Famous First Words: One ringy dingy... Ernestine Tomlin Laugh In
Salute to the Wind: ...Meanwhile in Kansas, we got all kinds of wind … biting wind, stinging wind, frigid wind, arctic wind, polar vortex wind, straight wind, twisty wind...
..........Now, don't hang on.........Kansas …..Dust in the Wind
Liberty is the right of every one to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. --Jose Marti
It is a sunny Friday morning. There is no breeze (how ironic) and hardly any willow branches left to display it anyway. Neither Bruno nor Puck are out to add movement to the scene and no squirrels are skittering along the power lines or fence tops. I am hurrying through my introduction today because a) the United Nations has outlawed nuclear weapons. As of today they are illegal. b) I'm going to KC to celebrate that fact. YEAH
Hope the weekend blows you away, ePistlers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. --Terry Pratchett
It was so windy my chicken laid the same egg three times. / Why is the football stadium so windy? Because of all the fans.
..........Never knowing who to cling to.........Elton John …..Candle in the Wind
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday to Robert E Howard, the father of Sword & Sorcery Pulp Fiction
^ Who is Howard's most well known character
^^ Howard was invited into the “Lovecraft Circle”. Any idea what that was?
^^^ How about, where he was born?
^^^^ In what other genres (besides sword and sorcery) did Hoard write?
^^^^^ What ended Howard's life a mere 30 years after it began?
Big Hello: Caɲam (Salam) – Chechen https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The guy who flew a confederate flag in the capitol has predictably surrendered. --Submitted by gr of oh
Max Picture of the Week: Max singing I Talk To The Trees from Paint Your Wagon
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: At any given moment 43% of librarians are hiding inside a book. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
It's mad windy today. Trash is blowing everywhere. Watch out for my ex. / It's so windy today Farmer Fran is catching blewberries in a bucket as they whiz by.
..........before they're allowed to be free..........Bob Dylan …..Blowin' in the Wind
Moonbeam: Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. --Francis Bacon
Meditation of the Week: Refine: “Now that your young dog is properly trained, it is time to refine her skills [attend to the subtle nature of the breath].” How to Bring Humor to Meditation (berkeley.edu)
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Joe and Kamala should run off to Vegas and get inaugurated without telling us. --Randy Rainbow --Submitted by rl of ca
Week of the Week: National School Choice Week (24-30) –Everyone had better get their Betsy DeVos jokes in while people can still read. / The DeVos school funding plan: You start with $0. But if you sign up 5 kids for school, and those kids sign up 5more each, and those kids...
It is so windy there are white caps in the dog's bowl. / It was so windy Mike Pence's hair moved (but the fly hung on).
..........There were oh so many roads.........Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet …..Against the Wind
^ Robert created Conan the Barbarian aka Conan the Cimmerian in 1932 in Weird Tales magazine.
Almanac: It is Friday, January 22, 2021. The moon was first quarter last Wednesday and is in Taurus. It is Answer Your Cat's Questions Day, Celebration of Life Day, Roe vs. Wade Day, and Data Innovation Day. In the Ukraine it is Ukrainian Day aka Independence Day (1918).
Among those born on this day were Ivan III (1440), Francis Bacon (1561), George Gordon Noel Byron (1788), Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger (1815), August Strindberg (1849), D. W. Griffith (1875), Franz Alexander (1891), Ross Barnett (1898), Robert E. Howard (1906), Marie Dressler (1907), Ann Southern (1909), Howard Moss (1922), Margaret Whiting (1924), Sam Cooke (1931), Piper Laurie (1932), Bill Bixby (1934), Graham Kerr (1934), Joseph Wambaugh (1937), John Hurt (1940), Diane Lane (1963), and Hikaru Walter Sulu (2179).
On January twenty-second Robert II Stuart was crowned king of Scotland (1371), postal service between New York and Boston was inaugurated (1673), Spain ceded the Falkland Islands to Britain (1771), the National Association of Baseball Players was founded (1857), Cleopatra Needle was transplanted in Central Park (1881), Jose Marti formed La Liga (1890), Kandinsky formed Kunstlerverein (1909), the first uranium atom was split (1939), Our Town was first performed (1938), Crucible premiered (1953), the Canadian Football Council formed (1956), Pender defeated Robinson (1963), Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In premiered (1968), the Roe vs Wade decision ended women dying of backroom abortion mills (1973), Tyson TKOed Holmes (1988), and the World League of American Football became the NFL East (1998).
Night Sky, 1/22: Right after dark, face east and look very high. The bright star there is Capella, the Goat Star. To the right of it, by a couple of finger-widths at arm's length, is a small, narrow triangle of 3rd and 4th magnitude stars known as "the Kids." Though they're not exactly eye-grabbing, they form a never-forgotten asterism with Capella. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: My plan was for an inspiring picture of the lights along the reflecting pool or the inauguration or something. However, on Wednesday the power company sent in their henchmen to cut off any part of the neighbor's willow tree that might fall onto power lines. Sigh! It looks so sad.
This Week: Saturday, January 23 – Eagle Day & Local Quilt Shop Day & National Pie Day
Sunday, January 24 – Beer Can Day & Belly Laugh Day & National Bible Sunday
Night Sky, 1/24: Aldebaran shines below the waxing gibbous Moon this evening (by 4°). Spot the Pleiades farther to the Moon's upper right. Far beneath them all is Orion.
Monday, January 25 – Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day & Opposite Day & A Room of One's Own Day
Tuesday, January 26 – National Plan for a Vacation Day
Wednesday, January 27 – Holocaust Memorial Day & National Geographic Day & Tu B'Shavat
Night Sky, 1/27 : Mercury is emerging into a nice evening apparition low in the fading twilight. Look for it low in the west-southwest about 45 minutes after sunset. Jupiter (magnitude –1.9) is finally vanishing from sight in the glare of sunset. Mars (in Aries) shines at its highest in the south in late twilight. It's still high in the southwest as late as 8 or 9 pm. Uranus (also in Aries) is highest in the south right after dark, just a couple of degrees or so from eastward-flying Mars.
Thursday, January 28 – National Kazoo Day & Rubber Ducky Day
It was so windy it sand-blasted the tattoo off my arm. / You see iron blowing around in the wind these days. We call it Fe-Breeze.
..........It's blowin' peace and freedom.........The Weavers …..A Mighty Wind
^^ Howard became a member of the "Lovecraft Circle", a group of writers and friends all linked via the immense correspondence of H.P. Lovecraft, who made it a point to introduce his many like-minded friends to one another and encourage them to share stories, utilize each other's invented fictional trappings, and help each other succeed in the pulp field.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Being a mom means never buying the right amount produce. Either everyone suddenly loves grapes and a week's worth is eaten in one day, or fruit flies are congregating around the bananas. --Submitted by #RHOZ
Moonbeam: I dream therefore I exist. --August Strindberg
Late Night Snacks of the Week: On Wednesday, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R, SC) wore a mask emblazoned “censored” as she addressed the House with a microphone. Do you know how dumb you look? You’re speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives and being broadcast on national television. It’s like LeBron James wearing a shirt that says 'play me, coach!'--Seth Meyers / This year’s inauguration is less democratic celebration and more military occupation. Now, if you have trouble telling your rioters in camo from the good guys in camo, the national guard will be the ones without the Confederate flags. --Stephen Colbert / When you have hair dye constantly leaking into your eyes, it’s hard to see anything coming. These two were inseparable, and now it’s come to this? It feels like Dr Frankenstein breaking up with Igor. --Jimmy Fallon / The president has reportedly refused to take Giuliani’s calls any more – now the only way for Rudy to get through is if someone says his name three times in a mirror. --Jimmy Kimmel
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie plays kangaroo in his mother's coat.
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: The lead guitarist for Queen unveiled a new line of perfume that will make you smell somewhat like a badger, proving that you are not the only one having a hard time adjusting to life in quarantine. We don't really know why anyone would want to smell like a badger, an animal that literally has bad in its name. The perfume is over $200 a bottle, but a portion of the proceeds go to restore and protect badger populations in Great Britain. That seems great until you start to wonder where exactly they're getting all this badger smell from. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 1/16/21
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. --Jose Marti
It was so windy my speedometer was going backwards./ I hate windy weather; it really blows./ You can use a news anchor to keep your newspaper from being blow away.
..........Cruise the speed of light.........Judas Priest …..Ridin on the Wind
^^^ Howard was born January 22, 1906 in Peaster, Texas, the only son of a traveling country physician, Dr. Isaac Mordecai Howard, and his wife, Hester Jane Ervin Howard. His early life was spent wandering through a variety of Texas cowtowns and boomtowns.
Unnumbered Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Life is short. Make sure you spend as much time as possible on the internet arguing with strangers about politics. --Submitted by gr of oh
Weird Word of the Week: Adocography – good writing on a trivial base subject OR rhetorical praise of things of doubtful value. World Wide Words: Adoxography
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Soften your feet. Before going to bed, coat your feet with Albreto VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing and put on a pair of sock. Alberto VO5®: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: This challenge came from listener Dan Pitt, of Palo Alto, Calif. Take the name BUENOS AIRES. Remove one letter. The remaining letters can be rearranged to name two things that many people wish for around this time of year. What are they? NPR Sunday Puzzle 12/27/20 Answer below
It was so windy I got there a half hour before I left. / On the way home it was so windy I was passed by a butterfly while I was going down hill.
...........It might have appeared to go unnoticed.........Bette Midler …..Wind Beneath My Wings
^^^^ Howard wrote Westerns (The Horror from the Mound), Detective Fiction (shorts stories in Top Notch), and Adventure (The Daughter Erlik Khan)
Antipenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Whatever you hear about me please believe it. I no longer have time to explain myself. You can also add some if you want. --Submitted by INRITH
Science Fiction Joke of the Week: A lot of Star Wars fans come up to me and ask me to say “Luke, I am your father.” And I'll remind them that the quote is actually “No, I am your father.” Then I use the force to choke them within an inch of their life while they weep and beg for forgiveness. I love my fans. --James Earl Jones
Actual Science Joke of the Week: A group of wealthy investors wanted to be able to predict the outcome of a horse race. So they hired a group of biologists, a group of statisticians, and a group of physicists. Each group was given a year to research the issue. After one year, the groups all reported to the investors. The biologists said that they could genetically engineer an unbeatable racehorse, but it would take 200 years and $100bn. The statisticians reported next. They said that they could predict the outcome of any race, at a cost of $100m per race, and they would only be right 10% of the time. Finally, the physicists reported that they could also predict the outcome of any race, and that their process was cheap and simple. The investors listened eagerly to this proposal. The head physicist reported, "We have made several simplifying assumptions: first, let each horse be a perfect rolling sphere… "
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Bonus, Raise
The most powerful winds tend to come on Windsdays. / The tornado had to take a break; it was out of wind.
..........Wish I was a headlight on a west bound train.........Kingston Trio …..Chilly Winds
^^^^^ In June 1936, as his tubercular mother slipped into her final coma, her son maintained a death vigil with his father and friends of the family, getting little sleep, drinking huge amounts of coffee, and growing more despondent. On the morning of June 11, 1936, Howard asked one of his mother's nurses if she would ever regain consciousness. When she told him no, he walked out to his car in the driveway, took the pistol from the glove box, and shot himself in the head.
Quote of the Week: Welcome to the Brexit, sir. --A Dutch border guard to a British lorry driver after confiscating his ham sandwich because you can't bring meat into the EU.
Recreating Famous Painting With Anything You Can Find of the Week:
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Accordion to a recent study, 7 out of 10 people don't notice when a word in a sentence is replaced by a musical instrument.
Today's Peace of History, January 22, 1973: Women won control of their reproductive rights when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that Americans have a constitutional right to privacy, and thus women may terminate a pregnancy before the last 10 weeks. Prior to Roe v. Wade as many as 5,000 American women died annually as a direct result of unsafe abortions.
It was so windy that when it stopped everyone fell down. / Wind turbines like to make music;; they're huge metal fans.
..........I can't stay here and I'm scared to leave.........Joan Baez …..Whistle Down the Wind
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle January 22, 2021, Breezy ePistle. Wackiness, Wind, and Wonder. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: God was the original segregationist. --Ross Barnnet
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. --Dan Rather
Cost of War:
As of 1/21/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,098,096,278,294.
As of 1/14/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,096,069,730,097.
As of 1/21/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,014,813,065,947.
As of 1/14/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,013,435,656,184.
As of 1/21/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $825,422,275,921.
As of 1/14/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $823,690,446,775.
As of 1/21/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $343,232,354,722.
As of 1/14/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $342,838,722,585.
As of 1/21/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,281,564,960,727.
As of 1/14/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,276,035,125,263.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but their life, honor and future as well. --Jose Marti
Famous Last Words: You get a good rest too. Good night. --Thornton Wilder Our Town
..........Let me fly away with you.........Barbra Streisand …..Wild Is the Wind
It was so windy I had to stop and have a beer. / If these winds could just blow COVID right the hell out of here, that would be great.
May Peace blow gently through you
And Joy swirl around your life
prairie mama
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