Famous First Words: The National Assembly, consisting of delegates from all parts of Albania ...Albanian Declaration of Independence
Happy American Education Week (14-18) Is it indicative of American Education that their week is only 4 days long? / How could I be failing when I haven't turned anything in?
..........The falling leaves drift by my window.........Johnny Mercer …..Autumn Leaves
The universe sings no less because time and space wear us thin. The music calls us to recognize our limitations, to recognize that the song is best sung with others. —Manish Mishra-Marzetti
It is a cold (18°F) Friday morning. The early morning clouds that covered the sky are melting in the light of the sun leaving the sky bright blue above but shadowy looking at the horizon. Below freezing is normal for November but not this far below. Lawns and flower beds are frozen and crinkled up. The birds come to eat at the feeders in the front yard then come to the back of the house to discuss what to do next. The roof of the shed is a favorite stopping stop. It's a hopping-ening place. It is too cold to go for a walk. Puck is sleeping on his pillow; now and then his snores intrude into the air like tiny donkey snorts. Veronica is sleeping on her tree in the other room. I light a stick of sandalwood incense and stretch. With my souped up decaf in hand, I sit down to write to you. Happy Hygge!**
Hope your weekend has no homework, ePistliers
** Hygge - a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being (regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture). Pronounced hooga
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: St Peter: Says here you should go to hell but since you have a PhD we'll count that as time served. --Submitted by MMS
I was born intelligent – education ruined me. / Which king loved fractions? Henry 1/8. / The Department of Education is canceling $150 million in student loans. Those are 4 lucky people.
..........When Salome danced and had the boys entranced.........Johnny Mercer ….. Personality
Trivia Questions: Mickey Mouse turns 94 years old today.
- ^ Did Walt Disney ever draw Mickey Mouse while he still lived in Kansas City?
- ^^ Who was the true creator of Mickey Mouse?
- ^^^ How did Walt help with Mickey's success?
- ^^^^ What do you know about Disney's first successful cartoon character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit?
- ^^^^^ Do you know where Disney's Kansas City Studio was?
Big Hello: Namaste - Hindi https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Important Worthless Message of the Week: The 7th edition of the Official Scrabble Dictionary came out this week. Merriam-Webster, 2022 ...over 500 new words including Spork, Zonkey, and Hygge.
Image of the Week:
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: 98% of librarians won't date anyone named Marc. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
High school is like a free trial on education. Once you've graduated they say, “now if you wanna continue, pay $50,000 a year, / Teacher: What is the tense in the sentence: Some day politics will be corruption free. Student: Future Impossible Tense.
..........latch on to the affirmative.........Johnny Mercer …..Accentuate The Positive
Moonbeam: Reason is the servant of instinct. --Clarence Day
Meditation of the Week: Is wisdom or intelligence more important?
Puzzle of the Week: From Simeon Seigel, of Brooklyn. Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Somewhere inside this insert a word for what this punctuation mark may be part of or what it may represent. The result will be a 10-letter word associated with painting. What words are these?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Adult happiness is discovering that the next load of laundry to fold is just 8 bath towels and not 46 pieces of small human clothes. --Submitted by INRITH
We're doing our math lesson on the floor because the teacher told us not to use tables. / I'm a special ed teacher. What's your excuse?
..........If you're ever in a jam, here I am..........Johnny Mercer …..Friendship
^ Kansas City takes a lot of pride in being the place where Walt Disney started his first animation studio and created his first cartoon characters. But here's the thing: Walt Disney didn't design Mickey Mouse. And the stories he told for years about how the iconic character came to be aren't true.
Almanac: It is Friday, November 18, 2022. The moon was in the last quarter on Wednesday (11/16) and is in Virgo. It is European Antibiotic Awareness Day, Married To A Scorpio Support Day, Mickey Mouse Day, National Apple Cider Day, and Push-button Phone Day. Albania and Morocco both celebrate Independence Day and it is World Fellowship Day around the world.
Among those born on this day were Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre (1789), William Schwenck Gilbert (1836), Clarence Day (1874), Howard Thurman (1900), George Gallup (1901), Imogene Coca (1908), Johnny Mercer (1909), Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (1923), Mickey Mouse (1928), Don Cherry (1936), Brena Vaccaro (1939), David Hemmings (1941), Linda Evans (1942), and Elizabeth Perkins (1950).
On November eighteenth William Tell shot an apple off of his son's head (1307), the first Unitarian minister in the US was ordained (1787), the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union was organized (WCTU, 1874), times zones were established by the railroads (US & Canada, 1883), comics were first printed in color (NY World, 1894), the US invaded Nicaragua (1909), Albania declared independence from Turkey (1912), and Mickey Mouse debuted (1928).
Night Sky, 11/18: The Leonids meteor shower. Visible after 11:30 pm in Lawrence, KS. Here's the skinny.
Fraternal Picture of the Week: Facing winter with mom
This Week: Saturday, November 19 – Equal Opportunity Day aka Gettysburg Address Day & International Men's Day & Rocky and Bullwinkle Day
Sunday, November 20 – Globally Organized Hug A Runner Day (GO HARD) & Stir Up Sunday & Universal Children's Day
Night Sky, 11/19: Whenever Fomalhaut is "southing" (crossing the meridian due south, which it does around 7pm this week), the Pointers of the Big Dipper stand upright low due north, straight below Polaris. Also at that time, the first stars of Orion soon rise above the east horizon (for skywatchers in the world's mid-northern latitudes). Starting with the rise of Betelgeuse, it takes Orion's main figure about an hour to completely clear the horizon. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Monday, November 21 – World Hello Day & World Television Day
Tuesday, November 22 – Humane Society Day
Wednesday, November 23 – Doctor Who Day & Fibonacci Day & Old Clem's Night
Night Sky, 11/23 : Neptune, magnitude 7.9 at the Aquarius-Pisces border, is high in the evening 6° west of Jupiter. It's just 2.3 arcseconds wide, again non-stellar in a telescope but requiring more effort than Uranus. It's slightly bluish gray.
Thursday, November 24 – Thanksgiving
What do you call an educated tube? A graduated cylinder. / We had to read The Prince for Political Science 210. It was so cold, I put a book jacket on it.
..........My mama done told me, hon.........Johnny Mercer …..Blues In The Night
^^ To know the truth about Mickey Mouse and the secret to many of Walt Disney’s successes, you have to know the story of Disney's best friend: Kansas City animator Ub Iwerks. It was Iwerks, not Disney, who in 1928 designed Mickey Mouse and single-handedly animated the first Mickey cartoon in Hollywood.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. --AnneHerbert (with thanks to Gilbert Sheldon)
Moonbeam: Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace. --Howard Thurman
Video of the Week: Steamboat Willie – the very first Mickey Mouse Cartoon (:53)
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: One thing Mr Musk might very well do is actually lay off as many as half of Twitter's employees. Hopefully, he will keep the guy that made it impossible for me to edit my tweet after I wrote how proud I was to work in pubic radio. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 11/5/22
Old life recomposes into new life, and we are not separate from this grand, inclusive, regenerative scheme. —Jaco Ten Hove
Have you noticed, it's always teach 'er it's never teach 'im. / I made it through math by pretending x was the mark on a pirate's map. That made it way more interesting to find. / The difference between herpes and student loans is that you generally have a little fun before you get herpes.
..........But there aren't any magic adjectives.........Johnny Mercer ….Too Marvelous For Words
^^^ It’s not like Walt Disney wasn’t integral to the success of Mickey Mouse. He certainly was. In addition to defining Mickey’s personality, he literally voiced the character for years. But that doesn’t erase the fact that for decades, the collaboration between Iwerks and Disney was mostly kept a secret.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Stop calling children “old souls” when you mean “weird”. Spent my whole life thinking I was mature for my age when I was actually a little creepy. --Solomon Georgio --Submitted by INRITH
Weird Word of the Week: Nipperkin – a drinking vessel somewhat less than a quarter pint. (sounds like a shot glass to me) Amusing rif on the word: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-nip1.htm
Dragons of the Week: This is a video of the Glastonbury Dragon March from this year's Samhain celebration. The video is 3:33 long, but the dragons aren't really on camera until about 1:15. It's fun.
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Keep your bathroom mirror from fogging up. Spread Barbasol Shaving Cream on and wipe off. Can last two or three weeks.
You should know before you walk into that adult computer class that the computers are as afraid of you as you are of them. / Teacher: You missed school yesterday. Student: No, I didn't miss it at all.
...........Do ya hear that whistle down the line.........Johnny Mercer …..On The Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
^^^^ The truth is that Mickey was born out of an extremely tense, stressful moment. Walt Disney had just lost the rights to his first hit character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and all of his animators had abandoned him. Everyone except Oswald co-creator Ub Iwerks. So while the departing animators finished up the final Oswald cartoon, Disney and Iwerks worked behind a locked door to hastily sketch out a new character. In all honesty, Mickey could have just as easily been a frog. Or a cow.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: How thoughtful of god to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one. --Richard Dawkins
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: L I Who (19-20, Long Island, NY) up close and personal Doctor Who event on Long Island https://longislanddoctorwho.com/
Actual Science Conference of the Week: CIO & CISO Perspectives (11/18, NYC) advancing conversations among tech leadership https://idg.cventevents.com/event/d89e5d11-4047-40ff-bf30-d58b187e4bd6/summary
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Colon, ratio --> colo(ratio)n --> coloration
If you cross a teacher with a calculator you get someone you can always count on. / The math teacher was late for school because she took the rhom-bus. / I'm thankful for student loans for getting me through the university. I don't think I could ever repay you.
..........I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice.........Johnny Mercer …..Baby, It's Cold Outside
^^^^^ Laugh-O-Gram Studio at 1127 E. 31st St. 64109, which is currently being renovated by a Kansas City nonprofit.
My Own Writing of the Week: Science fiction conventions are sexy gatherings. I have enjoyed a variety of things during them and after them and because of them. I have written several short stories about women seducing various convention guests of honor. I have never done this myself.
I love aliens, they are so curious.
By the way, it is not true that nerds are naive and sheltered. At least not all of them. There was the dental technician from Wichita who had a perfect set of vampire fangs and a long, thin cock that he used with great skill on any warm blooded woman. And there was the hobbit who made his pocket handkerchief part of the sex act; I remember it (silky and red) on my breasts more vividly than I remember his face. At the other end of the spectrum, there was the fan from Oklahoma who never understood sex as anything but score keeping.
But it is the writers and aspiring writers that interested me most. The ones still rewriting seem to have the most potential energy. They are the most open to new methods and new results. Nowadays they are often too young, and I must leave them to swim and grow for someone else to appreciate later.
I have had a fair few to my bed. I like writers. I like to draw parallels between their pillow noises and their creative technique, their face of bliss and their finished products. They write great letters and emails. I like our shared fascination with words and how they cling to one another. I like metaphor fights and hyperbole flights. Most are still writing - as far as I know.
The Fry and I hung out for a while before we had sex. In fact, it was our fourth or fifth date when I finally said something to him. As the evening was coming to a close I said, "I'll warn you, if you kiss me I'll kiss you back", I said. "Is that a threat?" he asked. "No, It's a dare". He took it.
Fry liked to talk during sex. It wasn't that he was one of those people who talked all the time including during sex. He seemed pretty normal, otherwise. He didn't talk dirty; that would have made some sense. They weren't quite conversations and sometimes it was hard to tell who was on the other end of the communication. Once while I was teetering on that edge where you can almost stop thinking and just drift in that pleasure for as long as you can, he thrust deep into me, became very still and whispered, "My manuscript is due Tuesday". I laughed so much it took 15 minutes to get back to the edge.
From Always Surrender by Christine Smith
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I will never understand people's fascination with their ancestry, isn't knowing your current family bad enough. --Submitted by jm r ks
Today's Peace of History, November 18, 1993: South Africa's ruling National Party, and leaders of 20 other parties representing both blacks and whites, approved a new national constitution that provided fundamental rights to blacks and other non-whites, ending the apartheid system.
Due tomorrow. Do tomorrow. / The middle school teacher's three favorite words are June, July, and August.
..........She never shares a kiss, she lets our lips unite.........Johnny Mercer ….. My Sugar Is So Refined
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle November 18, 2022, eDified ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS
Moonbeam: The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. --Imogene Coca
Cost of War:
- As of 11/17/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $192,781,212,487.
- As of 11/10/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $192,222,171,193.
- As of 11/17/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,097,561,416,530.
- As of 11/10/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,096,089,528,493.
- As of 11/17/22 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,121,107,057,424.
- As of 11/10/22 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,120,500,094,414.
- As of 11/17/22 Veterans Care since 2001: $2,745,055,959,279.
- As of 11/10/22 Veterans Care since 2001: $2,733,224,847,062.
- As of 11/17/22 Military Costs since 2001: $2,993,018,705,684.
- As of 11/10/22 Military Costs since 2001: $2,991,833,691,527.
- As of 11/17/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $8,149,527,086,962.
- As of 11/10/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $8,133,783,794,823.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
We need not think alike to love alike.
Famous Last Words: ...Federal law ended the disorder. On a Brief History of Time Zones
..........and one more for the road...............Johnny Mercer …..One For My Baby
Remember, the teacher's jokes are ALWAYS funny. / Due to the size of the student loans for my PhD, I have debts no honest man could pay.....Luckily I'm a statistician.
May Knowledge bring you Peace
And wisdom fill you with Joy
prairie mama
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