Famous First Words: Gem juletræet godt … (Save the Christmas tree well) Ibsen's Et dukkehjem
Happy Hat Day ! A dinosaur in a cowboy hat is called Tyrannosaurus Tex. / Hat puns are beanie-th me.
..........Sunshine left upon my face.........Richie Havens …..Morning, Morning
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner. --Carlos Santana
It is a frigid Friday morning. The sun is bright and working hard, the temperature has gone from 4° to 7°F since I got up. The sky is void of clouds and radiates a pale blue in the sunlight. Puck's outside water bowl is frozen solid and a round bowl shaped piece of ice remains beside it; it is from an earlier attempt to keep liquid in it. There is little wind to animate the willow branches that droop sadly when they can't dance. Birds are up and singing to the sun. We did not go for a walk in this cold, but I stand at the patio door while Puck does his business and barks a few times in case there are other dogs out; there don't seem to be. He returns quickly and drinks the somehow inferior indoor water and settles into the recliner for a morning nap. I doctor a cup of Vanilla Nut decaf but before I sit down, I find my sweater to ward off chill. My room is comfortable but the idea of cold is everywhere. Now the thought of writing to you warms me and makes me smile.
Hope your weekend knocks your hat off, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You can't read all day....if you don't start in the morning.
Magicians wear top hats so the audience won't see their hare. / If you throw a white hat into the Red Sea it becomes wet. / A snake in a hard hat is called a boa constructor.
..........Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.........Richie Havens …..Freedom
Trivia Questions: Happy 223rd Birthday to the Smallpox Vaccine
^ What exactly is smallpox?
^^ Would you like to guess how many cases of smallpox were reported each year in the 1950s?
^^^ When and/or where was the last case of smallpox?
^^^^ What was the criteria for declaring smallpox eradicated?
^^^^^ When did smallpox vaccination stop being routinely given?
Big Hello: Ndeewo – Igbo (Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon) https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Some people say the problem with Christianity is that it is not taught in schools. I think the problem with Christianity is that it is not taught in churches.
Max Picture of the Week: Max recreating Bell's geometrical kites – from the inside out
Meditation of the Week: Do the past and the future really exist?
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: 18% of librarians are now having wordle nightmares. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Crazy hat ladies live in Mad-hat-tan. / When my boss wears his flag hat to work we call him supervisor.
..........She's wild warm and tender.........Mac Davis …..One Hell of a Woman
Moonbeam: Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control have already been born. --Benny Hill
Puzzle of the Week: Last week's challenge came from Joseph Young, who conducts the blog "Puzzleria!" Let A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc. Think of a five-letter word whose letters' values add up to 51. Now take this word's last two letters. Add their values. (For example A and C would total 4.) Change these two letters to the single letter of the alphabet that represents their total. (In this case, D.) The result will be a new word that is the opposite of the original.
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. --Franklin P Adams
Week of the Week: Hunt for Happiness Week (16-22) --When my daughter turned 4, she was so crazy with happiness, I took her to the doctor who said: Euphoria. / A meme that produces joy and happiness is a dope-a-meme.
Frogs leave their hats in the croak-room. / You look so fedora-ble in that hat.
..........With my favorite jeans and a cheap guitar.........Mac Davis …..Texas in My Rear View Mirror
^ Smallpox is a systemic disease caused by infection with the Variola major virus, whose only reservoir was infected humans. The infection was usually transmitted via inhalation of droplets. After an average incubation period of 12 days, a high fever accompanied by non-specific general symptoms abruptly appeared. The fever then receded and a characteristic skin eruption appeared. Subsequently the fever rose again, and serious complications generally developed (pulmonary, cardio-circulatory, neurological, etc.), resulting in death in up to 50% of cases. Survivors who overcame this phase would see the rash resolving, leaving permanent scars. No effective therapy is available.
Almanac: It is Friday, January 21, 2022. The moon will be at the last quarter on Tuesday and is in Leo. It is International Sweatpants Day, National Cheesy Socks Day, National Hugging Day, and National Hug Your Puppy Day.. In Florida it is Arbor Day and in the Dominican Republic it is Nuestra Senora de Altagracia Day. Because it is the third, it is also Hat Day and International Fetish Day.
Among those born on this day were John Fremont (1813), Stonewall Jackson (1824), Christian Dior (1905), Paul Scofield (1922), Benny Hill (1924), Telly Savalas (1924), Steve Reeves (1926), Wolfman Jack (Bob Smith, 1938), Jack Nicklaus (1940), Placido Domingo (1941), Richie Havens (1941), Mac Davis (1942), Joseph Tanner (1950), Geena Davis (1957), and Hakeem Abdul Oljuwon (1963).
On January twenty-first The Power of Sympathy became the first novel published in the United States (1789), the smallpox vaccination was introduced (1799), Freedom Journal became the first black newspaper published in the US (1827), the envelope-folding machine was patented (1853), Ibsen's Et Dukkehjem premiered (Copenhagen, 1879), Wizard of Oz opened on Broadway (1903), Houdini escaped from the police station in Halvemaansteeg (1903), NYC outlawed smoking for women (1908), Kiwanis International was founded (Detroit, 1915), the first figure skating championships were held in the US (1939), Britian banned the Daily Worker (1941), the Bronx outlawed pinball machines (1942), T S Eliot's The Cocktail Party opened (1950), snow fell in San Francisco (1962), BB King donated his 7,000 record collection to Ole Miss (1987), Lorena Bobbitt was declared to have been temporarily insane when she chopped of her spouse's penis (1994), and Pope John Paul II visited Cuba (1998).
Night Sky 1/21: Now that the waning Moon doesn't rise until about 9 pm, is your early-evening sky dark enough for you to see the winter Milky Way? After dinner time it runs vertically from Canis Major low in the southeast, up between Orion and Gemini, through Auriga and Perseus overhead, and down through Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Cygnus to the northwest horizon. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Winter storm Izzy in Charlotte, NC
Extra Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: We don't need pictures of your back porch. It snowed. It's January. No one cares. --Submitted by INRITH
This Week: Saturday, January 22 – Answer Your Cat's Questions Day & Local Quilt Shop Day
Sunday, January 23 – National Handwriting Day & National Pie Day
Night Sky, 1/23: After dark, face east and look very high. The bright star there is Capella, the Goat Star. To the right of it, by a couple of finger-widths at arm's length, is a small, narrow triangle of 3rd and 4th magnitude stars known as "the Kids." Though they're not exactly eye-grabbing, they form a never-forgotten aster-ism with Capella.
Monday, January 24 – Belly Laugh Day & National Compliment Day & Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day
Tuesday, January 25 – A Room of One's Own Day & National Irish Coffee Day & Opposite Day
Wednesday, January 26 – Library Shelfie Day & National Green Juice Day
Night Sky, 1/26: Venus (magnitude –4.3) emerges into dawn view. Look for it low in the east-southeast about 45 or 30 minutes before sunrise. It gets higher every day. In a telescope or good binoculars it's a thin crescent, as it was a few weeks ago in the evening sky. But now it's getting thicker every day, not thinner.
Thursday, January 27: - Viet Nam Peace Day & Holocaust Memorial Day
Hat lovers have their own social media platform, it's called hat-tag. / I told dad that buying a new hat for a dollar is a small price toupee.
..........And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace.........Richie Havens …..Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
^^ 1950s - Worldwide, 15 million cases of smallpox are reported each year.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: And if you are ever stopped for marijuana possession, it's recommended that you plead guilty to the lesser charge of trying to overthrow the US government. --Submitted by sb of ar
Moonbeam: Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. --Benny Hill
Strange Fact of the Week: When I was ten I fell off my bike and hurt my knee. I’m telling you this now because we didn’t have social media then.
Video of the Week: Plácido Domingo at the Arena di Verona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjgfg9SvNWE
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: Rich Parents: Animals just like people benefit from inherited wealth. For example, squirrels pass down their store of nuts to their children ... you know they're so like bragging about it at college, they're like I'm going to go visit my parents but in their summer tree. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 1/15/22
'Cause you and I know what love is worth. We're gonna build a heaven on Earth. --Eddie Money
You looked good in the beret but with this hat you'll be adora-bowler. / The queen should wear a teacup-shaped hat since she's royal-tea.
..........When I heard Jerry Lee Lewis singing.........Mac Davis …..Hooked on Music
^^^ 1977 - The last naturally occurring case of smallpox in the world occured in Somalia.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd. --David Lynch who turned 76 this week.
Weird Word of the Week: Catoptromancy – divination by means of mirrors. https://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cat2.htm
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie..Sometimes you need to dance barefoot on the table
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Maintain your septic tank. Flush one cup Arm & Hammer Baking Soda down the toilet once a week. Baking soda helps maintain proper pH and alkalinity, controlling sulfide odors. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/armhammer.html
It's a gnome fact that gnomes wear pointy beanie hats. / You can make any boat into a hat, just flip it over and it's cap sized.
...........A little more bite and a little less bark.........Mac Davis …..A Little Less Conversation
^^^^ 1979 - Smallpox met the criteria for eradication by having no natural cases for two years. 1980 - The World Health Organization announced the official eradication of smallpox.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Suffering is not a superpower. --Black Lives Matter - Lawrence
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: ConFusion 2022 (21-23, Detroit) Another year, another fabulous #ConFusionSF https://2022.confusionsf.org/
Vintage Players One Liner of the Week: My moods don't just swing. They bounce, pivot, oscillate, fluctuate, and occasionally, pirouette.
Actual Science Conference of the Week: AACR Special Conference: Precision Prevention, Early Detection, and Interception of Cancer 2022. (21-23, Austin, TX) It has been estimated that 50-60% of cancers could be prevented if known strategies were optimally employed. https://www.emedevents.com/c/medical-conferences-2022/precision-prevention-early-detection-and-interception-of-cancer
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Thick → Thin
My beer came with a hat, a bottle cap. / When coffee wears a hat it's called cap-a-ccino.
..........In the field of a make believe farm.........Mac Davis …..Biff, the Friendly Purple Bear
^^^^^ By 1972, the smallpox vaccine was no longer given routinely in the United States. As a result, most people born in the United States after 1972 have not been vaccinated against the disease. Some people have been vaccinated through the military or because they were part of Smallpox Response Teams that were formed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
My Own Writing of the Week: It is said that the Kiowa people begin each prayer by holding up to the One-Who-Calls all the prayers that all Kiowa have uttered in the past. This second negotiation** meeting was such an invocation for me. All the meetings that had come before were held up again, meetings from years ago and from the inception. All the women who had asked for justice from the time the university was founded were with us. All the requests, the hurts and rejections small and large were there. These constituted our hidden agenda. I think we were all very aware of this at the time. --from An Act Surprising ...a memoir of a February Sister **The February Sisters negotiating with SENEX – 2/5/72
Quote of the Week: There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. --John Locke
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I've been hiding from exercise. I'm in the fitness protection program.
Today's Peace of History, January 21, 1661: The Quaker (Society of Friends) Peace Testimony was presented to King Charles II of England. The testimony begins: "We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons, for any end or under any pretence whatsoever. And this is our testimony to the whole world....”
After I walked home in the blizzard I found I was wearing an icecap. / All hats are top hats; if they were bottom hats, they'd be shoes.
..........For the old man is comin' just to carry you to freedom .........Richie Havens …..Follow The Drinking Gourd
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle January 21, 2022, ePistle Topper. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. --Benny Hill
Cost of War:
As of 1/20/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,942,287,582,459.
As of 1/13/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,939,914,250,810.
As of 1/20/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,095,122,932,855.
As of 1/13/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,093,907,353,403.
As of 1/20/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $168,859,267,217.
As of 1/13/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $168,299,846,283.
As of 1/20/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,030,744,542,734.
As of 1/13/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,029,182,240,182.
As of 1/20/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,238,569,272,067 .
As of 1/13/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,226,726,589,146 .
As of 1/20/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,475,587,847,612.
As of 1/13/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,459,827,585,773.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
To change the world you must first change your mind. --Jimi Hendrix
Famous Last Words: A little kiss on your ear. --Wolfman Jack in the movie American Graffiti
..........Gasping at glimpses of gentle true spirit.........Richie Havens …..Helplessly Hoping
Yo momma so fat the sorting hat put her in all the houses. / I have a nightgown with a matching bonnet; it's called a nightcap.
May Peace guide your future
And Joy lead your present
prairie mama
christine
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