Famous First Words: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution... US Congress Joint Bill proposing the 19th amendment
Happy Hug Your Cat Day aka Purrthday! Good luck with that. --Wait a meowment, I'll have to put on my thinking cat.
..........And the sky is gray..........Mamas & Papas …..California Dreamin'
Peace is possible around the world and children are the answer. --Quincy Jones
It is a gorgeous Friday morning. Blue sky is brightly dotted with clouds that are fluffy and white and scattered here and there. A 75°F temperature with only a slight breeze allows shirtsleeves and sandals. The world is green and growing. Wildlife is busy enjoying the weather, skittering and flying, chirping and squealing. It smells of freshly mown grass with a hint of floral and foliage. Spring is growing into summer. Puck and I have been out enjoying it. But now he has taken his treat into his retreat under the bed. I am sipping doctored decaf and enjoying the sunshine reflecting off the nearly complete shed. And now – to top off all this joy – I get to write to you. Wow!
Have the purrfect weekend, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Kansas...where the sky craps rainbows when it's not trying to kill you. --Submitted by RHOZ
When in doubt, hug a dog. When in armor, hug a cat. / More Cat Jokes? You gotta be kitten me.
..........Every other day of the week is fine, yeah..........Mamas & Papas …..Monday, Monday
Trivia Questions: It is Gun Violence Awareness Day & SAFE Day
^ About what percentage of US households have guns?
^^ About how many small arms are held by civilians?
^^^ How many bullets can the AR-15 model shoot per minute?
^^^^ How many children are accidentally killed by guns every year in the US?
^^^^^ How many people in the US died by gun wounds in 2017?
Big Hello: Hej - Danish https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. --Submitted by FNOG
Max Picture of the Week: Max contemplating rock climbing
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 75% of librarians are excited for the warmer weather so they switch to their summer-weight cardigans https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
O, great. Hissterically funny cat puns. / Never play poker with cats; there's too many cheetahs.
..........With someone to meet, some place to go..........Mamas & Papas …..Look Through My Window
Moonbeam: In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. --Robert Anderson
Meditation Seed of the Week: Is there a time limit on fortune cookie predictions?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: There is a mysterious and powerful force that holds the universe together and that force is love. Just Kidding – it's dark matter. --Submitted by FNOG
Week of the Week: National Marina Days (5/30-6/5) --The Marina – It's NOT San Francisco's worst neighborhood. / Sailor Sally was up for a promotion but she turned it down. Anchor Chiefs spend all their time blowing noses.
Cats are furmidable opponents. / Rum Tum Tugger hides under the bed during Hug Your Cat Day.
..........Right up through the concrete..........Mamas & Papas …..Spanish Harlem
^ One in every three households in the US has a gun stored somewhere inside.
Almanac: It is Friday, June 4, 2021. The moon was at last-quarter last Wednesday and is in Aries. It is Audacity To Hope Day, Hug Your Cat Day & International (World) Hug Your Cat Day, National Clean Beauty Day, National SAFE Day, and Old Maid's Day. Because it is the first Friday, it is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. In the Bahamas it is Labour Day and in Botswana it is Commonwealth Day. Finland celebrates Flag Day (1867) and Tonga celebrates Independence Day. Internationally it is known as The Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. Finally because it is the first weekend we also celebrate Banana Split Days, Doughnut Day or Donut Day (Salvation Army), and Horseradish Days.
Among those born on this day were George III (1738), Heinrich Wieland (1877), Rosaland Russell (1908), Robert Anderson (1917), Dennis Weaver (1924), John Barrymore Jr (1932), Michelle Phillips (Mamas & Papas, 1944), and Roger Ball (Average White Band, 1944).
On June fourth the first total solar eclipse was recorded (China, 789 BCE), Roquefort cheese was created (1070), the first hot air balloon was launched (unmanned, 1783), the Louisiana Territory was officially renamed the Missouri Territory (1812), the third black convention met (Philadelphia, 1832), the British ceded Cyprus to Turkey (1878), Henry drove his first Ford through the streets of Detroit for the first time (1896), Massachusetts passed the first US Minimum wage law (1912), the US Senate passed the Women's Suffrage bill (1919), the US invaded Costa Rica (1919), the British evacuated Dunkirk (1940), Capitol Records opened for business (1942), and Israel attacked Lebanon (1982).
Night Sky, 6/4: For much of the spring at mid-northern latitudes, the Milky Way lies right down out of sight all around the horizon. But watch the east now. The rich Cepheus-Cygnus-Aquila stretch of the Milky Way rears up horizontally across the east late these nights, earlier and higher every week. A hint for the light-polluted: It runs horizontally under Vega, right through the bottom of the Summer Triangle. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week:
This Week: Saturday, June 5 – Belmont Stakes & Drawing or Pencil Day & National Bubbly Day
Sunday, June 6 – Atheists Pride Day & Drive-In Movie Day & Yo-Yo Day
Night Sky, 6/6: A gigantic asterism you may not know about is the Great Diamond, some 50° tall and extending over five constellations. It now leans in the south to southwest after dusk. Start with Spica, its bottom. High above Spica is bright Arcturus. Almost as far upper right from Arcturus is fainter Cor Caroli, 3rd magnitude. The same distance down from there is Denebola, the 2nd-magnitude tailtip of Leo. And then back to Spica. Robert H. Baker may have been the first to name the Great Diamond, in his 1954 book When the Stars Come Out
Monday, June 7 – Boone Day & Thank God It's Monday Day
Tuesday, June 8 – Upsy Daisy Day & World Oceans Day
Wednesday, June 9 – Donald Duck Day & Toy Industry Day
Thursday, June 10 –Ball Point Pen Day & National Egg Roll Day & Race Unity Day
Night Sky, 6/10: The annular phase of this solar eclipse is visible from parts of Russia, Greenland, and northern Canada. Weather permitting, those in Northern Asia, Europe, and the United States will see a partial eclipse. Annular Solar Eclipse on June 10, 2021 (timeanddate.com)
What's in a meowtini? Cheshire Cat Signature Paw and dry Vermouth. Meowtini - Cheshire Cat | Small Batch, Hand Distilled Artisan Gin and Rum (cheshirecatgin.co.uk) / Crookshanks has had all his shots – rum, vodka, whiskey, tequila.
..........Summer's here and the time is right..........Mamas & Papas …..Dancing In The Streets
^^ In 2018, The Small Arms Survey reported that there are over one billion small arms distributed globally, of which 857 million (about 85 percent) are in civilian hands. The Small Arms Survey stated that U.S. civilians alone account for 393 million (about 46 percent) of the worldwide total of civilian held firearms. This amounts to "120.5 firearms for every 100 residents."
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: How many times do you have to click “I Accept Cookies” before they send you the cookies. --Submitted by rhb of ks
Moonbeam: Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. --Rosalind Russell
Quote of the Week: ~~I was going to quote something from Biden's Memorial Day Speech, but he did not use the word peace once in the entire speech. So I'm assuming that Memorial Day is about war not peace. Just as Armistice Day has become about war instead of peace...
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie – the pastel tiger – with dog paw
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: A new study shows that when a male California mouse loses a partner, they'll instantly go out and find a new one, whereas a female California mouse will wait an average of 10 extra days before getting back out there in the mouse single bars. How do you help a broken-hearted female mouse get her groove back? What do you say? It's like, I know you're hurt now, but it's better than being glue trapped in a bad relationship. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 5/29/21
Peace is possible. It begins with a vision or dream and comes through persistence, hard work, and belief in ourselves. --Pauline Flynn
My cat is totally litterate. / I always take my cat with me when I go drinking. Her name is Moderation.
..........Bound aboard a magic ship for a land I'd never seen..........Mamas & Papas …..Dancing Bear
^^^ The AR-15 fires up to 45 rounds per minute.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If you are not resting, you will not make it. I need you to make it. --The Nap Ministry --Submitted by (3) Black Lives Matter-LFK | Facebook
Weird Word of the Week: Labretifery – the custom of wearing labrets Labrets – ornament worn through the upper or lower lip often of stone, gold, or crystal. World Wide Words: Labretifery
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Remove dry glue from bottles. Spray Alberto VO5 Hair Spray on the dry glue, wipe off, and wash the bottle in soapy water. The propanes, butanes, and acetones in Alberto VO5 Hair Spray dissolve glue. Alberto VO5® Hair Spray: Wacky Uses ~~Propane and butane and acetone...yet people spray it on their hair.
Puzzle of the Week: Last week's challenge came from listener Roger Barkan of Savage, Md. Think of an 8-letter word in which the third and sixth letters are "A." Remove the A's. The remaining six letters start a common series. What is it? And what comes next in that series? --NPR Sunday Puzzler 5/30/21
Do baby cats wear diapurrs? / You may pay the bills and feed me...but make no mistake, human, I own this house and I own you.
...........Three thousand miles, that 's how far you'll go..........Mamas & Papas …..Go Where You Wanna Go
^^^^ In 2018 73 children under age 12 died in gun accidents. This is about the same as it has been for the last 5 years.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If being gay was a choice, I'd be gayer. --Submitted by MMS
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: ConCarolinas (4-6, Charlotte, NC) –Carolina's Longest Running Multi-Fandom Con ConCarolinas 2021 – Carolina's Longest Running Multi-Fandom Con
Actual Science Convention of the Week: International Conference on Geomorphology, Rock Mechanics and Seismology (3-4, NYC) a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators... International Conference on Geomorphology, Rock Mechanics and Seismology ICGRMS in June 2021 in New York (waset.org)
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Standard --> The remaining pairs of letters — ST, ND, and RD — form the ends of 1ST, 2ND, and 3RD. The next pair of letters in the series is TH. ~~I didn't come close
Pyewacket has cattitude. / Macavity is so purrsuasive; he always gets his way.
..........I'm in way over my head..........Mamas & Papas …..I Saw Her Again
^^^^^ 39,773 people died from gun-related injuries in the US in 2017. The figure includes murders and suicides.
Video of the Week: Menopause Rhapsody Menopause Rhapsody - Bohemian Rhapsody Parody Song for every Queen - YouTube
Extreme Topiary of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Live like someone left the gate open. --Submitted by bu of ks
Today's Peace of History, June 4, 1987: New Zealand passed legislation declaring itself nuclear-free. In 1986, New Zealand had banned the entry of U.S. Navy ships from their ports in the belief that they were carrying nuclear weapons or were nuclear-powered. US government protests of the policy led to the breakup of the ANZUS (Australia-New Zealand-United States) defense alliance.
Khat drives a furrari. / Mrs Norris' favorite color is purrple
..........John and Mitchy were getting' kind of itchy..........Mamas & Papas …..Creeque Alley
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle, June 4, 2021, Purrfect ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. --John Barrymore
Cost of War:
As of 6/03/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,135,545,300,581.
As of 5/27/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,133,569,372,462.
As of 6/03/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,040,263,695,243.
As of 5/27/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,038,920,001,964.
As of 6/03/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $857,417,475,192.
As of 5/27/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $855,729,347,440.
As of 6/03/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $350,503,959,275.
As of 5/27/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $350,120,324,346.
As of 6/03/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,383,731,078,996.
As of 5/27/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,378,340,843,264.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
We stoners must be peaceful, unarmed, and open to nonviolence. It's up to us to be the example of how peace is possible. Work for peace, evolve. --Withered Tree
Famous Last Words: ...move it to a cooler 38-40F aging space, until ripe. --Recipe for making Roquefort Cheese
..........Whisper a little prayer for me, my baby..........Mamas & Papas …..Dedicated To The One I Love
Stay Calm and HugYour Cat. / Mehitable rules our house. She has her own brand of claw enforcement.
May Peace enhance your days
And Joy grace your nights
prairie mama
christine
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