Famous First Words: Honi soit qui mal y pense (Middle French) Shame on him who thinks evil of it. --Motto of the Order of the Garter.
Happy Birthday, Bill... I do desire we may be better strangers. --Shakespeare (As You Like It) / Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon! --Shakespeare (Timon of Athens)
..........So you think twenty-one is going to be a good year...........The Who …..1921
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modesty and humility. --William Shakespeare
It is a warmish (48°F) but cloudy Friday morning. The sky is not visible through the slate gray shelf which is adorned with puffy white wisps. There is little wind and the willow branches are quite lazy as they sway. Birds of various songs are discussing today's plans and a dog is barking somewhere in the distance. A fat robin sits on the fence surveying the yard and listening to the chatter. I sit in my room, Puck at my feet, watching the day begin and sipping sweet, creamy decaf. The whole house smells of brewing coffee and bath soap, in other words, of morning. A gust of wind or a leaping squirrel has made a single branch of Bruno's tree shake as if the whole tree is laughing at the morning...and I understand why.
Hope your weekend is “better than figs”, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My wife and I have taken four photos together in the last two years, meanwhile we have ninety three photos of our dog sleeping since last week. --Submitted by #RHOZ
Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. --Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) / Most friendship is feigning, most loving is folly. --Shakespeare (As You Like It)
..........He's never been more alive...........The Who …..The Acid Queen
Trivia Questions: It is the 53rd anniversary of the student take-over of Columbia University. Here's a hard quiz.
^ Know what caused the initial protest?
^^ Remember any of the epithets used to describe the situation?
^^^ Which campus organizations planned the protest?
^^^^ What was the Doonesbury character who was based on one of the protest leaders?
^^^^^ How did it work out?
Big Hello: Tanisi (ᑕᓂᓯ) - Cree https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain. --Anna Garlin Spencer --Submitted by MMS (Marginal Mennonite Society)
Max Picture of the Week: Max the share-ee
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: At any given moment 12% of librarians are hiding in the box drop. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Love sought, is good; but given unsought, is better. --Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) / There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned --Shakespeare (Antony & Cleopatra)
..........That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball...........The Who …..Pinball Wizard
Moonbeam: My job is to paint what I see, not what I know. --J M W Turner
Meditation Seed of the Week: What/Who did you make better today?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If I had to choose between bacon and coffee, I would slap the person who is making me choose. --Submitted by INRITH
Weekend of the Week: American Crossword Puzzle Days (23-25) -- The clue is “overloaded postman” and the number of letter is a sackful. / The solution to the toilet paper shortage is the same as the solution to a crossword puzzle...One square at a time.
Thou sodden-witted lord! Thou hast no more brain than I have in my elbows. --Shakespeare (Troilus & Cressida) / There is no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune. --Shakespeare (Henry IV, Part 1)
..........I'm your wicked Uncle Ernie...........The Who …..Fiddle About
^ The university had been expanding into the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Harlem at the expense of local housing and businesses for years. To placate the residents, Columbia proposed building a new gym to share with the community. Except the locals could access only 12 % of the gym and would be required to enter by the backdoor.
Almanac: It is Friday, April 23, 2021. The moon is full (Pink) tonight and is in Virgo. Content Creator Day, Day of Silence, English Language Day, English Muffin Day, Impossible Astronaut Day, Movie Theatre Day, National Lost Dog Awareness Day, Spanish Language Day, Talk Like Shakespeare Day, World Book & Copyright Day, and World Book Night. In Bermuda it is Peppercorn Day and in Turkey they celebrate National Sovereignty Day/Children's Day (1923).
Among those born on this day were Boris Godunov (1551), William Shakespeare (1564), Joseph Turner (1775), James Buchanan (1791), Stephen Douglas (1813), Max Planck (1858), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Warren Spahn (1921), Shirley Temple Black (1928), George Steiner (1929), Estelle Harris (1936), Roy Orbison (1936), Lee Majors (1939), Sandra Dee (Alexandra Zuck, 1944), Bernadette Devlin (1947), Jan Hooks (1957), and John Oliver (1977).
On April twenty-third Jesus was crucified (according to Isaac Newton, 34), the first English order of knighthood was founded (Order of the Garter, 1348), the Boston Latin School was founded becoming the first US public institution (1635), Canada issued its first postage stamps (1851), the American Academy of Arts and Letters formed (1904), The North Sea Accords were signed (Denmark, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, & Sweden, 1908), The National Urban League formed (1918), Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin premiered (1939), US Supreme court ended race segregation on buses (1956), Ranger 4 became the first US satellite to reach the moon (1962), Baldwin's Blues for Mr Charlie premiered (1964), the United Methodist Church formed (1968), student strike seized the administrative offices at Columbia University (1968), New Coke debuted (1985), and Tommy premiered (1993).
Night Sky, 4/23: The Arch of Spring. As night descends, look high in the west for Pollux and Castor lined up almost horizontally depending on your latitude. These two stars, the heads of the Gemini twins, form the top of the enormous Arch of Spring. To their lower left is Procyon, the left end of the Arch. Farther to their lower right is the other end, formed by Menkalinan (Beta Aurigae) and then brilliant Capella. This spring the Arch has an intruder: little Mars. Tonight you'll find Mars the same distance lower right from the Castor-Pollux pair as it is lower left from Capella. The whole array sinks in the west through the evening. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Liberty Hall, Lawrence Kansas
This Week: Saturday, April 24 – Eeyore's Birthday & International Sculpture Day & National Herb Day
Night Sky, 4/24: This evening Arcturus shines about three fists left of the Moon. And look below the Moon by hardly more than half that distance, and perhaps a bit left, to find Spica, the leading light of Virgo.
Sunday, April 25 – DNA Day & National Pet Parents Day & World Penguin Day
Monday, April 26 – Alien Day & Hug An Australian Day & National Pretzel Day & Audubon Day
Tuesday, April 27 – Babe Ruth Day & Morse Code Day & World Tapir Day
Wednesday, April 28 – Denim Day & Workers Memorial Day & International Guide Dogs Day
Night Sky, 4/28: Jupiter and Saturn (both in dim Capricornus) are low in the southeast just before and during early dawn. Jupiter grabs the eye at magnitude –2.1. Saturn glows a thirteenth as bright at magnitude +0.7. Catch Saturn a little more than a fist at arm's length to Jupiter's right or upper right before dawn grows too bright.
Thursday, April 29 – International Dance Day & Peace Rose Day & World Wish Day
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. --Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice) / Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee. --Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)
..........Extra Extra! Read all about it...........The Who …..Miracle Cure
^^ Gym Crow, Gym Crow Door, Ivy Imperialism, Backdoor for Black Brothers
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The biggest change since Rodney King is the video quality. --Submitted by bu of ks
Moonbeam: Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations. --Stephen Douglas
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie the sharer
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: Yes. Subway is, believe it or not, the biggest restaurant chain in the country. And recently, they've closed more locations in the last year than any other restaurant, still leaving way too many locations. They apparently did very poorly during the pandemic, despite replacing their sneeze guard with an N95 guard. I guess during a pandemic, people just don't want a restaurant where the whole appeal is watching a stranger touch all of your food. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 4/17/21
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties are subdued, and neither party loser. --William Shakespeare
Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese. --Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well) / There live not three good men unhanged in England: and one of them is fat. --Shakespeare (Henry IV)
..........He hears but he cannot answer to your call...........The Who …..Go To The Mirror
^^^ Student Afro-American Society (SAS) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) were the organizers of the protest.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: People who claim that the most beautiful thing to watch is sleeping children have never watched their children wash the dishes. --Submitted by INRITH
Weird Word of the Week: Balter – To dance gracelessly, without particular art or skill, but perhaps with some enjoyment. --Middle English --Submitted by INRITH
It Ain't Easy Being Green Anecdote of the Week: I am slowing trying to find substitutes for the plastic I use in my life. So I decided to get a set of silicone lids that stretch over bowls, small plates, etc. thereby replacing tupperware and cheap throwaway imitation tupperware products. I couldn't find the lids in town so I ordered them. They arrived. In a small cardboard box...in wadded paper padding...in a smaller thin cardboard box...in a plastic bag. Accccck!
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Protect the wooden handles of tools. Spray the wood with a thin coat of Albert VO5 Hair Spray and let dry. The hair spray acts like shellac, preserving the wood. Alberto VO5® Hair Spray: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: Think of part of the body in seven letters. Add an "N" and rearrange all the letters to name two more parts of the body (none related to the original word). What body parts are these?
Mine eyes smell onions. --Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well) / Thine face is not worth sunburning. --Shakespeare (Henry V)
...........See me, feel me, touch me, heal me...........The Who …..Smash The Mirror
^^^^ Doonesbury's Megaphone Mark Slackmeyer was based on Mark Rudd, Columbia student, SDS National Secretary and Weather Underground founder.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Do British websites use biscuits? --Blondie Wasabi
Quote of the Week: ...hardhats are actually unisex. --Kamala Harris
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: iMAGICON (23-25, Minot, ND) A Stellar Time Home - iMagicon - Minot ND USA (imagiconnd.com)
Actual Science Convention of the Week: Physics, Dynamics and Molecular Modeling (22-23, NYC) Diverse Scholarly Events International Conference on Physics, Dynamics and Molecular Modeling ICPDMM in April 2021 in New York (waset.org)
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: KNEECAP + N -> NAPE + NECK
Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade. --Shakespeare (Measure for Measure) / You Banbury Cheese! --Shakespeare (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
..........Loving life and becoming wise...........The Who …..Amazing Journey
^^^^^ Ultimately, the occupation gave students at Columbia more power, resulting in the creation of campus structures designed to give students a voice and a vote in university matters. Black students eventually were able to convince the university to add more black faculty members, admit more black students and create a Black Studies program. And in March 1969, the university dropped plans for the gym.
Recreating Famous Art With Anything You Can Find of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Bigfoot saw me yesterday, but nobody believed him. --Submitted by INRITH
Today's Peace of History, April 23, 1971: In the final event of Operation Dewey Canyon III, nearly 1,000 Vietnam War veterans threw their combat ribbons, helmets, and uniforms on the U.S. Capitol steps along with toy weapons.
If manhood, good manhood, be not forgotten upon the face of the earth, then am I am shotten herring (a herring which has spawned). --Shakespeare (Henry IV)
..........Now the grown-ups have all gone away...........The Who …..Cousin Kevin
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle April 23, 2021, Willie's ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. ― Shirley Temple Black
Cost of War:
As of 4/22/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,123,671,746,795.
As of 4/15/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,121,748,656,588.
As of 4/22/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,032,194,531,194.
As of 4/15/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,030,887,508,037.
As of 4/22/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $847,273,211,063.
As of 4/15/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $845,629,816,753.
As of 4/22/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $348,198,474,550.
As of 4/15/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $347,824,931,391.
As of 4/22/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,351,338,862,510.
As of 4/15/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,346,091,659,622.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
...In thy right hand carry gentle peace, to silence envious tongues. --William Shakespeare
Famous Last Words: ...to the ends of the earth. --Jesus
..........Send your troubles dancing...........The Who …..Sensation ~~All of today's songs are from the rock opera Tommy by The Who
I was seeking for a fool when I found you. --Shakespeare (As You Like It) / Hell is empty and all the devils are here. --Shakespeare (The Tempest)
May Peace light upon thy back
And Joy be still upon you
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