Famous First Words: You ain't nothing but a hound dog... Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton – released 8/13/52
It is Friday the 13th AND Blame Someone Else Day. This simply means that most of the people will blame witchcraft for their regular stupidity. / On Friday the 13th our neighborhood Italian restaurant serves Fettuccine Afraid O.
..........Here for the weekend..........Jamie Foxx …..Blame It On The Alcohol
Defending peace is the duty of all. --Fidel Castro
It is a cloudy Friday morning. The sky is nearly a solid gray without very few highlights and very few dark patches. 69°F is a fine temperature for walking on damp sidewalks and, apparently, smelling every pheromone the rain washed onto the street. Wet is the only scent; which evaporates into the nose. It certainly is not wafting on the air. No wind or breeze comes along to move the ocean of green or the dots of color in its waves. Birdsong graces the ear; birds celebrating their survival through last night's thunderstorm and the coming again of light and calm. Now and then a motor can be heard finding its way to the driver's work or to some other errand. Puck and I walk along, only one dog is out in the yard but a conversation of barks temporarily drowns out the chirping. And we return home to the smell of fresh brewed coffee. And so I sit, sipping sweet, creamy bitterness and writing to you. How lucky is that?
Hope your weekend is the luckiest yet, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Exercise? I thought you said extra fries. --Submitted by PsyDe
To make a mistake is human, but to blame it on someone else, that's even more human. / I'm not afraid of Friday the 13th; my luck can not conceivably get any worse.
..........And you feel like such a fool..........Milli Vanilli …..Blame It On The Rain
Trivia Questions: Happy Left handers Day
^ What percentage of the population is left handed, more or less?
^^ How does left-handedness relate to gender?
^^^ Who's better at multitasking – right or left handed?
^^^^ Which 5 of the last 10 presidents were left handed?
^^^^^ How is left-handedness an advantage in typing?
Big Hello: Bula or Drau bula – Fijian https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Meditation: because we could all use a little sit down and shut the f*ck up. --Submitted by ab of kc
Max Picture of the Week: Max the pirate
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: A tattoo on a librarian's back is called a spine label. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
I'd dread Friday the 13th even more if it fell on Monday. / No, really...it's adorable when you blame everyone but yourself.
..........That nasty boogie bugs me.........The Jackson Five …..Blame It On The Boogie
Moonbeam: I believe that the influence of women will save the country before every other power. --Lucy Stone
Public Service Announcement of the Week: If you live in Texas, please get vaccinated. You can't trust the Texas power grid to keep your ventilator on. --Submitted by bu of ks
Meditation Seed of the Week: If a candle factory burns down, should everyone stand around and sing "Happy Birthday?"
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. --Paul Gray
Week of the Week: National Motorcycle Week (8-14) –The hybrid bike moped because it was only half a motorcycle. / The motorcycle loved traveling on just one tire. He thought it was wheely cool.
I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was going to blame you. / Happy Friday the 13th. May all your irrational superstitions haunt you today.
..........It's just one more day........B'Witched …..Blame It On The Weatherman
^ On average, 12% of the world is left handed, 87% right handed, and 1% ambidextrous. However, the percentage of lefties worldwide is slowly creeping up as being left handed becomes more socially accepted.
Almanac: It is Friday, August 13, 2021. The moon will be in the first quarter on Sunday and is in Libra. It is International Lefthander's Day and National Prosecco Day. In Tunisia it is International Women's Day. Because it is the second Friday it is also Shop Online for Groceries Day; and finally, because it is the first Friday the 13th of the Year it is Blame Someone Else Day.
Among those born on this day were Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Lucy Stone (1818), George Gabriel Stokes (1819), Annie Oakley (1860), John Logie Baird (1888), Alfred Hitchcock (1899), Buddy Rogers (1904), Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp (1907), Ben Hogan (1912), Rex Humbard (1919), George Shearing (1920), Fidel Castro Ruz (1927), Pat Harrington (1929), Don Ho (1920), Dan Fogelberg (1951), and Danny Bonaduce (1959).
On August thirteenth Huygens discovered that Mars has polar caps (1642), Nat Turner lead a slave uprising (VA, 1831), black soldiers raided Brownsville, TX (1906), the first taxicab began service (NYC, 1907), Satchel Paige (age 42) pitched his first complete major league game (1948), Chad and the Central African Republic proclaimed independence from France (1960), construction on the Berlin Wall began (1961), and the US space shuttle STS-8 landed (1989).
Night Sky, 8/13: As the stars come out, look for Spica lower right of the Moon. They're less than a fist at arm's length apart. High to their upper right shines Arcturus. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week:
Extra Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers.
This Week: Saturday, August 14 – Free Comic Book Day & Middle Child Day & World Calligraphy Day
Sunday, August 15 – Best Friends Day & National Relaxation Day & National Thrift Shop Day
Night Sky, 8/15: The brightest star high in the southeast these evenings is Altair, with little orange Tarazed above it by a finger-width at arm's length. A little more than a fist-width to Altair's left is delicate Delphinus, the Dolphin, leaping left. Above Altair, slightly less far, is smaller, fainter Sagitta, the Arrow. It too is pointing leftward.
Monday, August 16 – National Roller Coaster Day & National Rum Day
Tuesday, August 17 – Black Cat Appreciation Day & National Nonprofit Day
Wednesday, August 18 – Bad Poetry Day & National Fajita Day & Serendipity Day
Night Sky, 8/18: Mercury is buried deep in the sunset, lower right of dimmer Mars. Venus shines due west during twilight. It sets around twilight's end. Mars is deep in the sunset, very far to Venus's lower right.
Thursday, August 19 – Aviation Day & World Humanitarian Day & World Photo Day
It's Friday the 13th and there's a serial killer at the circus. He's freaking in tents. / You can't blame anyone else for falling in your own driveway. That's your own asphalt.
..........like back beats, back seats, summer heat.........Black Stone Cherry …..Blame It On The Boom Boom
^^ According to the 2008 study ‘Sex differences in left-handedness: a meta-analysis of 144 studies‘, 23% more men are left handed. This study compiled the data from 144 individual studies including a sample size of almost 2 million participants, so is generally accepted to be statistically relevant.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If I was Snow White, you'd never be able to kill me with an apple...you'd have to poison an eclair or something. --Submitted by INRITH
Moonbeam: I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies. --Annie Oakley
Audio of the Week: Flip Wilson THE DEVIL MADE ME BUY THIS DRESS! - YouTube
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie training for the next Olympics
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: Everyone expected this Olympics to be a disaster with empty stadiums and unhappy locals and the weird fact that they keep calling it the 2020 Olympics even though it is clearly 2021. But the International Olympic Commission said people have good associations with 2020; let's keep it. Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, 8/7/21
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. --Fidel Castro.
Here's a grave situation, the cemetery is raising its prices and blaming it on the cost of living. / With today being Friday the 13th, I just wanted to let you know that I don't believe in superstitions. I'm an Aquarius, and that's not in our trait profile.
..........What are you waiting for..........George Ezra …..Blame It On Me
^^^ Data collected in 2008 by the Illinois Research Consortium showed that left and right-handed people deal with task and memory performance in different ways. Experiments showed that when given two tasks to complete simultaneously, southpaw participants performed best. This is because right handed people tend to solve problems by breaking them down into parts and analyzing each piece one at a time. Whereas left-handed people tend to look at the problem as a whole and use pattern-matching.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: T-Shirt: Dear America, Sorry About Josh Hawley sincerely, Missouri --Dick Brummel
Quote of the Week: We live in capitalism – its power seems inescapable but so did the divine right of kings. --Ursula LeGuin
Weird Word of the Week: Friggatriskaidekaphobia: a fear of Friday the 13th. Triskaidekaphobia is merely fear of the number 13.
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Relieve achy muscles with a soothing bath. Fill the bathtub with warm water and drop in six Alka-Seltzer tablets for a soothing bath to help achy muscles. Alka-Seltzer®: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: It comes from listener Chad Graham, of Philadelphia. Think of a common British-ism — a word that the British use that's not common in the U.S. Write it in all capital letters. Turn it upside-down (that is, rotate it 180 degrees). The result is a famous hero of books and movies. Who is it? NPR Sunday Puzzle 8/8/21
Selma the Seamstress is always busy on Friday the 13th. It's all that super stitchin'. / In the early 1900s, there were a number of deaths caused by people putting themselves in and trying to escape risky situations such as being handcuffed underwater etc. People blamed Harry Houdini, but I don't think he was really responsible......he was just the escape G.O.A.T.
...........that kiss burned Chicago down.........Rita Hayworth …..Put The Blame On Mame
^^^^ Right Handed: Biden, Trump, W Bush, Carter, and Nixon. Left Handed: Obama, Clinton, Papa Bush, Reagan, and Ford.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I watch people and wonder how some of them found their way out of the birth canal. --Submitted by INRITH
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: MegaCon (12-15, Orlando, FL) the South East’s largest comics, sci-fi, horror, anime, and gaming event. Celebrities | MEGACON Orlando (fanexpohq.com)
Actual Science Conference of the Week: International Conference on Principles of Sustainable Urbanism (12-13, Venice, Italy) With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value International Conference on Principles of Sustainable Urbanism ICPSU002 in August 2021 in Venice (waset.org)
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: LOO - OO7
People keep blaming the Canadian prime minister. It's not Trudeau. / What's scarier than Friday the 13th. These awful jokes.
..........with all their hockey hullabaloo.........Robin Williams …..Blame Canada
^^^^^ On a QWERTY keyboard there are over 3000 English words typed solely with the left hand, whilst only around 300 are typed with the right hand alone.
My Own Writing of the Week: Where did the fairies come from? My daughter asked. Ah, my child, it's a story of beauty and birth. The fairies flew to the wood when the wind bore east. It was on an afternoon late in May. Each had wings of silken fluff and rode the breezes and the lifts and the drags and the turbulence of warms and cools. Some raced and some floated but each flew in joy. --From Fairies at the Bottom
Extreme Topiary of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I'm sure of...it will be misspelled and have no punctuation. Submitted by ab of kc
Today's Peace of History, August 13: In Tunisia, 13 August is a public holiday called “Women’s Day”. The day is a celebration of the improved status of women in Tunisia that came about as a result of the passing of the Code of Personal Status (CPS) on 13 August, 1956.
May your Friday the 13th be less terrifying than election day. / People refused to sympathize when a load of books fell on my foot. They said I only had my shelf to blame.
..........ooh, blame it on midnight.........Bob Seger …..Shame On The Moon
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle August 13, 2021, Blameworthy ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. --Ben Hogan
Cost of War:
As of 8/12/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,155,319,426,932.
As of 8/5/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,153,334,400,602.
As of 8/12/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,053,702,597,797.
As of 8/5/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,052,353,559,891.
As of 8/12/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $874,311,918,195.
As of 8/5/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $872,615,987,783.
As of 8/12/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $354,343.631,714.
As of 8/5/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $353,958.199,180.
As of 8/12/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,437,678,323,263.
As of 8/5/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,432,262,992,923.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism. --Fidel Castro
Famous Last Words: Oh, I said I wish you were mine. Dizzy Miss Lizzy The Beatles The final song on the Help album released 8/13/65
..........'Cause it's not my fault.........Katie Melua …..Blame It On The Moon
May your Friday the 13th be filled with many cocktails and no zombie apocalypse. / I blame Mother Earth for the recent earthquakes. It's her fault.
May Peace surround you
And Joy protect you
prairie mama
christine
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