Famous First Words: Four score and seven years ago... Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address
Happy World Philosophy Day! You Kant beat these jokes. / When the big bad wolf began studying philosophy he became a self-awere-wolf.
..........Let us begin, what, where, why, or when.........Boogie Down …..My Philosophy
All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together. --Joe Hill
It is a cold (29°) Friday morning. The sky is a swirl of thin white clouds hardly moving although the wind is making the willow branches dance and any leaf still clinging to its tree giggle. It sounds like giggling anyway. Near empty branches are still and calm beside the willow. Grass and some bushes are still green but leaves and trees are turning brown and yellow. They sail across the yard like out of control fairy boats. Even the catnip patch is looking cold and sad. Birds are about urging the sun to chase away the clouds, and generally gossiping about the neighborhood. Puck is cold and hurrys us back home. The wind encourages us to find shelter. The house smells of brewing coffee and I lose no time in doctoring it, ½ n ½ and sweetener. I take a long sip standing by the coffee maker. Ahh, yes, and now I am ready to write to you.
Hope your weekend is free of ambiguities and vagueness, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My life needs editing. --Mort Sahl
Math students always carry a pencil, paper, and an eraser. A philosophy student only needs a pencil and paper. / A physics joke in a philosophy class is called blasphemy.
..........Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.........Monty Python …..Philosophers Song
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday to Rocky and Bullwinkle !
^ Who created Rocky & Bullwinkle?
^^ Who were R&B's nemesis and where were they from?
^^^ Who were Gidney and Cloyd and where were they from?:
^^^^ How long did the show run?
^^^^^ What was Bullwinkle's alma mater?
Big Hello: Sannu – Hausa (Nigeria & Niger) https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. --Saul Bellow
Max Picture of the Week: Max as mom
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: A librarian's obsession with keeping the reference desk clean is inversely related to how clean they keep their own desk. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
A monk who gets a philosophy degree is called a deep friar. / The student dropped out of 19th Century Socialist Thought 101 because of poor Marx.
..........Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box.........Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians …..What I Am
Moonbeam: In the Far East, compulsory labor can work wonders, just like here... If only Belgium wanted to see that. --Ferdinand De Lesseps
Meditation Seed of the Week: If you were going to a famous historical figure dress-up party, who would you go as?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I wonder if Trump tried to grab Mike Pence by the patriot. Mike Pence now claims he has no problems at all with his former boss, so I guess Trump was right. --Jimmy Kimmel
Week of the Week: Medical Cannabis Week (16-20) –Doctor, what can you prescribe for the pain, nausea, and lack of appetite of my side effects? Round trip airline tickets to Colorado as needed. / You can't spell healthcare without THC.
Nihilists, nihilists, if not for Nihilism you'd have nothing to believe in. / My local philosophy club offers free why-fi.
..........Man does not eat by bread alone.........Chenoweth & Levine …..My New Philosophy
^ The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show was created by producer Jay Ward and cartoonist Alex Anderson, who had worked together on the Crusader Rabbit series. Their initial vision was a show called The Frostbite Falls Revue about a group of animals running a TV station, but the project never got beyond the proposal stage. The next attempt at a new series began with the pilot Rocky the Flying Squirrel. General Mills came on as a sponsor and Rocky and His Friends was born.
Almanac: It is Friday, November 19, 2021. The moon was full (Cold) this morning around 3:30 am and is in Gemini. It is American Made Matters Day, Equal Opportunity Day (aka Gettysburg Address Day), Have A Bad Day Day, International Men's Day, Rocky and Bullwinkle Day, Women's Entrepreneurship Day, World Philosophy Day, and World Toilet Day. In Mali it is Liberation Day and in Monaco it is Monegasque National Day.
Among those born on this day were Charles I of England (1600), Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770), Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805), Jose Raul Capablanca (1888), Allen Tate (1899), Tommy Dorsey (1905), Indira Gandhi (1917), Roy Campanella (1921), Larry King (1933), Dick Cavett (1936), Ted Turner (1938), Calvin Klein (1942), Lovely Elizabeth (1960), Meg Ryan (1961), and Jodie Foster (1962).
On November nineteenth Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address (1863), Boss Tweed was sentenced to 12 years for fraud (1874), Carrie Nation attempted to address the US Senate (1903), Joe Hill was murdered by the authorities of the state of Utah (1915), US Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles & the League of Nations (1919), Ford cancelled the Edsel (1959), Apollo 12 crew walk on the moon (1969), and Reagan and Gorbachev met for the first time (1985).
Night Sky, 11/19: For us in North America, the partial lunar eclipse will take place late at night on November 18, or in the early morning on November 19, 2021. The moon will be high in North American skies, to the west. In this illustration, the white disks represent partially eclipsed moons. Watch for the dipper-shaped Pleiades star cluster near the eclipsed moon. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/partial-lunar-eclipse-november-19-2021/
Image of the Week: Have the best turkey day...
This Week: Saturday, November 20- Name Your PC Day & Universal Children's Day
Sunday, November 21- Mother Goose Day & World Hello Day & Stir Up Sunday
Night Sky, 11/21: Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest celestial objects after the Sun and the Moon, blaze during and after twilight a little less far apart every week. Venus is low in the southwest; Jupiter is high in the south. Saturn glows less than halfway from Jupiter to Venus. Watch this line of three shorten for the next month. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Monday, November 22 – Do Dah Day & Humane Society Day
Tuesday, November 23 – Doctor Who Day & Fibonacci Day & National Espresso Day
Wednesday, November 24 – Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day & National Jukebox Day
Night Sky, 11/24: Neptune (magnitude 7.9, at the Aquarius-Pisces border) is already high in the southeast at nightfall.
Thursday, November 25 – Thanksgiving Day & International Hat Day & National Play With Dad Day
Failing a course in Empiricism is Hume-iliating. / A skunk's philosophy is I stink, therefore I am.
..........Everything they'll ever know.........The Crabs …..Jean Paul Sartre
^^ Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale were from Pottsylvania.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Smoking pot doesn't make me a bad person just like going to church doesn't make you a good one.
Moonbeam: There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. --Indira Gandhi
Video of the Week: Paul Robeson singing Joe Hill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Kxq9uFDes
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie and the submarine of a different color
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: It's very funny what presses their buttons; but the Republicans are really against imaginary creatures. They were upset about Mr Potato Head and now we've got Big Bird. I Don't know who's next to set them off. --Alanxo Bodden Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 11/16/21
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains. --Joe Hill
I was dating a solipsist but he ended it. He said, “It's not you; it's only me. / How many surrealists would it require to screw in a light bulb? Fish
..........No one ever wrote a tune for godless existentialism.........Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers …..Atheists Don't Have No Songs
^^^ Gidney and Cloyd were aliens from the Moon.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: It's not my fault you thought I was normal. That's on you. --Submitted by mja of ks
Collective Nouns of the Week: a Pretension of Intellects and a Confusion of Philosophers
Vintage Players One Liner of the Week: Old age is when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it.
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Get short-term relief from nicotine withdrawal symptoms. As long as you're not on a low-sodium diet or have peptic ulcers, drink two Alka-Seltzer tablets dissolved in a glass of water at every meal. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/alkaseltzer.html
Puzzle of the Week: Name a variety of songs and a genre of music (6,4). Switch the initial consonant sounds of these two words, and, phonetically, you'll name an object found in the kitchen (6,4). What is it?
I took my Marxist friend to a Japanese restaurant for the tea ceremony. But she got up a left before it even started. She said proper tea is theft. / You know, Nietzsche complained that Egypt was way to Nile-istic.
...........I don't think humans are made for this world.........Ingrid Yeung …..Aristotle
^^^^ The current Rocky title was imposed for home video releases more than 40 years after the series originally aired and was never used when the show was televised; television airings of the show were broadcast under the titles of Rocky and His Friends from 1959 to 1961 (and again in Canada in 1963), The Bullwinkle Show from 1961 to 1964, and The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (or The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle) in syndication. So, 5 years
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Every time you smoke a cigarette God takes away one day of your life and gives it to Keith Richards. ~~FYI: Keith Richards is four months older than I am and Willie Nelson is ten years older than Keith.
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Fantastika 2021 (19-21, Stockholm) There are many descriptions of what is fantastic, but a simple one is that there is something in the story that is not realistic today. https://fantastika2020.com/om-sf-kongresser/
Name That Poet of the Week: If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?
Actual Science Conference of the Week: 1173rd International Conference on Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (ICCBE) (11/19, Cambridge ...find international linkage for future collaborations... https://conferencealert.com/conf-detail.php?ev_id=496650
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Ballad Soul --> Salad Bowl
Voltaire liked his apples candied. / Barb ran a pub with absolutely no class. It was named Marxist Utopia.
..........It's a sign of the time that we're in.........Emperor X …..Schopenhauer in Berlin
^^^^^ Bullwinkle attended college at "Wossamotta U" on a football scholarship. He is a long-time supporter of the Bull Moose Party, and at one time was the part-owner, part-governor of the island of Moosylvania.
My Own Writing of the Week: Stringman and I played games...board games, card games, and pen and pencil games. Once a friend gave him two decks of cards that were stamped onto tiles - like dominoes. We made up games to play with them. He was also a master of string figures and taught adults and children alike to make them too. He read anthropology journals to find descriptions of string figures displayed by tribes and peoples in obscure places and times. He and a friend did a stand up 'comedy' routine...with string. Every couple of years, I get out my string - it hangs near my computer - to remember a few of the old tricks, 2 diamonds, 3 diamonds, 4 diamonds aka Jacob's Ladder. 1,000 diamonds was the standard trick still to be learned. --from The Philosopher
Poet of the Week: Dorothy Parker Philosophy
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Happy International Men's Day.-- When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping; men invade another country. --Elayne Boosier / Is it a coincidence that International Men's Day and World Toilet Day fall are celebrated simultaneously
Today's Peace of History, November 19, 1977: In an unprecedented move, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat traveled to Israel to seek a permanent peace settlement with Egypt's neighbor after decades of conflict.
I bought a reflective jacket. Now it sits in the corner and reads Descartes. / If you cross a philosopher with the godfather you get an offer you can't understand.
..........I want a god who stays dead, not plays dead.........The Dandy Warhols …..Nietzsche
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle November 19, 2021, Why ePistle? Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. --Larry King
Cost of War:
As of 11/18/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,931,678,289,833.
As of 11/11/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,930,789,012,529.
As of 11/18/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,089,688,911,521.
As of 11/11/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,089,079,669,501.
As of 11/18/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $163,856,493,958.
As of 11/11/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $163,295,696,794.
As of 11/18/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,016,771,659,261.
As of 11/11/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,015,204,951,627.
As of 11/18/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,132,652,869,886.
As of 11/11/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,120,774,450,647.
As of 11/18/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,334,650,244,204.
As of 11/11/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,318,848,455,713.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning – organize. --Joe Hill
Famous Last Words: But, Bullwinkle, there aren't any more woods. --Rocket J Squirrel
..........What's the sound of one hand clapping.........Van Morrison …..Enlightenment
Does it feel solipsistic here or is it just me? / I attended a philosophy convention and there was a convention of comedians there at the same time. I laughed more than I thought.
May Peace surround you
And Joy center you
prairie mama
christine
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