Famous First Words: Whereas the Government of the Republic of Hawaii... Joint Resolution to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.
Happy Birthday to Jean Kerr! Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? --Jean Kerr / Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries. --Jean Kerr
Alternative Titles for the Iliad: 1) Hell, Naughty Trojans, It's Murder Time
..........I hear the clock a-tickin' on the mantel shelf .........The Beatles with Ringo Starr …..Don't Pass me By ~~One of Ringo's solo song writing credits.
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. --Mother Harris Jones
It is a chilly (66°F) Friday morning. Clouds have formed a cover across the sky, but the sun has come up enough to find thin spots. Shadows are manifesting themselves on the shed wall. A breeze from the southeast insists that we notice the chill. The willow branches dance and the mulberry tree waves in appreciation or sympathy. Birds are relatively silent at the moment; perhaps they have decided to sleep in while the cool wind blows. An aroma filled with summer abundance, foliage and flowers gives the world a smell of hope and plenty. Puck has been for his walk and is now sleeping on the blanket that he has pulled off this pillow so that he can take up an extra spot on the floor. (He thinks our room is half his so he should get half the space.) He makes tiny snoring noises now and then. I am settled in at my computer. I glance out my window to check the willow dance once more just before writing to you. I raise my steaming cup of decaf to you, good morning.
May your weekend be filled with peace, love, and rock and roll, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Most people don't think I'm as old as I am until they hear me stand up. --Submitted by INRITH
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. --Jean Kerr / Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them. --Jean Kerr
2) 100 Times A Therapist Was Needed
..........Two pounds, ten a week, that was my pay.........The Beatles with Ringo Starr …..Maggie Mae
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday to Robert Heinlein.
- ^ Do you have any idea where Robert was born?
- ^^ Which military academy did Robert attend?
- ^^^ Robert's first novel was not published in his lifetime. Do you know which novel that is?
- ^^^^ How many novels did Robert write, more or less?
- ^^^^^ What are his most popular works? (or just your favorite?)
Big Hello: Chikaano – Kosati (Louisiana) https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: To me, essential oils are what drips out of tacos.
Image of the Week: I goggled Dive Bar Lawrence KS and came up with 2 names: Harbour Lights and Louise's. This is Harbour Lights
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: 14% of public library employees are only there so they can get the bestsellers before everyone else. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. --Jean Kerr / The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. --Jean Kerr
3) This War Really Wasn't Worth It
..........I need somebody to love.........The Beatles with Ringo Starr …..With A Little Help From My Friends
Moonbeam: Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. --Robert Heinlein
Question of the Week: Where's the beef?
Puzzle of the Week: From listener Greg VanMechelen, of Berkeley, Calif. Name a well-known TV character (5,6). Change the first letter of her first name to a Y and read it backward. You'll get a synonym of the character's last name. Who was it?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: England has no eye bank but it does have a Liverpool. --Submitted by sd of co
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? --Jean Kerr / Now the thing about having a baby – and I can't be the first person to have noticed this – is that thereafter you have it. --Jean Kerr
4) Fight Club: But It's Just Achilles
..........And the band begins to play.........The Beatles with Ringo Starr …..Yellow Submarine
^ Heinlein was born in Butler, MO but his family moved to Kansas City when he was a few months old. He grew up in KC. ~~I was unable to find an address for him. If you look up Disney, you find addresses of his house, his business, pictures, stories.
Almanac: It is Friday, July 7, 2023. The moon will be at the last quarter on Monday (7/10) and is in Pisces. July 7th is Chocolate Day, Dive Bar Day, Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day, Global Forgiveness Day, National Day of Rock n' Roll, and Tell The Truth Day.
Among those born on this day were Gustav Mahler (1850), Marc Chagall (1887), George Cukor (1899), Satchel Paige (1906), Robert Heinlein (1907), Gian Carlo Menotti (1911), William Kunstler (1919), Jean Kerr (1923), Doc Severinson (1927), Ringo Starr (1940), and Shelley Duvall (1949).
On July seventh Kings College in NYC opened (1754, Renamed Columbia College), the US annexed California (1846), Peters discovered Asteroid #92 (Undina, 1867), the US annexed Hawaii (1898), Charlois discovered asteroid #537 (1904), Hertzsprung discovered asteroid #1702 (1924), Mother Frances Xavier Cabarini was canonized as the first American saint (1946), and the first solar-powered aircraft crossed the English Channel (1980).
Night Sky, 7/7: Upper left of Venus in twilight, Mars is now less than 2° from Regulus, which is slightly brighter. Once you've spotted Venus after sunset (or possibly even before sunset), how much longer until you definitely detect the star, then the planet? Regulus is magnitude 1.4, Mars is 1.7, meaning Mars is one-third fainter. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Fraternal Picture of the Week: I must go down the the seas again –John Masefield
This Week: Saturday, July 8 – Bald Is In Day & SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama) & International Skinny Dip Day
Sunday, July 9 – Deadhead Day & National Dimples Day & National No Bra Day
Night Sky, 7/9 : Low in the north-northeast after dark, the upright W of Cassiopeia is slowly beginning to tilt and climb. Cassiopeia is supposed to represent an ancient queen of Ethiopia, or maybe her chair. Above her is the house-shaped constellation pattern of her dimmer husband, King Cepheus. Or maybe that's his blocky head in profile
Monday, July 10 – Don't Step On A Bee Day & Kitten Day & US Energy Independence Day
Tuesday, July 11 – Cheer Up The Lonely Day & Cow Appreciation Day & Make Your Own Sundae Day
Wednesday, July 12 – National Jello-O Day & Simplicity Day & Paper Bag Day
Night Sky, 7/12: Jupiter (magnitude –2.2, in Aries) rises around 1 or 2 am in the east-northeast. By the beginning of dawn it's shining well up in the east.
Thursday, July 13 – National Be Your Own Hero Day & National Nitrogen Ice Cream Day
5) Patroclus Didn't Deserve This
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. --Jean Kerr / Affairs have been going on since Tolstoy. --Jean Kerr
6) Thing Historians Pretend Aren't Gay
..........The biggest fool that's ever hit the big time.........The Beatles with Ringo Starr …..Act Naturally
^^ Heinlein entered the Naval Academy in June 1925. He graduated in 1929, 20th in a class of 243, and was commissioned with the rank of Ensign. He actually stood fifth in academics in his class, but discipline considerations lowered his class standing to 20th.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You can have my fireworks when you pry them from my cold dead fingers, which are right over there by the sidewalk. -- 98% -_Submitted by sb of ar
Moonbeam: Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. -Robert Heinlein
Video of the Week: Satchel Paige pitching (4:23)
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: Which presidential candidate's video will be the next to go viral? Simone Biles will do a tik tok with all the Republican candidates on how to correctly flip on whether or not Trump should go to jail. --Adam Burke Wait Wait Don't Tell me 7/1/2
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone? --Mary Harris Jones
I'm congenitally vague. --Jean Kerr / I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. --Jean Kerr
7) Nothing Means Anything We're All Going To Die
.........Got to pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues.........Ringo Starr …..It Don't Come Easy
^^^ The first novel that Heinlein wrote, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs (1939), did not see print during his lifetime, but Robert James tracked down the manuscript and it was published in 2003.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I've had crunchwraps more supreme than this court. --Submitted by 98%
Weird Word of the Week: Callithump – a somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns and other discordant noises. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/callithump#:~:text=%3A%20a%20noisy%20boisterous%20band%20or%20parade
Dragons of the Week:
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Warm rolls in the microwave oven. Wrap each roll in a sheet of Bounty Paper Towels and then place the covered roll in the microwave oven. The paper towel absorbs moisture, preventing the rolls from getting soggy. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/bounty2.html
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. --Jean Kerr. / Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. --Jean Kerr
8) Hector Gets His Ass Handed To Him
..........Get yourself together now.........Ringo Starr …..Back Off Boogaloo
^^^^ Heinlein bibliography includes 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections published during his life. I am assuming that For Us, The Living brings it to 33.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Radio active cats have 18 half-lives.
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Anime Midwest (7-9, Chicago's O'hare Hyatt Regency) Anime Midwest is allot of fun. ~~Wonder who a lots it? https://www.animemidwest.com/event/388
Actual Science Conference of the Week: Festival of the Future (6-8, Munich, Germany) Collective Intelligence of the brightest minds in technology... https://festivalderzukunft.com/EN
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Della Street (from "Perry Mason") --> alley, street
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. --Jean Kerr / When the grandmothers of today hear the word “Chippendale”, they don't necessarily think of chairs. --Jean Kerr
9) There Is No Heterosexual Explanation For This
..........Like the FBI and the CIA and the BBC.........The Beatles with Ringo Starr …..Dig It
^^^^^ Some of his most popular works include Glory Road, as well as his controversial bestsellers Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and the short story All You Zombies. Heinlein's books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback.
Quote of the Week: If you claim to be someone's ally but aren't getting hit by the stones thrown at them, you're not standing close enough. --Stan Mitchell
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I don't wanna hear you celebrating the 4th if you're pleading the 5th in regards to the 6th.
Today's Peace of History, July 7, 1979: 2,000 American Indian activists and anti-nuclear demonstrators marched through the Black Hills of western South Dakota to protest the development of uranium mines on sacred native lands.
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. --Jean Kerr / You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. --Jean Kerr
10) F*ck It Up, Achilles
..........I met you in the morning waiting for the tides of time.........The Beatles with Ringo Starr …..What Goes On
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle July 7, 2023, Jean's ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith, Lawrence, KS
Moonbeam: Don't ever become a pessimist...a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. --Robert Heinlein
Cost of War:
- As of 07/06/23 State Department War Costs since 2001: $211, 125,827,702.
- As of 06/29/23 State Department War Costs since 2001: $210,558,145,033.
- As of 07/06/23 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,148,799,841,293.
- As of 06/29/23 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,147,214,206,403.
- As of 07/06/23 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,141,033,309,631.
- As of 06/29/23 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,140,416,666,710.
- As of 07/06/23 Veterans Care since 2001:$3,133,459,328,426.
- As of 06/29/23 Veterans Care since 2001: $3,121,439,638,102.
- As of 07/06/23 Military Costs since 2001: $3,031,922,340,901.
- As of 06/29/23 Military Costs since 2001: $3,030,718,354,625.
- As of 07/06/23 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $8,666,343,162,724.
- As of 06/29/23 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $8,650,348,758,760.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. --Mary Harris Jones
Famous Last Words: This is Bud Collier reminding you to tell the truth. --Sign-off from the TV program To Tell The Truth
..........In our hideaway beneath the waves.........The Beatles with Ringo Starr …..Octopus' Garden ~~Ringo's other solo song-writing credit.
11) Someone Is Responsible For This But Not Helen --Submitted by Philosophy Matters
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. --Jean Kerr / A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself – like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.--Jean Kerr
May Peace warm your cockles
And Joy cool your jets
prairie mama
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