Famous First Words: Don't you worry 'bout what's on your mind... The Rolling Stone Let's Spend the Night Together from their appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. 1/13/67
It's Public Radio Day!! Did you hear the NPR segment about how it's rude to ask how heavy people are? Weight? Weight? Don't tell me. / I was the class innuendist. --Michael Feldman
Washington Post Neologism Winners: Gargoyle (n.), gross olive-flavored mouthwash ~~Neologism (n.) an alternative meaning for a common word.
..........I hear the train acomin'........Johnny Cash …..Folsom Prison Blues
If everyone decided to forgive at least one person who hurt them by the end of the year, the world would be filled with people exchanging hugs and kisses, instead of words and bullets. --Matshona Dhliwayo
It is a cold (22°F) and cloudy Friday morning. Willow branches hang motionless; neither bird nor breeze shakes them. The sky is a universal gray without texture. Lawns are a universal brown. It is so quiet for the morning, no motors roaring or birds singing. Inside, only Puck's heavy breathing and the hum of the computer grace the ears. Veronica is elsewhere. The aroma of coffee is filling the house and I am stopping to fix myself a cup of chocolate hazelnut decaf before I finish. Ah, the whole sky looks a little brighter with coffee. Friday the thirteenth...a good day to stay home and write to friends.
Hope your weekend floats like a rubber duckie, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: A geologist was accused of throwing a lava rock at a tourist. He's been charged with Basalt and Battery.
A Garrison Keillor Bad Joke: Xerox and Wurlitzer are merging. They are going to manufacture reproductive organs.
Washington Post Neologism Winners: Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
..........Rollin' down the eastern seaboard........Johnny Cash …..Orange Blossom Special
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday to the Frisbee
- ^ What is the usual diameter of a Frisbee?
- ^^ Where does the name Frisbee come from?
- ^^^ How do Frisbees fly?
- ^^^^ What are the origins of Frisbee or Ultimate golf?
- ^^^^^ How many Frisbee/Disc Golf Courses are there in the US.
Big Hello: Ai – Inuktitut https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My body is not a temple, it's a midwest dive bar. --Submitted by RHOZ
Image of the Week: The Ghost Bus of Lawrence
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: 37% of librarians can successfully judge a book by its cover. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Heard on NPR: One person in the article said, I really miss traffic because it was a great time to catch up on podcasts. Now he has to hire two people just to laugh at their own jokes for an hour every day. --Peter Sagal / See, this turtle is crossing the road, and he's mugged by two snails. As he's laying there getting better, the police show up and ask him what happened. He says he doesn't know because it all happened so fast.
Washington Post Neologism Winners: Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
..........Made a good run but I run too slow........Johnny Cash …..Cocaine Blues
Moonbeam: The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love. --Charles Perrault
Meditation of the Week: Are the German people guilty? --Karl Jaspers
Puzzle of the Week: Name a US state capital for which the name of another well-known US city is an antonym. The second city has a population of more than 100,000.
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Marginal Mennonites don't do “worship”...because we don't believe in a deity with self-esteem issues. --Submitted by MMS
Heard on NPR: After the apocalypse comes, we may be reduced to eating each other, but at least we'll have dessert. The company that makes Oreos has announced the creation of the Oreo vault, a secure storage facility on an Arctic island. The vault is bombproof, weatherproof and hopefully college roommate-proof. It was built near the very real and very serious global seed vault. That's intended to help regrow crops following an extinction-level event, which is nice. But vegetables do not have a cream filling. So the Nabisco company says they built the vault in response to the news of an asteroid that has a 0.41% chance of colliding with Earth. --Peter Sagal
Washington Post Neologism Winners: Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
..........A cold wild wind has come........Johnny Cash …..I Still Miss Someone
^ The typical diameter of Frisbees or flying discs ranges from 20 to 25 centimeters (8 to 10 inches), however they are available in smaller and larger sizes.
Almanac: It is Friday, January 13, 2023. The moon will go into the last quarter on Sunday (1/15) and is in Libra. It is Blame Somebody Else Day, Make Your Dream Come True Day, National Sticker Day, Public Radio Broadcasting Day, and Rubber Duckie Day. In Ghana it is Redemption Day (1972) and in Togo it is Liberation Day (1963). Meanwhile, the United States celebrates Stephen Foster Memorial Day.
Among those born on this day were Jan Goyen (1596), Charles Perrault (1628), Anton Fischer (1778), Horatio Alger Jr (1834), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Alfred Fuller (1885), Ralph Edwards (1913), Robert Stack (1919), Gwen Verdon (1925), Charles Nelson Riley (1931), Richard Moll (1943), Joy Chant (1945), Brandon Tartikoff (1949), Fred White (1955), Trevor Rabin (1955), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), and Patrick Dempsey (1966).
On January thirteenth Elizabeth I was crowned queen of England (1559), Galileo Galilei discovered Callisto (1610), Colored National Labor Union convention (1869), the National Geographic Society was founded (1888), Textile workers in Netherlands strike (until 6/1, 1902), Deirdre of the Sorrows premiered (1910), the Mickey Mouse comic strip first appeared (1930), Wham-O produced the first frisbee (1957), the Daily Worker ceased publication (1958), Wilt Chamberlain scored record 73 points in game vs Chicago (1962), Robert Weaver became first black on a presidential cabinet (HUD, 1966), the Rolling Stones appeared on Ed Sullivan Show (1967), Johnny Cash recorded his concert at Folsom State Prison in California (1968), and Caldwell became the first female conductor at the Metropolitan Opera House (1976).
Night Sky, 1/13: Orion leans bravely upward in the east-southeast after dark this week, and by 7 pm, he's nice and high in the southeast with Sirius shining below him. Orion stands upright and highest by 10 pm. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Fraternal Picture of the Week: Lumberjacks in training
This Week: Saturday, January 14 – Bald Eagle Appreciation Day & Organize Your Home Day & World Logic Day
Sunday, January 15 – Humanitarian Day & National Hat Day & World Snow Day
Night Sky, 1/15: The Moon rises around midnight or 1 am., with Spica about half a fist to its upper right. Brighter Arcturus is two fists to the Moon's upper left. Even in cold January, spring stars come out of hiding if you go out late enough.
Monday, January 16 – Appreciate A Dragon Day & National Nothing Day & National Crowd Feed Day
Tuesday, January 17 – International Mentoring Day & Kid Inventors Day & World Scotch Pie Day
Wednesday, January 18 – Pooh (Winnie the) Day & Thesaurus Day
Night Sky, 1/18: Venus, very bright at magnitude –3.9, shines low in the west in twilight. It sets by twilight's end. As twilight fades and Venus gets lower, look for dimmer Saturn coming into view to Venus's upper right.
Thursday, January 19 – Popcorn Day & World Day of Migrants and Refugees & World Quark Day
Garrison Kiellor Pretty Good Joke: I'm so ugly when I go to the zoo I need 2 tickets – one to get in and one to get out. / What do you get if you cross a Chrysler and a Fiat? A BIG car that doesn't start --RJ Goos Car Talk
Washington Post Neologism Winners: Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
..........Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine........Johnny Cash …..Dark As A Dungeon
^^ The name ‘Frisbee’ is said to have originated from the Frisbie Pie Company’s metal pie tins that were used by university students as flying discs, and it is a trademark name owned by Wham-O, an American toy company, who bought the rights to the invention in 1957.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Thus, the Yardbirds begat Cream, Spencer Davis Group begat Traffic, Cream and Traffic begat Blind Faith, and Blind Faith begat Derek and the Dominos and Ginger Baker's Air Force... --Sipress
Moonbeam: Even the weeds provide food for higher forms of creation, and hold the land from erosion against the inevitable day of cultivation. --Alfred Fuller
Video of the Week: The running of the 2022 Stephen Foster Race (2:15) Click Here
Archived Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: There was a big fight this week about hip hop slang. Rival gangs were going at each other over the meaning of words. This fight happened where? Yes, in the New York Times crossword puzzle. That's where the fight happened. Last Saturday's puzzle offered this clue - listen carefully - "wack, in hip hop." And the answer was "illin." Now, this is ridiculous, as all the street smart readers of the Times know, because wack means bad, as in, "Whoa, the Style section was wack this week." And illin means good, as in "Oh, I thought Maureen Dowd's column on Michelle Obama was quite illin, n'est pas." --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 1/14/2012
The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify itself. --Munia Khan
Garrison Kiellor Joke: A man went to sing for the patients at the hospital. He sang some opera, some Broadway, some pop songs, and at the end, he said, “Thank you so much and I hope you all get better.” They said, “We hope you get better too.” / A teenage boy tells his father, “Dad, there's trouble with the car, it has water in the carburetor.” The father looks confused and says, “That's ridiculous!” But the son insists. “I tell you, the car has water in the carburetor.” His father, starting to get a little nervous, says, “You don't even know what a carburetor is...but I will check it out. Where is the car?” “In the pool,” replies the son. –Maura Hayes Car Talk
Washington Post Neologism Winners: Abdicate (v), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
..........Arms reaching, smiling sweetly........Johnny Cash …..Green Green Grass of Home
^^^ Frisbees and flying discs are kept airborne by creating lift through the spinning caused by a throw, combined with the shape of the disc.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Capitalism breeds innovation that's why America keeps figuring out new ways to not give anyone healthcare. --First-mate prance --Submitted by aeb of kc
Weird Word of the Week: Vaccimulgence – Cow Milking http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-vac2.htm
Dragon of the Week: Seattle's Chinatown Dragon
and then rinse clean and wipe with a soft cloth. The condensed soap cleans grease and grime. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/barbasol.html
Heard on NPR: Archaeologists have discovered a perfectly preserved Roman thermopolium - or fast food stand - frozen in time in the ash-covered city of Pompeii. It was surrounded when they uncovered it by this huge line of bodies because on the day of the eruption, the stand had just introduced its new spicy chicken sandwich. --Peter Sagal
Washington Post Neologism Winners: Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
...........But I know it was suicide........Johnny Cash …..The Wall
^^^^ In 1965, George Sappenfield, from Fresno California, was a recreation counselor during summer break from college. While playing golf one afternoon he realized that it might be fun for the kids on his playground if they played "golf" with Frisbees. He set up an object course for his kids to play on.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Cat ownership is hearing a single soft “clink” from across the house and yelling GET AWAY FROM THE BUTTER --Submitted by FNOG
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Arisia 2023 (13-16, Boston) ...unique entertainment and learning opportunities that led to Arisia winning the title of Best Fan Gathering in the "Best in Boston" awards for 2016! https://www.arisia.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiA8OmdBhAgEiwAShr403dsbkprjryuNQ-M4N2Rm0nd4uZZavUoCvDpQAxiWDveJvQfsbB-5RoCSWUQAvD_BwE
Actual Science Conference of the Week: IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge (13, MIT) complex real-world social and environmental challenges. https://calendar.mit.edu/event/ideaschallenge#.Y7sFYXbMI2w
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Little Rock (Ark.) --> Boulder (Colo.)
Heard on NPR: Purchasing a rain barrel often leads to buying more water collecting devices. I guess you could say a rain barrel is a gateway jug. / A German Shepherd went to the telegraph office, took out a blank form, and wrote: “Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof.” The clerk examined the paper and politely told the dog, “There are only nine words here. You could send another “Woof” for the same price. “But,” said the dog, “that would make no sense at all.”
Washington Post Neologism Winners: Flatulence (n.), emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
..........When I breeze into that city, people gonna stoop and bow........Johnny Cash & June Carter …..Jackson
^^^^^ Currently, there are over 11,500 disc golf courses in the world. The United States alone accounts for over 8,500 of those courses.
My Own Writing of the Week: Our Various Religious Upbringings
I grew up in a series of small American Baptist churches. We lived in the country and for a while went to the next tiny town over to church. Then a church got started in our neighborhood so we went there. And then a church south of us needed help and so we went there for a while. They all had their pros and cons. But my mother was one to think about things and not accept something just because the preacher said so. She believed the new testament book of Hebrews was written by Priscilla because women need to be represented as messengers as well as men. She also had a great sense of humor which whittles dogmatic bs to nothing real fast. My biggest problem with religion is that they either don't understand or don't believe what they say. For instance, I was taught very young that there is only one god. This is very important to Baptists. I believed them. So if anyone I meet or read or hear about who is looking for god, it's got to be the same god because there is only one. So the Baptists, much to their horror, I'm sure, encouraged me to investigate what god hunters around the globe and through the ages had found out about god.
Which led me to science. Here's a for instance on that understanding and/or believing phenomenon. God created the universe. Since the creation of the universe is an ongoing process, god is still creating the universe...as we read. So we are now staring at the big bang but antropomorphized into an old man who picks favorites in the super bowl.
In the end all I can say about god is that I am an English major, I understand metaphors, sure, god is real. And, of course, holy spirit (an aspect of god) is realer than god the creator. Holy Spirit arises from the merging of energies. That's how they did it in the very early church. That's why the Sufi's dance. It's why we meditate in groups. It's why I f*ck.
From Always Surrender by Christine Smith
Apology of the Week: The term is ménage à trois – not whatever crap I wrote last week. I have no excuse. I knew it was wrong, googled it, and found nothing. And finding nothing didn't even suggest to me that I was so wrong, not even the computer could find it. I'm getting rusty.
Quote of the Week: Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. --Robert Heinlein
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Today's Peace of History, January 13, 1958: Linus Pauling presented to the United Nations, signed by over 11,000 scientists (including 36 Nobel laureates) from 49 countries. It called for an end to nuclear weapons testing for its detrimental health, especially genetic, and ecological effects, among other reasons.
A Garrison Keillor Bad Joke: Viagra stolen. It's in the news. Hardened criminals on the loose. / Trump swastika flags are at half-staff –Michael Feldman
Washington Post Neologism Winners: Willy Nilly (adj.), impotent. ~~The Neologism were submitted by ma of va
..........At the Indianapolis of your heart I lost the race........Johnny Cash …..Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle January 13, 2023, ePistle Radio. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS.
Moonbeam: According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature. --Wilhelm Wien
Cost of War:
- As of 01/12/23 State Department War Costs since 2001: $197,221,758,355.
- As of 01/05/23 State Department War Costs since 2001: $196.673.120.864.
- As of 01/12/23 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,109,964,295,056.
- As of 01/05/23 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,108,431,946,226.
- As of 01/12/23 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,125,930,592,205.
- As of 01/05/23 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,125,334,491,876.
- As of 01/12/23 Veterans Care since 2001: $2,839,076,176,014.
- As of 01/05/23 Veterans Care since 2001: $2,827,460,422,610.
- As of 01/12/23 Military Costs since 2001: $3,002,436,021,612.
- As of 01/05/23 Military Costs since 2001: $3,001,272,821,227.
- As of 01/12/23 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $8,274,630,653,106.
- As of 01/05/23 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $8,259,178,899,397.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Peace is a gift you give to yourself, to other people, and to the world. The only way you'll ever have peace is by gifting it. --C JoyBell C
Famous Last Words: No priest attended. --Goethe Deirdre of the Sorrows
I got chains – chains around my feet........Johnny Cash …..I Got Chains
Washington Post Neologism Winners: Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
NPR recently started a heavy metal band named “All Things Dismembered” / I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds. --Michael Feldman
May Peace reside within your world
And Joy dwell within yourself
prairie mama
christine
Last Laugh: Happy Blame Somebody Else Day
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