Famous First Words: An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians... The Removal Act
It's National Fragrance Week (24-30) Macy's is selling a new perfume with a new Tesla car smell; they call it Elon Musk. / When I was young I wore Midnight Madness. Now I wear Nine O'clock Knockout.
..........I hear hurricanes a-blowing.........Creedence Clearwater Revival …..Bad Moon Rising
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us. – Arapaho
It is a chilly(52°F) , cloudy Friday morning. The sky is a solid slate gray. A northern breeze is whipping the willow into a frenzy. Birds are staying home and sleeping in. Even Puck is refusing to get out of bed this morning. He has annexed my pillow. Outside, the air feels damp and smells of wet earth and soggy foliage. Small puddles of cold water lurk beneath grassy patches grown tall because there are still pieces of shed laying about the yard hindering mowing. The only sounds are car motors and wheels moving on pavement and the swish of blowing tree branches. But I do not stay long. I am wearing no jacket and the weather is not inviting. Inside it is warm and the coffee is hot and creamy and sweet. Inside is also quiet and free of wind. What a great morning to write to you.
Hope your weekend is a fragrant offering with a pleasing aroma, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Be careful out there. It's “drop a house of a witch” weather and some of you don't need to take chances. --Submitted by RHOZ
Kermit is marketing a new cologne for amphibians. It's his Frogrance collection. / Do you have a perfume that smells like frying bacon?
..........Tambourines and elephants are playin' in the band.........Creedence Clearwater Revival ….Lookin' Out My Back Door
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday to the Golden Gate Bridge!
^ How long is the bridge?
^^ To what does it connect?
^^^ Where does the name Golden Gate come from?
^^^^ What was the initial cost of the bridge?
^^^^^ More or less, how many vehicles cross the bridge every day?
FYI: The day before vehicle traffic was allowed, 200,000 people crossed either on foot or on roller skates
Big Hello: Ahoj – Czech https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Vaccines are a gateway drug to concerts. --Submitted by bc of tx
Max Picture of the Week: Max with wild flowers and an aura
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: Instead of a comfort animal, 39% of librarians carry a copy of their favorite novel everywhere they go. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Which rapper has the worst perfume? 50 scent. / This may be expensive for fragrance but it's cheap for aromatherapy.
..........It ain't me, it ain't me.........Creedence Clearwater Revival ….Fortunate Son
Moonbeam: The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. --G K Chersterson
Meditation Seed of the Week: Can you daydream at night?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Life gave me onions...onionade sucks. --Submitted by INRITH
Week of the Week: Fleet Week in NYC (26-31) --During Fleet Week, New York City gets pretty rowdy. All that yelling, drinking, and raising hell. And then when they're done taping "The View," Fleet Week starts. / It’s Fleet Week in New York. And you know what that means: Next week is Penicillin Week.
Estee Lauder is selling an unscented perfume. It's called Noncents. / It's that bold new fragrance from the Trump Administration. It's called Ms Conduct
..........Over by the courthouse they're starting to unwind..........CCR …..Down on the Corner
^ The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning a one-mile-wide strait.
Almanac: It is Friday, May 28, 2021. The moon was full (Worm) last Thursday and is in Capricorn. It is Amnesty International Founders Day, the Ascension of Baha'U'llah, Menstrual Hygiene Day, National Brisket Day, National Hamburger Day, Sierra Club Day, and Slugs Return From Capistrano Day. In Puerto Rico it is Memorial Day. Because it is the last or 4th Friday it is also Heat Awareness Day and National Title Track Day. Finally because it is the Friday before Memorial Day it is Don't Fry Day, National Cooler Day, National Polka Day, National Road Trip Day, and National Wig Out Day.
Among those born on this day were George I (1660), William Pitt (1759), Eliza Ann Gardner (1831), G K Chesterton (1874), Milutin Milankovic (1879), Theo van Reijn (1884), Jim Thorpe (1888), Henry Ritz (1907), T-Bone Walker (1910), C Wright Mills (1916), Barry Commoner (1917), Papa John Creech (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, 1917), the Dionne Quintuplets (Annette, Cécile, Émilie, Marie, Yvonne, 1934), Gladys Knight (1944), Rudy Giuliani (1944), John Fogerty (CCR, 1945), and Wendy O Williams (Plasmatics, 1949).
On May twenty-eighth the Treaty of Nymphenburg was signed (Bavaria and Spain, 1741), the first steam-vessel in the Great Lakes was launched (1818), Congress authorized Indian removal from all states to the western prairie (1830), Sojourner Truth attended the Women's Rights Convention (1851), the Paris Communards lost (1871), Armenia declared its independence (1919), the US Customs Court was created by congress (1926), Dodge merged with Chrysler (1928), the Golden Gate Bridge opened to vehicular traffic (1937), Berlin's Louisiana Purchase premiered (1940), the first 3-D cartoon premiered (Melody, 1953), Amnesty International was founded (1961), the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded (1964), Apollo 2 was launched into orbit (1964), and John Paul II became the first pope to visit Great Britain (1982).
Night Sky, 5/28: We're in the time of year when Leo the Lion walks downward toward the west, on his way to departing into the sunset in early summer. Right after dark, spot the brightest star fairly high in the west-southwest. That's Regulus, his forefoot. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Joan Baez and Tony Fauci at the National Kennedy Center Honors
This Week: Saturday, May 29 – International Day for UN Peacekeepers & Learn About Composting Day
Sunday, May 30 – Mint Julep Day & National Creativity Day
Night Sky, 5/30: Now look for Antares less than a fist to the right of the Moon after dark. Orange Antares is the brightest and most colorful star of upper Scorpius.
Monday, May 31 – Memorial Day & Save Your Hearing Day & National Smile Day
Tuesday, June 1 – National Go Barefoot Day & National Olive Day & Oscar the Grouch Day
Wednesday, June 2 – Leave the Office Early Day & National Gun Violence Awareness Day & National Tailors Day
Night Sky,6/2: Bright Capella sets low in the northwest fairly soon after dark these evenings (depending on your latitude). That leaves Vega and Arcturus as the brightest stars in the evening sky. Vega shines in the east-northeast. Arcturus is very high toward the south.
Thursday, June 3 – Wonder Woman Day & World Bicycle Day
The exotic perfume salesman continued to go out during lock down because he had no common scents. / When the carbon tax comes into effect fragrance manufacturers will be paying per fume.
..........Out of the gutter and into the streets..........Wendy O Williams …..The Day of the Human Is Gone
^^ The Golden Gate Bridge connects the northern tip of the San Francisco peninsula to Marin County carrying both US Route 101 and California State Route 1.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Somewhere, somebody out there is thinking of you, and the tremendous impact you made on their life. It's not me...I think you're an idiot. --Submitted by sb of ar
Moonbeam: Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. --William Pitt the younger
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie making sure the dog's water is properly patted down.
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: The CDC announced last week that vaccinated people are free to take off their masks, and everybody began to freak out. What if it's not really safe? What if we haven't brushed our teeth in 14 months, and now we can't get the moss off? I think that they can't just tell us just right away, take off your mask. We need time. Like, I'm not ready to go full-frontal with my face. Or maybe, like, we need, like, a transitional mask, something that's revealing but still provides some privacy. So basically, we need face lingerie. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell me 5/22/21
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. –Cherokee
There was an explosion down by the former perfumery. It blew up the olfactory. / Benedict XVI released his new fragrance, Popepourri.
..........Ain't no use me working so hard..........Hot Tuna …..Hesitation Blues
^^^ The Golden Gate Bridge is so called because it spans the Golden Gate Strait.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Error 404:
Your haiku could not be found.
Try again later. --Submitted by sd of ks
Weird Word of the Week: Kibibyte – a thousand and twenty-four bytes. Because binary uses a 1,024 byte system instead of a 1,000 bytes measurement. See also mebi- gibi- and tebi- World Wide Words: Kibibyte
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Make wrapping paper. Spray Alberto VO5 Hair Spray on the comics section from the Sunday paper to seal in the ink and give the paper a shiny gloss. Alberto VO5® Hair Spray: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: This challenge comes from listener Robert Flood of Allen, Texas. Think of a seven-letter hyphenated word for a kind of cooking. Change the middle letter to get a new word describing a kind of music. What words are these? --NPR Puzzle Sunday 1/10/21
InterPol uncovered a plot. A group of perfume makers are trying to take over the world. Radical Cologneilists. / Latest artisan fragrance –the maker based the scent off the suffering we've all been through during the pandemic. It's called Eau de Humanity.
...........Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished.........Jefferson Airplane …..Plastic Fantastic Lover
^^^^ The Golden Gate Bridge cost around $35 million which is $523 million in 2019 dollars.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: A chef on TV just said, “Where there's fat, there's flavor.” I know he was talking about food, but I still took it as a compliment.
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Armageddon Christchurch 2021 (29-30, Addington, New Zealand) --Today we're going back to the year 2000... the time of dying Tamagotchi's, dusty Nintendo 64 cartridges, and the best pulp culture expo in New Zealand! Christchurch - Armageddon Expo
Actual Science Convention of the Week: Phenomenology of Black Holes in Quantum Gravity (23-28, Hangzhou, China) The existence of black holes is one of the major predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity and has been one of the most outstanding problems in physics since 1970s, especially after Hawking in 1974 discovered that black holes can radiate thermally as a black body, and two years later found the information paradox, which shows the inconsistency of black hole evolution with the principles of quantum mechanics. 21w5091: Phenomenology of Black Holes in Quantum Gravity (Cancelled) | Banff International Research Station (birs.ca)
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: bar-b-que --> baroque
A knockoff in Russia recreated the recipe for Les Royales Excusives Jardin dAmalfi's Creed. They sell it for much less than the original. It is a fragrant violation of copyright laws. / I tried to buy perfume from a vending machine but it was out of odor.
..........Go ask Alice, I think she'll know..........Jefferson Airplane …..White Rabbit
^^^^^ According to the Highway and Transportation District, about 112,000 vehicles cross the Golden Gate Bridge every day.
Quote of the Week: It is a big day for America because after years of agonizing wait finally JayLo and Ben Afflect are back together. Nature is healing. At last someone can make my movie, Batman vs Giggli, this time nobody wins. --Stephen Colbert A Late Show 5/26/21
Extreme Topiary of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Chekhov’s Gun: A gun introduced in the first act must be fired by the last. Jack Kerouac’s Gun: If a character mentions a gun at the start of a lengthy digression, then the rest of the digression must not relate to a gun at all. More Guns
Today's Peace of History, May 28, 1982: Seven women fasted for 10 days in Springfield, Illinois, in support of ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by the Illinois state legislature. The amendment had already been ratified by 35 other states of the 38 required.
Coco Chanel once said that you should put perfume on places where you want to be kissed by a man. But does that ever burn. / When I open my perfume store I'll name it Scents of Shame.
..........Do away with people blowin' my mind..........Jefferson Airplane …..3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle May 28, 2021, InScentsed ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. --Rudy Giuliani
Cost of War:
As of 5/27/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,133,569,372,462.
As of 5/20/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,131,592,158,506.
As of 5/27/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,038,920,001,964.
As of 5/20/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,037,577,540,682.
As of 5/27/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $855,729,347,440.
As of 5/20/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $854,040,229,066.
As of 5/27/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $350,120,324,346.
As of 5/20/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $349,736,400,926.
As of 5/27/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,378,340,843,264.
As of 5/20/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,372,947,403,285.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance. –Lakota
Famous Last Words: I'm going home. --Gladys Knight & the Pips Every Beat of My Heart
..........Look what's happening in the streets.........Jefferson Airplane …..Volunteers
Invest in the perfume making industry. It just makes scents. / The Catholic Church is selling perfume made from holy water. It's called Eau My God.
May Peace be your perfume
And Joy your cologne
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