Famous First Words: Say, you gals think you're lucky... Swanson TV Dinner ad ~~embodies almost everything bad about 1950s commercials.
It's Swap Idea Days – here's a few for you. The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. --Linus Pauling. / Contact lens jewelry – perfect for when you want to look like you're crying little pieces of plastic crap.
..........Yo que te quiero tanto, qué voy ha hacer.........José Feliciano …..El Tando De Roxanne
The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood. --Arthur Powell Davies
It is a cool, beautiful Friday morning. The 67°F temperature is perfect for walking around the neighborhood. There is no breeze but the willow branches still sway slowly. The rising sun is filtered through chains of lacy clouds so that it casts filigree shadows onto the sidewalk. Puck walks through them without notice. He is quiet this morning, spending his time sniffing. The sky itself is nearly white with unseen humidity. The earth smells of it and that same water makes the grass sparkle with dew drops. The local murder of crows lights on a housetop and sings matins for us. We thank them and move on down the block, barking briefly at a neighbor's dog who shouts back. We turn at the cul-de-sac and return home. Puck imbibes water for a full 30 seconds and settles beneath my desk for his early morning nap. I sit at my computer, take a long gulp of sweetened coffee and turn to you to say, good morning. Sounds like the start of a great day.
Here's a great idea, have a wonderful weekend, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Sorry I'm late, I got here as soon as I wanted to.--Submitted by INRITH
FYI of the Week: NABISCO workers are on-strike across the country. The two main issues are demands for concessions (overtime without overtime pay, etc) at a time when the company is making record profits are ridiculous and an end to outsourcing jobs to Mexico. Here's the skinny: https://ucommblog.com/section/corporate-greed/boycott-nabisco-products
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. – C D Jackson / An alarm in a diaper letting everyone around you know your baby just took a dump.
..........Good mornin' glory, hallelujah to ya.........Aerosmith with Joe Perry …..Movin' Out
Trivia Questions: It is World Suicide Prevention Day.
^ Would you care to guess how many people commit suicide each year, worldwide?
^^ Where does suicide rank as causes of death worldwide?
^^^ In the US suicide is the second largest cause of death for what ages of people, more or less?
^^^^ How many Americans died by suicide in 2019?
^^^^^ Do you know the suicide hotline number? ~~Asking for a friend
Big Hello: Mandi – Friulian (Northern Italy) https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I make mistakes. I'll be the second to admit it. --Jean Kerr
Max Picture of the Week: Max and the Merry-Go-Round (by the way, it's a water horse)
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 27% of librarians wear sensible shoes because it makes it easier to sneak around the stacks and scare patrons https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Ideas are worthless until you get them out of your head to see what they can do. / Sauna Pants for Texas men. Wipe out fertility in just three weeks.
..........She takes apart the past and re-writes all her lines.........Chris Isaak …..Another Idea
Moonbeam: When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me...or is it vice versa? --Fay Wray
Meditation Seed of the Week: If you died and had to choose one place to haunt for the rest of eternity, where would you choose to haunt?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: How much is the rent on this amazing apartment? Ah, it's not an apartment; it's a bookstore. --Submitted by Heinlein Society
Week of the Week: Popcorn Days (9-11) --Who ordered the corn to pop, anyway? The Kernel? / My dog likes pupcorn. / Peppy Popcorn was so happy because she won the corntest.
Any idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. –Oscar Wilde / Diet water! For when 0 is just too many calories.
..........We'll pay him well, my dear.........Tears For Fears …..Me And My Big Ideas
^ More than 700 000 people die by suicide every year, which is one person every 40 seconds. Suicide is a global phenomenon and occurs throughout the lifespan. Effective and evidence-based interventions can be implemented at population, sub-population, and individual levels to prevent suicide and suicide attempts. There are indications that for each adult who died by suicide there may have been more than 20 others who attempted suicide.
Almanac: It is Friday, September 10, 2012. The moon will be in the first quarter on Monday and is in Scorpio. It is National TV Dinner Day, Swap Ideas Day, and (World) Suicide Prevention Day. In Belize it is National Day/St George's Caye Day (1798) and Scotland celebrates Fisherman's Walk Day. Because it is the second Friday it is also Hug Your Boss Day.
Among those born on this day were Carter Braxton (1836), Isaac Kauffman Funk (1839), Fay Wray (1907), Arnold Palmer (1929), Charles Kuralt (1934), Roger Maris (1934), Jose Feliciano (1945), Amy Irving (1953), and Joe Perry (1950).
On September tenth George Washington asked for a volunteer spy and Nathan Hale took him up on it (1776), Simon Bolivar was named president of Peru (1823), Howe patented the sewing machine (1846), the Great Idaho Fire destroyed 3 million wooded acres (1913), the Lincoln Highway opened thus completing coast-to-coast paved highway (1913), Leopold and Loeb were found guilty of murder (1924), Swanson sold the first "tv dinner" (1953), Gunsmoke premiered (CBS, 1955), Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won the Olympic marathon running barefoot (Rome, 1960), Gibraltar voted to remain British (1967), Muhammad Ali defeated Ken Norton (1973), Guinea-Bissau gained independence from Portugal (1974), 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to assassinate Truman in 1950 were freed (1979), and Bush and Gorbachev met in Helsinki (1990).
Night Sky,9/10: The two brightest stars (not planets) of September evenings are Vega high overhead and Arcturus in the west, both magnitude zero. Draw a line from Vega down to Arcturus. A third of the way down you cross the dim Keystone of Hercules. Two thirds of the way you cross the dim semicircle of Corona Borealis with its one modestly bright star: Alphecca, the gem of the crown. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Remember those happy faces in On The Road Again last week. Here's the other side of the road. On the tarmac at Midway Airport waiting for the weather to pass.
This Week: Saturday, September 11 – Banana Day & Libraries Remember Day & Prairie Day
Sunday, September 12 – Grandparent's Day & National Day of Encouragement & Video Games Day
Night Sky, 9/12: Look left of the thick crescent Moon for the head stars of Scorpius, then orange Antares. Halfway between the Moon and Antares (for the Americas) is the brightest of the head stars, the long-term eruptive variable Delta Scorpii. It's been holding fairly steady at magnitude 1.8 since 2010.
Monday, September 13 – International Chocolate Day & Kids Take Over The Kitchen Day & Roald Dahl Day
Tuesday, September 14 – National Sober Day & National Kreme Filled Donut Day
Wednesday, September 15 – Felt Hat Day & Greenpeace Day & International Day of Democracy
Night Sky, 9/15: Uranus (magnitude 5.7, in Aries) gets high in the east after midnight. Neptune (magnitude 7.8, at the Aquarius-Pisces border) is fairly high in the southeast as early as 10 pm.
Thursday, September 16 – National PawPaw Day & Mayflower Day & Stay Away From Seattle Day
A mind stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. / Take your goldfish for a walk.
..........the modern age is here.........Bad Religion …...Change Of Ideas
^^ Suicide accounted for 1.3% of all deaths worldwide, making it the 17th leading cause of death in 2019.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Some people are so poor, all they have is money. --Jack Kerouac
Moonbeam: Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. --Arnold Palmer
Video of the Week: TV Dinners by ZZ Top https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-6mI708yWc
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie: Fun guy and fungi
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: I would prefer that people buy bitcoin drunk rather than be like, "no I actually read up on it and I'm buying bitcoin". -Peter Grosz Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 9/4/21
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. --Desmond Tutu
That's a horrible idea. What time should I be there? / Simulated animal paws on the soles of shoes so you can leave tracks wherever you walk.
..........I've been thinking sitting on a pole.........Bee Gees …..Idea
^^^ In the US, suicide is the second leading cause of death for ages 10 through 34. Unintentional injury is the leading cause for the same age groups.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: In Texas the virus has more reproductive rights than women.
Weird Word of the Week: Zenzizenzizenzic – the 8th power of a number http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-zen1.htm
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Cure bad breath. Dissolve two Alka-Seltzer tablets in a glass of warm water and use as a mouthwash. The baking soda in the Alka-Seltzer lowers the pH level in your mouth, killing odor-producing bacteria. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/alkaseltzer.html
Puzzle of the Week: Name a food item. Divide this word in half. Take the second half followed by the first half twice, and you'll get a familiar saying. If you take the second half twice, followed by the first half, you'll name a well-known person. What are the food item, saying, and person's name? NPR Puzzle Sunday 11/26/11
Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean it's not going to be a good time. / Let's get a team of people in neon green morph suits to break into a newsroom and harass the weather man. No one at home will have any idea what's happening.
...........It could have been anywhere..........Shellac …..The Idea Of North
^^^^ 47,111 individuals took their own lives in the US in 2019. It is estimated that there were 1.39 million attempts.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: A few years ago I got bitten by a radioactive sloth and now I'm super tired. --Submitted by INRITH
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: LadiesCon 2021 (9-12, Somerville, MA) ...four-day celebration of women of all kinds and their work in comic books, science fiction, fantasy, cosplay, and ... https://ladiescon.com/
Actual Science Conference of the Week: IWAEA 2021 (10th International Workshop on Astronomy & Relativistic Astrophysics (5-11, Mexico City) ...astroparticle physics, cosmology, gravitation, nuclear physics, and related fields. https://conference-service.com/conferences/gravitation-and-cosmology.html
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Mayo → Yo mama & Yo-Yo Ma
My problem is that I have really fantastic bad ideas. / Putin should declare a slightly larger marine sanctuary than ours, sparking an environmentalist “arms race” that ends with a clean unpolluted Earth.
..........I feel so normal..........New Idea Society …..Create Your Own Emergency
^^^^^ National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800 273-8255.
My Own Writing of the Week: Whether Daphne discerned the truth or not we'll never know. She was apparently genuinely appalled at the removal of sex, drugs, and violence from worship, if indeed, it could still be called worship at all. Forever after when Apollo came to the glade she haughtily stretched herself into the laurel tree with a note nailed to her navel saying she'd only come out and play if he first ate the leaves. But it was too late to rescind his own edict and so he couldn't legally partake. It was Erato who first and most ardently regretted the loss of the true religion and it was she that fashioned for Apollo the wreath of laurel in hopes that he might in some moment of weakness or loneliness eat the leaves that would bring Daphne to his side and break the spell. Then it would be business as usual once again on Olympus. --from a short story called Daphne & Apollo
Extreme Topiary of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Maybe the day is having a shitty you. --Submitted by dr of oh
Today's Peace of History, September 10, 1963: Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee, and Mobile, Alabama. Governor George C. Wallace had ordered Alabama state troopers to stop the federal court-ordered integration of Alabama’s elementary and high schools. President John Kennedy responded by calling out the Alabama National Guard to protect the students and to see the order enforced.
There are no bad ideas, only great ideas that go terribly wrong. / A microwave that goes to YouTube and finds a video the exact length of the time you just typed in and plays it on the microwave door.
..........I'm gonna have a fantasy........Aerosmith with Joe Perry …..Love In An Elevator
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle September 10, 2021, ePistle's Idea. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. --Charles Kuralt
Cost of War:
As of 9/9/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,919,875,482,873.
This comes out to $70.02 million per hour
As of 9/2/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,161,228,484,866.
As of 9/9/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,083,643,985,805.
This comes out to $3.6 million per hour
As of 9/2/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,057,718,985,805.
As of 9/9/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $158,290,984,424.
...new category...some of this used to be part of Military Costs. It comes to $3.31 million per hour
As of 9/9/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,001,225,839,102.
This comes out to $9/25 million per hour
As of 9/2/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $879,361,270,667.
As of 9/9/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,014,811,456,622.
This comes out to $7.09 million per hour
As of 9/2/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $355,491,180,137.
As of 9/9/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,177,855,535,552.
This comes out to $93.26 million per hour
As of 9/2/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,453,801,926,185.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it. --Hiro Mashima
Famous Last Words: Well, shit, that didn't work...
..........Próspero año y felicidad..........José Feliciano …..Feliz Navidad
The very next bad idea you have, I'm in. / A hamster ball filled with water so your pet octopus can walk around the house.
May Peace be at home in your soul
And Joy attend your spirit
prairie mama
christine
Last Laugh: --Submitted by Philosophy Matters
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