Famous First Words: I do solemnly swear... US Reserve Marine Corps oath
Dynamite turns 155 years old today. Know what they call dynamite that doesn't explode? TN'T / Imagine inventing dynamite. The thought blows my mind.
..........Or just chasin' after some finer day.........Carly Simon …..Anticipation
We are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud. --Gloria Steinem
It is a sunny Friday morning...not black at all. The rising sun is streaming through the nearly nude trees with little wind to enforce the 36°F temperature. Puck is sleeping on his pillow and I am eating a piece of cheesecake for breakfast. We had shrimp Alfredo with broccoli with garlic bread and asparagus for Thanksgiving and leftovers for today. Bruno is barking at his backdoor but no birdsong makes it through the closed windows. Yesterday seemed like Sunday to me and I won't know what day it is until we get back to Monday. Add that to still know being quite sure what time it is because of Daylight Savings, and that leaves me not knowing much. Have a great day; I intend to.
Hope your weekend is dyn-o-mite, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Folgers got it wrong. The best part of waking up is going back to bed after you pee. --Submitted by ff of ks
Setting off a stick of dynamite in the corner of the east-south wall creates a wrecked angle. / Boomer Humor is a stand up comic stick of dynamite saying, I'm so stuffed I feel like I could explode.
..........This isn't exactly what we had planned.........Carly Simon …..Legend In Your Own Time
Trivia Questions: Happy Hat Day
- ^ In Fargo, ND, it is illegal to wear a hat while doing what?
- ^^ What profession wears a tall hat called a toque?
- ^^^ Who makes and/or sells men's hats?
- ^^^^ Who makes and/or sells women's hats?
- ^^^^^ What hat is named for a character in a George du Maurier novel?
Big Hello: Nyob zoo- Hmong (white) {China, Vietnam, Laos} Live Well! https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I feel like we just collectively, as a society, need to watch Musk and Zuckerberg fistfight in the parking lot of a Waffle House. --Joseph Carro
Image of the Week: Puck being thankful in his own way
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: 77% of what annoys a librarian can only be understood by other librarians. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Alfred Nobel got rich by selling dynamite. Growth was explosive. / Is a vegan with explosive diarrhea a salad shooter?
..........and breathed secrets without words.........Carly Simon …..Our First Night Together
Moonbeam: Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. --Carrie Nation
Meditation of the Week: Are human beings obligated to better themselves?
Puzzle of the Week: This challenge was sent independently by two listeners — Steve Baggish and Neville Fogarty — credit them both. Think of two well-known companies with two-syllable names starting with J and D, respectively whose names rhyme. One of these companies was founded in the last 10 years. What companies are these?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I love to dismiss my horrible decisions by saying “yeah that was a weird time in my life” as if the rest of my existence hasn't been absolute clown shoes. --Roy --Submitted by INRITH
If your brain was dynamite, there wouldn't be enough to blow off your hat. / I feel like people with explosive tempers often vacation in Grenada.
^ In Fargo, North Dakota, it is illegal to dance with a hat on or even wear a hat to a function where dancing is taking place. Violation of the ban on hats while dancing is actually a criminal offense and could result in jail time.
Almanac: It is Friday, November 25. 2022. The moon was new on Wednesday (11/23) and is in Sagittarius. The United Nations has declared this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (A/RES/54/134). It is also Blasé Day and International Hat Day. In Surinam they celebrate Independence Day (1975).
Among those born on this day were Lope Felix de Vega (1562), Andrew Carnegie (1835), Carry Nation (1846), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Robert Ripley (1893), Virgil Thomson (1896), Joe DiMaggio (1914), Ricardo Montalban (1920), Jeffrey Hunter (1925), Katheryn Grant Crosby (1933), Gloria Steinem (1935), Charles Starkwether (1938), John Larroquette 91947), Amy Grant (1960), John F Kennedy, Jr (1960), and Christine Applegate (1971).
On November twenty-fifth Nobel invented dynamite (1867), evaporated milk was patented (1884), the Greenback Party was organized (1894), President Eisenhower suffered a mild stroke (1957), the first atomic reactor for research opened (WA, 1960), the Everly Brothers were inducted into the US Marine Corps Reserves (1961), the Iran Contra affair hit the news (1986), and Walesa won Poland's first popular election (1990).
Night Sky, 11/25: Now that the Pleiades and Aldebaran are shining due east after dark, can Orion be far behind? Orion's entire iconic figure, formed by its brightest seven stars, takes about an hour and a quarter to clear the eastern horizon. By roughly 8 pm, it's just about made it. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Fraternal Picture of the Week: The other siblings...granddogs
The dachshund is Penny and the Basset is Cooper, I think. I don't know the other names. These dogs belong to Kirsten and Tom and are not siblings of Max and Ollie.
Extra Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I'm really gonna need a drag queen, preferably in Florida, to start going by the name by the name Rhonda Santis please and thank you. --Submitted by jm of ks
This Week: Saturday, November 26 – International Aura Awareness Day & National Milk Day & World Olive Tree Day
Sunday, November 27 – Artist's Sunday & Slinky Day
Night Sky, 11/27 : The bowl of the Little Dipper swings down in the evening at this time of year, left or lower left of Polaris due north. The rest of the Little Dipper is dim. By about 11 pm, this week it hangs straight down from Polaris.
Monday, November 28 – Cider Monday & Cyber Monday
Tuesday, November 29 – Catterntide & Electronic Greetings Day & Giving Tuesday
Wednesday, November 30 – Cities for Life Day & National Mason Jar Day & National Personal Space Day
Night Sky, 11/30: Two faint fuzzies: The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Perseus Double Cluster are two of the most famous deep-sky objects. They're both cataloged as 4th magnitude, and in a fairly good sky you can see each with the unaided eye. Binoculars make them easier. They're located only 22° apart, very high toward the east early these evenings — to the right of Cassiopeia and closer below Cassiopeia, respectively.
Thursday, December 1 – Rosa Parks Day & Basketball Day & World Aids Day
Too bad France's dictator was born before dynamite. He could have been known as Napoleon Blownaparte. / Why did AC/DC name their song T.N.T.? Because Trinitrotoluene was quite as catchy.
..........You Tarzan, me Jane.........Carly Simon …..The Girl You Think You See
^^ Chefs typically wear a round, tall, pleated, white hat called a toque blanche.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Apparently, saying “maybe” to a human child is the same as making a Klingon Blood Oath.--Submitted by Heinlein Society
Moonbeam: There are nuts in this country. --John F Kennedy Jr
Audio of the Week: Sergei Taneyev's 4th Symphony: Apollo's Temple in Delphi (5:57) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGnxc6S6SFQ
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: What will we all be thankful for at next year's Thanksgiving? That the McRib is finally on its farewell tour and hopefully it doesn't come back. --Alzo Slade ,,, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 11/19/22
When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history. --Gloria Steinem
Feeding dynamite to cattle would be a bomb in a bull. / If the dinosaurs had TNT would we call them dinomites?
..........Before you know it you've fallen in love.........Carly Simon …..Summer's Coming Around Again
^^^ A hatter makes and sells men's hats.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If you don't like war toys...we have an identical set but the box is labeled Peacekeeper Action Figures.
Weird Word of the Week: Orthorexia – unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-ort1.htm
Dragon of the Week: NYC Dragon Balloon from the Macy's Parade 2017
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Prevent eyeglasses from fogging up. Rubbing a small dab of Barbasol Shaving Cream over both sides of the lenses prevents them from fogging up. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/barbasol.html
Alfred Nobel is considered the inventor of dynamite because none of the others could be positively identified. / The French dynamite factory that's next to the cheese kitchen blew up. There was a lot of de brie.
...........They'll set your mind at ease.........Carly Simon …..The Garden
^^^^ A milliner sells or makes women's hats.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: One of the cruel parts of growing up is how sitting peacefully reading a new book went from “well behaved, quiet child” to “rude and antisocial” adult. --Submitted by Heinlein Society
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: ChamBanaCon: Quinquagenarian+1 (15-27, Normal, IL) The fannish Family Reunion https://chambanacon.org/
Actual Science Conference of the Week: International Conference on Science & Technology Research (24-26, Kuala Lumpur) Vernacular Session, e.g., European Languages, Arabic, Thai, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, will be organized for a minimum of 5 or more participants of a particular language) https://straevents.org/conference/kualalumpur-icstr-24-25-nov-2022
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Jordache and DoorDash
What's that in your bag? A knife, a book of matches, some gasoline, and a few sticks of dynamite. No, that other thing there? Oh, just a pack of wafers. I'm sorry, you can't bring that into the theater. / I thought I saw tiny sticks of dynamite in the drug store the other day but it turned out to be an spilled package of tampons
..........You came smilin' softly, shyly movin'.........Carly Simon …..I've Got To Have You
^^^^^ The Trilby hat is named for the novel Trilby by George du Maurier. A trilby is a narrow-brimmed type of hat. The classic trilby has a shorter brim which is angled down at the front and slightly turned up at the back versus the fedora's wider brim, which is more level.
My Own Writing of the Week: The Unicorn made animal noises during love. Her favorite was a kind of pig grunt. The affair didn't last long enough, really, for me to find out whether this was some mystic totem thing or an affectation. She wrote really good science fiction really badly. She had wonderful ideas and alien worlds of great detail and texture which she wrote about in cumbersome narrative sprinkled with stilted conversation.
The man in the suit who drank Cutty Sark had, I surmised, read somewhere that women liked it when men called them by name during sex, especially in moments when remembering that people even have names is problematic. He never got the name wrong, but I did get tired of hearing it so much. It began to be creepy. Fortunately, it was destined to be short-lived. For one thing, there is way better Scotch out there. I find it pleasantly ironic that I don't remember his name. I'd bet he doesn't remember mine either.
I never was able to talk any of the Young Apollos into costuming (now renamed cosplay by the Steam Punks) as the great god Apollo for a convention. I was willing to dress up as Daphne. I had this cool idea for branches growing from my hands.
I love banjo players, they have an impeccable sense of timing.
Sweetwater was another tall drink of water, definitely an Apollo. He was dark and he liked starting in a standing position. His favorite was when we were both standing. He would stand behind me and run his face through my hair to find the back of my neck and he would kiss it and lick it and kiss it. And while he was doing that he ran his fingers over my breasts and sometimes made noises near my ear. It was a very pleasant way to begin an evening of fun and games, but it was very frustrating to not be able to kiss him – somewhere - anywhere - from that position. His mouth kisses were very sweet, but that's not what got him the nickname.
He had a strange superstition. If we undressed each other before sex, then we had to dress each other afterwards. Even if all you took off was his shirt and his briefs, you still had to dress him completely. It could be a very erotic experience unfolding his stocking over his foot or sliding his jeans up his long legs. Most often we just undressed ourselves; it could take a while to dress each other and some days there was lots of starting over.
From Always Surrender by Christine Smith
Quote of the Week: To become a better you, remember to be grateful to people who have contributed to making you who you are today. --Israelmore Ayivor ~~Christine's Ten Universal Theorems #9: Who draws water must adorn the well +++ An Old Alchemy Law … This list is one of my adornments to the well of those who have influenced me
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I've always wondered why lemonade is made from artificial flavors but furniture polish is made from real lemons. --Submitted by INRITH
Today's Peace of History, November 25,1988: 2,000 marched in New York city to protest the sale of animal fur for clothing. Over 50 other cities held similar demonstrations.
I never miss the Dynamite Convention. It's always a blast. / The invention of dynamite was certainly ground-breaking.
..........And the memory of your last look.........Carly Simon …..Three Days
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle November 25, 2022, eXplosive ePistle Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith Lawrence, KS
Moonbeam: Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. --Amy Grant
Cost of War:
- As of 11/24/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $193,361,091,811.
- As of 11/24/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $193,361,091,811.
- As of 11/17/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $192,781,212,487.
- As of 11/24/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1.099,181,163,669.
- As of 11/17/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,097,561,416,530.
- As of 11/24/22 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,121,737,182,769.
- As of 11/17/22 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,121,107,057,424.
- As of 11/24/22 Veterans Care since 2001: $2,757,338,675,814.
- As of 11/17/22 Veterans Care since 2001: $2,745,055,959,279.
- As of 11/24/22 Military Costs since 2001: $2,994,249,097,807.
- As of 11/17/22 Military Costs since 2001: $2,991,833,691,527.
- As of 11/24/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $8,165,873,540,391.
- As of 11/17/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $8,133,783,794,823.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. --Gloria Steinem
Famous Last Words: to raise public awareness of the problem of violence against women. --United Nations Resolution A/RES/54/134
..........To watch the world go up in flames.........Carly Simon …..Share The End
The most dynamite drink is tea 'n tea/ I run a small mom and pop dynamite store. Business is booming.
May Peace sooth your mind
And Joy refresh your heart
prairie mama
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