Famous
First Words: Well, she was just seventeen... I Saw Her
Standing There. The first cut on the first album the Beatles
released.
Mixing
Metaphors...it's not rocket surgery.
..........Daylight,
I must wait for the sunrise.........Frizabella …..Memory (Cats)
Peace
is a legend from a far off place. Peace is a book waiting to be read.
It
is a chilly (30°F) Spring morning. The sun is shining in a
cloudless clear sky of azure. The branches of trees and shrubs are
still and are growing so quickly you can almost catch them if the
turn quickly enough. Puck seems to think it is a morning to sing
and is barking at every moving object we pass. Grass too is beginning
to green, beginning to look alive. Birds are everywhere, much to
Puck disgust. They are in the streets and lawns and trees and
utility wires. They sing a myriad of matins. Frost on car windows
and lawns melts immediately when the sun hits it and leaves beads of
water like rosaries of unknown prayers. We return home, Puck to a
saucer of milk and a nap, me to sweetened decaf and a computer
screen...but the bird song can be heard through the closed doors and
windows and the sun lights up the window is a cheery and welcoming
manner. So, I light a stick of woody incense and turn my thoughts to
you.
Hope
your weekend has a heart as big as gold, ePistliers.
First,
get all your ducks on the same page.
..........Pure
excellence in every sense.........Rosalie Mullins …..Here at
Horace Green (School of Rock)
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday to the Stamp Act of 1765
^
The Stamp Act was the first tax directly on American colonists. Why
did the British need to impose this tax?
^^
Which Stamp Act opponent gave his famous “Give me Liberty” speech
about it?
^^^
Know any of the specifics of what the Stamp Act taxed?
^^^^
What to you know about the Sons of Liberty Boston protest of the
Stamp Act?
^^^^^
What was the ultimate fate of the Stamp Act?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: "There's
good news and there's bad news. The bad news: civilization, as we
know it, is about to end. Now the good news: civilization, as we know
it, is about to end."
Swami Beyondananda --Submitted by dl of ks
Swami Beyondananda --Submitted by dl of ks
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
In
67% of libraries the schedule for cleaning the staff refrigerator and
weeding the collection are the same.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
After
all, you can't make an omelet without breaking stride.
..........Lost
in a fantasy that can't come true..........Laura …..If I Could
Only Dream This World Away (The Woman in White)
Moonbeam:
Do
not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
--Marcel
Marceau
Something
to Think About of the Week: Hurricane
Big
Hello: Salāmu -
Sindhi (Pakistan)
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My
life is kind of like when you're about to sneeze and then don't.
Week
of the Week: March 18-24 is Act Happy
Week – Don't be sad; sad backwards is das. Das not good.
Watch
what you write with a fine-tuned comb.
..........And
we are playing a different game.........Phantom …..Devil Take the
Hindmost (Love Never Dies)
^
The British Empire was deep in debut from the 7 Years War (1756-63)
and wanted the North American colonies as a revenue source.
Almanac:
It is Friday, March 22, 2019. The moon was full (worm) yesterday
and is in Libra. It is As Young as You Feel Day,
Education and Sharing Day, International Day of the Seal,
International Goof-Off Day, and World Water Day (aka World Day for
Water). In Jordan and Lebanon it is Arab
League Day (1945) and in Puerto Rico it is Emancipation Day (1873).
Among
those born on the day were Kaiser Wilhelm I
(1797), Randolph Caldecott (1846), Robert A. Millikan (1868), Chico
Marx (Leonard, 1887), Karl Malden (1913), George Wyle (1916), Marcel
Marceau (1923), Pat Robertson (1930), William Shatner (1931), Orrin
Hatch (1934), May Britt (1936), Ron Carey (1936), Rudy Rucker (1946),
Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), Bob Costas (1952), and Matthew Modine
(1959).
On
March twenty-second the Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book
(1457), Anne Hutchinson was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
(1638), Joseph Priestly invented
carbonated
water (1733), the Stamp Act passed (1765), cornstarch was patented
(1841), the first US nursing school was chartered (1861), the Treaty
of Friendship & Cooperation was signed (San Marino & Italy,
1862), Illinois became the first state to require gender equality in
employment (1872), slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico (1873), the
English Football League was established (1888), Niagera Falls ran out
of water due to a drought (1903), the first Masters in Augusta, Ga
began (1934), Liz Taylor divorced Mike Todd (her 3rd, 1958), the
laser was patented (1960), the Beatles released their first album,
Please
Please Me
(1963), Indira Gandhi resigned as PM of India (1977), Israel approved
the peace treaty with Egypt (1979), first class postage rose to 18c
(1981), and Congress overrode Reagan's veto of the civil rights bill
(1988).
Night
Sky, 3/22:
Immediately
after dark, before moon rise for most of North America, Sirius shines
brilliantly in the south-southwest. To its lower left, by about a
fist at arm's length, is the triangle of Adhara, Wezen, and Aludra
from right to left. They form Canis Major's hind foot, rear end, and
tailtip, respectively.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week:
Max being amazed by this wondersome world.
This
Week: Saturday, March 23 –
National Tamale Day & World Meteorological Day & Be Mad Day
Night
Sky, 3/23:
Once
the waning gibbous Moon well up in the southeast in very late
evening, use binoculars to help pick out Beta and Alpha Librae, both
about 3rd magnitude, on the left and right of it, respectively
Sunday,
March 24 – National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
Monday,
March 25 – Pecan Day & Tolkien Reading Day &
Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day)
Night
Sky, 3/25:
Now
that it's spring, the signature fall-and-winter constellation
Cassiopeia is retreating downward after dark. But for skywatchers at
mid-northern latitudes Cassiopeia is circumpolar, never going away
completely. Look for it fairly low in the north-northwest these
evenings. It's standing roughly on end.
Tuesday,
March 26 – Legal Assistants Day & Live Long and Prosper
Day & Spinach Day
Wednesday,
March 27 – World Theatre Day & National Scribble Day
Thursday,
March 28 – Virtual Advocacy Day & Weed Appreciation Day
Check
and recheck until the cows turn blue.
..........Somewhere
deep inside.........Starlight …..I Am the Starlight (Starlight
Express)
^^
Patrick Henry delivered the speech before a meeting of Virginia's
colonial leader in 1775 in an effort to mobilize a militia against a
possible attack by the British.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Minority. A term applied
to the majority of the world's population. --Submitted by ma of va
Moonbeam:
Feminism
encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children,
practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
--Pat Robertson
Late
Night Snacks of the Week: On O'Rourke's
admission that he is running: Obviously, we all saw this coming –
this is the least surprising thing to happen since we found out
Tucker Carlson said something racist.” --Trevor Noah / Nobody is
born to be anything. Springsteen said he was born to run and then he
wrote 400 songs about New Jersey.” --Seth Meyers / Tucker Carlson:
If you own a restaurant that neo-Nazis go to, that doesn’t make you
a white supremacist. But if neo-Nazis go there because you make the
soup spell racist tropes, then yeah, you might be a white
supremacist. --Samatha Bee / National Emergency: Emergency Edition:
Senate Republicans rolled up a magazine and spanked Drumpf right in
the old Oval Office. --Stephen Colbert
Not
So Late Night Snacks of the Week:
On
Thursday, all the Democrats in the House voted to condemn bigotry. So
hopefully, you all got in your bigotry before it became illegal this
week. The Democrats took over the House of Representatives in
January, and they were united, determined and focused. And it was
amazing that it lasted all of six weeks before they reverted to their
natural state of backstabbing and purity testing...And the argument
got so bad, even Representative Omar was heard to say, oy, I've had
it up to my tuchus with these meshugas. Peter Sagal, Wait,
Wait, Don't Tell Me
3/15/19
Peace
is a person proud and tall. War shut it out – now there's no peace
at all.
It's
as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
..........worship,
worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl.........Joseph …..Grovel,
Grovel (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
^^^
Instead of
levying a duty on trade goods, the Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on
the colonists. Specifically, the act required that, starting in the
fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax
stamp provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax
in exchange for the stamp. The law applied to wills, deeds,
newspapers, pamphlets and even playing cards and dice.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: On this day in 1638, Anne
Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Three
years after arriving in Boston, she found herself the first female
defendant in a Massachusetts court. When she held prayer meetings
attended by both men and women, the authorities were alarmed; but
what really disturbed them was her criticism of the colony's
ministers and her assertion that a person could know God's will
directly.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Today
I shall be as useless as the “g” in Lasagna...
Observation
of the Week: The willow tree branches
have begun to sprout chartreuse buds. The tree behind us shows the
color well. Through my kitchen window I can see the larger willow,
the one that is down a house or two. It catches the morning sun and
the color reflects it so that the branches seem to be made of ice.
They become translucent streams waving in the wind, sparkling with
fairy dust.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Yarely – briskly, promptly, quickly. Yarely! Yarely! Pull away, my
hearts...--Sir Walter Scott
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-yar1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Remove dirt and grime from barbecue grills. Remove the grill from the
barbecue, spray with WD-40, wait, and wipe clean. Then wash with
soap and water. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/wd40.html
Don't
worry about opening up a whole hill of beans.
...........Now
it's time to break the rules.........Joe & Myron …..Let's Have
Lunch (Sunset Boulevard)
^^^^
The
most famous popular resistance took place in Boston, where opponents
of the Stamp Act, calling themselves the Sons of Liberty, enlisted
the rabble of Boston in opposition to the new law. This mob paraded
through the streets with an effigy of Andrew Oliver, Boston’s stamp
distributor, which they hanged from the Liberty Tree and beheaded
before ransacking Oliver’s home. Oliver agreed to resign his
commission as stamp distributor.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: It's
been two days and they've outlawed assault weapons in New Zealand,
banned entry for Nazis and publicly shamed Islamophobic politicians.
Wow, did they even TRY thoughts and prayers?
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Revelcon 30 (22-24, Houston) –The little Con with a Texas Sized
Heart https://www.revelcon.com/
Headline
of the Week: France's EU minister names
her cat “Brexit” Because he meows loudly to be let out but won't
go through the door. --Submitted by gr of oh
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
Polar Marine Science – Gordon Research Conference (17-22, Lucca,
Italy) Shedding Light on the Physical, Biogeochemical and Human
Dimensions of Connectivity in Changing Polar Seas.
https://www.grc.org/polar-marine-science-conference/2019/
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck interrogating an mud slug in the Case of the
Spring Springer
You
can burn that bridge when you come to it.
..........I
seem like someone else.........Mary Magdalene …..I Don't Know How
to Love Him (Jesus Christ Superstar)
^^^^^
Similar
events transpired in other colonial towns, as crowds mobbed the stamp
distributors and threatened their physical well-being and their
property. By the beginning of 1766, most of the stamp distributors
had resigned their commissions, many of them under duress. Mobs in
seaport towns turned away ships carrying the stamp papers from
England without allowing them to discharge their cargoes. Determined
colonial resistance made it impossible for the British government to
bring the Stamp Act into effect. In 1766, Parliament repealed it.
Month
of the Week: March is International
Ideas Month –The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as
funny as possible. --David Ogilvy
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Why
was Pavlov's hair so soft? Because he conditioned it. --Submitted by
jm of ks
Grammar
Joke of the Week: I
before e…except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige
foreign neighbor.
Today's
Peace of History, March
22, 1965: 3,200
civil rights demonstrators, led by the Reverend Martin Luther King,
Jr., and under protection of a federalized National Guard, began a
third attempt at a week-long march from Selma, Alabama, to the state
capitol at Montgomery in support of voting rights for black
Americans.
Today's
Peace of Woman's History, March
22, 1974: The Equal Rights Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution (ERA) was passed by both houses of Congress
with two-thirds majorities. The amendment, to give women full
equality under law, was ratified by the legislatures of only 35
states, short of the required three-quarters of the 50 states, and
thus never became law.
Keep
your door closed and your enemies closer.
..........at
sixes and sevens with you.........Evita …..Don't Cry for Me
Argentina (Evita)
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle March 22, 2019, . Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace, Love and laughs you can lead to water until the cows come
home. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr.
Lawrence, KS 66047
Last
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week, I promise:
I may not know everything, but the man who does calls me every once
in a while as asks me things. Vote: Brandon Ellington (KCMO - 3rd
District at-large)
Moonbeam:
I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they
should be bereft of healthcare. --Orrin Hatch
Cost
of War:
As
of 3/21/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,908,390,667,579.
As
of 3/14/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,906,424,900,412.
As
of 3/2/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $885,886,916,511.
As
of 3/14/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $884,550,975,218.
As
of 3/21/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $663,343,623,761.
As
of 3/14/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $661,664,162,701.
As
of 3/21/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $306,396,300,287.
As
of 3/14/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $306,014,610,311.
As
of 3/21/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,764,018,377,026.
As
of 3/14/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,758,655,679,708.
As
a tre in the bad season loses its leaves and becomes bare, then the
world loses its children with the war.
http://corlett.blogspot.com/2004/09/childrens-peace-quotes.html
~~This is the last of these children's couplets. I have enjoyed
them.
..........And
you'll live as you've never lived before........The Phantom …..The
Music of the Night (Phantom of the Opera)
If
the metaphor fits, walk a mile in it. --Brian Bilston Submitted by
50 Nerds of Grey
Famous
Last Words: I have been guilty of wrong thinking. --Anne
Hutchinson
May
your Peace begin with irons in the pan
And
your Joy burn with the best medicine
prairie
mama
christine
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