Famous First Words: Italy is a democratic Republic based on labor... Constitution of Italy
Starting today hindsight is actually 2020 / Resolutions for 2021: Buy, beg, borrow, or steal all the 2020 calendars I can find and burn them in a giant Epiphany fire.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. --Bill Vaughn
..........When it's exactly twelve o'clock that night..........Ella Fitzgerald …..What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
I'm already against the next war. --Jeff L McLaughlin
It is a cold (28°F) and snowy New Year's morning. Yards are almost pure white with only frozen plants and piles of oak leaves making dots and lines of color. The flakes themselves are small and falling rapidly with only a slight hint of a northern breeze. Even the willow branches are barely moving. The tall pin oak is highlighted with the white stuff even the down sloping branches and the tree whose species I do not know stands still and gathers white fluff in its joints. I hear a dog barking in the distance but birds and squirrels are still at home. Puck went out and left his footprints on the world and then returned to cuddle with the little squeaky bear he got for Christmas. Together they are taking a long winter's nap. I am adding layers to my clothing and sitting by the window watching gusts of wind change the direction of the flow. Sipping Holiday Cheer decaf from a Christmas Cheer mug warms the nostrils and tongue and coaxes the brain into alertness. Ah, a new day, a new year...
May your weekend and your year give you comfort and cheer, my ePistlier.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If I'm ever known as the one that got away, it will be from an asylum. -Submitted by INRITH
Resolutions for 2021: Relearn social cues and appropriate responses. / Change my shirt.
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. --Joey Admas
..........We've come through all the rest..........Barry Manilow …..It's Just Another New Year's Eve
Trivia Questions: It's bowl season.
^ Know who's playing in the Rose Bowl this year?
^^ Where is the Sugar Bowl and when will it be held this year?
^^^ Any idea who'll be playing in the Sugar Bowl?
^^^^ About how many college bowl games will be played this year?
^^^^^ What do you know about the College Championship Game?
Big Hello: Kopisanangan – Central Dusun (Borneo, Malaysia) https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I don't need to know the entire plot for 2020, I just need to understand if I should buy skincare and sweatpants or a purse and some shoes. --Submitted by INRITH
Max Picture of the Week: Sir Hillary Max climbing Mount Dad.
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 38% of librarian cursing is caused by the inter-library loan system. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Resolutions for 2021: Write a novel made up of facebook responses to the question: What advice would you give to any Real Housewives cast member. / Walk all the way to the back porch.
It wouldn't be New Years if I didn't have regrets. --William Thomas
..........took a long time to come..........The Zombies …..This Will Be Our Year
Moonbeam: England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. – E M Forster
Meditation of the Week: Relax: “Relax and allow your puppy [mind] to wander, but if she gets too far away, gently and lovingly carry her back.” From the puppy meditation
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: There are literally NO rules saying your New Year's resolutions can't be for evil. --Submitted by INRITH
Week of the Week: New Year's Resolutions Week (1-8) --A New Year's Resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. / My New Year's resolution is to stop hanging out with people who ask me about my New Year's resolutions.
Resolutions for 2021: Unfriend every person who shares their diet or exercise regimen. / Cut my TV time from 12 to 11 hours.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect. --Brooks Atkinson
..........If I don't see you when the bonfires are burning.........Van Morrison …..Celtic New Year
^ On Friday 1/1/21 at 3 pm (CST) Number 4 Notre Dame will face off against Number 1 Alabama.
Almanac: It is Friday, January 1, 2021. The moon was full (Cold) on Tuesday, and is in Leo. It is Copyright Law Day, Commitment Day, Ellis Island Day, Euro Day, Global Family Day, New Years Day, New Year's Dishonor List Day, Public Domain Day, World Day of Peace, and Z Day.
Among those born on this day were Johann Pfeiffer (1697), Edmund Burke (1729), Paul Revere (1735), Mad Anthony Wayne (1745), Betsy Ross (1752), John Kinker (1764), Charles Renouvier (1815), Nikolay Lodizhensky (1843), James Frazer (1854), Alfred Stieglitz (1864), E.M. Forster (1879), Shalom Asch (1880), George W. Meyer (1884), J Edgar Hoover (1895), Xavier Cugat (1900), Dana Andrews (1909), Barry Goldwater (1909), Joe McDonald (1942), Martin Frost (1942) and Alexei Bobrov (1947),
On January first Samuel Pepys made the first entry in his famous diary (1660), regular mail delivery began between New York & Boston (1673), the first traveler's checks were issued (1772), Ireland & Great Britain united to form the United Kingdom (1801), congress prohibited the importation of slaves (1807), the Emancipation Proclamation was issued (1861), NYC annexed the Bronx (1874), Dr. Watson met Sherlock Holmes (1881), Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants (1892), the first issue of Journal of Negro History was published (1916), Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was established (1923), Alcatraz officially became a federal prison (1934), Italy adopted its constitution (1948). the European Economic Community (Common Market) began operation (1958), Batista fled from Cuba to the Dominican Republic (1959), a major revision of copyright laws was signed (1978), Brunei became independent of the UK (1984), and New York City got its first black mayor ((David Dinkins, 1990).
Night Sky, 1/1: Mercury sets at 5:30 pm. Jupiter sets at 6:50 pm and Saturn at 6:44 all in the southwest. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn as seen from the space center in the UK
Extra Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: May the bridges we burned in 2020 light our way in 2021. --Submitted by #RHOZ
This Week: Saturday, January 2 - Happy Mew Year for Cats Day & National Science Fiction Day
Night Sky, 1/2: Earth is at Perihelion. This is the day when Earth is closest to the sun.
Sunday, January 3 – Festival of Sleep Day & J.R.R. Tolkien Day
Night Sky, 1/3: Quadrantids Meteor Shower peaks tonight. 60-100 / hour Best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere during the night and predawn hours.
Monday, January 4 – Blue Monday & Dimpled Chad Day & Pop Music Chart Day
Tuesday, January 5 – Bird Day & Monopoly Game Day & Twelfth Night
Wednesday, January 6 – Armenian Christmas & Epiphany aka Three Kings Day
Night Sky, : The moon becomes new at 11 pm CST.
Thursday, January 7 – Old Rock Day & Orthodox Christmas & National Bobble-head Day
Resolutions for 2021: Do enough yoga to justify buying $85 yoga pants. / Sorry your candidate(s) lost, but it's time to take the political signs out of the front yard.
My dog ate my New Year's Resolutions. Good boy.
..........Another chance to turn it around..........A Great Big World …..This Is The New Year
^^ The Sugar Bowl will be played in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on January 1st at 7 pm (CST).
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: 2020: Like looking both ways before crossing the street and then getting hit by a submarine.
Moonbeam: In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. -- Alfred Stieglitz
Classic Late Night Snacks of the Week: David Letterman: Top Ten Things the Founding Fathers Would Say If They Were Alive Today: 10) Remember that electoral college thing we made up when we were drunk? They're still using it! 9) Maybe that ruthless monarchy thing in England wasn't such a bad idea after all... 8) Good to see Florida is still using the same old voting machines 7) That's odd -- in my day, we also had a senator named Strom Thurmond 6) Oh, that's the Washington Monument? Yeah, in his dreams 5) Guliani has really wrecked Times Square 4) We risk our lives to form this great nation and you wanna let George W. Bush run it? 3) Back in our time there certainly wasn't anyone as man-tastic as Ricky Martin 2) He did what in the Oval Office? 1) Screw this, we're going to Canada January 2, 2010
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie and the psychedelic spider
Classic Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: The first presidential debate of 2020 ended up being one of those epical historic moments. Years from now, people will ask, do you remember where you were when man first walked on Chris Wallace? --Peter Sagal Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me 10/10/20
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. --Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
Resolutions for 2021: Come to terms with the fact that Opie is on the cover of AARP Magazine./ Eat an actual vegetable
New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future. --Munia Khan
..........We drank a toast to time..........Dan Fogelberg …..Same Old Lang Syne
^^^ The #3 Ohio State Buckeyes will be playing the #2 Clemson Tigers in the Sugar Bowl.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The blue whale's anus can open to 3.5 feet making it the second largest asshole in the world after Mitch McConnell. --ab of kc
Weird Word of the Week: Bummock: ...an old Scots word that describes a large quantity of drink brewed specifically for a special occasion, and in particular at Christmas. In the 18th century a bummack, or bummock, was also the name of a party held for tenants by their landlords at Christmas. 15 Forgotten Christmas Words to Make Your Holiday Merry | Listen & Learn AUS Blog (listenandlearnaustralia.com.au)
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Prevent silver from tarnishing. Apply a thin coat of Alberto VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing with a soft cloth to clean, polish, dry silver candlesticks, picture frames, silver sets, and other decorative items. Wipe off excess leaving behind a very thin, virtually invisible, protective coating. Alberto VO5®: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: This puzzle came from Steve Bagish of Arlington, MA. Using only the letter in the phrase RIDE ON, repeating as often as necessary, find the one word name of a famous fictional animal and the kind of animal it is. NPR Sunday Puzzle, 12/10/20 Sunday Puzzle : NPR
Resolutions for 2021: Eat more tacos. / Take a shower.
Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year! --Mehmet Murat Ildan
...........The wind blows memories through my hall..........Gordon Jenkins …..Happy New Year
^^^^ There will be 37 bowl games this year. Down from 46 last year. Click here for a list.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Nobody claim 2021 as “your year”. We're all going to walk in real slow. Be good. Be quiet. Don't! Touch! Anything! --Submitted by #RHOZ
Science Fiction Joke of the Week: The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. --Douglas Adams
Actual Science Joke of the Week: A dung beetle walks into a bar and says, “Excuse me, is this stool taken?”
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Donner or Donder - reindeer
Resolutions for 2021: Find more reason to use the word “verisimilitude”. / Put on actual clothes for Zoom meetings.
For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. --T S Eliot
..........Kissing the new year in..........Bing Crosby …..Let's Start the New Year Right
^^^^^ On January 11, 2021 the winner of the Rose Bowl will play the winner of the Sugar Bowl in Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens at 7 pm (CST)
Month of the Week: January is National Skating Month --I tried to get into ice skating but I kept getting cold feet. / What was the best part of the Pyeongchang Olympic figure skating? The Koreagraphy
Recreating Famous Painting With Anything You Can Find of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If you can't handle me while I'm broke, then you don't deserve me when I have $600. --Submitted by INRITH
Today's Peace of History, January 1, 1847: Michigan became the first state – the first government in the English-speaking world – to abolish capital punishment (for all crimes except treason). This was done by a vote of the legislature, and was not a part of the state’s constitution until 1964.
Resolutions for 2021: Stop daring people to lick frozen flagpoles. / Refuse to acknowledge the entirety of 2020 during social gatherings. / Glad your candidate(s) won, but it's time to take the political signs out of the front yard.
I think of the new year as a clean slate – to slowly drag my fingernails across.
..........I, I will begin again.........U2 …..New Year's Day
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle, January 1, 2021, Happy New ePistle. Reconciliation, Ribbing, and Resolutions Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. --Shalom Asch
Cost of War:
As of 12/13/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,092,124,706,951.
As of 12/24/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,090,155,954,004.
As of 12/31/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,010,754,726,755.
As of 12/24/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,009,416,716,653.
As of 12/31/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $820,319,915,708.
As of 12/24/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $818,638,247,414.
As of 12/31/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $342,072,689,221.
As of 12/24/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $341,690,529,613.
As of 12/31/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,265,272,897,238.
As of 12/24/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,259,902,379,704.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
You get world peace. You get world peace. We all get world peace. --Unknown
..........Could this be the one.........Tori Amos …..Our New Year
I just need to check facebook to see if anybody liked my status about my resolution to spend less time on facebook.
Resolutions for 2021: Visit somebody, anybody. / Go viral on TikTok.
Famous Last Words: A hundred miles down the road. --John Dos Passos 49th Parallel
May Peace permeate your life
And Joy infuse your year
prairie mama
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