Famous First Words: Hear ye, lords, nobles, freemen of Brabant... Richard Wagner Lohengrin
August in National Read A Romance Novel Month ! Edwardo was always kissing my nape. I called him the neck romancer.
..........I've hungered for your touch a long, lonely time.........Righteous Brothers …..Unchained Melody
The American elite does not have any real image of peace — other than as an uneasy interlude existing precariously by virtue of the balance of mutual fright. --C Wright Mills
It is a beautiful Friday morning. The sky is clear and blue, the temperature is 74°F, and Bruno has been barking for the last 20 minutes. It is a marvel that here, even in late August, Kansas is still very green. There are no straw yellow patches or brown clumps of former flower stalks or bare stops on lawns. Birds seem to be enjoying the morning, chirping and singing from behind the leaves of the willow and the really big oak. I do not sing but I do inhale the steam from my cup of coffee before taking a deep sip. Ahhh, what a wonderful world...
Hope your weekend comes up roses and daffodils, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If 2020 were a math problem: If you're going down a river at 2 MPH and your canoe loses a wheel, how much pancake mix would you need to re-shingle your roof? ----Submitted by RHOZ
I spent a year writing a romance novel where two blood cells meet and fall in love. The publisher said no; claimed I was too vein and the plot was to thin.
..........You smiled, you smiled oh and then the spell was cast..........Etta James …..At Last
Trivia Questions: Happy Radio Commercials Day !
^ Any idea when, where, or what the first radio commercial was?
^^ What constitutes the 'Golden Age” of radio?
^^^ Radio invented or discovered soap operas. Who, how, or when did they come to be?
^^^^ The first successful radio quiz show was Dr. IQ. Know anything about it?
^^^^^ Any idea what radio advertising did then or does cost now?
Big Hello: Shl'am lak - Aramaic https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: At the bar I ordered 2 hurricanes and a Corona. The bartender said, “That's $20.20. --Submitted by INRITH
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 14% of cats don't like librarians but remain silent so they can continue to be fed. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Romance, Mystery, Eroticism. All these and more in “Dictionary, The Movie”.
..........How wonderful life is with you in the world.........Elton John …..Your Song
Moonbeam: Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. --Bruno Bettelheim
Naturally Occurring Mandala of the Week: Knothole in a unknown kind of wood
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I ate a clock today; it was really time consuming. Especially when I went back for seconds.
Week of the Week: Be Kind to Humankind Week (25-30) –I am not grumpy; I'm selective with my kindness. / I could kill you with kindness, but shoving you into traffic would save so much time. / Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give.
I needed some help writing my romance novel so I checked out the book 'How to Hug” from the library. Turns out it was volume 6 of an old encyclopedia.
..........I know it ain't easy giving up your heart.........Adele …..One and Only
^ Ninety-eight years ago, back in 1922, America's airwaves changed forever. New York radio station WEAF broadcast the first paid radio commercial for the Hawthorne Court Apartments in Jackson Heights.
Almanac: It is Friday August 28, 2020. The moon was first quarter last Tuesday and is in Capricorn. It is Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day, Radio Commercials Day, Crackers Over the Keyboard Day, and World Daffodil Day. In Hong Kong it is the Festival of Hungry Ghosts. Jordon celebrates Arab Renaissance Day and in Mauritius it is Ganesh Chatturthi.
Among people born on this day were Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seaton (1774), George Hoyt Whipple (1878), Charles Boyer (1889), Bruno Bettelheim (1903), Roger Tory Peterson (1908), C. Wright Mills (1916), Nancy Kulp (1921), Ben Gazzara (1930), Lou Pinella (1943), Ron "Louisiana Lightning" Guidry (1950), Daniel Stern (1957), and Jason Priestley (1969).
On August twenty-eighth Herschel discovered Saturn's moon Enceladus (1789), "Lohengrin" was first produced (1850), UPS began service (Seattle, 1907), 10 suffragists were arrested at the White House gate (1917), golf's Walker Cup tournament was established (1922), Kalamazoo passed an ordinance forbidding dancers from gazing into each other eyes (1923), Thurmond began a 24 hour filibuster against the civil rights bill (1957), 200,000 demonstrated for equal rights (DC, 1963), police and demonstrators clash at the National Democratic Convention (Chicago, 1968), and John Denver was given a dui after crashing his Porsche into a tree (1994).
Night Sky, 8/28: Jupiter shines just a couple degrees above the gibbous Moon this evening for North America http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max Picture of the Week: Max and Ollie all stretched out.
~~Last week Ollie looked so small or short and in this picture he looks really looooooonnnnnng.
This Week: Saturday, August 29 – According to Hoyle Day & Individual Rights Day & International Bat Night
Sunday, August 30 – International Whale Shark Day & National Holistic Pet Day
Night Sky, 8/30: Mars rises in the east less than an hour after the end of twilight. It emerges bright (magnitude –1.6) and strongly orange like a far-off bonfire. Where will it come up? Watch the horizon far below the Great Square of Pegasus.
Monday, August 31 – Love Litigating Lawyers Day & National Matchmaker Day
Tuesday, September 1 - Chicken Boy's Day & National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day
Wednesday, September 2 – World Coconut Day
Night Sky, 9/2: Uranus (magnitude 5.8, in Aries) is well up in the east by midnight or 1 am daylight-saving time, east of Mars. Neptune (magnitude 7.8, in Aquarius) is higher in the southeast by that time.
Thursday, September 3 – Skyscraper Day
Ollie's Very Own Picture: Ollie Up Close
~~What a cutie, sometimes it's hard to tell until the “new” wears off
I was going to write the great American nursing home romance novel...but the title “50 Shade of Grey” was already taken.
..........Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.........Ezioi Pinza …..Some Enchanted Evening
^^ The Golden Age of American radio, period lasting roughly from 1930 through the 1940s, when the medium of commercial broadcast radio grew into the fabric of daily life in the United States, providing news and entertainment to a country struggling with economic depression and war.
'Nother Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My grandmother lived to be 102. When I asked her what her secret was, she said, “God's punishing me”. --Submitted by llr of ks
Moonbeam: Any investigator is indeed fortunate who can contribute a tiny stone to the great edifice which we call scientific truth. --George Whipple
Niece of Another Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: 2020 you are hopping up and down on my last nerve. --Submitted by dg of oh
Late Night Snacks of the Week: This conspiracy theory is crazy even for conspiracy theories. You’re telling me Trump is doing something heroic, but instead of taking credit for it, he’s keeping it a secret? That is the most unbelievable thing I’ve ever heard. --Trevor Noah / Last week, the Democratic national convention offered an inclusive and determined show of (virtual) unity in the fight to topple Donald Trump and, as candidate Joe Biden put it, to “overcome a season of darkness”. This week, darkness gets their turn at bat. --Stephen Colbert
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: To dress post-pandemic America, clothing companies are adjusting their sizes. What was once a medium is now really a large. Large is now extra-large, and so on. Also a special size for people who didn't think they'd gain weight during the pandemic. That's XL-LOL. --Peter Sagal Best of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 8/22/20
The only seriously accepted plan for peace is the full loaded pistol. In short, war or a high state of war-preparedness is felt to be the normal and seemingly permanent condition of the United States. --C Wright Mills
Romance is dead, especially for necrophiliacs.
..........I'm wild again, beguiled again, a simpering, whimpering child again..........Buddy Bergman & Ella Fitzgerald …..Bewitched, Bothers and Bewildered
^^^ Count soap operas among Procter & Gamble’s many successes. P&G was one of the first companies to sponsor daytime serial dramas on the radio in the 1930s to advertise their products to housewives. The shows were associated with sponsors such as Oxydol, Duz and Ivory soaps and were dubbed “soap operas.”
Worthless Fact of the Week: Sea otters like to hold each other's paws when sleeping so they don't drift apart.
Wicked Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: So I just figured out 2020 and it's pretty obvious what happened: “Baby Shark” is an ancient chant that opens a portal to Hell. --Bill Carey --Submitted by sab of ks
Weird Word of the Week: Agastopia – admiration of a particular part of someone's body. https://thoughtcatalog.com/sylvie-quinn/2018/06/75-weird-words-every-word-nerd-will-appreciate/
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Protest Sign: Deliver De Mail / DePose DeJoy --Submitted by pj of ks
Weird Word of the Week2:Tsundoku – The practice of buying more books than you can read. --Submitted by sm of ks
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Improvise a diaper changing mat. In an emergency, a jumbo Ziploc Storage Bag can be used as an easy-to-tote changing mat. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/ziploc.html
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: It is on longer 5 o'clock somewhere. It's 2020 everywhere, so drink whenever you want. --Submitted by dr of oh
The inspiration for the spaghetti scene in Lady and the Tramp was actually ants in Italy sharing a strand of pasta. Ah, Rome Ants
...........I'm warmed up now, let's go.........Beyoncé …..Crazy in Love
^^^^ Dr. I.Q. (aka the Mental Banker and Doctor I.Q.) is a radio and television quiz program. Remembered as radio's first major quiz show, it popularized the catch phrase "I have a lady in the balcony, Doctor." Over decades, the program's sponsors were Mars Candy, the Vick Chemical Company and Embassy Cigarettes. The radio series did not have a set studio. Instead, it traveled from city to city and broadcast from large concert halls and theaters.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If you one up conspiracy theorists they don't know what to do. “The moon landing was fake.” “Oh, you're one of those people that believe in the moon?” --Submitted by INRITH
Science Fiction Joke of the Week: Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. --Robert Heinlein
Actual Science Joke of the Week: 3 whales are sitting in a bar. The first whale says “waaoaoooooooooooaoaoo whiieeeaoooooooo”. The second whale says “ARRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOO”. The third whale says, “Hey, I can't understand a thing you're saying.” --Bill Nye, The Science Guy
Mild Mannered Curse of the Week: May your return calls always go unanswered even though you literally just called me, Kyle.
Rejected Romance Novels: Tender Wings of Desire. A Colonel Sanders Romance
..........I knew our joy would fill the earth.........Roberta Flack …..The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
^^^^^ The first ad was $50 for 10 minutes. Current prices range from $1 for a late night 15 second ad to $40,000 per ad – usually during sports broadcasts.
Month of the Week: August is World Mutt-i-grees Rescue Month –We adopted a Labrador and found out he could do pull rabbits out of hats. We named him Labracador / My dog is like a phone, she has a collar ID.
Recreating Famous Painting With Anything You Can Find:
https://www.boredpanda.com/art-recreation-at-home-museum-challenge/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Anyone know when them black eyed peas we ate for good luck on New Year's supposed to kick in? --Submitted by RHOZ
Stop trying to make everyone happy. You're not Tequila.
..........Sweet wonderful you.........Fleetwood Mac …..You Make Loving Fun
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle August 28, 2020, The ePistle Affair. Courtship, Conciliation, and Comedy. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Faith lifts the soul, Hope supports it, Experience says it must and Love says...Let it be. --Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seaton
Cost of War:
As of 8/27/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,056,532,763,876.
As of 8/20/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,054,580,053,715.
As of 8/27/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $986,565,886,613.
As of 8/20/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $985,238,814,728.
As of 8/27/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $789,911,297,340.
As of 8/20/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $788,243,292,345.
As of 8/27/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $335,161,636,952.
As of 8/20/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $334,782,654,505.
As of 8/27/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,168,172,230,860.
As of 8/20/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,162,845,347,385.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Peace is no longer serious; only war is serious. Every man and every nation is either friend or foe, and the idea of enmity becomes mechanical, massive, and without genuine passion –C Wright Mills
Famous Last Words: I hope the Senate will see fit to kill it. I expect to vote against the bill. --Strom Thurman Ending his 24 hour filibuster against the Civil Rights Act.
..........I'll think of you every step of the way........Whitney Houston …..I Will Always Love You
I have a crush on your mind and on your heart, but your sexy body is a huge bonus.
May Peace bring you joy
And Joy bring you peace
prairie mama
christine
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