly without being called. So we stand in
the doorway but hear no birdsong or motor noises and close the door
to hear the furnace fan hum and the coffee maker splash. The
outdoors had no smell but the house is filled with the aroma of
brewing decaf and spent incense. Puck watches me for a while and
then settles into a nap. I doctor a cup of coffee with cream and
sweetener and sit down to write to you. Already it's a good morning.
Hope
your weekend is the spunkiest yet, ePistliers.
Instead
of the John I call my bathroom the Jim! That way it sounds better
when I say I go the Jim first thing every morning. / The Committee
hosting Woodstock 50th Anniversary has requested that
those people who were nude at the original festival refrain from
repeating the act.
..........when
they say oh, la la….......Everly Brothers …..Wake Up Little
Susie
Trivia
Questions: Happy Bubble Gum Day !!
^
Care to guess how many tons of bubble gum are chewed
every year?
^^
Any idea what percentage of bubble gum is sugar?
^^^
How about the number of sticks of gum chewed per person in the US per
year?
^^^^
What sandwich product is useful for getting popped bubbles out of
your hair?
^^^^^
Under what name was bubble game first marketed?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: When they say
“2% milk”, I'm not sure what the other 98% is.
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
89% of librarians
have a favorite conference cardigan.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
First
Friendly Advice of the Week: When nobody around you seems to
measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. --Bill Lemley
Submitted by nm of ks
I
felt like my body had gotten totally out of shape, so I got my
doctor’s permission to join a fitness club and start exercising….
I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted,
gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the
time I got my leotards on, the class was over. / Here I stand, er
sit, folks, the spirit of the 60s in my 70s.
..........You
believe what you want to believe..........Tom Petty & the
Heartbreakers …..Refugee
Moonbeam:
I have Bright's disease and he has mine. --S J Perelman
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Hullo -
Scot https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Time
flies if you have
a TARDIS.
Week
of the Week: Catholic Schools Week
(1/27-2/2) – I went to Catholic school for 12 years. People always
go, “Jimmy, you went to Catholic school for 12 years, how come
you're not a Catholic?” I say, “Because, I went to Catholic
school for 12 years. ---Jimmy Dore / You don't scare me, I was
taught by nuns.
With
my ailing memory I'm thinking of changing my password to “incorrect”.
That way, when I log in my computer will sya “Your password is
incorrect”. / My Happy Hour is a nap.
..........This
time tomorrow, reckon where I'll be….......Kingston Trio …..Tom
Dooley
^
100,000
tons of bubble gum is chewed every year around the world.
Almanac:
It is Friday, February 1, 2019. The moon will be new on Monday and is
in Capricorn. It is Bubble Gum Day, Car Insurance
Day, Hula in the Coola Day, Give Kids a Smile Day, Freedom Day,
Robinson Crusoe Day, Serpent Day, Spunky Old Broads Day, Wear Red
Day, and Working Naked Day.
Among
those born on this day were Thomas Campbell
(1763), Charles J. Sax (1791), John Ford (1895), Clark Gable (1901),
Langston Hughes (1902), S. J. Perelman (1904), Boris Yeltsin (1931),
Bob Shane (Kingston Trio, 1934), Don Everly (The Everly Brothers,
1937), Garret Morris (1937), Sherman Hemsley (1938), Mike Campbell
(The Heartbreakers, 1954), Billy Mumy (1954), Laura Dern (1967), Lisa
Marie Presley Keough Jackson (1968), and Pauly Shore (1968).
On
February first Sweden and Prussia signed a peace treaty (1720), the
Supreme Court convened for the first time (1790), the first "March
of Time" newsreel premiered (1935), Trygve Lie became the first
Secretary-General of the UN (1946), the first US satellite was
launched (Explorer I, 1958), Vince Lombardi resigned the Green Bay
Packers (1968), and Harriet Tubman became the first black woman on a
US stamp (1978).
Night
Sky, 2/1:
As soon as it's fully dark, spot the bright, equilateral Winter
Triangle in the southeast. Sirius is its brightest and lowest star.
Betelgeuse stands above Sirius by about two fists at arm's length. To
the left of their midpoint is Procyon. And, standing 4° above
Procyon is 3rd-magnitude Gomeisa, Beta Canis Minoris, the only other
easy naked-eye star of Canis Minor.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week:
Max learning to swim with the Shelton
Cooper
method.
Extra
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: They
only person Trump ever hired who was actually qualified to do their
job was Stormy Daniels. --Roy Zimmerman
This
Week: Saturday, February 2 –
World Hijab Day & Barber Day & Candlemas aka Groundhog Day
aka Hedgehog Day
Sunday,
February 3 – Feed the Birds Day & Popcorn Day &
Puppy Bowl 15
Night
Sky, 2/3: The
sky's biggest asterism — at least the biggest that's widely
recognized — is the Winter Hexagon. It fills the sky toward the
east and south these evenings. Start with brilliant Sirius at its
bottom. Going clockwise from there, march up through Procyon, Pollux
and Castor, Menkalinan and Capella on high, down to Aldebaran, then
to Rigel in Orion's foot, and back to Sirius. Betelgeuse shines
inside the Hexagon, off center.
Monday,
February 4 – National Hemp Day & Quacker Day
Tuesday,
February 5 – African American Coaches Day & Chinese New
Year
Night
Sky, 2/5: Mercury
is out of sight in conjunction with the Sun. Venus & Jupiter
rise above the east-southeast horizon before dawn with Saturn low in
the glow. Mars glows high in the southwest at nightfall. Uranus is
well up in the southwest right after dark and Neptune is quite low in
the west-southwest right after dark.
Wednesday,
February 6 – Canadian Maple Syrup Day & National Signing
Day & Play Monopoly Day
Thursday,
February 7 – Dry Bean Day & National Periodic Table Day
..........Johnny
sings a love song (like a bird).........Everly
Brothers …..Bird Song
^^
60 to 70 percent of bubble gum is sugar or sugar substitute.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I wonder if clouds ever
look down on us and say: Hey look, that one is shaped like an idiot.
Moonbeam:
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for
long. --Boris Yeltsin
Late
Night Snacks: Giuliani,
Smeagal on a good hair day, "I am everything. I am nothing. I
am old. I am young. I am ever-ending, just begun. Behold, I am
Rudy, destroyer of clients." --Stephen Colbert / McConnell
rules Congress with an iron flipper. He could end this,” by calling
for a vote and overriding the president’s veto, “but he’s
hoping no one notices that --Samatha Bee / Usually when Drumpf bends
over for a woman (Pelosi) like that, it’s because she’s spanking
him with a magazine with his face on it. --Jimmy Kimmel / When Moses
came down from the mountain he had 10 commandents and 2 Mueller
subpoenas –Treor Noah
Not
So Late Night Snacks: Amy Dickinson: My
favorite insulting tweet he sent out in Nancy Pelosi's direction went
something like, Nancy Pelosi, who I call Nancy. Peter Sagal: Yeah,
woah. It's, like, what happened? I mean, just Nancy? That's his
insulting nickname? We assume that the White House senior official
who's in charge of insulting nicknames has been furloughed. --Wait
Wait Don't Tell Me (1/26/19)
Peace
is a gift to God, Peace is for love.
I'm
way past growing old gracefully, so I've committed to growing old
disgracefully. / I knew I was getting old when my bank started
sending my new calendar one month at a time.
..........You
take it on faith, you take it to your heart..........Tom Petty &
the Heartbreakers …..The Waiting
^^^
The average American chews around 300 sticks of gum in one
year.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: The first episode of March of Time contained
segments on Saionji, Japanese leadership / Speakeasy Street, 21 Club
during Prohibition / Belisha Beacons, British
traffic lights / Moe Buchsbaum, French fines / Fred Perkins, NRA
wage-scale directives
' / Metropolitan Opera, Giulio Gatti-Casazza retires.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Life
is just a series of obstacles preventing you from taking a nap.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Scacchic
– pertaining to chess “Stern old fellows were these scacchic
sages! They considered the laws of chess as inviolable
as those of the Medes and Persians.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-sca3.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products: Remove
oil spots from driveways. Spray with
WD-40, wait, then blot. The minerals spirits and other petroleum
distillates in WD-40 work as a curing agent.
Actually,
you can have a healthy sex life well into your later years. Assuming
you can stand the sight of people your age naked. / Don't stress
about your eyesight failing as you get older. It's nature's way of
protecting you from shock as you walk past a mirror.
...........Way
up Suzianna….......Kingston Trio …..Bay of Mexico
^^^^
If your popped bubble gets stuck in your hair,
you can remove it by rubbing it with peanut butter.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: As
soon as space travel
is possible, I'm moving
from the Milky Way to the Soymilky Way. I'm glactose intolerant.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Foolscap 2019 (2/1-3, Seattle) Everyone
is interesting at Foolscap.
https://www.foolscap.org/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
Gordon Research Conference – Plant Lipids; Structure, Metabolism
and Function (1/27-2/2, Galeston) "End
hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote
sustainable agriculture".
https://www.grc.org/plant-lipids-structure-metabolism-and-function-conference/2019/
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Our fearless Puck is still mostly hibernating but he's dreaming of
active days and the case of the Spring
Spreagle.
The
other day I was hanging out with friends and Betty said, “It's
windy isn't it?” Susan said, “No, It's Thursday.” I answered,
“Me too, let's get a beer.” / I'm old enough that the only fast
lane I manage is when I have 8 items or less.
..........Bye,
bye happiness.........Everly Brothers …..Bye Bye Love
^^^^^
The first bubble gum ever marketed was done
so under the name “Blibber-Blubber”.
Month
of the Week: February is Beat The Heat
Month –It was so cold you had to break the smoke off your chimney /
It was so cold people looked forward to getting a fever / It was so
cold the legs of Richard Simmon's shorts were clear down to half
thigh
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: For
every major mistake America has made in the last 30 years, there is a
video Bernie Sanders trying to stop it. --Submitted by rhb of ks
Last
Piece of Friendly Advice: Be careful not
to confuse a life lesson for a soulmate. -Dylan Farella
Grammar
Joke of the Week: A
run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute
little sentence fragment.
Today's
Peace of History: February 1, 1960: Four black college
students sat in at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, where
they'd been refused service, to protest segregation. Similar protests
subsequently took place all over the South and in some northern
communities. By September 1961, more than 70,000 students, white and
black, had participated, and many were arrested, during sit-ins.
~~Wichita, KS held a successful lunch counter sit-in at Dockum Drug
Store in 1958.
I
have a mobile phone but I never carry it with me in public. If it
rang, people would notice that I don't know how to answer it. /
Instead of rocking around the clock, I'm limping around the block.
..........To
do it all again, babe..........Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
…..Change of Heart
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle February 1, 2019. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace and spunky laughs. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511
Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam:
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your
head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
--Langston Hughes
Cost
of War:
As
of 1/31/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,894,554,985,139.
As
of 1/24/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,892,611,682,458.
As
of 1/31/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $876,483,899,079.
As
of 1/24/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $875,163,179,158.
As
of 1/31/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $651,522,525,622.
As
of 1/24/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $649,862,208,805.
As
of 1/31/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $303,709,646,578.
As
of 1/24/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $303,332,306,077.
As
of 1/31/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,726,271,643,354.
As
of 1/24/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,720,970,109,344.
Peace
is a key to a calmer world, Peace is a friendship that must be passed
on. http://corlett.blogspot.com/2004/09/childrens-peace-quotes.html
..........He's
the man who never returned….......Kingston Trio …..M.T.A.
What
do we want? Better Memory!! When do we want it? Want what? / At
least you know your secrets are safe with me, I can't even remember
my kids names.
Famous
Last Words: And
bring about a world of brotherhood.
--Langston Hughes Give
Us Our Peace
May
your Peace be joyful
And
Joy be peaceful
prairie
mama
christine
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