Famous First Words: To provide for research into problems of flight within... National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
Happy Birthday to Don Marquis – father of Archy & Mehitabel. The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. --Don Marquis / myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity --mehitabel the alley cat
~~In case you are unfamiliar with Don Marquis and Archy and Mehitabel. Archy is a cockroach who typed out columns by jumping from one typewriter key to the next. That is why there are no capitals and no punctuation that would require 2 keys at once. archy was a friend of mehitabel and told her stories in the column publisher under the name of Don Marquis.
I need to get my life together. This weather made me realize I can't go to hell. --RHOZ
..........Let the toast start.........Sigmund Romberg …..Drink Drink Drink (The Student Prince)
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” --Alexis de Tocqueville
It is a comfortable Friday morning. 75°F is a comfortable temperature and mixed clouds with visible sky is beautiful as well as shielding from the sun without the threat of rain. Puck and I walked this morning to the sound of bird chatter and motor cars. Then I took Jeff to the bank and the tobacco shop and his physical therapy appointment. And now I am home, Puck has settled at my feet. In order to relax into my sending out the ePistle mood, I am sipping fresh decaf with a French Vanilla creamer (we're out of ½ n ½) and enjoying a bite of blueberry muffin. A couple of days of rain has greened up the lawns that were beginning to show brown or unhealthy looking yellow grass. The muffin is finished and so is my prep...welcome to archys epistle.
Hope your weekend is wild, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Forget dancing like noone is watching. Dance like a toddler. They don't even care if there's music. --Submitted by ks of kc
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it. --Don Marquis / you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as I have you would not believe in them either. --archy the cockroach
I just saw the devil in Wal-Mart buying an air conditioner.
..........the moon was new and so was love.........Sigmund Romberg …..Lover Come Back (New Moon)
Trivia Questions: Happy Lasagna Day!
- ^ Do you have any idea where the word lasagna comes from?
- ^^ More or less in what century does lasagna appear in print?
- ^^^ What is the plural of lasagna?
- ^^^^ Just how heavy was the largest lasagna ever made?
- ^^^^^ What cartoon character is a lasagna lover?
Big Hello: Bonjour – French https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If Adam & Eve had been Cajuns, they would have eaten the snake instead of the apple and saved us all a lot of trouble. --Submitted by bc of tx
Max Picture of the Week: Max in Violin of the Red Mask
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: It's so hot, 45% of librarians have removed their outer cardigan layer. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
I never think at all when I write; nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. --Don Marquis / Life if one damned kitten after another. --Mehitabel the alley cat
I just saw two hobbits throw a ring off my roof.
..........shoulder to shoulder and bolder and bolder.........Sigmund Romberg …..Stout Hearted Men (Desert Song)
Moonbeam: Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it. --Dag Hammarskjold
Meditation of the Week: Do we have free will? --Democritus
Puzzle of the Week: This challenge comes from Adam Cohen, of Brooklyn. Name a food item in seven letters. Move the first letter to the fifth position and you'll get two words that are synonyms. What are they? --NPR Puzzle Sunday 7/24/22
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You know...with everything I've been through, I'm really proud to say I've never been featured on The First 48 or America's Most Wanted.
Week of the Week: National Tequila Week (24-30) --I always keep salt and tequila handy, in case life hands me lemons. / One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. --Don Marquis / personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer, it is not much of a step up but I am humble. --archy the cockroach
I put a DVD of Frozen in the machine and it played Waterworld.
..........And we'll always see you through.........Sigmund Romberg …..Your Land and My Land (My Maryland)
^ The word “lasagna” referred to the pot in which the food was cooked. It is thought that the word “lasagna” is derived from the Greek word for “chamber pot.
Almanac: It is Friday, July 29, 2022. The moon was new yesterday (7/28) and is in Leo. It is Lasagna Day, National Chicken Wing Day, Rain Day, System Administrator Appreciation Day, and
Tiger Day. In Gilroy, California it is the weekend of the Garlic Festival and in Norway it is Olsok Eve Festival (celebrated since 1030). Because it is the last Friday in July it is also National Talk in An Elevator Day and Lumberjack Day.
Among those born on this day were Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Alica Roosevelt (1861), Rasputin (1871), Don Marquis III (1878), Benito Mussolini (1883), Sigmund Romberg (1887), William Powell (1892), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Clara Bow (1905), Dag Hammarskjold (1905), Professor Irwin Corey (1914), Richard Egan (1921), Mikis Theodorakis (1925), Nancy Kassebaum (1932), Elizabeth Dole (1936), and Peter Jennings (1938).
On July twenty-ninth the Spanish Armada was defeated (1588), the first sugar plantation in Hawaii began (1935), the Southern California Golf Association was formed (1899), the first transcontinental phone link was made (NYC to SF, 1914), Disney's Steamboat Willie was released (1928), Olympic National Park was established (1938), the 14th modern Olympic games opened (London, 1948), the International Atomic Energy Agency was established (UN, 1957), Jack Paar's Tonight show premiered (1957), the Space Act and NASA were signed into law (1958), Help staring the Beatles premiered (1965), the Greeks chose a republic over a monarchy (1973), Pioneer 11 transmitted images of Saturn and its rings (1978), Bonnie Prince Charlie married lady Diana (1981), and the last Playboy Club in the US closed (1988).
Night Sky, 7/29: The Big Dipper hangs diagonally in the northwest after dark. From its midpoint, look to the right to find Polaris (not very bright) glimmering due north as always. Polaris is the end of the Little Dipper's handle. The only other Little Dipper stars that are even moderately bright are the two forming the outer end of its bowl: 2nd-magnitude Kochab and 3rd-magnitude Pherkad. Find them to Polaris's upper left, one over the other, by about a fist and a half at arm's length. They're called the Guardians of the Pole, since they ceaselessly circle around Polaris through the night and through the year. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Basket of Brothers
This Week: Saturday, July 30 – National Share A Hug Day & Cheesecake Day & Paperback Book Day
Sunday, July 31 – National Mutt Day & National Avocado Day & National Orgasm Day
Night Sky, 7/31: Face southeast after darkness is complete. Look a little more than halfway from horizontal to overhead, and there's Altair, the brightest star in that immediate area. A finger-width above it is its little sidekick Tarazed (Gamma Aquilae), two magnitudes fainter and far in the background. Tarazed is actually 100 times more luminous than Altair — it's an orange giant — but it's 390 light-years away compared to Altair's distance of just 17 light-years.
Monday, August 1 – Lammas Day (Merry Loaf mass) & Girlfriend's Day & National Mahjongg Day
Tuesday, August 2 – National Coloring Book Day & National Night Out
Wednesday, August 3 – Friendship Day & Watermelon Day
Night Sky, 8/3 : Saturn, magnitude +0.4 in western Capricornus, rises in twilight and glows low in the east-southeast after dark. The little star 1½° below it is Delta Capricorni, magnitude 2.8. Saturn is highest in the south for best telescopic viewing around 2 a.m. Saturn's rings appear roughly as wide, end to end, as Jupiter's disk.
Thursday, August 4 – Coast Guard Day & Single Working Women's Day
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. --Don Marquis / i once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization. --mehitabel the alley cat
New York City just approved a million dollars in deodorant for the Statue of Liberty.
..........I'll love you in life's gray December.........Sigmund Romberg …..Will You Remember (Maytime)
^^ The oldest transcribed text about lasagna appears in 1282 in the Memoriali Bolognesi ("Bolognesi Memorials"), in which lasagna was mentioned in a poem transcribed by a Bolognese notary.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Have you ever accidentally woken up at 5 am and had the horrifying realization that some people do this on purpose to exercise? --Submitted by INRITH
Moonbeam: Friendship needs no words. --Dag Hammarskjold
Video of the Week: Happy Lumberjack Day Here's Monty Python with The Lumberjack Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: The authors of the study say no one should drink until they are 40. This is 19 years later than when people currently begin drinking, 23 years if you were cool. --Tom Papa Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 7/23/22
In politics, shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. --Alexis de Tocqueville
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. --Don Marquis / every cloud has its silver lining but sometimes a little difficult to get to the mint. --archy the cockroach
It's a good thing there's no snow. Imagine shoveling snow in this heat.
..........It is the drum, drum, drum.........Sigmund Romberg …..The Riff Song (Desert Song)
^^^ The plural of lasagna is lasagne. It refers to the lasagna noodle, not to the baked entree.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Seeking One Night Stand – maybe two, I have two lamps. --Submitted by bc of tx
Weird Word of the Week: Zymurgy – the art or practice of fermentation... http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-zai1.htm
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie, Grandma, and the Mermaid
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Make maple frosting. Combine one stick of margarine, one-third cup of Aunt Jemina Original Syrup, and three to four cups powdered sugar. Beat until desired thickness. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/auntjemima.html
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. --Don Marquis / if you make people think they're thinking they'll love you but if you really make them think they'll hate you --mehitabel the alley cat
Optimus Prime transformed into an air conditioner.
...........And the moon up above and a thing called love.........Sigmund Romberg …..The Birds and the Bees (Up In Central Park)
^^^^ Polish chefs constructed a mindbogglingly large lasagna to honor the Italian soccer team’s run in the 2012 Euro Cup. Weighing in at 5.29 tons, it trumped the previous world record: 4.09 tons.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere , may be happy. – H L Mencken
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Confluence (29-31, Pittsburgh, PA) --The most underrated writing conference around. https://confluence-sff.org/
Actual Science Conference of the Week: 1152nd International conference on Law and Society (ICLS) (28-29, Philadelphia, PA) --scientific information interchange between researchers, engineers, scientists, academicians, developers, students, and practitioners
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Brisket → risk, bet
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. --Don Marquis / pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth. --archy the cockroach
It's hotter than a Plan B pill at an evangelical bible camp.
..........Happy surprise that the sun shines on today.........Sigmund Romberg …..I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time (Blossom Time)
^^^^^ Garfield the cat...loves lasagna...hates Mondays.
My Own Writing of the Week: Apollo and Daphne's was a brief affair, hardly more than a millennium. It was, naturally, whirlwindish and noisy.
Apollo had just finished Divinity School and was on holiday before settling down to the work of forming his worship, choosing a priesthood, writing liturgies, and the other endless administrative tasks of godheadhood. He was backpacking in the mountains and had set up camp under a laurel tree.
Yeah, you guessed it. The tree was really Daphne getting a moon tan. She watched with growing interest and lust (causing her leaves to make giggling movements) as he did his evening exercises which consisted of gleaming various colors. He was as yet still learning and on occasion still got greens and browns mixed with the pure pinks and purples. Since it was a holiday and he wasn't serious, he soon began shooting beams at clouds to see if he could set them aflame. --Daphne & Apollo by Christine Smith
Quote of the Week: Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I'm no cactus expert but I know a prick when I see one.
Today's Peace of History: July 29, 1970: After a 5-year strike, the United Farm Workers (UFW) signed a contract with the table grape growers in California, ending the first grape boycott.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose? --Don Marquis / prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into. --archy the cockroach
Alaska is shipping sunscreen to the polar bears.
..........consoles you in blue reflections.........Sigmund Romberg …..The Phantom Waltz (Poor Little Ritz Girl)
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle July 29, 2022, archys epistle Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS
Moonbeam: For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes. --Dag Hammarskjold
Cost of War:
- As of 7/28/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $183,868,571,309.
- As of 7/21/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $183,344,217,996.
- As of 7/28/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,072,667,541,706.
- As of 7/21/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,071,202,904,206.
- As of 7/28/22 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,111,426,299,963.
- As of 7/21/22 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,110,856,735,277.
- As of 7/28/22 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,556,357,104,044.
- As of 7/21/22 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,545,255,789,522.
- As of 7/28/22 Military Costs since 2001: $2,974,118,219,940.
- As of 7/21/22 Military Costs since 2001: $2,973,006,161,059.
- As of 7/28/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,898,441,516,211.
- As of 7/21/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,883,668,375,561.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity. ” --Isaac Asimov
Famous Last Words: You have been peachy to me always. --Jack Paar ~~Just before walking off the set of his show forever
..........the light of love comes stealing.........Sigmund Romberg …..Softly As The Morning Sunrise (The New Moon)
Even my artificial flowers are wilting.
A hypocrite is person who – but who isn't? --Don Marquis /it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty --mehitabel the alley cat
May Peace fill your soul
And Joy fill your heart
prairie mama
christine
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