Famous First Words: 99 44/100% Pure --Ivory Soap Slogan
April is National Frog Month! See, I love frog jokes, they're absolutely ribbeting. / A small pond with 144 frogs in residence is called Gross.
..........Blood is the rose of mysterious union........The Doors …..Peace Frog
An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick. --Dorothy Day
It is a beautiful Friday morning. The sky is smeared with a thin layer of mist that the sun is valiantly trying to burn away. Sunrays that make it through spotlight the yellow tulips against the dusty green foliage and the dainty daffodils. Even the grass is spotted with violets and a few fat round dandelions. The breeze is so slight that I have to stop and concentrate to see even the willow branches sway. Birds are out enjoying the morning, singing to encourage the sun. darting about with straw dangling from their beaks. Squirrels are busy planning and executing raids on the neighbor's bird feeder. Ah, spring. But I'm indoors now because 47°F is a little chilly without a jacket. I am sipping coffee, breathing creamy steam, and taking small sips until it cools a little. Hope your morning is just as pleasant.
May your weekend shield you from the taxman, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I've read too many books to believe what I'm told.
Buy a Bible, don't read it, you'll be a Catholic.
You know that thing you toad me to do? I frogot it. / Spy frogs communicate with Morse Toad.
..........Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit,.........Crazy Frog …..Who Let The Frog Out
Trivia Questions: A new baseball season has opened and the boys of summer are playing in ski clothes.
^ Which city was home to the very first professional baseball team?
^^ When or where or who is associated with the longest game ever played?
^^^ When or where or who is associated with the very first night game?
^^^^ When or where or who is associated with the first world series?
^^^^^ When did numbers for players first appear on jerseys?
Big Hello: Hej - Danish https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: English is a flawed language; consider this .. All the good faith that I had had, had had no effect on the outcome of that sentence.--Submitted by FNOG
Classic Max Picture of the Week: Max and the merry go round
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: One in three library teams have been banned from their local trivia night bar. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
At the LLD (Lilypad Licensing Department): The cashier has a desk sign that says Permit the Frog. / Back in the 1970s there was a fad among frogs – jumpsuits.
..........You alone can get him singing.........Peter Gabriel …..Kiss That Frog
Puzzle of the Week: Last week's challenge came from listener Greg Van Mechelen, of Berkeley, Calif. Name two well-known celebrities of the past who had the same six-letter first names and the same initial in their last names. What follows that initial in one of the last names is a criminal activity. And what follows that initial in the other name is the result of that criminal activity. What celebrities are these? NPR Puzzle Sunday 4/10/22
Moonbeam: It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. --Henry James
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Don't be worried about your smartphone and TV spying on you. Your vacuum cleaner has been gathering dirt on you for years. --Submitted by NS
Week of the Week: World Irish Dancing Week (10-17) –You know he's an Irish dancer when he treats his shirt like glass and holds his shoes together with duct tape. / Sorry, I'm an Irish dancer, I can only count to eight.
McRanild's two most ordered items are French Flies and Diet Croak. / Kermit is releasing a line of open otad sandals.
..........He rode up to Miss Mousie's door, M-hm, M-hm.........Burl Ives …..Froggy Went A'courtin'
^ The Cincinnati Base Ball Club, also known as the Cincinnati Red Stockings, fielded the first known openly professional team in 1869 and played its first game against an opposing club on May 4. ~~Since this was the first “openly professional” team, there must have been secret, underground professional players in a closet somewhere. Something to think about.
Almanac: It is Friday, April 15, 2022. The moon will be full (Pink) tomorrow and is in Libra. It is Income Tax Pay Day, Jackie Robinson Day, Rubber Eraser Day, Take a Wild Guess Day, That Sucks Day, andWorld Art Day (DaVinci's Birthday). In Africa it is African Freedom Day.
Among those born on this day were Leonardo da Vinci (1452), Nanak (1469), John van Huysum (1682), Catherine I (1684), Leonhard Euler (1707), Charles Willson Peale (1741), Hermann Günther Grassmann (1809), Henry James (1843), Thomas Hart Benton (1889), Bessie Smith (1894), Marian Jordan (Molly McGee, 1897), Kim II Sung (1912), Hans Conried (1917), Nikolai S. Porvatkin (1932), Claudia Cardinale (1939), Phil Lesh (1940), Kim Il Jong (1942), John L Phillips (1951), Barbara Barrow (1955), Emma Thompson (1959), and Soichi Noguchi (1965).
On April fifteenth the bottle opener was invented (1738), England, Netherlands and Prussia signed a peace treaty (1788), the US's first school for the deaf opened (CT, 1817), San Francisco was incorporated (1850), Ivory Soap was introduced (1878), GE formed (1892), a 50 mile race was won by an electric car (1900), the first sound movie was shown (1923), FDR was buried (1945), the first MacDonald's opened (1955), Saturday mail delivery was restored (1957), John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State, resigned (1959), SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) formed 1960, Disneyland Tokyo opened (1983), In Living Color premiered (1990), and Leona Helmsley went to jail (1992).
Night Sky, 4/15: This evening the Moon is only about 3/4 of a day from full (for evening in North America). Look below it for Spica. Much farther to the Moon's left is the brighter Arcturus. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Lawrence has been annexed by KC … here's the proof
This Week: Saturday, April 16 – Auctioneers Day & National Orchid Day & Save The Elephant Day
Sunday, April 17 – Bat Appreciation Day & Herbalist Day International Haiku Poetry Day
Night Sky, 4/17 : At nightfall, the Moon is in the dim feet of Virgo. Spica shines about 9° to its upper right (nearly a fist at arm's length), perhaps struggling to be seen through the moonlight. Brighter Arcturus is some 30° to the Moon's upper left.
Monday, April 18 – Pinata Day & National Stress Awareness Day & World Amateur Radio Day
Tuesday, April 19 – National Garlic Day & Bicycle Day & National Hanging Out Day
Wednesday, April 20 – 4/20 Day & Chinese Language Day & Banana Day
Thursday, April 21 – National Ask An Atheist Day & National Yellow Bat Day & Queen's Birthday
Night Sky, 4/21: Lyrids Meteor Shower: peak 21-22.The Lyrids are a medium strength shower that usually produces good rates for three nights centered on the maximum. These meteors also usually lack persistent trains but can produce fireballs. These meteors are best seen from the northern hemisphere where the radiant is high in the sky at dawn. Activity from this shower can be seen from the southern hemisphere, but at a lower rate.
I dated this guy until I found out he was a frog under a spell to live as a prince. Too bad, he kept the backyard free of flies and ticks. / What's green and loud? Froghorn
..........See me in a wood bog.........Lou Reed …..Hop Frog
^^ The longest game was 25 innings between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Whtie Sox on May 8, 1984. (The White Sox won 7 to 6.) The game lasted 8 hours and 6 minutes – not including a rest period between the 17th and 18th innings.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: When I was a kid...wait...I still do that...never mind. --Submitted by INRITH
Buy a Bible, read only what suits you, and you'll be an evangelical.
Moonbeam: Geometry can in no way be viewed... as a branch of mathematics; instead, geometry relates to something already given in nature, namely, space. --Hermann Günther Grassmann
Strange Fact of the Week: Some people seem to have aged like fine wine. I aged like milk ... I got sour and chunky.
Video of the Week: Tornado in Iowa 4/14/22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbUQyYZbOu0
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: What happens on the Zany Bible Show? Hey, 2 Corinthian walk into a bar... --Peter Sagal ... Tip your Samaritans, am I right? --Helen Hong Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 4/9/22
Dear God, enlarge our hearts to love one another. --Dorothy Day
My dog fell in love with a frog from the stream out back. Now I also have a Croaker Spaniel. / I had two pet frogs and one of them died. His friend was unhoppy for 2 months.
..........And green can be cool and friendly like.........Kermit The Frog …..It Ain't Easy Being Green
^^^ a) Major League: The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 on May 24, 1935 in Major League Baseball’s first-ever night game, played courtesy of recently installed lights at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. b) Minor League: The first-ever night game in professional baseball took place May 2, 1930, when a Des Moines team hosted Wichita for a Western League game. The game drew 12,000 people at a time when Des Moines was averaging just 600 fans per game.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I don't always experience all 4 seasons in one day, but when I do, I'm in Kansas.
Weird Word of the Week: Leiotrichous – having straight hair. Greek: leios – smooth plus trikhos – hair. https://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-lei1.htm
Second Cousin Once Removed of Not So Late Night Snacks: Cracker Jack is now introducing Cracker Jill: We've won the gender equality battle. Forget making 73 cents to a dollar, We have cracker jill. --Helen Hong ... You know, the difference between Cracker Jacks and Cracker Jills, no nuts. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 4/9/22
Classic Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie and his faithful steed
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Take a refreshing bath. Dissolve one-half cup Arm & Hammer Baking Soda in a tub of warm water for soft, smooth-feeling skin and a relaxing bath. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/armhammer2.html
A frog that lies is an am-fib-ian. / My pet frog really wants to be a rapper; she's really into hip-hop.
...........So I'm proud to be what I am.........Sesame Street Gang …., The Frogs In The Glen
^^^^ The first World Series took place in 1903, between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Americans, who later became the Red Sox. Boston won.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Given the price of gas, soon it will be cheaper to snort coke and run wherever you're going.
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: NorwesCon 2022 (14-17) – Norwescon is the Pacific Northwest’s premier science fiction and fantasy convention, and one of the largest entirely volunteer-operated regional conventions in the United States. https://www.norwescon.org/
Another Image of the Week: Achelous & Hercules by Thomas Hart Benton, a Kansas City resident was displayed on the first floor of Harzfeld's in downtown KC. Happy Birthday, Tom. The building is gone and the mural is now in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Actual Science Conference of the Week: TechCrunch Early Stage 2022: (14, San Francisco) --an unrivaled opportunity to learn from top experts how best to move ahead in the startup game... https://techcrunch.com/events/tc-early-stage-2022/
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Johnny Carson and Johnny Cash (ARSON --> ASH)
Frieda Frog went to the day surgery because she needed a hoperation. / Little known fact: the Kansas Jump Shot coach is Kermit the Frog.
..........We all know frogs go, “la-de-da-di-da.........The Wiggles …..Galpump West the Little Green Frog
^^^^^ Both the Cleveland Indians and St Louis Cardinals had tried jerseys with numbers on the sleeve to help the fans differentiate the players but never for more than a few games. In 1929, the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians started the season with uniform numbers on the back of the jersey. The Yankees were rained out on opening day. The Cleveland Indians were the first MLB franchise to wear numbers on the back in a game. Initially they wore numbers based on the batting order. For example, Babe Ruth was always third, so he was number 3.
My Own Writing of the Week: Hair lived in a dorm across campus from my approved housing. He and I met at a party filled with almost nobody I'd ever met before. His hair was dark and curly; and it almost seemed to have a life and will of its own. He walked me home and kissed me well and met me in the union the next day. That's where he began to talk about sex and didn't really stop. He talked about ways to have sex and what sex meant and why people have sex. But we didn't have any place to have sex. He lived in a boys dorm and I lived in approved (i.e. soft-core prison for girls) housing. By the time a weekend rolled around and he could borrow somebody's car - I was totally out of the mood. The actual sexual encounter (cramped missionary) in the backseat took about 2 minutes and I never saw him again. I'm not sure I should even count it as sexual although encounter certainly fits. --From Always Surrender: Memories, observations, micro-stories, fantasies, and out right lies from my life as an insurgent in the sexual revolution
Quote of the Week: He knows politics is entertainment. --Lyric from Kurt Jantz's song called Matt Gaetz.
Buy a Bible, read it fully, analyze it, reason it, and you will be an atheist.
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: When someone tells me they are Christian, I ask: Classic Jesus or Republican Jesus? --Submitted by bc of tx
Today's Peace of History, April 15, 1967: Amidst growing opposition to the war in Vietnam, large-scale anti-war protests were held in New York, San Francisco, and other cities. In New York, the protest began in Central Park, where over 150 draft cards were burned, and concluded at the United Nations with speeches by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Benjamin Spock.
Musk is so rich he had a VW Beetle made just for his pet frog. / What do Kermit the Frog and Henry the Eighth have in common? Their middle name.
..........The crowd roared like a lion...........Wesley Willis …..The Frogs
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle April 15, 2022, Green ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live. --Kim Il-sung
Last Minute Added Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The heroic cruiser Moskva promoted to submarine.
Cost of War:
As of 4/14/22 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $175,528,189,760
As of 4/07/22 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $174,974,683,258
As of 4/14/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,049,371,500,770.
As of 4/07/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,047,825,954,294.
As of 4/14/22 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,102,366,720,881.
As of 4/07/22 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,101,765,802,900.
As of 4/14/22 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,379,766,119.092 .
As of 4/07/22 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,368,052,120.646 .
As of 4/14/22 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,956,430,316,264.
As of 4/07/22 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,955,256,885,644.
As of 4/14/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,663,465,306,658.
As of 4/07/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,647,875,242,653.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
You can spend your time agonizing or organizing. --Dorothy Day
Famous Last Words: You hope I miss it, yeah. --Final line of the first commercially shown film. Weber & Fields (their pool hall routine)
..........One jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool.........LooLoo …..Five Speckled Frogs
Enrico Frogio wanted to be a tenor at the Metropolitan Hopera House but he was tongue tied. / Jon Baptiste Frog just won the top award at the Grammy Awarts.
May Peace be your cloak
And Joy be your crown
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