Famous First Words: Alice was beginning to get very tired... Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
It is Maize Day ! These corn puns will shuck and a-maize you. / This corn costume makes me look fat, but it's just husky.
..........Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care.........Burl Ives …..Blue Tail Fly
"When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists -- as it surely will. Then act with courage." -- Chief White Eagle, Ponca
It is a cold (32°F), windy (14 mph) Friday morning. I am sitting at my computer sipping sweet, creamy decaf and listening to a bird outside my window chirp a complaint about the cold. The sky is absolutely clear without a cloud or a jet trail and the sun is blazing, but it is still cold. Squirrels nibbling at the neighbor's decorative pumpkins are shivering. A quarrel of sparrows at the bird feeder eat in silence. Willow branches are dancing wildly and even the leaves remaining on the trees and bushes are joining the festivities. The kitchen still smells of turkey and pumpkin so I help myself to a cold slice of white meat and refill my coffee cup. It was a very nice Thanksgiving and it looks like it will be a very nice day.
Hope your weekend is something to be truly thankful for, ePistilers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: A person searching for God is like fish searching for water. --Submitted by ag of ks
Carla Corn told Carl Corn he was handsome. Carl was so embarrassed all he could say was, “Aw, shucks”. / Last Halloween I walked through a corn maze. The whole time I felt like I was being stalked. It was ear-ie.
..........Praying over muffins that your grandma made.........Blake Shelton …..Corn
Trivia Questions: Happy Flossing Day
^ How long should your piece of floss be for proper cleansing?
^^ What are the top flavors in dental floss?
^^^ What are the two types of floss?
^^^^ What about flossing and orthodontic devices?
^^^^^ Why would someone use waxed floss?
Big Hello: Aloha – Hawaiian ... https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: All those people desperately shopping on Black Friday are just thankful they survived Thanksgiving dinner with the family.
Max Picture of the Week: Max casting a spell on the pumpkin
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: By 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon there's only a 29% chance that it's tea in the librarian's mug. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Los Angeles had a police squad made up of vegetables. They rode motorcycles and patrolled fast food joints. They were called Corn CHIPs. / On Christmas Eve, Katie Corn hung corn stalkings over the fireplace.
..........Hard times are real.........Travis Tritt …..Where The Corn Don't Grow
Moonbeam: I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should show one another. --Charles Schulz
Meditation Seed of the Week: If you could instantly become master of one skill, what skill would you pick?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Three branches of government: Oil, Banking, and Pharmaceuticals --Submitted by rhb of ks
Week of the Week: National Family Week (21-27) –Families are like fudge...mostly sweet with a few nuts. / Heredity: everyone believes in it until their kids start acting like fools.
Do zombies eat candy corn with their fingers? No, they eat their fingers separately. / Farmer Fred fed his cows maize because he really liked corned beef
..........What's that smell? Corn corn corn.........Heywood Banks …..Interstate 80 Iowa
^ To floss properly, you need to use between 18 and 20 inches of floss. This helps ensure that you have enough clean floss to use, and that it is firmly grasped while in use.
Almanac: It is Friday, November 26, 2021. The moon will be in the last quarter tomorrow and is in Virgo. It is Flossing Day, National Milk Day, Sinkie Day aka Dine Over Your Kitchen Sink Day, and World Olive Tree Day. Because it is the day after Thanksgiving it is also Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, Maize Day, National Day of Listening, National Native American Heritage Day, Random Acts of Kindness Friday, and You're Welcomegiving Day.
Among those born on this day were John Harvard (1607), William Cowper (1731), Willis Carrier (1876), Eric Sevareid (1912), Eugene Ionesco (1912), Charles M. Schulz (1922), George Segal (1924), Robert Goulet (1933) and Tina Turner (1938).
On November twenty-sixth the first national Thanksgiving was held (1789), NYC began operating the first streetcar railway in the new world (1832), Alice in Wonderland was published (1865), Lebanon gained independence (1941), India adopted its constitution (1949) and Cream gave its final concert (1969).
Night Sky, 11/26: The last-quarter Moon rises in Leo around 11 pm tonight. By dawn on Saturday the 27th it's high in the south below Leo's belly, as shown above. The Moon is exactly last-quarter at 7:28 am Saturday morning EST. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Kansas City: The Plaza Lights (nightly from now through 1/9/22)
This Week: Saturday, November 27 – Slinky Day & Small Business Saturday
Sunday, November 28 – Hanukkah begins
Night Sky 11/28 : Around 7 or 8 pm this week, the Great Square of Pegasus rests in its level position very high toward the south. (It's straight overhead if you're as far south as Miami.) Its western (right) side points very far down toward Fomalhaut. Its eastern side points down toward Beta Ceti, also known as Deneb Kaitos or Diphda, less far down and less directly.
Monday, November 29 – Cider Monday & Cyber Monday # Electronic Greetings Day
Tuesday, November 30 – Cities for Life Day & National Personal Space Day
Wednesday, December 1 – Basketball Day & Rosa Parks Day & World Aids Day
Night Sky, 12/1: If you have a very good view down to a dark south horizon — and if you're not much farther north than roughly New York, Denver, or Madrid — picture an equilateral triangle with Fomalhaut and Beta Ceti as its top two corners. Near where the third corner would be (just a bit right of that point) is Alpha Phoenicis, or Ankaa, in the constellation Phoenix. It's magnitude 2.4, not very bright but the brightest thing in its area. It has a yellow-orange tint (binoculars help check). Have you ever seen anything of the constellation Phoenix before?
Thursday, December 2 – National Mutt Day & Special Education Day
Of course corn calls its money cornbread. / If you eat candy corn with both hands you must be ambi-dextrose.
..........My daddy had a still and my momma had a gun.........Southern Culture On The Skids …..Corn Liquor
^^ Did you know that you can buy floss in just about any flavor? The most popular flavors are mint, cinnamon, and bubblegum, but you can buy more obscure flavors like wasabi or even bacon!
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. --Isaac Asimov --Submitted by rg of kc
Moonbeam: No one would have been invited to dinner so often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor. --Charles Schulz
Video of the Week: Cream performing I'm So Glad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3GIQ86eu6c
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie and his Spoon ..maybe eating corn
Rumor of the Week: It's my understanding, though I can't verify it at the moment, that Ralph Ellis of the eponymous Ralph Ellis Collection in Spencer Library, was of the same Ellis family that owned Ellis Island. --Sent by cc of ma
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: A story about what happened after Madonna left somewhere. So this is PostMadonna nor PreMadonna. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 11/20/21
"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace... Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief.They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it..." -- White Elk
Arg! At the Renaissance Fair, roasted corn was $1 per ear. It was sold by a guy dressed like a buccaneer. / In Iowa they call the state fair a Corn-ival.
..........On the cob, creamed, steamed, low sodium..........Yes Yes Dolls …..Cornography
^^^ Unwaxed floss is thin nylon floss made of about 35 strands twisted together. Waxed floss is a standard nylon floss with a light wax coating.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: All I want for Christmas is to be off the Extended Car Warranty call list.--Submitted by cf of ks
Collective Nouns of the Week: A Plot of Playwrights and a Scoop of Journalists
Vintage Players One Liner of the Week: The older you get the tougher it is to lose weight because, by then, your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends.
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Deodorize smelly feet. Dissolve two Alka-Seltzer tables in a quart of warm water and soak your feet in the solution for fifteen minutes twice a week. The baking soda in the Alka-Seltzer increases the acid level of your feet, inhibiting odor-producing bacteria. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/alkaseltzer.html
Puzzle of the Week: From Peter Collins, of Ann Arbor, MI: Name of a famous TV actress (3,6) of the past. Double her first name phonetically. You get the first name of a famous musician (2,4). If you put the last names of the musician and the actress together, in that order, you'll name a great legendary figure (4,6). Who is it? NPR Puzzle Sunday 11/21/21
The cornfield next to my house has a little corny toad living in it. / My corn had its own farm and raised Cornish game hens.
...........Each one breathes memories.........Sponge …..Candy Corn
^^^^ People with orthodontic devices like braces can floss too! Floss threaders and proxabrushes are great ways to helps people wearing braces remove food debris from between their teeth, and stuck in their brackets or orthodontic equipment.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: For anybody else that's getting coal for Christmas. Maybe we can link up and get the grill going or something. --Submitted by INRITH
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Starbase Indy 2021 (26-28, Indianapolis) –The Future STEMS from Hope https://www.starbaseindy.org/
Name That Poet of the Week: On the tree-tops near the cornfields sat the hungry crows and ravens...
Actual Science Conference of the Week: International Congress on Cell Science & Molecular Biology ((27-28) --Participants include a wide variety of stakeholder https://www.allconferencealert.com/event-detail.html?ev_id=581683&eventname=international-congress-on-cell-science-and-molecular-biology-(ic-csmb)
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Bea Arthur and BB King → King Arthur
When Candy Corn was elected to the city commission, I sent her a corn-gratulations bouquet. / I use corn oil to stop my corn from squeaking.
..........serving chicken fried steak and corn on the cob..........Reba McEntire …..The Stairs
^^^^^ Waxed floss is easier to slide between closely spaced teeth. If your teeth are very close together, we suggest flossing with thin waxed floss.
My Own Writing of the Week: I love husbands, you have a little afternoon delight and then they go home and drive someone else crazy. I really tried to avoid men with entanglements out of fairness to them and to women I may or may not have met. I have no reason to hurt any of them. Of course, in the 60s everyone was sleeping around because we were hippies. At least I think that was the excuse. (In the 20s the excuse was they were flappers and in the 40s there was war on.) We had four-people marriages, open marriages, common law marriages, and communes. Free Love was the ideal. I never cared for that scene, it seemed artificial. I found it easy to believe that somehow organically people could get together in a variety of combinations of numbers and genders; but I never experienced it. All of the ménage à trois I was involved with were well planned or a total mess. --From Husbands – mine and other people's
Poet of the Week: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Blessing of the Cornfields
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Why is it that the people who think teenagers can be trusted with guns don't think they can be trusted with books?
Today's Peace of History, November 26, 1968: U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution against capital punishment following an official report which said, “Examination of the number of murders before and after the abolition of the death penalty does not support the theory that capital punishment has a unique deterrent effect.”
If you know any more maize jokes, I'm all ears. / If you happen to swallow a corncob, you might get corn-stipated. / A single kernel of corn is called a unicorn.
..........Nobody knows where they come from..........The Waterboys …..Corn Circles
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle November 26, 2021, Eared ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport. --Charles Schulz
Should Have Been in Last Week's ePistle of the Week: When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy. --Voltaire
Cost of War:
As of 11/25/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,932,915,343,436.
As of 11/18/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,931,678,289,833.
As of 11/25/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,090,322,525,888.
As of 11/18/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,089,688,911,521.
As of 11/25/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $164,439,976,700.
As of 11/18/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $163,856,493,958.
As of 11/25/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,018,400,960,261.
As of 11/18/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,016,771,659,261.
As of 11/25/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,145,003,771,546 .
As of 11/18/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,132,652,869,886.
As of 11/25/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,351,086,203,505.
As of 11/18/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,334,650,244,204.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
"All dreams spin out from the same web." -- Hopi Tribe
Famous Last Words: I'm not capitulating ! --Berenger The Rhinoceros Eugène Ionesco
..........Treatin' the ladies to corn on the cob.........Glen Campbell …..The Straight Life
Dora the Explorer has gone on a quest to find the mythical grain, the uni corn. / So many maize jokes, I'm cornfused.
May Peace wrap your cob
And Joy pop your corn
prairie mama
christine
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