Famous First Words: Space: The Final Frontier... Star Trek Opening Sequence
It is Extraterrestrial Visitor Week. If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else. --Stephen Hawking / Aliens harvest their crops with tractor beams.
..........tell me did you sail across the sun.........Train …..Drops of Jupiter
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. --Abraham Lincoln
It is a frigid (2°F) morning. The sun is shining brightly and reflecting off the snow. A light wind emphasizes the cold without actually blowing your hat off. The sky is wonderfully blue with puffs of white and gray floating about. My semi-annual visit to the doctor went well and I am cutting back on my blood pressure meds and keeping my thyroid pills. I had not lost (or gained) any weight but I was wearing 47 pounds worth of clothes because it's 2 degrees outside. There is no wildlife skittering about the yard nor birds filling the air. It is quiet and clear and cold. Life in Kansas.
May your weekend be filled with stars, epistliers.
**Mos Eisley is the name of the spaceport bar in the very first Star Wars movie.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I don't understand why couples do 3 month anniversary posts, I've had cups in my room longer than that. --Submitted by INRITH
Shameless Self Promotion of the Week: Last week Beth Schultz and I participated in a February Sisters program for University Women. The recording of that program is online at February Sisters – YouTube
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens..We can't be the best that creation has to offer. --Ellen Degeneres / We finally got a message from the mothership. It said “When I said take out the trash, I didn't mean to throw it into the ocean.”
..........I just decided by the grace of the god Poseidon.........Ghostemane …..Mercury: Retrograde
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday, Annie Get Your Gun
^ Know who wrote Annie?
^^ Who played Annie and Frank at the Broadway opening in 1946?
^^^ Who played Annie and Frank in the movie version?
^^^^ Care to guess how many performances the original play ran?
^^^^^ What's your favorite song from Annie Get Your Gun?
Big Hello: néih hóu also transliterated Nin háo– Chinese https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Getting REAL TIRED of babysitting my mom's grand kids right now. --Submitted by FNOG
Max Picture of the Week: Max gets a message from heaven and takes up t-ball
Happy Birthday to Rhapsody in Blue: George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue - YouTube
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: For every library rule there is an equal and opposite library rule. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
We don't need to prove the existence of aliens. That's unproductive, unless we make a bet on it. --Toba Beta / Earth Tourism Tours include: The Loch Ness Scenic Tour, the Yeti Exchange Program, and Unicorn Safari
..........He's the best selling show.........David Bowie …..Life on Mars
Moonbeam: The truth will make you odd. --Judy Blume
Meditation of the Week: Breathe in Strength, Breathe out Bullshit --The Fuck That Meditation
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Whenever a child learns critical thinking, somewhere a conspiracy theory dies
Week of the Week: Children's Authors & Illustrators Week (7-13) –E B White was always cold because he was surrounded by drafts. / My friend Joan was a writer of children's mysteries. Her pen name was Bic.
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life. --Neil deGrasse Tyson / Monday on Mercury: Another scorcher today. 800°. Yeah, we're lucky it's a dry heat.
..........You can never see it with your eyes.........Skillet …..Saturn
^ Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and book by Dorothy and Herbert Fields.
Almanac: It is Friday, February 12, 2021. The moon was new yesterday and is in Pisces. It is the Lunar New Year, Darwin Day, NAACP Day, Oglethorpe Day, Paczki Day, Paul Bunyan Day (birthday), and Safety Pup Day.
Among those born on this day were John Winthrop (1588), Cotton Mather (1663), Louisa (Catherine Johnson) Adams (1775), Charles Darwin (1809), Abraham Lincoln (1809), John L. Lewis (1880), Omar Bradley (1893), Ted Mack(1904), Forrest Tucker (1919), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Arlen Specter (1930), Bill Russell (1934), Judy Blume (1938), Moe Bandy (1944), Paula Zahn (1956), Arsenio Hall (1958), Stephen Baldwin (1967), and Christina Ricci (1980).
On February twelfth the English parliament came together (1624), Chile gained independence (1818), Ecuador annexed the Galapagos Islands (1832), Spalding opened a sporting good shop (1876), the National Croquet League was organized (1880),the NAACP was founded (1909), Rhapsody in Blue premiered (1924), Annie Get Your Gun closed (1949), Eisenhower sent the first US advisors to Vietnam (1955), Macon GA began a bus boycott (1962), and Radio Free Harlem began transmitting (1967).
Night Sky, 2/12: Orion stands his highest in the south by about 8 pm, looking smaller than you probably remember him appearing early in the winter when he was low. You're seeing the "Moon illusion" effect. Constellations, not just the Moon, look bigger when they're low. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
This Week: Saturday, February 13 – Galentine's Day & International Condom Day & National Wingman's Day
Sunday, February14 – St Valentine's Feast & League of Women Voters Day & Race Relation Sunday
Night Sky, 2/14: By 9 pm or so, the Big Dipper stands on its handle in the northeast. In the northwest, Cassiopeia also stands on end (its brighter end) at about the same height. Between them is Polaris.
Monday, February 15 – Lupercalia & National Hippo Day & Susan B Anthony Day
My folks came to US as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien. --Leonard Nimoy / The first person Takok, the Marian, met on earth was the editor of Boy's Life. Takok shook his hand and said, “Take me to your reader”.
..........the black moon shines on a lake.........Patti Smith Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)
^^ The 1946 opening of Annie saw Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley and Ray Middleton as Frank Butler.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If I had known in March that it would be the last time I could go to a restaurant, I would have ordered the dessert. --ja of ks
Moonbeam: Fear is often disguised as moral outrage. --Judy Blume
Late Night Snacks of the Week: Pennsylvania groundhog Punxsutawney Phil today saw his shadow which in COVID time means 6 more weeks of February. --Seth Meyers / Hey, here's a question. Why aren't these vaccination stations open 24 hours. Why is it hard to get a shot. How is it that 7-11 manages to stay open all night and the places with the life saving drugs close at 8. Put the vaccine in slurpees if you have to; I want out of my house. --Jimmy Kimmel / Seriously who's having a better year than Netflix. Even Purell is jealous. --Jimmy Fallon / Check your calendar, we have completed 2, count them 2 weeks, of the Biden administration and so much has changed. For instance liquor sales have plummeted, and that just at my house. --Stephen Colbert
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie...Power to the really short people
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: On Wednesday nights, people have a special meal in Sweden. It's called Lillordag, which means Little Saturday. They drink cocktails. They talk about how "Wednesday Night Live" used to be so much better. --Peter Sagal Thursday is called We Don't Get Anything Done Thursday. --Peter Grosz Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 2/6/21
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war except its ending. --Abraham Lincoln
Earth is the Alabama of the universe and that's the reason aliens are not spending their quatloos here. --Kathleen Madigan / How do you put a baby alien to sleep? You rocket.
..........on the burning edge horizon.........Jimi Hendrix …..Valleys of Neptune
^^^ Betty Hutton and Howard Keel played Annie and Frank in the 1950 movie release. In the made for TV movie aired in 1957 Mary Martin and John Raitt played the pair.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I'm just curious: how are you going to celebrate Extraterrestrial Culture Day on Tuesday? Mel and I have a couple of discount coupons to Perkins. I think that might be a good place to find extraterrestrials. I guess that would include us. --ab of ks
Weird Word of the Week: Dandiprat – a little man Nobody has the slightest idea where the word comes from. It first appeared in the language in the early sixteenth century in the sense of a small coin that was current at the time, curiously worth 1½ pence, but then quickly develops its other senses. World Wide Words: Dandiprat
Quote of the Week: Unfortunately, however, many of the same science fiction writers who started us thinking about the possibility of extraterrestrial life did nothing to make us think about here-at-home variation – women, blacks, Indians, Asians, Hispanics, etc. --Octavia Butler
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Remove an adhesive bandage painlessly. Rub in a little Alberto VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing into the bandage winds, wait a few minutes, then peel off. Alberto VO5®: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: This challenge came from listener Derrick Niederman, of Charleston, S.C. Starting in Montana, you can drive into South Dakota and then into Iowa. Those three states have the postal abbreviations MT, SD, and IA — whose letters can be rearranged to spell AMIDST. The challenge is to do this with four connected states to make an eight-letter word. That is, start in a certain state, drive to another, then another, and then another. Take the postal abbreviations of the four states you visit, mix the letters up and use them to spell a common eight-letter word. Derrick and I know of only one answer. Can you do this? --NPR Sunday Puzzle 2/7/21
Aunt of Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My brother just texted me: “I love the fact that the entire moral fate of the country depends on finding just 17 honest Republicans. It's like some impossible task from a fairytale. --Submitted by jm of ks
Or perhaps they are here, but in hiding because of some Lex Galactica, some ethic of noninterference with emerging civilizations. We can imagine them, curious and dispassionate, observing us, as we would watch a bacterial culture in a dish of agar, to determine whether this year again, we manage to avoid self-destruction. --Carl Sagan / Farmer Fran hung a space suit on a pole in her wheatfield to discourage crop circles.
...........the world's oblique.........Paul Weller …..Saturn's Pattern
^^^^ Annie ran for1,147 performances and spawned revivals, a film and a television version. In addition it ran in London and was revived there. There were 2 US touring companies and 2 Broadway revivals.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My idea of a super bowl is a toilet that cleans itself. --Maxine
Science Fiction Joke of the Week: The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied. --Douglas Adams
Actual Science Joke of the Week: Have a problem, need an answer? Ask a chemist; they have all the solutions.
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: FLAGRANT (Florida -GeorgiA -TeNnessee -ARkansas)
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. --Arthur C Clarke / There are creatures living on Mars. They suck iron out of the soil and pee red, which explains its color. The creatures are called Lunaticks.
..........Til our time and space combine.........Usher …..Mars vs Venus
^^^^^ Your choices are: **Doin' What Comes Natur'lly **The Girl That I Marry **You Can't Get A Man With A Gun **There's No Business Like Show Business **They Say It's Wonderful **I'm An Indian Too **I Got Lost In His Arms **I Got The Sun In The Morning **Anything You Can Do yes, there are several others but I got tired of typing. ~~I couldn't pick
Recreating Famous Painting With Anything You Can Find of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Spock: So, what did you get when you mixed the human DNA with the whale DNA? Kirk: Kicked out of Sea World.
Something Good About 2020 of the Week: Fossil fuel divestment gathered pace. Divestment movement and disclosure gather pace; China set to trade carbon - We Mean Business coalition
Today's Peace of History, February 12, 1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by sixty blacks and whites in a call to safeguard civil, legal, economic, human, and political rights of black Americans partly in reaction to a race riot in 1908 in Springfield, Illinois, home of Abraham Lincoln.
I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, “What?” --Neil deGrasse Tyson / If athletes get athlete's foot do astronauts get missletoe?
..........Breathe it in with me..........Jay Sean …..Mars
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle February 12, 2021, Mos Eisley ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need. --Judy Blume
Cost of War:
As of 2/4/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,104,012,027,938.
As of 2/4/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,102,049,608,855.
As of 2/4/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,018,833,484,497.
As of 2/4/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,017,499,893,855.
As of 2/4/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $830,476,491,392.
As of 2/4/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $828,799,367,531.
As of 2/4/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $344,381,049,874.
As of 2/4/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $343,999,829,493.
As of 2/4/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,297,704,094,919.
As of 2/4/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,292,349,215,961.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. --Abraham Lincoln
..........Let me see what spring in like on Jupiter or Mars..........Frank Sinatra …..Fly Me to the Moon
I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos? --Stephen Hawking / Remember if you encounter an alien, give him some space.
Famous Last Words: la ciudad de Independencia. Declaration of Independence of Chile
May Peace fill your space
And Joy fill your heart
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