Famous First Words: To mobilize the human and financial resources... The Economic Opportunity Act 1964
It is Chef Appreciation Week: A chef joke a day keeps the kitchen gloom away. / Gordon Ramsay was in entertainment long before Hell's Kitchen. He starred in The Lunchback of Notre Dame.
..........Every morning when I rise.........Isaac Hayes …..Joy
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. --Benjamin Harrison
It is a muggy (81% @ 81°F) Friday morning. The sky is hidden by a gray cloud cover with few variations and no sunny pockets. It almost, but not quite, looks like rain. It even smells a little like rain, but the ground is dry. Birds are out singing and flying. Dogs – seen and unseen are barking to greet the morning. High overhead a hawk flies its lazy circles around the city. 23rd street is crowded with cars taking and leaving their college students at the Daisy Hill dorms. We wish them good luck but pick a different way to return home. We return home from running errands; return to a cool house and a dog so happy to see us he can't stand still. So I doctor a cup of decaf and sit down to write to you. Not a bad morning at all.
Hope your weekend is delicious, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Rage Against the Machine never specified what type of machine they were furious with but I reckon it was probably a printer. --John Moynes --Submitted by INRITH
Does dropping a dumpling on the floor constitute wonton endangerment? / The environmentalist chef woked to work.
..........And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune.........Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) …..Stairway To Heaven
Trivia Questions: It is World Mosquito Day. How much do we know about the tiny biter?
^ How many species of mosquitoes are there, more or less?
^^ Was your last mosquito bite from a male or female?
^^^ Do you know the best time of day to walk and avoid mosquitoes?
^^^^ How come the little devils like humans so much?
^^^^^ What is the speed of the mosquito in flight?
Big Hello: Hyvää päivää - Finnish https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: It's so hot today, I just saw a bird blow on a worm before she ate it. --Submitted by INRITH
Max Picture of the Week: Maxwell the sailor man … and grandma Kirsten
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: 76% of librarians have had a nightmare that featured the sound made by their library's receipt printers. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
We cannoli do so much to make you laugh at our chef puns. / Chef Rachel quit because they cut her celery.
..........You move your body all around.........Isaac Hayes …..Shake
Moonbeam: Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol. --Bernardo O'Higgins
Meditation Seed of the Week: Whatever happened to Old Zealand?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: One of these days, I'm gonna make the onions cry.
Week of the Week: Little League Week (19-29) --What do parents shout out after little league games? Grass stains / How do little league players hold a bat in the Vampire League? By the wings
Witchy chefs use scream cheese for their frosting. / The cannibal chef's specialty is fish and chaps. / Baker Betty paid her staff on a flourly basis.
..........You need cooling I don't know how it happened.........Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) …..Whole Lotta Love
^ There are around 3,500 species of mosquitoes, but only a couple hundred feast on human blood.
Almanac: It is Friday, August 20, 2021. The moon will be full (Sturgeon) on Sunday and is in Aquarius. It is National Radio Day and World Mosquito Day. In Hungary it is Constitution Day (1949) and in Senegal it is Independence Day (1960). Because it is Friday, Hawaii celebrates Admission Day (1959). Because it is the third
Friday it is Men's Grooming Day and Michigan celebrates the Montrose-Blueberry Festival. Finally the third weekend of August is Kool-Aid Weekend!
Among those born on this day were Bernardo O'Higgins (1778), Oliver H Perry (1785), Benjamin Harrison (1833), Eliel Saarinen (1873), Edgar Guest (1881), H P Lovecraft (1890), Alan Reed (1907), Shirley Booth (1907), Jacqueline Susann (1921), Don King (1931), Sneaky Pete Kleinow (Flying Burrito Brothers, (1934), Isaac Hayes (1942), Connie Chung (1946), and Robert Plant (1948).
On August twentieth the dial telephone was patented (1896), a pilot first parachuted from an aircraft (France, 1913), the first black professional bowling league was formed (National Bowling Assoc, 1939), Leon Trotsky was assassinated (1940), the USSR acknowledged hydrogen bomb tests (1953), Senegal declared independence from Mali (1960), LBJ signed the Economic Opportunity Act (1964), Viking I was launched towards Mars (1975), and George Steinbrenner stepped down as Yankees owner (1990)**.
**Commissioner Fay Vincent ordered the Yankees owner to resign as the club's general partner and shockingly banned him from the day-to-day operations of the team for life.
Night Sky, 8/20: The bright Moon shines under Saturn this evening, and Jupiter shines to their left. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Saigon or Kabul? Where will the next one be?
This Week: Saturday, August 21 – National Honey Bee Day & Poet's Day & Senior Citizens Day
Sunday, August 22 – Be An Angel Day & Chef Appreciation Day & National Bring Your Cat To The Vet Day
Night Sky, 8/22: The two brightest stars of summer are Vega, now overhead shortly after nightfall, and Arcturus, shining in the west. Draw a line down from Vega to Arcturus. A third of the way down, the line crosses the dim Keystone of Hercules. Two thirds of the way down the line crosses the dim semicircle of Corona Borealis with its one modestly bright star, Alphecca or Gemma. Vega and the Keystone's star closest to it form an equilateral triangle with Eltanin to their north: the nose of Draco the Dragon. Eltanin is the brightest star of Draco's quadrilateral head. He's eyeing Vega.
Monday, August 23 – Go Topless Day & Ride the Wind Day & Valentino Day
Tuesday, August 24 – Knife Day & Pluto Demotion Day & Vesuvius Day
Wednesday, August 25 – Kiss & Make Up Day & National Second-hand Wardrobe Day
Night Sky, 8/25: Jupiter and Saturn shine in the southeast in late twilight and after dark. They're magnitudes –2.9 and +0.2, respectively, in or very near Capricornus.
Thursday, August 26 – National Dog Day & National Toilet Paper Day & Women's Equality Day
The chefs' annual award banquet is called the Meat Ball. / At the Chinese kitchen where I worked they played wok n' roll.
..........Can ya dig it.........Isaac Hayes …..Theme from Shaft
^^ If you’ve been bitten by a mosquito, it was a female. Male mosquitoes do just fine with plants, but females need a blood meal before they can lay eggs.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back. --Francis Picabia
Moonbeam: Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count. --Jacqueline Susann
Video of the Week: The Flying Burrito Brothers: The Dark End of the Street Dark End Of The Street - Flying Burrito Brothers - YouTube ~~with Sneaky Pete - drums, Chris Hillman - mandolin, Gram Parsons - vocals, Chris Ethridge - guitar, Battom - bass
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie and the Uphill Climb
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: All cars have cup holders now. That's passé. That's boring. The real innovation in drinking while driving is which of these? A, the top-of-the-line Mercedes Maybach, which comes with sterling silver champagne flutes for each passenger; B, the new model Honda Odyssey minivan, which has holders for juice boxes in the ceiling so you can hang them above your kids like IV bags...Or C, the new Ford 150 Tailgate Edition pickup, which has a built in beer keg and tap? --Peter Sagal Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Summer Break Edition 8/14/21 The answer is A
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? --Benjamin Harrison
There was a big fight in the kitchen at the Steak and Seafood Stand. The fish got battered. / Wolfgang Puck's first restaurant was named Out of the World because of the number of Unidentified Frying Objects.
..........Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.........Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) …..Black Dog
^^^ The best time to avoid mosquitoes is in the afternoon, when temperatures are hottest and the insects rest in cooler spots.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: One great thing about Florida heat: You can guarantee no one is in your backseat waiting to kill you.
Weird Word of the Week: w00t (spelled double ewe, zero, zero, tee) –a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement. It was the most often searched word on Google in 2007. World Wide Words: W00t
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Prolong the life of cut flowers in a vase. Drop two Alka-Seltzer tablets into the vase for every quart of water. Alka-Seltzer®: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: This challenge comes from Robert Render, of Skokie, Ill. It's more challenging than it sounds. Name a well-known (international) tourist locale that attracts millions of visitors a year. It has a two-word name. The first word is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the name. What's the tourist site? NPR Sunday Puzzle 3/21/21
Chef Chester wasn't a good boyfriend. He gave his girlfriend a hug and a quiche. / Chefs only make spice jokes when it's the right season.
............If the music makes you move.........Isaac Hayes …..Do Your Thing
^^^^ Mosquitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide, lactic acid and octenol found in our breath and sweat, and they also sense the heat and humidity that surrounds our bodies. They may also have a preference for beer drinkers.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Just found out the company that produces yardsticks won't be making them any longer.
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Pulpfest 2021 (19-22, Pittsburgh) Love In The Shadows PulpFest – Join us Aug. 19-22, 2021, in Pittsburgh, PA!
Actual Science Conference of the Week: APP (Advanced Practice Provider) Clinical Skills and Procedures Workshop (20-21, Orlando) Radiology Interpretation APP 2021 Clinical Skills and Procedures Workshop | eMedEvents
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Ocho Rios
James Beard was dismissed from the secret cooking society for spilling the beans. / Tom Cruise is opening a restaurant. He's calling it A Few Good Menus.
..........For so long, it's not true.........Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) …..Dazed and Confused
^^^^^ A mosquito’s average flight speed is 1.5 mph or less. Not very fast overall, but usually fast enough to elude a swatting human hand.
My Own Writing of the Week: Apollo and Daphne's was a brief affair, hardly more than a millennium. It was, naturally, whirlwindish and noisy. Apollo had just finished Divinity School and was on holiday before settling down to the work of forming his worship, choosing a priesthood, writing liturgies, and the other endless administrative tasks of godheadhood. He was backpacking in the mountains and had set up camp under a laurel tree. Yeah, you guessed it. The tree was really Daphne getting a moon tan. She watched with growing interest and lust (causing her leaves to make giggling movements) as he did his evening exercises which consisted of gleaming various colors. He was as yet still learning and on occasion still got greens and browns mixed with the pure pinks and purples. Since it was vacation and he wasn't serious, he soon began shooting beams at clouds to see if he could set them aflame. --From a short story called Daphne and Apollo
Extreme Topiary of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If Republicans don't understand why the candidate who lost isn't president, they'll never understand how vaccines work.
Today's Peace of History, August 20, 1964: The Economic Opportunity Act, which created Head Start, VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America), and other programs that became part of the “War on Poverty”, was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.
The old chef didn't die he pasta away. / The old chef died. She ran out of thyme.
..........I don't know how it happened.........Isaac Hayes …..I Stand Accused
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle August 20, 2021, Sous-ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: I never cease to amaze myself. I say this humbly. --Don King
Cost of War: As of 8/19/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,157,291,717,979.
As of 8/12/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,155,319,426,932.
As of 8/19/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,055,042,850,732.
As of 8/12/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,053,702,597,797.
As of 8/19/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $875,996,650,910.
As of 8/12/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $874,311,918,195.
As of 8/19/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $354,729,487,630.
As of 8/12/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $354,343.631,714.
As of 8/19/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,443,058,348,986.
As of 8/12/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,437,678,323,263.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
The bud of victory is always in the truth. --Benjamin Harrison
Famous Last Words: I will not survive this attack. --Leon Trotsky's last words
..........Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn.........Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) …..Going to California
Chef Charlie wrote a children's book on the side. His first one was James and the Giant Quiche. / The new French Chef at Game of Scones is so strange. He's really a crepe.
May Peace be your meat
And Joy be your sauce
prairie mama
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