Famous First Words: An act to support the fifteenth amendment... Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965
It's International Psychic Week (1-7) When I arrived at Madame Zukunft's Psychic Shack, I noticed right away that she was a strange bovine. She cast my horoscope. She billed herself as the Zodi-yak. / When Phyllis knocked on the door of Psy Chic Clin Ic, she was so disappointed that someone asked “who's there” that she left.
..........The jukebox will cure your ill.........Carl Perkins …..Boppin' the Blues
Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence. --Antonio Guterres
It is a beautiful Friday morning. The sun is touching everything outdoors and making it bright and colorful and interesting. 72°F is a perfect combination of not-too-hot, not-too-cool. A light breeze moves the willow branches into a slow dance, but not the more rigid trees. They stand still. A bird, hidden in the foliage, repeats a single note, calling to come enjoy the day. All growing things are still green and lush; there are no patches of dried yellow grass or brown stubs or spent flowers. Squirrels and rabbits make the grass come alive with movement and sometimes tiny squeaks and squeals. Puck sniffs around looking for small game or new friends. He barks at the dog sitting with his human but that dog doesn't not answer. Two dogs on the corner however, hold a spirited conversation before I drag Puck back away and we return home. The house smells of freshly brewed coffee and I fix myself a cup, cream, sweetener and inhale the rich steamy mixture and sip the hot sweet liquid. Ahhh, and now I get to write to you, what a fine, fine morning.
Hope your weekend is everything you expected, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Lock your doors this week if you live in the Midwest or people will put free zucchini in your car. --Submitted by RHOZ
A frog telephones the Psychic Hotline. His Personal Psychic Advisor tells him, "You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you." The frog is thrilled, "This is great! Will I meet her at a party?" "No," says his advisor, "in her biology class." / I had a psychic boyfriend once; but he left me before we met..
..........Well you can do anything.........Elvis Presley …..Blue Suede Shoes
Trivia Questions: 76 years ago today the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. What have we learned about nuclear weapons?
^ What was the name of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?
^^ Do you know the name of the plane or the pilot who dropped it?
^^^ What size was that bomb?
^^^^ Do you have any idea how many people died in Hiroshima that day?
^^^^^ Do you know about how many nuclear weapons are out there now?
Big Hello: Hallo – Faroese https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If we wanted to boldly send billionaires where no billionaires have been before, we could just have sent them to the tax office. --John the Scot --Submitted by ab of kc
Max Picture of the Week: Max and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Germ
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: 34% of librarians are surprisingly unorganized. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Why did the chicken go to the psychic? To get to the other side. / The only time I used a psychic was when my house was haunted by the spirits of dead chickens. He said it was the worst case of poultrygeist, he'd ever seen.
..........Everything about you is so doggone sweet.........The Beatles …..Honey Don't
Moonbeam: I am a part of all that I have met. --Alfred Lord Tennyson
Meditation Seed of the Week: Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: This morning my son said his ear hurt and I said on the inside or outside, so he walked out the front door, came back in and said “both”. --Submitted by INRITH
Week of the Week: Stop On The Red Week (2-8) --The traffic light on the corner has a crush on me. It turns red every time I'm around. / A man is driving across town with his dog. He sees a traffic light and begins to stop. The day says, “Why are you slowing down, the light's gray”.
I tried to make a living as a psychic but just couldn't find enough clients. So, I became a non-prophet. / That fat man that just moved in down the block opened a Psychic Salon in his front room. He bills himself as a Four Chin Teller.
..........Well now come on, cat, get with it.........Carl Perkins …..Put Your Cat Clothes On
^ "Little Boy" was the code-name for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
Almanac: It is Friday, August 6, 2021. The moon will be new on Sunday and is in Leo. It is Hiroshima Day, International Hangover Day (Always the day after International Beer Day), National Fresh Breath (Halitosis), National Jamaican Patty Day, National Root Beer Float Day, and Sandcastle Day. Because it is the first weekend in August it is also Satchmo Days: Here's La Vie En Rose
Among those born on this day were Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809), Paul Claudel (1868), Scott Nearing (1883), Lucille Ball (1911), Robert Mitchum (1917), Andy Warhol (1927), Swoosie Kurtz (1944), Ken Norton (1945), Catherine Hicks (1951), and Carl C Perkins (1952).
On August sixth a Supernova was observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers (1811), the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began debate (1878), Bolivia gained independence (1825), congress passed the Confiscation Act (1861), Gertrude Ederle swam the English Channel (1926), the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima (1945), Jamaica gained independence (1962), the Federal Voting Rights Act was passed (1965), the UN Security Council voted to place economic sanctions on Iraq (1990).
Night Sky, 8/6: Bright Vega passes closest to overhead around 10 or 11 pm now, depending on how far east or west you are in your time zone. How closely it misses your zenith depends on how far north or south you are. It passes right through your zenith if you're at latitude 39° north (Washington DC, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Lake Tahoe). How closely can you judge this just by looking? Deneb crosses closest to the zenith two hours after Vega. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Happy Sandcastle Day
This Week: Saturday, August 7 – Lighthouse Day & Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day
Sunday, August 8 – Sneak Zucchini Onto Your Neighbors' Porch Night & Dalek Day & International Cat Day
Monday, August 9 – Book Lovers Day & Islamic New Year
Night Sky 8/9: Have you been seeing any Perseids meteors yet? For now you'll only see the very occasional Perseid during your observing sessions, but their numbers are gradually increasing. The shower is due to peak later but occasional forerunners begin showing up as much as two or three weeks beforehand. Already the sky is moonlessly dark.
Tuesday, August 10 – World Lion Day & Paul Bunyan Day
Wednesday, August 11 – National Hip Hop Day
Night Sky, 8/11 : Perseids Meteor Shower. 2021 is a great year for the Perseids! The waxing crescent moon will set at early evening, providing dark skies. Start watching for these meteors in early August. Their numbers will gradually increase. Predicted peak tonight.
Thursday, August 12 – International Youth Day & World Elephant Day & Vinyl Record Day
That fat lady that moved in down the block does Tarot readings in her swimming pool. She bills herself as a Clairbouyant. / During the pandemic Paula the Psychic gave up the business and started a clothing line called Medium's. She made tiny t-shirts and little onesies. Now I own a large small medium.
..........singin' seems to help a troubled soul.........Johnny Cash …..Daddy Sang Bass
^^ The bomb was dropped by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, Jr, commander of the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces and Captain Robert Lewis. The plane was named after Tibbet's mother.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: It could be raining men and I'd still be single. --Submitted by PsyDe
Moonbeam: War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. --Scott Nearing
Video of the Week: The Perseids of 2020 Observatory captures peak of Perseid meteor shower - YouTube
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Happy Ollie, Happy Mom
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: Who will be the next sports team to change their name? The Brooklyn Nets will be the Brooklyn Gentrifiers. They may not win at first but they'll win eventually. --Hari Kondabolu Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 7/31/21
Has not the atom bomb proved the futility of all violence? --M K Gandhi
How many psychics does it take to change a light bulb? None, but they'll tell you who will change it. / I dated a psychic kitchen remodeler. She was counter intuitive.
........Later on if it turns to chaos..........The Fray …..Say When
^^^ Little Boy exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world. --Submitted by bd of ny
Weird Word of the Week: Virotherapist – practitioner of virotherapy – harnessing viruses to stop cancer World Wide Words: Virotherapist
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Clean a Thermos bottle. Fill the bottle with water, drop in four Alka-Seltzer tablets, and let soak for an hour (or longer, if necessary). Alka-Seltzer®: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: It comes from the puzzle maker and editor Peter Gordon. Think of the word for a competitor in a particular Olympic sport. It's a compound word with a hyphen in the middle. Remove the hyphen. What remains are two words from a different Olympic sport. What words are these? NPR Sunday Puzzle 8/1/21
I dated a psychic once. She called her farts gastral projection. / My psychic friend Martha always rode her bike between the street and the sidewalk. She was a median medium.
...........And time has a way to turning us old.........Dolly Parton …..Silver And Gold
^^^^ In Hiroshima, on August 6, around 80,000 people were killed immediately when the bomb was dropped. The estimated total by the end of 1945 was 140,000. It is very difficult to get a real number because of the nature of the destruction and the chaos that followed such an event.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Hey Hey Ho Ho Creepy Cuemo has got to go --Submitted by rg of kc
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: CONvergence (5-8, Minneapolis, MN) The stuff of Legends CONvergence | CONvergence Convention (convergence-con.org)
Actual Science Conference of the Week: Geoanalysis 2021 (1-6, Freiberg) Topical short courses will be given by experts. Geoanalysis 2021 | Spectroscopy Europe/World
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Shot-putter — Shot, Putter
Psychic Selma: I don't know if it's better to tell you what's going to happen to you next week or to follow you around just to see the look on your face when it does. / Nothing embarrasses a psychic more than a surprise party.
..........But I've seen the light..........Patsy Cline …..So Wrong
^^^^^ The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) estimates approximately 4,315 nuclear warheads, including 1,570 deployed offensive strategic warheads (with 870 in storage), 1,875 non-strategic warheads, and 2,060 additional retired warheads awaiting dismantlement, as of January 2020. For a list of who has what: Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance | Arms Control Association
My Own Writing of the Week: The first off planet science fiction convention (LUNACON I) was held in Base III at the Selene Hilton in 2032. It was necessarily small because of the still prohibitive aerofare and the size of the hotel ballroom. 500 devoted fans and the guest of honor, Norman Lump, gathered to celebrate fandom's emergence into space and science fiction in general. However, it is the tragedy for which LUNACON I will be remembered. The media projector broke at hour 10 of the 25 1/2 hour continuous showing of all 21 Star Wars movies. When the lights were turned up 5 small green creatures with antennae were discovered in the front row. A young fan approached them to compliment them on their outfits; she noticed they had neither wrist bands nor ID badges. She called security. The five fled through a ventilator shaft with a loose cover. Convention and hotel security officers quickly covered all the air inlets. Unfortunately, first fandom representative 133 year old Robert del Pohl and his 22 year old bride, Queenie, were asphyxiated in their bed. Four businessmen from Toledo were treated for shortness of breath. The five were finally cornered between the WC and the lift tube. They took a stand, backs to the wall. The shortest of them held a small black box to the top of his head. Static noises filled the air ducts then the hotel and finally the entire dome. All Base II held its breath and waited for death or the first alien communication whichever it was to be. The static cleared, a rich baritone voice cleared its throat and after a sustained E-flat tone spoke... Happy Birthday! --From a birthday card sent to John Kessel
Extreme Topiary of the Week: From the Beijing Olympics
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: There are only two types of anti-vaxxers: the liars, and the lied to. You can often tell them apart by the amount of zeros in their bank accounts. --Alex Hirsch --Submitted by gr of oh
Today's Peace of History, August 6, 1957: Eleven activists from the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) were arrested attempting to enter the atomic testing grounds at Camp Mercury, Nevada, the first of what eventually became many thousands of arrests at the Nevada test site.
I have visited dozens of psychics. They are either very angry or really sad. Is there no happy medium? / ebay listing: Used crystal ball for sale. Worth a fortune.
..........About the moon and the stars above.........The Judds …..Let Me Tell You About Love
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle August 6, 2021, ePistle Foreseen. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces. --Paul Claudel
Son of Today's Peace of History, August 6, 1998: Calling themselves the Minuteman III Plowshares, two peace activists, Daniel Sicken [pronounced seekin], 56, of Brattleboro, Vermont and Sachio Ko-Yin, 25, of Ridgewood, N.J entered silo N7 in Weld County [near Greeley] in Colorado operated by Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming. With hammers and their own blood, they symbolically disarmed structures on the launching pad of a Minuteman III nuclear missile silo.
Cost of War:
As of 8/5/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,153,334,400,602.
As of 7/29/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,151,339,326,601.
As of 8/5/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,052,353,559,891.
As of 7/29/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,050,997,516,204.
As of 8/5/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $872,615,987,783.
As of 7/29/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $870,911,081,141.
As of 8/5/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $353,958.199,180.
As of 7/29/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $353,570.681,893.
As of 8/5/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,432,262,992,923.
As of 7/29/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,426,819,368,398.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
The bomb was not only dropped on the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was dropped on the whole of humanity. --Satoru Konishi
Famous Last Words: ...contrary to the provisions of this act. --First Act of Confiscation 1861
..........I keep a-workin' and a-watchin' the clock.........Carl Perkins …..Jive After Five ~~All of today's songs were written by Carl Perkins.
Here's your first Tarot card. Would you like to double down. O, I'm sorry, that was a insight joke. / The Psychic Fair has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.
May Peace fill your days
And Joy sate your nights
prairie mama
christine
Last Laugh: --Submitted by INRITH
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