Famous First Words: Imagine there's no heaven... John Lennon Imagine
October is Learn To Bowl Month. Bowling is the ideal sport. It's basically an hour of drinking beer occasionally interrupted by 6 seconds of exercise. / When bowling champion, John, was accused of stealing, he claimed he was framed.
..........Conservatives can cry........The Ramones …..Howling At The Moon
"If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes, and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors." -- Frank Sinatra.
It is a beautiful Friday morning. The sky is laced, here and there, with soft, small clouds like white sheep grazing a blue meadow. 67°F is nearly perfect, especially with a very light breeze...just enough to move the leaves of mighty willows and of a small basil shrub wantonly spreading sweet scent into the wind. Bright sun picks out colors and makes them gleam...a plethora of greens, a few yellow and amber fall flowers, and the ubiquitous black and orange of Halloween decorations. Birds chatter and dart about and Puck barks at everything but it drowns out the traffic noises and makes a soothing soundtrack to the day. The neighborhood is busy this morning; the cleaning ladies crew is gathering supplies and talking about the weekend. Down the block someone is replacing their hot water heater. Three people pass us on their way to work. We make it home to the aroma of freshly brewed coffee and the taste of it creamed and sweetened. Ahh! But the most beautiful thing about this morning is getting to write to you.
Hope your weekend rolls a turkey, meine freunde
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: So many village idiots, so few dragons. --Submitted by mja of ks
I was about to write a really bad bowling pun here, but I spared you. / We called our bowling team Lightning because we rolled so many strikes.
..........Chewin' out a rhythm on my bubble gum........The Ramones …..Rockaway Beach
Trivia Questions: Happy World Egg Day!
^ What is the relationship between eggs and a chef's hat?
^^ Do you have any idea how big the biggest hen's egg ever measured?
^^^ More or less, how long does it take for a hen to produce an egg?
^^^^ Why has the world chosen hen eggs over other fowl producers?
^^^^^ Iowa is the nation's leading egg producing state; about how many eggs do they harvest per year?
Big Hello: Guten Tag – German https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Sometimes you meet someone and you know from the first moment that you want to spend your whole life without them. --Submitted by INRITH
Max Picture of the Week: A boy and his dad
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: The best part of fall in a library is that the coffee-stained books all smell like pumpkin spice. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Which bowler floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee? Muhammad Alley. / Our local bowling alley has a cat that lives in the building. She's an alley cat.
..........That's what they want to give me........The Ramones …..Psycho Therapy
Moonbeam: Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. --Eddie Rickenbacker
Meditation Seed of the Week: Can you imagine a new color that hasn’t been discovered before?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My friend has a yellow coiled snake shirt but it says “Don't Cough On Me”. --Submitted by nam of ??
Week of the Week: World Goat Days (3-8) --3 mountain goats, called the hillbillies, watched their favorite movie, You've Goat Mail.
Oppressed bowling pins go on strike. --Tony the Tiger ~~Boycott Kellogg's!!! / Bowlers often wear armor for knight games.
..........They both went down to Berlin, joined the Ice Capades........The Ramones …..Judy Is A Punk
^ Chef hats traditionally have pleats equal to the number of ways that they can cook an egg.
Almanac: It is Friday, October 8, 2021. The moon was new last Wednesday and is in Scorpio. It is Alvin C. York Day, National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, National Pierogi Day, National Salmon Day, and World Octopus Day. Because it is the second Friday it is also National Family Bowling Day (or Kids Bowl Free Day) and World Egg Day.
Among those born on this day were Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873), Eddie Rickenbacker (1890), Juan Perón (1895), Frank Herbert (1920), David Carradine (1936), Paul Hogan (1939), Jesse Jackson (1941), Chevy Chase (1943), Sigourney Weaver (Susan Alexandra, 1949), Robert Kool Bell (1950), Johnny Ramone (1951), and Stephanie Zimbalist (1956).
On October eighth the Fourth Ecumenical Council opened (451), The first supernova was sighted (Kepler's Nova, 1604), the Great Fire destroyed much of Chicago (1871), Dow Jones issued their first report (1896), Ozzie married Harriet (1935), the Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet debuted on radio (1944), the Brooklyn Dodgers announced their move to Los Angeles (1957), Algeria was admitted to the United Nations (109th, 1962), and John Lennon released the record Imagine (1971).
Night Sky, 10/8: Celebrate the start of fall under the stars as the Draconid meteor shower, the first of the season, peaks on Oct. 8-9. The shower has a rich history of spectacular cosmic shows for stargazers. https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/how-to-see-draconid-meteor-shower-friday-night/1027963?fbclid=IwAR190Zi_ewDb8xNNy41CTXKPzBomoEHTDivjidKt1kE13CkHFp1aHu43fbE
Image of the Week: A sign from the thousands at Saturday's March for Women's Reproductive Rights at marches across the country
This Week: Saturday, October 9 – I Love Yarn Day & Costume Swap Day & National Chess Day
Sunday, October 10 – Clergy Appreciation Day & Hug A Drummer Day & International Stage Management Day
Night Sky, 10/10: Jupiter & Saturn continue to shine in the southeast to south during evening, 16° apart on opposite sides of dim Capricornus. Jupiter is the eye-grabber at magnitude –2.7. Saturn, to its right, is a twentieth as bright at mag +0.5. By the end of twilight they sit equally high in the south-southeast https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/this-weeks-sky-at-a-glance-october-1-9/
Monday, October 11 – National Coming Out Day & Native American Day aka Indigenous Peoples' Day
Tuesday, October 12 – Free Thought Day & National Farmers; Day & World Arthritis Day
Wednesday, October 13 - Bullying Prevention Day & National Chess Day & No Bra Day
Night Sky, 10/13: Vega is the brightest star very high in the west, while Arcturus is getting low in the west-northwest. The brightest star in the vast expanse between them, about a third of the way from Arcturus up toward Vega, is Alphecca, magnitude 2.2 — the crown jewel of dim Corona Borealis.
Thursday, October 14 – Be Bald and Be Free Day & Spiderman Day & World Standards Day
The KU football team has been banned from the bowling alley. It seems they spiked the ball every time they got a strike and now all of the lanes need to be refinished. / Old bowlers never die; they just end up in the gutter.
..........I got no cerebellum gonna get by PhD........The Ramones …..Teenage Lobotomy
^^ Harriet, a hen from the United Kingdom, laid the world’s largest egg in 2010. Her astonishing egg measured 9.1 inches in diameter.
Wicked Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Where is the capital of the United States? In the off-shore bank accounts of the 1%. --Submitted by gr of oh
Moonbeam: Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. --Frank Herbert
Video of the Week: Ricky Nelson (my very first crush) sings on the Ozzie & Harriet Show (TV): https://teachrock.org/video/ricky-nelson-sings-on-the-adventures-of-ozzie-and-harriet-1957/
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie and the Yellow Submarine sailing The Sea of Pumpkins
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: True or false?: When Trump got a colonoscopy at Walter Reed he refused anesthetic because he didn't want to appear weak. False. He refused anesthetic because he didn't want Pence to be acting president even for half an hour. Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 10/2/21
“I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war… But we have no more urgent task.” -- John F. Kennedy.
A gutter ball is officially known as Alley Oop. / If your bowling team needs new shirts, try New Jersey.
..........Pull yourself back together........The Ramones …..Bonzo Goes to Bitburg
^^^ It takes a hen between 24 and 26 hours to develop an egg. Once she lays an egg, the development of a new egg normally starts within 30 minutes.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Funny how the British conquered so much land looking for spices but then refused to use them. --Submitted by arh of AR
Collective Noun of the Week: A bike of bees. https://www.jellyfish.com/en-gb/training/blog/collective-nouns
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Clean the pipes and tubes in a coffee maker. Fill the water chamber with water, drop in four Alka-Seltzer tablets, and run the coffeemaker through a regular cycle. The ascorbic acid cleanses the system. Then flush the system clean by running clear water through the cycle twice. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/alkaseltzer.html
Name That Poet Of The Week: ...(and buds know better than books don't grow)...
Puzzle of the Week: This challenge came from listener Dan Pitt of Palo Alto, Calif. Take the common abbreviation for a major American city. Insert it inside an airport code for that city. And you'll name a flower. What flower is it? NPR Puzzle Sunday 10/3/21
Penny Pin installed a RESET mechanism at home in case her aging parents fell down. / Like most billionaires, Elon Musk prefers to bowl with crystal pins.
...........How do you move in a world of fog........The Ramones …..I Don't Want To Grow Up
^^^^ There are several reasons why we commonly eat chicken eggs instead of duck or turkey eggs. Chickens lay more eggs, they need less nesting space, and they don’t have the strong mothering instincts of turkeys and ducks, which makes egg collection easier.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. --Denis Diderot
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Monsterama 2021 (8-10, Atlanta, GA) This year we’re rolling our other event, SPY CON, into the weekend at no extra charge... https://monsteramacon.com/
Poet of the Week: e e cummings if everything happens that can't be done
Actual Science Conference of the Week: International Conference on Wildlife Science and Sociology (7-8, NYC) Human dimensions of wildlife management https://conferenceindex.org/event/international-conference-on-wildlife-science-and-sociology-icwss-2021-october-new-york-us
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Chi (Chicago) + ORD = Orchid
Spinal Tap used to go eleven pin bowling. / This is NOT politics. It's bowling; there are rules.
..........If you think you can, well, come on man........The Ramones …..53rd & 3rd
^^^^^ When it comes to the number of eggs laid each year, Iowa leads the nation with more than 14.8 billion eggs produced annually. Ohio is the next state in line, producing 7.9 billion eggs each year.
My Own Writing of the Week: The only "extra" energy I have is due to the fact that I am not carrying around those pounds and so not using up the energy it takes to carry around those pounds. I certainly don't have less energy and I'm not complaining except that EVERY ad for weight loss products or services says, "more energy". From The Down Side of Losing Weight
Vintage Players One-Liner of the Week: I went to an antiques auction and people were bidding on me.
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My favorite allergy song is “Blowin in the Wind” by Peter Pollen Mary
Today's Peace of History, October 8, 1993: Toni Morrison became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Did you know that The Empire Strikes Back was originally a bowling story.. / Don't bowl at Lois Lanes; they don't have pin boys, they have alley-gaters.
..........Tanqueray and tonic's my favorite drink........The Ramones …..Somebody Put Something In My Drink
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle October 8, 2021, Spare ePistle. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get your change. --Jesse Jackson
Cost of War:
As of 10/7/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,924,595,411,491.
As of 9/30/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,923,414,724,218.
As of 10/7/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,086,061,088,794.
As of 9/30/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,085,456,299,533.
As of 10/7/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $160,516,592,285.
As of 9/30/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $159,395,968,675.
As of 10/7/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,007,443,113,633.
As of 9/30/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,005,887,548,479.
As of 10/7/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,061,938,359,048.
As of 9/30/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,050,146,054,438.
As of 10/7/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,240,556,796,011.
As of 9/30/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,224,868,873,504.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
“Though force can protect in an emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration, and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Famous Last Words: And the world will live as one. John Lennon Imagine
..........After all these years, I'm still alive.........The Ramones …..I Believe In Miracles
Let's face it, bowling is a sport for people with time to spare. / This is too much bowl shit !
May Peace dust your lanes
And Joy reset your pins
prairie mama
christine
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