Famous
First Words: Get outta that bed, wash your face and hands...
Big Joe Turner Shake, Rattle and Roll
It
is D.E.A.R. Day (Drop Everything And Read): Hey, what's in that
wardrobe? Narnia business, bud. / What did the lungs do before Bronte created Eyre?
..........A
whole lot of love is what we'll be bringing.........Partridge Family
with David Cassidy …..Come On, Get Happy
You
are about to be told one more time that you are America's most
valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable
natural resources?! Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear
cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let
them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip
mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the
sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system
follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least
resistance is what makes the river crooked! --Utah
Phillips
It
is a chilly (34°F) Friday morning. The sun is shining brightly in a
very pale blue sky without cloud or jet trail. The birds are gliding
through 16 mph winds and singing praises to the dawn. The eruption of
color continues; several trees on our street have sprouted white
flower which ride the wind to the ground and hide among the green,
green grass. Deep purple grape hyacinths nestle in clumps of taller
grass and yellow and pink tulips are showing their colors here and
there. There are sounds of car door and motors, of people on their
way to work or school. Dogs behind fences bark at us as we pass and
Puck always returns comments. The wind claims to be from the west but
manages to blow in our faces no matter which direction we walk and
eventually blows us home. The house is warm and smells of brewing
coffee and bbq which has been slowly cooking all night long. Puck
quickly finishes off a bowl of milk and curls into a snoring ball on
his blanket. I fix a creamed, sweet cup of decaf and inhale the
steamy warmth into my nose and mouth. Ah, the only think better is
sitting down to write to you.
Hope
your weekend has a happy ending, ePistliers.
From
Jane Austen's Match.Com profile: If forced to endure your company, I
think I might eventually come to love you. / Let's pretend that we're
characters in a classic work of literature and that all of our
actions are highly symbolic.
..........And
laughter is the key to your heart.........CSNY …..Suite Judy Blue
Eyes
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday to the Union Jack
^
The flag contains the flags of 2 of which 3 nations that make up the
United Kingdom?
^^
The most usual size of a flag is 3:5; what are the dimensions of the
Union Jack?
^^^
Why is the Union Jack not symmetrical?
^^^^
Know what happened in 1801 to make them change it to its current
form?
^^^^^
Which shoe company used the Union Jack as its logo for many years?
~~This turned out to be way more complicated and way harder than I
thought. Not symmetrical, how dare they.
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: You remind me
of a migraine.
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
78% of librarians have cried over spilled tea.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Quoth
the Passive Aggressive Raven, Nevermind! / Civil Disobedience was
a such a success because of Thoreau editing.
..........And
eagle flies with the dove.........CSNY …..Love The One You're With
Moonbeam:
Painting is by nature a luminous language. --Robert Delaunay
Something
to Think About of the Week: Intermediate Spiral Galaxy.
Mandala has become a term for any diagram, chart, or
geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or
symbolically.
Big
Hello: Pozdravljeni
- Slovenian https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I got
cancer from a really loud windmill but cured it with a clean coal
tincture. --Submitted by sd of ks
Week
of the Week: National Library Week
(7-13) – You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! The best
weapons in the world. --The Doctor
Second
Cousin Once Removed of Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
You millennials and your obsession with healthcare. Back in my day
we just died. --Submitted by ae of mo
The
Brontësaurus wrote dinosaur romance novels. / I didn't finish Pride
& Prejudice; the characters were too austentatious.
..........Be
sure to hide the roaches.........CSNY …..Pre-Road Downs
^
The flags of Scotland and England are represented on the Union Jack
but not Wales. All
the Flags but Wales & Welsh
Flag ~~Spoiler Alert: The Welsh Flag (Fflage) is way
coooooooooler.
Almanac:
It is Friday, April 12, 2019. The moon is first quarter today and is
in Cancer. It is International Day of Human Space
Flight (UN), D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) Day, Licorice Day,
Look Up at the Sky Day, and Walk on Your Wild Side Day. In Mauritius
it is Ugadi (Hindu New Year) and in North Carolina it is Halifax
Independence Day (1776).
Among
those born on this day were Aleksandr
Ostrovsky (1823), Robert Delaunay (1885), Johnny Dodds (1892),
Herbert Mills (1912), Emil T. Petaja (1915), Maria Callas (1923),
Tiny Tim (Herbert Butros Khaury, 1932),
Herbie Hancock (1940), Ed O'Neill (1946), David Letterman (1947),
David Cassidy (1950), Andy Garcia (1956), Shannen Doherty (1971), and
Claire Danes (1979).
On
April twelfth England adopted the Union Jack
flag (1606), England, Ireland and Scotland united (1654), Madame
Bovary was
published (1857), North Carolina passed an Anti-Klan law (1869), the
catcher's mask was first used (1877), the Hippodrome opened (NYC,
1905), the 48 hour work week became law in the UK (1919), Spain voted
out the monarchy (1931), Harry Truman was sworn in as the 33rd
president (1945), Syria gained independence (1946), Big Joe Turner
released Shake, Rattle and Roll
(1954), the A's played their first game in KC (1955), Douglas
MacArthur declined an offer to become baseball commissioner (1961),
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young released 4
Way Street
(1971), the space shuttle Columbia was launched (1981), Texaco filed
for bankruptcy (1987), Sonny Bono was elected mayor of Palm Springs
(1988), and Euro Disney opened (1992).
Night
Sky, 4/12:
First-quarter Moon (exactly at 3:06 pm EDT). Come evening, the Moon
shines high in the southwest with Pollux and Castor to its upper
right and brighter Procyon farther below it. Far below Procyon
sparkles Sirius, the brightest star of all.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week:
Max wishing his great grandma Happy Birthday.
This
Week: Saturday, April 13 – Baby
Massage Day & Scrabble Day & Thomas Jefferson Day
Sunday,
April 14 – Dictionary Day & National Dolphin Day &
National Pecan Day
Monday,
April 15 – Income Tax Pay Day & McDonald's Day &
World Art Day
Tuesday,
April 16 – Emancipation Day & National Orchid Day
Wednesday,
April 17 – Bat Appreciation Day & Blah Blah Blah Day &
Herbalist Day
Thursday,
April 18 – Adult Autism Day & High Five Day &
National Ask An Atheist Day
Milton
was banned from D&D game night. Every time he played there'd be
a pair of dice lost. / It's a pity they didn't cast Ryan Reynolds as
Jay Gatsby since he's both the green lantern and the deadpool.
..........Now
your crosses are burning fast.........CSNY …..Southern Man
^^
The Union Jack is usually produced at a ration of 1:2.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Going crazy, wanna come?
--Submitted by dr of oh
Moonbeam:
The Alphans had been watching Earth for centuries, seeing its
technological advances and its moral stagnation. --Emil
T. Petaja
Quote
of the Week: To the wrongs that need
resistance, to the right that needs assistance, to the future in the
distance, give yourselves. --Carrie Chapman Catt
Late
Night Snacks: “You know, in fairness to
Drumpf, he probably is under audit. I mean, Drumpf’s taxes are so
dirty, the IRS probably has them in one of those contagion rooms from
Outbreak.” --Trevor Noah / Besides, warning TV producers to avoid
critics of the president constitutes a clear attack on the freedom of
the press. And since when do you have a problem with lying on TV?
Lying on TV is Kellyanne Conway’s entire résumé. --Samantha Bee
/ The collusion clearance was good news for Drumpf. I’d say he’s
had a pep in his step ever since but he doesn’t really take steps.
If he had a Fitbit, the only thing his Fitbit would ever display is,
‘You up?’ --Seth Meyers / Republicans are scrambling to any
microphone they can find to say, ‘Please don’t tell us anything!’
Why would any congressman demand that Congress know less? Because,
“Knowledge is power and I wouldn’t trust us with a burnt match".
--Stephen Colbert / On the WWE: Here’s how bad it is: even the
NFL, for all its massive faults, now offers players health
reimbursement accounts and have established a legacy fund for older
players who may be dealing with health issues; and when you’ve lost
the moral high ground to the f*cking NFL, you’re morally
subterranean. --John Oliver
Ghost
of 'Nother Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Kansas weather went from 85 to 35 like it just saw a state trooper
in the rear view mirror.
Not
So Late Night Snacks: Since moon rocks are
easy to scoop, old waste we will try to recoup. We're paying the
piper by bringing home diapers. We'll go back to pick up our poop.
According to Vox, the Apollo 11 astronauts left 96 bags of human
waste up on the moon. Now we know why there's a dark side of the
moon. Humans have been blasting things into space for years now, like
songs by Mozart and Bach, photographs and apparently our poop.
Scientists want to go back to pick up the moon poop to research how
living microbes have fared in space over the last 45 years or so.
--Peter Sagal But you said 96 bags. That's a lot, I mean, if you
stop and really think about it. --Roxanne Roberts Let's not.
--Tom Bodett Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
4/6/19
Talking
to a conservative is like talking to your refrigerator... You know,
the light goes on, the light goes off; it's not going to do anything
that isn't built into it --Utah Phillips
Holden
Caulfied grew up watching My Little Phony. / I started walking
around without shoes and now it's become a hobbit.
..........Soldiers
are gunning us down.........CSNY …..Ohio
^^^
Because
of the relative positions of the saltires
of
St Patrick and St Andrew, the UK flag is not symmetrical. The red
saltire of St Patrick is offset such that it does not relegate the
white saltire of St Andrew to a mere border.
Worthless
Facts of the Week: The gala opening of the NYC
Hippodrome was completely sold out. The first act was A
Yankee Circus on Mars,
which featured space ships, horses, elephants, acrobats, clowns, a
baboon named Coco, an orchestra of 60, hundreds of singers, and 150
dancers performing to Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I'm
of the very strong opinion that Sex Ed should be taught by a woman 37
weeks into her third pregnancy while her husband sits scrolling
through his phone and her other two children run wild. --Cydni Beer
Weird
Word of the Week:
Quanked – to be overpowered by fatigue. --Obsolete
Word of the Day https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quanked
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Keep dogs, maggots, and flies out of trash cans. Coat the trash cans
with a thin layer of WD-40. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/wd40.html
“I
have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ‘science
fiction’ and I would like out, particularly since so many serious
critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.” --Kurt
Vonnegut / I want time to sit and read, take a nap, and snack.
Basically, I want to be in Kindergarten.
...........May
your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground.........CSNY
…..Carry On
^^^^
The Union Jack changed to it's current form with
a royal proclamation following the union of Great Britain and
Ireland.
Just
Before the Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
I
will always be disappointed that a group of squid is not called a
squad.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Gaslight Gathering (12-14, San Diego, CA) A Steampunk Victoriana
Experience.
https://www.kpbs.org/events/2019/apr/14/gaslight-gathering-a-steampunk-vict/?et=96576
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
Joint Rail Conference 2019 (9-12, Snowbird, UT) ...all
aspects of railroad civil, mechanical, electrical, and systems
engineering, as well as rail safety, planning, design, financing,
operations, and management.
https://event.asme.org/Joint-Rail-Conference/About
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck guarding sacred symbols in the case of the
Krazy Kerry
Blue.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Men
tend to choose high paying professions – like doctor, engineer,
CEO, etc. while women naturally go towards lower paying careers –
like female doctor, female engineer, and female CEO. --Submitted by
rhb of ks
The
Cat in the Hat used purr-suasion to get the kids to do fun stuff. /
What is Thing 1 and Thing 2? Thing 3, of course.
..........A
dreamer of pictures I run in the night.........CSNY …..Cinnamon
Girl
^^^^^
Reebok used the Union Jack from its founding in1895 until 1986 when
it changed to the vector logo.
Month
of the Week: April is Frog Month – A
quartet of frogs used to travel in a VW beetle. One dressed as
Prince. Another sported fangs and open toad shoes; she was known as
Mad Frog. The other two wore Kermit Kollars. Their only hit was Rum
and Croaka-Cola.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Fox
news has done to our grandparents what our grandparents thought
violent video games would do to us. --Submitted by ma of va
Grammar
Joke of the Week: Egyptian
Grammar: For cryin' out loud...you never end a sentence with a
prairie swallow.
Today's
Peace of History, April
12, 1937: 60,000
students across the US took part in the first nationwide student
strike. The protest was against participation in any war.
New
insight into Quixote...he battled windmill cancer. / Wouldn't it be
more impressive to advertise that Hemingway DIDN'T drink at your bar?
-JT Wood
..........Hello
ruby in the dust.........CSNY …..Cowgirl In The Sand
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle, April 12, 2019, EnDearing ePistle. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace, Love, and Literature. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511
Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam:
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
--Maria Callas
Cost
of War:
As
of 4/11/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,914,298,438,081.
As
of 4/4/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,912,318,550,687.
As
of 4/11/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $889,901,789,953.
As
of 4/4/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $888,556,360,973.
As
of 4/11/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $668,390,722,039.
As
of 4/4/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $666,699,503,179.
As
of 4/11/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $307,543,327,607.
As
of 4/4/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $307,158,991,628.
As
of 4/11/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,780,134,785,869.
As
of 4/4//19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,774,734,242,121.
I'm
here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my
time. --Utah Phillips
..........Because
the past is just a good-bye.........CSNY …..Teach Your Children
Sasha
was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden
and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end
them. --Virginia Woolf / I gave out a page of Ulysses to my
freshmen and they thought it was a wordsearch.
Famous
Last Words: And tiptoe through the tulips with me. --Tiny Tim
May
Peace pervade your plot
And
Joy dominate your dialogue
prairie
mama
christine
Last
Laugh: For International Day of Human Space
Flight
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