Famous First Words: If poverty be a title to poetry... John Gay Beggar's Opera
It's National Puzzle Day. Thanks to our mutual dislike of newspaper puzzles, my partner and I have enjoyed 30 long happy years with nary a crossword. / My family is worried that I'm addicted to dot to dot puzzles. I'm OK though; I know where to draw the line.
..........There's a bright golden haze on the meadow..........John Raitt (Curly) …..Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
There is no future for a people who deny their past. --Adam Clayton Powell Jr
It is a sunny Friday morning. The sky is free of clouds and a light breeze switches around the willow branches and accents the 35°F temperature. Bruno is walking his perimeter and keeping an eye on a workman who is going in and out from the truck to the house and back. In my room the sounds are humming computer and clicking keys. My temperature is 97.5 (I take it twice a day now) and some invisible bird with a squeaky song has come to sing a welcome to the morning. I doctor a cup of holiday cheer decaf and the bird is gone by the time I get back to the window. But I get to sip the steamy, creamy coffee with a hint of cinnamon and something else I can't identify. It warms my nose and wakes up my tongue. Wow. And KU actually won last night. Cool. This is a fine way to start a fine morning.
Hope your weekend answers all your questions, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If you cannot be positive then at least be quiet. --Submitted by HPF
The inventor of the Word Jumble puzzle died this week. They're still trying to figure out his will. / Puzzler pick up lines: You are the piece that completes my puzzle?
..........There's no red carpet at your feet..........John Raitt (Sid) ….A New Town Is A Blue Town
Trivia Questions: Neptune is likely millions of years old, however, Earthlings have only known about it for 408 years. How much have we learned about that planet.
^ What is Neptune's place in planetary closeness to the sun?
^^ Compared to earth, how big is Neptune.
^^^ How much do you know about Neptune's atmosphere?
^^^^ How many moons does Neptune have?
^^^^^ Any idea which if any spacecraft have flown by Neptune?
Big Hello: Osiyo (ᎣᏏᏲ) - Cherokee https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The key to happiness is low expectations. Lower. Nope, even lower. There you go. --Submitted by INRITH
Max Picture of the Week: Max singing a lullaby to Biscuit.
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 90% of librarians use the villains from their favorite books to give nicknames to people they don't like https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
A complete breakfast is bacon and eggs with a finished puzzle. / My friend is losing her mind over one missing piece of a 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. I don't know why; I'm missing 4,999 pieces.
..........He had a heart of gold and he wasn't very old...........John Raitt (Curly) ….Pore Jud Is Daid
Moonbeam: Security is a denial of life. --Germaine Greer
Meditation of the Week: Release: “Your dog is well trained and can be unleashed. . . . Let go of all effort and allow the mind to just be.” How to Bring Humor to Meditation (berkeley.edu)
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Antarctica: I am the coldest place on earth. Kansas: Hold my beer. --Submitted by #RHOZ
Something Good About 2020 of the Week: The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica closed.
My uncle worked for a newspaper's crossword puzzle team, but only contributed one awesome clue in his career; you could say it was a one hint wonder. / He was so rude he called the bag of pork chops a Peppa Pig Jigsaw Puzzle.
..........The dashboard's genuine leather..........John Raitt (Curly) ….Surrey With The Fringe On Top
^ Neptune is the 8th and most distant in our solar system. ~~Because they demoted out Pluto.
Almanac: It is Friday, January 29, 2021. The moon was full (wolf) yesterday and is in Leo. It is Curmudgeons Day, Fun at Work Day, Freethinkers Day, National Preschool Fitness Day, National Puzzle Day, and Thomas Paine Day. In Kansas it is Kansas Admission.
Among those born on this day were Daniel Bernoulli (1700), Carlmann Kolb (1703), Giuseppe Bonno (1711), Thomas Paine (1737), Vasili A Zjukovski (1783), Earnest E Kummer (1810), Ebenezer Howard (1850), Anton Chekhov (1860), Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867), John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874), W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield, 1880), Marguerite Canal (1890), Adam Clayton Powell (1908), Prof. Irwin Corey (1912), Halfdan Rasmussen (1915), John Raitt (1917), Paddy Chayevsky (1923), Bobby Scott (1937), Germaine Greer (1939), Katherine Ross (1942), Tom Selleck (1945), Oprah Winfrey (1954), Irlene Mandrell (1957), Paul McGann (1959), and Sara Gilbert (1975).
On January twenty-ninth Galileo observed Neptune but failed to recognize what he saw (1613), Beggar's Opera premiered (1728), The Raven was first published (1845), Kansas became the 34th state (1861), Benz patented the gasoline fueled car (1886), the ice cream cone rolling machine was patented (1924), the first Baseball Hall of Fame inductees were elected (1936), All My Sons premiered (1947), Paul Newman married Joanne Woodward (1958), Nauru (Pleasant Island) adopted its constitution (1968), and Emerson, Lake & Palmer disbanded (1979).
Night Sky, 1/29: The Moon, a day past full, rises in late twilight. Once it's well up, look for Regulus 4° or 5° to its lower right, and Algieba, slightly fainter, a similar distance to the Moon's left or lower left. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week:
This Week: Saturday, January 30 – Fancy Rat & Mouse Day & Fruitcake Toss Day & National Seed Swap Day
Sunday, January 31 – Inspire Your Heart With Art Day & Street Children Day
Night Sky, 1/31: Once it's fully dark, spot the equilateral Winter Triangle in the southeast. Sirius is its brightest and lowest star. Betelgeuse stands above Sirius by about two fists at arm's length. To the left of their midpoint is Procyon.
Monday, February 1 – Candy Making Day & National Get Up Day & Freedom Day
Tuesday, February 2 – Groundhog Day & Imbolc & Candlemas & Marmot Day
Wednesday, February 3 – Feed the Birds Day & National Girls and Women in Sports Day
Night Sky, 2/3: Mercury is having an excellent apparition in evening twilight. Mercury is often called "elusive," but this week it's easy. Look for it low in the west-southwest about 40 or 50 minutes after sunset. In addition to being nearly as high as it ever gets in twilight, Mercury is also brighter than usual, about magnitude –0.5 all week.
Thursday, February 4 – National Hemp Day & Quacker Day & USO Day
So sad to hear about the death of the man who invented the jigsaw puzzle. May he rest in pieces. / I bought a mystery novel about a jigsaw puzzler. I'm still trying to piece it together.
..........I'm entitled to a hell of a show..........John Raitt (Billy) …..The Highest Judge Of All
^^ Neptune is about 4 times wider than earth. If earth were a large apple, Neptune would be a basketball.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: President Biden better start insulting Ted Cruz's entire family right now or he's never going to win him over. --Polar John --Submitted by gr of oh
Moonbeam: A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. --Germaine Greer
Late Night Snacks of the Week: Today we were reality-boarded --Stephen Colbert / Feels good to only have to worry about a deadly pandemic -- Jimmy Kimmel / For the next two years, we can confirm liberal judges and pass legislation that doesn’t suck. --Samatha Bee / Biden’s like the grandpa who sits quietly in the recliner all day reading the newspaper but then when it gets too cold, you have to ask him to chop the firewood because no one else knows how. --Seth Meyers / All Biden has to do is have a vaccine plan and not lie for ten minutes, and he's basically the next George Washington. --Trevor Noah
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ziggy singing a lullaby to Ollie
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: Peloton bikes are, of course, linked via the Internet so that users can enjoy virtual classes and even competition with other douchebags all over the world. And some worry that if President Biden brings his Peloton to the White House, hackers could use it to get into the White House system. It seems, though, that the best security is just to leave it be. Some Russian hacks in and is confronted with a sweaty 78-year-old torso wearing a sleeveless kiss me, I'm Irish T-shirt. Nyet. Nyet. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 1/23/21
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. --Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
How am I; well, better than a crossword. I'm not 6 down and 3 across. / I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces; and when you finish it, it says “GO OUTSIDE”.
..........You on that high flying cloud..........John Raitt (Sid) …Hey There
^^^ Neptune's atmosphere is made up mostly of molecular hydrogen, atomic helium, and methane.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: There's no “WE” in fries. --Submitted by INRITH
Weird Word of the Week: Banglored – lost a job with a multinational because it moved the job to India. World Wide Words: Bangalored
Worthless Fact of the Week: At the inauguration and in all the pictures of all those women (Kamala, Hiliary, Jill, Laura, Michelle) none of them were carrying a purse.
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Prevent static electricity in your hair. Comb a dab of Alberto VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing through your hair. Alberto VO5®: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: This challenge came from listener Michael Shteyman of Freeland, MD. Name a person in 2011 world news in eight letters. Remove the third, fourth, and fifth letters. The remaining letters, in order, will name a person in 2021 world news. What names are these? --NPR Puzzle Sunday 1/17/21 Answer below
How many pieces does it take to solve an anime puzzle? One piece or Over 9000. Only a few people will understand it xD / I know this kid with Asperger. When you give him a Rubik's cube it takes him like 12 seconds to say “Thank you”
...........For many an' many a long long day..........John Raitt (Billy) …..Blow High, Blow Low
^^^^ Each of the14 moons is named for a mythological Greek water deity. Moving from closest to Neptune to furthest out, their names are Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, S/2004 N1 (which has yet to receive an official name), Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Halimede, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe, and Neso
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Bernadette – the act of torching a mortgage. --Submitted by sd of ??
Science Fiction Joke of the Week: That movie Elysium, it was over my head. It happened in space, it was over all our heads.
Extra Unnamed Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Whiskey, please. Sir, this is McDonald's. OK, a McWhiskey, then. --Submitted by #RHOZ
Actual Science Joke of the Week: I'm a chemistry teacher. If I don't have a solution, I will make one up.
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Bin Laden ... Biden
I got my kids logic puzzles for Christmas because they needed some presents of mind. / Life is like a Rubik's Cube. If you get one side of it all smooth and organized, you usually mess up all the other sides in the process.
..........Your sighs are so like mine..........John Raitt (Curly) ….People Will Say We're In Love
^^^^^ Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Neptune. None has orbited the planet for lengthy up close study.
Quotes of the Week: Sen. Hawley was doing something that was really dumbass. --Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse / Hawley led the parade to the edge of a cliff. --KC Star
Recreating Famous Painting With Anything You Can Find of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I'm writing about all the things I ought to do before I die. It's my oughtobiography.
Today's Peace of History, January 29, 1926: Violette Neatly Anderson became the first black woman to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Last Halloween I went to a fancy masquerade as a jigsaw piece but I just didn't fit in. / He's been working on that jigsaw puzzle for months now...I just don't have the heart to tell him it's a box of Lucky Charms.
..........Words wouldn't come in an easy way..........John Raitt (Billy) …..If I Loved You
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle January 29, 2021, ePistle enigma. Peace, Pleasantries, & Puzzles Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Women have very little idea how much men hate them. --Germaine Greer
Cost of War:
As of 1/28/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,099,998,995,739.
As of 1/21/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,098,096,278,294.
As of 1/28/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,016,106,178,942.
As of 1/21/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,014,813,065,947.
As of 1/28/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $827,047,871,759.
As of 1/21/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $825,422,275,921.
As of 1/28/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $343,601,802,702.
As of 1/21/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $343,232,354,722.
As of 1/28/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,286,755,692,057.
As of 1/21/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,281,564,960,727.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
No one can say Christianity has failed. It has never been tried. --Adam Clayton Powell Jr
..........Together we've so much to gain..........John Raitt (Sid) …The World Around Us ~~Today's songs are from the three musicals: Pajama Games...Oklahoma...Carousel
I bought a book of Sudoku Puzzles but they turned out to be pseudo-ku./ Did you hear about the mathematician who committed Sudoku? He really did a number on himself.
Famous Last Words: Nevermore. --Edgar Allen Poe The Raven
May Peace provide the pieces
And Joy give the answer
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