Famous
First Words: Jeanie, fresh as a daisy... Theme Song I
Dream of Jeanie
Happy
Birthday to Mark Russell: You've got the brain-washed, that's the
Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans. --Mark
Russell / I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.
--Mark Russell
..........I'm
not tryin to cause a big s-s-sensation.........Keith Moon & The
Who …..My Generation
In
the end, it comes down to values, as was said so many times today. We
want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values
enshrined in the UN Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights,
tolerance, and solidarity. --Secretary-General Designate Antonio
Guterres
It
is a cloudy Friday morning. The 73°F is lovely but the air is
slightly muggy with only a hint of breeze to move the willow branches
or cool the cheek. The sun finds small breaks in the clouds to shine
patterns on the gray pavement and green lawns. A murder of crows
seem to be complaining about the day but they fly about as if they
are enjoying it. The matins of other birds are lost in the loud
raven squawk but a few cicada are adding voice to the daily
soundtrack. The on again off again pond at the end of the cul de sac
is a muddy, gummy mess with green weeds and grasses rising out of it.
It smells of stale dampness, of mud, of swamp. The city, no doubt,
has sprayed the nearby thistle with something and the talk green
stalks with purple flowers have turned pale and look sickly. I
wonder briefly what was used, but I am not sure I want to know. The
world is still very green with hints color – purple, yellow, white
– from flowers and mushrooms and other plants. Puck greets the
people down the street who smile briefly but most ignore him. We
make our way back home to the smell of brewing coffee and the feel of
comfort and familiarity. So now I sit sipping decaf and writing to
you. Doesn't get much better.
Hope
your weekend makes you laugh out loud, ePistliers.
The
scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are
composed entirely of lost airline luggage. --Mark Russell
..........He
lived in the sand at the Isle of Man.........Keith Moon & The Who
…..Happy Jack
Trivia
Questions: It's Sponge Cake Day!
^
Sponge cake consists of what 3 basic ingredients?
^^
Any idea what the Renaissance biscuit has to do with sponge cake?
^^^Care
to guess when the first recipe for sponge cake appeared in print?
^^^^
Ladyfingers weren't always tiny sponge cakes; know what the name
first applied to?
^^^^^
Why is August 23rd designated Sponge Cake Day?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: Remember back
when Sarah Palin was the craziest person in politics? Good Times.
--Submitted by ma of va
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
Breakdown of Public Library Reference Desk Questions: 27% - Where's
the bathroom? 18% - Do you have a stapler? 17% - When do you get
off? 16% - What's a good book? 22% – Have you seen my child?
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
The
way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes
on it. --Mark Russell
..........'cause
there's magic in my eyes.........Keith Moon & The Who …..I Can
See For Miles
Moonbeam:
If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we
must listen to – and learn from each others' stories. --Queen Noor
Naturally
Occurring Mandala of the Week: Human Eye
Big
Hello: sà-wàt-dee
- Thai https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Apology
of the Decade: People noticed that I
tried to slice 10 years off my age by claiming that Woodstock was 40
years ago. I knew it was 50, I didn't catch it either time I proofed
… No, you don't get to slice 10 years of your age either. ~~My
most memorable image from the movie is a bulldozer cleaning up the
trash in the aftermath.
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Using
your turn signal is not “giving information to the enemy”
--Submitted by sd of ks
Week
of the Week: National Chef's
Appreciation Week (18-24) –Did you hear about the Italian chef that
died? He shouted, I cannoli do so much and then he just pasta way.
His legacy will become a pizza history.
People
are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on
television. --Mark Russell
..........There
has to be a twist.........Keith Moon & The Who …..Pinball
Wizard
^
The traditional sponge cake is easy to make since it
consists of just three very basic ingredients: flour, sugar and eggs.
The key to the perfect sponge cake is in the technique. The batter
must be beaten thoroughly in order to create volume.
Almanac:
It is Friday, August 23, 2019. The moon is last quarter today and is
in Taurus. It
is International Day for the Rembrance of the Slave Trade and its
Abolition (UNESCO), National Sponge Cake Day, and Valentino Day. In
Romania
it is Liberation Day (1944-1990) and in Swaziland it is Umhlanga
Day.
Among
those born on this day were Louis XVI (1754),
John Sherman Cooper (1901), Gene Kelly (1912), Bob Crosby (1913),
Mark Russell (1932), Barbara Eden (1934), Sonny Jurgensen (1934),
Keith Moon (1947), Shelley Long (1949), Queen Noor of Jordan (1951),
and River Phoenix (1970).
On
August twenty third the Peace of Prague
ended the Austro-Prussian war (1866), the National
Negro Business League was
organized (1900), and Intelsat was launched (1973).
Night
Sky, 8/23:
Last-quarter
Moon (exactly at 10:56 am). The Moon rises tonight around midnight or
so, below the Pleiades. Accompanying the Moon will be orange
Aldebaran. By the beginning of dawn Saturday morning, they all stand
high in the southeast.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week:
Max auditioning for Hamilton
This
Week: Saturday, August 24 –
International Strange Music Day & Castle Day & International
Bat Night
Sunday,
August 25 – Kiss and Make Up Day & National Park Service
Day
Night
Sky, 8/25: Take advantage of these moonless
late evenings to use your scope to pick out the asteroids Eunomia
(now magnitude 8.4), Laetitia (9.4), and Psyche (9.8) just north of
the Capricornus star pattern
Monday,
August 26 – National Dog Day & Women's Equality Day
Tuesday,
August 27 – Just Because Day
Night
Sky, 8/27: Mercury - low in the dawn this week
about 1/2 hour before sunrise. Uranus is high in the south just
before dawn. Neptune is well up in the southeast by 11 pm. Venus &
Mars are lost in the glare of the sun.
Wednesday,
August 28 – National Bow Tie Day & Tug-Of-War Day
Night
Sky, 8/28: Jupiter is the white dot in the
south as twilight fades. Saturn is the steady, pale yellowish star in
the south-southeat during and after dusk.
Thursday,
August 29 – More Herbs, Less Salt Day & Individual
Rights Day & According to Hoyle Day
You
know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting
event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a
politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most
beloved person in the world, its part of the game. --Mark Russell
..........Well,
I'm gonna find a home.........Keith Moon & The Who …..Goin'
Mobile
^^
During the Renaissance, English and French chefs
introduced into their nations’ cuisine something called a
“biscuit.” These “biscuits” were the forerunners of today’s
sponge cake.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The difference between
Donald Trump and Greenland? Greenland is not for sale. --Amy
Klobuchar --Submitted by ma of va ~~Heard another version of this
today. The difference between Greenland and a Republican. Would
work with Kentucky or Moscow Mitch as well.
Moonbeam:
Today, there is no excuse for any one of us to sit back and go, “Ugh!
There's nothing I can do about it.” Because there is always
something that can be done. --Queen Noor
Late
Night Snacks of the Week: There's a petition
to rename a block in New York President Barack Obama Avenue. Whenever
a car tries to turn left, it will be blocked by Mitch McConnell.
--Stephen Colbert / I’m not saying the economy’s in trouble but
right now, giving money to John Hickenlooper’s presidential
campaign is a better investment. Drumpf's opponents are concerned
that he doesn't have the tools to deal with economic downfall.
Not true, I have Eric and Don Jr. --Jimmy
Fallon / I would say that lying for him is as natural as breathing
but he's not great at breathing either. Drumpf lies once every three
hours on average. That means he has to wake up in the middle of the
night just to make sure he can get his lies in. He wears a Fib-bit.
--Seth Meyers
Not
So Late Night Snacks of the Week: Yeah. I get
NPR people who are coming to the show, and they're fun. They are
nice. Like Tom says, they're nice. I can always tell them because
they're the ones that ooh. You know, because I say a few things that
I might not say here. And then I'm also on - I'm on Comedy Central's
show "The New Negroes." So the NPR crowd can't say the
title of that show... --Alonzo Bodden Wait,
Wait, Don't Tell Me 8/17/19
Our
most serious shortcoming – and here I refer to the entire
international community – is our inability to prevent crises. The
United Nations was born from war. Today we must be here for peace.
--Secretary-General Designate Antonio Guterres
You
know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.
--Mark Russell
..........Only
love can make it rain.........Keith Moon & The Who …..Love
Reign O'er Me
^^^
Gervase Markham, English poet and author, recorded
the earliest sponge cake recipe in English in 1615. These sponge
cakes were most likely thin, crisp cakes (more like modern cookies).
Worthless
Fact of the Week: The National Negro Business League was
founded in Boston. It predated the US Chamber of Commerce by 12
years. In 1966 it reincorporated in DC and renamed itself The
National Business League.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Cats
have 32 muscles in each ear to help them ignore you. --Submitted by
eg of mt
Weird
Word of the Week:
Ecotarianism - is
the new buzzword, a kind of greatest hits of all our favorite food
movements from the past decade. It’s about sourcing locally,
organically, sustainably, in season, and leaving Earth’s resources
untouched.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-eco9.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Soothe tired feet. Rub warmed Wesson Vegetable Oil into your feet,
wrap in a damp hot towel, and sit for ten minutes.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/wesson.html
If
the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But
they've never all walked out at once. --Mark Russell
...........And
the music's all right.........Keith Moon & The Who …..Squeeze
Box
^^^^
The name “ladyfingers” was originally applied to
okra, not the little sponge cakes with which we associate the name
today.
Capitalist
Meme of the Week: So you sell
merchandise promoting your anti-capitalist agenda? Tell me more about
this thing called Hypocrisy.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Denmark offers to buy the United States from Russia.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
San Diego Kids' Film Festival (23-25): 150+ films from 30+ countries.
http://sdkidsfilms.org/Home.html
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
OK Wise (23, Tulsa) A conference highlighting the scientific,
economic, and societal impacts being made by Oklahoma women.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ok-wise-conference-2019-tickets-63806358536
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck investigating the Supernatural in the case
of the Ghostly
Gordon.
When
you trick somebody into participating in a small-time fraud, it's
called a 'scam'. But when the scam is so big that people have no
choice but to participate, it's called 'economics'. --Mark Russell
..........Those
pills I took have no effect at all.........Keith Moon & The Who
…..Doctor, Doctor
^^^^^
Like many food holidays, National Sponge Cake Day
doesn’t have an origin. It just suddenly appeared on the web.
National Day Calendar notes that it could not track down a creator of
the holiday. Google Trends shows that there were searches for the
holiday as far back as 2006 in the US a Google search found that the
site Gone-Ta-Pott, which was created in 2004, mentioned the holiday
in 2007. By 2010, the holiday was mentioned on a Smithsonian
Institution blog.
Quote
of the Week: You got to disturb the
peace when you can't get no peace –Aretha Franklin
Month
of the Week: July is Rye Month --The
bakery had to close after everything went a rye. / A
Baker specializing in making Rye bread is disheartened. He works long
hours and while his wages are decent, they are nothing special. He
wants to strike it rich and make something of himself. He hears that
a lot of money can be made for trapping in the Canadian wilderness so
he sells his bakery and moves to Canada to fulfill his dreams.
Unfortunately it doesn't go as planned. He is making even less money
than before. After a while he fears he will not have enough money to
feed himself. He goes to a bar to drown his sorrows, and explains
this all to a man at the bar. The Baker asks him what he should do.
The man says, "if at furs you don't succeed, try rye again."
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Lucky
for me I don't have enough friends for an intervention.
Grammar
Joke of the Week: The
problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow
words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down
alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new
vocabulary." --James D. Nicoll
Today's
Peace of History, August
23, 1989: Over one million people
joined hands across the three Baltic republics (Lithuania, Latvia,
and Estonia) in a 400-mile-long chain of resistance against control
by the USSR.
Of
course, with any new technology, the question in the back of
everyone's mind is “Can I have sex with it or use it to kill
people?”
..........Pay
before we start.........Keith Moon & The Who …..The Acid Queen
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle, August 23, 2019, Marked ePistle. Peace, Love, and
Satire. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence,
KS 66047
I
Lied Here's One More Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
I got a job at Comcast and completed training so I could fix my own
cable because it was faster than being on hold with customer service.
--Simon Holland
Moonbeam:
I have no intention of sharing my authority. --Louis XVI
Cost
of War:
As
of 8/22/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,951,418,701,759.
As
of 8/15/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,949,856,195,034.
As
of 8/22/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $915,419,018,071.
As
of 8/15/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $914,067,240,156.
As
of 8/22/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $700,469,523,491.
As
of 8/15/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $698,770,139,844.
As
of 8/22/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $314,833,967,136.
As
of 8/15/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $314,447,732,871.
As
of 8/22/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,882,036,168,121.
As
of 8/15/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,877,142,064,975.
Humanitarian
response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three
sides of the same triangle
--Secretary-General Designate Antonio Guterres
..........And
I became aware this year.........Keith Moon & The Who …..We're
Not Gonna Take It
No
offense, but it seems like the whole point of civilization is to get
someone else to do your killing for you. --Mark Russell / I try not
to speak to critics. It only encourages them. --Mark Russell
Famous
Last Words: in
the year of salvation, eighteen hundred sixty and six.
--Treaty of Prague
May
Peace charm your days
And
Joy enchant your nights
prairie
mama
christine
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Laugh:
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